The Names Of Margaret.

If you have a ancestor in your family who’s first name is Margaret, then this is the place for you. Normally I work with surnames but from time to time I like to do a first name, just to see what I get. I choose Margaret as it is the name of one of my aunts.


A BILL
FEBRUARY 8, 1820,
For the relief of Margaret Hall, late Margaret McKenzie.

Be it enacted by the Senate anti House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue, to Margaret Rail, late Margaret McKenzie, a certificate for six hundred and forty dollars; which certificate shall be receivable in payment for any of the public lands sold by the United States.
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AN ACT
JANUARY 24, .1853.
For the relief of Margaret Farrar.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be authorized and required to ascertain the amount of interest, at the rate of six per cent per annum, due and unpaid to Margaret Farrar, a half-breed Indian, under the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-six with the Sacs and Fox Indians, and that said Commissioner cause such sum of money as he may find due (if any) to be paid to said Margaret Farrar, and that the sum of four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid.
Passed the Senate April 26, 1852.
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A JOINT RESOLUTION and MEMORIAL for the relief of Margaret Nation and, others. COMMUNICATED TO THE SENATE, FEBRUARY 8, 1836.

Whereas, it is represented to this general assembly that Margaret Nation is a very aged. woman, who is encumbered with a large family of deaf and dumb children, whom she is unable to support, and who are unable, on account of the aforesaid affliction, to support themselves: Therefore, Be it resolved by the general assembly of the Stale of Indiana, That our senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law by Congress, donating one quarter section of land to each of said individuals, to wit, to the said Margaret Nation awl her said children, William Nation, Christopher Nation, Elias Nation, Jane Nation, Elizabeth Nation, and Anna Nation, in some section of Indiana, where the lands are yet vacant.
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A BILL
MARCH 30, 1860.
For the relief of Margaret Whitehead.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and be is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Margaret Whitehead, widow of William Whitehead, late a boatswain in the navy of the United States, on the pension roll, and cause her to be paid the sum of live dollars per month from the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred fifty-four.
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A BILL
FEBRUARY 1, 1864.
For the relief of Margaret L. Stevens, widow of General Isaac I. Stevens.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Margaret L. Stevens, widow of Isaac I. Stevens, late governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Washington, such sum per annum for the time he served as such superintendent, as was allowed by law to the superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Oregon, by the act of Congress approved June five, eighteen hundred and fifty: Provided, That the sum shall not exceed the sum of four thousand dollars.
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A BILL
DECEMBER 9, 1851.
For the relief of Margaret L. Worth.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to place the name of Margaret L. Worth, widow of the late Brevet Major-General Worth, on the pension roll, at the rate of fifty dollars a month, from the seventh day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for and during her natural life.
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A BILL.
JUNE 23, 1862.
To secure one month’s pay and pension to Margaret Bailey, widow of George B. Bailey, lieutenant colonel in the ninth regiment of Virginia volunteers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Margaret Bailey, widow of George B. Bailey, late acting lieutenant colonel in the ninth regiment of Virginia volunteers, one month’s pay of a lieutenant colonel, for services rendered by her husband as lieutenant colonel and surgeon, prior to November tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, when he was killed in battle at Guyandotte, Virginia.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of Pensions be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of said Margaret Bailey on the pension roll, and that she be allowed and paid the same pension that she would have been entitled to had the said George B. Bailey been regularly mustered into the United States service as a lieuten7 ant colonel of infantry at the time of his death.
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A BILL
FEBRUARY 25, 1850.
For the relief of Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, widow and administratrix of A. R. Hetzel, late Assistant Quartermaster in the Army of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the Secretary of the Treasury he, and he is hereby, authorized, to allow and pay to Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, administratrix on the estate of the late A. R. Hetzel, late Assistant Quartermaster in the army of the United States, the sum of twelve thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars seventy-four cents, being the amount claimed by him, in the account rendered by him, for a part of the third quarter of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and which was disallowed at the treasury, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
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A BILL
MARCH 9, 1848.
For the relief of George A. Barnitz, husband of Margaret Barnitz, the only surviving heir of Lieutenant Colonel David Grier, of the army of the Revolution.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to George A. Barnitz, the husband of Margaret Barnitz, the only surviving heir of David Grier, who was a lieutenant colonel in the Pennsylvania line on the continental establishment during the revolutionary war, five years full pay, that being the commutation of the half-pay for life promised by the resolutions of Congress to officers of the Revolution, together with such interest thereon as would now be due if a certificate for such commutation had been issued to said Lieutenant Colonel David Grier, under the principles of the funding act of seventeen hundred and ninety, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
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AN ACT
FEBRUARY 5, 1873.
Granting a pension to Margaret Conyers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, the name of Margaret Conyers, widow of Walter Conyers, late a private in Company A, Fourteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry Volunteers, from the passage of this act. Passed the House of Representatives February 4, 1873.
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AN ACT
MAY 27, 1872.
For the relief of Margaret Fillebrown.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay Margaret Fillebrown, the widow of the late Henry C. Fille5 brown, who lost his life by being drowned in the Coosa River, in the State of Alabama, while engaged in the service of the United States as an engineer, the salary the said Henry C. Fillebrown would have been entitled to have received, from the day of his death, viz, August eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the end of the fiscal year in which his death occurred, had he remained in said service, being at the rate of two hundred dollars per month.
Passed the House of Representatives May 24, 1872.
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AN ACT
APRIL 25, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret Miller.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Miller, widow of Cornelius Miller, late a private of Company C, Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers, and pay her a pension from the date of the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives April 24, 1872.
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AN ACT
APRIL 24, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret Riley.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Riley, widow of Charles Riley, late private of Company B, Twelfth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and pay her a pension from and after the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives April 23, 1872.
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AN ACT
APRIL 4, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret Coldwell.

