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Jepthah Preston Billingsley

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1850 census, Bastrop County, Texas: Jeptha Billingsly, 70, farmer, real estate 1,000, born Tennessee, with Miriam, 64 (lines 37-38).
1850 census, Bastrop County, Texas: Jeptha Billingsly, 70, farmer, real estate 1,000, born Tennessee, with Miriam, 64 (lines 37-38). 1850 · sheet p. 196a
Source: National Archives (NARA M432), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as the page and lines. That this Jeptha is Jepthah Preston Billingsley (1780-1863) and Miriam his wife is Likely (name, age, birthplace; the folder's estate research is built on it). Birthplace of Miriam is 'ditto' (Tennessee).
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1850 slave schedule, Bastrop County, Texas: eleven enslaved people, reported here by age and sex (the schedule records no personal names), under the owner Jeptha Billingsly (lines 12-22): males aged 36, 18, 17, 16, 14 and 9; females aged 30, 14, 5, 3 and 2.
1850 slave schedule, Bastrop County, Texas: eleven enslaved people, reported here by age and sex (the schedule records no personal names), under the owner Jeptha Billingsly (lines 12-22): males aged 36, 18, 17, 16, 14 and 9; females aged 30, 14, 5, 3 and 2. 9 Oct 1850 · lines 12-22
Source: National Archives (NARA M432), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed. The schedule records age, sex and colour, not names; it is not evidence of any individual's later history, and the different counts in 1850 and 1860 are not evidence of what happened to anyone (a caution on what this kind of record can show). That the owner is Jepthah Preston Billingsley is Likely.
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Williamson County, Texas: licence to marry Mr. Jeptha Billingsley and Mrs. Agnes P. Britton, issued and solemnized 11 August 1856 (Franklin Johnston, J.P.), a clerk's certified copy.
Williamson County, Texas: licence to marry Mr. Jeptha Billingsley and Mrs. Agnes P. Britton, issued and solemnized 11 August 1856 (Franklin Johnston, J.P.), a clerk's certified copy. 11 Aug 1856 · leaf 153
Source: Williamson County (Texas) marriage records, via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as read (the Davis 1936 book prints the bride as 'Agrees P. Britton' and the justice as 'Franklin Johnson'; the image reads Agnes and Johnston). Likely, not confirmed, that the groom is Jepthah Preston Billingsley (1780-1863).
Evidence for: Williamson County, Texas, marriage license and return, document 18560021: 'Mr. Jeptha Billingsley & Mrs. Agnes P. Britton', married 11 August 1856 (Justice of the Peace Franklin Johnston)
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1860 census, Williamson County, Texas: Jeptha Billingsly, 77, farmer, real estate 3,000, personal estate 1,500, born Tennessee; Agnes, 50, born Kentucky; and three younger household members (lines 5-9).
1860 census, Williamson County, Texas: Jeptha Billingsly, 77, farmer, real estate 3,000, personal estate 1,500, born Tennessee; Agnes, 50, born Kentucky; and three younger household members (lines 5-9). 1860 · page 274
Source: National Archives (NARA M653), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as read; Ancestry's index misreads the head's given name as 'Sophia'. Likely, not confirmed, that this is Jepthah Preston Billingsley and his wife Agnes P. (Britton). The three younger household members (Sarah L., Lucian G., Agnes L.) are not tagged.
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1860 slave schedule, Williamson County, Texas: one enslaved person, a male aged 16 (reported here by age and sex; the schedule records no personal name), listed under the owner Jeptha Billingsly (line 16).
1860 slave schedule, Williamson County, Texas: one enslaved person, a male aged 16 (reported here by age and sex; the schedule records no personal name), listed under the owner Jeptha Billingsly (line 16). 1860 · line 16
Source: National Archives (NARA M653), via Ancestry.
How it is shown: Complete page; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Confirmed as read; the colour entry and a tick in the 'fugitive' column are not securely read. The schedule records age, sex and colour but no personal name: it says nothing of the person's name or later history. That the owner is Jepthah Preston Billingsley is Likely.
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Enlarged old photograph of a bearded man in a dark hat, labelled in the family tree as Jepthah Preston Billingsley (1780-1863). Low resolution.
Enlarged old photograph of a bearded man in a dark hat, labelled in the family tree as Jepthah Preston Billingsley (1780-1863). Low resolution. photograph
Source: Owner's family tree media (supplied in the GEDCOM/FTM collection)
How it is shown: Photograph as supplied; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: A photograph, not a document. The image carries no name or date; the label comes only from the tree. A photograph of a man b. 1780 would be unusual (photography began about 1840), so the portrait may show him in old age or be a copy of another likeness. Identity: Unconfirmed; shown only as the tree labels it.
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