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JAMKS ROOD ROBERTSON, M. A. Ph.D.
Member of the Filson Club.
FILSON CLUB-PUBLICATIONS No. 27
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PETITIONS OF THE EARLY
INHABITANTS OF
KENTUCKY
General Assembly of Virginia
1769 to 1792
BY
JAMES ROOD ROBERTSON, M.A.Ph.D.
Member of the American Historical Association, the Filson Club,
the Ohio Valley Historical Society, and the Oregon
Historical Society; Professor of History and
Political Science in Berea College.
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY
(incorporated)
PRINTERS TO THE FILSON CLUB
1914
TO THE
COPYRIGHT, 1915,
BY
THE FILSON CLUB
All Rights Reserved
\AO.
DEDICATED TO
THE PIONEERS OF KENTUCKY
Men and women whose courage, endurance, and integrity
laid well the foundations of our first common-
wealth west of the Alleghany Mountains.
PREFACE
THE petitions here printed are offered as a contribu-
tion to the early period of Kentucky history. During
a visit of the editor to Richmond, Virginia, in the summer
of 1910, they were found in the archives of that State.
The archivist had recently segregated them from a large
mass of other material and an examination of the contents
showed their value as a source of information on the
beginnings of Kentucky.
The petitions are printed verbatim, with the thought
that they will be more useful and interesting to the student
of history in the language of the pioneer inhabitants of
our first Commonwealth west of the Alleghany Mountains.
The editor has added foot-notes which may help to explain
the purpose, the subject-matter, and the effect of the
various petitions.
The names attached to the petitions have been separated
from them and arranged in alphabetical order, with num-
bers referring to the petitions on which they appear. This
saves considerable space, as many of the names are signed
to two or more petitions. It also makes reference to them
more easy.
The appearance of the original material from which
these petitions were copied may be seen in the facsimile
Preface
of a petition from the settlers of Lincoln County. This is,
however, better than the average in form and state of
preservation. Many of the petitions are worn, the writing
faded, and the style not so good as the illustration given.
The wording of the petitions, though formal, is full of
life and spirit, and in some cases reflects quaintness of
expression. There is always a respectful deference for the
authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia at the same
time that freedom of speech is indulged.
The petitions are printed in chronological order rather
than topical, with the thought that the development of
community life can best be seen in that way. The first
petition is dated 1769 and the last 1831. Only two are
earlier than 1776 and six later than 1792. Thus they are
seen to pertain to the period when Kentucky was a County
of Virginia and those of earlier and later date are logically
connected with that period. Thus the collection presents
a unity that is valuable.
The collection does not include petitions which were
sent to the National Government at Philadelphia or New
York which have been used extensively in the printed
histories of Kentucky, as they have been more accessible
than the ones here printed. Nor is the collection entirely
complete, as there are some laws, passed by the Assembly
of Virginia, evidently based on petitions which have not
been found. The collection, however, is essentially com-
plete, and is fully representative of the activities of the
pioneer population.
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Preface
I desire to express appreciation to the following for
assistance rendered me in the preparation of this book:
To William G. Frost, President of Berea College, for encour-
agement and financial aid in gathering the material ; to the
late Colonel Reuben T. Durrett, formerly President of the
Filson Club, for use of his extensive library; to R. C. Ballard
Thruston, President of the Sons of the American Revolution,
for his cordial interest and support; to the Filson Club and
its officers for publication; to Doctor H. R. Mcllwain,
Librarian of the State Library of Virginia, and Doctor H. J.
Eckenrode, Archivist of State Library of Virginia, for cour-
tesies in use of source material in the Virginia archives.
JAMES ROOD ROBERTSON.
Berea College,
Berea, Kentucky.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION 1
PETITION No. 1. Request of the inhabitants east of the Alleghany Moun-
tains for sixty thousand acres of land in the upper valley of the Cum-
berland River 35
PETITION No. 2. Request of the inhabitants of Kentucky at Harrodsburg
to be taken under the jurisdiction of Virginia 36
PETITION No. 3. Request of the Committee at Harrodsburg to be taken
under the jurisdiction of Virginia 38
PETITION No. 4. Request of Thomas Slaughter and other inhabitants of
Kentucky for a method of defense 41
PETITION No. 5. Request of Hugh McGary for compensation for services
rendered as a messenger to Fort Pitt 42
PETITION No. 6. Request of the inhabitants of Kentucky for salt manu-
factories 43
PETITION No. 7. Request of Nathaniel Henderson for compensation for a
negro slave killed at Fort Boone 44
PETITION No. 8. Statement of grievances by inhabitants of Kentucky in
regard to land laws and request for a remedy 45
PETITION No. 9. Statement of grievances by the inhabitants of Boone's
Fort and request for a grant of six hundred and forty acres for town
site and a board of trustees 48
PETITION No. 10. Request of Richard Galloway for the right to establish
a ferry across the Kentucky River at Boonesborough 53
PETITION No. 11. Request of the inhabitants at the Falls of the Ohio
River for an act to establish a town at that place 53
PETITION No. 12. Request of the inhabitants north of the Kentucky River
for a division of the County of Kentucky 55
PETITION No. 13. Request of George Rogers Clark for confirmation of a
grant of thirty-six thousand acres of land northwest of the Ohio River,
given to him by the Indians 57
PETITION No. 14. Request of the inhabitants of Lexington for a grant of
land for a town site 60
PETITION No. 15. Statement of grievances by the inhabitants of Kentucky
and a request either for a better government or independence from
Virginia 62
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PETITION No. 16. Request of the inhabitants of the three counties of Ken-
tucky for the old land law which required cultivation; also for the
creation of a Superior Court 66
PETITION No. 17. Request of inhabitants of Lincoln County for laws to
secure better military protection, care of orphans, civil marriage, and
stray stock 68
PETITION No. 18. Request of the trustees appointed to hold forfeited land,
used for school purposes, for an extension of powers 69
PETITION No. 19. Request of John Campbell that the act creating the
town of Louisville be repealed 72
PETITION No. 20. Request of John Morton for aid in securing a title to
land pre-empted in Fayette County 73
PETITION No. 21. Request of Patrick Doran for a warrant on a tract of
land pre-empted in Lincoln County 74
PETITION No. 22. Request of William Lytle for aid in securing the title
to a tract of land at a place called Dry Run 74
PETITION No. 23. Request of the inhabitants of the District of Kentucky
for the establishment of Circuit Courts 76
PETITION No. 24. Request of the inhabitants of Kentucky either for a
better government by Virginia or a statement of the intentions of that
Commonwealth 78
PETITION No. 25. Request of the inhabitants of Jefferson, Fayette, Lin-
coln, and Nelson Counties for an act acknowledging the independence
of Kentucky from Virginia 79
PETITION No.- 26. Request of the inhabitants of Lincoln County for a
grant of land for a town site 82
PETITION No. 27. Request of the inhabitants of Lincoln County for a
division of the county 84
PETITION No. 28. Request of the inhabitants of the County of Fayette for
a division of the county 85
PETITION No. 29. Request of James Hogan for the right to establish a
public ferry across the Kentucky River near Hickman's Creek 87
PETITION No. 30. Request of David Crews for the right to establish a public
ferry across the Kentucky River near Jack's Creek 88
PETITION No. 31. Request of William Steele for the right to establish a
public ferry across the Kentucky River at Stone Lick 89
PETITION No. 32. Request of the inhabitants of part of Bourbon County
at Limestone Settlement for division of the county 89
PETITION No. 33. Protest of the inhabitants of Bourbon County against
a division of the county 91
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PETITION No. 34. Request of the inhabitants of Washington, in Limestone
Settlement of Bourbon County, for the grant of land for a town site. . 91
PETITION No. 35. Request of James Holloway for land in payment of
services in the Revolutionary War 92
PETITION No. 36. Request of the inhabitants of Lincoln County for the
establishment of the town of Stanford 93
PETITION No. 37. Request of Jane Todd for the appointment of trustees
for an estate left by John Todd of Fayette County 95
PETITION No. 38. Request of Mary Ervin to be allowed to inherit the land
of John Askins 96
PETITION No. 39. Request of Christopher Greenup, Clerk of Supreme
Court of Kentucky, for change of procedure in regard to taxes arising
from legal processes 97
PETITION No. 40. Request of the inhabitants of Fayette County for the in-
spection of tobacco at the mouth of Hickman's Creek, on the north side
of the Kentucky River 98
PETITION No. 41. Request of Ignatius Mitchell for the establishment of a
town to be called Charlestown, on his land on the Ohio River near
Lawrence's Creek 100
PETITION No. 42. Request of the inhabitants of the District of Kentucky
for establishment of a Commission to settle pay rations and other
claims under expeditions of Clark and Logan 100
PETITION No. 43. Request of the inhabitants of Fayette County for the
establishment of tobacco inspection on the Kentucky River near the
mouth of Stone Lick 102
PETITION No. 44. Request of James Buchanan of Bourbon County that a
public ferry be established on his lands across Licking Creek 103
PETITION No. 45. Request of sundry inhabitants of Fayette County for
the establishment of tobacco inspection on the land of General Scott
on the Kentucky River near Craig's Creek 105
PETITION No. 46. Request of the inhabitants of Lexington for an act
incorporating the town 106
PETITION No. 47. Request of sundry inhabitants of Fayette, Bourbon, and
Madison Counties for a new county to be created from them, with
courthouse at Boonesborough 107
PETITION No. 48. Request of the inhabitants of Limestone Settlement and
other parts of Bourbon County for a division of Bourbon County .... 108
PETITION No. 49. Protest of the inhabitants of Bourbon County against
a division of the county 110
PETITION No. 50. Request of the Trustees of Transylvania Seminary for
one-sixth of Surveyors' legal fees, for support of the Seminary 112
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PETITION No. 51. Request of inhabitants of Fayette County for tobacco
inspection on Kentucky River near the mouth of Stone Lick Creek. . . . 113
PETITION No. 52. Request of the inhabitants of Fayette County for a
division of the county • 114
PETITION No. 53. Protest of the inhabitants of Fayette County against
a division of the county 116
PETITION No. 54. Request of the inhabitants of the Limestone Settlement
of Bourbon County for a division of the county 117
PETITION No. 55. Protest of the inhabitants of Bourbon County against
a division of the county 119
PETITION No. 56. Request of the inhabitants of Bourbon County for
tobacco inspection on Licking Creek 120
PETITION No. 57. Request of the inhabitants of Bourbon County for the
establishment of a town at Bourbon Courthouse 121
PETITION No. 58. Request of the inhabitants of the District of Kentucky
for a repeal of the Act of Separation 121
PETITION No. 59. Request of George Muter, Samuel McDowell, Caleb
Wallace, and Harry Innes that taxes be made payable in specie 122
PETITION No. 60. Request of the inhabitants of the District of Kentucky
that Lexington and Bardstown be appointed as places for sittings of
the Supreme Court • 124
PETITION No. 61. Request of Benjamin Stevenson, that he be relieved
from the penalty of the law against bringing slaves into Kentucky
without notice 125
PETITION No. 62. Request of the inhabitants of Bourbon County for the
establishment of the town of Hopewell 127
PETITION No. 63. Request of the inhabitants north of the Kentucky River
for tobacco inspection on the Kentucky River near Tate's Creek 128
PETITION No. 64. Request of the inhabitants of Kentucky for appointment
of Commissioners by Supreme or County Courts for locating places
for tobacco inspection 129
PETITION No. 65. Request of the inhabitants of Fayette and Bourbon
Counties that a new county be created from parts of the same 130
PETITION No. 66. Protest of sundry inhabitants of Bourbon County against
a division of the county 131
PETITION No. 67. Request of the inhabitants of Fayette County for the
establishment of tobacco inspection on lands of EH Cleveland on the
Kentucky River 132
PETITION No. 68. Request of the inhabitants of the town of Louisville for
the appointment of trustees who live in the town 133
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PETITION No. 69. Request of the inhabitants of Kentucky that the Supreme
Court be not removed 134
PETITION No. 70. Request of William McKenzie for value of forfeited lands
of Robert McKenzie which were taken for a public school 137
PETITION No. 71. Request of Anne Craig that the right of escheat of lands
of James Douglass may be set aside in the interests of a debt to her. . . 138
PETITION No. 72. Request of some inhabitants of Fayette County for
tobacco inspection opposite Boonesborough and on Howards Creek . . 139
PETITION No. 73. Memorial of the Convention of the District of Kentucky
which asks for an amendment to the act separating Kentucky from
Virginia 140
PETITION No. 74. Request of the inhabitants of Lincoln County living on
lands reserved for officers and soldiers, for a division of the county. . . . 141
PETITION No. 75. Request of Jane and Robert Todd, executors, for powers
in regard to sale and conveyance of estate of John Todd 142
PETITION No. 76. Request of the inhabitants of Lexington for certain
powers and authorities 143
PETITION No. 77. Request of the inhabitants of Bourbon County for the
right to erect grist mills on the Stoner and Hinkson's forks of the
Licking River 144
PETITION No. 78. Request of the inhabitants of Bourbon County to estab-
lish the navigation of the Licking River and that grist mills be not
erected 145
PETITION No. 79. Request of sundry inhabitants of Bourbon County that
the navigation of the Licking River and its forks be not impeded by
grist mills 146
PETITION No. 80. Request of the trustees of the town of Hopewell that
the land on which the town is located be condemned and vested in the
trustees, and that the name be changed to Paris 147
PETITION No. 81. Request of Laban Shipp that no act be passed in favor
of navigation on the Licking River and its forks that will cause the
removal of his mill 148
PETITION No. 82. Request of the inhabitants of Bourbon County for act
to allow the erection of grist mills on the Licking River and its forks . . 150
PETITION No. 83. Request of claimants to tracts of land in the Illinois
grant and others, for an extension of time to give proof before Com-
missioners 151
PETITION No. 84. Request of sundry inhabitants of Bourbon County for
the establishment of tobacco inspection on land of Lawrence Protzman . 152
PETITION No. 85. Request of William Bruce and John Linn for compensa-
tion as scouts in 1789 153
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PETITION No. 86. Request of James Smith that he be granted the right
to prove his pre-emption claim to land improved in 1773 154
PETITION No. 87. Request of the inhabitants of the town of Maysville for
an extension of time, to fulfill the requirements for title to their lots . 155
PETITION No. 88. Request of some inhabitants of Bourbon County for an
extension of time for recording deeds, on account of death of the
sheriff loG
PETITION No. 89. Request of William Shannon for the adjustment and
settlement of his accounts as Commissary and Quartermaster to the
Illinois Department 157
PETITION No. 90. Request of the Trustees of Transylvania Seminary for
the right to raise money by a lottery 160
PETITION No. 91. Request of the Trustees of Transylvania Seminary for
a reduction of the number of trustees 161
PETITION No. 92. Request of Henry Banks that the register of land office
be authorized to accept land warrants on a claim 162
PETITION No. 93. Request of the inhabitants of the District of Kentucky
for an extension of time for recording surveys, as required by a new
land law of 1791 164
PETITION No. 94. Request of John Crow for compensation for keeping
Indian prisoners 165
PETITION No. 95. Request of Isaac Ruddle for payment of claims for service
and horses furnished, thus far unsettled because of charges of dis-
loyalty 168
PETITION No. 96. Request of Levi Todd, Clerk of Fayette County, for the
refunding of money paid as tax on clerks 169
PETITION No. 97. Request of Joseph Martin for the establishment of a
ferry across the Cumberland River 170
PETITION No. 98. Request of James McAfee for compensation for supplies
furnished the troops at the Palls of the Ohio in 1780 and 1781 171
PETITION No. 99. Request of James Wilkinson for the establishment of
tobacco inspection at Frankfort 171
PETITION No. 100. Request of George Rogers Clark for the payment of his
general statement of claims, debts, and arrearages, due for services
and for advances to the State 172
PETITION No. 101. Request of John Campbell for payment of wages as
inspector of tobacco at the Falls of the Ohio 174
PETITION No. 102. Request of John Stewart for the right to enter and
survey a tract of land on the Licking River, improved by Henry
Stewart in 1775 170
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PETITION No. 103. Request of James Gilmore and Stephen Huston, for
compensation for service as scouts 177
PETITION No. 104. Request for delay in the establishment of a ferry across
Patterson's Creek 177
PETITION No. 105. Request of George Rogers Clark for half pay for life or
full pay for five years 178
PETITION No. 106. Request of Daniel Boone for a land-office treasury
warrant for six hundred and twenty-eight acres of land 178
PETITION No. 107. Request of James Bullock for duplicate certificate
issued for a horse impressed into the service of the State 179
PETITION No. 108. Request of William Bledsoe for a warrant on the treas-
ury in payment for a beast taken into service in 1782 179
PETITION No. 109. Request of Edmond Southard and his wife Sarah, for a
land-office treasury warrant for land unlocated thus far because of the
separation of Kentucky from Virginia and other causes 180
PETITION No. 110. Request of Berry Cawood of Harlan County for a grant
of land in lieu of land to which he was entitled in the tract set apart
for Clark and his soldiers 186
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The Author Frontispiece
Opposite Page
Facsimile of Surveyor's Map of Kentucky 61
Facsimile of Petition of the Inhabitants of Lincoln County 82
Facsimile of Signatures attached to the Petitions 130
Facsimile of Signatures attached to the Petitions 189
INTRODUCTION
The value of this collection of legislative petitions of
early Kentucky is general as well as local. Since Ken-
tucky was the first Commonwealth to be established west
of the Alleghany Mountains, anything which illustrates the
formative growth of society is significant of the subsequent
growth of the nation westward. It is believed that these
petitions will prove of interest and value for three main
reasons: First, as an illustration of the process of petitioning;
second, for the subject-matter contained in them, and
third, for the list of names attached to the petitions which
is a large one and representative of the pioneer population.
The right and the practice of petitioning is an old one,
much prized by our English ancestors. It has occupied
an important place in the development of liberty and govern-
ment by the people. It was in use in the Colonies and their
records all show to what a large extent it figured. Hence,
it may be said that the early settlers of Kentucky, in
petitioning, were only doing that which they were accus-
tomed to do east of the mountains.
The petitions here presented are the basis of almost all
the legislation of Virginia for her western settlers. The
editor has followed them through the various steps of
legislation as recorded in the Journal of the House
of Burgesses, the Journal of the Convention, the Journal
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Introduction
of the House of Delegates, the Calendar of State papers,
and the Statutes as edited by Hening. In many cases the
preamble of the bill enacted repeats the substance and in
some cases the very phrases of the petition, thus linking
the two together in a most interesting and unique manner.
A regular process was followed in the matter of petition.
The law required posting for a certain length of time that
all might have an opportunity to be acquainted with the
contents. Certifications of such posting may be seen to
accompany several of the petitions as printed. Then the
petition was taken to Williamsburg or Richmond, either by
Kentucky's representative to the Virginia Assembly or by
a special messenger. Before the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion the petition was addressed to the colonial Governor,
and after that to the legislative body. Only one of our
petitions was thus addressed to the Governor and a second
referred to in the Calendar of State Papers. All the others
are addressed to the Convention, the General Assembly, or
the House of Delegates.
If a western community was not organized it sent its
petitions to the most westerly county by which it was
forwarded to the capital. Thus the settlers of Kentucky
gained access to the ear of the legislative body through
Fincastle County. The organization of a body of settlers
into a committee to petition was the first step in the forma-
tion of civic life in the westward expansion of population.
The petitions presented to the legislative body must,
by the law of Virginia, be deposited with the Clerk of the
Introduction
House of Delegates. The Clerk read the petition and it
was then referred to one of the standing committees, of
which there were five — on religion, on propositions and
grievances, on claims, on courts of justice, and at times on
the state of the country. Special committees were some-
times appointed, and often petitions were considered by
committee of the whole. These committees were appointed
at the beginning of the session and often were composed
of the most prominent men of the Commonwealth. Thus
the affairs of the distant western settlers were sometimes
discussed by such men as Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, James
Madison, and Thomas Jefferson.
The House ordered the committees to which the matters
were referred to take them under consideration and make
a recommendation. In the original documents the course
through which the petitions passed is endorsed on the back
as they were filed away. These endorsements are given
in the notes to the text of the petitions. If the judgment
of the committee was favorable the word "reasonable" was
written across the back and a bill was generally drawn to
conform to the request. If the judgment was not favorable
the word "rejected" was written across the back, and no
bill was enacted. Sometimes the petitions, if important,
passed through quite a long and devious course, as may be
seen. In some cases the requests were divided, and part
were granted and part rejected. The reasons for this
action are not on record, though it may often be inferred
from the action or the language in the Journals.
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Introduction
The statutes which match these petitions are well
known and embody, in general, the substance of the peti-
tions. They consist of a preamble, an enacting clause, and
the provisions of the law. The petitions, however, add
considerable to our knowledge as they give us the settler's
point of view in his own language. Taking the two
together it is possible to have as perfect a picture as may be
of the relations of the old Commonwealth and her remote
inhabitants. That these distant settlers suffered is cer-
tainly true; that they were dissatisfied with their parent
State is evidenced by the petitions they sent to the Govern-
ment at Philadelphia; but one can not make a study of the
petitions and the laws based upon them without being
impressed with the fact that Virginia attended to the
affairs of her "good people" on the "western waters."
The impression is left of a population self-assertive and
resourceful but withal respectful toward constituted
authority.
In the second place the petitions are of value because
of the light which their subject-matter throws on the early
history of Kentucky and the West. It would be difficult
to find a more graphic picture of the life of a pioneer popu-
lation in all its lines of activity, in the expression of diffi-
culties, hopes, and desires. We have too often been content
to select some typical hero of frontier life and record his
exploits. In these petitions we have set before us the
associated life of the community. Allowance must be
made, it is true, for extravagance of statement, but even
Introduction
such phrases are a vivid reminder of the strenuous life
of those early state-builders whose sacrifices and efforts
made possible the conditions that exist to-day.
The petitions are not all of equal importance. Some
deal only with personal affairs or with matters of small
account. Others throw light on matters that belong to
the field of serious history and are significant. The greatest
good can be derived by taking them as a whole, illustrative
of the beginnings of a community.
The topics that make up the subject-matter of the
petitions may be summed up as follows: The system of
landholding, the establishment of courts, the organization
of a militia for protection from Indians, the organization
of the community into counties and towns, the establish-
ment of communication by ferries and roads, the inspection
of tobacco, the building of gristmills, the perfecting of a
medium of exchange, the foundation of an educational
system, the status of slavery in the western country, the
effort to secure better social conditions in the care of
orphans and in the performance of marriage rites, and
finally the movement of the population toward separation
from Virginia.
The question of land naturally occupies a large place in
the petitions. The settlers came to the country west of
the mountains with certain ideas regarding land which
had been worked out through many years of controversy
in the colonial period of Virginia. The Journals of the House
of Burgesses reflect this struggle. In general it may be
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said that the representatives of the people stood for west-
ward expansion, for small grants of land to bona fide
settlers, for titles free from quit rents, and for legislative
management of land conditions rather than executive.
A resolution of the House of Burgesses of December,
1766, urged upon the administration that settlers who had
taken up lands on the waters of the West could not be
deprived of their land or compelled to move without a
violation of public faith and of law. It showed that the
encouragement of settlement to the west would be conducive
to the King's service and Colony's interest and the King
was urged to rescind his restrictive proclamation and give
orders to grant land to "all adventurers" in the accustomed
manner. Many of the lands were shown to be unoccupied
by Indians and others could be readily secured by purchase.
In 1768 the treaty of Fort Stanwix with the Indians
was in line with the wishes of the settlers and seemed to
prepare the way for settlement. Our first petition of 1769 is
a request for land in the valley of the Cumberland River,
to the west of the mountains, and in the same year the
House of Burgesses discussed expansion again, urging that
the country be opened as far as the confluence of the Ohio
with the Mississippi, and a purchase be made from the
Cherokees which would add to the King's revenue and the
trade and navigation of the western country.
The desire for small holdings is seen in the memorial
which asks that the King in his "royal wisdom" be graciously
pleased to "discourage all monopolies of those lands" by
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granting them "in small or moderate quantities to such
adventurers as might incline to seek and settle the same."
The feeling against quit rents may be seen in the
opposition to the grants of Lord Dunmore in 1775, when the
surveyor of Fincastle County refused to return a survey
until it had received the approval of the House of Burgesses
and that body inquired, whether "his majesty may of
right advance the terms of granting lands in the colony."
The few settlers in Kentucky had not been able to secure
from Virginia a title to their lands until the Revolutionary
War came on. Petitions Numbers 2 and 3 are requests
for such recognition. It was the War which brought the
western settlers and the government of Virginia together,
through mutual need of one another, the former for money
and riflemen and the latter for settled titles to land. Thus
the first land act in behalf of the trans-Alleghany settlers
was passed by Virginia in response to those petitions, in
the latter part of 1776, and curiously enough, is entitled
"An act for raising a supply of money for public exigencies."
This law referred to the fact that "great numbers of
people had settled in the waste and ungranted lands on
the western waters to which they have not been able to
secure titles." It resolved that all such settlers upon
unappropriated lands, to which there was no just prior
claim, should have the "preemption or preference to the
grant of such lands" and it gave to all bona fide settlers,
previous to June 24, 1776, a right to "four hundred acres
for each family." The land thus located was to bear a
tax to the colony of Virginia according to the "pound rate."
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Introduction
The Transylvania Company, under the lead of Richard
Henderson and by the aid of Daniel Boone, had anticipated
Virginia by the purchase of the land between the Cumber-
land and Kentucky Rivers from the Cherokees and had
started a colony of a proprietary type with quit rents to
the land and features not in accordance with the ideas
which had been shaping in Virginia during the period
between the close of the French Wars in 1763 and the open-
ing of the Revolution. The petitions are wonderful
exhibitions of the tact and skill with which the settlers
induced the Commonwealth of Virginia to extend juris-
diction over Kentucky, and thus change the subsequent
course of events.
The Land Act of 1776 was in accord with the popular
views on the subject and had it remained the law there
would not have been the grounds for complaint which many
of the petitions so strongly voice. An act of the Assembly
in 1779 confirmed the grants as given in the previous law
and extended it to all settlers before January I, 1778.
It departed, however, from the first in granting the right
to preempt one thousand acres on the condition of erecting
a cabin. Another act of the same year established a land
office and gave to any person the right "to acquire title to
so much waste and unappropriated land as he or she shall
desire on paying the consideration of forty pounds for every
hundred acres."
These two acts were due to the emergencies of the War
and the pressure to secure funds for it. They became,
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however, a source of great annoyance to the actual settlers
of the West who were bearing the burdens of the day.
Petition No. 8 is a pitiful wail by the "distressed inhabi-
tants" of the county of Kentucky, who saw men surveying
the thousand-acre tracts, when they had not so much as a
hundred and in some cases none at all — "too rough a med-
icine ever to be dejested by any set of people that have
suffered as we have." Petition No. 15 protests against
the second act by which every person is "at liberty to
purchase without cultivating as much Land as He or She
shall think proper." Petition No. 16, though pertaining to
the same grievance, is more restrained, and recognizes the
acts as emergency acts in the time of war.
To the settler west of the Alleghanies the period just
following the War was one of great perplexity. He did
not know to whom he should look for security in the title
to his land. Petition No. 24 contains an expression of
this feeling of uncertainty. Referring to a refusal of
Congress to accept the cession of land offered by Virginia
and a report of the committee to the effect that Virginia
had no just claim to any of the land northwest of the
Alleghanies, they assert their right "for it is through them
and those they claim as citizens that the greatest part of
the western waters is not now in the possession of our most
inveterate enimies."
The changes made from time to time by the Virginia
laws for perfecting a title to land gave rise to a great deal
of trouble and discontent. Some of the settlers did not
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conform to the necessary steps by reason of ignorance,
some were prevented by absence from the section in service
of the country in the War or against the Indians. The
death of a sheriff would prevent the perfecting of a title;
fraud is sometimes charged, through concealment of the
law by "knavish" men who expected to profit thereby;
legal processes were forced on settlers who could not
stand the expense and would thus lose their land, and finally
the separation of Kentucky from Virginia left titles incom-
plete. These and other complaints are found in Petitions
Nos. 22, 23, 88, 93, 102, 106, 109, and no. With the com-
plaints there is to be found a very graphic and complete
revelation of the land question of the early period.
Closely connected with the land question and second,
perhaps, in importance in the petitions, was the establish-
ment of courts for the securing of order and for the regula-
tion of the various relations of community life. The county
courts were the first to be created and they began with the
act by which the Kentucky County was separated from
Fincastle in 1776. By this act justices were to meet at
Harrodsburg on the first Tuesday of April to establish a
court. They were instructed to appoint a clerk and arrange
for a permanent place of meeting. The Assembly mani-
fested its appreciation of the difficulties of getting things
started in the remote region beyond the mountains by
providing that the meetings might be postponed where a
majority may have been detained "by bad weather or
accidental rise of the water courses."
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County courts were established in each of the counties
as they came into existence, previous to separation from
Virginia. In fact the desire for more courts to facilitate
the matters of record, land titles, and secure order in the
community was the main motive in creating new counties.
For example, in Petition No. 12, which is the basis of the
first division, we read: "the settled parts of the county of
Kentucky is of late growing so extensive that in a Time of
peace it would be extremely inconvenient for your peti-
tioners to attend at Court House much more so at present
when an inveterate war rages with unremitted violence.''
The increase in land troubles was responsible, largely,
for a request for a superior court, as shown in Petition
No. 16. This was established in 1782, and in Petition No.
