Post by contraryscotsman on Jan 18, 2009 17:12:20 GMT -6
Duncan McQuagge came from NC in about 1821 to the Euchee Valley and obtained a land patent on May 15, 1829 in Walton County for 80 acres in the E 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of Section 12, T2N, R18W as Duncan McQuaig.
This land is directly northwest of and adjoining the corner of Starkes Baker's land in Section 18 that he apparently lost in a dispute with Allen Morrison: (E/NW 18 3N 17W Morrison, ALLEN 454 C 1829/05/15).
The 80 acres is about a mile and a half north northeast of the old historic Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church.
It would seem that the Morrisons and McQuaig/McQuagges were well acquainted, quite possibly from as far back as North Carolina, and were neighbors in the valley.
The McQuagge/McQuaig family lost their 80 acre homestead at Eucheeanna sometime after Norman McQuagge's death in 1863 by trading it to a storekeeper (?) named John P. Morrison for some money owed. In his affidavit in a quiet title suit in 1931, D. C. Morrison, age 70, states that he was "raised adjoining" this land, that "the McQuaig's made a trade with John P. Morrison, my father, (and) he accepted the property on payment for a receipt in full....", and that he "remember(s) going with my father to Old Douglass Ferry to meet the McQuaigs." Murdock Morrison already owned the W 1/2 of the SE 1/4 and the Morrisons later acquired most of the rest of Section 12:
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3010/walt-idx.htm
E/SE 12 2N 18W McQuaig Duncan 2650 C 1829/05/15
W/SE 12 2N 18W Morrison MURDOCK 12413 C 1857/12/01
N/SW 12 2N 18W Morrison DANIEL C 12065 H 1896/04/27
S/SW 12 2N 18W Morrison JOHN P 6863 H 1889/07/03
My great grandfather Murdock Gillis McQuagge (occupation miller in the 1880 census) moved from Washington County back to the Valley after his marriage in 1877 to near the old church and lived there (on the old homestead?) until 1882 when he moved to back Orange Hill.
I am trying to determine any other history of this land--whether there was an old homeplace/house on this property, whether Duncan McQuaig/McQuagge and any other family members are buried there, or if the McQuagge family just used it for farming and lived elsewhere in the valley for the 40+ years they owned it.
This land is directly northwest of and adjoining the corner of Starkes Baker's land in Section 18 that he apparently lost in a dispute with Allen Morrison: (E/NW 18 3N 17W Morrison, ALLEN 454 C 1829/05/15).
The 80 acres is about a mile and a half north northeast of the old historic Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church.
It would seem that the Morrisons and McQuaig/McQuagges were well acquainted, quite possibly from as far back as North Carolina, and were neighbors in the valley.
The McQuagge/McQuaig family lost their 80 acre homestead at Eucheeanna sometime after Norman McQuagge's death in 1863 by trading it to a storekeeper (?) named John P. Morrison for some money owed. In his affidavit in a quiet title suit in 1931, D. C. Morrison, age 70, states that he was "raised adjoining" this land, that "the McQuaig's made a trade with John P. Morrison, my father, (and) he accepted the property on payment for a receipt in full....", and that he "remember(s) going with my father to Old Douglass Ferry to meet the McQuaigs." Murdock Morrison already owned the W 1/2 of the SE 1/4 and the Morrisons later acquired most of the rest of Section 12:
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3010/walt-idx.htm
E/SE 12 2N 18W McQuaig Duncan 2650 C 1829/05/15
W/SE 12 2N 18W Morrison MURDOCK 12413 C 1857/12/01
N/SW 12 2N 18W Morrison DANIEL C 12065 H 1896/04/27
S/SW 12 2N 18W Morrison JOHN P 6863 H 1889/07/03
My great grandfather Murdock Gillis McQuagge (occupation miller in the 1880 census) moved from Washington County back to the Valley after his marriage in 1877 to near the old church and lived there (on the old homestead?) until 1882 when he moved to back Orange Hill.
I am trying to determine any other history of this land--whether there was an old homeplace/house on this property, whether Duncan McQuaig/McQuagge and any other family members are buried there, or if the McQuagge family just used it for farming and lived elsewhere in the valley for the 40+ years they owned it.