{"id":918,"date":"2025-05-18T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=918"},"modified":"2025-05-18T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T20:24:56","slug":"lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/05\/18\/lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am trying to find proof that Alexander Lewis purchased Lot #7 from John Vawter when the town of Vernon was first platted. Is there a Vernon history that would have this? Or any public record of this transaction? I need proof for Indiana Pioneers.<br>(Originally posted 27 JUN 2004 by <a href=\"mailto:rankinmj@hotmail.com\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:rankinmj@hotmail.com\">Martha Jane Woolman Rankin<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is enough, but Alexander Lewis is by 7 in a list titled PURCHASERS OF LOTS IN THE TOWN OF VERNON, JENNINGS COUNTY September 7-8, 1815 and June 17, 1817 on page 95 of the Book JEFFERSONVILLE LAND ENTRIES 1808-1818 compiled by <a href=\"mailto:kowen@cdibb.com\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:kowen@cdibb.com\">Janet C. Cowen.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Originally posted 17 OCT 2004)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen,<br>I think this may be exactly what I need. Do you know where I may find a copy of that list? Would the book be in the Jennings County Library?<br>Thank you very much for this information.<br>Martha Jane<br><a href=\"mailto:rankinmj@hotmail.com\">rankinmj@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Originally posted 24 OCT 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to find proof that Alexander Lewis purchased Lot #7 from John Vawter when the town of Vernon was first platted. Is there a Vernon history that would have this? Or any public record of this transaction? I need proof for Indiana Pioneers.(Originally posted 27 JUN 2004 by Martha Jane Woolman Rankin) I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}