BRAZORIA CO. TX
Formed 1836 from Old Mexican Municipality
Galveston formed 1838 from Brazoria
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1850 Brazoria Co. TX Census (and from Lucille Mehrkam 10/1983)
Pg.396, #225-225, Ammon UNDERWOOD 40 MA merchant $23,218
                  Rachel J. 30 LA
                  Joseph P. 6, Laura J. 1/12 TX
                  Gail BORDEN (m) 73 RI (blank) $5,000
                  Catharine J. 52 RI
                  Sarah J. CARSON 6 TX
                  Lewis DUNCAN 58 VA merchant $300
                  George ROUNDS 45 NY mail boy $1000
 

1860 Brazoria Co. TX Census (and from Lucille Mehrkam 1984)
Pg.62, #148-134, U.C. COOLGROVE (m) 42 NY planter $3160-$20,000
                  Lucretia B. 36 TN
                  Margaretta 12, Arabella 10 TX
                  Richard 4 TX
                  James DUNCAN 25 AL overseer $0-$200
Pg.71, #296-282, R.R. PORTER (m) 28 TN physician $5000-$3250
                  Bettie 23 TN
                  W.B. SMITH (m) 29 VA merchant $0-$0
                  Mollie F. 18 TX
                  Lewis DUNCAN 68 VA Cty. Treas. $2700-$0
 

1870 Brazoria Co. TX Census
P.O.Columbia
Pg.521, #428-428, DUNCAN, Pino (m) 53 SC BLACK farm laborer $0-$0
                  Sallie 50 SC BLACK keeps house
                  Nannie (f) 10 TX BLACK at home
                  (MAD: Pino indexed as age 55 but looks much more like 53)
Town of Columbia
Pg.584, #1636-1636, ADRIANCE, John 53 NY Retd. Merchant $0-$600
                  Lidda 43 NY keep house
                  Sarah 19 NY at home
                  Hanah 13 TX at home
                  Duncan (m) 3 TX
                  DUNCAN, Lewis 78 VA clerk in store $3800-$0
                  DENNIS, Richard 70 SC BLACK Domt. Servt.
 

REFERENCES FROM OTHER LOCALITIES

Henderson Co. TX Deed (FHL film 1,481,285)
      Y-364: 26 March 1839, Henderson Co. TX clerk issued license to marry between Theodore S. Lee to Marianne Duncan, Co. of Brazoria, certify the copy from a manuscript kept as a record of marriage license for co. & state first above written from 1839 to 1851, as same appears on file in my office. 24 Oct. 1884, John G. McNeel clerk of Brazoria Co. TX by W.K. Burney, Deputy. 13 Dec. 1884 by Hays Co. TX clerk that the above inst. dated 26 March 1839 was filed for record 13 Dec. 1884, all in Book Y, recorder of deeds &c, on page 97. Filed for record Dec. 26, 1884, Henderson Co. TX; rec. Dec. 31, 1884.
 

Matagorda Co. TX Probate Minutes v.A-C 1837-1858 (FHL film 1,011,113; SLC 6/2009)
      C-69: Petition of Wm. L. Sartwell of Matagorda Co. TX, that 3 May 1846, Mrs. Julia Duncan, a resident of said county and wife of John Duncan of said county, died intestate; she left large possessions consisting of undivided half of community of acquests and gains acquired during their residence in said county, petition for administration, signed Jas. Denison, atty for petitioner. Letters issued Nov. 24, 1851. Appraisers appointed. C-74: Inventory filed 29 Dec. 1851. C-78: Petition of John Duncan of same county, the estate of Julia Duncan, decd, former wife of this petitioner, is indebted to this petitioner in the sum of $24,705.00; the money was part of a sum belonging to this petitioner individually and expended in the purchase of community property during the lifetime of said Julia Duncan his wife now deceased; the property in the inventory was her share of community property. C-80: Accounting $60,000 furnished by petitioner expended to purchase money property in Texas after removal to Texas in 1837 ... 1/2 crop of rice in 1846 ... and debts in 1846. Land in ... Brazoria, Wharton, Calhoun, Bastrop, Burlison Co. and Matagorda Co.
 

HISTORIES before 1923

"History of Fort Bend County [Texas] : containing biographical sketches of many noted characters: General M.B. Lamar, president of the Republic of Texas, Mrs. Jane Long, called the "Mother of Texas," "Deaf Smith" the famous spy and scout, the Bordens, printers, soldiers and inventors, Mier prisoners, Santa Fe prisoners and some of Fannin's men, all of whom are buried in the cemetery at Richmond" by A.J. Sowell; pub. Houston, Tex.: W.H. Coyle & Co., stationers and printers, 1904, 387 pgs. (LH12391, HeritageQuest images 5/2007)
      Pg.285: Muster Roll of Texas Rangers (Civil War) ... William Duncan, Brazoria County, wounded and left at Perryville, Ky.
 

OTHER RECORDS

Some early Duncans in Brazoria Co. TX:
      Marianne Duncan, 26 March 1839, license to marry Theodore L. Lee; Mary Ann Duncan mar. Theodore L. Lee 7 April 1839 at Quintana.
      John Duncan, 1840, on tax list; 0 white poles, patented 1107 acres (pg.20, perhaps "1840 Citizens of TX; Tax Rolls" Vol.2, by Gifford White, FHL book 976.4 R2wge and fiche 6,100,365; from Lucille Mehrkam 1984)
      Lewis Duncan, 1846, on tax list ("Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846" by Marion Day Mullins, 1974; FHL book 976.4 R4m, from Lucille Mehrkam 1984; and from Ruth Robertson 1983)
      John Duncan, ca 1870, of Brazoria Co. gave affidavit that A.H. Jones of Gonzales Co. had served at Goliad under Geo. M. "Collins" in Oct. 1835; from TX Pension Application file in box 304-64. John Duncan of Brazoria Co. TX ca 1870 affirmed service of John S. Menefee of Jackson Co. TX at Battle of San Jacinto; from TX Pension Application file in Box 304-72. (pgs.185 and 236, "Republic of TX Pension Application Abstracts" by John C. Barron (Chairman, Abstracting Committee, Austin Gen. Society), Nan Polk Brady, Emma Gene Seale Gentry, Barbara Langham Goudreau, Iris Higgins Zimmerman; FHL fiche 6,101,694 and book 976.4 M2bj)
 

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