Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 15:41:53 -0800 (PST)
Bonnie, I happened to see a reference to the U.S. Reconstructed Records from Territorial Papers on Ancestry.com which gave this reference to James Cooley. As you can see from the attachment that I have attached to this email that I don't see where Ancestry got that his town was Louisiana, Missouri. I did a search for the Territorial papers vol. 15 and found the digital library of the books. Apparently the Hathi Trust paid to have them digitized. Sandy ________________________________ From: Bonnie & Craig Lillywhite <clillywhite_at_gmail.com> To: John Cooley Mailing List <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net> Sent: Wed, December 5, 2012 1:37:37 PM Subject: Re: U.S. Census Reconstructed Records from Territorial Papers of the US I have a note from probably 30 yrs ago regarding this source: "American State Papers, Vol 15, James Cooley, 1st Lt Appt. under executive proceedings of the Territory of Missouri, 20 Oct 1817." I feel it is the James who was the father of my Jemima Cooley. He died 1 Oct 1821 in Howard County, MO. The first Judicial Circuit in the state of Missouri was set as a court of chancery in Fayette, Howard County. I remember attending a lecture years ago about the "wonders" of the Territorial Papers. The lecturer said that they held a gold mine of information and were slowly being released. I have heard nothing further. I don't know where you would find them. I think I asked Michael about this a while ago. Somehow I thought they were at the State Archives in Jefferson City, MO but they may be in the National Archives. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Sandra Stanton <sandystanton_at_prodigy.net> wrote: Has anyone seen this and which James do you think it is? > >Name:James Cooley >Gender:M (Male) >State:Missouri >Locality:Louisiana and Missouri Territory >Town:Louisiana >Residence Year:1820 >Household Remarks:On 20 Oct 1817 he was appointed "1st Lt . . . of 2d Comy 1st >Bat 10 Regt". > > > > Source Citation: Document: Territorial Papers of the US; ; Volume Number: Vol >15; Page Number: 371; Family Number: 20. >Source Information: >Ancestry.com. U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820 [database on-line]. >Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Census >Publishing. State Census Records. West Jordan, Utah: Census Publishing, >2003-2009. >Description: >Records in this database come from Census Publishing’s efforts to both restore >or re-create missing pieces of early censuses and actually create decennial >“census” records for the years prior to 1790. They extract their information >from sources such as not limited to: tax lists, legislative petitions, voter's >lists, state and federal land records, and military lists. Learn more...
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