Richard Lackey

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• Military: War of 1812
• Name: Richard D. Lackey
• Occupation: Farmer
• Probate: 11 Apr 1848, Warren County, Ohio, United States

Notes:

Richard and Sarah moved from Kentucky to Ohio with the Harlans, and settled on land about a mile east of Ridgeville. He purchased land of Heighway, who, like Symmes, could not pay for it, and it reverted to the Government; those who had bought of him had to pay for their land again. (see note below)

NOTE:
The Symmes Purchase, often called the Miami Purchase, is located in the southwestern corner of the state. During 1787 and 1788, the Ohio Company and John Cleves Symmes had purchased millions of Ohio acres on credit from Congress and were permitted to pay one-seventh of the price in federal bounty-land warrants. In 1792, Congress modified this contract. On September 30, 1794, President George Washington signed the U.S. Patent (deed) conveying to Symmes 248,250 acres. Symmes paid $70,455 in public securities for 105,683 acres and used military bounty land warrants, totaling 95,250 acres, to acquire the remaining 142,857 acres. Because Congress allowed one third of a dollar off for bad lands and incidental charges, Symmes actually paid two-thirds of dollar per acre.

By the time Symmes heard that Congress had not granted him all the land that he had asked for, he had already sold much of the land which was not really his. In the hopes that Congress would eventually grant him the rest of the land between the two Miami Rivers, he continued to sell to the incoming settlers during the 1790's. Samuel Heighway was one of the surveying party who came up the Little Miami Valley to survey the lands under the Symmes Contract.

The federal government decided that the land ownership dispute had to be resolved in the Miami country. Congress delineated very specifically which lands had been sold to Symmes and thus were legal sales, and which lands still belonged to the U.S. government and would have to be bought again. Between March of 1799 and March of 1804, Congress passed five Symmes Land Acts which stated, in essence, that all people who had bought tracts of land from the speculator John C. Symmes would be allowed to keep their land if they would apply to the U.S. government for a patent, pay $3.00 to have their tract surveyed, and pay $2.00 per acre on all land they claimed. [Source: W. H. Beers & County, Chicago, "The History of Warren County, Ohio", Clear Creek Twp., pg. 599]

Richard married Sarah Harlan on 23 Aug 1793 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Sarah (daughter of George Harlan and Margery Baker) was born on 5 Jun 1774 in Chatham County, North Carolina, British Colonial America; died after 1815 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Lackey was born on 23 Aug 1794 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States; and died.
2. Reason Lackey was born on 7 Nov 1796 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States; died on 5 Feb 1844 in Hamilton County, Indiana, United States; was buried in Feb 1844 in Hamilton County, Indiana, United States.
3. Hannah Lackey was born on 8 Oct 1798 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States; died on 8 Sep 1863 in Champaign County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Sep 1863 in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.
4. Margery Lackey was born on 29 Aug 1800 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States; died on 4 Jul 1834.
5. Enos Lackey was born on 21 Oct 1802 in Northwest Territory, United States; died on 4 Apr 1884 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 6 Apr 1884 in Corwin, Warren County, Ohio, United States.
6. Jehu Lackey was born on 17 Sep 1804 in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 15 Jan 1875; was buried in Jan 1875 in Lagrange, Lagrange County, Indiana, United States.
7. Sarah Lackey was born on 24 Sep 1806 in Warren County, Ohio, United States.
8. Mary Lackey was born on 8 Sep 1808 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 7 Jan 1893 in Toledo, Tama County, Iowa, United States; was buried in Jan 1893 in Toledo, Tama County, Iowa, United States.
9. Richard Lackey, Jr. was born on 15 Feb 1811 in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 9 Jul 1890 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Jul 1890 in Warren County, Ohio, United States.
10. John O. Lackey was born on 11 May 1813 in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 18 Apr 1857 in Lawrence County, Illinois, United States; was buried in Apr 1857 in Bridgeport, Lawrence County, Illinois, United States.
11. Aaron Lackey was born on 12 Jun 1815 in Warren County, Ohio, United States.

Richard married Desire McLean on 4 Nov 1823 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Desire was born on 1 Sep 1783; died on 5 Apr 1837 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Apr 1837 in Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Elizabeth Updegraft on 26 Jul 1838 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Census: 1790, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
• Census: 1810, Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States; as Thomas Lackey

Notes:

Born about 1745 the year the Leyden Jar (earliest form of electric condenser) was invented. Thomas settled in Amwell Twp. three miles S.E. of the city of Washington, Pennsylvania about 1770. He named his farm "Campden". His cabin was a regular preaching point on the Redstone Riding Circuit. In 1784 he was a tax collector and in 1801 & 1812 he was a trustee for the First United Methodist Church of Washington, Pennsylvania. A plaque honoring him is said to be hanging in the church today. In 1823 Thomas is past his seventy-fifth birthday and in the decade following the Revolutionary War he watches as America attempts to develop its own nationality.

In 1823 he is a widower, Jane his wife has been gone nine years. He plans to follow his son John and John's wife Susannah (Caton) to Greencastle, Ohio to reside with them but died en route in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio. The same year President James Monroe presented the Monroe Doctrine to Congress which proclaims that the Americas are closed to colonization by European states.

Thomas married Jane _____ in 1769. Jane was born in 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jane Lackey