17 the settlers of Lincoln County thank the Assembly for
the establishment of this court, "the good effects of which
we begin already to feel by the discouragement of vice and
fraud which was too prevalent among us." That there
was opposition may be inferred from the statement of
the petition which alludes to a set of inhabitants "who
were never friendly to the government of Virginia nor
would be pleased with any laws its Legislature can pass."
The act which established the superior court created the
District of Kentucky, after August I, 1782, and it was
generally referred to henceforth as a District rather than
a County. This court was a supreme court of judicature,
separate and independent of all other courts except the
Court of Appeals. It had jurisdiction in cases of treason,
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murder, felony, crimes, and misdemeanors, except those
reserved for the General Court in Virginia. It also had
jurisdiction of matters at common law and cases in chancery
arising therefrom. There was to be one judge and three
assistants, and four sessions of eighteen days duration were
provided for each year. It was also to be a court of record,
to take cognizance of matters such as probating of wills,
deeds, and the granting of letters of administration and
cases of escheat and forfeiture. The rates for suits at
law were set somewhat lower than in the courts of Virginia
and did not always provide sufficient funds to make the
court efficient. Several subsequent acts of the Assembly
sought to strengthen the court by raising the rates, by
using the receipts of custom on the Ohio, and by appoint-
ment of "naval officers" for that purpose. Petition No. 59
requests that taxes from which the salaries of court officials
were to be met must be paid in specie, and Petition No. 39
requests that the money collected from taxes, so far as it
is to be used for officials' salaries, may be kept out from the
funds sent to Virginia. This request led to the appoint-
ment of a receiver in Kentucky and measures which con-
stantly strengthened his hands.
Requests soon came for the establishment of assize or
circuit courts and for the establishment of different places
for the sitting of the Supreme Court. These are found in
Petitions Nos. 23, 24, and 60. The objections are stated
in Petition No. 69, which asserts the principle that "those
governments are best who employ fewer officers." Accom-
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panying Petition No. 60 is an interesting statement of the
business of the Supreme Court with number of cases
pending.
The establishment of the local units of government
occupies a large place in the petitions. Each county and
town required a separate act of the Assembly for its creation.
Petitions Nos. 2 and 3 are the basis for the establishment
of the county of Kentucky, independent from Fincastle.
In the organization of this western county they profess to
be following the example of West Augusta County in
Virginia, which thus becomes a model in county develop-
ment. There is a great deal of shrewdness wrapped up
in the insinuation of these westerners that "it would be
impolitical to suffer such a Respectable body of prime
Riflemen to remain even in a state of Neutrality." The
act was passed by the Convention granting their request
and the boundary is thus described: "all that part therof
which lies to the south and westward of a line beginning
on the Ohio at the mouth of Sandy Creek and running up
the same and the main or northeasterly branch thereof
to the Great Laurel Ridge or Cumberland Mountains
thence southwesterly along the said mountain to the line
of North Carolina."*
The county, thus created, was entitled to representation
in the legislative body of Virginia by two delegates elected
by free white men, possessing "twenty five acres of land
with house and plantation thereon." The first election
was delayed and had to be validated by a special act which
* This written description does not correspond exactly with its physical fea-
tures, as later surveyed.
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referred to the election as "fair and open" with "most of
the landholders in the county present and voting." Peti-
tion No. 12 is a request for a division of Kentucky County
in 1780. The details of county administration as provided
by the act were essentially similar to those of the first
county. By 1785 the three counties thus created were
again subdivided. Petitions Nos. 27, 28, 32, 33, 47, 48,
49. 53. 54. 55> 65> 66> an^ 74 are requests for and against
such division. The opponents of division thought such
act would weaken the military force, increase expense, and
derange public business. They do not seem disposed to
make an attempt to "bring the Courthouse and church
to every man's door," and they think that "some individuals
in such cases ought to give up their private case for the
good of the people at large." Division was held to be
unnecessary since "their numbers are too inconsiderable to
enable them to accumulate expense, without adding either
to their convenience or general welfare."
The first request for a town came from Boonesborough.
Petition No. 9 gives an interesting summary of the troubles
and suspicions of the settlers under the proprietors who
first began this settlement, as the capital of the Transyl-
vania colony. They complain of the distribution of lots
and selection of trustees. They desire that every settler
be allowed to draw a free lot, and that the town be laid out
on the south side of the river, as the land at this township
"lies much incommoded by hills." The act establishing
this town became the model for all that followed. A
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board of trustees was provided and lots were to be granted
to settlers on condition that they built "a dwelling house,
sixteen feet square at least, with a brick, stone, or dirt
chimney to be finished fit for habitation within three years
from the date of their respective deeds."
Petitions Nos. n, 14, 19, 26, 34, 36, 41, 46, 57, 62, 76,
80, and 87 bear upon this subject, and provide for towns
at Louisville in 1780, Lexington in 1781, Harrodsburg, in
1785, Washington, Charlestown, Hopewell, Maysville, Stan-
ford and Milford. The petitioners for a town at Louisville
think it will render them secure from any "hostile intention
of the Indians and will induce merchants to bring articles of
commerce that the merchants of this western part of the
state stands much in need of." When this town was estab-
lished it was supposed to be on forfeited land but it was later
found that part of this land was held by John Campbell, as
security for a debt, and this situation gave rise to consider-
able petitioning before it was straightened out.
The settlers asking for a town at Lexington had at
"considerable risque and expence" located there, laid off
a town, and selected trustees, depending on an act of the
Assembly allowing settlers six hundred and forty acres
for such a purpose. They desired to be assured of their
right to do this. This place is elsewhere referred to as
"most flourishing and best peopled place of any at this
time in the District of Kentucky." They wish to encourage
"well disposed persons, artisans and mechanicks" to come,
"who from motives of convenience do prefer a Town life."
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The settlers of Lincoln County had "taken into serious
consideration of a Proper place for Trade and Domestic
Business and for the more ready procuring of those articles
in our precincts that are much wanted in the new coun-
try." Their site for a town is described as "sufficiently
level, very fertile, and well watered by never failing springs
and a large Stream running quite through the same."
The town of Hopewell, in Bourbon County, was later
changed to Paris by request of the settlers. Maysville
was established on a site "intirely exposed to the depreda-
tions of hostile Indians." Several petitions ask an exten-
sion of time for fulfilling the conditions of building to secure
their lots because of their constant struggles with Indians.
The statutes of Virginia show towns established also
at Campbellstown, in Jefferson County, New Market in
Mercer County, Danville in Mercer County, Warwick in
Lincoln County, Beallsborough in Nelson County, Bards-
town in Nelson County, Milford in Madison County, and
Georgetown in Woodford County, although no petitions for
the same were found.
Many of the petitions pertain to the industrial develop-
ment of Kentucky. More space is given to the provisions
for inspection of tobacco than anything else. The statutes
of Virginia regarding this product are many and long, thus
showing the important place it held in the industrial life.
Previous to 1775 the provisions concerning inspection seem
to have lapsed and in that year an act was passed reviving
several warehouses for the reception of tobacco. This bill
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is interesting as illustrative of the legislation on the subject.
Subsequent bills provided more detail but along essentially
the same lines. Inspection was to be had "at and near the
heads of creeks and rivers." The inspectors, after examin-
ing and recording the quality of the tobacco, were to issue
warehouse receipts and these could be used as currency
in certain cases. By an act of 1786 the value of tobacco
was fixed at twenty shillings per hundred pounds for Ken-
tucky. The first act for inspection "on the western waters"
was passed in 1783. Petitions Nos. 40, 43, 45, 63, 64, 67,
72, 84, and 99 pertain to this subject. Because of the
important part that James Wilkinson occupies in the devel-
opment of the tobacco industry in Kentucky, his petition,
No. 99, asking for inspection at Frankfort is significant.
The rise of gristmills suggests the increase in wheat
and corn. Petition No. 77 in 1790 is the first request
that refers to that subject. The inhabitants of Bourbon
County complain that they are obliged "to go from eighteen
to twenty five miles to mill," that they are subjected "to
grate loss of time," and they wish a mill established on
Stoner and Hinkson's Forks of the Licking River. They
think that if "either locks or slopes sufficient for boats to
pass by the dams with safety" were constructed, "the
Stoner and Hinkson would be above ten times the value to
Bourbon than what it is at present with only them nava-
gations alone."
In the petitions regarding the mills there is a sharp
controversy between the construction of mills and the pres-
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ervation of the stream open for navigation. In opposition
to the view expressed above is that of Petition No. 78
which strenuously objects to dams and mills. The stream
is said to flow "through a fertile soil thickly Inhabited,
abounding with a variety of Fish" and "it is the only
stream by which the greater part of the county can be
relieved from a Difficult Land carriage of many miles."
The petitioner in No. 81 has "nearly spent his little fortune"
on a mill and its removal would bring himself and family
ruin. At any rate the navigation is not so all important a
matter as "only one boat has had a safe passage in two
years" and several boats "have been obliged to unlode and
waggon their loades to other landings more safe and cer-
tain"; "some have been overset and their loads lost, some
have been drowned and many more have been exposed
to the Greatest hardship." Petitioners in No. 82 think
their opponents "puffed up with the most romantic expecta-
tions of the utility acruing from the free and open naviga-
tion of the Stoner and Hinkson."
Intercommunication by land and water was a matter of
much importance to the early settlers. In 1779 an act of
the Assembly was passed to mark and open a road over the
Cumberland Mountains. In the preamble the purpose is
thus set forth: "To afford mutual aid and support to one
another and cement in one common interest all the citizens
of the state a good wagon road through the great mountains
into the settlements will greatly contribute." A commis-
sion was appointed to examine a route and a guard of fifty
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men was provided to protect them from Indians, if neces-
sary. In 1786 another commission was appointed to receive
subscriptions for a road from the falls of the Great Kanawha
to Lexington. In 1792 an act for better communication
expresses the sentiment that "This Assembly are at all
times willing to contribute every encouragement to such
designs as are represented to be of general utility so far
as is consistent with prudence and good economy."
There are many references throughout the petitions to
the difficulties of communication by land and requests are
made for the improvement of waterways. In Petition
No. 78 the inhabitants of Bourbon County request that
the navigation of the Licking River be established, "begin-
ning at its junction with the Ohio thence up the south
fork to the Junction of Hinkston and Stoner, thence up
Stoners Fork to Bramblets Lick."
Ferries were established at an early date. Petition
No. 10 is the first request, and was made by Richard
Galloway in 1779, for a ferry across the Kentucky at
Boonesborough. It states that from the "first seating of
This Town both the inhabitants and travilers has Found it
very inconvenient to get across the Kentucky River only in
dry seasons in the summer time." Because "this Town and
country is become very popular and much Resorted to
by travilers," he asks the privilege of keeping a public
ferry. The right was granted by the Assembly. Galloway
later lost his life while working on the ferry which is still
in existence and in use. Petitions Nos. 29, 31, 44, 97, and
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104 are requests to establish ferries at different points.
One across the Cumberland River was especially desired
where the "Kentuckey road crosses the same."
In many cases individuals had been carrying people
across the water ways and a private service was turned
into a public one. One man says that "by request of his
neighbors" he had provided a boat and had at "his own
Expence set over passengers in the time of high water."
The petitions give occasional hints at other matters
of an industrial nature. Petition No. 6 is a request regard-
ing salt. The petitioners had not for some time been able
to make salt because of the incursions of Indians and they
were feeling the lack of that article of importance to frontier
life. Salt springs abounded in the country and could be
worked at small expense. They had not been worked by
their owners, however, and the request is made that unless
works are erected at once the springs be made "publick
Property and [salt] be manufactured by Government" to
the profit of Virginia as well as the settlers. The request
is not so peculiar as it appears at first sight, for the statutes
of Virginia show that the Commonwealth had at various
times taken an active part in the production of salt. An
act of 1775 provided for the erection of salt works in the
colony; a later act allowed a bounty for the manufacture
of salt, and still another act placed an embargo on the
export of salt.
Slavery, of course, is referred to in the petitions. Peti-
tion No. 7 asks compensation for a negro killed at the
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siege of Boonesborough in 1778, in the famous attack by
Indians in September. He was described as very "likely"
and his value was estimated as six hundred pounds. The
charge is made that he was put in an exposed place pur-
posely. Petition No. 37 requests that the administrator of
an estate be allowed to dispose of part of it and purchase
a couple of "likely fellows" for the young heiress of the
estate.
Petition No. 61 is the request of a slaveholder in 1787,
who had come from Maryland, bringing with him his
slaves. Through ignorance of the law — passed by Virginia,
requiring notice from those bringing in slaves — he had
forfeited his property. The Assembly was lenient to his
petition, asking relief for "those who have neither education
nor leisure to enable them to be acquainted with the Laws
of their country." He asks for such relief as "will secure
to him the possession of the hard earnings of many years
industry."
The law referred to required that those coming into
Virginia should give oath within ten days that no slaves
were brought from Africa or the West Indies since Novem-
ber, 1778, and that none were brought with the "intention
of selling them." The petitioner in this case was allowed
extra time to conform to the law, "as such failure hath been
chiefly, if not altogether, owing to the impracticability of
complying with the said act."
The social relations and development of the pioneer
community are suggested in several of the petitions. The
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early population was awake to the advantage of schools,
and the parent Commonwealth seems also to have had that
interest at heart. By an act of 1780 the Assembly had
vested some eight thousand acres of lands, forfeited from
loyalists in the Revolutionary War, in a board for the
cause of "public education." The preamble of the act refers
to "the interest of the commonwealth always to promote
and encourage every design which may tend to the improve-
ment of the mind and the diffusion of useful knowledge,
even among its remote citizens, whose situation a barbarous
neighborhood and a savage intercourse might otherwise
render unfriendly to science." The land was placed in
trust of a body of thirteen trustees "as free donation from
the commonwealth for the purpose of a public school, or
seminary of learning, to be created within the said county
as soon as the circumstances of the county and the state
of its funds will admit and for no other purpose whatever."
At a future time it was thought these lands might "be
a valuable fund for the maintenance and education of
youth."
Several petitions pertain to the incorporation of the
Board of Trustees for the Transylvania Seminary and the
vesting in them of the forfeited land, defining their powers,
fixing the number, and increasing their facilities for getting
funds. The attitude of the pioneer population toward
education may be seen in the words of Petition No. 18:
"The solicitous anxiety which discovers itself in the principal
inhabitants of this country for having Schools or Semi-
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naries of Learning among them that their children may be
educated as becomes a civilized people, encourages your
Petitioners to hope that the Liberality of Individuals will
be extended in aid of the public Donations were Trustees
incorporated by Law &c." They are confident that the
"Assembly will listen with pleasure to every proposition
that has a Tendency to banish Ignorance and Error and
to introduce in their room what may polish the manners,
encourage the improvement of the mind promote liberality
of sentiment and by refining give additional Incentives to
virtue."
By Petition No. 50 a request is made for an allotment
of one-sixth of the land surveyors' fees to the funds of the
institution. This had previously been assigned to William
and Mary College, "a Seminary which we greatly respect
but from which the Inhabitants of Kentucky are too
remote to derive any immediate advantage." This was
granted, as also the request that escheated lands should
revert to the benefit of education. Petition No. 90 asks
the privilege of conducting a lottery to raise five hundred
pounds for the erection of an academy, a request which
was granted in an act allowing the same privilege to a
church and a school east of the mountains. Petition No.
91 also pertains to the educational matters. Petition No.
70 is a request from a descendant of the owner of one of
the confiscated estates which had been donated to the
cause of education. He had been informed that the
Assembly "have always shewn a readiness to give the value
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of all confiscated property to the next in succession" and
he requests the value of the property. The request is
marked as reasonable but no act seems to have been passed.
Social conditions and needs are illustrated, along other
than educational lines, by requests made in various peti-
tions. In Petition No. 17 the settlers of Lincoln County
ask for the passage of a "few more laws indispensibly neces-
sary for this District." Among these is one seeking "some
civil power to solemnize the Rites of matrimony as we have
no clergy either of the church of England or Presbyterians,
who compose the Greater part of our inhabitants."
This request was granted in 1783 and provision was
made that "Where it shall appear to the court of any
county on the western waters that there is not a sufficient
number of clergymen authorized to celebrate marriages
therein, such court is empowered to nominate so many
sober and discreet laymen as will supply the deficiency."
Those so nominated were to receive a license and could
perform the ceremony according to the church of which
they were members. Parties to the ceremony were obliged
to have a license or a certificate of the publication of the
banns made for three successive times.
In the same petition was a request for a law to provide
for the "orphans of poor people as we have no church
wardens to bind them out." The law of Virginia required
that orphans should be bound out to a master or mistress
under certain conditions. An act of 1785 provides that they
must "be taught some trade, art or business;" also reading,
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writing, and if a boy, arithmetic, including the rule of three.
Monthly reports had to be made by the overseers who had
the authority to bind out the orphans.
A large number of the petitions are claims of various
kinds. Such are Petitions Nos. 5, 13, 35, 83, 85, 89, 92,
94, 95, 100, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, and no. Three of these
requests are from George Rogers Clark. In No. 13 he
refers to his services in Illinois in the War, speaks of a
grant of land adjoining the Falls on the northwest side of
the Ohio River, of an extent of thirty-six thousand acres
"which he could not refuse without giving umbrage,"
given by the Indians with the request that he live among
them. Though claiming no title by virtue of this gift he
asks the Commonwealth to confirm the title, as it would
save the State the expense of purchase and would re-
imburse him for what he had lost through his service to the
country.
In Petition No. 100 Clark asks half pay for life or full
pay for five years for debts "arising from past Military
services or from advances of the better part of his Fortune
for the credit of the state" ; for debts incurred in "the neces-
sary maintenance of your Troops under my Command in
the Western country, troops (it behooves me to say) who
with a fortitude, fidelity and martial hardihood, perhaps
unexampled, have braved heroically and with successful
effect every kind of want and every Species of peril to pre-
serve the very fairest portion of your State and indeed of
the whole Union"; debts for "having, from my own funds,
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supplied your Garrisons and those heroic Troops with bread
to feed on."
There are many personal claims presented of various
kinds. Petition No. 5 is a request from the impulsive
Hugh McGary. who figured so prominently later in the
defeat of the settlers at the battle of Blue Lick. He asks
pay for his services as a messenger to Pittsburgh, as bearer
of a list of horses stolen by the Indians that they may be
recovered by an expedition about to start for the recovery
of stolen property. Petition No. 35 is a request for bounty
as a reward for three years in the service. Petition No. 83
is a request for extension of time to present claims to the
commission appointed to hear them. Petition No. no is
the request of a member of the regiment of Clark, in the
Illinois campaign, for land. The petitioner gives account
of the difficulties of the campaign; says he was at the taking
of Lieutenant Governor Hamilton and acted as his guard
part of the way to Kentucky, and the rest of the way he
served as spy. He had received a discharge from the army
but had lost it. He could have shared in the lands allotted
to the followers of Clark but he had lived in isolation "in
the hills and mountains detached from almost every com-
munity or opportunity for information."
Petitions Nos. 85 and 103 are requests from scouts for
consideration. Petition No. 89 is the request of a quarter-
master in control of supplies for the Illinois division of the
army under Clark for three years. The memorialist had
drawn bills of exchange on the State for some of the bills,
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they had been protested, and he was in "a very disagreeable
situation not only on account of these bills but by being
charged with monies paid him during the time he was in the
office and no credit allowed him." Petition No. 92 refers
to a suit brought in the High Court of Chancery for pay-
ment of salt purchased by a public agent of Virginia. Peti-
tion No. 94 is the claim for payment as compensation for
the keeping of Indian prisoners. Part of the bill had been
paid but the amount had been reduced in the later months
and petitioner could not get rid of the Indians. Petition
No. 95 is a claim for service in raising a company on the
Holston, supplying them with arms, provisions, bags, pack
horses, and marching them to the Falls of the Ohio in 1779,
for the reduction of Illinois under Colonel Clark. The
amount had once been allowed by the commissioners, but
some person had been making trouble by stating that the
petitioner was "enimical to the United States" when he
was a captive at Detroit where he was taken in 1780.
Petitions Nos. 107 and 108 are requests for payment for
horses impressed into the public service.
The petitions, lastly, are valuable as a means of deter-
mining the feeling which the settlers west of the mountains
had for the parent State and the gradual movement toward
separation. We have already seen that there was a popu-
lation unfriendly to the jurisdiction of Virginia, even from
the beginning. The Revolutionary War, however, had led
them to prefer her jurisdiction to any alternative. There
were many causes for dissatisfaction which were due to
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the necessities of the case rqther than intentional neglect.
As the War drew to a close and the new system of Federal
Government was established, expectation turned toward a
separate existence as a State.
Petition No. 15, May, 1782, contains the first expression
of that feeling in this collection of petitions. It grew out
of the discontent of the settlers with the land policy of
Virginia, especially the grants to absentee purchasers. The
petitioners had proposed the setting aside of tracts of land
for actual settlers; they referred to considerable dissention
among them as the result of a pamphlet in circulation on
the "Public Good" and asked the Assembly to create them
"a power sufficient for the Controul and Management of all
Civil and Military affairs in this Country" or else to grant
them "a Separation with your Intercession with the Hon-
ourable the Continental Congress for their incorporation
with them." The request is respectfully worded and they
speak of "a proper deference to your wise Determinations,
Reposing special Trust and Confidence in you." Part of
their request was rejected, but "so much thereof as prays
for the establishment of some kind of controuling power
for the better management of their civil and military affairs
is reasonable."
Petition No. 16, June, 1782, renews the same complaints
and asks in definite terms for the passage of an act for
cultivating and improving the lands and the creation of a
superior court which will "carry us towards that stage of
maturity when with the tenderness of a kind parent to a
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departing child, you will direct us to form a constitution
and act for ourselves." They refer, in Petition No. 24, to
the unsatisfactory conditions, mention a resolution of Con-
gress denying Virginia's title to lands northwest of the moun-
tains, but express loyalty in the words: "When your
memorialists through your Honble. house make a request to
Congress for a new state and are received into the Union,
They are then and not before subject as another state";
and again they say, "your memorialists have ever considered
themselves and country as part of Virginia and were happy
in being so. Her laws suited them and do yet suppose it to
be their interest to be Governed by Her, untill it shall
appear for their mutual advantage to separate at which
period it is expected there will be no objection." The
creation of a superior court in the same year seems for a
time to have satisfied the requests of previous petitions.
Petition No. 25, October, 1785, is the request of a
convention for separation. It was called "to take into
consideration the General State of the District and especially
to decide the expediency of making application to your
Honorable Body, for an Act of Seperation." They give
various reasons for their request; they say they have
waited patiently "the hour of Address nor ever ventured to
raise their voices in their own cause, Untill Youth quickening
into manhood hath given them vigor and Stability." If
their application is granted they count it "a new spectacle
in the History and Politicks of Mankind. A Sovereign
Power, solely intent to bless its People, agreeing to a dis-
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Introduction
memberment of its parts, in order to secure the Happiness
of the Whole," the beginning of a movement which "we
persuade ourselves is to diffuse throughout the World the
inestimable blessings which mankind may derive from the
American Revolution." Their request was considered in
committee of the whole by the Assembly, referred then to a
special committee, and a bill was passed which provided
for the calling of a convention at Danville, to consider the
matter of separation. Three bills were passed before the
separation actually took place.
The opposition to separation is seen in Petition No. 58,
which says: "An augmentation of states under the general
government, by the erection of a new government here which
will be clothed with no new national power " will only
serve "as one of Pharos lean kine to devour our liberty
whilst it can be of no security to our property." They
ask for a repeal of the act of separation lest it "injure us
until time shall be no more."
The general tone and tenor of the petitions here printed
is considerably different from that of the petitions sent
to Philadelphia or New York, now in the Library of Congress
and which have been referred to and quoted in the printed
histories of Kentucky.
The list of names attached to the petitions is the third
and last source of value to be mentioned in this intro-
duction. The signatures of the larger part are autograph
which adds to their worth. Many of the lists of early pio-
neer populations have been gathered secondhand and often
Introduction
from the sound of the name. Thus the army rolls of the
Virginia soldiers found on pay-rolls or official papers are
often incorrect. In some cases it is evident that the list
of names attached to a petition was copied in one hand-
writing and in some cases names have been written for the
petitioner, but in most cases the autograph signature appears
on one of the petitions if not more. The editor spent over
a month on the names, examining them with a magnifying
glass and copying them. In this way it was possible to
gain a familiarity with them. Where the name appeared
several times, as most of them do, it was possible to check
and come to a judgment as to the proper form. Variations
of spelling have been preserved in order to make the list
of as much value as possible. The same name occurring
on different petitions does not necessarily indicate the same
person. No effort has been made to go beyond the preser-
vation of the name in this work.
Facsimile reproductions have been made of some of
the signatures by way of illustration. Not all the auto-
graphs are so good as these. Many are barely legible,
but there were very few that could not be made out after
some study. Surely this list of names is abundant proof
that the pioneer population of Kentucky was not illiterate.
The list of names is important for two main reasons,
first, it throws light on the racial composition of the early
population of Kentucky, and second, it is of use for the
study of genealogy.
The earlier petitions show a decided preponderance of
Scotch and Scotch- Irish names with a large number of
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Introduction
English and a few German, Dutch, and French. The num-
ber of English names increases in the later petitions. The
large number of religious names indicates the nonconformist
character of much of the population.
While the list will not give much detail to aid the gene-
alogist, it fixes the existence of a certain name in a locality
at an early period and thus gives a clue that may be fol-
lowed further.
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TEXT OF THE PETITIONS
Verbatim transcript with editor's emendations in brackets
only when meaning requires the same.
TEXT OF THE PETITIONS
NUMBER 1.
To THE RIGHT HONBLE. NORBORNE BARON DE BOTETOURT His MAJESTY'S LIEUT.
AND GOVERNOR GENERAL OF VIRGINIA AND VICE ADMIRAL OP THE SAME AND
THE HONBLE. COUNCIL THEREOF: —
The Petition of Joseph Cabell, Junr., Nicholas Cabell, William
Megginson, William Horsley, Robert Horsley, John Horsley,
Wm. Hopkins, Jas. Hopkins, Saml. Burks, Cornelius Thomas,
John Thomas, Jas. Thomas Junr., Henry Hopson, Samuel Hop-
son, John Hughs, Joseph Hornsby, Edward Harris, John Harris,
Thos. Harris, John Davis, John Warberton, Benj. Warberton,
Gary Wilkinson, Emanl. Taylor, Joseph Turner, Wm. Cabell
Junr., Sanders Cabell, Hector Cabell, Frederick Cabell, John
Cabell Junr., George Cabell, Frederick Cabell, Hugh Innes,
Robert Innes, Harry Innes, Jas. Innes, James Buchanan,
Tavener Beal, Abraham Hite, Isaac Hite, the Younger, Abra-
ham Hite Junr., Joseph Hite, Thos. Harmon, Benj. Hains,
Joseph Hains, Ebenezer Severn, Philip Ross, Felix Seymour,
Isaac Hite, Isaac Hite, Junr., John Me. Donel, Abel Randle,
Garret VanMeter, humbly sheweth that his Majesty's Title to
the Lands situate on the east side of the Ohio having lately
been recognized by the six nations of Indians, your Petitioners
humbly pray that they may have leave to take up and survey
sixty thousand acres of Land to begin at the Falls of the Cum-
berland River and extend down the said River for compliment
in one or more surveys and your Petitioners will pray.
(December, 1769. According to Calendar of State Papers.)
In the Calendar of State Papers reference is made to a Petition of April 25 ,
1772, asking for a large grant of land in the valley of the Louisa River; in the
Journal of the House of Burgesses for May 25, 1774, reference is made to a
Petition from several persons on the Western Waters; in the Journal of the Con-
vention reference is made to several Petitions: on May 21, 1776, to a Petition
from settlers in West Fincastle; on May 30, to a Petition from John Craig,
a settler in Transylvania; on June 15, 1776, to a Petition from Richard Hen-
derson and his associates of the Transylvania Company; and on June 10, 1776,
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
Rodgers Clark, and hope ye Honorable the Convention will
receive them as our Delegates from this the Western parts of
Fincastle County. And as we sincerely concur in the measures
established by the Continental Congress and Colony of Virginia,
And willing to the utmost of our abilities to support the present
laudable cause, by raising our Quoto of men and bear a pro-
portionable share of Expense that will necessarily accrue in
the support of our common Liberty. And that good order may
be observed we proceeded to Elect a Committee consisting of
Twenty one members, already some in West Augusta and which
precedent we rely upon to justify our Procedings to the world,
for without Law or authority, Vice here could take its full
scope having no Laws to Restrain or Power to Controul. Upon
the whole we Cheerfully submit to the Authorities and Juris-
diction of this House, not doubting but you will take us under
your protection, and give us such direction by our Representa-
tives, as you, in your great Wisdom may think Best, and your
petitioners as in duty Bound &c.
Herrodsburg, June 7 — I5th. 1776
Signed by order of the Inhabitants
Abraham Hite Jr.
Clerk.
This was sent first to the committee of Fincastle County and by them to the
Convention.
NUMBER 3.
