Las Sabinas, Volume 14, Number 1, January 1988 Page: 35
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Her property was auc:tioned for a total amount of
$2,580.87 . This inrlcluced six slaves, cattle, and various
pieces of furniture.5
In 1830, Silas Smith applied for o preemption claim on
the land "where he now resides" on the east bank of the
Vermillion River. In this document he claims to have lived
on the land in 1812, left in 1813, and returned in 1814.
He built a home for his mother, Sarai Ann Smith, where she
resided until her death in 1829, after w which the property was
occupied by "Madam Johnson."
Silas occupied the property from 1815 until 1830.6 He
served as a sergeant in the War of 1812 in the 2nd Division,
15th Regiment. Silas Smith and Nathaniel Moss were both
residing in Liberty County in 1835. Silas Smith received a
Spanish land grant in 1830 from the Mexican government.
David Bland, the son of John Bland and grandson of
Peyton, was never an Orange County judge. My wife's mother
was reared by David Bland and records passed down from Allie
Bland and all communications with children of David, have no
reference to his being a judge.
His life history, as dictated before his death to Miss
Allie, did not mention any experience as a law enforcer.
However, D.C. Bland was a judge in Orange County from 1914
to 1920.
In 1920, David Bland, son of John and grandson of
Peyton of Louisiana, would have been 77 years old. Judge
D.C. Bland was the son of John C. Bland, brother of David
Bland, and was a great-grandson of Peyton Bland of Louisiana.
John Bland married Mary Foreman, the daughter of Joseph
Foreman and Charlotte Stouts.7 Asa Foreman did sign to
indenture John Bland.8 Copies of both originals are attached.
Joseph Dickerson, Jr., son of Elizabeth Smith Bland and
Joseph Dickerson, Sr., was on the 1850 census of Lafayette
Parish, page 258, married to Edelia Foreman, age 22, with
two children, ages, 2 and 1. Joseph listed his age as 27,
which really confuses things. This would make his birthdate
1823. Either it is a different Joseph Dickerson, or his age
was recorded wrong.33
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