Thursday, April 19, 2007

Doctors In War-1776-1865.

I will have little or no family information on these names but it's important to put them down so family mumbers will know where they were and what they where doing at this time in History.
This information comes from Bill's from the Library of Congress.
If you have information you would like to add or have any questions you may at the following address.
dsegelquist1@cox.net

Dr. Eliakim Crosby
???-???
Congress 1828.

Eliakim, was from Litchfield Connecticut then in 1804 he went to the province of uper Canada. When the the war of 1812, started he still had feelings for the United States and came back in 1814, and went into the service of the United States army. After the war he put in for a claim ( No. 824 ) for some land. This address is for his claim. http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llsp/033/0100/01740156.gif

Dr. John Ramsay
???-???
Congress 1838.

John
, was a surgeon of the fantry of the Virginia Line of the Continental army of the Revolution and died in the service of the same. His wife (?) get a pension of seven years half-pay after Virginia deducted their money under the Virginia assembley act of 1791.

Note. John Ramsay, son of David Ramsay brother William, who received an M.B. from the University of Pennsylvania medical school in 1787 before leaving to study medicine in England.

Dr.William Ramsay
???-???
Congress 1839.

William, The treasury is to settal and adjust the accounts of Dr. William Ramsay deceased and allow him five years full pay as a surgeon mate in the Revolutionary army, in the military hospitals in the middle department, without interest; which five years full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life.

Note. this was a Bill to bring his pay up to date as his heirs had put in for his pension.

Dr. William Trevitt
???-???
Congress 1862.

William, was consul for the United States at Valprraiso and was asking Congress for relief in the amount of one thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents, for acting in the above capacity.

Dr. George C. Clitherall
???-???
Congress 1834.

George , was a surgeon in the army and now decease. Caroline E. Clitherall and surviving children are to be paid for quarters ( Land ? ) not furnished to him at Fort Johnston in the State of North Carolain which he had provided for himself, from May 24, 1814 to November 9. 1829, to be distributed according to the laws of the State of Alabama.

Dr. William Johonnot
???-???
Congress 1837.

The legal representatives of Doctor William Johonnot five years full pay of a hospital surgeon being the commutation of half-pay for life of said Johonnot, as a assistant apothecary of the hospital department of the revolutionary army, together with the interest which would now be due had a certificate for that amount had been issued.

Dr. Charles Taylor
???-???
Congress 1837.

Charles, five years full pay as a surgeon in the Revolutionary war, which five years full pay is the commutation of half pay for life, together with such interestas would now be due if a certificate for such commutation had been issued.

Dr. Edward Jarvis
???-???
Congress1866.

Edward, The sum of fifteen hundred dollars for his services in the preparation of the United States Census for 1850, Provided, That the Secretary of the interior after full examination of his claim, shall be satisfied that it is equitable and just.

Dr. Theodore A. Tellkampf
???-???
Congress 1873.

Theodore, The sum of seven hundred dollars and seventy dollars and fifty cents, for his services in the army as division surgeon of the Western Department and travelling expenses.

Dr. John H. McQuown
???-???
Congress 1872.

John, of Illinois the sum of one thousand and twenty dollars in full satisfaction for all military and medical sevices rendered the United States as acting assistant surgeon of the sixty-second Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers infantry.

Dr. Mottrom Ball
???-???
Congress 1818

Mottrom, of Northumberland county, Virginia, the sum of one thousand and four hundred dollars.

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Dr. J. Milton Best
???-???
Congress 1871.

Dr. J. Milton Best, to be paid the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the destruetion of his dwelling-house and it's contents in Paducah Kentucky by order of Colonel S. J. Hicks commanding theUnited States forces at Paducah on March 26, 1864.

Dr. Henry Perrine
???-???
Congress 1849.

Henry, That the term of eight years enacted in the act passed Feb. 14, 1841, entitled " An act supplementary to an act entitle an act to encourage the introduction, and promote the cultivion of tropical plants," approved July 7, 1838, Wherein the location and settlement of land granted by said act, be extended for the term of five years from and after the passage of this act, to the said widow and heirs of Doctor Henry Perrine.

