Samuel Strickland

Abt 1795 -

• Name	Samuel Strickland  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1795	Mason County, Kentucky   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Y  [1]
  Notes	The following information is copied from Sharon Holland's Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of David Strickland http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/o/l/Sharon-L-Holland/ "Character Certificates in General Land Office of Texas 2934. San Augustine Sept 1, 1835 No. 182. Samuel Strickland native USA emigrated 1821 married with family 5 persons. Samuel X Strickland. Samuel Strickland was listed as delinquent ont he tax rolls of Miller County, Arkansas in 1823. In 1824, David Strickland was also delinquent, and by 1825, Samuel, Amos, James and David Strickland, Jr could all be found on the deliquent tax rolls for Miller County, Arkansas. It shows they had removed themselves from the area. Around 1824, they show up in Teneha, Texas Territory. The interpretor at the General Land Office in Texas explained that Samuel along with his brother, David applied for a Mexican Land Grant in 1835. Within a few months, the Mexican government shut down giving out the land. Both Samuel and David turned around and applied for land in Texas Territory. It was also explained that Samuel arrived to Mexico/Texas Territory in 1821 from Kentucky. On the 1835 Teneha census Samuel and Mary Strickland are listed, along with children Squire Humphreys, Susan Humphreys, David Strickland, Amos Strickland, and Samuel Strickland." Sharon also speculated that Samuel might have been named "James Samuel" as was his son, and that he was the same person as the "Tiger Jim Strickland" that was killed in 1842, Samuel dropped off the face of the earth. Samuel's brother, James, supposedly went to Louisiana and lived till 1856. This helps support that Samuel went by "Tiger Jim." His family, stepchildren (Squire Humphreys and Susan Perrima Humpreys West, wife of Hampton West) were involved in the Regulator Moderator War. The 1850 Shelby County census includes not only his children, but the orphaned children of Mr. Stanfield, who was murdered in the Regulator Moderator War. Three year old Samuel is listed by his first name, James. However, Richard McAuley, in October, 2014 emailed that Sharon's assumption of Samuel Strickland and "Tiger Jim" Strickland being one and the same is incorrect. Richard writes that "My ancestor, Alvey R. Johnson (1803-1862) served as administrator on the estate of the deceased Samuel Strickland, who died in 1847, and was the administrator on the estate of the deceased William Humphries (d1846), Samuel's wife Mary Strickland's first husband. Evidence in support of the latter has been available from the Texas General Land Office since 1866. We can can arrive at a near date of death for Samuel Strickland, who at his decease was administrator on the estate of the deceased William Humphries who died 1846. From the papers of my ancestor, we can rely in all certainty that Samuel Strickland was deceased prior to 31 July 1847 when was found by the probate court that his assets were insufficient to meet the demands of his creditors and that reserved for his heirs, such that the burden fell upon his widow to render reduced portions to the heirs. Below are some examples of the receipts I possess and form the basis of my conclusions: 1848: January 16, letter from Joseph Rowe to A.R. Johnson requesting the field notes and the certificate of Amos Strickland (for 26 labors of land in Hunt County, Texas). [Note: this is the elder Amos Strickland (1796-1848), third son of David G. Strickland Sr. (1759-1824) and Mary Ogdon? (1762-1837)] 1848: July 31, "Received of A.R. Johnson, administrator of the Estate of Samuel Strickland deceased nine 85/100 dollars in full of Probate fees of said Estate up to date; A.McLamore CCC & Ex officio" 1848, July 31, "Received of Mary Strickland Guardian of David Strickland Et Al two 95/100 dollars in full of Probate Fees of said Minors up to date, July 31, 1848; A.McLamore CCC & Ex officio" 1848, September 18, "Rec'd of A.R. Johnson, administrator of the estate of Samuel Strickland dec'st, five dollars in full of my fees as an attorney in said case up to date; L.H. Ashcroft" 1848, September 18, "Rec'd of A.R. Johnson, five dollars in full of my fees as an attorney in the case of John Perry vs said Johnson; L.H. Ashcroft" 1849: May 8, "Shelby County, Mr A. R. Johnson Sir you will please let H.C. Daggett have the five bags of Cotton that you have in your Gin and much obj you, Mary Strickland Administatrix" 1854: August 17, deed of sale by William Samuel Mann of Freestone County, husband to Rachel Mann (formerly Rachel Strickland) one of the heirs of Samuel Strickland, in fee simple to A.R. Johnson and Nelson D. Walling, for part of the Samuel Strickland HR. Rachel Strickland married Willam S. Mann on July 27, 1854 by Andrew David, minister of Methodist Episcopal Church South, Freestone County, Texas. 