Be it enacted by the Senate and ho use of Representatives of the United Stales f America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Coldwell, dependent mother of Edward C. Coldwell, late a sergeant of Company D, Fifteenth Regiment Kentucky Infantry Volunteers, and pay her a pension from the date of the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives April 23, 1872.
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AN ACT
JANUARY 15, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret Lee.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States f America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Lee, mother of David Lee, late a private in Company B, Fourteenth Ohio Volunteers, and to pay her a pension from and after the passage of this act. Passed the House of Representatives January 12, 1872.
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AN ACT
JUNE 25, 1870.
Granting a pension to Margaret Kent.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of’ the United Sate of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Kent, widow of Edwin A. Kent, late a private in Company A, One hundred and twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteers, and to pay her a pension from and after the passage of this act, during her widowhood.
Passed the House of Representatives June 24, 1870.
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AN ACT
JUNE 25, 1870.
Granting a pension to Margaret Taylor.

Be ‘it enacted by t1i’ Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Taylor, widow of Joseph W. Taylor, who was captured by the confederate forces at Plymouth, North Carolina, on the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and subsequently died in prison, at the rate of eight dollars per month from and after the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives, June 24, 1870.
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AN ACT
JUNE 25, 1870.
Granting a pension to Margaret Freeman.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Freeman, stepmother of Mahlon Freeman, late a private in the Seventeenth Iowa infantry, at the rate of eight dollars per month from and after the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives June 24, 1870.
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AN ACT
JUNE 8, 1868.
Granting a pension to Margaret Davis.

Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margaret Davis, widow of William H. Davis, late an acting surgeon in the eighteenth Missouri volunteers, and pay her a pension at the rate of seventeen dollars per month.
Passed the House of Representatives June 6, 1868.
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AN ACT
FEBRUARY 21, 1867.
Granting back pension to Margaret Boucher.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Margaret Boucher, widow of Michael boucher, late of the twenty-sixth regiment of the District of Columbia militia, a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the death of her husband to the date of her pension certificate, October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Passed the House of Representatives February 20, 1867.

