Brumfield LONG

                   Arrived in Oregon 22 Sept 1853, Settled Claim 6 Sept. 1854.
Signed Oath of Allegance 15 Dec. 1863.
All info - 1850 Census - Elkhart Co., Indiana, Jackson Township.
Donation Land Claim # 4449.   #2901.
1860 Census lists family in lower Molalla Precinct in Clackamas Co., Oregon.
Loyd D. Hale, 19905 Bellevue Way, West Linn, Oregon, 503-657-9444

1989:  Information from Kent Haldorson, 4860 SW Laurelwood Dr., Portland, Oregon 97225.
         "James Long, was born in (the Fall of) 1789 in Orange County, Virginia.  His second marriage was on November 2, 1844 to a Zenith "Asenath" ________, in Elkhart County, Indiana.  Asenath was born in Ohio in 1811/12
     The family is found in the 1850 Indiana census in Jackson Township, Elkhart County.  They moved to Oregon, arriving September 22, 1853.  James received a donation land claim (#2901)  in Clackamas County, Oregon.  He settled the claim September 6, 1854.
     The 1860 census lists the family in the Lower Molalla Precinct in Clackmas  County, Oregon.
     Sometime between when the 1860 census was taken for Clackamas County, and November of 1864, James died.  "Asseneth" married James S. Vinson on November of 1864 in Clackamas County. The family later moved to an area between Pendleton and Willow Creek in Umatilla County, where they are found in the 1870 census.
     James Vinson was born in 1808/9 in Ohio, and has a son listed with the family named George M. Vinson, who was born in 1846/7 in Iowa.  With "Asenath" are four of her sons and two of her daughters."
Lloyd D. Hale, 503-657-9444.

Note from Brenda Corbin "Our Orange Co. Records (Virginia) show no evidence of a marriage bond being issued to James Long, during the tiime you specified."
                  

                   NOTE: alternative birth year of 1805
                  

                   NOTE: New Family Search lists marriage to Sarah Ann Craven in 1844.  This in incorrect.  Jane Boyd is still living in Monroe County, Virginia at the time of the 1850 census.