Headrights for Settlers in Washington Parish

This is a list of "headrights" granted to settlers in Washington Parish by an Act of Congress in 1820. Most of them had taken up land prior to 1810, and not later than 1815.

Angie Vicinity

John and Robert Mitchell

William and Thomas C. Hunt

John and Elias Ford

Thomas Ard, Sr.

Thomas Ard, Jr

Lee's Creek and Pool's Bluff Vicinity

William Pool

John Edwards

Jesse, William and James P. Lea

Along the Tchefuncte River

Jim Lea

Lesley Bankston

William F. Dyson

Bogalusa Vicinity

Steve Stafford

Simon Williams

George Adams

John Richardson

Benjamen Richardson

Between Enon and Franklinton

Amos Duncan

William Simmons

Isaac Roberts

John Simmons

C. Roberts

Thomas Roberts

North Along Hayes Creek

Thomas and William Magee

Varnado Vicinity

Uriah Smith

Tom Wallis

Reubin Mayfield

John Holden

Aaron Adams

Thomas C. Warner

John Thigpen

Sherod Adams

Joseph Adams

Ward One Vicinity

Ezekial Brumfield

William Brumfield

William Cooper

Ridley Brumfield

The Gormans

Aaron Miller

Along the Bogue Chitto River

Cornelius Cooper

Benjamin Parker

John Talley (II)

William Magee

Ebenezer Ford

Jonathan Taylor

John Galloway

Charles Galloway

William Galloway

William Bickham

Phillip Magee

Pine Vicinity

William Morris

Dennis Crane (Crain)

S. Blackwell

Moses Childs

Along the Bogue Lusa Creek

William Williams

Jacob Miller

John Williams

John Mizell

David Mizell

Fanny (widow of Hardy) Richardson

James Thomas

Enon Vicinity

William Fussell

John B. Stewart

Benjamin Toney

George Ellis

James Miller

H. Jarrell

John Kennedy

William Bickham

Issac Irwin

Benjamin Bickham

Along Silver Creek

Jacob & Lewis Bankston

Enon James

John Smith

Isaac Dykes

Evan Magee

Joseph Spell

Wiley Jones

W. D. Smith

Eliza Self

H. K. Goff

Andrew Smith

William Busby

R. and J. Burch

Richard Burch

John Roberts

Bradford Kemp (purchase from Wm. Wheat)

The West Side of the Bogue Chitto River

Delany Bird

James Gay

Sara Slocum

Elisha Roberts

Richard Graves

Henry Hill

Henry (John) Burch

John Irwin

Edwin Fussell

Bogue Chitto River North of Franklinton

James Gwin

Isaac and William Roberts

Jacob Alford

Elisha Roberts

Woody Jones

Tom Bickham

Edmund Hunt

Jonathan Magee

William Carter

Bogue Chitto River and Franklinton

Robert Simmons

John Bickham

George Ellis

Gideon Yarborough

James Hays

Joseph Erwin

Jesse Day

John Miller

Abner Bickham

William Henry

James Hayes

Washington Parish

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