Calloway identities: search for Lewis B. Calloway, James H. Calloway, and Thomas Merril Calloway

Likely matches: identities of the people who sold/conveyed Land Lot 137, 8th District, 3rd Section, Murray County, Georgia:

Lewis B. Callaway, born 25 March 1803, Washington, Wilkes, Georgia, United States (son of Isaac Calloway and Mary Barrett); married Mary Hunter (born 1805, daughter of Elisha J. Hunter and Rebecca Sparks).

Lewis B. Callaway granted/sold/conveyed Land Lot 137 to James H. Calloway (apparently of Fulton County, Georgia, per a later deed); transaction dated 8 November 1842, Murray County, Georgia, Deed Book H, page 150.

James H. Callaway (brother of Lewis, above), born 21 September 1811 in Wilkes County, Georgia; died 1 June 1876 in Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia; married Sarah D. Eads on/about 25 September 1835.

James H. Calloway gifted Land Lot 137 to his nephew, Thomas Merril Calloway, in 1876?

Here is a page (this same blog) describing a gift of deed from James H. Calloway (apparently of Fulton County, Georgia), to Thomas Merril Calloway and wife, Mary Warthen Calloway:

        Deed Transactions: Murray County, Georgia, Land Lot 137, 8th District, 3rd Section
           http://northgeorgiakin.blogspot.com/2016/10/james-h-calloway-1876-deed-of-gift-to.html

Biographical details for Thomas Merrill Callaway (most likely the same as in the deed, above):

Thomas Merrill Callaway, male, born 1839 in Henry County, Georgia; married to Mary W. Long on 31 January 1864 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia. Resided in Gordon County, Georgia (next county below Murray) in 1880.

Surname variation: Calloway, Callaway

James H. Calloway 1876 Deed of Gift to Merrel and Mary (Warthen) Calloway - Murray and Fulton Counties, Georgia

TRANSCRIPT OF ORIGINAL DEED INFORMATION RECORDED IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA

[Calloway Deed – parties of Fulton and Murray Counties, Georgia]

Murray County, Georgia

Deed Book N, page 79-80

[TRANSCRIPT BEGINS]:

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James H. Calloway deed

to Thomas Merrel Calloway & }

Mary Warthen Calloway }                        Deed of Gift

       State of Georgia, Fulton County – Know all men by these presents, that for and in consideration of the love and affection I bear to my Nephew Thomas Merrel Calloway and his wife Mary Warthen Calloway, I do hereby on this the Twenty-eighth day of January in the year of our Lord, Eighteen Hundred and seventy-six give unto the said Mary Warthen Calloway and the children now born or which may be born unto the said Thomas M. Calloway and the said Mary Warthen Calloway, all that Tract or parcel of Land together with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, known as Number One Hundred and Thirty seven, Eighth District of the Third Section of Murray County State of Georgia, and containing One Hundred and Sixty acres.

       To have and to hold the said described tract of land and appurtenances thereunto belonging to thir only proper use and benefit and behoof of her the said Mary Warthen Calloway and her children (as above) executors administrators

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and assigns in fee simple.

       And the said James H. Calloway for himself his heirs his executors and administrators and assigns the said described premises unto the said Mary Warthen Calloway and her children (as above) executors administrators and assigns, against the said James H. Calloway his heirs executors administrators and all and every other person or persons shall and will warrant and forever defend by virtue of these presents.

In witness whereof the said James H. Calloway has hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year above written, interlined before signing

Signed sealed and delivered

in presence of

J.E. Hunt*

H.C. Leonard, N.P.

Recorded and certified for October 18th 1876

N. Heartsill

                   Clerk

_____________________________

[END OF TRANSCRIPT]

*J.E. Hunt (or) J.E. Hurt, not certain (handwriting style makes it ambiguous).

TRANSCRIPTION NOTE: Transcribed on 24 October 2016 by D.K. Pritchett, from the original deed book.

LAND NOTE: The Cherokee land lottery occurred in 1832 in North Georgia, and the Cherokee Removal (Trail of Tears) was in 1838. Murray County, Georgia, was originally part of Cherokee. The land lottery records have not been researched for the name of Lewis B. Calloway; this is a suggested avenue of further research for anyone wanting to know more about the Calloway/Callaway family. One hundred, sixty acres (160) is a typical, complete land lot.

MORE INFORMATION ON LAND LOT 137

Other deed transactions involving Land Lot 137 in the 8th District, 3rd Section, Murray County, Georgia, occur in the Murray County deed books, but were not researched. According to the Index to Reverse Deeds, James H. Calloway was granted [bought or received] Lot 137 from Lewis B. Calloway, in a transaction dated 8 November 1842, entered into Deed Book H, page 150. [This is fairly early after the 1838 land lottery, placing the Calloways, or land purchases concerning the Calloways, in Murray County very early in its history].

Again, two transactions involving this land (but not researched or extracted) occurred in 1881 and 1884, between Thomas M. Calloway, Guard [prob. Guardian] and John Phillips. Those transactions are recorded in Book O, page 229 (1881) and Book P, page 326 (1884), and involve Land Lot 137 in the Eighth District, Third Section, Murray County, Georgia. Details of those transactions are not known.

ALTERNATE SURNAME SPELLING: CALLAWAY

26 September 1840: A.B. Barker Bond to Peter Hedrick, Murray County, Georgia

Murray County, Georgia

Deed Record Book G, Page 455

Summary: In this Lumpkin County, Georgia, deed (filed in Murray County, Georgia), on 26 September 1840, A.B. Barker binds himself unto Peter Hedrick, for a total obligation of $425, under the following condition: A.B. Barker sells land lot 282 in the 8th District, Third Section, of Murray County, Georgia, to Peter Hedrick, receiving from Peter a promissory note for $262.50, due 26 December 1841. If A.B. Barker makes good the title to the land whenever the note is due, then the above obligation of $425 will be null and void; otherwise, it remains in force.

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A. B. Barker }

Bond to      }

Peter Hedrick }

Georgia Lumpkin County } 

Know all men by these presents that I A. B. Barker am held and firmly bound unto Peter Hedrick in the final sum, of four hundred and twenty five dollars for the true payment of which sum to the said Peter Hedrick I bind myself my heirs &c severally & firmly by these presents in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26^th day of September 1840. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said A. B. Barker has this day sold unto the said Peter Hedrick one lot of land Number 282 two hundred & eighty two in the eighth district of the third section of originally Cherokee now Murray County for which the said Peter Hedrick has made & executed his promissory note for 262½  two hundred & sixty two & a half dollars due the twenty fifth of December in the year eighteen hundred & forty one if the said A. B. Barker shall make or cause to be made good & sufficient titles to the said lot or parcel of land whenever the said note shall be due & paid then this obligation to be null & void else to remain in full force & virtue in law in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & date above written.

Signed sealed & delivered in presence of

Bozzel Lowrey }

John Hedrick }

February 28^th 1841 I assign  }

the within land to William  }

W. Anderson for value receivd }

of him     Peter Hedrick  }

A. B. Barker {seal}

Recorded & certified for the 27^th Oct 1848

Robert McCamy Clk

_________________________

[End of Transcript]

Transcription notes: Transcribed by dkp, 2014, from my photocopy of the deed record on file at Murray County courthouse. “Lumpkin County” in the transcript heading is not an error—it is in the deed record. Apparently the bond was executed in Lumpkin and a copy filed in Murray.