Legacy of the Sacred Harp by Webb Chloe;

Legacy of the Sacred Harp by Webb Chloe;

Author:Webb, Chloe;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00


Attached to Mabel’s handwritten letters were some notes casually scrawled on discarded calendar pages for April 1 and 2, 1957:

1.Patrick Ryan, Grantor to Arnold Thomason 33 ½ acres

2.Will of Susannah Ryan, widow of Ben III Dumas. Susannah died 1805.

3.Deed Book I page 5—June 20, 1807—120 acres, formerly Ryan property, B.H. Covington, Sheriff to Sons of Susannah Dumas

4.B.H. Covington Sheriff to Arnold Thomason 33 ½ acres.

So the sheriff set the record straight. The three orphaned sons of Ben III and Susannah—one of whom was my great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Dumas—regained the land that had been awarded to their mother, Susannah Dumas, the Revolutionary War widow. This must certainly have been the source of funds for Benjamin Franklin and Martha Ussery Dumas to move their family from North Carolina to Georgia.

Mabel’s incidental notes provided a relishing glimpse: somehow, Mr. Thomason even got the acreage he thought he’d already purchased from Patrick Ryan—perhaps the same land of the present-day Mr. Thomason’s convenience store.



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