Dr. Thomas Carter
???-???
Congress 1838

Thomas, now deceased was a surgeon in the Virginia State line of the continental army, in the revolutionary war, under the act of July 5, 1832, there be allowed and paid to the said heirs, the sum of two hundred and four dollars, the amount of half pay from Feb. 9, 1783 to Sept. 3, 1783.

Dr. Thomas Powell
???-???
Congress 1838.

To pay to the legal representatives of Doctor Thomas Powell, five years full pay as a surgeon in the revolutionary war; which five years full pay is commutation of half pay for life.

Dr. Corbin Griffin
???-???
Congress 1839.

The General Land Office is to issue to the legal representatives of the late Doctor Corbin Griffin, deceased, who was a hospital surgeon of the Virginia State line, in the revolutionary war, the amount of scrip usually issued according to the laws of Virginia, to surgeons of the line, in full for all provisions in land, for services during said war.

Dr. John B. Read
???-???
Congress 1870.

John, to be paid in full satisfaction of all his claims for the use by the United States, of his inventions and improvements in projectiles for rifle cannon, his acceptance of wich sum shall be deemed a full satisfaction of all his claims arising under his agreement with the War Department entered into in the year of 1856.

Dr. Ninian Pikeny
???
Congress 1872.

Ninian, is entitleed to his original position on the Navy Register at the head of the list be it directed by the examining board of Feb. 13, 1843. The Secretary of the Navy is directed to place the name of Medical Director Ninian Pinkney on said list at the head of the list of surgeons of his date as it stood in 1843 and 1844.

DR. J. Burrows Gardiner
???-???
Congress 1872

Pay to Susan O. Rhea, who was the widow of doctor J. Burrows Gardiner, a surgeon in the navy of Texas at the time of the annexation of said republic to the United States, the compensation which he would have received had he lived at the date of the passage of the act of Congress of March 3, 1857, Provided a full relinquishment of all claims on the part of said Gardiner or any person or persons for further compensation.

Dr. Clark Lillybridge
???-???
Congress 1846 & 1847

Clark, performed as Physician in the Cherokee emigration.

Note. Clark Lillybridge, late physician to the emigrating Cherokee Indians, praying payment of a balance due him for services rendered. ( The Bill passed and he got his payment.)

Dr. Boyd Reilly
???-???
Congress 1838.

Boyd, to be paid ten thousand dollars for the right to use the various forms of his apparatus both fixed and portable , and any improvements he may here after make thereto by means wereof the pungent irrespirable gases or vapor can be applied to the human body in the naval and military service in the hospitals an in the penitentiary of the United States.

Dr. B. A. Sellars
???-???
Congress 1873.

Dr. Sallars, Bill & Claim was to long to recopy here,these two address will give the information.
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Dr. Mary E. Walker
???-???
Congress 1872.

Mary will be paid ten thousand dollars for her service she rendered in the Army of the Union during the late war, as a physician and surgeon, and for money she gave in behalf of the sick and wounded soldiers of the Army.

Dr. Adolphus Wislizenus
???-???
Congress 1848.

The Treasury is to acsertain the value at Chihuahum in Mexico on April 3, 1847 of medicines furnised to the army by Doctor Adolphus Wislizenus, and to pay to said, and also pay to him at the rate of ninty dollars per month the amount due him for the time which he acted as assistant surgeon under contract with Col. D. D. Mitchell of the United States army.

Dr. David H. Maxwell
???-???
Congress 1837.

The Treasury is to settle the claims of Dr. David H. Maxwell, for services as a physician and surgeon for a companty of mounted rangers, under the command of Captain Williamson Dunn, and other companies of rangers, volunteer militia, and United States infantry, from April 13, 1813 to March 16, 1814 inclusive; also for medicines furnished by him at his own cost; also for any damage sushained to his surdical instruments while in service, also allow him the same pay if he had been commissioned as a surgeons mate. TheTreasury will be deducting from the amount to be settle the sums he received as a private mounted ranger and the $150. dollars repaid by the officers and men of said Captain Dunn's company.

Dr. John Gray
???-???
Congress 1846.

To the legal representatives of Dr. John Gray, deceased, late of Calvert county in the State of Maryland the sum of five thousand dollars.

