Amos Haynes and Mary Julia Haynes Whalen Trade 770 and 700 Acre Tracts
Amos W. Haynes was married three times, and by this time was married to his third wife, Jane “Jennie” Ware Tatum DeGee Haynes, who had received a substantial inheritance from her father, with land in the Juan Fernandez Grant, which is immediately above the Musquiz Grant. Amos and Jennie became involved in buying and selling land up there. Even though Amos was my great-grandfather, we have made no attempt to study his land dealings within the Juan Fernandez grant, since they had no bearing upon the Haynes place, were not associated with his marriage to my great-grandmother, Julia E. Blossman Haynes, and were outside the Musquiz Grant, to which this web site is restricted.
For some reason, on August 7, 1889, in two concurrent deeds, Amos Haynes traded land with Mary Julia and Michael Whalen. Amos got back the lower 700 acres of his Haynes place land that he had sold to Mary Julia in 1886, and the Whalens received 770 acres of Juan Fernandez Grant land. No money or cattle was involved. The deed from Amos to the Whalens is in Book O, page 627, and the deed to Amos from the Whalens is in Book O, page 629.
At this stage in the history of the Haynes place, Amos owned the upper 1,400 acres again, Celia owned 960 acres below Amos’s, and Christopher owned the lower 640 acres. Mary Julia Whalen owned none (within the Haynes place), although eventually she would receive, as part of Amos’s estate, essentially the same 700 acres of Haynes place land that she had just traded back to her father. And either Celia or Amos owned 700 acres or so in area (P) out in the prairie to the southwest.
Amos W. Haynes was married three times, and by this time was married to his third wife, Jane “Jennie” Ware Tatum DeGee Haynes, who had received a substantial inheritance from her father, with land in the Juan Fernandez Grant, which is immediately above the Musquiz Grant. Amos and Jennie became involved in buying and selling land up there. Even though Amos was my great-grandfather, we have made no attempt to study his land dealings within the Juan Fernandez grant, since they had no bearing upon the Haynes place, were not associated with his marriage to my great-grandmother, Julia E. Blossman Haynes, and were outside the Musquiz Grant, to which this web site is restricted.
For some reason, on August 7, 1889, in two concurrent deeds, Amos Haynes traded land with Mary Julia and Michael Whalen. Amos got back the lower 700 acres of his Haynes place land that he had sold to Mary Julia in 1886, and the Whalens received 770 acres of Juan Fernandez Grant land. No money or cattle was involved. The deed from Amos to the Whalens is in Book O, page 627, and the deed to Amos from the Whalens is in Book O, page 629.
At this stage in the history of the Haynes place, Amos owned the upper 1,400 acres again, Celia owned 960 acres below Amos’s, and Christopher owned the lower 640 acres. Mary Julia Whalen owned none (within the Haynes place), although eventually she would receive, as part of Amos’s estate, essentially the same 700 acres of Haynes place land that she had just traded back to her father. And either Celia or Amos owned 700 acres or so in area (P) out in the prairie to the southwest.