1856: March 11, power of attorney by James Strickland of Freestone County to A.R. Johnson, witnessed by J.L. Johnson and S.W. Shaw. 1859: September 25, letter by James Strickland of Prestone [probably meant Freestone] County to A.R. Johnson concerning a power of attorney that Strickland gave Johnson to transact his business in Panola County, and is advising that he wishes to have the instrument back because he is selling out in both counties. [James Strickland (1832-1904) married October 5, 1856 to Miss. Eliza E. Mayberry; G.W. Slaughter, minister, Freestone County, Texas.] 1860: January 26, Letter from James L. Johnson at Greenville, Hunt County, Texas to his father Alvey R. Johnson principally concerning Rowe's purchase of the Amos Strickland HR. 1860: August 24, deed of sale by A.R. Johnson to James Savage for 200 acres ($210) out of the David Strickland HR 1861: April 27, letter from Crosby's General Agency, Austin, to A.M. Truitt, at Truitts Store, concerning Truit's enquiry into the William Humphrey league and labor claim, noting that the certificate was issued to Samuel Strickland as Humphrey's assigns, and was located many years ago in Shelby County, now part of Panola County, but a patent was not issued because the claim conflicted with several other claims. As for James "Tiger Jim" Strickland, we are much more fortunate, as is shown here. In the Thursday, July 21, 1842 issue of The Red-Lander newspaper, published at San Augustine, carried news that "A friend in Shelby County, who has furnished us additional facts connected with the killing of (Tiger) Jim Strickland, is entitled to our thanks? we shall give the substance next week." We learn from the account published the following Saturday, July 23, more about the death of James "Tiger Jim" Strickland (1787-1842) while his gang was encamped on the Toro Bayou, a tributary of the Sabine River in western Louisiana, about 35 miles southeast of San Augustine, Texas: "From J.P. Border, Esq., who has recently returned from N. Orleans, we learn the following account of the detection and dispersion of a gang of desperadoes and negro thieves, near Fort Jessup. It appears that Jim Strickland? better known as "Tiger Jim"? and a man by the name of Metcalf, together with several others whose names we have not learned, were encamped on Bayou Toro; having in their possession a negro man stolen in Mississippi about a year ago. The gang became acquainted with a negro belonging to Mr. Phillips, of Fort Jessup, and proposed that he should assist them in stealing a horse from a Mr. Stoker, and runaway himself, to which he agreed. The negro, however, informed his master of what had transpired, who furnished him with Mr. Stokers horse and his own, and sent him to the place appointed for him to meet the thieves, previously secreting themselves near the place, in order to secure the villains whenever they made their appearance. They had not remained long concealed before Metcalf arrived, and after a few words with the boy, mounted one of the horses and was about to ride off, when he was hailed by Mr. Stokers and commanded to halt. Metcalf drew a pistol, wheeled, and presented it towards Stokers, when a son of Mr. Stoker discharged a gun at Metcalf, the contents of which were lodged in his side. He died in about thirty minutes. In the meantime, a person of suspicious character, (a laborer in the employ of Mr. Murphy,) who proved to be one of the gang, came up, and was taken into custody; who, after being threatened with a practical demonstration of the statues of Judge Lynch when put in physical operation, informed the party were "the Camp" might be found. They immediately raised a company of citizens, who, accompanied by four Dragoons, furnished by Colonel Twiggs, went in search of the remainder of the gang. They reached the encampment about daylight; but were discovered by Strickland, who, in attempting to make his escape, was fired at and shot through the head, which caused his instantaneous death. They examined the camp, but found nothing except the negro before mentioned, who was taken and lodged in jail, a tent cloth and wagon cover, stolen from individuals in Fort Jessup. The citizens are still on the lookout for the balance of the gang; and it is to be hoped they will ere long be brought to justice." So as near a date as we can establish through the newspaper accounts, James "Tiger Jim" Strickland was killed sometime in the latter part of June or possibly the first week of July, 1842 in recognizing the brief announcement in The Red-Lander (a weekly paper), on Saturday, July 16, the above report on the death of Tiger Jim was printed in the following edition of July 23. