Introducing Historic Indiana Statutes

I had Indiana ancestors named Smith who bore common given names. Gee, thanks, unimaginative grand-folks.

Some of my ancestral couples, mostly from elsewhere, who stopped in Indiana for a spell, and (some of whom) headed elsewhere are:

Isaac Caywood (b. ca 1778) and Nancy Talbot (b. ca 1776),
Thomas Hughell (ca 1780–1834) and Elizabeth Cowgill (1785–1876),
Thomas Caywood (ca 1800–before 1880) and Malinda Hampton (ca 1805–after 1880), and
Thomas F. Smith (1805–1871) and Purthenah Hughell (1808–1862).

They were in the following counties (in no particular order): Franklin, Rush, Shelby, and Johnson.

I promise I am forgetting someone and somewhere. Dates might be more precise in my records. I am not citing sources on these folks today, this is a rush job and not the point of my post. Name-dropping, is all.

Indiana ancestry motivated the newest addition to my online law library, Indiana’s territorial and state statutory laws.

Give a great big welcome to Historic Indiana Statutes!

Enjoy!