To THE HONOURABLE THE CONVENTION OF VIRGINIA:
The Humble Petition of the Committee of West Fincastle of
the Colony of Virginia, Being on the North and South sides of
the River Kentucke (or Louisa) Present John Gabriel Jones
Esqr. Chairman, John Bowman, John Cowen, William Bennett,
Joseph Bowman, John Crittendon, Isaac Hite, George Rodgers
Clark, Silas Harland, Hugh Me. Gary, Andrew Me, Connel,
James Herrod, William Me. Connel, and John Maxwell, Gent'n.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
The Inhabitants of this Frontier part of Virginia who are
equally desirous of contributing to the utmost of their power to
the support of the present laudable cause of American Freedom,
and willing to convince and prove to the world that tho they
live so remote from the seat of Government that they Feel in
the most sensible manner for their suffering Brethern; and that
they most ardently desire to be looked upon as a part of this
Colony, notwithstanding the Base proceedings of a Detestible,
Wicked and Corrupt Ministry to prevent any more counties
to be laid off, without the Inhabitant would be so pusilanimous
as to give up their right of appointing proper persons to repre-
sent them (in Assembly or) in Convention; And as we Further
conceive that as the Proclamation of his Majesty for not
settling on the Western parts of this Colony, is not founded upon
Law, it cannot have any Force, and if we submit to that Procla-
mation and continue not to lay off new Counties on the Fron-
tiers that they»may send Representatives to the Convention,
its leaving an opening to the wicked and Diabolical designs of
the Ministry, as then this immense and Fertile Country
would afford a safe Asylum to those whose Principles are inimical
to American Liberty. And if new Counties are not laid off, as
Fincastle County now Reaches and already settled upwards
of Three Hundred Miles from East to West it is impossible
that two delegates can be sufficient to Represent any such a
Respectable Body of People, or that such a number of Inhabi-
tants should be bound to obey without being heard. And as
those very people would most cheerfully cooperate in every
measure tending to the Publick Peace, and American Freedom,
They have delegated two Gentlemen who was chosen by the
Free voice of the People, and which Election was held Eight
days at Harrodsburg (on the Western waters of Fincastle on
Kentucke) after the preparatory notice of Five Weeks given to
the Inhabitants and on the poll being closed Captain John
Gabriel Jones and Captain George Rodgers Clark, having the
majority were chosen and not doubting the acceptance of them
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
as our Representative by the Honorable the Convention, to
serve in that capacity; as we conceive the precedent Established
in West Augusta will justify our Proceeding; and we cannot
but observe how impolitical it would be to suffer such a Respect-
able body of prime Rifle men, to remain (even in a state of
Neutrality) When at this time a Certain set of men from North
Carolina, stiling themselves, proprietors and claiming an abso-
lute right to these very Lands taking upon themselves the
Legislative authority, Commissioning officers, both Civil and
Military, having also opened a Land office, Surveyors General
and Deputies appointed and act, Conveayances made and Land
sold at an Exorbitant Price many other Unconstitutional
practices, tending to disturb the minds of those, who are well
disposed to the wholesome Government of Virginia, and
creating Factions and Divisions amongst ourselves. As we
have not hitherto been Represented in Convention; And as at
this time of General danger we cannot take too much Precaution
to prevent the Inroads of Savages, and prevent the Effusion of
Innocent Blood. We the Committee after receiving a message
from the Chiefs of the Delawares who are now settled near
the mouth of the Waubash, informing us that a Treaty was
to be held at Opost, by the English and Kiccapoos Indians,
and that they would attend to know the purport of the same,
and if their Brothers the Long Knives would send a man they
could rely on, they would, on their return, inform him of the
same, as they were apprehensive the Kiccapoos would strike
their Brothers the Long Knives, therefore we thought it most
prudent, and shall send immediately a certain James Herrod
and Garret Pendergrass to converse with them on the same.
And as its the request of the Inhabitants that we should point
out a number of men capable and most acquainted with the
Laws of this Colony to act as Civil Magistrates, a list of the
same we have enclosed. And for other matters relative to
the country we conceive that Captain Jones and Captain Clark
our Delegates will be able to inform the Honourable the Con-
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
vention, not doubting but they will listen to our just petition
and take us under their Jurisdiction, And your petitioners
as in Duty Bound &c.
Signed by order of the Committee, Herrodsburg, June 2Oth.
1776.
J. G. Jones Chairman
Abraham Kite Jnr. Clerk.
This was sent first to the committee of Fincastle County and by them to the
convention.
The division requested was made and West Fincastle created into the Ken-
tucky County by an act entitled, An act for dividing the county of Fincastle into
three distinct counties and parishes of Botetourt into four distinct parishes
Henings Statutes, Vol. 9, 257.
"Whereas, from the great extent of the county of Fincastle many incon-
veniences attend the more distant inhabitants thereof on account of their remote
situation from the courthouse of the said county and many of the said inhabitants
have petitioned this present general assembly for a division of the same; Be it
therefore enacted &c."
The division was to take effect after December 31, 1776, and the boundaries
are thus described: "All that part thereof which lies to the south and westward
of a line beginning on the Ohio at the mouth of the Great Sandy Creek and run-
ning up the same and the main or northeasterly branch thereof to the Great
Laurel Ridge or Cumberland Mountain, then southwesterly along the said
mountain to the line of North Carolina shall be one distinct county and called
and known by the name of Kentucky."
A system of administration was provided for the county to consist of a court
to meet the first Tuesday of every month. They were to give bond and could
appoint a clerk and select a place of meeting. The court was to meet for the
first time at Harrodsburg. Any appointment had to be by majority of the jus-
tices and could be postponed "where such majority shall have been prevented
from attending by the bad weather or accidental rise of water courses."
The right of franchise was vested in "every white man possessing twenty-five
acres of land with house and plantation thereon . . . and having right to
an estate for life at least in the said land in his own right or in the right of his
wife."
NUMBER 4.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER & GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
OP VIRGINIA.
The Petition of Thomas Slaughter on behalf of himself &
the other inhabitants situate near Kentukke humbly sheweth;
That the said Inhabitants are exposed to the incursions &
depredations of the Indians & from the small number are
incapable of protecting themselves. & this inconvenience is
greatly increased on Account of the melitia's not being im-
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
bodyed. The Petitioner therefore humbly prays that some
method may be fixed on to protect & defend the said inhabi-
tants, & if in the meantime military Commissions were issued
for training the militia of the place a smaller number of men
to act in conjunction with the said militia would answer the
end desir'd.
Your Petitioner humbly submits the Premises to the con-
sideration of the honorable house & hopes such relief will be
affoarded as the exigence of the Case requires.
Thos Slaughter.
Endorsement on the back of the petition: Thomas Slaughter October llth.
1776. Ref d to Com. on state of the country.
NUMBER 5.
To THE HONBLE. THE SPEAKER & GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES:
Hugh McGary humbly sheweth, That in the months of
March and April last the northern Indians invaded the County
of Kentucky, killed many of the inhabitants, destroyed part
of their stock & took off upwards of two Hundred horses.
News arriving that Government had ordered an Expedition
against the Towns of the Enemy Indians from Pittsburg
The Commanding officer at Kentucky sent your petitioner
thither as Express with a List of Horses lost & their descriptive
marks in order that they might be recovered to the Owners.
Your petitioner hath obeyed his Orders which are hereto
subjoined with General Hand's Receipt & a Certificate of his
return to Kentucky & the Distance he rode. Your petitioner
only prays the customary allowance to Expresses if this honble
House thinks proper & shall pray &c.
Fort Pitt 22th June 1777 reced of Hugh Mcgary Express from
Kentucky, a List of the Horses, taken by the Northern Indians
at or near Harrodsburg.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
This is to Certify that sd Hugh McGary was sent express by
me to Pittsburg the Distance Seven Hundred & Fifty Miles
Given under my hand Harrodsburgh 22d Augst. 1777.
G R Clark, Cmd.
Edwd Hand Brigadr Genl.
this is to Certify that Mr Hugh McGary is appointed by me
as Express to Pittsburg I do request all persons to assist
him as such
Given from under my hand at Harrodsburgh May 17. 1777
G R Clark, Cmd.
Endorsement on the back of the petition: Hugh Me. Gary Pet.n. Decr.l.
Ref'd to claims, reasonable . Alld. for 750 miles at Ibs. 28- 2-6.
NUMBER 6.
To THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF DELEGATES FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIR-
GINIA—
The Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of Ken-
tucky humbly sheweth, . . .
That your Petitioners are and have for some time past been
almost destitute of the necessary Article Salt. That by reason
of the Incursions of the different Nations of Indians this year
past we have been prevented from making what Quantities
would be necessary for ourselves and Families as we formerly
did, for small Parties would be in great Danger of being cut
off and larger ones could not be spared from the defence of the
Families.
That as bountiful Nature hath plentifully furnished this
Country with Salt Springs where at a small expence Salt might
be made in abundance many of which are claimed by Persons
resident in this State who have never been at any Pains or
Expence to errect Manufactories at them which if done would
be very Beneficial to not only adjacent Settlers but also interior
Inhabitants of this Commonwealth —
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
Now your Petitioners humbly pray that if the Claimants do
not immediately errect Salt Manufactories at the different
Springs claimed by them The honourable House would take
it into their consideration and Order that the said Springs
should be made publick Property and be Manufactored by
Government by which Means Government would be profited &
your Petitioners have speedy relief and your Petitioners in
duty bound shall ever pray
[Names.]
Endorsement on the back of petition: Petition of Inhabitants of Kentucky.
1777, Nov. 25. Ref'd to Propns. ref'd to next session of Assembly. 1st (Re-
jected)
The importance of a conservation of salt and the encouragement of its pro-
duction may be seen from the following acts bearing upon the subject and passed
at different times by the Assembly:
An ordinance for erecting Salt works in the colony and for encouraging the
making of Salt. Henings Statutes Vol. 9 — 122. An Act for encouraging the
making of Salt. Henings Statutes Vol. 9 —310.
An Act authorizing the seizure of Salt in the same manner as provisions for
the use of the army. Henings Statutes Vol.9. 381. An Act to supply the inhabi-
tants of the commonwealth with salt upon reasonable terms. "Whereas divers
ill disposed persons have possessed themselves of large quantities of Salt, which
they have not only refused to sell at any reasonable price, but to enhance the
value of their own salt&c." An embargo was placed on the shipment and the
freeholders might seize salt upon warrant issued by a justice of the peace.
NUMBER 7.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The Humble petition of Nathaniel Henderson Sheweth, that
on or about the Eleventh day of Septer last, in defending fort
Boon in the County of Kentucky against an attempt of the
Indians, your Petitioner had a valuable negro fellow[ed] killed —
That the said negro was ordered by the Commanding officer
to take a gun, and place himself in a dangerous post and to
keep watch & fire on the Indians, which he accordingly did
and was killed — That if the said negroe had been suffered to
remain within his Cabbin, he could not have been hurt, That the
loss of so valuable a slave together with the many other losses
sustained by your petitioner in that Country distress him very
much — Therefore hopes, that the Assembly will order a recom-
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
pense — and that the value of the said slave may be paid to
your petitioners, who as in duty bound shall ever pray &c
Wmbg. Novr. 21. 1778. Nathaniel Henderson
The Deposition of Captain William Buchanan of lawful age,
being first sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God,
deposes and says, that in the month of September last Fort
Boon was attacked by a party of Indians, to the number of
about three hundred and forty, at which time there was not
more than sixty men in the Fort, including the Garrison Sol-
diers, & all the settlers; that arms & ammunition were given
to the negroe men in the said Fort, and stationed by the com-
manding officer in such a manner, so as to make the best
defence possible; that a certain negroe man the property of
Nathaniel Henderson (who was then absent) had taken post
on the outside of the Fort, as directed by the Commander, and
in consequence thereof, the said negroe fellow was killed by
the Indians; the Deponent further says, that the said Negroe
was very likely, about twenty four years of age, and in his
opinion worth upwards of Six hundred pounds — and further
sayeth not —
Wmsburg. Novr. 28th 1778 W. Buchanan
Sworn to before
Edwd Charlton
Endorsement on back of petition. Ref.d to Claims Nov. 24 1778 rejected —
to be reported especially — recommitted — rejected — reported Deer. 10th.
NUMBER 8.
To THE HONOURABLE HOUSE, OF ASSEMBLY, FOR THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
The petition of the Destressed Inhabitants of the county of
Kentuckky, Humbly, shweth, That whereas we your distressed
petitioners, situate in this remote part, exposed to all the Bar-
berous ravages of inhuman savage, whose savage disposition,
being animated by the rewards of Governour Hamilton has
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
enabled, them to hold up a constant war this four years, which
term has reduced many, of us so low that we have scarce cattle
amongst us to supply, our small Family's and many of us that
brought good stocks of both Horses and cows, now at this
juncture have not left so much as one cow for the support of
our familys, which to our great disadvantage may plainly
appear to every spectator, we have thought proper to present
you with a just estimation of our losses in settling and defending
this extensive country, which we hope will contribute much
to the benefit of the common charge, by virtue of the late act
of Assembly, in opening and establishing a Land office, tho
at the same time we your depressed petitioners many of us
will be intirely deprived of the opportunity of geting so much
as one hundred acres of land, notwithstanding the loss of our
properties and so many of our lives which we have expended
in Defence of this country, except we your petitioners get
speedy redress by this our petition, (this must be the unhappy
event) we must lie under the disagreeable necessity of going
Down the Mississippi, to the Spanish protection, or becoming
tennants to private gentlemen who have men employed at
this junction in this country at one hundred pounds per
Thousand for, running round the land, which is too rough a
medicine ever to be dejested by any set of people that have
suffered as we have, you the Honourable House of Assembly
in whom rests our most sacred rights and priviledges, justice
at this time loudly calls your attention we your petitioners
hope that the extensive distance of our situation will not create
a negligence of this nature, but rather a curious reflection, on
our inabilities, we think it expedient to show you the reasons
why some of us who first setled in the country will be deprived
of geting amends for our losses and troubles first, that many,
of our inhabitants both married and single, have been taken by
the Indians and carried to Detroyt others killed and their
wives and children left in this destitute situation not being
able as yet even to support their indigent family's some of
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
which never marked or even choose a piece of Land in the coun-
try, we your petitioners think four hundred acres two small a
compensation, which will be all we have in our powers to pro-
cure. Secondly those who have setled since the year one
thousand seven hundred and seventy seven who have suffered
equally as much as they that first setled, who could only loose
their all; is now deprived of the opportunity of securing any
land except four hundred acres and that at the state price
which is fair from many of our capacities to be able to comply
with the terms proposed to us by act of Assembly, by our
being reduced so in coming to the country and loosing what we
had after we got to it by the Indians. Thirdly those who have
been in the country before the year, one Thousand seven
hundred and seventy eight and only raised a small cabbin
perhaps never stayed, three weeks in the country never lost to
the amount of one shillings worth yet they are intituled to
their choice of one Thousand Acres at State price. If no
alteration be made it had been well for us if we had all been
such cultivators and never come to settle in the country untill
there had been a peace. We have long united on the opening
of a Land office hoping each sufferer to receve some compen-
sation in Land for his loss trouble and risk, and we your peti-
tioners are still in hopes that when this our petition comes
under your consideration, and a mature reflexion is cast upon
the whole, that you will find that our loss is at this juncture
to the great advantage of this state. On a reflection of your
justice & mercy we congratulate ourselves that a good cause
never suffered in the hands of just men, we cheerfully refer
the whole of our grievances to do as you in your wisdom may
think right, and we your petitioners as in duty bound shall
ever pray &c
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Octr. 14th. 1779 — Referred to Propositions
— Novr.5th to be heard — reasonable.
The first action recognizing the rights of settlers to titles in the land is found
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
in an act entitled, An Act for raising a supply of money for public exigencies.
Henings Statutes, Vol. 9, 349.
The grievances of the settlers led to the passage of an act entitled, An Act
for adjusting and settling the titles of claimers to unpatented lands under the
present and former governments previous to the establishment of the common-
wealth's land office. Henings Statutes, Vol. 10, 38.
"And whereas great numbers of people have settled in the county upon the
western waters, upon waste and unappropriated lands for which they have been
hitherto prevented from suing out patents or obtaining legal titles by the king
of Great Britain, proclamations or instructions of government, and the present
war having delayed until now, the opening of a land office and the establishment
of any certain terms for granting lands and it is just that those settling under
such circumstances should have some reasonable allowance for the charge and risk
they have incurred and that the property so acquired should be secured to them,
Be it enacted," etc.
All bona fide settlers after January 1, 1778, were allowed to have four hun-
dred acres even though they had laid off a less amount.
The right to buy an indefinite amount of land was granted by an act entitled,
An Act for establishing a land office and ascertaining the terms and manner of
granting waste and unappropriated lands. Henings Statutes, Vol. 10, 50.
"Be it therefore enacted that any person may acquire title to so much waste
land as he or she shall desire to purchase, on paying the consideration of forty
pounds for every hundred acres," etc.
NUMBER 9.
To THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY FOR THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
The petition of the Distressed Inhabitants of Boonsfort
Humbly sheweth, that whereas the late act of Assembly has
reserved in this county of Kentuckky six hundred and forty
acres of Land for the use of a Town that is not to be entered
or surveyed by any private individual untill a true representa-
tion of our case is laid before you the Honourable House of
Assembly, the better to inable you the Honourable House
of Assembly to be compitent judges of the cause, we your peti-
tioners are now laying before you, we your petitioners think it
expedient at this time to set forth to you the Honourable
House of Assembly the plan and form that this fort and Town-
ship was first settled on, and also the methods that has been
used by some of those gentlemen that first pretended a claim
to this country by a purchase from the Cherukee Indians, and
also the names of every person kill'd and taken belonging to
this sd fort since the time of its being first settled, with the
dates as near as can be calculated at this time, which we hope
will enable you the Honourable House of Assembly to judge
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
who has suffered in selling this place. In the first place after
Richard Henderson & Company had made purchase from the
Indians they applyed to Daniel Boon who was to be their pilot
to this country they further desired to know the most conven-
ient place for a Town on the Kentuckky river sd Boon Directed
them to this place letting them know the length and breadth
of the low grounds as near as he could, upon his information it
was resolved that this was the spot, they would place the
Town on, and in coming to the place the company agree'd to
lay it off into two acre tending lotts which was to be given up
the next year for the use of a Town and Town common's tho
at the same time this would entitle every man to draw a free
lott in Town and also, entitle him to his Bounty Land altho he
had made corn on his own entry as the proprietors proclamation
run thus that every man that made corn in this country in the
year one Thousand seven hundred and seventy five should be
entitled to five hundred acres of Land at this time of all the
men raised corn here the first year there is now but three at
this fort, after the people that has made corn the first year
had gone into the Inhabitants and times began to grow some-
what difficult sd Colo. Richard Henderson had the fence that
was made by the people broke and took the rails and fenced in
betwixt twenty and thirty acres of the most convenient ground
next the fort which has been held under sd Henderson ever
since except the value of one or two acres that was taken for
gardians for people in sd fort, we your petitioners think it a
grand Imposition that sd Henderson should hold such a quan-
tity of Ground whilst some of us your petitioners have been
under the necessity of clearing ground at the risk of our lives
and tending our crops round sd Hendersons slaves. In the
second place John Luttrel one of the Gent, proprietors enterd
on the S W. side of sd Township and improved on the Land,
first allowed by sd proprietors for a Town. In the third place
Nathaniel Heart another of the sd proprietors entered the upper
half of the Town Land which was cleared and fenced by the
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people who tended corn the first year, there may perhaps be
one hundred acres within the fence and the one half of that
clear'd this sd Nathaniel Heart finding his entry under sd pro-
prietors would not entitle him to the Land sd Heart came out
last spring to this country and warmly recommended to the
Inhabitants of this fort to lay off a Town which some of the
Inhabitants agreed to in some measure, they thought it would
be well for every man to know his own ground as the Land
convenient was held by two or three men. without the least
notice given for an election for trustees the Drum beat to
arms and these names read over by one of these trustees to
wit. Richard Callaway Nathaniel Heart George Madin,
James Estill & Robert Cartright and these questions was
ask'd, Gentlemen has any of you any objections to these gentle-
men to be trustees for this Town, to which little or no, Answer
was made our silence taken for conscent. they proceeded to
Business, in the first place they reserved five hundred acres
of Land for the use of a Town & Town commons two hundred
acres on the south side of the Kentuckky and three hundred
on the north side which three hundred acres on the North
side is not of the least advantage to this Town by reason of a
large steep hill that binds all that side of the river opposite to
this town and the hill so steep that it will be with great difficulty
to get timber down from any place on that side, what could
be the motive of these men to reserve Land on that Incon-
venient side we are at a loss to know except some private views
incited this sd Nathaniel Heart in order to obtain the upper
half of this Town Land which sd Heart unjustly claims as cir-
cumstances seem to make it appear, in the first place it could
not be supposed had we been left to our choice that we would
have choose men that were intire strangers to us as three of
these men were and not even settlers in the country & especially
men that was deeply interested as Capt. Heart was, the terms
that the tolls were let upon was entirely out of the power of
several of them that suffered most for them and Especially
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widowes who in justice ought to have the greatest indulgence
there was not the least Distinction made, for they that had been
here but two days had the same previledg to draw a lott as
they that first settled so that they complyed with the terms
which was, that, every lott holder should build upon his lott
one House twenty by sixteen with hew'd or sawed loggs with
a shingled or clapboard roof with a brick stone or mud chimney
by the first day of February next, and they that did not comply
with these terms was to forfeit their lott, which must certainly
be the case with several of us your petitioners who have not
left so much as one Horse even to Draw Timber. Upon
information that the late Act of Assembly intituled the Inhabi-
tants of this Township to six hundred and forty acres of Land,
we your petitioners Assembled ourselves called upon Colo.
Richard Callaway being one of the Trustees in the first appoint-
ment and Desired that a fair Election should be held and that
he would still serve as a Trustee but he utterly refused to serve
any other way, than by the first appointment and seemed much
Disaffected at our proceedings however as it is impossible for
some of us your petitioners to subsist with our Family's unless
we have some convenient pice of ground allowed us at this
Township we your petitioners pray that the sd six hundred and
forty acres of Land be established for the use of this sd Town-
ship by the Name of Boonsborough and that you appoint
James Estill Capt., David Gass Capt, Jno. Holder, John
South Pemberton Rawlings Stephen Hencock & Jno Martin
Trustees for the same being unanimously [Chosen] for that
purpose we your petitioners further pray that every Actual
settler at this Township may be entituled to Draw a free lott;
and in the lemitation of three years make such improvement as
before Directed, the lotts to consist of half acre in lott and five
acre out lott as the Indians is so frequent amongst us that we
cannot settle any other way than in Forts or Townships, at
this time and whereas several single men from convincing
circumstances have resided with us with no other motive than
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to give their assistance that we might not become a prey to
our Enemies which was nearly the case with all the assistance
we had in Septr seventy eight when the Indians laid close
seige Eleven Days to our fort we your petitioners pray that
every such single man be intituled to a lott upon the like terms
upon applying to the trustees for the same we your petitions
pray that the sd Six hundred and forty acres of land allowed
to the Inhabitants of this sd Township be laid upon the south
side of the Kentuckky river and that the lines may be Directed
by the late Trustees Elected, as the land at this Township
lies much incommoded by hills and that we your petitioners
may have, the previledg of running the land as may be most
convenient for the use and benefit of sd Township as there
is no claim prior to the Township claim and we your petitioners
as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: October 16th. 1779 — referred to Propo-
sitions — reasonable.
Land for the purpose of settlers in towns was provided by the act in Henings
Statutes, Vol. 10, 39. To those settling in towns for the purpose of protection
six hundred and forty acres were to be set apart for such use until a true rep-
resentation could be made to the Assembly.
The town of Boonsborough was created by the act entitled, An Act for estab-
lishing the town of Boonsborough in the county of Kentucky. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 10, 134.
"Whereas it hath been represented to the present assembly that the in-
habitants of the township called Boonsborough, lying on the Kentucky river,
in the County of Kentucky, have laid off twenty acres of land into lots and streets
and have petitioned the assembly that the said lots and streets together with
fifty acres adjoining thereto may be laid off into lots and streets and established
a town for the reception of traders and that six hundred and forty acres of land
allowed by law to every such township for a common may also be laid off adjoin-
ing thereto, Be it enacted," etc.
The trusteeship was vested in Richard Callaway, Charles Thruston, Levin
Powell, Edmund Taylor, James Estil, Edward Bradley, John Kennedy, David
Gist (Gass ?), Pemberton Rawlings, and Daniel Boone.
The plan of the town was to be recorded with the court of the county. Lots
were to be conveyed to applicants "subject to building on each a dwelling house,
sixteen feet square at least with a brick, stone or dirt chimney to be finished fit
for habitation within three years from the date of their respective deeds."
The same general plan was followed in the creation of all towns while the
Kentucky County lasted, and until separation was granted.
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NUMBER 10.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of Richard Galloway of Boonsborough Humbly
sheweth that from the first seating of This Town both the
inhabitants and travilers has Found it very inconvenient to
get across the Kentucky River only in dry seasons in the
summer time, and as both this Town and country is now
become very popular and is much Resorted by travilers: I
therefore pray that your Hone. House will pass an Act of
Assembly That shall intitle me to keep a publick ferry across
the Above said River from the Town Land to the land of this
state and your petitioner as in duty bound will pray &c
Richard Galloway
Endorsement on back of petition: Octor.25.1779 — Ref'd to Propositions —
reasonable — drawn .
This request was granted by an act entitled, An Act for establishing several
new ferries and for other purposes.
"Whereas it is represented to this present general assembly, that publick
ferries at the places hereafter named will be of great advantage to travellers and
others, Be it therefore enacted, etc." ". . . at the town of Boonsborough,
in the county of Kentucky across Kentucky river to the land on the opposite
shore, the price for a man three shillings and for a horse the same; the keeping
of which last named ferry and emolument arising therefrom are hereby given and
granted to Richard Callaway, his heirs or assigns, so long as he or they shall well
and faithfully keep the same according to the directions of this act. And for the
transportation of wheel carriages tobacco, cattle and other beasts at the places
aforesaid the ferry keeper may demand and take the following rates; that is to
say, for every coach charriot or wagon, and the driver thereof the same as for
six horses ; for every cart or four wheeled chaise and the driver thereof the same
as for four horses; for every two wheeled chaise or chair tjhe same as for two
horses; for every hogs head of tobacco as for one horse, for every head of neat
cattle as for one horse; for every sheep goat or lamb one fifth part the ferriage
of one horse ; and for every hog one fourth part the ferriage of one horse and no
more." Henings Statutes, Vol. 10, 196.
NUMBER 11.
To THE HONOE. THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The petition of the inhabitants of the County of Kentuckey
living at the falls of the River Ohio Humbly sheweth, that
your petitioners have at great risque and expence removed to
this remote part of the state and from the advantageous situa-
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tion of the place, both for Trade and Safety was induced to
settle here, and having laid out a Town under directions of
persons appointed for that purpose by the Court of Kentuckey
(a plan of which we have sent to be laid before you) and when
laid out we cast lotts for the choice of the Lotts in the said
Town, have improved & settled on some of the Lotts, and some
have sold their houses & Lotts to persons that have come
here since the Town was laid out who are still adding to our
improvements, but the uncertainty of the title thereto prevents
some from settling here that are inclined thereby making us
less secure from any attack of the Indians, for we are informed
the land that we have laid out for a Town above the mouth of
a gutt that makes into the river opposite the falls was surveyed
& patented for Connelly who we have understood have taken
part with the Enemies of America, and agreable to a late act
of Assembly the Land we expect will be escheated and sold;
we are well assured that a Town established at this place will
be of great advantage to the inhabitants of Kentuckey, and
think the plan on which the Town is now laid out will conduce
towards its being a populous Town and of great advantage to
us, as many of us have built houses according thereto; and will
render us secure from any hostile intention of the Indians &
will induce Merchants to bring articles of commerce that the
inhabitants of this Western part of the State stands much in
need of, we therefore pray that an act may pass to establish
a Town at the Falls of the Ohio river agreable to the plan sent,
and that the present settlers & holders of the lotts in the said
Town may have them confirmed to them on paying a compen-
sation that may be thought reasonable to any one having a
right thereto if thought requisite or to the Commonwealth;
and not let us be turned out of houses we have built and from
lotts we have improved & are about to build on & thereby
loose the labour we have preformed at the risque of our lives, —
all these several matters we your petitioners beg leave to lay
before your Hone. House and hope, you will comply with our
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request in [ajdopting the prayer of our petition, or some other
method that you in your wisdom may think proper, that will
conduce to the Interest and Security of this exposed part of
the State, and we as in duty bound shall ever pray &c. &c. &c.
May I, 1780.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Reasonable — Propositions — May 1st.
1780.
This request was granted by an act entitled, An Act for establishing the town
of Louisville at the falls of the Ohio. Henings Statutes, Vol. 10, 293.
"Whereas sundry inhabitants of the county of Kentucky have, at great ex-
pense and hazard settled themselves upon certain lands at the falls of the Ohio,
said to be the property of John Connaly, have laid off a considerable part thereof
into half acre lots for a town, and having settled thereon have preferred petitions
to the general assembly to establish the said town Be it enacted," etc.
Following were trustees: John Todd, Jr., Stephen Trigg, George Slaughter,
John Floyd, William Pope, George Meriwether, Andrew Hines, James Sullivan,
and Marshen Brashiers.
The grant was one thousand acres of the forfeited land of John Connelly
adjoining the land of John Campbell.
Lots were to be sold at auction and if they brought $30 the money was to be
put into the treasury of the Commonwealth.
NUMBER 12.
To THE HONBLE THE SPEAKER, AND GENT. OF THE HOUSE OP DELEGATES,
Your petitioners Inhabitants of the north side of Kentucky
humbly represent
That the setled part of the County of Kentuckey is of Late
grown so Extensive that in a time of pace it would be extremly
inconvanient for your petitioners to attend at the Courthouse
mutch more so at present when an invetorate War rages with
unremited violance.
