{"id":7707,"date":"2019-02-10T13:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T18:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2020-12-25T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T19:38:21","slug":"b-w-sinclair-dry-lake-road-sawmill-and-coffee-road-2019-02-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/b-w-sinclair-dry-lake-road-sawmill-and-coffee-road-2019-02-10.html","title":{"rendered":"B.W. Sinclair Dry Lake Road sawmill and Coffee Road 2019-02-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n“B W Sinclair also owned at one point some land along the Coffee Road,”\r\nsays\r\nWiregrass Region Digital History Project (WRDHP)<\/a>:\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Coffee<\/a>\r\n
\r\nWRDHP photograph, apparently from Lowndes County records\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

\r\n43\r\n
\r\nMagnetic variation 4° East\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\n
\r\n

\r\nNo 331 – 12d\r\n
\r\n357¾ acres\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nNo 314 – 12dis\r\n
\r\n547½ acres\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nScale of 40 chains\r\n
\r\nto an inch\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

\r\nRoad\r\n

\r\nBenjamin W. Sinclair\r\n

\r\nCoffee Road\r\n

\r\n

\r\nThe above Plat represents lots of land numbers\r\n
\r\n331 and 314 in the Twelfth District of Original\r\n
\r\nIrwin now Lowndes County Georgia. Contain[sic]g\r\n
\r\n357¾ and 545½ acres Resurveyed for Benja\r\n
\r\n-min W Sinclair on the 27th<\/sup><\/small> day of September\r\n
\r\n1844\r\n\r\nAttest Jeremiah Wilson C. Surveyor\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nSo apparently B.W. Sinclair owned 903¼ acres\r\naround the corner of what is now Jackson Road\r\n(marked on the Plat as Coffee Road)\r\nand Coffee Road (marked on the Plat as “Road”).\r\n

\r\nThat 27 September 1844 survey date makes sense.\r\nB.W. Sinclair was born 12 September 1812 in Thurso, Scotland.\r\nHe immigrated to Georgia in September 1837,\r\n“sailing from Liverpool to\r\n2 CONT Charleston, S. C., on the ship ‘Victoria’”,\r\naccording to my aunt Jane Sinclair Quarterman,\r\nhis great-granddaughter,\r\nwho knew his children and grandchildren.\r\nHe married Susannah Canby Faries, 24 November 1842,\r\nin Savannah, according to his son-in-law’s family Bible.\r\nAccording to family oral history, they moved shortly after marriage\r\nto a farm near Morven.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Susannah<\/a>\r\n
\r\nSusannah Canby Faries,\r\n
\r\nb. 18 Jan 1819, Savannah,\r\n
\r\nd. 3 Jul 1890, Quitman\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThat is the Bible of my great-grandfather Thomas Shepard Quarterman,\r\nwho married B.W. Sinclair’s daughter Susan Evalyn Sinclair,\r\nwho was born 27 June 1848 on that farm, then called Bannockburn.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"LL<\/a>\r\n
\r\nLL 314, 331, LD 12, Morven, in\r\n\r\nWRDHP google map<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

\r\nname\r\n
\r\nLL 314, 331. LD 12.\r\n

\r\ndescription\r\n
\r\nBenjamin W Sinclair. Land plat. 27 September 1846.\r\n

\r\nProperty of Benjamin W Sinclair to be sold February 1848.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nOk, with that “to be sold February 1848,”\r\nwas the Coffee Road property where my great-grandmother Susie was born,\r\nor was it B.W. Sinclair’s later property?\r\n

\r\nAccording to\r\n\r\nprevious information from WRDHP<\/a>,\r\napparently in 1845 B.W. Sinclair bought the mill at Bowen Mill Pond\r\nfrom George Hicks.\r\n

\r\nWRDHP has more on that land with the mill:\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Mill<\/a>\r\n
\r\nSurvey of LL 441 and 438 in 12th<\/sup><\/small> District, 1854-01-25,\r\nphotographed by WRDHP,\r\napparently in Lowndes County records.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