Note. I find I will not have room for all the names unless I edit some of the information, so I will leave out all the legal words.

AN ACT
APRIL 24, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret C. Gibson.

To place on the pension-roll, Margaret C. Gibson, widow of Jacob Gibson, who was killed while on duty as a scout in the United States service, and pay her a pension at eight dollars per month from and after the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives April 23, 1872.
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AN ACT
MARCH 25, 1872.
Granting a pension to Mrs. Margaret Webber.

To place on the pension-roll, Margaret Webber, widow of John Webber, late a gunner in the United States Navy, from and after the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives March 22, 1872.
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AN ACT
JANUARY 27, 1868.
To grant a pension to Margaret Huston.

To place the name of Margaret Huston on the roll of pensions as a widow, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, from the date of January first, eighteen hundred and sixty—five.
Passed the House of Representatives January 24, 1868.
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AN ACT
FEBRUARY 21, 1873.
For the relief of Margaret Merklein.

To Margaret Merklein the sum of six hundred dollars, being for the payment of loss of property incurred by said Margaret Merklein, at the hands of the public enemy during the war of the rebellion, and of services of said Margaret Merklein to the Government of the United States in saving stores of the United States Army from destruction by the public enemy, and in attending upon the sick and wounded of the United States Army; the said payment to be made out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Passed the House of Representatives February 19, 1873.
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AN ACT
APRIL, 25, 1872.
Granting a pension to Jane Thompson and Margaret Thompson.

To place on the pension-roll, the names, of Jane Thompson and Margaret Thompson, only minor children of John Thompson, late a private in Company G, Forty-fifth United States Infantry.
Passed the House of Representatives April 24, 1872.
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AN ACT
JANUARY 18, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret Coggins, widow of Philip Coggins.

To place on the pension-roll, the name of Mrs. Margaret Coggins, widow of Philip Coggins, private of Company A, Eleventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and pay her a pension from the date of the passage of this act, and during her widowhood, at the rate of eight dollars per month.
Passed the House of Representatives January 17, 1872.
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AN ACT
MAY 13, 1870.
Granting a pension to Margaret C. Wells, of Lexington, Missouri.

To place on the pension-roll, the name of Margaret C. Wells, widow of James G. L. Wells, who was late a sergeant in Company I, Second Missouri State Militia, from and after the passage of this act.
Passed the House of Representatives May 12, 1870.
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AN ACT
APRIL 24, 1872.
Restoring to the pension-rolls the name of Margaret L. Bybee.

To restore to the pension-rolls the name of Margaret L. Bybee, and to pay her a pension at the same rate as was paid her previous to her name being stricken from said pension-rolls.
Passed the House of Representatives April 23, 1872.
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A BILL
APRIL 11, 1820.
For the relief of Margaret Ferry.

Margaret Perry a land Warrant, for the bounty land to which her son, William Valiant, a soldier, who died in the service of the United States, would have been entitled had he lived.
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AN ACT
APRIL 21, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret J. Boyd, Rachel D. Mcllvaine, and William L. Mcllvaine.

To place on the pension-roll the names of Margaret J. Boyd, who was a widow of Samuel Mcllvaine, late a corporal in Company D, of the Tenth Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers, Rachel D. Mcllvaine and William L. Mcllvaine, only minor children of the said Samuel Mcllvaine, to take effect from and after the date of the passage of this act.
Passed the Rouse of Representatives April 23, 1872.
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A BILL
MAY 17, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret Nelson.

To place on the pension-roll the name of Margaret Nelson, widow of John Nelson, late private in Company H, Seventeenth United States Infantry, and to pay her a pension from the passage of this act.
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A Bill
APRIL 8, 1869.
For the relief of Mrs. Margaret A. Laurie.

To pay to Mrs. Margaret A. Laurie, out of any money in the treasury riot otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars, for rent for her house and premises, in the District of Columbia, used by the United States authorities for medical and hospital purposes, from June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and in full for all demands or claims against the United States in connection therewith.
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A BILL
JANUARY 20, 1873.
For the relief of Margaret Ward.