That the Militia Inhabitants of the north side of Kain-
tucky Amount to about four hundred with Eleven fortified
posts — That a place Central to Every post might be fixed upon
Distant from the farthest not more than fifteen miles — That
the nearest settlement to the Courthouse is at least forty
miles and the farthest about Seventy miles at present That
the River Kentuckey is rendered impasable half the year by
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high waters & is ever inconveniant and Dangarous by Reasons
of its Craggy and precipitate Bancks Thus severed by nature
from our felow Citizens of the Southside of the river and Com-
pactly situated in a fertile Land where aditional adventurers
bid fair for a farther population your petitioners conceive
themselves ripe for a Separation and pray
That the said County be Divided by a Line begining at
the mouth of Kaintuckey River runing up the same and its
midle fork to the head thence South East to Washington Line
—Your petitioners farther pray that Comissioners be apointed
to colect the sentements of the people upon the properest place
for holding a Court & invested with authoraty to purchase
Lands for a town to be laid off under such regalations as your
Honarable House shall please to derect & your petitioners as
in Duty bound shall pray &c — Signed in behalf of Lexington
Station Signed in behalf of McConnells station
[Names.]
The Inhabitants of Unity Station twenty in Number unani-
mously desired this Petition to be signed in their behalf by
May 1st 1780. Levi Todd
To THE HONBLE TUB SPEAKER AND GENT. OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
The Petition of the Inhabitants at and near the Falls of
the Ohio Humbly sheweth that your Petitioners are situated
generally near one hundred Miles from the Court house of this
County in a compact, rich settlement. That so great a Dis-
tance from holding Court, General-Musters render all Civil &
Military Regulation altogether ineffectual — that the Number
of Setlers at present amount to (at least) eight Hundred & are
daily increasing.
To remedy the Disorders ever attendant upon the Want of
Law & render the Administration of Justice less Burdensome;
Your Petitioners pray: that all that Part of the south side of
Kentucky River which lieth below Hammonds Creek and the
Beach-Knobs, may be erected into a seperate County, and that
all the Priviledges & Advantages of other Counties within the
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Common-Wealth, may be granted to its Inhabitants, and your
Petitioners. —
shall ever pray &c. —
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Reasonable — Propositions.
The division of the county of Kentucky is provided in an act entitled, An Act
for establishing three new counties upon the western waters. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 10, 315.
"Whereas the inhabitants of the county of Kentucky are subject to great
inconveniences for the want of due administration of justice, arising principally
from the great extent of the county and the dispersed situation of the settlements
Be it enacted," etc.
The names of the new counties were Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. Court
was to be held in each alternately on the first, second, and third Tuesdays of the
month. Fayette was to try all cases in equity not settled to date. County seats
to be at Louisville, Lexington, and Harrodsburg. The surveyors of Kentucky
could choose the county they preferred.
NUMBER 13.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OP THE HOUSE OP DELE-
GATES,
HUMBLY SHEWETH.
THAT your petitioner, soon after the Discovery of the fine
lands upon the Kentucky and the adjacent waters of the Ohio
River, removed into that Country, where he determined to
lay out and risk all his little Fortune, and accordingly was
deeply engaged in settling, building on, and improving Lands
there, according to the Custom of the Country; expecting
thereby to secure considerable Quantities of Land ; but finding,
during his Residence there, that the Inhabitants in that Quarter,
and other parts over the Alleghany Mountains, were constantly
exposed to the Incursions and Depredations of the Indians
on the North west side of the Ohio, instigated and aided by
the British Garrisons at the Kaskaskies near the Mississippi,
and at St. Vincents upon the Obache, and Experience having
proved it extremely expensive and difficult, if not impracticable,
to protect so extensive a frontier against the Savages by troops
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stationed among the Settlements, He formed the Design of
surprising and reducing the before mentioned British Garri-
sons; thereby to prevent the evil Consequences of their Influence
upon the Indians, and by establishing military posts of our
own Troops in their Country, to deter them from distant
Expeditions against our frontier Inhabitants on the South
East of the Ohio, and by Degrees bring them over to the
American interest. Deeply impressed with these Sentiments,
he, at his own Expence, sent confidential persons, in the Char-
acter of Indian Traders, to reconnoitre and examine those
places, and sound the Disposition of the French Inhabitants;
and having made himself perfectly acquainted with the strength
and situation of the said posts, and other material Circum-
stances, he was thoroughly convinced of the practicability and
success of a secret Expedition against them, and of its great
importance to the public, and therefore determined to lay his
plan before the Governor and Council, and relinquishing all
his undertakings and Improvements at Kentucky, to devote
himself to the service of his Country, by engaging in the said
Expedition (if it should be approved) either as an Officer, or a
Voluntier; or in any other Character in which it should be
thought he could do most Service.
That upon the said Expedition being approved, the Governor
and Council, unsolicited by your Petitioner, were pleased to
appoint him to command it; by the Blessing of divine provi-
dence, and the bravery of his fellow Soldiers, he has been able
to carry it into effectual execution, and in the ample and hon-
ourable testimony he has received of the public Approbation,
enjoys the most pleasing of all Reflections — of having discharged
the Duty of a good Citizen, and thro' Scenes of uncommon
Difficulty and Danger, rendered essential Service to his native
Country. Your petitioner, in his Negotiations and Treaties
with the numerous Indian Tribes settled in those parts, has
spared no pains in endeavouring to alienate them from the
British, and fix them in the American Interest, wherein he
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flatters himself he has in a great measure succeeded. In the
Course of these Treaties, the Indians inhabiting the Country
on the Obache, and the adjacent parts of the Ohio, express the
most earnest Desire that your Petitioner should continue to
reside among them, and as a proof of their Affection and
Attachment, insisted upon giving him a Tract of Land, adjoin-
ing to the Falls, on the North West Side of the Ohio River, of
seven miles and a half square, and containing about thirty-six
thousand Acres, which he could not refuse without giving them
umbrage and forfeiting the Influence he had acquired among
them; they accordingly made him a Deed of Conveyance in
the French Language, which being registered in the Records
of the Court of St. Vincents, the Original is humbly submitted
herewith to the Consideration of the General Assembly.
Your Petitioner is sensible, that the Commonwealth hath,
and ought to have, the exclusive Right of pre-emption from the
Indians of all Lands within its own Territory, and therefore
presumes to claim no Title, under the said Deed to the Lands
therein mentioned, unless the same shall be confirmed to him
by the Legislature; but he begs leave to observe, that this
Deed will save to the public the Expence of hereafter pur-
chasing the same Land; and as his Fortune was at best small,
the greater part of which he had expended in improving Lands
at Kentucky, which by engaging in the service of the Public, at
the time and under the circumstances before mentioned, he
was obliged to abandon, and has been disabled from carrying
into Execution the Improvements and Settlements he had
begun, so as to entitle him to Certificates for anything consider-
able under the late Land Law, whereby he hath, in a manner,
lost his All ; Confiding therefore in the Liberality of his Country,
he is induced to hope, and humbly prays, that the General
Assembly will be pleased to grant him the Lands contained in
the said Deed — according to the Bounds therein expressed,
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upon such Conditions and Terms, as they, in their Wisdom
shall think fit—
And your Petitioner shall ever pray.
George Rogers Clark
Endorsement on back of petition: Petition of Colo. Geo. Rogs. Clarke —
May 27 1780 — Referred to Propositions — Reported.
There is no act showing that this was done, but the following is a resolution
for a cession of the lands on the northwest side of the Ohio to Clark's regiment.
Henings Statutes, Vol. 10, 5G4.
"As Col. Geo. Rogers Clarke planned and executed the secret expedition by
which the British posts were reduced, and was promised if the enterprize suc-
ceeded a liberal gratuity in lands in that county for the officers and soldiers who
first marched thither with him, that a quantity of land not exceeding one hun-
dred and fifty thousand acres, be allowed and granted to the said officers and sol-
diers and other officers and soldiers that have since been incorporated with said
regiment, to be laid off in one tract the length of which is not to exceed double
the breadth, in such place on the northwest of the Ohio as the majority of the
officers shall choose, and to be afterwards divided among the officers and soldiers
in due proportion according to the laws of Virginia."
This reservation is preserved in an act entitled, An Act to authorize the
delegates of this state in Congress to convey to the U. S. in Congress assembled
all right of this commonwealth to the territory northwestward of the Ohio.
Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 326.
NUMBER 14.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES —
The Petition of the Subscribers, settlers at Lexington in the
County of Fayette humbly sheweth —
That they at a considerable risque and expence settled them-
selves at this place which was then and still is unappropriated
and unclaimed by any private person, That from an Act of
Assembly passed in May 1779 intitled An Act for adjusting
and settling the Titles of claimers to unpatented Lands, under
the present and former Government, previous to the Estab-
lishment of the Commonwealth's Land Office, they were
induced to expect a Grant of Six hundred & forty acres, in
confidence of which they elected Trustees who proceeded to
lay off a Town, including the said Quantity, a plot of which
is hereto annexed, making condition at Lines with adjacent
claimers, a suitable square is reserved for the publick Buildings
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A Surveyor's Sketch Map of Kentucky.
From photograph of the original in Archives of Virginia.
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of the County and a Sum of money granted by the Trustees
for said Buildings, a considerable part of the Land is divided
among the present settlers, upon the most equitable and just
Terms, a part reserved to be disposed of to future settlers to
create a fund for making necessary Improvements in the Town
and encourage Settlers in future. That they have purchased
Seventy acres being part of a Survey made for John Floyd to
augment the Quantity and add to the convenience and benefit
of the Inhabitants a former Petition to the same purpose for
reasons unknown to your Petitioners having been unanswered
raises in us an anxiety to know the Determination of your
honorable House, Your Petitioners therefore pray that the said
640 acres together with the adjoining purchase be vested in
Trustees for a Town that the present Lot holders be confirmed
in their Titles and subjected to such Reasonable requisitions
towards settling and improving thereon as to your honourable
House shall seem just & we in Duty bound shall ever pray
[Names.]
Fayette County Court
We do certify that we have no Objectson to the confirming
to the Lexington Trustees the Survey of the Town Lands
agreeable to the within plat & that no person hath any just
claim to said Lands to our knowledge
J. N. Todd
Levi Todd
atty. for John Maxwell
April 14 — 1782. R. Patterson
Map and the following: —
June :6th I7th 1782 Drew near 10 miles to the inch From
the T Falls to Squire Boons 30 miles from thence to Leeston
20 miles from thence to Lexinton 25 miles, from Elkhorn to
the mouth of Lickin 70 miles, from Elkhorn to the Salt Spring
on Lickin 40 miles, from thence to Lime stone 20 miles
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From Elkhorn to Lime stone a level country except near the
Salt Springs and from Elkhorn to the mouth of the Lickin
great part of the way Hilley and poor
Robt. Johnson
Endorsed on back of petition: Dec. 7th 1781— Referred to Propositions —
June 6th 1782— Reasonable— Repd.
The request is granted in the act entitled, An Act to establish a town at the
courthouse in the county of Fayette.
"Whereas it is represented to the assembly that six hundred and forty acres
of unappropriated lands in the county of Fayette whereon the courthouse of the
county stands, have been by the settlers thereon laid out into lots and streets
for a town and that the said settlers have purchased seventy acres of land contig-
uous to the said six hundred and forty acres, being part of a survey made for John
Floyd. And whereas it would tend greatly to the improvement and settling the
same if the titles of settlers on the lots were confirmed and a town established
thereon, Be it enacted," etc.
The trustees were: John Todd, Robert Patterson, William Mitchell, Andrew
Steel, William Henderson, William McCowwald, (?) and William Steel. Henings
Statutes, Vol. 11, 100.
NUMBER 15.
To THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP VIRGINIA.
We your Petitioners Inhabitants of Kentuckey, Humbly
beg leave to address you as their Legislative Body, imploring
you to take into consideration our grievances; considering us
as faithful subjects to the Republick and equally intitled to
the Common Privileges with our fellow Citizens who pay a due
reverence to the Constitution, and a proper regard for the preser-
vation of it.
Your Memorialists thro' the Paternal Tenderness they have
for their Infant Families, the obligation which Nature binds to
provide for them, Removed from the Interior parts of the Coun-
try through a Wilderness infested with the most Savage and
cruel Enemies, combating with the greatest Difficulties, and yet
continue to be Invaded by the Merciless Banditty, continually
Harrased, confin'd to stations, and even debarr'd from applying
the necessary means for the support of their Families, and have
thought proper first to have recourse to redress through your
Honourable Body, as Duty calls us to pay all Imagenable
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Deference to your Paternal Authority and Guardianship over
us which your Memorialists are bound to observe while you
Act for their safety and defence.
Your Memorialists humbly beg you to have a Retrospect to
the year Seventy nine, at which time your Honourable House
thought proper to open a Land office for the Population of the
Country & the megration of Foreigners, as Express'd in the Act
of Assembly, at which time and ever since, every person was
at Liberty to purchase without Cultivating as much Lands as
He or She should think proper, which has been very injurious
to the Indigent Inhabitants, and of but small advantage to
the commonwealth, it has not only prevented sufficient Immi-
gration, but has been Destructive to all Ages Sexes and Condi-
tions of Existence, which has occasioned a continual Deme-
gration, with those exterminated out of being by the Savage
Barbarians that your Memorialists find their Number of Fight-
ing Men considerably deminished since the year seventeen
Hundred and Eighty, notwithstanding the small continued
Immegrations since that Time.
Your Memorialists beg leave to point out a way for the
Emolument and happiness of the Indigent Inhabitants, as also
the most easy and Indubitable way of defending this Country,
unless you can without an Infringment of the Rights of the
People, Revive the antient Cultivation Law which seems very
difficult to your Memorialists after such Lands has been appro-
priated with Reserve.
Your Memorialists beg leave to inform you that the Persons
granted Land by the Act of May Session in Eighty one, in
Consideration of their setling here since Seventy nine, and for
other causes, have been prevented from acquiring such Lands
by an Inundation of Warrants being in the County where the
Land office continued open before the county courts issued
certificates, but there being great Quantities of Waste and un-
enter'd Lands yet in the other Counties in the District of
Kentuckey which your Memorialists Conceives may be held in
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Reserve for the aforesaid setlers, as also for the Immediate
Peopling of this Country, and such megrants to be allowed
according to Antient Custom, who shall immediately cultivate
such lands or become Inhabitants with your Memorialists, as
all other means has hitherto been found inadequate to the
happiness and Safety of this Country, your Memorialists con-
ceives this Method to be the most easy and least injurious to
the Publick weal, and as the Depretiation of Land Warrants
being equal to that of the Paper Currency has become a Pub-
lick notority, and that the one Exchanges for the other without
being in credit for scarcely any other Commodity. And your
Memorialists must beg leave to add that the moneys in their
hands died being in this Exterior part, they conceive this Mode
if adopted, will quickly raise a Fund sufficient for the Redemp-
tion of such Warrants upon the same Terms they shall Receive
for their Paper Currency. Your Memorialists wish to have
their Locations secured to them who came early into this Coun-
try, and many of them through illetrisy, and unable to ascertain
the true meaning of the Law with the Troubles of Indians,
have not Enter'd their Lands so special and precise as the Law
Requires — many of whose Entries have been Reenter'd by
others, which without the kind interposition of your House,
will produce Tedious Letigations.
Your Memorialists pray you to take into consideration
their Scatter'd Situation, which is neither Eligible nor happy,
and neither Aids nor any apparent Redress of their Grievances
has appeared, which has produced Considerable Desentions
amongst them, which an Inflamatary Pamphlet intitled publick
Good has augmented which, we pray you to take into Con-
sideration and Create them a power Sufficient for their Controul
and better Government, as well as for the Controul and Manage-
ment of all Civil and Military affairs in this Country which
they only claim according to the Rights of Constitution, or
otherwise that you will grant them a Separation with your
Intercession with the Honourable the Continental Congress
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
for their Incorporation with them, at the same time they pay a
proper Deference to your wise Determinations, Reploring
[Reposing?] special Trust and Confidence in you. And your
Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
The Committee of the Courts of Justice to whom the Petition
of sundry Inhabitants from Kentucky was referr'd, has gone
thro' the same and come to several Resolutions thereupon, as
follow.
Resolved, That so much of the said Petition as relates to
the revival of the ancient cultivation Law be rejected.
Resolv'd, That so much thereof as relates to the claims of
poor persons under the act of May Session 1781 and prays for
the Liberty of locating their Claims in other Counties, is reason-
able; and that where other Entries on Warrants of a subsequent
Date should be offer'd at the same time for the same Land,
such claims shall have the preference.
Resolv'd, That so much thereof as prays for all other un-
appropriated Lands to be set apart for encouraging the Settle-
ment of the Country be rejected.
Resolv'd, That that part which prays a confirmation of
former Locations, tho' not made with that exact precision
which the Law directs, provided they are so describ'd as that
the Location can be known and that the Claimants shall not
be at Liberty to lay off their Land in such a manner as to
injure any one adjoining Claim in order to favor another or to
make a vacancy adjoining thereto for themselves or others, is
reasonable.
Resolv'd, That so much thereof as prays for the establish-
ment of some kind of controuling power for the better manage-
ment of their civil and military affairs, is reasonable.
Endorsement on back of petition: May 30th 1782 — Ref'd to Courts of
Justice — Security for their Entries — do. for poor persons — in having civil and
military Govermt. ref'd to Propositions. June 13th 1782 — Some parts Reasonable
— Other parts rejected — Reported.
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The request for some kind of controlling power was provided in an act en-
titled, An Act for establishing a District Court on the western waters.
"Whereas the mode of administering justice has become exceedingly incon-
venient and burdensome to suitors living westward of the Alleghany mountains,
Be it enacted," etc. Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 85.
The act provided that Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln counties should be
united into one district after August 1st, for a supreme court of judicature of
original jurisdiction separate of all other courts except the Court of Appeals.
It was to have jurisdiction in cases of treason, felonies, misdemeanors and crimes,
except those triable in the General Court according to the Constitution. Also
all matters in common law and equity arising therefrom. There were to be three
judges, four sessions of court to be held each year on the first Monday of March,
June, September, and November, lasting eighteen days exclusive of Sunday.
Three days were set for criminal matters, five for chancery and the remainder
for other cases.
The court was to be a court of record, was to take cognizance of matters re-
lating to probating of wills, deeds, and the granting of letters of administration,
escheat, and forfeiture, and caveats.
A grand jury of twenty-four was to be chosen at the beginning of each term.
The court appointed a clerk and gaoler and the attorney of the Commonwealth
was selected by the Assembly.
A tax of twenty shillings was charged at the beginning of a suit and the judge
at the close was to receive fifty pounds. Assistants received twenty shillings a
day for attendance, the attorney for the Commonwealth received thirty-seven
pounds and ten shillings a quarter and the remainder was to go toward buildings,
etc.
The court was to be held at Harrodsburg and could adjourn to places thought
proper.
NUMBER 16.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER OP THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES —
We the Inhabitants of the three Counties of Kentuckey,
beg leave with reverence & freedom to address your honorable
house —
The former favours shewn by the Government of Virginia
to the Inhabitants of this Country thro the various stages of
its population, till now, call forth our warmest acknowledge-
ments— When we were weak we were assisted with aids of men
and money, until by the blessing of providence we have arrived
to a considerable degree of strength, but just as we emerge
from a state of obscurity & Indigence we find ourselves and our
dear bought possessions to become a subject of noted contro-
versy.— But we place our entire confidence in your honorable
house, having no person or power on earth, in whome to rely,
but under shelter of the Government of Virginia —
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
When our parent state was engaged in an expensive war,
and taxes on all the articles of luxury and husbandry proved
insufficient to raise supplies, we never once murmured that the
Lands around us, as well as those we possessed, should be
seized as a sinking fund and offices opened for disposing of it,
tho' we were aware that the Land System adopted would at
first cause very unequal distribution of Land by giving enor-
mous Quantities to those who could advance most money, yet
we apprehended that the fertility of the soil, and the former
acts of assembly enforcing a Cultivation proportionate to the
Quantity, would induce the adventurer to become a settler. —
But Mr. Speaker, Experience! sad Experience! proves that
without further compulsory acts, the Engrosser will neither
settle himself, nor dispose of it to those who will. — We are
surrounded by numerous savage nations, Disjoined from every
other settlement in the united states, and amounting to only
fifteen hundred men here a tract of Country of five Million of
acres of Tillable Land nearly secured under rights from Virginia
to defend for those whome ease & Cowardice prevent settling —
Usual supplies of men seem just expended, and the fury of war
yet unabated. — Such is our melancholy situation — We fly to
your house for redress, To whome else shall we apply? We
know by experience that Kentuckey has friends in your house,
and we now call on them with an Importunity that becomes
distressed Citizens to espouse the use of justice for us —
We therefore humbly Petition
That the act of assembly for Cultivating & Improving
Lands may be declared in force —
That all Lands as well those granted under the old Military
and Treasury rights as the new, be subject to such regulations —
That a superior Court competent to the decision of these as
well as all other Land disputes be established in this Country. —
These regulations we have, will carry us still towards that stage
of maturity when with the tenderness of a kind parent to a
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departing child, you will direct us to form a constitution and
act for ourselves.
[Names.]
Endorsement on the back of petition. June 1st. 1782— To lie on the table.
The act for establishment of a District Court is referred to in previous petition.
NUMBER 17.
TO THE HONBLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Lincoln
humbly sheweth —
That your Petitioners have the highest sense of, and ac-
knowledge with thankfulness the attention which your Hon-
ourable Body paid the Trustees of this remote corner of the
State in the last May Session, in establishing a court of general
Judicature in this District, the good effects of which we begin
already to feel by the discouragement of Vice & fraud which
was too prevalent among us — and we cannot help expressing
our concern to understand that there are some people in Ken-
tucky lost to virtue, honesty & good order as to wish for its
repeal — We cannot but believe that those are a set of people
who never were friendly to the Government of Virginia, nor
would be pleased with any law that its Legislature can pass —
We therefore hope your Honourable House will pay no regard
to any Petitions which may be sent to you by a disaffected
few whose wishes are rather to overturn, than support your
Government.
Encouraged by our former success we now petition for the
passage of a few more laws indispensibly necessary for this dis-
trict, and first. That our militia may be put on a footing
that may more effectually defend us against our savage Enemy.
2ndly — A Law to dispose of the orphans of poor people;
which cannot be done at present, as we have no church Wardens
to bind them out.
To the General Assembly of Virginia
3rdly — A particular law respecting Strays — it being impos-
sible to put them in the Gazettes according to the present Law.
4thly — A Law authorising some Civil power to solemnize
the Rites of matrimony — as we have no clergy either of the
church of England or Presbyterians who compose the Greater
part of our inhabitants
These requests we make no doubt you will grant, because it
is the Interest of our whole District — But where we may be of
different Interests, we wish no new laws to pass or amendments
to be made until you know the sentiments of a majority of our
District because frequent alterations in the Laws are very in-
convenient to our remote corner of the State
[Names.]
Endorsement on the back of petition. May 21st. 1783 — Referred to Courts
of Justice — June 19th 1783 — Referred to consideration of the next session of the
Assembly.
The request for the right to perform civil marriage is provided in an act
entitled, An Act to authorize and confirm marriages in certain cases. Henings
Statutes, Vol. 11, 281.
"Whereas it hath been represented to the present General Assembly that
many of the good people in the remote parts of the commonwealth are destitute
of any persons, authorized by law to solemnize marriages amongst them, Be it
enacted," etc., "That where it shall appear to the court of any county on the
western waters, that there is not a sufficient number of clergymen authorized
to celebrate marriages therein, such court is empowered to nominate so many
sober and discreet laymen as will supply the deficiency."
Those so nominated were to receive a license to perform the act in accordance
with the church of which they are members. Parties to be married must produce
a certificate showing that the bans had been thrice published. Previous marriages
might be confirmed in a similar manner.
NUMBER 18.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of several of the Trustees in whom certain
escheated Lands in the County of Kentucky were vested for
a public School, humbly sheweth,
That the General Assembly, sensible of the Advantages
resulting to Society from the general diffusion of Learning in
the various parts of the community; at the May Session, 1780,
vested certain escheated Lands amounting to eight thousand
acres, late the property of Robert M'Kinsie, Henry Collins and
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Alexr. M'Kee in Trustees as a free Donation from the Common-
wealth for the purpose of a public School or Seminary of Learn-
ing to be erected within the County of Kentucky as soon as
the circumstances of the Country and the state of its Funds
will admit. That your Petitioners (a majority of the surviving
Trustees) having convened for the purpose of carrying into
execution the laudable design of the Legislature, and finding
themselves greatly embarassed as to the manner of executing
the Trust reposed in them, inasmuch as the Law does not declare
whether a majority of the Trustees are sufficient to act, nor in
case of the Death of any of the members, how vacancies are
to be filled up, and as it does not appear that the Trustees have
power under their present appointment to receive Donations
from Individuals or in any respect to forward so desireable an
Institution, without the Interposition of the Legislature; have
unanimously come to the Resolution of petitioning the Assem-
bly, for an amendment of the Law, & an enlargement of the
Powers of the Trustees; not doubting but that the same benevo-
lent disposition which actuated the Assembly when this Dona-
tion was made will influence the present Members of the Legis-
lature chearfully to contribute as far as in them lies to the
noble designs of diffusing useful knowledge and cultivating the
unimproved minds of the South in every corner of the State.
The sollicitous anxiety which discovers . itself in the principal
Inhabitants of this Country for having Schools or Seminaries
of Learning among them that their Children may be educated
as becomes a civilized people, encourages Your Petitioners to
hope that the Liberality of private Individuals will be extended
in aid of the public Donations, were Trustees incorporated by
Law with power of perpetuating their Succession, and author-
ized to purchase Estates, to receive Donations, make sale and
conveyances of Land and to legislate for the Seminary in such
Cases as are customary and under such restrictions and limi-
tations as may be prescribed by Law.
Impressed with this hope and the full persuasion that the
Assembly will listen with pleasure to every proposition that
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has a Tendency to banish Ignorance and Error, and to intro-
duce in their room what may polish the manners, encourage
the improvement of the mind, promote liberality of sentiment
and by refining give additional Incentives to Virtue. Your
petitioners pray that the said Law may be amended in the
several Cases herein before recited, and some fixt plan and Form
adopted which may be most conducive to the welfare and suc-
cess of the Institution, and your Petitioners as in duty bound
will ever pray etc.
[Names.]
Endorsement on the back of petition : June 3rd. 1783. — Bill pursuant to Peto.
—by Mr. Wallace; A very ; A. White; C. M. Thruston; Ct. Jones.
The process of forfeiture is provided for in a measure entitled, An ordinance
for establishing a mode of punishment for the enemies to America in this colony.
Henings Statutes, Vol. 9, 101.
"Whereas the most dangerous attempts have been made by some persons in
the colony to subvert the rights and liberties of the inhabitants," etc., "Be it
enacted," etc.
"All persons in arms within two months after the ordinance and all persons
aiding the enemy by enlisting soldiers, giving intelligence, furnishing them with
arms, provisions, or naval stores may be imprisoned, and their estates will be
placed in the hands of persons chosen by the committee and subject to the de-
termination of the Convention."
Escheated or forfeited lands were set apart for public education in an act
entitled, An Act to vest certain escheated lands in the county of Kentucky in
Trustees for a public school. 1780. Henings Statutes, Vol. 10, 287.
"Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly, that there are certain
lands, within the county of Kentucky formerly belonging to British subjects,
not yet sold under the law of escheats and forfeitures which might at a future
day be a valuable fund for the maintenance and education of youth, and it being
the interest of this commonwealth always to promote and encourage every design
which may tend to the improvement of the mind and the diffusion of useful knowl-
edge, even among the most remote citizens, whose situation a barbarous neigh-
borhood and a savage intercourse might otherwise render unfriendly to science,
Be it therefore enacted," etc.
"That eight thousand acres of land within the said county of Kentucky,
late property of Robert Mc.Kenzie, Henry Collins and Alexander Mc.Kie, be
and the same are hereby vested in William Fleming William Christian, John
Todd, Stephen Trigg, Benjamin Logan, John Floyd, John May, Levi Todd, John
Cowan, George Meriwether, John Cobbs, George Thompson, and Edmund Tay-
lor, as a free donation from the commonwealth for the purpose of a public school
or seminary of learning to be created within the said county as soon as the
circumstances of the county and the state of its funds will admit and for no
other use or purpose whatsoever."
The fund above referred to was made over to the trustees of Transylvania
Seminary in an act entitled, An Act to amend an act entitled an act to vest cer-
tain escheated lands in the county of Kentucky in trustees for a public school.
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The act refers to the forfeited land and says that representations had been
made that private donations might be obtained were the trustees incorporated
and such privileges granted as would enable them to carry into effect the inten-
tion of the Legislature.
Transylvania Seminary was incorporated with the following board of trustees :
William Fleming, William Christian, Benjamin Logan, John May, Levi Todd,
John Cowan, Edmund Taylor, Thomas Marshall, Samuel McDowell, John Bow-
man, George Rogers Clark, John Campbell, Isaac Shelby, David Rice, John
Edwards, Caleb Wallace, Walker Davie, Isaac Cox, Robert Johnson, John Craig,
John Mosby, James Speed, Christopher Greenup, John Crittenden, and Willis
Green.
The escheated land was vested in the above board of trustees and was exempt
from taxation. Future escheats were to revert to the trustees and professors and
students were to be free from military duty.
Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 282.
