Individual Notes

Note for: George H. Hicks, MAY 1890 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1900
     Place:   Baker Co FL

Individual Notes

Note for: Lossie Hicks, APR 1892 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1900
     Place:   Baker Co FL

Individual Notes

Note for: Noah Hicks, APR 1894 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1900
     Place:   Baker Co FL

Individual Notes

Note for: Charity Hicks, DEC 1896 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1900
     Place:   Baker Co FL

Individual Notes

Note for: Dewey Hicks, APR 1899 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1900
     Place:   Baker Co FL

Individual Notes

Note for: Louie Francis Hicks, 22 JUL 1903 - 22 OCT 1918 Index

Burial:
Place: Nortan Cem, Nassau Co FL

Individual Notes

Note for: Rebecca Lang, 1777 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1789
     Place:   East FL Census

Individual Notes

Note for: Red? Barber, - Index

Event:
     Type:   Submitter (Fact
     Place:   gbarb@@nefcom.net (Gene Barber)

Individual Notes

Note for: Emma S. Hicks, 1868 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1895
     Place:   Nassau Co Fl

Event:
     Type:   Submitter (Fact
     Place:   gbarb@@nefcom.net (Gene Barber)

Individual Notes

Note for: Sarah Lang, 1852 - Index

Census:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Camden Co GA

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas J. Reynolds, 1780 - DEC 1855 Index

Individual Note:
THOMAS REYNOLDS.
February 6, 183S.

Mr. Marshall, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, made the

following

REPORT:

The Committee on Private Land Claims, to which was re/erred the petition of Thomas Reynolds, report thereon:

That the petitioner prays for a donation of 640 acres of land, situated at Point Hazard, on Bell's river, now in the county of Nassau, in the Territory of Florida. He alleges that there was a Spanish grant for the land to Spicer Christopher, deceased, which however is not produced, nor its loss proved oraccounted for. That Spicer Christopher devised the same land to his son, William G. Christopher, who inhabited and cultivated it for some years, and died in 1815, leaving his family upon the land. That, in 1817, the petitioner intermarried with Eliza Christopher, the widow of William G., the resident on the same Iract, and removed to it himself, and continued to occupy it until 1826, since which time it has been in the possession of his tenants. He claims the donation on the ground that he was in the actual possession and cultivation of the land on the 22d day of February, 1819, being then the bead of a family, and upwards of 81 years of age. All these facts are suffici;ntlj bustained by proof, except the existence of a Spanish grant for the liwi- wiiU regard to which, one witness states, that he paid for several royal yuijj of land given by Spicer Christopher to his children, and thinks one w them was for the land in question. The will of Spicer Christopher, dated in February, 1806, devises this land as testator's plantation, called Point Hazard; and it is probable, from the evidence, that the devisee, William 6. Christopher, took possession in 1806. If, from these circumstance, a grant is to be presumed, the committee is clearly of opinion that the confirmation should be for the benefit of the heirs of William G. Christopher; and, if there was no grant, it is equally clear that the meritorious consideration for a donation of the land, on account of inhabitancy and cultivation, proceeded from, and should enure to the benefit of the Christophers, and ought not to be transferred to a stranger, because,' having married the widow of William G. Christopher, the natural guardian of his children, he happened to be upon the land with them on the22d day of February, 1819. The omission to have this claim presented to the Commissioners for confirmation, is, in the opinion of the committee, sufficiently accounted for, it ap-. pearing that Reynolds, supposing a grant for the land to be among the papers of the estate, had directed it to be laid before the commissioners, and was led to believe that it had been before them, and was confirmed, but

discovered, after the adjournment of the commissioners, that another grant to Spicer Christopher, for land devised to another of his sons, had been presented and confirmed, instead of a grant for this land. And the committee is further of opinion, that, in a claim like the present, of infants, founded upon a possession commencing in 1806, and continued to the present time, a total omission on the part of those who might have acted for them ought i not to bar their rights, nor to prevent them from experiencing the same liberality which the Government has extended to Ģthcrs. Under these views of the subject, they report a bill for the benefit of the legal representatives of William 6. Christopher.