Micajah & Austin Byrd MO, TX, ARK, VA
In The American State Papers, a Margaret Byrd, widow of Micajah, files an application for land in the St. Louis District of the Missouri Territory in 1806.In 1805 and early 1806 a Micajah Byrd and Austin Byrd sign various petitions in the Missouri Territory.An Austin Byrd, age 40-50 appears on the 1830 Jefferson Co. Missouri census.
In 1826, Micajah Byrd, age 25-40 is in Texas (one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred").He and his wife Hannah Bradbury of Illinois had four daughters, at least one of whom reported on the 1880 census that her father was born in Missouri.The oral family history was this Byrd family originated in Virginia.
In 1820-1840 Luther Micajah and Lorenzo Austin Byrd, sons of John Byrd and Mary Wise are living in Independence Co. Ark.
If anyone has information about the Byrd families in Virginia, Missouri, Texas or Arkansas that can shed light on how these Micajah and Austin Byrd families might be tied together I would be interested in communicating with you.
An interesting historical note, Stephen F. Austin was born in Virginia in 1793, moving to southeast Missouri age 5, involved in various Missouri matters until 1820 when he briefly appeared in Arkansas before assuming responsibilities of establishing the Texas Colony in 1821-22.
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