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Harlan P Spaulding was the Captain of Company E 7th United States Colored Troops assigned to Matagorda county, Texas after the Civil War where he took the Oath of Amnesty from my great-great grandfather, Robert Harris Williams. See A History of the 44th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry by E. A. Nash, Chicago, 1911.

Colwell is misspelled; it should be CALDWELL. "S B T" stands for "Samuel Brooks Tobie" Caldwell (my great great grandfather) born in Weare, New Hampshire, who moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1810 with his family, and then to Loudoun County in 1824. He lived the rest of his life (he died in 1866) in this area in various areas of Leesburg, Waterford, Snickersville. His son, George William, had already migrated to Texas in 1854 - he is my great grandfather. He died in 1883 when my grandmother was about 7 years old. Carolee Moore ...more

See http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/AA/fad21.html for information about Hamlin (Hamblin) Bass. He had two sons from his third marriage to Jane Tripp(e) in Putnam GA: George Pearson and Edward F. Bass. Bass came to Texas in 1850s and settled near Columbia, TX. See 1860 Fed Census Brazoria County TX. George Pearson married Laura Roberta Williams of Matagorda County, Texas 13 Oct 1863.. They had one son Edward Hamlin Bass born 16 Jun 1864 and baptized 2 Jul 1865 in Christ Church, Matagorda, Texas. Edward F. Bass died of sickness about Nov. 1862 while on sick leave from his regiment during Civil War. Both brothers attended University of Chapel Hill, N. C. until outbreak of the war. See: http://docsouth.unc.edu/true/dilectic/menu.html/ George P. Bass was a physician. Unknown when his wife died, possibly in 1870. Bass died in 1884 but no documentation yet to support either deaths. ...more

I am the great-grand niece of Laura Roberta Williams. My great grandmother was Laura Roberta's (Bert) sister, Lydia Elizabeth Williams who married George William Caldwell.

Familysearch.org has the Texas Death Records online for free, along with other primary documents. Why is Footnote charging for them? Just curious.