Court Records
Arkansas
P.38 Dec. 1820. Friday Morning.
Court met pursuant
to adjournment.
United States
vs. Walter Pool, Jesse Burnham & Samuel Burnham
Ordered on motion
of Prosecuting Attorney that an Scire Facias issue
returnable to
the next term of this court.
P.49.
United States vs. Samuel
& Jesse Burnham....Scire Facias
Ordered by the court,
on motion of the Prosecuting Attorney, that the defendants be fined
in the sum of one dollar and
the costs of this prosecution.
Ref: 'The History of Lamar
County'
by Neville P. 11
That there was a considerable number of
settlers in the
west end of Red River County, then Miller County,
Ark., in 1835
and now
Lamar county, is shown by a petition in the
Miller
county records asking for
a new township.
It reads: "To the
Honorable Judge of the county court of
Miller county:
The undersigned petitioners
humbly beg leave to show to your
honor that a large and extensive portion of
Miller
County
lieing and being about the town of Jones
Boro, which is now known
by the name of Washington
township, which is so
extremely large as means
inconveniences to the citizens
of this extensive township.
The undersigned petitioners humbly beg leave to
show your honor
the inconvencience of said township could be
divided
much more convenient to
its inhabitants by having the same divided by
beginning a line at the
lake.....
Signed by Samuel Burnam, Samuel Fulton and Robert Cravens,
along with 24 other people.
Many of the
men on this list settled in what, eventually, became Lamar County.
In the same book, "The
Republic of Texas lost no time taking possession
of the territory claimed by Miller County, Ark.
Meeting
at Columbia, the
First congress enacted a bill establishing a
general land office to record
the grants of land to settlers.
The bill provided
that it should go into
effect on the first Thursday in February, 1838."
A record of Samuel Burnham's
headright can be found in the records of Red
River County, Texas.
Someone had written
that he was dec'd by 1830, but he
couldn't have been and received a headright.
Text of the Tavern Keepers Bond:
"WHEREAS, _____________ has obtained a license
to keep a Tavern at ______________________, in the County of Marshall
NOW, WE, ______________________, Principal, and
_______________ , his Surety, do
hereby covenant
and agree that the
said ___________ shall continually find and provide
in said Tavern good, wholesome, cleanly lodgings
and diet for all travelers,
and stabling and provender, or pasturage,
for horses and mules during the period the
license
remains in force; and that he will
not suffer and gaming in his house
or on his premises; and will not suffer and
persons
to tipple or drink more than is necessary
in his house or on his
premises; or, at any time, suffer any scandalous
or disorderly behavior in his house or on his premises.
GIVEN under our hands, this ___ day of ________,
18___"
Tavern Keeper's Name Location of Tavern Sureties Date of Bond
A.F. Burnham The Burnham House James Burnham 3 Dec 1855
L.W.Graddy
The Graddy House
M.Riley & W.J.Dycus
7 April 1856
Martin F.Burnham Briensburg Hotel James Burnham 5 Jan 1857
M.L.Williams
&
The Graddy House
Aurelius Daniels
5 Jan 1857
R.K.Williams,
Jr.
J.S.Locker
There were others listed in the book.
New Hampshire
Page 79 of Farmington, N.H. Town
Records,
Jan. 5th, 1805
Pursuant to the notification the freeholder
&c
met & proceded as follows viz ;
Appointed Enoch Burnham a juror to serve at the
court of common pleas at Rochester, N.H. on the third
Tues. of January current. Meeting dissolved.
Attest ; Eph. Kimball, Town Clerk
North Carolina
Gabriel Burnham, along with about 20 other
names
Information from CO 5 / 293 folio 137 of
the British Records Collection at the N.C. State Archives
Page 88
20 July, 1808
David L. Kenan, Sherriff, rendered a list
of insolvents, Poll Taxables for 1807 as follows ;
Fred'k Burnham, listed along with about 40 other
names.