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- ** See marriage notes for list of children **
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found at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=112210update&id=I05370
ID: I05370
Name: Jacob Garrett
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1776 in Prince Edward Co, VA
Death: 7 JUN 1843 in Hot Springs, Garland Co, AR
Note:
GARRETT, JACOB (1776-ca. 1842). Jacob Garrett, early settler and political figure, was born in Tennessee in 1776 and moved to Texas from Arkansas in 1824. He was a representative to the conventions of 1832 and 1833 from the Ayish Bayou District. He was one of the commissioners to raise troops in October 1835 and was appointed agent to collect money in the hands of officials due the Mexican government and to contract loans in the name of the General Council for the use of Texans. Garrett introduced to the council the last resolution for peace with Mexico. He died in Hot Springs, Arkansas, about 1842 and was buried there.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
Source: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fga29.html
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When I arrived in Texas in 1824 I found [it] so sparsely settled that there was no regulations in any legal form. As we had no knowledge of the Mexican laws we were a law unto ourselves. But as the country became more thickly settled it became manifest that there must be some rule to collect debts and punish crimes. The people agreed to elect a man whom they called an Alcalde and a Sheriff to execute his orders. The Alcalde's power extended to all cases civil and criminal without any regard to the amount in controversy. Murder, thefts, and all other cases came under his jurisdiction except divorces, and as the old Texas men and women were always true and loyal to each other, divorce cases was never heard of. The Alcalde had the power in all cases to call to his assistance twelve good and lawful citizens to his aid when he deemed it necessary or the parties required it, and the decision of the Alcalde and 12 men was final from which no appeal could be taken, and there was as much justice done then as there is now and not half so much grumbling. The first Alcalde was Baily Anderson, the next was John Sprowl. In 1830 Jacob Garrett was Alcalde, 1831 Elisha Roberts, 1832 Benjamin Lindsey, 1833 William McFarland, in 1834 Charles Taylor was Alcalde. I served as Sheriff under Roberts, Lindsey, McFarland and Taylor, but the year of thirty five called me to the tented field in defense of my country.
Source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/miscmemoirs9.htm (Memoirs of Alexander Horton.)
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The name Jacob Garrett appears many times in the early county records of Lawrence County, Arkansas prior to 1824 when he moved to Texas.
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The children of Jacob Garrett were: Milton (1804) William; Matilda, Claiborne, and Mary.
Matilda married Samuel S. Hall, probably in Nashville, TN. Their daughter, Laurena married first in Arkansas, then second in Mississippi and raised her children in Yazoo Co, MS.
Source: Verna Reed
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Jacob and Charity's children:
William (1810-Aft.1880) 1st mar: Mary Cartwright and 2nd: Lucetie Teel.
Claiborne ( was married to Ellen Hemphill)
Laurena (1807-1889) married first to William Spencer Crouch and second to Thomas Jefferson Curl.
Milton Garrett married Elizabeth
Matilda Garrett married Samuel S. Hall
Source: Verna Reed
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1835 census: Sabine Co, TX
Jacob GARRETT Widower Catholic Farmer 59
Bet woman servant 30
Rachel " 24
Philip man servant 26
Bartlett " 18
Mahaley woman servant 16
Infant her child 1 Mo.
Loreann girl 14
John boy 13
Reed " 6
Mary girl 5
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Father: John Garrett b: ABT 1750 in VA
Mother: Jane Taylor b: BEF 1755 in VA
Marriage 1
Charity Taylor b: 1785 in VA
Married: 12 MAR 1802 in Davidson Co, TN
Children
1.Has No Children Claiborne Garrett b: 1803 in Davidson Co, TN
2.Has Children Milton Garrett b: 1804 in Davidson Co, TN
3.Has Children Mary Laurena Garrett b: 13 OCT 1807 in Memphis, TN
4.Has No Children Matilda Garrett b: 1808 in Davidson Co, TN
5.Has Children William Garrett b: 1810 in Davidson Co, TN
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Steve Butler and Suzanne Hibbs Family History
1776 - 1843 (67 years)
