Land: Skinner Family Land Patents, Lincoln Parish, LA Submitted by Ray E. Skinner, ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. In 1820 the US Congress passed a law to give land to the public in order to settle the Louisiana land purchase in the southern States. Most of the land in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia and the rest of the thirteen colonies was owned by individuals. Therefore, people started to move west for the free land. This movement started in about 1830, but really picked up in the forties. My ggGrandmother Mary was born in Georgia in 1787. She married a Skinner at some time and came to La. I found her and her four Children in the 1850 cenus. Her oldest son (Samuel Skinner) was my gGrandfather and born in 1827 here in La. Here is a list of land patents that they paid a fee for. NOTE: This land is in what is now known as Lincoln Parish, around the Vienna/ Hilly, LA area. by: Ray E. Skinner NAME PATENT # PARISH DATE ACREAGE Mary Skinner 3672 Ouachita 5 Aug 1837 79 Mary Skinner 4836 Ouachita 1 May 1839 159 Mary Skinner 4846 Jackson 1 Sep 1851 320 Mary Skinner 13086 Jackson 15 Sep 1854 80 Samuel Skinner 9397 Jackson 1 Sep 1849 39 Samuel Skinner 9891 Jackson 1 Sep 1850 39 Samuel Skinner 10318 Jackson 10 Jan 1851 39 Samuel Skinner 10319 Jackson 10 Jan 1851 39 Samuel Skinner 10616 Jackson 1 Sep 1852 39 Samuel Skinner 15207 Jackson 1 Sep 1852 320 Samuel Skinner 15208 Jackson 1 Sep 1852 79 Samuel Skinner 15558 Jackson 30 Oct 1857 79 Samuel Skinner 15369 Jackson 15 Jan 1958 119