NUMBER 19.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA—
The Memorial of John Campbell Respectfully Sheweth —
That in your last session a Law was passed for suspending
the Sale of Lotts in the Town of Louisville and also the Sale
of Land adjoining which was Escheated as the property of
John Connolly. That nevertheless the Trustees of the Town
have proceeded to sell on Credit several Lotts within the same
altho no single Lott heretofore disposed of is built upon and
saved according to the Conditions of the Act of Assembly
That the Land laid out into a 'Town is Mortgaged to your
Memorialist and his former partner in Trade Joseph Simon —
That half of the land Escheated is the property of your
Memorialist and great Damage may accrue to him if the
Appropriation made by the Assembly be confirmed—
That some of the Title Deeds of the same are Defaced and
not recorded others tho duly executed and Intire have not yet
been recorded owing to the Confusion of the Times to their
being executed in another State and the long Captivity of your
Memorialist
Your Memorialist therefore prays that the Act for Estab-
lishing the Town of Louisville be repealed — That the Lines of
Division between his Lands and the Escheated Lands be run
agreeable to the Deed of Partition between him and John
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Connolly That the Deficiencys of the Title Deeds may be
remedyed as far as their authenticity deserves, Or any other
Relief be granted to him which may seem meet and your
Memorialist in Duty bound will ever pray &c.
Endorsement on back of petition: December 1st, 1783 — referred to the
courts of Justice — December 8th, 1783— Reasonable and Reported, by Charles
Hay.
The request was met by an act entitled, An Act for repealing in part the act
for establishing the town of Louisville. Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 321.
The act states that the line had not been run between the land of Connolly
and Campbell; that money was not yet paid for which Connolly gave mortgage;
that it was unjust to deprive Campbell of his security. The act was repealed so
far as it effected the land of Campbell and Simon, and surveyors of the county
were to run a line between the land of Connolly and Campbell.
NUMBER 20.
To THE HONBLE. THE SPEAKER & GENN. OP THE HOUSE OP DELEGATES
The Petition of John Morton humbly representeth —
That your Petitioner was captur'd by the Indians at the
battle of the Blue Licks whilst a soldier under Capt. Daniel
Boon, was taken by them to their Towns, from there to Detroit
where he remained sometime & from thence was carried to
Canady where he was confin'd in close Gaol for upwards of
Two years — That previous to your Petitioner's Captivity he
had acquir'd a right of Preemption in the County of Fayette &
that shortly after his releasment, went out to the Western
Country laid his claim before the County Court of Fayatte &
obtained a Preemption Certificate for One thousand Acres of
Land which Certs, is hereunto annexed and that upon appli-
cation for a preemption Warrant is inform'd, that your Honble
House did at their last Session of Assembly pass a Resolution
forbidding the issuing any Treasury Land Warrants untill the
further order of the Genl. Assembly, Which has deprived your
Petitioner of the Benefit of his Location. Your Petitioner
therefore prays that your Honble House will take his Case
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under Consideration & grant him such relief as you in your
Wisdom shall think just — And your Petitioner as in duty bound
will ever pray &c.
Endorsement on back of petition: May 26th, 1784— Refd. to props. Moved
to be discharged— June 10th 1784— propositions discharged and referred to a
committee of the . . . on the state of the Commonwealth.
NUMBER 21.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER & GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES—
The Petition of Patrick Doran Humbly sheweth that your
Memorialist is entitled to a right of Preemtion to a tract of
land in Lincoln County which will apear by a certificate issued
November 1783. by the Court of the said County of Lyncoln—
Your Memorialist prays that your honourable house will so
order that a warrant may Issue on his certificate & he as in
duty bound will pray &c. —
Endorsement on back of petition: May 28, 1784 — Refd. to props — (rejected)
(repd.)
NUMBER 22.
To THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER AND HOUSE OF DELEGATES FOR THE COMMON-
WEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of William Lytle of Kentuckey Settlement
humbly Sheweth, That Your Petitioner in the year 1775 hired
a Certain Ash Emerson to make an improvement for him in
Kentuckey at a Certain place called the dry run, for which he
made him full satisfaction as by his Certificate herewith sent
will appear. Also that your Petitioner came by Water, and
landed at the falls of Ohio with his family in the Spring of the
Year 1780, a few days before the term of the Court of Commis-
sioners Expired, then siting at Herodsburgh 70 or 80 miles
Distant from the falls, shortly after Landing your Petitioners
horses Strayed away, and having a wife and large family of
small Children to provide for was compelled to stay till he could
make some shelter to protect them from the weather and before
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he could find them to enable him to proceed to the Commis-
sioners to lay in his claim, their powers Expired and he being
unacquainted with the law and reduced to such Circumstances
by Sickness & Misfortunes, as rendered him unable to apply
to the general Court to make good his Claim within the time
limited by law, Your Petitioner was therefore advised to apply
to the County Court wherein his claim lay for redress, the Court
was of opinion his case did not come under the Description
prescribed in the law for their Cognizance, Whereby your
Petitioner is deprived of his just right, & Claim, Your Petitioner
therefore most humbly prays that you will be pleased to take
his unfortunate case under your Serious Consideration, and
Grant him Such redress by a law, or otherwise as you in your
wisdom and Judgment may think just and reasonable and your
Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
William Lytle.
April 1 4th 1782—
We the undernamed Subscribers, Inhabitants of Fayette
County, in Virginia, being made Duly sensible of the truth of
every circumstance Your Petitioner has herein mentioned, do
humbly pray your honourable House his behalf, to grant him
his petition, and we your Petitioners as in duty bound shall
pray-
Willim. M Connell
James McConnell
James January
William Steel
Levi Todd
This is to certify that I Ash Emerson made an improvement
for the youse [use] of William Little in the year 75 in Cantucky
on a run called the Dry Run above my owne improvement
for which he made me full satisfaction pr me Ash Emerson.
Endorsement on back of petition : June 4th 1784 — referred to propositions —
(rejected) (rept.)
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NUMBER 23.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA,
The petition of the Inhabitants of the District of Kentucky
humbly sheweth, That your petitioners from a variety of Inci-
dents which have accrued and will still accrue in acquiring prop-
erty in Land in this Western Country, are like to be over-
whelmed in Litigation; which will not only create discords
amongst us, but ruin hundreds of poor Families, who being
opprest and stript of almost their whole Substance by the
Indians, have not the Means of defraying the Expences of a
Law Suit upon the present Establishment. In this State of
Indigence we have the additional mortification to find that not
a few of those who have been more fortunate are taking pos-
session of our just Claims knowing that we are not able to make
Opposition. Such of your Honourable House as have not been
Eye Witnesses can form no Idea of the Distresses which many
of your petitioners have suffered for a Series of Years from the
cruel and vindictive Hand of the Savages; and now on the back
of these Distresses to be compelled into a Court of Judicature,
by those who are endeavouring to avail themselves of our
poverty and that Ignorance of the Law which was unavoidable
in our remote Situation, will complete our Ruin: If we prose-
cute our Claim the last Cow and Horse must be sold to main-
tain the Suit; or if we decline the Contest, the Land upon which
we had Hopes of supporting ourselves and Families in peace
during the Remainder of our Lives will be wrested from us.
Your petitioners are therefore induced to pray that Circuit
Courts may be established for the special purpose of trying
Caveats, to be held by the Judges of our Supreme Court at
such stated Times and places in each County as they shall
think most convenient to the people, where they shall proceed
in a summary Way to hear and determine according to Law and
Equity all Caveats in the respective Counties where the Lands
lie. These Courts to be attended by the Sheriff of the County
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and his Deputies, and by the Clerk of the Supreme Court who
shall keep record of the Business relating to Caveats in each
County in separate Books:
In all other Respects the Court and their officers shall exercise
the same powers, observe the same Rules of procedure, and be
entitled to the same Fees as are now prescribed by Law in the
Case of Caveats; save only, that a Jury need not be summoned
and empannelled unless the Nature of the Cause shall make it
necessary, or either of the parties contending shall require it;
and as the pleadings are not to be had in writing, if Counsel
shall be thought necessary at all, we presume that the Fee
heretofore allowed to Attorneys for conducting Land Causes
in County Courts will be sufficiently adequate.
We are encouraged by the former Benevolence of the Legis-
lature in appointing Circuit or District Commissioners in a
Case nearly Similar, to submit this plan to the Consideration
of the General Assembly, which if it can consistently be adopted,
will curtail the greater part of the Expence of Litigation and
at the same time render equal Justice to the Litigants; and we
flatter ourselves that in Compassion to our many and compli-
cated sufferings, this or some other Mode suited as far as possible
to our Circumstances will be established for the Trial of Cave-
ats, which at present are like to be the great Source of Con-
tention amongst us.
And your petitioners shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: June 5th 1784 — referred to propositions —
(rejd.)
Relief was given to complainants in two acts entitled, An Act for giving
further time to enter certificates for settlement rights and to locate warrants
upon preemption rights and for other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 291.
An Act to give further time for the probation of deeds and other instruments
of writing and for other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 294.
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NUMBER 23.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA,
The petition of the Inhabitants of the District of Kentucky
humbly sheweth, That your petitioners from a variety of Inci-
dents which have accrued and will still accrue in acquiring prop-
erty in Land in this Western Country, are like to be over-
whelmed in Litigation; which will not only create discords
amongst us, but ruin hundreds of poor Families, who being
opprest and stript of almost their whole Substance by the
Indians, have not the Means of defraying the Expences of a
Law Suit upon the present Establishment. In this State of
Indigence we have the additional mortification to find that not
a few of those who have been more fortunate are taking pos-
session of our just Claims knowing that we are not able to make
Opposition. Such of your Honourable House as have not been
Eye Witnesses can form no Idea of the Distresses which many
of your petitioners have suffered for a Series of Years from the
cruel and vindictive Hand of the Savages ; and now on the back
of these Distresses to be compelled into a Court of Judicature,
by those who are endeavouring to avail themselves of our
poverty and that Ignorance of the Law which was unavoidable
in our remote Situation, will complete our Ruin: If we prose-
cute our Claim the last Cow and Horse must be sold to main-
tain the Suit; or if we decline the Contest, the Land upon which
we had Hopes of supporting ourselves and Families in peace
during the Remainder of our Lives will be wrested from us.
Your petitioners are therefore induced to pray that Circuit
Courts may be established for the special purpose of trying
Caveats, to be held by the Judges of our Supreme Court at
such stated Times and places in each County as they shall
think most convenient to the people, where they shall proceed
in a summary Way to hear and determine according to Law and
Equity all Caveats in the respective Counties where the Lands
lie. These Courts to be attended by the Sheriff of the County
To the General Assembly of Virginia
and his Deputies, and by the Clerk of the Supreme Court who
shall keep record of the Business relating to Caveats in each
County in separate Books:
In all other Respects the Court and their officers shall exercise
the same powers, observe the same Rules of procedure, and be
entitled to the same Fees as are now prescribed by Law in the
Case of Caveats; save only, that a Jury need not be summoned
and empannelled unless the Nature of the Cause shall make it
necessary, or either of the parties contending shall require it;
and as the pleadings are not to be had in writing, if Counsel
shall be thought necessary at all, we presume that the Fee
heretofore allowed to Attorneys for conducting Land Causes
in County Courts will be sufficiently adequate.
We are encouraged by the former Benevolence of the Legis-
lature in appointing Circuit or District Commissioners in a
Case nearly Similar, to submit this plan to the Consideration
of the General Assembly, which if it can consistently be adopted,
will curtail the greater part of the Expence of Litigation and
at the same time render equal Justice to the Litigants; and we
flatter ourselves that in Compassion to our many and compli-
cated sufferings, this or some other Mode suited as far as possible
to our Circumstances will be established for the Trial of Cave-
ats, which at present are like to be the great Source of Con-
tention amongst us.
And your petitioners shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: June 5th 1784 — referred to propositions —
(rejd.)
Relief was given to complainants in two acts entitled, An Act for giving
further time to enter certificates for settlement rights and to locate warrants
upon preemption rights and for other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 291.
An Act to give further time for the probation of deeds and other instruments
of writing and for other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 11, 294.
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
NUMBER 24.
TO THE HONBLE THE SPEAKER AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
That whereas a memorial was presented by the representa-
tives and others on their behalf in December last to the Honble
Assembly then sitting, praying for a court of assize &c for the
better government of your memorialists. And they rinding a
matter of that very great importance to the reciprocal interest
of the State in general, neglected, or at least not attended to
agreeable to their wishes as part of the state, more particularly
at this critical conjuncture of affairs, when the interest of the
indigent inhabitants so loudly call for some ease or indulgence;
Your memorialists would wish to observe that the very great
distance from them to the seat of Government render it imprac-
ticable for those in poorer circumstances to maintain their
Just rights to lands, and next to impossible for the civilist to
punish offences of the most criminal nature, a number of other
evils might be enumerated to prove the utility of the exersize
of laws — under the authority alluded to, or some other similar
thereto
Your memorialists must beg leave to observe that they have
been lately alarm'd at finding that Congress has not only
refused the Cession offer'd them by a former Assembly, But a
committee of that August body appointed for the purpose of
Enquiry have resolved, "That Virginia, has not any just right
to land, Northwest of the Alleghany mountains, That with
pamphlets we have seen and now conceive to have been written
for the purpose of prejudicing the publick against the claim of
Virginia, and to prepare your memorialists for paying twenty
pounds sterling pr hundred for their own lands, Your memorial-
ists do conceive from the very principal of the constitution of
America, that if the country they possess does not in right
belong to Virginia, the prosperity [property] of course must be
vested in themselves, and that congress has no right to any
part thereof, and when your memorialists through your Honble
house make a request to Congress for a new state and are
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
received into the union, They are then and not before subject
as another state, Those are reasons they think necessary to
offer to your Honble house, But your memorialists have ever
considered themselves and country as part of Virginia and
were happy in being so. Her laws suited them and do yet
suppose it to be to their interest to be Governed by Her, untill
it shall appear for their mutual advantage to separate, at which
period it is expected their will be no objection, What your
memorialists at present wish is Virginia protection to them as
part of the State intitled to all its privileges or an information
of what they may expect; Justice is what they claim, and that
the Equity of their pretentions will allow them, they view
themselves as Virginians, and as such they hope what is alluded
to will not be given up without their consent — They allso know
that it is through them and those they claim as citizens of their
detached country that the greatest part of the western waters
is not now in the possession of our most inveterate enimies,
and could easily prove the importance they have been to the
interest of the United States — Your memorialists therefore
hope that your Honble house will take their case into considera-
tion & grant them such relief as to you may seem Just &
reasonable
[Names.]
NUMBER 25.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The Subscribers resident, in the Counties of Jefferson,
Fayette, Lincoln, and Nelson, composing the district of Ken-
tucky, being chosen at free Elections, held in these Counties
respectively, by the Freemen of the same, for the purpose of
constituting a Convention to take into Consideration the
General State of the District, and espressly to decide on the
expediency of making application to your Honorable Body,
for an Act of Seperation — : deeply impressed with the impor-
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tance of the measure, and breathing the purest filial affection,—
Beg leave to Address you on the momentous Occasion. —
The Settlers of this distant region, taught by the arrange-
ments of Providence, and encouraged by the conditions of that
Solemn Compact, for which they paid the price of Blood, to
look forward to a Seperation, from the Eastern parts of the
Commonwealth, have viewed the subject leisurely, at a distance
and examined it with caution on its near approach; irrecon-
cileable as has been their situation to a connexion with any
Community beyond the Apulachian Mountains, other than the
Federal Union Manifold as have been the grievances flowing
therefrom, which have grown with their growth, and increased
with their Population; They have patiently waited the hour of
Address nor ever ventured to raise their voices in their own
cause. Untill Youth quickening into manhood, had given
them vigor and Stability. —
To recite minutely the causes and reasoning, which directed,
and will justify this Address, would we conceive be a matter of
impropriety at this Juncture; It would be preposterous for us,
to enter upon the support of facts and consequences, which we
presume are incontestible; our sequestered situation, from the
seat of Government, with the intervention of a mountainous
desart of two hundred miles, always dangerous, and passable
only at particular seasons, precludes every Idea of a connexion,
on Republican principles; The Patriots who framed our Con-
stitution Sensible of the impracticability of connecting perma-
nently, in a free Government, the extensive Limits of the Com-
monwealth, most wisely made provision for the Act which we
now Solicit — . To that Sacred Record we Appeal. —
'Tis not the ill directed or inconsiderate Zeal of a few, 'tis
not that impatience of Power to which ambitious minds are
prone, nor yet the baser consideration of Personal Interest,
which influence the people of Kentucky; directed by superior
motives, they are incapable of cherishing a wish unfounded in
justice, and are now impelled by expanding evils, and irremedi-
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
able grievances, universally seen, felt and acknowledged, to
obey the irresistible dictates of self preservation, and seek for
Happiness, by means honourable to themselves, honourable
to you, and injurious to neither. —
We therefore with the consent and by the authority of our
Constituents, after the most Solemn deliberation being warned
of every consequence, which can ensue, for them, for ourselves
and for Posterity unborn — do Pray — That an act may pass at
the ensuing session of Assembly, declaring and acknowledging
the Sovereignty & Independence of this district.—
Having no object in view, but the acquisition of that Security
and happiness, which may be attained by a Scrupulous adher-
ence to principles of private justice and public Honor, we should
most willingly at this time, enter into the adjustment of the
concessions, which are to be the condition of our Seperation,
did not our relative situation forbid such negotiation, anxious
however to bring this interesting part of the transaction, to a
Speedy Issue, we have appointed the Honble George Muter &
Harry Innes Esquires to present this Address, and in our behalf
to enter into & ratify such engagements, as may ascertain the
general Principles, on which the final adjustment of the condi-
tions of Seperation is to be established.—
Our application may exhibit a new spectacle, in the History
& Politicks of Mankind — A Soverign Power; solely intent
to bless its People agreeing to a dismemberment of its parts, in
order to secure the Happiness of the whole — and we fondly
flatter ourselves from motives not purely Local, it is to give
Birth, to that catalogue of great events, which we pursuade
ourselves, is to diffuse throughout the World, the inestimable
blessings, which mankind may derive from the American
Revolution. —
We firmly rely, that the undiminished Lustre of that Spark,
which kindled the flame of Liberty, and guided the United
States of America to Peace & Independence, will direct the
Honourable Body, to whom we Appeal for redress of Manifest
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
grievances, to embrace the Singular Occasion, reserved for them,
by Devine Providence; to Originate a precedent, which may
Liberalize the Policy of Nations and lead to the emancipation
of enslaved millions. —
In this Address we have discarded the complimentary stile
of adulation & insincerity — it becomes Freemen when speaking
to Freemen, to imploy the plain, manly unadorned Language of
Independence . . . .[?]
September 23d 1785.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition. Octo. 1785 — Refd. to Whole as Com. —
November 14th 1785 — Committee of Whole discharged and referred to Ths. Madi-
son, Henry Lee, Bullit, Ronald, Carrington, Alexr. White, Corbin, Page, Th.
Smith, and Prentis.
The first action looking toward the creating of Kentucky into a separate State
is found in an act entitled, An Act concerning the erection of the district of Ken-
tucky into an independent state. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 37.
"Whereas it is represented to be the desire of the good people inhabiting the
district known by the name of the Kentucky District that the same should be
separated from this Commonwealth whereof it is a part and be formed into an
independent member of the American Confederacy and it is judged by the General
Assembly that such a partition of the Commonwealth is rendered expedient by
the remoteness of the more fertile which must be the more populous part of the
said district and by the interjacent impediment to a convenient and regular com-
munication therewith, Be it enacted," etc.
A convention was to be held at Danville on the fourth Monday of September
made up of delegates from the seven counties, five from each. The call was to
be posted twenty days and the election was to continue five days to give full
opportunity for expression of opinion.
The boundary was to be unchanged, the new State was to assume its just
proportion of the debt, the lands of non-residents were not to be taxed above
those of residents, grants of land by the new State were not to interfere with grants
made by Virginia, lands set apart for soldiers were subject to grant only by Vir-
ginia, up to 1788, the use of the Ohio River to be common, disputes between Vir-
ginia and Kentucky to be settled by a commission, and assent of United States
Congress to the separation necessary.
NUMBER 26.
To THE HONOURABLE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OP VIRGINIA, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET —
The petition of the Inhabitants of Lincoln County—
humbly sheweth —
That your petitioners beg leave to present their following
Request to your Honble House, confiding in your Wisdom &
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Photograph of a petition from Lincoln County to the General Assembly. Illustrative of the source from
which the book is made.
To the General Assembly of Virginia
generous Encouragement, of this Scheme; Which they persume
to lay before You —
That your petitioners taking into their serious Considera-
tion, of a proper place for Trade and Domestic Business, and
for the more ready procuring those Articles in our precincts
that are much wanted in the new Country; Are of opinion, that
the Survey of Six hundred and forty acres of Land, which your
Honble House formerly reserved for the Use of the Garrison
& Town of Harrodsburgh, is the most convenient and suitable
in the County, It not only being commodious to any convenient
Division of the County, but also central to the present Inhabi-
tants of the same; And we can assure your Honble House not
only its relative; but its natural Situation & Conveniences, are
almost in every Respect suitable for Domestic Trade; The
Premises being sufficiently level very fertile and well watered,
by many never failing Springs and a large Stream running
quite through the same; from which Circumstances We are of
opinion that no Survey of the same Quantity can excel it in the
County —
And we would further beg leave to present to your Honble
House, an exact plot of the premises, with the plan of a Town
adapted to the same; praying that your Honble House would
take the whole into Consideration, & pass an Act for Conveying
the same to Freeholders, and other Citizens in a Manner most
agreeable to your Wisdom and determination —
For which your petitioners are bound in duty to pray —
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Lincoln Pets, for a Town — (reasonable).
The request for a town in Lincoln was granted in an act entitled, An Act for
establishing a town in the county of Lincoln. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 223.
"That six hundred and forty acres of land allowed by law, including the said
village or township, shall be and the same is hereby vested in William Christian,
John Brown, Robert Mosby, Samuel Lapsley, peter Casey, John Smith, Samuel
Taylor, John Cowan, John Gilmore, James Harrod, Abraham Chaplaine, William
Kennedy, and Benjamin Logan."
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
NUMBER 27.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA—
The petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Lincoln
humbly sheweth —
That they labour under great inconveniences from the large
extent of said county and number of inhabitants therein; and
that the vast number of litigants whose causes must of necessity
be determined in the court of said county renders it very
tedious and expensive attending the same for the calling of
their causes and oppressive to the justices who determine
them—
Your petitioners beg leave to represent to your honourable
house that the aforesaid Grievances may be redressed by
laying off two distinct counties to be taken from the county
of Lincoln to be bounded as follows, viz. The first county —
By a line beginning at the confluence of sugar Creek and Ken-
tucky river thence proceeding by a direct line to John Crows
sinking spring, the mouth of Clark's Run, thence a straight
line to Wilson's Station in the fork of Clark's run thence the
same course continued to the line of Nelson County — Thence
with said line to the line of Jefferson county, thence with that
line to the Kentucky River, Thence up said river to the Begin-
ning. For one distinct county — The second county — By a
line beginning at the confluence of Kentucky river and sugar
creek, thence up said creek to the fork James Thompson lives
on, thence up said fork to the head thereof, thence a straight
line to where an East course from John Ellis's will intersect
the top of the ridge that divides the waters of Paint Lick from
the waters of Dicks river, thence along the top of the said ridge
southwardly opposite Harman's lick, thence 45° East to the
main Rock Castle river, thence running up said river to the
head thereof, thence with the ridge that divides the waters of
Kentucky river from the waters of Cumberland river to the
line of Washington county, thence along said line to the main
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
fork of Kentucky river that divides Fayette from Lincoln
county, thence down the said river to the Beginning for one
distinct County.
We your petitioners in reliance upon the propriety and the
Justice of your prayer, hope that you in your wisdom will duly
consider the premisses and that our request will be attended
to — and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Lincoln, to wit:
I hereby certify that it has been publickly advertized within
the said county that a petition would be presented to the next
session of Assembly for a division of the county of Lincoln by
a line to run as proposed in the within petition. Given under
this 26th day of September 1785.
(Copy) Willis Green Clk. L. C.
Endorsement on back of petition: November 23rd. 1785 — Refd. to Props.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for dividing Lincoln into
three distinct counties. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 118.
The division was to date from August, 1786. The counties were Mercer and
Madison.
NUMBER 28.
To THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES —
The petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of Fay-
ette Humbly sheweth
That from the extensive Boundaries of this County it
subjects many of its Inhabitants to great Inconveniences, In
Transacting their necessary business at their County Court,
Many of your Petitioners have at least Sixty five miles to
Lexington their present Court House; and most of the way
being uninhabited render it dangerous to your petitioners In
going to and from Court, from the frequent Incursions of Hos-
tile Savages, And as your petitioners conceive, that in all
governments the obtaining of Justice should be made as safe
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
& easy as possible to all its Citizens, and as no persons can
possibly receive any Injury from the Division of this County;
And your Petitioners acquire an Imediate Benefit. Pray, that
your Honorable House will at the next Session pass an act for
the Division thereof In manner following-
Beginning at the mouth of Uper Howards Creek on Ken-
tucky River runing up the Main fork thereof to the Head
thence with the Dividing Ridge between Kentucky & Licking
Creek untill it comes opposite the Head of Eagle Creek, from
thence a Direct Line to the nearest part of Ravin Creek a
Branch of Licking, Down Ravin Creek to the Mouth thereof,
thence with Licking to the Ohio— thence with the Ohio to the
mouth of Sandy Creek, Up Sandy to the Cumberland Mountain
with sd Mountain to Lincoln Line thence with the Lincoln
Line & Down Kentucky River to the Beginning, And all that
part within the Lines above described, be Established into a
seperate County. And your petitioners shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Fayette County to wit
I Levi Todd Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid do
certify That an advertisement setting forth (that a Petition
praying for a division of the County aforesaid nearly (if not
quite) agreeable to the plan mentioned in this Petition would
be presented to the next Session of the General Assembly) On
two different Court days at the Courthouse of the said County.
Test Levi Todd
Endorsement on back of petition: Nov. 25th. 1785 — Refd. to Props. —
(reasonable)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for dividing the County
of Fayette. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 89.
The division was to date from May, 1788. Bourbon Co.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 29.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF
VIRGINIA.
The Petition of James Hogan Humbly sheweth
That your Petitioner at the request and solicitations of a
number of the Inhabitants in the Kentucky District has pro-
vided himself with a Boat, Hands &c for the purpose of keeping
a Ferry across the Kentucky River from Lands of his own in
Lincoln County to his Lands in Fayette County at the mouth
of Hickmans Creek where the publick Warehouses are ordered
to be erected. Your Petitioner therefore prays this Honorable
House to pass an Act for establishing the same a publick Ferry
and fixing the rates of Ferriage. And whereas the keeping of a
Ferry across the Kentucky River will be attended with more
trouble and inconvenience than is usual on Rivers of that size
owing to its peculiar situation & its being fordable generally
six or seven months of the year your petitioner is induced to
ask your Honble House for such as Augmentation to the
general rates of Ferriage as may enable him to attend and serve
the publick faithfully —
And your Petitioner shall ever pray etc.
James Hogan
October 1st 1785 —
Fayette County
I Levi Todd Clerk of the County aforesaid do certify that
James Hogan did legally advertise that he intended presenting
this Petition at the ensuing Session of Assembly. Given under
my Hand this I3th day of September 1785 —
Levi Todd Cl.
Lincoln to wit: —
I hereby certify that James Hogan did advertise at the
Courthouse of said County on two several Court days that he
intended to prefer a Petition to the next Session of Assembly
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
for establishing a Ferry across the Kentucky at the mouth of
Hickman. Given under my hand this 4th day of October
1785—
Willis Green
Endorsement on back of petition: Nov. 29th. 1785 — (Refd. to Props) (reason-
able)
This and subsequent requests were granted in an act entitled, An Act for
establishing several new ferries. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 83.
NUMBER 30.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OP
VIRGINIA.
The Petition of David Crews Humbly sheweth That at the
request of sundry Inhabitants of the County of Lincoln &
others Your Petitioner was induced to build a Boat for the
purpose of Transporting passengers across the Kentucky River
near the mouth of Jacks Creek from Lands of his own in
Lincoln County to other Lands which he claims in the County
of Fayette to which place Roads are now clearing and gen-
erally adjudged the most convenient crossing place on the
Kentucky River above Hickmans Creek.
Your Petitioner prays that an Act may pass your Honora-
ble House establishing the same as a publick Ferry and to
ascertain the rates of Ferriage.
And your Petitioner shall ever pray &c
David Crews
Oct. 1st 1785—
Lincoln County Set.
I do hereby certify that an Advertisement was set up at
the Courthouse Door of this County at the July and August
Courts last, notifying that an application would be made to
the next General Assembly for the within purpose signed by
David Crew.
Teste Willis Green Cl. L. C.
Oct. 7th 1785—
Endorsement on back of petition: Dec. 9th, 1785 — (Refd. to Props) (Reason-
able)
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 31.
TO THE HONBLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA —
The Petition of William Steele Humbly sheweth
That your Petitioner has furnished himself with proper
Boats for the purpose of keeping a Ferry across the Kentucky
River at a place called the Stone lick from Lands of his own in
Fayette to the Land supposed to belong to John Craig in
Lincoln County, to which place a Road is now opening from
Lexington. Your Petitioner prays that an Act may pass your
Honble House for establishing the same a publick Ferry And
shall pray &c.
