The BLM is the government agency which is responsible for the land patents sold by the government to private individuals. This is one record that I have searched. We do not know what day, month or year that James entered Ohio and settled on the land. We do not know what day he made application for his patent. (Either the record has gone missing, which is why his record at this point has written onto it "rec incomplete" or I simply have not found it yet.) Nor have I found a substitute record for this information. So far, the only record that we have that alludes to his entry date is the birth of his son, Laban born 18 October 1807 in according to his tombstone. So, I will use the records of the BLM in two ways at this point. First, I want to see who finalized their patent on the same day as James Sr. and I find that Stephen Ballard on Section 9 and Josiah Robe and David Frame on Section 23 all finalized their patents on 23 December 1811. Stephen Ballard lived within a mile of James Sr. and eventually his daughter, Rebecca Ballard marries John Larue Jr., son of James Sr. and my line of descent. Section 23 lies about 3 miles Northwest of James Sr., where Robe and Frame purchase their patent. The only relationship that I can find so far is much later a Belle Frame marries Eli Larue, son of John Jr. But, I do not know whether she is descended from David Frame or some other of the Frame family who settled in Guernsey County.
So, the second way I am going to use the BLM records [I printed out all the patents issued for Township 1 and Range 1 in Guernsey County.] is to look for all those patents issued to persons on sections of land surrounding or including Section 8, where James settled on a 1/4 of that section. These include sections 1,2,3, 7, 8, 9, 13,14,and 15. Anyone in these sections would be within about 1 mile of James Sr. But, will not include anyone who purchased their land from another individual not the government. Since the date given on these patents will pertain to the date that they finalized, we really won't know what day they settled, squatted or whatever. But, they are living right next door. Which could be important or not.
But, the names of those who were on these sections in the BLM patents for Guernsey County in Township 1 Range 1 include: Thomas Armstrong, John Bennet, John Askin, Philip Huff, James McCurdy, Stephen Ballard, Martin Baum, Samuel Perry, James Smith, Zaccheus Beatty, John Nunley, Zaccheus Biggs, Ebenezer Seger, Joshua Woodward, James Black, Luke Devore, Ebenezer Blackshire, Micheal Brill, Samuel Brill, William Carter, Samuel Hendry, Thomas W. Caruthers, John Caruthers, Henry Entrot, Reuben Field, John Fling, James Foreacre, John Larrow, Tobias Lent, Gilbert Mariner, Alexander McBride, Hugh Stewart, Roger McBride, William McConnell, John Bowers, John Medearis, Jacob Miller, Andrew Pinkerton, William Blake, William O'Hara, Joseph O'Hara, John Rogers, Massy Fluheart, John Russell, Stephen Crane, Edward Sanders, William Perry, Joseph W. Satterthwaite, Joseph Smith, Thomas Thompson, James Maxwell, Resin Welsh, Samuel White, Joel Williams, Dennis Cassall, Joseph Williams, John Woodside and Alexander Young.
And, most importantly, of these 58 names, 1 is James Sr.'s brother John Sr., another is Stephen Ballard the eventual father-in-law to his son. This leaves 56 persons, and of those 45 of them purchased Lot/Tracts in section 3 which leads me to think that this may have been the settling of a town area. Because this is way too many persons in one township for them to conceivable believe that they were going to farm it.
Nothing really fantastic jumps out at me hear, but it is another piece of information I will file away, because with more information down the line, this may all fall into place. So, it looks like I just am not going to find any other LaRues from these records that shed any light on mine. We only have James Sr. and his children or John Sr., so far.
But, what about any married names of females who may be related to the LaRues, and here is where we have some conjecture on the LaRues.