Dr. J. M. Foltz
???-???
Congress 1839.

That the same pay be allowed from June 7, 1836 to March 9, 1837 to Dr. J. M. Foltz, that was allowed to the surgeon at headquarters of the Unite States Corps who was relieved by him by order of the honorable the Secetary of the Navy.

Dr. Hanson Catlett
???-???
Congress 1831.

The legal representatives of Dr. Hanson Catlett, late, of the United States army the sum of six hundred and forty-five dollars, the amount claimed by Dr. Catlett, in his life time for pay and rations advanced to a hospital steward at the arsenal near Pittsburg, from June 9, 1816 to Jan.
9, 1820.

Dr. A. F. Alexander
???-???
Congress 1873.

To pay to the heirs and legal representatives of Doctor A. F. Alexander, deceased, late of Eutaw, Greene county, State of Alabama, the sum of seven thousand dollars being the value of centain stock and property taken from said A. F. Alexander, by the army of the United States, on or about May 17, 1865, near Eutaw Alabama being the fores commanded by General Grierson.

Dr. Charles Taylor & Francis Taylor
???-???
Congress 1872.

Note. These two address will give you the information.
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Dr. Sylvester Nash
???-???
Congress 1839.

To place the name of Sylvester Nash, of the county of Chenango, in the State of New York, on the list of invalid pensioners; and that he be paid at the rate of twenty dollars per month during his natual life.

Dr. Samuel Kennedy
???-???
Congress 1831.

The Treasury is to settle and ajust the accounts of the heirs of Doctor Samuel Kennedy, and allow to them seven years half-pay for their fathers service as surgeon in the revolutionary war; who died in the service on June 28, 1783.

Gustavus Horner
???-???
Congress 1838.

The Treasury to settle and ajust the accounts of Doctor Gustavus Horner, deceased, and allow him, or his heirs and devisees, five years full pay as a surgeons mate in the Revolutionary War,in Maryland line without insterst, wich five years full pay is the commutation of his half pay for life.

Dr. Felix Brunot
???-???
Congress 1844.

The Secretary of War be required to place the name of Elizabeth ( Kreider ) Brunot upon the pension roll; and that she be allowed a pension under the acts of July 7, 1838 and March 3, 1843, to equal to twelve months service as a sungeon in the Revolutionary War, as the widow of Doctor Felix Brunot.

Dr. Absalom Baird
???-???
Congress 1836.

Absalom, deceased, as a surgeon in the regiment of Artificers of the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and allow his legal represeattives compensation equal to five years full pay of a captain in the infantry in the service of theUnited States, on conntinental establishment, without interest; which five years full pay is the commutation for his half pay for life to be paid to the legal representives of the said Doctor Absalom Barid.

Dr. Marcus Reynolds
???-???
Congress 1871.

The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay the sum of one thousand dollars to Doctor Marcus Reynolds, a loyal citizen of Sumter county, in the State of South Carolina, in full compensation for his losses on account of the seizre and appropriation of his personal property by Colonel Haughton and the men under his command in the Spring of 1865.

Droctor R. H. Palmer
???-???
Congress 1873.

The Secretary of the interior is directed to place on the pension roll subjet to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Saraphine T. Palmer, of Greene county, Tennessee, widow of Doctor R. H. Palmer, late assistant surgeon of the eight Tennessee Cavaly.

Dr. John Berrien
???-???
Congress 1833.
Note. These two address wil give the information.
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DR. James H. Cheears
???-???
Congress 1838.

The Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the legal represntatives of Doctor James H. Cheears, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the compensation of assistant surgeon in the army of the United States, from July 9, 1837 to Oct. 22, 1837, the said Doctor James H. Cheears, having discharged the duties of that office in General Armstrong's brigade of mounted Tennessee Volunteers in his campaign in Florida.

Dr. John P. Briggs
???-???
Congress 1837.

The Secretary of the Navy is required to place on the list of invald pensioners of the navy pension fund, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, John P. Briggs, late acting surgeon on board the ship Sartoga, who was wounded by a splinter in action on Lake Champlain with the British on Sept. 11, 1814, commencement is to be on Oct. 1, 1832.

