Heartland Genealogy

Garrard County, Kentucky Deeds 1787-1902; indexes, 1899-1960 Vol. C 1793-1796 Family Search DGS 183284 Film 008141322 Book C page 554 - image 291 This Indenture made this 6th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five Between Charles Bland of the County of Madison and State of Kentucky of the one part and Fethergill Adams of the state and County aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that for an inconsideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds current money of the aforesaid state to him in hand paid by the said Fethergill Adams, the receipt whereof the said Charles Bland do hereby acknowledges and himself therewith fully satisfied and contented hath granted bargained sold aliened and confirmed and by these presents doth grant bargain sell alien and confirm unto the said Feathergill Adams one certain tract or parcell of land containing one hundreds and twenty six acres situate lying and being in the County of Madison and on th...

Do you ever attempt to connect a genealogy line to a major historical event? I'm sure most genealogists with families in the United States have tried to connect ancestors to military records related to any of our major wars.  With my early Kentucky research, one of my goals is to figure out when they arrived in Kentucky. Thus, I checked the list of " Early Settlers of Boonesborough " for my Crawford families and did not find them listed.  As I've dug into these Crawford families, I've started looking at other family ties. One of those ties is to the John Anderson family. John's daughter, Rebecca, was married to James Crawford. Since I couldn't find documentation of James' arrival, I started looking for information for the arrival of Rebecca's siblings.  Thanks to a 1798 Madison County Kentucky deed , Rebecca's father was identified as John Anderson and her siblings as the following: Samuel Campbell and Mary his wife Bez'l...

One of the challenges with my CRAWFORD research is separating my CRAWFORD family from the family of James and Martha Crawford. My ancestor, Nelson G. Crawford is the son of James and Sally (Smith Duggins) Crawford. Both James Crawford families lived in Preble County, Ohio before James and Martha and their children along with my ancestor, Nelson G. Crawford, moved to Warren County, Indiana. So, when I saw that Nelson Crawford was a first land owner in section 8 with James Crawford listed as a first landowner in both section 5 and section 8, I had to wonder if this could be MY James Crawford.