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George Long in Coshocton and Jefferson Counties

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So, after combing through all of the George Longs that just didn’t fit the parameters of the George I identified in Hancock County (i.e. age, wife, names of children, etc.) I found only one that could have been the man who moved to Hancock County and bought land there in 1848. There was a George Long who owned land in Coshocton County. Why did I look at Coshocton County? If you recall from several posts ago, George Long was supposedly from “Carroll County” (but it wasn’t a county at the time that he was supposed to have been there). So my searches had to take place in the five counties that Carroll was formed from: Stark, Columbiana, Jefferson, Harrison, and Tuscarawas. You may notice that Coshocton is one county to the southeast of that cluster. Why did I look at Coshocton? George’s son, George W. had Coshocton County listed as his birthplace his obituary. We can’t leave any clue unexamined, and thank goodness I didn’t ignore that seemingly one-off comment.

In 1833, George Long purchased 80 acres from William Cunningham in Coshocton County.1 George was listed on the Coshocton County tax lists from 1833 through 1848.2 Then, an 1847 deed recorded that George and his wife Isabella sold the land bought from Cunningham to Ranzel Butler.3

If you recall from the last post, George bought land in Hancock County in 1848.

There was a George Long who paid personal property tax (no real estate tax) in Jefferson County, Cross Creek Township from 1828 through 1831. He was enumerated in the 1830 census there as well, living near Dolly Long, Hugh McCullough, and Alexander McCullough, possible relatives.4 This George Long was not living in Jefferson or Carroll counties by 1840; he had moved on to Coshocton County.

Following tax and land records and comparing them to the censuses, and one clue from a son’s obituary, allowed me to track down George Long in two counties prior to his appearance in Hancock County.

We will discuss some correlation tools I used to keep track of this information and to present it to the judges in the next post or two.

  1. Coshocton County, Ohio, Recorder’s Office, Vol. 11 (1837–1838), p. 601, William Cunningham deed to George Long, 8 Feb 1833; FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C37X-CQF8-9), IGN 8578415. The land was described as the west half of the southwest quarter of S8, T6, R5 in the Military District.  ↩︎
  2. Coshocton County, Ohio, tax records for George Long; Coshocton County Auditor’s Office, Coshocton, Ohio. Records were searched and copied for the years listed; special thanks to Laurie Hermance-Moore MLS, AG® for visiting the Auditor’s office for me. ↩︎
  3. Coshocton County, Ohio, Recorder’s Office, George and Isabella Long, deed to Ranzel Butler, 6 Sep 1847, Vol. 21 (1846–1847), pp. 634–635; FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLX-LSLC-K), IGN 8194076. ↩︎
  4. 1830 U.S. census, Jefferson County, Ohio, population schedule, Cross Creek Twp., p. 176, George Long household; image, “1830 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8058/images/4093942_00281).  ↩︎