Sam;
Yep, a good day. Heading for Richmond and hospital Monday am. Hope to be
back by thursday or Friday. Have a good week. Catch you a little later.
BH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Campbell" <sgt_sam_wash_co(a)yahoo.com>
To: <campbell(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 21:06
Subject: Re: [Campbell] Fw: TRIP TO MARYLAND RECORDS ARCHIVES ANNAPOLIS MD
9sept
Buck,
Sounds Like You ( 3 ), Had An Interesting Research !!!!!!!!!!
Cuz,
Sam Campbell
--- On Fri, 9/10/10, Lynden Harris <bharris1932(a)comcast.net> wrote:
From: Lynden Harris <bharris1932(a)comcast.net>
Subject: [Campbell] Fw: TRIP TO MARYLAND RECORDS ARCHIVES ANNAPOLIS MD 9
sept
To: CAMPBELL-L(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Friday, September 10, 2010, 9:01 AM
To those descendents of ole George Campbell's son James Campbell, (who
married Mary Smith) (The Ramsey and William Campbell families), let me
present the following:
For years sresearchers and descendents of Mary Smith's family figured that
her parents Abraham and Elizabeth Smith came out of the St George Parish
(Baltimore County) Maryland. That Abrams wife was a Miss Elizabeth
Burchfield and that they were married in the St George Parish sometime
around 1750-55. (Their first son John Smith was born in 1754). It was
thought that John Smith and Mary were the parents of Abraham Smith based
upon a Parish record detailing the birth of an Abraham Smith in 1727 in the
St George Parish.
Yesterday. Kenny Allen, Hilda Austin and I spent most at the day at the Hall
of Records Facility in Annapolis. Hilda works for the Maryland State Senate
and introduced us to the Maryland State Archivist who provided us with a
dedicated Archivist who provided us with everything we ask for and assisted
our ever move. Our own personal professional Archivist who knew the ins and
outs of the Maryland records!! How great!!
In short; If our Abraham Smith and his wife Elizabeth ? were ever in
Maryland between 1693 and 1770, they never left a foot print that we could
find.
As you may know Maryland did not start maintaining marriage licenses or
bonds until 1910. That responsibility was delegated to each individual
Church. However, during the years there was a requirement for each Church to
provide to the State Government the records of birth, death and marriages
that occurred in each Church family.
The Hall of Records has a card file -(detailing marriages) in addition to
their Parish and Church Records that record marriages through out the state.
There has not been a Abraham Smith nor a Elizabeth Burchfield Marriage in
Maryland during the Colonial period - that we could find. Marriage by banns
was an authorized and legal procedure and practiced through out the state
during this time period.
Wills. The records office has available a copy of all probate documents
during the colonial period for the state of Maryland. Found two John Smith's
from Baltimore County with a probate document and neither listed a child
named Abraham nor a wife named Mary. Both were dated in the 1720-21 period
prior to the estimated birth of Abraham: Ref Liber 2 folio page 178 and
Liber 3 folio page 449.
The records office has a clean and complete book of the St George Parish
Register for the period 1689-1793 (by Reamy. They also have a similar book
that includes the Register consolidated for St George and St Johns Parish.
Nothing was found of significance within the consolidated book including St
Johns but pages 33 and 87 (of interest) in the St George book are attached -
nothing new just in a different format.
The most difficult process was the microfilm in the special collection
section that we searched between 1730-1760 - looking for anything we could
find on Abraham Smith, Elizabeth, Susan, Margaret or John Burchfield
(Birchfield), William Deaver/Dever, or a Whitehead. In the birth records, we
search between 1750-1760 for John, Mary, and Elias Smith (children of
Abraham)without finding anything. The microfilm is very difficult to work
with and or read - handscribed register.
Deeds and land transaction. During the colonial period, these records are
accessible on line. They "showed" me how to go from the deed register to the
actual deed. So we did not spend any time looking for land records or tax
records.
If I remember correctly, Abraham had his first land grant on Hatt Creek (in
now Nelson County)surveyed in 1755 when the land was actually in Albemarle
County. I will next venture into Albemarle County and review not only the
patent plat document but re-check all other Albemarle legal documents in
that county for our Smith family. The state of Virginia now has a computer
file (loaded on our genealogy file in our Staunton library that consolidates
all state marriages in Virginia during the Colonial period. Abraham Smith
and Elizabeth ? did not get authorization to marry by Va State Licenses or
bonding nor did their children John who married Mary Whitehead, Mary who
married James Campbell or Elias who married Frances ?. Perhaps the kids
thought if our mother and father can get married by banns we can too!!
Suggestions and recommendations are solicited!! Regards BH
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