Will Steele
Notice is hereby given to all whome it may concern that a
petition will be presented to the next General Assembly to
obtain an act for Establishing a publick ferry across the Ken-
tucky River from the Lands of William Steele on the uper side
of the mouth of the Stone Lick branch in Fayette County to
the lands opposite in Lincoln County Oct. nth 1785
This day came before me David Henderson and made oath
that the within was set up on Fayette Court House two Courts.
Given under my hand this nth day of Oct. 1785 —
Wm. McConnell.
Endorsement on back of petition: Dec. 10 1785 — Refd. to Props — (Reason-
able)
NUMBER 32.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of sundry inhabitants of the County of Bourbon
humbly sheweth, That a Number of your petitioners are settled
in that part of the said County of Bourbon which is commonly
known by the name of Limestone Settlement about forty
miles distant from the place agreed on for holding the Court
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
of the said County, and which is not only a distinct settlement
at present from the part of the said County but must remain
so for many yea.s by the Intervention of a Mountainous tract
of Barren Land running down on each side of the main branch
of Licking Creek, that cannot be inhabited. And exposes your
petitioners to be surprised & murdered by the savages who fre-
quently infest such places. And the main branch of Licking
being a considerable and Rapid Water course often obstructs
a convenient communication with the other part of the County
and renders it inconvenient and expencive to suitors and others
to attend the present Courthouse. And altho it may be ob-
jected that the number of Inhabitants in the neighborhood of
Limestone are too inconsiderable to be separated from the other
part of the County at present. Yet when it is considered that
one of the principal inlets for Emigrants into the Country is
at this place, and from the Rapid Settlement that is now
making. There is no doubt but a sufficiency of Inhabitants
will soon be collected. Your Petitioners therefore pray that
your Hon. House will take their situation into consideration,
and Erect all that part of the said County of Bourbon, which
lies North of the main branch of Licking, To begin at the mouth
of the said Licking Creek, thence up the main branch thereof
to the Head thence a direct line to the Junction of the Maddison
& Russell County lines thence along the Russell line to Bigg
Sandy, thence down the same to the mouth, thence down the
Ohio River to the Beginning into a distinct County, and your
petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray
August 25th 1786 [Names.]
I do hereby certify that advertisements have been exhibited
according to Law for them shewing the Intention of the within
petitioners In presenting the same to the next General Assembly
John Edward Cl
Endorsement on back of petition : Octo. 26. 1786— Refd. to Props.— Rejected
— recommitted next session.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 33.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of
Bourbon humbly sheweth that advertisements have been
exhibited at the door of their Court House ever since the May
past at which time the Court of Bourbon took place for
dividing the same into three Counties, and as your Petitioners
conceive that such Division if granted will not only derange
all the public business of the County which has been very
much the Case by the late Division to the great injury of
individuals, but must so weaken the militia of the present
County as to render them incapable of defending themselves
as well as of paying their County Levy; the County having
now in all not more than four hundred effective militia, and
your Petitioners further conceive that as the Erection of Ken-
tuckey into a free independent state will most undoubtedly
take place and that the good people of the said District may
divide the same into Counties as they think proper: And as
your Petitioners conceive that the Petition to be presented
to your Honorable House for the Division of the County of
Bourbon, if it takes place may be very oppressive to your
Petitioners who pray that no such Divisions may take place,
but that the same may be postponed until the next session of
Assembly or until it is known whether the District is erected
into an independent State and your Petitioners as in duty
bound will ever pray
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Octo. 26th. 1786 — Refd. to Props — reason-
able— recommitted.
NUMBER 34.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Bourbon
humbly sheweth, that the most of them are settled in a new
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Petitions of the Rarly Inhabitants of Kentucky
Village called Washington in the settlement of Limestone in
the Cty aforesaid, where there are upwards of Seven hundred
Acres Land laid off for in & out lots for the use of sd Village,
and where there are now settled upwards of Fifty families
among whom are Mechanicks of divers kinds, and the prospect
of a rapid settlement being made to the great advantage of
village & Country. The sd Village is also judged to be situated
in the most central & convenient place to the adjacent County,
and that it would be the most proper place for erecting publick
buildings for the use of a County as soon as one is laid off. We
therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will estab-
lish the said Village into a Town by the name of Washington
and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c
August 22d 1786—
[Names.]
I do hereby certify that advertisements according to Law have
been Exhibited shewing the Intention of the petitioners In
presenting the same to the next General Assembly.
John Edward Cl. B. C.
Endorsement on back of petition: October 27th. 1787 — Refd. to Props —
(Reasonable)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for establishing a town
in the County of Bourbon. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 361.
The name was to be Washington. The trustees were Edmund Lyne, Edward
Waller, Henry Lee, Miles W. Conway, Arthur Fox, Daniel Boone, Robert Rankins,
John Gutridge, William Lamb.
NUMBER 35.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELE-
GATES,
the petition of James Holloway humbly sheweth,
That he entered the Service in March 1776, in the fourth
Virginia Regiment and continued as an officer in sd. Regiment
untill the engagement at White Plains, Sept. 1778, at which
time he became a Supernumerary. After returning home he
raised a company of militia and fought in the battle of Guilford
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
under command of Gen. Lawson, who had been Commander of
sd 4th Regiment. During the service, your petitioner was in
the following engagements, viz, at Trenton, Princeton, Brande-
wyne, German-Town and Monmouth.
As it has been allowed to several persons in similar circum-
stances to receive the bounty in lands which was stipulated for
three years service; and as your Petitioner continued more
than that time in the duties of a soldier on every opportunity
of action, and still continues to act his part in defending the
Western Frontiers in present expeditions against the Indian
Tribes; it is the prayer of this petition that your Honourable
House will take his case into consideration and indulge him
with such recompence as his conduct may seem to merit, such
as has been conferred in like cases, and such as may have been
requested or obtained by several whose circumstances rendered
them less proper objects of liberality to their Country: And
your Petitioner, as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.
Fayette County, Sept. 21 1786
Endorsement on back of petition: Holloways Rep. — October 27th. 1786 —
Rejected.
NUMBER 36.
THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER & GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of Lincoln County
humbly sheweth — That the Courthouse of the said County
Now is and heretofore has been on the Land of a private Indi-
vidual. In consequence of which no person could undertake
to Build houses and provide proper accomodations for those
whose business obliges them to attend the said Court of said
county. — That Colo Benjamin Logan the proprietor of the
Land whereon the courthouse now stands, has given up and
conveyed twenty six acres of Land to the Court of said County
for the purpose of laying off a Town and Building a courthouse
and prison thereon for the Use of said County. In consequence
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
of which conveyance, the Court of said County have proceeded
to lay off the said 26 acres of Land into Lotts and streets,
and have made sale of the Lotts some of which are considerably
improved.
The said 26 acres of Land lies within one half mile of where
the courthouse now stands, and as near the center of the County
as any place can be had with Equal advantage, The Roads to
and from the place where the Courthouse now stands being
easyly turned in a Direction to any part of the 26 acres of
Land, —
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Law may
pass for establishing a Town of the said 26 acres of Land, to be
called Stanford and that John Logan, Benjamin Logan, Isaac
Shelby, Henry Pauling, Walker Baylor, Wm. Morrison and
Alexander Blair — Be appointed Trustees of said town that the
Court of said County be empower'd to remove the Courthouse
and prison of said County to the Town of Stanford ; Or to Erect
new ones as to them shall seem most expedient for the holding
of Courts in said County for the future and your petitioners
shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Lincoln to wit
I hereby certify that it has been publickly advertised at the
Courthouse of said County on two several Court days, that the
within Petition would be preferr'd to the next Session of Assem-
bly Given under my hand this 28th day of September 1786.
Willis Green.
Endorsement on back of petition: Octo. 27. 1786 — Refd. to Props, (reason-
able)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to establish a town on
the lands of the late Benjamin Logan, in the county of Lincoln and to fix the place
of holding court therein. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 396.
The following were to be the trustees: Benjamin Logan, John Logan, William
Montgomery (?) , Henry Pauling, Isaac Shelby, Walker Baylor, Alexander Blane. (?)
The amount of land was twenty-six acres and the name of the town was
Stanford.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 37.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA —
The Petition of Jane Todd widow and relict of John Todd
late of the County of Fayette deceased, and also Executrix of
the said John Todd; and Robert Todd Excr. of the said John
Todd Humbly sheweth
That their Testator upon the opening of the Land office in
the year 1779 vested the greatest part of his personal property
in Land Warrants and settlements & Preemption Claims, which
were located in the District of Kentucky, but before titles could
be obtained for the Lands to which he was intitled, he was
killed by the Indians in an engagement with them, in the County
of Fayette, as is supposed, he not having been heard of since —
That none of the said Lands were surveyed in the Lifetime
of the Testator, and Since his decease your Petitioners have
been obliged to pay the expence of surveying & obtaining
Titles for the said Lands and to discharge Debts due from the
Testator to a much greater amount than the Personal Estate
That there are a number of Debts still due from the Estate
of the said John Todd and other claims upon the Estate for
Lands sold by the Testator, for which Titles cannot be made and
for the payment of which the few slaves belonging to the
Estate consisting of two Women only, must be sold but which
will not it is supposed be sufficient for that purpose. —
Your Petitioners beg leave further to observe that the Testa-
tor has only one Child Mary Owen Todd living, who is about
five years old, and that the Estate would be very sufficient to
support her genteely, & to pay all Taxes upon the Lands could
a Sale of Part of the Lands be made, and after discharging the
Debts a Sum not considerable be applied to the purpose of
purchasing Slaves for her, as she has several very valuable
Tracts of Land — That your Petitioner Jane who is entitled to
Dower would chearfully join in a sale of any part thereof for
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
the purpose aforesaid and would be satisfied to take her Dower
in the slaves to be purchased, in lieu of her Dower in the Lands—
Your Petitioners therefore Humbly Pray that an act may
pass, appointing Trustees to sell & convey as much of the Lands
belonging to the Estate as will pay off the Demands thereupon
and purchase two likely young negro fellows and one wench to
be vested in the said Mary Owen Todd & your Petitioner Jane
as aforesaid —
And they as in duty bound will ever pray &c.
Endorsement on back of petition: Octo. 28th. 1786. — Refcl. to props. —
(Reasonable)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act appointing trustees to
sell part of the lands of John Todd, deceased, for the payment of his debts and for
other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 369.
NUMBER 38.
To THE HONBLE THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of Mary Ervin most humbly sheweth That
your petitioner's Son John Askins served as a soldier in the
continental service for three years and afterwards as a captain
of the militia in the District of Kentucky and always distin-
guished himself as a good and faithful citizen of the United
States in general and of Virginia in particular. That he, in
common with the rest of his fellow soldiers, received an oppor-
tionment of Land in the District afsd as a Reward for his
services and to the great distress of your Petitioner lately
died— leaving neither wife nor children nor any person so nearly
related to him as your Petitioner — That during his life time he
sold fifteen hundred Acres of the above mentioned Land to
sundry persons whose titles have not been confirmed — Now
your Petitioner most reluctantly sheweth to this Honble House
That her afsd Son John Askins was not born in lawful wedlock
and therefore by the laws of this Commonwealth his property
escheats.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
But your petitioner most humbly prayeth that in considera-
tion of her being the nearest and dearest Relation to the de-
ceased, your Honble House will compassionate her situation
and permit a Law to pass relinquishing the Right of the com-
monwealth to the Land afsd. and vesting the Title in her,
reserving nevertheless the equitable Rights of the purchasers
afsd. and your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
Monongalia County SS. Before Me one of the Justices of
said County came Mary Ervin you worships [?] Petitioner &
made oath that the above mentioned John Askins was her son
and was illegetmate Born & is Dead and Died without Being
Tested or having any Heirs at Law
her
Mary X Ervin
mark
Sworn & Subscribed this nth Day of Oct 1786
Dal McCollum
Endorsement on back of petition: Octo. 30th. 1786 — Refd to props — (Reason-
able)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to vest the land whereof
John Askins died seized in Mary Arvin, [Ervin] his mother. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 12, 363.
NUMBER 39.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIR-
The Petition of Christopher Greenup Humbly sheweth
That your Petitioner being appointed Clerk to the Supreme
Court for the District of Kentucky, is obliged by virtue of his
office to transmit an Account, and pay into the publick Treas-
ury, all Taxes arising on Process and other Law proceedings
instituted, or admitted in the said Court, That the distance of
his residence from the seat of Government is so great, he cannot
possibly attend in person to make the Payments, but is under
the necessity of applying to and trusting such Persons as he
can procure to do that business for him, by which he is constant-
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
ly exposed not only to considerable expence and inconvenience
but the risk of incurring the Penalty inflicted by Law on Delin-
quent Clerks
Your Petitioner begs leave further to Represent to your
Honourable House, that he is entitled to draw money from the
Treasury annually for his Ex offico Services, which is also
attended with inconvenience and Risk, and might in a great
measure be remedied if he was authorized to retain in his hands
so much of the money arising on Taxes as wou'd satisfy his
demand, and also the Expence of procuring Record Books and
other incidental charges of the said Court (the Same being
first Liquidated and Certified by the Judges, to be just) and the
Treasurer authorized to receive such claims in discharge of
those Taxes —
Your Petitioner therefore prays that your Hon'ble House
will so far indulge him as to settle his publick account of Taxes
in the manner herein pointed out, or such other mode of indul-
gence as your Honors shall deem Just And your Petitioner
will pray &c
Christr Greenup
September 26th 1786
Endorsement on back of petition: Novr. 6th. 1786 — Refd. to Props. — (Reas-
onable)— (rept.)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An act for further amending an
Act intitled, an Act for establishing a district court on the western waters. Hen-
ings Statutes, Vol. 12, 704.
Provision was made for a receiver to avoid the necessity of judges and other
officials applying to counties for salaries.
NUMBER 40.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the county of
Fayette, humbly sheweth, that from the situation of your
petitioners they think it highly convenient that an Inspection
of Tobacco be established on the North side of the Kentucky
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
River at the mouth of Hickman Creek, your Petitioners there-
fore prays this honorable house to take the same under their
consideration and to pass a law for the purpose aforesaid.
And your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Fayette County Virginia to wit —
I Levi Todd Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid do
certify that an advertisement was set up at the door of the
Court house of the said County on the Court days in the months
of July and August notifying that a Petition would be presented
the next Session of the General Assembly praying that a
Warehouse may be established on the North side of Kentucky
River at the mouth of Hickmans Creek. Given under my
hand this Seventeenth day of September 1787.
Levi Todd
Endorsement on back of the petition: October 19th. 1787 — Refd. to proposi-
tions— (reasonable) (repd)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for establishing several
new inspections of tobacco and reviving and establishing others. Henings
Statutes, Vol. 12, 580.
This act provides inspection in Fayette, Mercer, Mason, Madison, and Bour-
bon counties.
An earlier act provided for inspection of tobacco, entitled, An Act for estab-
lishing inspections of tobacco on the western waters. Henings Statutes, Vol.
11, 345.
This was in October, 1783, and provided inspection in Fayette, Lincoln, and
Jefferson counties.
The provisions generally included in the inspection acts may be seen in a
general act entitled, An Act for reviving several public warehouses for the re-
ception of Tobacco and other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 9, 153.
Several acts previous to this had expired in 1775, and it was now "thought
expedient that some temporary method should be provided for the reception and
inspection of tobacco at or near the heads of the rivers and creeks."
Among the details of inspection it is provided that "if the inspectors, upon
breaking open a hogshead, shall agree that the same is merchantable they shall
weigh such tobacco and the ca§k, entering in their books and stamping on the
cask the mark, number, gross, tare, and new weight thereof, and give to the owner
a note or receipt for the same," etc.
These notes of the warehouse "shall pass in payment of levies, officers fees,
and other tobacco debts payable in the counties," etc. Forging and counterfeit-
ing tobacco notes renders liable "to suffer death without benefit of clergy."
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Petitions oj tlie Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
NUMBER 41.
To THE HONORABLE THE ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA —
The Petition of Ignatius Mitchell humbly Sheweth—-
That your Petitioner is possessed of a Tract of Land lying
on the River Ohio, at the mouth of Lawrence's Creek about
Six miles below Limestone, a Spot remarkably advantageously
situated for a Town, it is well known, to have an excellent
Bank on the River, and from accurate Surveys a road far
preferable to any other, may be obtained: Your Petitioner
conceives it unnecessary to detail the advantages of this Spot,
and begs leave to refer your Honbl House to the Representa-
tives of Bourbon and Fayette Counties, for particulars.—
Your Petitioner prays that a Town by the name of Charles
Town may be established by an Act of your Hona House at
the aforesaid Spot, subject to such regulations as your wisdom
may direct; And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever
pray &c.
We the Subscribers are of opinion, that the Spot, before
described, is well calculated for a Town; and a good road may
be made thereto,
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 20th. October. 1787 — Referred to propo-
sitions— (reasonable) (Repd.)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to establish a Town on
lands of Ignatius Mitchell, in Co of Bourbon. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 608.
The trustees were John Grant, Charles Smith, Jr., Thomas Warren, Miles
Withers Conway, Henry Lee, John Machir, Robert Rankin.
The name of the town was to be Charlestown.
NUMBER 42.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELE-
GATES.
The petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of the District
of Kentucky humbly sheweth That the Commissioners ap-
pointed to settle the pay rations and other claims accruing from
two Expeditions carried on in the year 1786 under General
Clark and Col. Logan have sat in different parts of the District
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
and issued certificates for claims to them preferred for such
Services & property as is enumerated in the Law under which
they acted But it appears there are some Claims which have not
been offered for settlement owing to the inattention of the
claimers and their not having Knowledge of the Law and in
some instances Certificates have issued for Property supposed
to be lost which has since come to hand, and as there was
Property necessary for the army which is not particularly
mentioned in the Law such as Liquor, Vessels for the transporta-
tion of the Troops and stores, some Tents, & a few other articles
which tho necessary for the army but not being enumerated
in the Law. The Commissioners did not think themselves
justifiable to issue Certificates therefor — Your Petitioners
therefore pray that the Law may be amended authorizing and
directing the County Courts upon due proof being made to
grant Certificates for claims yet unsettled for all necessaries
furnished or Impressed for the use of the said armies, and where
it is made appear that the property for which a Certificate is
issued is tendered or restored to the original owner that he
may be called on and compelled to deliver to the commanding
officer of the County or some other person such property or
Certificate of the same value under such penalty and regulation
as the Honorable Houses of Assembly may judge proper or
that such other method may be desired that may render equal
Justice to the Inhabitants of the District and we in Duty
bound will ever Pray &c.
[Names.]
We are of opinion this Petition is just and reasonable witness
our Hands this igth day of Septr 1787.
Edmund Lyne
Isaac Shelby
Rich. Taylor
Endorsement on the back of petition: 22nd, October 1787. Referred to
Propositions. — County Courts to finish business — not to extend allowances —
(rejd.)
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to amend the Act for
appointing Commissioners to liquidate and settle the expenses incurred in two
expeditions carried on from the Kentucky District against the neighboring
Indians and for other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 521.
By the act the powers of the Commissioners were extended. They were
authorized to settle claims, grant certificates to pay militia necessary to defense
of frontier during 1786 and 1787 and for removing arms and ammunition from
Limestone to Lexington, and from Blockhouse to Danville.
The act first creating the board of commissioners is an act entitled, An Act
for appointing Commissioners to liquidate and settle the expenses incurred in
two expeditions carried on from the Kentucky District against the neighboring
Indians. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 231.
"Whereas the citizens of this Commonwealth in the District of Kentucky
have lately carried on two expeditions against the neighboring tribes of Indians
and it is reasonable that such services should be rewarded, Be it enacted," etc.
The commissioners were Edmund Lyne, Isaac Shelby, Richard Taylor.
The lands of officers and soldiers in the Kentucky District were to be exempt
from taxation until further direction of the Legislature.
NUMBER 43.
To THE HON'BLE THE SPEAKER AND DELEGATES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
VIRGINIA —
The Petition of Sundry inhabitants of the County of Fayette
and those contiguous to Steeles ferry, near the mouth of Stone
Lick on the Kentucky River. Sheweth to your honors that
your Petitioners are desirous of making Tobaco to pay their
taxes and for other purposes and have not at this time any
Convenient warehouse or Inspection to receive it when made,
they therefore pray that your honors may pass an Act to estab-
lish Inspections on the Land of William Steele, who has already
a convenient house erected for the purpose at his landing near
his ferry on the said River, it being a very convenient place for
the reception and shiping Tobaco, and convenient to a large
number of the Inhabitants of the said County, and your Peti-
tioners shall pray &c &c.
[Names.]
Fayette County Virginia to wit
I Levi Todd Clerk of the Court of the county aforesaid do
certify that it was publickly advertised at the Door of the
Courthouse of the County aforesaid at the Courts held in the
months of July and August that a Petition would be presented
to the next General Assembly for the Establishing a Warehouse
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
for the reception of Tobacco at or near Steels landing near the
mouth of Stone Lick
Given under my hand this I2th day of September 1787.
Levi Todd.
Endorsement on back of petition: 22 October 1787 — Referred to Props. —
reasonable — (rept.)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to enable the citizens of
this Commonwealth to discharge certain taxes, by the payment of tobacco. Hen-
ings Statutes, Vol. 12, 258.
Notes for inspected tobacco were to be used and rated at twenty shillings for
one hundred pounds. They were good in payments to superior judges, and ex-
penses of government due to public treasury in case of surplus.
NUMBER 44.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
the petition of James Buchanan of the County of Bourbon
humbly sheweth that your Petitioner having acquired at a
great expence the claim of one half the lower blue Licks on
Licking Creek of a certain James Parberry of Henry County
& hath lately had the same divided and conveyed by Deeds
in Fee Simple which were acknowledged and recorded according
to Law: Your Petitioners part of the said Tract or parcel of
Land includes the only good place for a Ferry across said Creek
on the road leading from the mouth of Limestone to Lexington
& your Petitioner at the request of many of his Neighbours
hath provided a Boat & hands at his own Expence & set over
passengers in time of high water from many of whom he has
neither received Fee nor reward therefore your Petitioner prays
that a Ferry may be established on his Lands on the one side
of Licking Creek to his Lands on the opposite Shore. Your
Petitioner lately alarmed by an advertisement set up at the
door of the Court House of this County by said Parberry
declaring his Intentions of applying to the next General Assem-
bly for the establishment of a Ferry on what he calls his Lands
on the said Creek running parallel with your Petitioner's which
Place your Honorable House may be assured is a rapid and
entirely unfit for a Ferry & therefore he can derive very^little
advantage to himself but would do much Injury to your Peti-
t 103 ]
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentitcky
tioner who hath for some Time lived with his Family on the
Place much exposed to the Indians: Your Petitioner in support
of the above allegations hath obtained a certificate of Colo
James Garrard Surveyor of the said County who run the
dividing Line by Consent of the Parties which Line stands as
the Boundary mentioned in the Deed To which Certificate your
Petitioner hopes your Honorable House will give the highest
credit he being no way interested. Your Petitioner begs Leave
further to inform your Honorable House that the said Parberry
had prior to the Sale of the one Half sold to your Petitioner
disposed of his other Half of the said Claim unto William
Buchanan at the same time giving sufficient writings for the
Conveyance of the Same and receiving full value in Lands lying
on Holstan's river which obligations have since been assigned
over and now become the claim of Mr. James French of the
District of Kentuckey. And your petitioner for the better
Information of your Honorable House hath inclosed a true
copy of the Articles of agreement between William Buchanan
and sd Parberry & your Petitioner humbly hopes that your
Honorable House will take the same Into consideration &
grant him the said Ferry & your Petitioner as in duty bound
shall ever pray.
James Buchanan
This is to certify that being call'd on by Mr. James Parberry
to Divide the Tract of Land that contains the lower Blue Licks
and having run the Dividing Line through the two Licks, one
on each side of Licking Creek and having View'd the situation
of the Landings proper for a Ferry are of opinion that the
Lands of Mr James Buchanan is by far the most proper for a
ferry By reason of a short Break of the Hills which forms a
perfect Eddy and secure Landing when the Creek is past ford-
ing which runs rapidly over Mr. Parberrys Landing, and I do
further certify that I am not Interested any way in the Estab-
lishment of the ferry at the Lick, only as a Citizen Given under
my hand this 15th day of Sept 1787.
James Garrard, Surveyor Bourbon C.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
I John Edmund Clerk of Bourbon County do Certify that the
within Petition was advertised according to Law
John Edmund C B C
September the 2Oth 1787.
Endorsement on back of petition. 27th October 1787 — Referred to Propo-
sitions— (rept.)
NUMBER 45.
TO THE HONBLE THE SPEAKER AND DELEGATES OF THE GENL ASSEMBLY OP VIR-
GINIA
The petition of Sundry inhabitants of the County of Fayette
and those Contiguous to the Mouth of Craigs Creek on the
River Kentuckey sheweth to your Honors that your petitioners
are desirous of making Tobacco to pay their Taxes and for
other purposes and have not at this time any Convenient
Warehouses or Inspection to receive it when made they there-
fore pray that your Honors may pass an act to establish inspec-
tions on the Land of Genl Scott near the mouth of Craigs Creek
on the said River it being the only place for a considerable
distance on the River where the banks are acceptable we
farther pray your Honours to establish a ferry upon said Scotts
Land at the same place & your petitioners shall pray &c &c
[Names.]
Fayette County Virginia to wit
I Levi Todd clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid do
certify that it was publickly advertised at the door of the
Courthouse of the County aforesaid on two several Court days
to wit in the months of June & July 1787 That a Petition would
be presented to the next General Assembly for the Establishing
a Ferry and also a Ware house for the Inspection of Tobacco
on the Kentucky River on the Lands of Genl. Charles Scott
near the mouth of Craigs Creek In witness whereof I have
hereto set my Hand this Twelfth day of Septr 1787.
Levi Todd
Endorsement on back of petition. Nov. 6. 1787 — Referred to Propositions —
reasonable — reported.
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
NUMBER 46.
TO THE HONBLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Lexington
and County of Fayette most humbly sheweth
That whereas the said Town being well designed and coni-
modiously, situated in the midst of a fertile country; and haveing
met with the earliest attention and approbation of your Hon-
orable body as will appear by the Act establishing the same,
hath continued to increase in population and improvement, so
that it is the most flourishing and best peopled of any at this
time in the District of Kentucky.
And as we are persueded that a Strict attention to the inter-
nal police of the same, which like that of Similar bodies require
perticular rules, for its regulation, would greatly contribute to
the comfortable accommodation of its inhabitents; and conse-
quently be an inducement to well disposed persons, artizans
and mechanicks who from motives of convenience do prefer a
Town life to come and settle among us. And believing that
the true interest of our Country will be greatly promoted by
such. Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray that the Honor-
able the General Assembly will be pleased to take these matters
into consideration, and if they should deem it expedient, pass
an Act erecting the said Town into a body Corporate, with such
rights and priviledges as other inland Towns which are Incor-
porated, within this Commonwealth have and possess, as the
most effectual means of produceing those desirable ends above
specefied. And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever
pray &c. [Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Nov. 6th. 1787. — Referred to propositions
— rejd.) (repd.)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act concerning certain regu-
lations in the town of Lexington and county of Fayette. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 13, 191.
Trustees were to be elected by all living within a mile, owning twenty-five
pounds of property, and having lived there six months, except negroes and mu-
lattoes.
Trustees could erect market house, appoint clerk of market, repair streets,
impose taxes under one hundred pounds, and make ordinances.
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7<? the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 47.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIR-
GINIA.
We your Petitioners Sundry of the Inhabitants of the coun-
ties of Fayette Bourbon & Madison humbly sheweth, that from
the late Division of the counties of Fayette & Lincoln, the
remote and detach'd, situation of a number of Inhabitants on
the extreame parts of the new counties conceive ourselves
greatly discommoded and a large number are excluded the
advantage and benefit of an easy and convenient access to the
place of publick Resort, therefore the good Intension of the
Legislature is not fully extended to the community in general
tho a much larger expense incur'd Pray a division of that part
of the counties of Fayette & Bourbon & Madison (and the court
house to be fix'd, in the Town of Boonsborough) to witt Begin-
ning at the mouth of silver creek thence up the same to the
mouth of Taylors fork thereof, thence a strait line to saltpetre
cave near Capt. David Gases, thence a strait line to the uper
Blue Lick, thence a southeast course to Russel county line,
thence with said line so far as a Northwest course will strike
Bramlets lick on Stoners fork of Licking creek, thence down the
same so far as a southwest course will strike the head of the
main branch of Boons Creek, thence down the same to the
Kentuckey River thence Down said River to the mouth of
Silver Creek the Beginning —
And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c
[Names.]
This is to inform the publick that there will be a petition pre-
sented to the next General Assembly of Virginia for a Division
of part of the counties of Fayette, Bourbon & Madison to be
added into one county as followeth viz —
Beginning at the mouth of Tates Creek, thence up the same
to Taylors fork thereof thence a strait line to a salt petar cave
near Capt. Gass's — Thence a strait line to the Blue Lick — ,
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
thence a southeast course to Russel county line thence with said
line so far as a northwest course will strike Bramblet lick on
Stoners fork of Licking creek. Thence down the same so far
a south west cours will strike the head branch of Boons Creek,
thence down said creek to the Kentucky River, then down said
River to the mouth of Silver Creek the Beginning
This was advertised two Courts at Lexington.
Levi Todd Cl
Endorsement on back of petition: Nov. 6. 1787. — Referred to propositions
— reasonable — reported. See note to Petition No. 54.
