Headrighters List, Washington Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Transcribed by Gloria Kerns. Used by permission. NOTE: This feature will try to add to the few records existing for the parish. It is a list of "headrights" granted by an Act of Congress in 1820. Most of these settlers had taken up land before 1810, and not later than 1815. (gk) NEAR THE TOWN OF ANGIE John Mitchell Joseph Ard Robert Mitchell William Ard William Hunt Michael Jones Thomas C. Hunt Abner Bickham John Ford Daniel Glover Elias Ford Nathan Blackwell Thomas Ard, Sr. Thomas Ard, Jr. VICINITY OF VARNADO Uriah Smith Tom Wallis Reubin Mayfield John Holden Aaron Adams Thomas C. Warner John Thigpen Sherod Adams Joseph Adams VICINITY OF BOGALUSA Steve Stafford Benjamen Richardson Simon Williams (west of the present George Adams Ben's ford) John Richardson VICINITY OF LEE'S CREEK AND POOL'S BLUFF William Pool Jesse Lea John Edwards William Lea James P. Lea ALONG THE BOGUE CHITTO RIVER Cornelius Cooper John Galloway Benjamin Parier Charles Galloway John Talley II William Galloway William Magee William Bickham Ebenezeer Ford Phillip Magee Jonathan Taylor ALONG THE BOBUE LUSA CREEK William Williams John Mizell Jacob Miller Fanny Richardson John Williams (widow of Hardy) David Mizell James Thomas VICINITY OF PINE William Morris S. Blackwell Dennis Crane Moses Childs VICINITY NEAR ENON William Fussell H. Jarrell John B. Stewart John Kennedy Benjamin Toney William Bickham George Ellis Isaac Irwin James Miller Benjamin Bickham AREA BETWEEN ENON AND FRANKLINTON Amos Duncan John Simmons William Simmons C. Roberts Isaac Roberts Thomas Roberts AREA OF WARD 1 Ezekial Brumfield Ridley Brumfield William Brumfield The Gormans William Cooper Aaron Miller EAST SIDE OF FRANKLINTON AND BOGUE CHITTO RIVER Robert Simmons Jesse Day John Bickham John Miller George Ellis Abner Bickham Gideon Yarborough William Henry James Hays James Hayes Joseph Erwin WEST SIDE OF THE BOGUE CHITTO RIVER Delany Bird Henry Hill James Gay Richard Burch Sara Slocum John Irwin Elisha Roberts Edwin Fussell Richard Graves NORTH ALONG HAYES CREEK Thomas Magee William Magee BOGUE CHITTO RIVER NORTH OF FRANKLINTON James Gwin Tom BicKham Isaac Roberts Edmund Hunt William Roberts Jonathan Magee Jacob Alford William Carter Elisha Roberts Woody Jones ALONG SILVER CREEK Jacob Bankston Andrew Smith Lewis Bankson Willaim Busby Enon James R. Burch John Smith J. Burch Isaac Dykes Richard Burch Evan Magee John Roberts Joseph Spell Bradford Kemp Wiley Jones (purchase from W.D. Smith William Wheat) Eliza Self H. K. Goff ALONG THE TCHEFUNCTA Jim Lea Lesley Bankston William F. Dyson Note: This list was first printed in the LouisianaGenealogical Register, Volume IV. No. II, April 1959, pages 9, 10. (gk)