Dr. Robert Johnston
???-???
Congress 1827.
Note. This address will give the information.
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Dr. S. R. Addison
???-???
Congress 1852.

The Treasury is required to pay Doctor S. R. Addison passed assistant surgeon in the navy of the United States, the differnce of pay between that of his grade and the pay of surgeon from April 4, 1848 until June 21, 1850, being the period which he served as surgeon on board the United States sloop-of -war Sant Mary's.

Dr. Hazel W. Crouch
???-???
Congress 1838.

Hazel, attended the sick at Fort Moultrie and at the Charleston deport under a contract made on behalf of the United States by Major Pool, of the army; and that he be allowed the sum due under said contract, and for such mediecine as was furnished by Doctor Crouch, this to be paid to the administrator, E. H. Williams of said Doctor Hazel W. Crough.

Dr. Francis Lambert
???-???
Congress 1838.

The Treasury to pat to Doctor Francis Lambert, the pay and emoluments of assistant surgeon in the army of the United States, for his attendance as a physician of the Washington Volunteers inthe service of the United States, on their march from Augusta to Columbus, Georgia, for one month; commencing June 12, and ending July 12, 1836.

Dr. Henry Adams
???-???
Congress 1842.

Sarah Besly widow of William Besly, and previous of Doctor Henry Adams, a surgeon in the army of the revolution, be placd on the pension roll, and that she be allowed the benefit of the act of July 17, 1838, in the same manner, form, and exten, as if she had never married the second time, and had been the widow of said Doctor Henry Adams on the passage of said act.

Dr. Basil R. Prather
???-???
Congress 1872.

The Paymaster General of the army to pay the account of Doctor Basil R. Prather, late acting assistant surgeon of the 34th. regiment of the Iowa Volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion for such period as it shall appear that he actualy rendered service in that capacity, notwithstanding he may not have been regularly appointed as such, assistant surgeon.

Dr. James P. Espy
???-???
Congress 1847.

The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to purchase from Doctor James P. Espy his patent rights for the conical ventilator, for the use of the United States, for a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.

Dr. Isaac Ledyard
???-???
Congress 1833.

Note. These two address will give you the information.
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Dr. Robert Johnson
???-???
Congress 1823.
Note. These two address will give you the information.

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Dr. Williamson D. Dunn
???-???
Congres 1872

The Secretary of the interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to place the name of Doctor Williamson D. Dunn, late assistant surgeon of the 21st. regiment of Indiana Volunteers, on the pension roll of the United States, to date from and after Sept. 10, 1863, and that the pension to which he is now entitled and which he now receives be paid to him, commencing on Sept. 10, 1863

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Native Americans of Mixed Blood

I know someone will be upset with some of the words here but it can’t be helped and as this information comes from Historical documents I will not change the wording to please a few, besides by changing the wording there may be a miss understanding of what they were trying to say and lets face it if you are looking for family you will have to look under these titles or you’ll get no where. There is no family info here but I thought it was important for those of you looking for family to know what was happening to them at this time in History.

Dictionary Definitions.
1. Half Breed-the offspring of parents of different racial origin, esp. the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European heritage.

2. Half Blood-a person who has only one parent in common with another person, as a half sister or half brother = (3.)-Half Breed.

I put the definitions down to help you as this information will be under these two titles even though they mean the same thing.

If you would like to add any info to these names or have any question you can at the following address. dsegelquist1@cox.net


Note. Only the Indian names will be in bold black lettering, also the dates beside the names is the year the information came out of Congress.

Half Breeds.

The following names are from the Sioux tribe. The were trying to get paid for land that was sold in the treaty of Sept. 29, 1837, and if they could proof their claims they were to get certificates for the unpaid amount, It was later found they all were entitled to the certificates, their names are: Mary Woodbury ( late Mary Taliaferro ) Elizabeth Odell ( late Elizabeth Williams ) G. H. Moreau, Sophia Moreau, Antoine Moreau and Joseph Labathe.

The following names were entitled to Sioux half-breed certificates or scrip’s in the amount of four hundred and eighty acres of land.
Mary Wacoutah, Martha Wacoutah and Lucy Caron.

Relief to Samuel Hawkins, a half breed now ( deceased ) to his wife (?) to received two hundred dollars per annum.