NUMBER 48.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENL. ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
The Petition of the People of Limestone; and other Inhabi-
tants of the County of Bourbon Humbly sheweth that your
Petitioners on account of their detach'd situation; subject to
much danger inconvenience and expence; in having to attend
their transactions of their County Business at the distance of
forty miles from their habitations (for the most part surrounded
with all the horrows of a Savage Enemy.)
Petitioned your Honourable house at their last Session for
a division of the sd County of Bourbon; which for reasons
appearing to them, they thought proper to postpone the con-
sideration of till the present Session. That your petitioners
finding the inconveniences greatly increased; and that it is to
your honorable house only they are to look up for relief. Beg
leave to recall your attention to their disagreeable situation;
and to crave the indulgence of your honorable house in laying
before you a state of their grievances.
Your Petitioners humbly observe that Twelve or fifteen
miles of the way they must travil to their Courthouse is thro a
Barren Country unfit for Cultivation that this aggrevates their
danger as it is and may remain a secure Asylum to the Savages
who infest the road, that for the most part it is unsafe to travil
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
it in the Summer time unless in Companies of armed men, and
that in the Winter time, the journey to or from Court cannot
be perform'd in much less time than two daies, And that there
are several considerable £ rapid water courses, which often
obstructs a convenient communication with the other part
of the sd County. Which renders their attendance at Court
extremely expensive & inconvenient, that they are often under
the indispensible obligations. of attending Court being subject
as they become freeholders to attend on Grand Juries & other
necessary duties which as Citizens they are liable to. That from
being so much expos'd to the inroads of the Savages they have
not a horse left for every tenth man. Neither can they on
these accounts attend their Elections, which will ever be oppres-
sive; as it will be in the power of the Inhabitants, South of
Main Licking, to send members to the Genl. Assembly; opposed
to a division who may be unwilling to become advocates for
our distress, or not feeling the inconvenience we labour under
unable to represent them ;
That your Petitioners while attending Court are obliged to
leave their dearest connexions exposed to the Merciless attack
of a Cruel enemy, and that the division of Fayette hath afforded
them little or no relief in any of these cases, And that the Clerks
office being kept almost at the extremity of the sd County.
Subjects them to additional inconveniences as recourse thereat
is absolutely necessary in many Cases.
Your Petitioners are duly sensible of the Inconsistancy of
dividing Counties where the numbers are so few as there is at
present but humbly conceive their situation to be peculiarly
distressing; And that a division might be a means of speedy
strengthing their frontiers whereas few will ever risk their lives
& property under the present disadvantages; Your Petitioners
also expect that the Erection of the district of Kentucky into
an Independent State will soon take place; and that they must
continue to groan under their present Burden, till a Legislative
body is formed here; unless relieved by your honorable house,
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Petitions of the Early Inliabitants of Kentucky
this they humbly conceive to be another cause of remonstrance,
and for reasons already appearing they will not have a repre-
sentation in forming the Constitution, to which their property,
their lives and happiness will be subject.
Your Petitioners therefore pray your honorable house to
take their case into consideration, and grant them a division
of the sd County of Bourbon as follows, Beginning at the mouth
of Licking, runing up the main branch thereof to the head,
thence a direct line to the nearest part of Russell County line,
along the Russell line to Bigg Sandy, & down the same to the
mouth, thence down the Ohio River to the Beginning into a
distinct County. And your Petitioners as in duty Bound will
ever Pray &c.
[Names.]
September the igth 1787.
I do hereby certify that an advertisement of the within
Petition was set up at the door of Bourbon Court House.
John Edward C. B. C.
NUMBER 49.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The petition of sundry Inhabitants of the County of Bour-
bon, humbly sheweth that your petitioners warned by two adver-
tisements one from the neighborhood of Limestone, and the
other from the County of Madison proposing to petition your
honorable house for the devision of Bourbon County. The
first to divide the County by a line running up the main fork
of Licking, The other to run from the head of Boon's creek near
the Kentucky river a North East course untill it strikes Stoner's
fork the south branch of Licking and up the same until a south
east course shall strike the Russell line. Your Petitioners beg
leave to observe the division proposed from Limestone will leave
this County very weak and will render both Counties (should
a division take place) very deficient both as to the judiciary as
well as to the military departments. They further shew that
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To the General Assembly of yirginia
the settlements of Limestone do not contain more than one
hundred and thirty militia, nor more than one hundred and
fifty Tithables, Their taxable property under the revenue law
does not amount by the last return to ioo£ as strength and
wealth altogether inadequate to the expences of a new County,
but as inconsiderable as it is, it will greatly distress the remaining
part should a division take place, we beg leave to observe the
division proposed from Madison to include a part of this county
will run within four miles of Bourbon courthouse, and take fifty
settlers, and drag them across the Kentuckey river through
clifts and hills almost impasible to the proposed courthouse at
Boonsborough amoungst whome are many of your petitioners
who are living near twenty miles from the proposed courthouse
and within six miles of the present, Your petitioners beg leave
further to observe that the good people of the present County of
Bourbon is sufficiently distressed already with the payment of
their County and the whole military strength of the County as
it now stands doth not exceed four hundred, Therefore your
petitioners hope that your honourable house sensible of the
detached small Bodies of settlers in all new frontier Counties,
and that it is impossible to bring the Courthouse and church to
every mans door and that some individuals in all such cases
ought to give up their private case for the good of the people
at large untill such time as the county may populate and such
division become necessary, Your petitioners therefore pray that
no such division may take place at present. — And as in duty
bound shall ever pray &c
[Names,]
Endorsement on back of petition: 1st. November-1787 — Referred to Props.
— Rejected — (reasonable in House) (bill drawn)
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NUMBER 50.
TO THB HONORABLB TUB GENBRAI, ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The Petition of the Trustees of the Transylvania Seminary
humbly sheweth.
That the one sixth part of all legal Fees received by Sur-
veyors, are by the Law appropriated to the University of William
& Mary, a Seminary which We greatly respect but from which
the Inhabitants of Kentucky are too remote to derive any
immediate Advantage; And as the Legislature have repeatedly
manifested their benevolent Disposition of providing the Means
of Education within this district, We are induced to pray that
you would be pleased to direct that the One Sixth part of the
said Fees hereafter arising within the said District may be
paid by the several principal surveyors therein to the Trustees
of the Transylvania Seminary for the Use and Support thereof
We also beg leave to represent that many Entries and
Surveys of Land have been made in the district which may
become justly liable to be escheated thro' the default of Heirs
or otherwise; But as it is supposed that such Lands cannot be
regularly escheated before Grants have been obtained, for
which no Person is authorized to apply, such Lands will lapse or
become forfeited in such a way as that other private adventurers
may reenter and obtain Grants for the same to the great Injury
of the Transylvania Seminary, the Trustees of which are
empowered to appropriate to its use twelve thousand Acres
of cscheatable Lands. We therefore pray that an act may pass
declaring, That Claims to unpatented Lands may be escheated
in the same manner and for the same Reasons as are prescribed
by Law in the Case of Lands for which the Titles have been
compleated, and that it may be particularly directed, how &
by whom such escheatable Lands may be surveyed, or the
surveys returned to the Register's office so that a proper Grant
may issue.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
And your Petitioners shall ever pray &c
Signed by order & in Presence of the Board-
Test: Harry Innes Ck.
Ebenezer Brooks, Clk.
Endorsement on back of petition: 22d. November 1787. — Referred to Propo-
sitions— Survey's fees rejected — escheatable survey's rejd. — (repd.)
NUMBER 51.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OP DELEGATES,
the petition of Sundry inhabitants of the County of Fayette
and District of Kentucky humbly sheweth,
That from their local situation, they find it very incon-
venient, and attended with considerable expence, to send their
Tobacco to any of the warehouses for the reception of Tobacco,
now by Law established, and that there is a place on the Lands
of William Steele near the mouth of the Stone Lick Creek, where
a warehouse might be established, which would be very advan-
tagious to them and to many of their neighbours, and where
there is one of the most convenient landing places on the river
Kentucky. —
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that an act may
pass by the Assembly, establishing a warehouse for the recep-
tion of Tobacco, on the lands of William Steele near where the
Stone Lick Creek emptys into the Kentucky: And your peti-
tioners as in Duty bound shall pray —
[Names.]
Fayette County Virginia to wit
I do certify that it was advertised at two different Court
days at the Door of the Courthouse in the County aforesaid
that a petition would be presented to the next General Assembly
agreeable to the purport of the within Witness my hand this
loth Sept. 1788—
Levi Todd Cl
Endorsement on back of petition: 23 October — Referred to propositions —
(reasonable) (repd.)
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NUMBER 52.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The petition of the subscribers Inhabitants of Fayette
County humbly sheweth that we conceive a Division of our
County would be highly condusive to the convenience, safety &
public Interest of a great Number of its Inhabitants.
Many of our Magistrates as well as litigants live so remote
from Lexington where our Courts are held that they cannot
attend without Incuring a greater expense than they can sus-
tain & from the great Number of Inhabitants in the . . .
County our Docket which is already crouded must shortly be
so far in arrears as greatly to Delay the due administration
of Justice.
Our Militia have been formed into three Batalions and before
the Division we wish for can take place there will probably
be more than four which in our scattered situation prevents
us from exerting our strength against the savages with the
same unanimity & vigour as if the extent of the County was
less and our Commanding officers more contiguous to each other
We beg leave also to present that our County contains three
times the Number of Inhabitants as any other County within
the District and unless it is Divided it will destroy every idea
of equality in representation.
For these Reasons we humbly pray that the County of
Fayette may be Divided by a line to begin on the Kentuckey
River at Todds Ferry to run a direct course to the south Fork
of Elkhorn opposite Abraham Bowmans house thence down the
Creek to the old Road from Lexington to the surveyers office
thence a Direct line to the five mile tree on the Leestown Road
thence a straight line to Run one mile below Wm. Russells to
the line of Bourbon.
N B since our advertisement we are inform'd the Division
line propos'd is disagreeable to some of the Inhabitants of our
County unless the following alteration is made (viz) From Todds
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Ferry to run a straight line to the six mile marked tree on the
Lcestown Road thence a direct course to cross North Elkhorn
three miles below Wm. Russells to the line of Bourbon which
alteration we have no objection to if the Honourable Assembly
think proper to redress our grievances
And your petitioners shall ever pray —
[Names.]
We the Subscribers do certify that the proposd alteration in
regard to the Division of Fayette viz. From Todds Ferry to
run a straight line to the six mile markt Tree on the Lees Town
Road thence a Direct course to cross North Elkhorn three
miles below William Russells to the Bourbon Line, that we
think the Division reasonable and necessary and that we wish
our Delegates to use their endeavours to carry the same into
Execution.
Septr 1 7th 1788—
Robt Todd
Robt. Johnson
Wm. McConnell
Richd Young
Andrew Gatewood
Lewis Craig
Wm. Henry
Benjn Craig
Jn. Clark
Richd W Shippy
Laban Shippy
Colby Shippy
This is to certify that I was aganst the first proposed division
of Fayatte & had signd a petetion against the proposed plan
but I am now willing that the county may be devd agreeable
to the above direction, which I think reasonable & wish the
above Devision to be granted as witness my Hand this i8th of
Sepr 1788—
Edwd. Payne.
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Fayette Set.
Coleby Ship of this County made oath before me one of
the Justices of said County that he saw publickly advertized
at the Court house of the aforesaid County at August Court the
Division of Fayatte as set forth in the petition for that purpose
and that he personally applyd to Levi Todd Clerk of sd county
Court for a certificate of the same and that he refused to give
one, application was made this day
Sworn to before me this 22d day of Sepr 1788
Richd Young
Endorsement on back of petition. 24 October, 1788. — Referred to props—
(rejected,) (reasonable)
Request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for dividing the county of
Fayette into two distinct counties. Henin'gs Statutes, Vol. 12, 663.
Woodford County.
NUMBER 53.
To THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA —
The petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of Fayette,
humbly sheweth —
That your petitioners deeply interested in the welfare of
their County, cannot but express their disapprobation of the
artifices made use of by Individuals, to bring about a division
of their County, and would suggest the impropriety of entering
upon this business circumstanced as our District is with respect
to the State of Virginia —
They conceive the proposed division highly improper at this
period, as the infancy of their County, renders it entirely
unecessary and as their numbers are too inconsiderable to
enable them, to accumulate expense, without adding either to
their convenience or general welfare —
They would therefore hope, that your Honble. House would
not assent to the division of their County at this period — And as
they conceive it unecessary to detail the reasons in opposition
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
to the division beg leave to refer your Honb. House to the
Delegates from their County—
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition. 24th October 1788 — Referred to Proposi-
tions— reasonable — rejected.
NUMBER 54.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELE-
GATES.
The petition of Sundry inhabitants of the County of Bourbon;
humbly sheweth. That your Petitioners heard with great con-
cern the rejectment of their petition to your last session for a
Division of their County. Your petitioners are induced again
from the hardships and disadvantages they labour under to
approach your honourable house; and to lay before you the
grievances they labour under; by being connected with the
County of Bourbon, (viz) your petitioners live in the Lime-
stone settlements near the Ohio River and are detached from
every other Inhabitant of said County — at least thirty miles,
except a small settlement at the Blue Licks, they have forty
miles to Court, thirty of which is thro, a verry dangerous
Wilderness exposed in every part to the attacks of the savages
and there are four large Creeks to Cross; which in all rainey
Seasons are not fordable.
These things it is hoped will be sufficient inducements to
your honourable house to Grant to your petitioners a division
of their County; especially also; When your honourable house
is informed that the settlements near Limestone are lately
greatly increased by a number of respectable Inhabitants; so
that there are now Two hundred and six Families & three
hundred and fifty Tithables; and as Limestone is the inlet for
Emigration by Water to this Western Country; there is a
prospect of the settlements being rapidly increased and largely
extended which will be greatly promoted by your honourable
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Petitions of the Rarly Inhabitants of Kent^^cky
house granting to your petitioners the priviledges and authority
of a County. We your petitioners therefore pray that a divi-
sion of sd County of Bourbon may be made in the following
manner — Beginning at the Junction of Licking with the Ohio
runing up the main branch of Licking to the head, then a
direct course to strike the nearest part of Russell County line,
thence along said line to Bigg Sandy, and down the same to the
Ohio River, thence down the Ohio River to the Beginning — all
which part of said County lying on the North side of the main
branch of Licking — to be a New and distinct County—
In full confidence that your honourable House will do us
every act of Justice; We as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Bourbon County
I do hereby certify that I have the above petition for the
Division of Bourbon was advertised according to Law
Test John Edwards Clerk of Bourbon.
This will notify the publick that a petition will be presented to
the next general assembly for the purpose of forming a New
County out of the Counties of Bourbon, Fayette and Madison,
Viz, Begining at the mouth of Silver Creek, thence up the same
to the mouth of Taylors Fork thereof, thence a direct line, to
a saltpeter Cave, near Capt. David Gasses thence a strait line
to the Blue Licks, thence a South East Course to Russell
County line, thence with said line so far as North West Course,
will strike Bramlets lick, on Stoners forks of licking Creek,
thence a strait line to the head of the main Branch of Boons
Creek thence down the same to the Kentuckey River thence
down the River to the Beginning: —
August the 25th 1787 I do hereby Certify that this adver-
tisement have been set up according to Law at Bourbon [Court]
House.
John Edward Clerk Bourbon Co.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
August the 28th 1787 I do certify that the within has been
advertised as the Law directs.
Will Irvine Clk, M C
Endorsement on back of petition: 25 Octo. 1788. — Refd. to Props. — For a
Division — repd.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for dividing Bourbon.
Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 658. Mason County.
The last two paragraphs were filed with this petition but belong to No. 47.
NUMBER 55.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Bourbon County
South of Main Licking Humbly sheweth — That your petitioners
being notified by an advertisement at the Court House Door
that a petition would be presented to your Honourable House
praying for a Division of Bourbon County by Main Licking
beg leave to observe that a petition of this Kind was rejected
at your Last Session as your petitioners are informed for the
want of a sufficient number in that part of the County praying
a Division your petitioners can affirm with confidance that the
number of Titles North of Main Licking does not by the Last
return amount to more than One Hundred and Seventy a
number altogether inadequate to the Expence of a County and
your petitioners cannot but express their astonishment when
they find a clause in their petition praying that the monies paid
by them for erecting the Public Buildings in the County should
be repaid by your Petitioners this part of their petitions is as
unreasonable as the other part is designing the whole calcu-
lated to gratify the ambition & averice of a few Individuals;
Your Petitioners therefore pray that no such Devision may be
granted, but should a Division be thought reasonable that
your petitioners may not be obliged to refund any money paid
toward erecting the public buildings & Your petitioners shall
ever pray &c. ,
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 25th Octo. 1788 — Referred to props. —
rejected.
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NUMBER 56.
To THE HONORABLE THB GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP VIRGINIA —
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the county of Bour-
bon Humbly sheweth that Every other county in the District
of Kentucky have been indulged with the advantages of Pub-
lick warehouses for the reception of Tobacco and that your
Petitioners living near the Courthouse & on Licking Creek in
the most populous part of said County — too far remote from
either of the other — Inspections to remove their Tobacco by
Land without much labour and Expence. and your petition-
ers fully sensible of the disposition of your Honorable House
to do Justice & upon all occations to afford relief to such of the
community as you conceive is intitled to your patronage we
your petitioners therefore pray that an inspection for the re-
ception of Tobacco may be established on the South fork of
Licking Creek at the Confluence of Stoner and Hinksons forks
of said Creek and in the fork near Isaac Ruddles Mill which
your petitioners conceive will be of great publick utility and
of singular advantage to them provided the article of Tobacco
should continue to be of value and your petitioners as in duty
bound will ever pray
[Names.]
July 1788 I do hereby certify that the within Petition has been
legally advertised at the Door of the Courthouse the several
days required by Law given under my hand. —
John Edwards Clerk Bourbon County
Endorsement on back of petition : 25th Octo. 1788. Referred to propositions
— reasonable — on Isaac Ruddles land — (repd.)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for establishing an inspec-
tion of tobacco on the lands of Isaac Ruddle, in the county of Bourbon. Henings
Statutes, Vol. 12, 677.
According to this act it was not lawful to build houses within fifty yards, in
which fire was to be used.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 57.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
A petition for Establishment of the Town of Bourbon Court-
house [One of several papers circulated.]
[Names.]
I do hereby certify that a petition for the Establishment of a
Town at Bourbon Courthouse was advertised at said court-
house according to Law
Test John Edwards Clerk Bourbon County Court
September 2d 1789 John Edwards
NUMBER 58.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP VIRGINIA. —
The petition of sundry inhabitants of the District of Ken-
tucky Humbly sheweth. — That whereas in consequence of an
act of the legislature in their session of Octr 1788 intitled an
act concerning the erection of the District of Kentucky into
an independant State: a convention met at Danville under the
strongest conviction as your petitioners conceive that it was
not the will of the good people of said District that the same
should be erected into an independant state: and we are pur-
suaded that to have voted the same in the affirmitive would have
been too glareing a violation of the trust reposed in them
when brought into contrast with their avowed sentiments
previous to their election; Notwithstanding which they have
petitioned your Honourable body to make certain amendments
to the terms proposed in the late act of separation. Your
petitioners therefore beg leave to suggest that although the
objects complained of, might greatly injure a fiew of the sons
of liberty yet their amendments can be of no importance to
an independant sovereignty. Your petitioners further beg
leave to express their apprehentions (which is) that the smallest
alteration may be thought sufficient to santify the prosecution
of a separation after cloaking their designs with a ficticious
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zeal for the public good, should the present convention be
continued, to consider the same: Your petitioners beg leave
further to observe that as no special powers were given the
convention to sue for terms; but only to determine on the ex-
pediency of said separation on the terms in said act contained
therefore the evasion of said determination has tacitly confirmed
that truth, which your petitioners and the good people in
General both wished, and expected to have been declared, in
positive terms. — Your petitioners therefore conceiving that an
augmentation of states under the general Government, by the
erection of a new Government here, which will be clothed with
no national power and which will only serve as one of Pharos
lean kine to devour our liberty, whilst it can be of no security
to our property, Therefore your petitioners in full faith, hope
and confidence request that the general Government will secure
everything which the most sanguine can desire: and that a
separation may injoure us until time shall be no more do pray
that the tacit acknowledgement of said convention be con-
firmed and the will of the people be established by a repeal
of the separation Act: and your petitioners as in duty bound
shall ever pray &c. —
[Names.]
No endorsement appears on the back, but the request is based on an act
entitled, An Act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky into an in-
dependent state. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 788.
The Convention provided for previously had been hindered from meeting
and another had been provided for in August of 1787, according to an act entitled,
An Act making further provision for the erection of the district into an inde-
pendent State. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 240.
NUMBER 59.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA,
The Memorial of the Subscribers respectfully represents,
That notwithstanding the attention of the two last Assem-
blies to the support of the Supreme Court for the District of
Kentucky, their favourable designs are like to be frustrated.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
By the late Laws appointing Commissioners to settle and adjust
certain Claims in that District, the Certificates granted by
them are made receivable in discharge of any of the Taxes which
should afterwards become due therein: and this privilege is
supposed by many still to extend to all or to most of the Taxes
which since have been appropriated to the payment of the
Salaries of the officers of the said Court. This will probably
give rise to tedious litigations between the Collector of these
Taxes and those from whom they are due; and in the meantime
the officers of the Court will be obliged to sell their Certificates
at a large discount, or at still greater loss and delay apply to
the Treasury at Richmond for payment. Therefore we hope,
that on this representation, the intention of the Legislature in
the Case will be more explicitly declared ; and that all the Taxes
for which the several Clerks in the District are accountable
may be either made payable in Specie only, or that some
other fund may be established for defraying the Expences of
the said Court.
And your Memorialists shall ever pray &c.
George Muter.
Saml. McDowell
Caleb Wallace
Harry Innes
Endorsement on back of petition: Petition referred to Courts of Justice —
22d. October 1789— Reasonable— Law of 1786 to be amended— Reported.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to amend the Acts for
appointing Commissioners to liquidate and settle the expenses incurred in two
expeditions, carried on from Kentucky district against the neighboring Indians
and for other purposes. "Be it enacted," etc. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 2.
"That from and after the passing of this act the tax on law process and aliena-
tions and also the tax on tobacco receivable within the district of Kentucky,
shall be paid and accounted for in specie only, any law to the contrary notwith-
standing."
This was to take the place of certificates issued by the Commissioners.
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NUMBER 60.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of a number of Inhabitants of the District
of Kentucky, humbly sheweth;
That whereas a very great expence and inconvenience at-
tends the sitting of the Supreme Court only at one place in
this District, the greater part of which expences and incon-
veniences may be obviated by appointing additional places
for holding the said Court: We therefore pray your Honorable
body to take the same into your serious consideration, and
should you in your wisdom think our prayer reasonable, that
you appoint the two following places in addition to the former
(to wit,) the one at Lexington, in the County of Fayette, and
the other at Baird's Town, in the County of Nelson; and we
as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
[There are about fifteen or twenty printed sheets with the
above paragraph on them, and each one of them has a number
of names on it— over eight hundred in all.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Referred to Props.
Danville Augt
Sirs
Agreeable to your request I herewith give you a Statemt. of
the business in the Supreme Court as it will stand at the ensu-
ing September Term. — together with some past statemts con-
cerning Wits attendance
State of the Docket to Septr
Caveats now on the Court Dock (of which 82 have been Amt
upwards of 4 yrs depending) 96
N B near one half of these depend on the priority of Location.
Specialty of Entry or written agreements which will require
few or no Witnesses. —
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
Chancery causes for hearing ._ 23
Chancery References & apprs. on the Rule Dockett 132
Common Law Issues 146
New Issues & References &c on Rules 140
NB. of the above 286 — there's about 139 for Debt which do
not require Witnesses 90 in Case of which 1 1 are for Slander —
21 for Batteries & the residue are for breach of Covt Detinues,
Trespaser & Ejectmts —
Pleas of the Commonwealth 13
An Acct. of Witnesses attendance for 1789—
March Term 1 8 days No of Wits 90 1300 50
June Term 24 days 109 400 50
NB More Witnesses Attende entered these Courts [than] were
entered in any two courts before
State of the office
There is lodged in the present office of the Supreme Court,
Books containing the copies of all the Entries for Settlements
& preemptions granted by the commissioners of the Kentucky
District and that promiscously as they were entered without
regard to County
There is lodged in the same office 5637 entries from the
county surveyors pursuant to a late law — Also I am well in-
formed that the surveyor of Jefferson has copied all the old
Kentucky entries to be lodged as the said Act directs
Four large blank Books lately procured by the clerk for
the use of the sd Court & not immediately wanted
NUMBER 61.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of the Subscriber humbly sheweth, That in
the year 1787 Your petitioner removed from the State of
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Maryland into the District of Kentucky and brought with him
a few Negro Slaves; but doth most solemnly aver that he never
was informed, or heard that it behooved him to take any oath
concerning the importation of his Negroes into the State of
Virginia until sometime in May in the present year 1789, when
he was informed that by neglecting to take the Oath prescribed
by law his Negroes were entitled to freedom, and himself
liable to heavy penalties; and that then it was too late even to
avail himself of the indulgences granted by an Act of the last
Session of Assembly to persons in his situation: He was also
informed that the Plea of Ignorance would be of no Avail in a
Court of Justice: and that his only prospect of relief was from
the Legislature. For those who have neither education nor
leisure to enable them to be acquainted with the Laws of their
Country, their only prospect for impunity is aji honest inoffen-
sive deportment; and in the prospect of absolute ruin, it is
some Consolations that their misfortune does not arise from any
wilful fault or neglect. But your petitioner conceives his case
to be peculiarly hard, as the ruin with which he is threatened
will be produced by Laws which it cannot be supposed he was
acquainted with before he became a Citizen; and during the
short period he has been in the State, it has required his most
vigorous exertions to procure Shelter and Sustenance for a
numerous Family, and in the meantime he has been necessarily
secluded from the opportunities of information. Therefore
your petitioner hopes and prays that the peculiarity of his
situation may be taken into Consideration, and such relief
granted as will secure to him the possession of the hard earnings
of many Years industry, and deliver his beloved Wife and
Children from that povorty which otherwise will be unavoidable.
And as in duty bound he will ever pray &c.
Benjamin Stevenson.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
District of Kentucky, August 1789 —
At the request of Mr Benjamin Stevenson, the Subscriber
to the within Petition, We certify — That since he came into
this Country we are well assured he has supported Character
of a good Citizen; — That he has applied himself with great
diligence in building, clearing, and farming on a small tract
of Land on which he has settled : — And that from his established
veracity, as well as from the circumstances of the case, we
verily believe the Allegations of his Petition to be strictly true.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: October 28th. 1789 — Refd. to Courts of
Justice.
The procedure regarding slaves referred to in the petition is found in an act
entitled, An Act concerning the importation of slaves into the District of Ken-
tucky. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 713.
"Whereas many persons who have removed from some other parts of the U. S.
into the District of Kentucky and have become citizens of this Commonwealth,
have failed within ten days after their removal into the same to take the oath
or oaths, prescribed by two acts of assembly, the one intituled 'An act for pre-
venting the further importation of slaves,' the other intituled, 'an Act concern-
ing slaves to be taken on the importation of the same," Although they might
with great truth have taken the oaths; and whereas such failure hath been chiefly
if not altogether, owing to the impracticability of complying with the said acts,
Be it enacted," etc. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 713.
The act provides that those already removed may take the oath on or before
May 1st. and those going to Kentucky after the act shall take the oath within
sixty days. The act is not to affect the right of a slave to freedom when so entitled.
NUMBER 62.
To THE HONOURABLE THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY
the petition of the Inhabitants of Bourbon County Humbly
Sheweth that the Land whereon our present Courthouse now
stands to the amount of two hundred & fifty acres is laid off
in Lotts by the Propriator, for the purpose of setting a Town
which Lotts are principly bought up by those who are now
living on & improving them and have erected a number of
very convenient buildings — on sd Lotts we your petitioners
conceiving it realy necessary that sd Town be established by
Law pray your Honorable body that a Law pass for the estab-
lishment of a Town agreeable to the manner the Lotts are
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
now laid off and that Trustee be appointed for the purpose of
suprintending & Regulating of the Building of sd Town and
in duty Bound we pray—
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition. Octo. 28th. 1789. — Refd. to props, (reas-
onable) (repd.)
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to establish a town in
each of the counties of Madison, Albemarle, and Bourbon. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 13, 87.
The town for Madison was Milford, and for Bourbon it was Hopewell.
The trustees were Notley Conn, Charles Smith, Jr., John Edwards, James
Garrard, Edward Waller, Thomas West, James Lanier, James Little, and James
Duncan.
NUMBER 63.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The Petition of sundry of the Inhabitants on the North
side of the River in the district of Kentucky Humbly begs
leave to Represent; that they experience many dificulties in
carrying their Tobacco to the Warehouses already establish'd
by Law at Jacks Creek on the South side of the River Kentucky
and at the mouth of Hickmans Creek, owing to the danger of
discending the cliffs, the badness of the Roads and the Risque
of crossing the River. That there is a Comodious and conven-
iant place for an Inspection below the mouth of Tate Creek on
the Lands of Michael [Bedinger] & nearly where the Main
Road leads by an easy, and safe discent down the Hill to the
said River of Kentucky
We your Petitioners therefore pray, that you would be
pleased in consideration of the Premisses to pass a Law, estab-
lishing a Warehouse on the Lands of the said Michl Bedinger
about three fourths of a mile below the mouth of the aforesaid
Tates Creek, under such Regulations and Restrictions, as you,
in your Wisdom may deem fit and Proper.
