{"id":7683,"date":"2019-02-07T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2019-02-10T14:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:07:22","slug":"bowen-mill-pond-in-1870-2019-02-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/bowen-mill-pond-in-1870-2019-02-07.html","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Mill Pond in 1870 2019-02-07"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 2019-02-10:<\/a> His previous land on Coffee Road at Jackson Road<\/a>, and family pictures.\r\n

\r\nMuch to my surprise, according to evidence turned up by the\r\n\r\nWiregrass Region Digital History Project (WRDHP)<\/a>,\r\nan owner of the mill at Bowen Mill Pond<\/a> west of Quitman, Georgia\r\nwas my great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Waters Sinclair.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Plots<\/a>\r\n
\r\nAnnotated detail from\r\n\r\nWRDHP Google map of old Irwin County ca. 1870<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nIn an\r\n\r\nWRDHP facebook post 2019-02-06<\/a>:\r\n

\r\n

\r\nWe have created a series of maps overlaid upon a modern google earth\r\nmap that depict \r\n\r\nthe property lines of the area about 1870. These\r\nhave been compiled from tax lists, deed books, sheriff sales, and\r\nother records. All of that information is searchable.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe following is a link to the map covering the area of modern\r\nBrooks County and Lowndes County, as well as parts of Echols County,\r\nLanier County,and Thomas County. The area for Echols County and\r\nLowndes County is more or less finished. The maps are color-coded.\r\n

\r\nRed = The landowners or their families that were there before the Civil War were still there.\r\n

\r\nBlue = The landowners came during the Civil War.\r\n

\r\nBrown = Freedman landowners, or in some cases land that was owned by free people of color before the Civil War.\r\n

\r\nLight Blue = Land the was owned by people outside of the county.\r\n

\r\nYellow = Land that the landowners from about 1870 cannot be positively identified.\r\n

\r\nAreas without color are those land records have not been encountered yet, and were probably owned by people living elsewhere in Georgia.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nFor the mill marked with the icon just southeast of Bowen Mill Pond,\r\nWRDHP says:\r\n

\r\n

\r\nname\r\n
\r\nHicks\/Sinclair Mill\r\n

\r\ndescription\r\n
\r\nGeorge Hicks sold in 1845.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nFor the odd-shaped property straddling the Thomasville Road (US 84)\r\n south of Bowen Mill Pond, WRDHP says:\r\n

\r\n

\r\nname\r\n
\r\nBenjamin W Sinclair\r\n

\r\ndescription\r\n
\r\nLL 434, 441. LD 12. Land plat. 25 January 1854.\r\n

\r\nProperty of George Hicks to be sold May 1845. Including mill.\r\n

\r\n

\r\nLL 434. LD 12.\r\n

\r\nGranted to Joseph Rogers.\r\n

\r\nJesse Goodman. 1830 tax list. 245 acres.\r\n

\r\nWilliam G Goff. 1830, 1834 tax list. 245 acres.\r\n
\r\nAsa Geiger. 1834. 1835 tax list. 122.5 acres.\r\n
\r\nWilliam J Rushing. 1835 tax list. 122.5 acres.\r\n
\r\nRyan Fryier 1835 tax list. 145 acres.\r\n

\r\nWilliam Lastinger. 1835 tax list. 100 acres.\r\n

\r\nWilliam J Bivins. 1838, 1840 tax list. 195 acres.\r\n

\r\nGeorge Alderman. 1838 tax list. 122.5 acres.\r\n

\r\nGeorge Hicks. 1838, 1840 tax list. 100 acres.\r\n

\r\nLL 441. LD 12.\r\n

\r\nGranted to C Long.\r\n

\r\nJames Goff. 1830 tax list.\r\n

\r\nGeorge Hicks. 1838 tax list.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThat seems to add up to 400 to 500 acres.\r\n

\r\nFor the rectangle east of Bowen Mill Pond (the other plot\r\noutlined in white), \r\nWRDHP says:\r\n

\r\n

\r\nname\r\n
\r\nLL 433. LD 12. Benjamin W Sinclair\r\n

\r\ndescription\r\n
\r\nBenjamin W Sinclair. 1871 tax list. 490 acres.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nSo apparently B.W. Sinclair owned somewhere around 900 to 1000 acres.\r\n

\r\nThis is a far cry from what I thought he owned, which I imagined as\r\na hardscrabble small farm off of what is now GA 76, between Quitman and Morven.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"B.W.<\/a>\r\n
\r\nBenjamin Waters Sinclair\r\n
b. 12 September 1812, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland\r\n
\r\nd. 7 July 1878, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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