Young Genealogy Historical Documents

Note that on Claim 50 there is a woman named Mary Box Young who is the widow of Thomas Young. In the book, “The Young Family of Georgia” whomever researched the earliest days of the Young family in the Georgia colony, made a grave error by mixing up our Thomas Young with another one.
First of all, Thomas and Young are both very common names. Second, on the ship’s manifest which is the basis for the book “A List of Early Settlers of Georgia”, it lists Mary Box Young as being the widow of Thomas Young the wheelwright.
Just above that entry and committed to fact at the same time, it lists Thomas Young, son of Isaac Young as being 15 years old and is a bricklayer by trade just like his father.
But also, in 1757 when Isaac Young is before the Trustees quite a bit, it records him as requesting a land grant at the same time (but not on behalf of )Mary Box Young is seeking land that was granted to her husband, Thomas Young the Wheelwright who is already dead.
I think it bore explaining and also in hopes of anyone doing research on any family, that they won’t spend countless hours, days, weeks etc. running down a person convinced that it is the person they are searching for only to find out that it is only someone with the same name.

jmy


 

Land Claims - - -1757.
(Small Book in Department of Archives)

P. 112-3, Claim of Isaac Young, May 1757, for land on Pipemakers Creek originally granted to him; also a tract joining aforesaid, “Late his father’s deceased, Isaac Young Sr. “entailed on said Isaac.

Claim 50 – Isaac Young, for Elizabeth Young, his daughter, a lot in Savannah, No. 8 in the 4th Tything, Anson Ward, with garden and farm lot by deed of gift from Lucy Mouse, widow, deceased.
Claim 50 – Isaac Young for Thomas Young, his brother, a lot in Reynolds Ward, granted him by the Trustees.
Claim 50 – Isaac Young for John Young, his brother land on Island between Thunderbolt and Skidaway, granted him in 1754
Claim 50 – Isaac Young, for his sister Sarah Cooksey, widow of William Cooksey, deceased, a lot in Savannah, granted Cooksey by Trustees.
Claim 50 – Mary Young, widow, for lot in Savannah, in Frederick Tything, as relict of Thomas Young, who obtained it by allotment, from James Oglethorpe, Esq. in 1745 which she claims in behalf of herself and her son, William Young, a minor, 1757.
Also her claim for lot in Savannah, No. 10, in behalf of her son Philip Box, now in South Carolina, to whom it was allotted by James Oglethorpe, Esq

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References to Colonial Service. – Georgia Archives, Vol 14 – Pages87-167-613,
and Vol. 18 – Pages 88-167-720. 
Whites Historical Collections of Georgia, Page 60.

 

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