\r\n168\r\n
\r\nMagnetic Variation is 4° East\r\n

\r\nDeep Water\r\n
\r\nMill Pond\r\n
\r\nWater Line\r\n
\r\nMill Dam\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\n

\r\nNo. 441\r\n
\r\n12 Dist\r\n
\r\n290 Acres\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nNo. 438\r\n
\r\n12 D\r\n
\r\n439 1<\/sup>⁄4<\/sub> Acres\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

\r\nBW Sinclair\r\n

\r\n

\r\nThe above is a Plat of Lot of Land number\r\n
\r\n441 In the 12th<\/sup><\/small> District of Original Irwin\r\n
\r\nnow Lowndes County Georgia Containing\r\n
\r\n290 Acres And the South Eastern Division\r\n
\r\nof Lot number 434 of the same District\r\n
\r\nContaining 439½ Acres. Resurveyed for\r\n
\r\nBenjamin W. Sinclair on the 25th<\/sup><\/small> day of\r\n
\r\nJanuary 1854 Having such form & shape\r\n
\r\nas above shown. Attest Jeremiah Wilson C.S.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nInteresting the same surveyor did both surveys.\r\nThere probably weren’t many surveyors around, I suppose.\r\n

\r\nSo that’s 792½ acres according to the text,\r\nor 792 1<\/sup>⁄4<\/sub> according to the plat.\r\nThere’s no house site indicated, and the whole area looks pretty\r\nswampy.\r\n(It still was, the last time I went to Bowen Mill Pond.)\r\n

\r\nHowever, according to the previous information from WRDHP,\r\nB.W. Sinclair was on the 1871 tax list as also owning the 490 acres\r\nin LL 433. LD 12,\r\nfrom Bowen Mill Pond east over Dry Lake Road:\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\nThe obvious place to live on that lot would be on the high ground\r\non Dry Lake Road now labelled as Spring Acres Farm.\r\nSo maybe that’s where Bannockburn was.\r\n

\r\nAunt Jane referred to Dry Lake Road in a note she wrote in 1995:\r\n

\r\n“B. W. Sinclair and Rev. Eli Graves helped organize Quitman Presbyterian Church. It was originally a wooden building, with the lumber sawed at saw mill on the Sinclair place on Dry Lake Road. B. W. Sinclair lived first near where Morven is now in Brooks County, he later moved to the Dry Lake Road location.”\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nSo he probably lived on Dry Lake Road, not at the mill.\r\nAnd the mill apparently was a saw mill.\r\n

\r\nAlso, 490 + 792.5 = 1282.5, which is apparently the number of acres\r\nB.W. Sinclair owned in 1971.\r\n

\r\nThey had many children.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Chart:<\/a>\r\n
\r\nBenjamin W. Sinclair, Susannah Canby Faries Sinclair,\r\nand their children.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nHere are a few of them.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"B.W.<\/a>\r\n
\r\nBenjamin W. Sinclair, Susannah Canby Faries Sinclair,\r\nand three of their children, Benjamin Thomas Sinclair, Amelia Henrietta “Melie” Sinclair, and Jane Elizabeth “Janie” Sinclair.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nBenjamin Waters Sinclair died 7 July 1878,\r\nand his wife Susannah Canby Faries died\r\n3 July 1890.\r\nThey are buried in West End Cemetery in Quitman.\r\n

\r\nHere is some context for where these B.W. Sinclair lots were located\r\non Coffee Road and Dry Lake Road.\r\nQuitman, Morven, and Hahira are labelled,\r\nas are the three successive Lowndes County seats of Franklinville (1825),\r\nTroupville (1833), and Valdosta (1860).\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Context:<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThank you,\r\nWiregrass Region Digital History Project (WRDHP),\r\nfor turning up all this interesting new information.\r\n

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