Evidence from the Past

Identifying Tabitha Phelps, heir of William Hearne, Lowndes, Alabama, 1832 This research forms part of a series of papers tracking Francis Truitt b. ca. 1769 Worcester, Maryland, migrated from Sussex, Delaware to Georgia by 1790. He disappears from record after 1816. Marital status unknown. Is he the Francis Truitt in Lowndes, Alabama by 1819? Author: Sarah Baird Date: December 2024 All rights reserved. “Documents, when put into context, have a lot more to say than the simple words we copy from them.” Elizabeth Shown Mills, 2024. [1] Literature review. William T Hearne, Brief History and Genealogy of the Hearne Family , Examiner Printing Company, Independence, Mo., 1907, p651. Links the Hearne genealogy back to the Normandy period. Does not cite primary sources. The organisation of his work is difficult to follow. Hearne asserts Tabitha, second child of Wm. and Tabitha Hearne married Frank Truitt [2] Deeds created by William Hearne before his death in 1832 name heirs Tabitha ...

Sarah Baird, 2017, "still don't get Foucault"

Herzog, Carl A., "Sailing Illicit Voyages: Colonial Smuggling Operations between North America and the West Indies, 1714-1776" (2020). Doctoral Dissertations. 2026. https://doi.org/10.7275/18003509 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/2026 For anyone interested in mariners during the colonial period and their trade routes, this is one dissertation which should be read. The dates match with Charles and Daniel Dingee of Sussex, Delaware.

Switzerland County, Indiana Circuit Court Order Book 5 April 1824 Term Page 138 Grand Jury Indictments:  John Roberts for horse stealing  Benjamin Hilderbrand for assault and battery  Thomas Coen for assault and battery with intent to murder  Jean Daniel Morerod, John Detraz, Benjamin Detraz et al for obstructing the execution of legal process  Enoch Shuf, John Peters Jr., Phelty Peters, George Peters, William Truitt, Parker Truitt, John Shear et al for riot. The only record I found at FamilySearch Centre 25 May 2024, in the court records Film # 007834324 image 77 Bottom of page; "And the Grand Jury *ing more business before them retired to their room." right underneath the above abstract.

 - categorising the wealth of ancestors, how to determine their status in colonial society Qualified appraisers assigned a value to items owned at the time of the deceased's death; status is determined by the extent of items required to service a dinner party of ten or more people; knives and forks, the more gentile items provide an indication of status and possibly wealth. I was particularly interested in applying the Gunston Hall Plantation methodology to Sarah Miers, wife of first Aaron Williams, son of Reynear, Kent, Delaware, and second Nehemiah Draper, a wealthy merchant of Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex Delaware. She was a wife, mother, yeowoman and maintained a book of debtors and creditors. No books, it seems, filled the shelves of the bookcase in Sarah Miers home. No jewellry is listed nor clothes. Jewellry and clothing are two of the items I was interested in seeing, mainly to compare it with the jewellry and clothing Naomi Wiltbank devised in her will made 22 Septembe...

 Why you should go to your FamilySearch Center, because they help you - How can we help you ? Today, for the first time, I visited my local FamilySearch Center. I had the best time, learning tidbits from an experienced researcher. I failed to achieve my goal of separating the identities of Riley Truitt of Dearborn [supposedly] and Riley Truitt of Switzerland county, Indiana. Sadly, my hypothesis failed. But, I learned alot on my first visit.