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Anyone interested in "Our Patriarch" Jean-Schmidt / John Smith Baisden (JSB) may be interested in a fact-filled letter that came into my hands some time ago.
I'm transcribing here the relevant passages in hopes it is of some real help to anyone interested in charting the movements of JSB and family.
If this helps, and if you are willing to share what you know about JSB, please write me care of my e-mail address. I would be so very happy to hear from anyone with information to share and/or compare.
a couple of notes :
1. I have only begun researching my paternal lineage in the last five months or so, so have not myself ever searched out the references listed here.
2. I wonder how these apparent land speculations of JSB validates Colleen Roberts comments about his rumored involvement with
some missing French silver (see our messages from October 1999).
Excerpt from letter written 26 March 1970 by Mrs. C.P. Kelley of Chattanooga, TN, to Jack Martin Godsey of Alhambra, CA. Forwarded c1993 to Gregory Baisden from relatives of his former wife!
Mrs. Kelley is reporting information re: her search into early Godsey relations.
"Do you recall the John Smith Baisden who was early in Franklin Co., VA... who appears in Montgomery Co., VA, records (DB C, p.21) when in March 1797 he buys the land of Augustine and Frances (Hix) Godsey? Well, he is on a 1798 list of delinquent tax payers in Montgomery, as is a William Godsey. Then he shows up in Jefferson Co., TN, buying land (DB B, p.219) in 1794 from Ignatius Truman, so he must have gone from there to Montgomery Co., VA...
"Now, Baisden's name appears in "The Big Sandy Valley" by Willard Rouse Jillson (John P. Morgan & Co., Inc., Louisville, 1923), in a list of names from the store and banking records of Judge John Graham in the Levisa River (part of Big Sandy) area of KY, for the period 1800 to 1820, p.130: Baisden, John, and Baisden, John L. There are also Hansley, Daniel, and James (p.132), Hensley [sic], George, as well as Lacey, James, and John C. (p.133). These people probably lived along the VA-KY border, some in one and some in another. Baisden was a Rev. War pensioner and was drawing a pension in a VA (now WV) county in 1840..."
"Montgomery Co., VA, Land Tax Records (VA State Archives)...
1798--List of... Tax Delinquents... [including] John S, Baisden, 200 acres."
"Montgomery Co., VA. Land Grant Index (VA State Archives) Grant Book 36, p.258: Augustin Godsey & Robert Hix, 3 October 1796--300 acres on Little River.
Montgomery County DB C, p.21, 14 Feb 1797, proved March term, 1797 by wits. Frederick Nestor, Rowland Jacobs, and Nathan Ratliff...
Augustin Godcy [sic] and wife Frances of Montgomery County to John Smith Baisden, of Wythe County, 100, 200a, laying in Montgomery County on little river the Waters of New River..."
[with description of boundaries, etc.]
I believe this is the traditional JSB property where he and other family are buried, which now belongs to Paul Hill--I hope he reads this and confirms or discounts it!
Hope this is of interest to you intrepid seacrches out there. Please respond!
Gregory Baisden
206.527.0651
Seattle, WA
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