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth80017/m1/2/zoom/ According to the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper published at Houston, in the August 10, 1842 issue, reported: "Free Booter Killed? The editor of the Sabine Advocate says: We are informed that the FREE BOOTER, Jim Strickland, was shot through the head, a few days ago, by a company of gentlemen from the Trinity River, who were in pursuit of several negroes, decoyed off by Jim, his brother Henry, and another individual, belonging to the Strickland company, one of whom they also killed. The company has gone in pursuit of the said Henry, who has the negroes hid out." Jim's brother, Henry Ogdon Strickland (born 1805) was killed in 1848. As you can see by the evidence, Samuel Strickland (1794-1847) and James "Tiger Jim" Strickland (1787-1842) were indeed brothers, and though Samuel's son and namesake may have been recorded in the census as "Samuel Jr.", this convention is anything but indicative that the two were named the same. Richard McAuley also noted that "according to the link below, Samuel Strickland together with brothers Amos Strickland, James Strickland, David G. Strickland Jr., and their brother-in-law, William Forsyth, and kinsmen Abram Ogdon, Wiatt Anderson, William Humphreys, David Humphreys, Martin Nail, and William Nail were all signatories of a 1825 petition made by the inhabitants of Miller County, Arkansas Territory, praying for measures to be adopted to relieve them of the difficulties caused by the late treaties with the Choctaw Nation, giving the Choctaw lands in Arkansas. Though each of these men are recognized as having migrated to Texas between 1821 and 1828, many of them had first settled in that part of Miller County that was then west of the Choctaw Boundary, such that they settled in that part of Texas that later became Red River County. http://www.texashistorypage.com/1825-Miller-County-Petition-Arkansas-Territory.html Furthermore, McAuley noted that much of his recent undertakings have "been directed towards illustrating how the Moderators were interrelated by consanguinity or affinity. For example, these interrelated families comprised many of the earliest emigrants who settled Shelby County, 1819-1830, viz: Bailey Anderson Jr., John English, Christopher Choate, John M. Bradley, James Truitt, William Todd, Joseph G. Goodbread, Samuel McFadden Sr., William Humphries, and of course, David G. Strickland, Sr. For example, Christopher "Kit" Choate's sister was wife of John English, while Kit's widow was the second wife of John M. Bradley, who was the brother-in-law of Joseph G. Goodbread, whose widow Susan Todd married secondly to Alfred M. Truitt (Alvey Johnson's nephew). Wiatt, brother to Bailey Anderson Jr., married to Nancy McFadden, sister to Andrew McFadden Sr., the husband of Jane Humphries, the aunt to William Humphries, whose first wife was reportedly Mary Ann Humphries nee Smith (1799-1849). By her first marriage, she was the mother of Susannah Permina West, Squire (or "E'sqr") Humphries, and also possibly a third, a son who I have only read about. She married, second (1822), to Samuel Strickland and was the mother of David, Amos, Samuel Jr, James and Rachel Strickland; and if you include William's nine children by Polly Berry, it makes for quite a large family. The information I wish to relate below is that Susan or rather Susannah Humphries West was the only child of William Humphries, or rather in 1861 when her statement was made, she was the only child then living, as is clarified in another document. In the same statement where Susannah West claimed to be the only child of William Humphries, she clarifies that her mother was William Humphries' first wife, and married second to Samuel Strickland (1794-1847), such that the children and heirs of Samuel Strickland, namely: David, Amos, Samuel Jr., James, and Rachel Strickland were her half-siblings. Indeed, when you examine the 1835 Census, Susannah is evidently enumerated as "Permina Strickland" (16) while her older brother "Squire Strickland" (17) appears with her in the household of their step-father Samuel Strickland (40) and their mother Mary (42). Although William Humphries and his second wife are not enumerated in the surviving pages of the 1835 Census, they might well have also been enumerated on one of the other missing pages of the census when the Old Capitol building burned