In 1833, Laughlin Durant, half breed had a Bill in Congress asking Congress to be allowed a fee simple title to a reservation granted to him by the treaty of Fort Jackson.

In 1836, Joseph Leframbois, a Pottawatamie half-breed asking compensation for the destruction of his house by fire.

In 1828, Catharine Rily, Giles M'Anulty and Co-noo-lus-kee or Chalenge all Cheekee half-breeds asking to be permitted to sell the lands reserved to them by the treaty of July 8, 1817.

In 1828, Cecille Boyer and Angelia Cutaw alias Mu-ta-ma-go-quo got one section of land located on the Flint river in the Territory of Michigan, provided that they nor their heirs shall ever sell and convey the land without the consent of the President of the United States.

In 1856, Nathaniel Steele, or his heirs, who was ejected in 1836 from his improvement purchased from John Gunter, a half-breed Cherokee, in the county of Marshall, State of Alabama, by Captain Morrow, acting under command of General Wool, in the removal of the Cherokees.

In 1850, Robert Grignon, a half-breed of the Menomonie Indians, praying the payment of the annuity granted him by those Indians in the treaty of 1836.

In 1830, James Brown, a citizen and half breed of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, praying to be paid for improvements given up by him, in pursuance of the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, made in the year 1819.

In 1844, A petition of Nicholas Boilvin, of the State of Illinois, for a grant of three hundred and twenty acres of land, to complete the balance of a reservation to which Catharine Myott, a half-breed of the Winnebago Indians, became entitled, under the treaty of 1829 with said tribe, and which said reservee sold to the petitioner.

In 1843, The petition of the widow and heirs of John B. Chandonai, deceased, a half-breed Indian, praying compensation for his services during the war with Great Britain.

In 1845, A petition of Nicholas Boilvia, of Peru, in the State of Illinois, praying for a grant to him of a tract of land of three hundred and twenty acres, either in Wisconsin, Iowa, or Illinois, to make the full complement of two sections of land assigned to Catharine Myott, a half-breed Winnebago woman, of whom he had purchased the two said sections of land in the years 1835 and 1838.

In 1843, Scott Campbell, a half-breed of the Dacota nation of Indians, praying the payment of a sum of money and the grant of a tract of land agreeably to a stipulation in the treaty of September, 1837, between the United States and a tribe of the Sioux Indians.

Half Bloods.

In 1817, Petitions of Absalom Sizemoor, Samuel Fisher, Benjamin Fisher, Daniel Randon, Samuel Smith, John Burford, and Richard Turvin, Lachlan Durant, George Stiggins, William Sizemoor, Surmie M'Gee, Leonard M'Gee, Elijah Tervin, James Earle, Hardy Reed, William Tuley, Charles Elliott, James Cornells, and Arthur Sizemoor, half blood Creek Indians, praying that their respective titles to lands in the territory of Alabama, may be confirmed in fee simple.

In 1816, Petitions from Zachariah M'Girt, Margaret Bailey, Samuel and David Hale, Polly Jones, John L. M'Comb, Samuel Snells and others, Elijah Tervin, James Cornell, John E. Myles and others, Nancy Bailey, and Simahoa Fisher, half blood Indians, and Indian countrymen, respectively praying for fee-simple titles to the lands on which they reside, lying on the Alabama river.

In 1825, A petition of James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, representing that a quarter section of land was granted to her by the Miami nation of Indians, (she being a half-blood Miami woman) which land has been surveyed and sold by the United States. She prays relief in the premises.

In 1829, George Stiggins, of the State of Alabama, praying permission to make sale in fee, of the land secured to him during life, as a half blood Creek Indian, by the treaty of Fort Jackson.

In 1834, A petition of Cecile Compare, a half blood of the Kanzas tribe of Indians, now the wife of Hyacinthe Lecomte, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, praying for a grant of the land to which she is entitled under the sixth article of the treaty of the 3d of June, 1825.

In 1837, David McCaleb, of the county of Claiborne, and State of Mississippi, praying confirmation of his claim to a certain lot of land which he purchased in 1832, of Elizabeth Jacobs, a half-blood India n woman of the Choctaw tribe.