Owen Sullivan

Died 1802 in Baldwin County, Mississippi Territory

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Biography

On 20 Sep 1786 Owen Sullivan and his brothers, Mark and Thomas Sullivan, all of Richmond County, Georgia, sold to Shadrach Mims of Wilkes County, Georgia, one negroe girl named Jude, aged about 13 years.^[1]

On 29 Oct 1791 Owen and Thomas Sullivan of Richmond County, Georgia sold for 30 pounds lawful money, to William Hinson of same place, a parcel of land containing 50 acres upon which Thomas Sullivan now lives and located in Richmond County bounded by William Hinson to the South.^[2]

01 Feb 1793 - Articles of Agreement made and agreed upon by and between George Brewer and Owen Sulliven, respecting his lands and possessions in the island. The said Brewer agrees, if the said Sulliven will go and take possession of his houses and cleared land, and keep possession until the said Brewer call for the same again for himself, to give the said Sullivan half the land in the island; Sulliven to begin at the lower end of Mr. Brewer's old clearing; the island to be divided in the middle; Brewer to keep the upper end, and Sullivan the lower end of the said island of lands, lying at the mouth of the Three Rivers, over the lake. The above conditions are agreed upon by us.

George Brewer

Owen Sulliven, his mark

N.B. And further agrees that, let Sullivan build a house on any part of the land, he would not dispossess him. Entered in record of claims volume 1 page 94 by Edward Lloyd Wailes for Joseph Chambers, Register.^[3]

Owen's above mentioned island property was known as Sullivan's Landing on Three Rivers Island.^[3]

10 November 1800 - Owen Sullivant and Anne his wife, James Bilbo and Mary his wife, William Burke and Bridget his wife all of the Mississippi Territory , to Thomas Sullivan, Power of attorney to receive from Robert Walton, their guardian, a tract of 150 acres on Lloyd's Creek adjoining Moses Mathews, and Hezekiah Spires.^[4]

Owen passed away in 1802 and his brother Thomas Sullivan appears in the estate records.^[5]

March 1804 - John Hinson, administrator of Owen Sullivan: case commenced in page 677. Daniel Johnson and James Powel were produced as witnesses, and, being duly sworn and interrogated by the Board, they both testified that they had no interest in the establishment of this claim; that in the year 1793, Owen Sullivan, lately deceased, did cultivate the lands now claimed by his administrator; that he continued to cultivate the same annually until the time of his death, which happened about one year ago; that the same lands have since been cultivated by the administrator of the deceased; that said Sullivan's place of dwelling was near said lands, on the other side of the lake, the said lands being low ground and not suitable for the erection of dwelling houses; that the said Sullivan had a cabin on said land for the purpose of protecting his workmen from the weather; and that the said Sullivan was, in the year 1795, a man in years and the head of a family.^[3]

On 14 Aug 1805 Commisioner's Certificate # 5, dated 07 Aug 1805 was recorded in Vol 1 p69 granting 400 acres on the West margin of the Tombigbee River to the heirs of Owen Sullivan, deceased on the application of J. Hinson as administrator for the estate of Owen Sullivan, deceased. The land having been originally granted to Owen by the Spanish Government and surveyed 10 Jun 1795 with a claim entered by his heirs on 15 Mar 1804 which was allowed and entered in the Commissioner's register B on page10.^[3]

Owen's estate appears on the 1805 tax list of Washington County, Mississippi Territory

- John Hinson for the Heirs of Owen Sullivant - 400a of land 1st quality situate on Sullivants Island with 40a of improved land thereon, assessed to 2 dollars and 50 cents per acre--$1000.00. $1960, 5, 1, 52, $1946, $3906. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Wilkes County, Georgia Deed Book DD (1788-1789) p95.
2. ↑ 29 Oct 1791 Deed of Richmond County, Georgia.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Lowrie, Walter. Early Settlers of Mississippi as Taken from Land Claims in the Mississippi Territory. Originally published 1834, Washington, DC. Reprinted with new materials 1986, Southern Historical Press Inc., Greenville, South Carolina. p578, 586, 600, 601, 643.
4. ↑ Davis, Robert Scott and James Edward Dorsey. Lincoln County, Georgia Genealogy and History. Magnolia Press, Swainsboro, Georgia. 1987.
5. ↑ 1802 Baldwin County, Mississippi Territory (now Alabama) Estate File #744.
6. ↑ 1805 Tax List, Washington County, Mississippi Territory.