in 1855? H.P.N. Gammell (1898) The Laws of Texas were among the documents Gammel and his wife salvaged from the fire. The document which I am referring to is on-file in the Texas General Land Office concerning the balance to a league and labor of land granted to William Humphries (901 acres in Harrison, and 3703 acres in San Augustine County), which was assigned to Samuel Strickland, administrator on the decedent's estate. http://www.glo.texas.gov/ncu/SCANDOCS/archives_webfiles/arcmaps/webfiles/landgrants/PDFs/3/5/4/354087.pdf Accompanying these files are various documents relating to a certification made in Wilson County and dated June 24, 1877 by Hampton West and bearing his mark indicating that Martin West is "a true and lawful heir of Wm. Humphries, deceased late of Shelby County, Texas". Also on file is a copy of the 1877 affidavit of heirship by Martin S. West as well as a "Certificate of Heirship of William Humphreys and Samuel Strickland (1878)". There is further contain a conveyance by Hampton West and his wife Sarah West, of Bexar County to Louisa M. Williams, of the head right certificate of William Humphries, Samuel Strickland, Admr No. 244, Class 1st, issued by the Board of Land Commissioners of Shelby County for one league and labor of land. It therein notes: "The said Susan West, being the only child of said William Humphreys deceased," and bears the marks of W.H. West and Susannah West, dated January 8, 1861. At Austin, there is an October 15, 1866 conveyance by Amos Strickland, together with his brother-in-law, William S. Mann and sister Rachel (Strickland) Mann, they being the children and heirs of Samuel Strickland, for a sum of $960 paid by Louisa M. Williams, relinquished their right title claim to the land and the certificate of their grandfather, David Strickland [Sr], for a league and labor of land situated in Red River County, also the head-right survey of their mother Mary Strickland's first husband William Humphrey's on the waters of Murvalls Bayou, as well as their interest in the head-right to 320 acres of land of their half-brother, Squire Humphries (this being his soldier's bounty for three months service in the Army of Texas, 1836). Also conveyed was the head-right of their own father Samuel Strickland for a half league issued in Shelby County and located on Plum Creek in Shelby, and all rights and titles of the said William Mann and his wife Rachel Mann in her grandmother Mary Strickland's head-right survey also located in Panola County on the waters of Murvalls Bayou. This, the above document, closely mates to a letter from James Strickland to Alvey R. Johnson, dated in Freestone County, September 25, 1859 concerning a power of attorney that James gave to Johnson to transact his business in Panola County, and is advising he wished to have the instrument back because he is selling out in both counties. Obviously given the late date (1866), the Civil War no doubt had some impact on the continuance toward a settlement I move that one issue is now clear, anent the head-right of the senior matriarch Mary (Ogdon?) Strickland (1762-1837), I have record of sale of the very same land, having comprised 25 labors of land (4,527.5 acres) dated January 17, 1861 by John Strickland, one of the sons and heirs of Mary Strickland, conveying his right title to his mother's land in Panola County to Alvey R. Johnson. Sadly, Johnson's interest in this land had not been settled by the date of his death, and many years later, in 1897, his heirs retained an attorney in Panola County to reclaim the land. I do not yet know the outcome or whether a suit was ever brought in Panola County's District Court?"
  Person ID	I16307	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2014

  
  

  Family	Mary ???,   b. Abt 1793, Kentucky d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Amos Strickland,   b. Nov 1828, Teneha, Shelby County, Texas d. Yes, date unknown   2. David Strickland,   b. Jun 1830, Teneha, Shelby County, Texas d. 1 Aug 1915, Kosse, Limestone County, Texas (Age ~ 85 years)   3. James Samuel Strickland,   b. Dec 1832, Teneha, Shelby County, Texas d. 9 Jan 1904, Palestine, Anderson County, Texas (Age ~ 71 years)   4. Rachel Strickland,   b. 1835, Teneha, Shelby County, Texas d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5594	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

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  Birth - Abt 1795 - Mason County, Kentucky  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  [S85] Holland, Sharon L. Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of David Strickland ; http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/o/l/Sharon-L-Holland/.