This is a list of "headrights" granted to settlers in Washington Parish by an Act of Congress in 1820. Most of them had taken up land prior to 1810, and not later than 1815.
John and Robert Mitchell
William and Thomas C. Hunt
John and Elias Ford
Thomas Ard, Sr.
Thomas Ard, Jr
William Pool
John Edwards
Jesse, William and James P. Lea
Jim Lea
Lesley Bankston
William F. Dyson
Steve Stafford
Simon Williams
George Adams
John Richardson
Benjamen Richardson
Amos Duncan
William Simmons
Isaac Roberts
John Simmons
C. Roberts
Thomas Roberts
Thomas and William Magee
Uriah Smith
Tom Wallis
Reubin Mayfield
John Holden
Aaron Adams
Thomas C. Warner
John Thigpen
Sherod Adams
Joseph Adams
Ezekial Brumfield
William Brumfield
William Cooper
Ridley Brumfield
The Gormans
Aaron Miller
Cornelius Cooper
Benjamin Parker
John Talley (II)
William Magee
Ebenezer Ford
Jonathan Taylor
John Galloway
Charles Galloway
William Galloway
William Bickham
Phillip Magee
William Morris
Dennis Crane (Crain)
S. Blackwell
Moses Childs
William Williams
Jacob Miller
John Williams
John Mizell
David Mizell
Fanny (widow of Hardy) Richardson
James Thomas
William Fussell
John B. Stewart
Benjamin Toney
George Ellis
James Miller
H. Jarrell
John Kennedy
William Bickham
Issac Irwin
Benjamin Bickham
Jacob & Lewis Bankston
Enon James
John Smith
Isaac Dykes
Evan Magee
Joseph Spell
Wiley Jones
W. D. Smith
Eliza Self
H. K. Goff
Andrew Smith
William Busby
R. and J. Burch
Richard Burch
John Roberts
Bradford Kemp (purchase from Wm. Wheat)
Delany Bird
James Gay
Sara Slocum
Elisha Roberts
Richard Graves
Henry Hill
Henry (John) Burch
John Irwin
Edwin Fussell
James Gwin
Isaac and William Roberts
Jacob Alford
Elisha Roberts
Woody Jones
Tom Bickham
Edmund Hunt
Jonathan Magee
William Carter
Robert Simmons
John Bickham
George Ellis
Gideon Yarborough
James Hays
Joseph Erwin
Jesse Day
John Miller
Abner Bickham
William Henry
James Hayes
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