To pay To Margaret Ward, for the property of her deceased husband, Peter Allison, seized and destroyed by the Comanche Indians, in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at Cinamon Spring, in the State of Kansas.
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A BILL
JANUARY 28, 1839.
For the relief of Margaret Barnes, widow of Elijah Barnes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That, the Secretary of War cause the name of Margaret Barnes, widow of Elijah Barnes, a soldier of the revolution, to be entered on the pension roll, in conformity to the act of. Congress of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and pay her at the rate of forty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, as is required in other cases by the provisions of the aforesaid act.
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A BILL
MARCH 27, 1838.
For the relief of Margaret Walls, widow of John Walls.

to place the name of Margaret Walls, widow of John Walls, of Orange county, State of North Carolina, an officer of the revolutionary army, on the revolutionary pension roll, at the rate of ten dollars per month, and pay her at that rate, from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during her natural life.
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A BILL
JANUARY 29, 1872.
Granting a pension to Margaret Conyers.

To place the name of Margaret Conyers, widow of Walter Conyers, late a private in Company-------Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, upon the pension-rolls of the United States, and to pay her a pension at the rate of dollars a month, commencing from the day of------------ eighteen hundred and sixty.
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AN ACT
MAY 13, 1870.
Granting a pension to Mrs. Margaret A. Hyde, widow of Henry M. Hyde, late an assistant paymaster United States Navy.

To place on the pension roll the name of Margaret A. Hyde, widow of Henry M. Hyde, late an assistant paymaster in the United States Navy, and pay her a pension corresponding with the rank of her late husband, to commence from the passage of this act, and to continue during widowhood.
Passed the House of Representatives May 12, 1870.
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A BILL
JUNE 1, 1840.
Granting a pension to Margaret Jamison.

To place on the pension roll the name of Margaret Jamison, widow of Samuel Jamison, deceased, of the State of Pennsylvania, on the Revolutionary pension-roll, under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six for four months’ service of her late husband as a sergeant and two months as a lieutenant.
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A BILL
JANUARY 21, 1858.
For the relief of Margaret Whitehead.

To place on the pension roll the name of Margaret Whitehead, widow of William Whitehead, a boatswain in the United States navy, on the pension roll, and cause to be paid to her the sum of ten dollars per month, from the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and to continue during her natural life or widowhood.
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A BILL
FEBRUARY 10, 1868.
Granting a pension to Caroline and Margaret Swartwout.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to place upon the pension rolls the names of Caroline and Margaret Swartwout, sisters of Samuel Swartwout, late a commodore in the navy of the United States, and to pay to them, or the survivor of them, a pension at the rate of thirty dollars per month from the fifteenth day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, during their joint lives and the life of the survivor.
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Note. Even with editing I will not have a enough room for all the information, so I will list all the Margaret’s I have left, their information will be about the same as those above. If you see a Margaret and would like her information, you can find my address in my profils.

Note. The dates are the year the Bill or Act, was in Congress.

1. 1871, Margaret Webber.
2. 1844, Margaret Dougherty.
3. 1836, Margaret Leitch.
4. 1870, Margaret P. Robinson.
5. 1836, Margaret Bell.
6. 1836, Margaret Reynolds.
7. 1869, Margaret Riddle.
8. 1872, Margaret H. Judd.
9. 1864, Margaret M. Stafford.
10. 1946, Margaret Gwinnup.
11. 1842, Margaret McMurtry.
12. 1837, Margaret Kingsbury.
13. 1860, Mrs. Margaret Coward.
14. 1872, Margaret B. Franks.
15. 1856, Margaret Davis.
16. 1872, Margaret E. Cogburn.
17. 1850, Margaret L. Worth.
18. 1873, Margaret Clune.
19. 1850, Margaret E. Carns
20. 1834, Margaret Riker.
21. 1857, Margaret Taylor.
22. 1854, Margaret A. Copley.