And your Petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray &c
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 2nd. Novr. 1789. — Refd, to Props — Nov.
4th. 1789— Props discharged.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 64.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIR-
GINIA
The petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the District of Ken-
tucky humbly sheweth that your petitioners are much surprised
to find many petitions in circulation and which we apprehend
will be presented to your Honorable house prayg the Estab-
lishment of a number of Inspections of Tobacco on the Kentucky
River Exclusive of those already Established and we conceive
the principles of said petitions is founded on neither Justices
or good policy; but wholy Calculated for the Interest & Con-
venience of a few Individuals because the Kentucky River is
so inclosed with Hills & pricepeces [precipices] that it is in
very few places that any kind of access can be had to said
River or situations for public buildings your petitioners humbly
pray that the said petitions may be rejected and that your
Honorable house will vest a power in the Supreme or County
Courts within the said District to Establish Inspection of
Tobacco by appointing Disinterested free holders as Com-
missioners to view the different places proposed, and that not
more than two shall be established in any one County & those
where it is most Conveniant for the people in General as your
petitioners humbly conceive that more than two will be injuri-
ous and . . . [torn off] because we are not able to build
the necessary houses and furnish weights and scails for a
greater number and a greater number will Certainly devid
[divide] the attention of the people so that they must fall and
your petitioners will ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 3d. Novr. 1789 — Refd. to Props, (reasl.)
(repd.)
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NUMBER 65.
To THE HONOURABLE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA —
The Petition of us the subscribers of the Counties of Fayette
and Bourbon whom it doth concern humbly sheweth, That
your petitioners conceive it to be expedient and necessary that
the upper parts of Fayette and Bourbon Counties be struck off,
for the purpose of forming a new County, in the following
manner (to wit) Beginning at the mouth of Boones Creek, and
running up said Creek to the mouth of Bogg's fork, thence a
Direct line to the Junction of Welch's fork, with the main
fork, known also by the name of Robinson's fork of said Creek;
thence up said Welch's fork and the longest branch thereof
to the head; thence a direct line to strike Mason County line
one mile below the upper Blue licks on main Licking Creek;
thence with said Mason County line to Madison County line;
thence with said Madison County line to the beginning which
Division we conceive wou'd be very advantageous to the In-
habitants of the proposed new County, and not disadvantageous
to the Counties of Fayette and Bourbon, we therefore Request
that you will grant the prayer of our Petition, and your peti-
tioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c
[Names.]
I do certify that notice of the same purport of the within was
publickly set up at two different Courts previous to September
Court in the present year at the Court house in Bourbon County
Given under my hand this 8th day of Septr. 1789.
John Edwards C B C
I do certify that Notice of the same purport of the within was
publickly set up at two different Courts previous to September
Court in the present year at the Courthouse in Fayette County
Given under my hand this 8th day of Sept. 1789.
Levi Todd Cl. Co. F.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
Notice is hereby given that a Petition will be presented to
the next General Assembly, praying that the upper parts of
the Counties of Fayette and Bourbon be struck off, for the
purpose of forming a new County in the following manner (to
wit) Beginning at the mouth of Boones Creek and running up
the same to the mouth of Boggs fork thence a direct line to
the Junction of Welch's fork with the main fork, known by the
name of the middle fork of said Creek; thence up said Welch's
fork and the longest branch thereof to the head, thence a
direct line to strike Mason County line one mile below the
upper blue Licks on main Licking Creek, thence with said
Mason County line to Madison County line, thence with said
Madison County line to the beginning.
Endorsement on back of petition: 6th Novr. 1789 — Refd. to Props. — Re-
jected.
There are five copies of this petition circulated in different places.
NUMBER 66.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
the petition of Sundry inhabitants of the County of Bourbon
humbly sheweth that a petition for the Division of said county
is to be presented to the General Assembly at their next setting
contrary to the wishes of the majority of the inhabitants of
said County, but being earnestly pressed by a few settlers in
the upper end of Fayatte whose views can be no other than
pecuniary ones which is proved by naming themselves for
certain offices. They have prevailed upon a few scattered
setlers in the upper end of this County who is amused with
having the Courthouse among them; The amount of whom
does not exceed one Militia Company amongst whom together
with the inhabitants of said intended County in the upper end
of Fayatte few or none have been found qualified for the office
of civil or other department. The Line intended by said peti-
tion will destroy the very center of the now county of Bourbon
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kent^tcky
and cause a removal of the Court house, as it will not run more
than six Miles from the same and on that side which the body
and extent of Good Land lies, the Two other sides is barred
by the line of Fayatte and Hills unfit for cultivation, The
setters in this county so much injured by their detached situa-
tion is not almost above Sixteen or Seventeen Miles from the
Courthouse and those who are so amazingly anxious for a
County in Fayatte are from about twelve to Eighteen Miles
from that Court house — Now your petitioners would inform
your honorable house that the only thing they can urge in
favour of the Division is that Mr Jacob Moyers is forming a
setlement on State Creek twenty four miles from the upper
settlement where it is said he intends erecting Iron works and
there is still an extent of country above that place after the
population of which your honorable house may decide with
propriety with respect to the bounds of said Counties and leave
each in possession of a number of men sufficient to administer
Justice to the Citizens thereof — and your Petitioners as in
duty bound will ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition : 6th. Novr. 1789 — Refd to Props.
NUMBER 67.
The petition of Sundry Inhabitants of The County of
Fayette in the district of Kentucky humbly beg leave to Repre-
sent, that from their remote situation they experience many
Inconveniences on getting their Tobacco to the Different
Warehouses Established by Law, Oweing to the Badness of
the roads and the difficulty in descending the Clifts down
to the river Kentucky on which the said Warehouses are already
established; that there is a commodious and convenient Place
for an Inspection on the Land of Eli Cleaveland Gentleman on
the said river Kentucky, to which an Exceeding good road may
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be made and an easy and safe descent down the Clifts to the
river.
Your Petitioners therefore pray that you would be pleased
in consideration of the premisses to pass a Law Establishing
a Warehouse on the Lands of the aforesaid Eli Cleaveland
gentn. on the said river . . . and in your Wisdom may
deem fit and proper.
And your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray &c.
[Names.]
NUMBER 68.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER & HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF VIRGINIA.
The petition of the Inhabitants of the Town of Louisville,
humbly sheweth.
That your petitioners, from the Number of Difficulties
which the Settling of a new Country must unavoidably expose
people to, from the savage Incursions, from the Want of mate-
rials and more particularly from the very great scarcity of
Species, have hitherto been prevented from making the Improve-
ments, as required by an act of your Honble House, on their
several lots in the said Town of Louisville; your petitioners
cannot but acknowledge your kind Indulgence in giving them
Time still to make the necessary Improvements; which Time
will expire on Jany next, we therefore humbly pray That you
will farther extend your kindness to us and give us the farther
Time of three years from the Expiration of the former act, to
make such Improvements.
Your petitioners also beg leave to observe, that they are
very much aggrieved by the appointment of new Trustees
instead of the former ones in Louisville. That the present
Trustees are Gent, who reside some distance from the Town
and that very few of them have any Interest in lots therein.
Which in the opinion of yr petrs occasions a very great Inat-
tention in them to the Business of the Town. That there are
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numbers who are in want of Deeds for their lots, which they
cant obtain by Reason of the present Trustees not attending,—
Your petrs also think that the Town & its Interests wou'd be
much better regulated by men who live in it. — We therefore
humbly pray that an act may pass appointing such men as you
in your wisdom shall approve, (who reside in Louisville) to be
and act as Trustees to said Town, to all Intents & purposes
instead of the Gent last appointed.—
[Names.]
Jefferson County Set.
I William Johnston clerk of said county do hereby certify,
that notice hath been twice publickly set up at the Court House
Door of said County, on two several Court days, previous to
this date, of the within petition's being to be presented to next
Genl. Assembly of Virginia. Given under my Hand & seal
August 25 1789.
Will. Johnston (seal)
Endorsement on back of petition: Nov. 12th. 1789 — Refd. to Props. — further
time to improve — reasonable — Present Trustees to be displaced — Rejected — Ad-
ditional Trustees to be added — any to act.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for appointing trustees
to the town of Romney and for adding trustees to the town of Louisville in the
county of Jefferson. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 90.
Trustees: Buckner Thruston, James Wilkinson, Michael Lacassange, Alex-
ander Scott Bullitt, Benjamin Sebastian, James Felty, Jacob Reager, James Pat-
ten, Samuel Kirby, Benjamin Erickson, and Benjamin Johnson.
NUMBER 69.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The petition of Sundry inhabitants of Kentucky Humbly
sheweth that whereas petitions are handed about for Subscribers,
seting forth their desire to have the Seat of the Supreme Court
for the District of Kentucky removed, from the place where
it is now held, to some other part of the said District & also
others to have the business carried on by District Courts —
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
your petitioners conceive it their duty to lay before your
Honourable body the Reason upon which they found their
dislike of both measures — being convinced that if they have any
weight, you will not Grant such a removal or such division of
the business of this District,
Your petitioners will observe that Kentucky is settled now
Generally speaking in two lines one from North to South about
ninty miles, & another from the Extremity of that Line west
about the same Distance, that the point of that angle, is the
place where the Court is now held — That Removing it either
to Lexington or Bairds [Bards] Town as proposed, a distance
from Danville between thirty and forty miles, will subject the
setters of one of those corners, to travil that distance in order
to favour with the same distance the setlers of the other Ex-
tremity, which partiality your petitioners, hope you will not
countenance —
Your petitioners will further add that they do not think it
at present a proper time to remove the Seat of the Court, as it
would force us to Expences for the new buildings, & that a
most Rigid plan of Economy suits best our present circum-
stances.—
This last mentioned Reason for not allowing the removal
of the Supreme Court to any other place will stand still better
for not allowing three buildings in lieu of one, in case District
Courts should be granted —
it is thought that those Governments are best who employ
fewer officers, but the Creating District Courts will necessarily
increase that number —
there is another Evil attending any alteration of that kind,
which your petitioners beg leave to mention — the books of
commissioners for settlement & previous Rights, those of En-
tries with the diferent surveyors are lodged with the present
court — in case you Grant District Courts, copies of those books,
must be had at a very great Expence & loss of time & business
must Stagnate & have an End
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
Your petitioners know full well the ostensible pretence of
those other petitioners is to make it more convenient to the
parties concerned, & their Witnesses, but that pretence are
far from being founded on truth, as the Constant Removals
[of] our Setters make it to them one day more Disadvantageous
& the next more convenient. —
We see with pain that the ... of those petitions
Grumble at the Distance which they must travil, when several
of the Districts of this Commonwealth contain no more square
miles than the settled parts of Kentucky do at present with more
anxiety we observe that the consequence of District Courts,
in lieu of expediting business will effectually retard it by double
the time which is now required to obtain redress and what will
humanity feel when it is considered that in Criminal Causes it
Lengthens doubly the dreadfull punishment of a . . . in a
country where the Laws show indulgence to the very Culprit
who has infringed them — as your Honble body is to take a full
view of the community at large & promote the greatest good
possible to the greatest number,
Your petitioners hope, that you will not Grant those peti-
tions, which tend only to favour a very small portion of this
District, at the Expence of the far greater number & they shall
ever pray &c.
Endorsement on back of petition: Novr, 14th 1789 — Refd to Props.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for further amending the
act establishing a Supreme Court in Kentucky District. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 13, 66.
By this act the power of the receiver was increased. He had joint authority
with the auditor and treasurer to settle with sheriffs. Taxes were to be payable
in any article receivable iu other parts of the Commonwealth, and also in cer-
tificates granted by the Commissioners for service against the Indians. There
were to be three sessions of the Supreme Court.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 70.
TO THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The petition of William McKenzie humbly sheweth: that
by an act of the legislature of this commonwealth, certain
lands in the district of Kentucky belonging to Robert McKenzie
were confiscated and granted to a public school: That your
petitioner is the nearest in blood to the said Robert; and being
informed that your honorable body have always shewn a readi-
ness to give the value of all confiscated property to the next in
succession, your petitioner prays, that such value may be
allowed to him.
And as in duty bound he will ever pray &c. &c.
Extract of Law —
Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly, that
there are certain lands, within the County of Kentucky formerly
belonging to british subjects, not yet sold under the law of
escheats and forfeitures, which might at a future day be a
valuable fund for the maintenance and education of youth;
and it being the interest of this common wealth always to pro-
mote and encourage every design which may tend to the
improvement of the mind and the diffusion of useful knowledge,
even among its most remote citizens, whose situation a bar-
barous neighborhood and a savage intercourse might otherwise
render unfriendly to science: Be it therefore enacted that eight
thousand acres of land within the said county of Kentucky,
late the property of Robt. McKensie, Henry Collins, and
Alexd McKie, be, and the same are hereby vested in Wm.
Fleming, Wm. Christian, John Todd, Stephen Trigg, Benjamin
Logan, John Floyd, John May, Levi Todd, John Cowan, Geo.
Meriwether, John Cobbs, Geo. Thompson, and Edmund
Taylor, trustees as a free donation from this Commonwealth
for the purpose of a publick school, or seminary of learning,
to be erected within the said county as soon as the circum-
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stances of the County and the state of its funds will admit,
and for no other use or purpose what so ever: Saving and reserv-
ing to the said Robert McKensie, Henry Collins, and Alexd.
McKie, and of every of them, and all and every person or per-
sons claiming under them, or either of them all right and interest
to the above mentioned lands, or any part thereof to which
they may be by law entitled and of which they shall in due
time avail themselves, any thing herein contained to the Con-
trary notwithstanding.
The Land Bounded as followeth — On the South side of the
Ohio 8 miles above the Falls, on the upper side of the mouth of
Harrods Creek — 3000 acres.
Endorsement on back of petition : 16 Novr. 1789. — Refd. to Courts of Justice
—Reasonable.
NUMBER 71.
TO THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The petition of Anne Craig humbly sheweth:
That a certain James Douglass, now deceased, put his only
daughter, Jessy Douglass, to board with your petitioner, and
promised to make her ample compensation for the same:
that she continued with your petitioner for several years;
the board for which amounted to more than one hundred and
thirty pounds: that your petitioner trusted the said James
Douglass in contemplation of certain lands, which he held in
Kentucky and other parts of Virginia: that the said James
Douglass and the said Jessy Douglass are now dead intestate
and without an heir: whereby the said lands are escheatable to
the commonwealth.
Your petitioner therefore prays, that the right of escheat,
now vested in this commonwealth, may be so far released, as
to permit the said lands to be sold for the payment of the just
debts of the said James and Jessy Douglass.
And your petitioner, as in duty bound will ever pray &c, &c.
Endorsement on back of petition : 16 Novr. 1789. — Refd. to Courts of Justice
—Rejected.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 72.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The Petition of a number of Inhabitants of the County of
Fayette Humbly sheweth—
That whereas a very Great Expence and Inconvenience
attends the Ferriage of Tobacco over the River Kentucky to
the Town of Boonsborough the greater part of which Expences
and Inconveniances might be obviated by appointing Inspec-
tions on the North side of the said River at Two Distinct
places to be attended by one appointment of Inspectors, as the
Precipices of Howards will not admit of a waggon Road, we
therefore pray your Honorable Body to take the same into
serious consideration and should your Wisdom think our prayer
reasonable that you appoint the Two following places, the one
nearly opposite Boonsborough on William Bushes Land and the
other on the west side of Howards Creek on John Holders
Land and we as in Duty Bound shall ever pray &c
[Names.]
Notice is hereby given, that a Petition will be presented to the
next General Assembly, praying that an Inspection be estab-
lished for the Reception of Tobacco, on Colo John Holder's
land on the Kentucky River, below the mouth of lower Howard's
Creek, at the place called Holder's landing, also another Inspec-
tion on the land of Capt. William Bush, on the Kentucky River,
above lower Howard's Creek, and nearly opposite to the Town
of Boonsborough, to be included under one Inspection.
Fayette County
William Bush before me upon oath says that the within
notice was publickly set up at the door of the court house of
said county on two several Court days within the present year
Sept. 9, 1789.
Robt. Todd
Endorsement on back of petition: 30 Novr. 1789 — Rejected.
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NUMBER 73.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE GENL. ASSEMBLY
The Memorial of the Convention for the District of Ken-
tucky Sheweth, that by an Act of the last Session of the Assem-
bly, the terms on which the sd District of Kentucky, may be
erected into a seperate and independant State, are materially
different from those heretofore offered by Virginia, and agreed
to by a former Convention on the part of the sd District; and
that the alteration in one of the terms is more particularly
injurious to your Memorialists as it forever precludes them,
tho declared an Independent and sovereign state from excessing
[exercising] this right of sovereignty over part of the Lands
contained within their own boundaries without the consent of
the legislature of Virginia, a situation degrading to your Memori-
alists, as they would thereby not lie on equal footing with the
other States in the Union and injurious, as it would prevent
them from making the advantage of the surplus Lands within
their boundaries, which in Equity they are intitled to.
From which circumstances your Memorialists find that they
cannot at present determine whether it is expedient for and
the will of the people that the District shall be erected into a
seperate & independent State.
Your Memorialists reflect with gratitude on the generous
and disinterested conduct pursued by the Legislature with
respect to the wishes of the People of this District for a sepera-
tion and relying with the fullest confidence on the Justice and
generosity of the present Assembly, they now request that the
Act concerning the erection of this District into a seperate
and independent State may be so amended that the terms offered
by the Legislature of Virginia to the people of this District,
respecting the Seperation of the District from Virginia, and
its being erected into a seperate State may be made equal to
those offered by former Acts of Assembly (except such part of
the seventh Article of the Act of 1785 as relates to the concur-
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rent Jurisdiction of the Ohio with the States that may possess
the opposite shores of the sd River) and agreed to on the part
of the District by a former Convention. And your Memorial-
ists as in duty bound shall ever pray—
A copy. Saml. McDowell Prest
Endorsement on back of petition: Novr. 1789. — Refd. to Whole on Co. —
For Govr. Moreland of Kentucky.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act concerning the erection
of the district of Kentucky into an independent state. Henings Statutes, Vol.
13, 17.
"Whereas it is represented to the present General Assembly the act of the
last session intituled ' An Act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky
into an independent state' which contains terms materially different from those
of the act of October session 1785, are found incompatible with the real views of
the Commonwealth as well as injurious to the good people of the said district,
Be it enacted," etc.
The act provides for a convention at Danville July 26th, selected as in pre-
vious acts. The seven conditions are similar to those of the act of 1785. The
authority of Virginia over Kentucky was to end at date posterior to November 1,
1791. The objectionable features were omitted.
NUMBER 74.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OP VIRGINIA.
The Petition of the Inhabitants of Lincoln County residing
on the reserved Lands for the officers and Soldiers of the State
aforesaid on the Waters of Cumberland River and Parts adja-
cent doth Respectfully shew. —
That your Petitioners find themselves sensibly aggrieved by
their distance from Courts of Justice, it being near two hundred
miles from this Settlement to Lincoln Court House, by which,
when Business renders our attendance indispensably necessary,
we are frequently exposed to much Danger in Travelling,
through an uninhabited Country; being subjected to Fines,
and other Inconveniances, when from High Waters, Enemies
near our Frontiers; or other Causes it is Impossible to attend. —
We therefore most humbly Pray the General Assembly, to
grant a County to be laid off including these settlements in the
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
reserved Land for the officers and soldiers, on the south of
Green River, and to the Coloney Line, thence to the Ohio, and
your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever Pray &c.—
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition : 21st. Oct. 1790. — Refd. to Props. — Reason-
able—(repd.)
NUMBER 75.
TO THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
The petition of Jane Todd and Robert Todd Executors of
the Estate of John Todd deceased humbly sheweth —
That whereas an Act of Assembly passed in the year of our
Lord 1786 appointing Trustees to sell a part of the Land of
John Todd deceased for the payment of his Debts and for
other purposes, vested power in four Trustees therein named
to carry the same into execution reserving the Tract of Land
in the County of Fayette where on the said John Todd resided
at the time of his death, That the said Trustees found it difficult
to act under the said Law as the decedent at the Time of his
death resided on a lot in Lexington, that on the North West
side of the Town he had a military claim of 130 acres and on
the South East lands claimed by Settlement and preemption—
To remove which uncertainty, and to give the Trustees
power to sell a part of the said military survey, one other act
of Assembly was passed in the year 1787 reserving the Tract
whereon his widow Jane Todd then resided, which was in the
bounds of that part of the Land which was obtained by Virtue
of the Decedents Settlement and adjoining to which there was
2400 acres procured by other Rights, which reservation strictly
construc'd prevents the Sale of any of the said Tract and
frustrates the good intent of the Legislature as we conceive
the whole of the 130 acres ought not to be sold or if sold would
prove insufficient to answer the purpose, and excepting this
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To the General Assembly of yirginia
and the Tract before mentioned there is no land that belonged
to the decedant that would sell unless to great [advantage.]
Your petitioners therefore pray that the said Trustees may
be authorized to sell and convey any Lands of the Estate of the
said decedant, for the purposes mentioned in the said recited
acts, and to carry the same into full execution, excepting and
reserving the four Hundred Acres obtained by virtue of the
said decedants actual settlement and none other, and provided
that the part sold shall not exceed one fourth of what the sd
decedant died possessed of.
And as one of the Trustees before appointed is dead and
other removed from the County so that it will be difficult to
procure his attendance we pray that two additional Trustees
may be appointed vested with the same powers as those first
appointed and that any three may be authorized to act and we
in duty bound will ever pray &c —
Jane Todd
Robt. Todd
Endorsement on back of petition: 21st. Oct 1790 — Refd. to Courts of Justice
— Reasonable — Bill drawn.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to amend two acts of the
assembly appointing trustees to sell part of the lands of John Todd, deceased,
and other purposes. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 231.
The added trustees were Percival Butler and Robert Barr.
NUMBER 76.
To THE HONBLE. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OK VIRGINIA —
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the Town of Lexing-
ton (in the County of Fayette) and its vicinity ; humbly sheweth
That your Petitioners anxious for the welfare of the Town afsd
and feeling sensibly a variety of inconveniences under which
they labor, beg leave to request the interference of your Honble
Body in their behalf.
They would pray that the Legislature would invest a certain
number of Inhabitants of said Town and its vicinity, with the
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
following powers & authorities — the appointment of officers by
your Honble Body or by Election of the Inhabitants of said
Town as your Wisdom sees fitt.
1st — To levy, collect, and appropriate such sums of money as
the persons appointed for that purpose, may conceive necessary
for the following uses—
2. — To regulate and improve the Market, the streets & High-
ways of the Said Town and its vicinity —
3. — To establish and preserve the peace and good order of the
Town afsd & its vicinity—
4. — A power to remove & prevent Nusances —
In fine your Petitioners humbly pray that your Honble Body
would invest the persons before referred to, with such powers
& authorities as your wisdom may direct, for the more effectually
promoting & preserving the hapiness of said Town &c.
Your Petitioners would beg leave to suggest to your Honble
House, their wish, that the limits within which the said powers
may be exercised shall be extended to one mile in each direction
from the Court House in said Town. —
And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Octo. 23d 17CO. — Refd. to Props.
The request was grante,d in an act entitled, An Act concerning certain regu-
lations in the town of Lexington and county of Fayette. Henings Statutes, Vol.
13, 191.
Trustees were to be elected by all within one mile possessed of twenty-five
pounds in property, except negroes and mulattoes. Trustees could erect market
houses, appoint clerk of market, repair streets, and impose taxes not exceeding
one hundred pounds.
NUMBER 11.
To THE HONBLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES —
The Petitioners of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of
Bourbone Humbly sheweth that your petitioner & resident on
the waters of Stoner and Hinksons forks of Licking are desti-
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tute of Every advantage resulting from water Grist mills except
what must be erected on branches of said Stoner and Hinkson
which does not afford water sufficient to grind longer than the
middle of April your petitioners therefore are necessiated to go
from eighteen to twenty five miles to mill and even then under
the disadvantage of frequantly being disappointed which
subject your petitioners to grate loss of time and your peti-
tioners are very confident that if mills was suffered to be built
on stoner and Hinksons forks of Licking with ither good locks
or slopes sufficient for boats to pass by the dams with safety
that the said Stoner and Hinkson would be above ten times the
value to Bourbone than what it is at present with only them
navogations alone we therefore pray that Stoners fork and
Hinksons may have mills on every Convenient place for erecting
them but for all mills that is built on said Stoner and Hinkson
to have a good lock or slope fixed for boats to pass and we in
duty bound will pray
[Names.]
Bourbon County
I do hereby certify that the within Petition has been advertised
at the Door of the Court house agreeable to Law, Given under
my hand this 2yth day of Aug. 1790
John Edwards Clk.
Endorsement on back of petition: Octo. 22d. 1790. — Refd to props — (in
opposition) — (repd.) — Rejected H.L.
NUMBER 78.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OP THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of Bour-
bon Humbly sheweth That in the year one thousand Seven
Hundred and eighty eight there was an inspection of Tobacco
established at the Junction of Hinkson & Stoner fork of Licking
and that Stoners fork has been found by trial made as navigable
[ 145 ]
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
a very considerable Distance above the Junction and for as
large Boats, as it is below; and as long in the year and that it
makes its way throug the center of the County, through a fertile
soil thickly Inhabited, abounding with a variety of Fish, and
that it is the only stream by which the greater part of the County
can be relieved from a Difficult Land carriage of many miles,
in exporting of their produce, and that an attempt is made for
obstructing the same by the Court of sd County granting an
order for a mill without any restricktions whatever, when
granting two others the one prior & the other posterior to the
former, obliging the owners to keep a passage for boats forty
feet by twelve; the validity of which will evidently appear by
the certificates attending this Petition from the Clerk of the
County; Now being convinced that the obstructing the navi-
gation of sd River would be highly injurious, and contrary to
the Interest of the County; and also that your Honourable
House are fully possessed of the advantages from a water
carriage. We therefore pray that your Honorable House will
take the same into consideration and remove all obstructions
that shall be made across Sd River; and establish the naviga-
tion of Licking Beginning at its Junction with the Ohio thence
up to the mainfork, thence up the South fork, to the Junction
of Hinkston & Stoner thence up Stoners fork to Bramblets
Lick in such manner as in your wisdom you may think best
and we your Petitioners shall ever pray
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition. Octo. 22d. 1790. — Refd to props.
NUMBER 79.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELE-
GATES.—
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of Bour-
bon Humbly sheweth &c — That in the year 1788 There was an
Inspection of Tobacco established at the Confluance of Stoner
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and Hinkstons fork of Licking; And that the south fork, which
is called Stoners fork, is found by Experiance navigable a very
considerable Distance above the Junction; even up to Bramlets
Lick; for large Boats, and that it is the only Stream by which
the greater part of the Inhabitants may be relieved from a
Land Carriage of Many Miles in the Exportation of their
produce, We therefore pray that the Navigation of said River
may not be obstructed by Mill Dams or Fish Dams or the like
&c and we your Petitioners shall ever pray
March 28th, 1790. [Names.]
NUMBER 80.
To THE HONBLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
We the Trustees of the Town of Hopewell in the County of
Bourbon Humbly sheweth that doubts have arisen with the
purchers. of the Lots in said Town, whether Lawrance Protzmon
may be found the real proprietor at a future day of the Lands
laid of for said Town, your petitioners together with said
purchasers having been notified of claims to the said Lands
obtained from the Court of said County under an Act of Assem-
bly authorizing and vesting said Court with powers of Commrs
to hear and determine all disputes between claimants for Land,
by right of settlement and for lands by right of Preemption
on Improvement &c for granting certificates to all those who
had been detained in the Service of this Commonwealth and
also that a part of the Lots or lands laid of for said Town is
yet unsold. Therefore your petitioners conceive they have not
a power vested in them to sell. or make conveyance of said
lots or any part thereof, and that the Good people of said Town
may be secured from future claimants And that every encour-
agement may be given to the population of said Town, which
will be of Public utility, by reason of its situation on navigable
water and the only stream by which the Inhabitants of said
County could Export their produce. We your petitioners
[ 147 ]
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kenhicky
therefore pray your honble house will take the same in considera-
tion and condemn said Land, vesting the same in trustees so
as to give Security to the holders and purchasers of said Lots,
as also the Laying of and making conveyance of such Lots as
yet remains unsold and that you will devise such ways and
means for the good of said holders as in your wisdom you may
think best reserving to the real Proprietor the Value of said
Lands as unimproved and your Petitioners further prays that
said Town may no Longer retain the name of Hopewell, but
may be called and known by the Name of Paris and your
Petitioners shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Resolved that the petition of the Trustees of the town of
Hopewell in the county of Bourbon, setting forth, that many
doubts have lately arisen who is the real proprietor of the Lands
on which the said town is established, in consequence whereof
the present holders of the same are much disquieted, & the
trustees cannot proceed in the sale thereof, And praying that
they may be authorized to sell the said Lands — reserving the
money arising from such sale, for the person who shall hereafter
appear to be the real proprietor, and that the name of the said
town may be altered, is reasonable. —
Endorsement on back of petition: 25th. Oct. 1790.— Refd. to Courts of Jus-
tice.— Reasonable — Bill.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to amend the act establish-
ing the town of Hopewell in the county of Bourbon and for altering the name of
the said town. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 176.
The name was changed from Hopewell to Paris.
NUMBER 81.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The Memorial of Laban Shipp of the County of Bourbon,
District of Kentucky, Humbly sheweth,
That your Memorialists Resident on Stoners Fork of Lick-
ing being impressed with the Great inconvenience of himself,
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and others for the want of water Grist mills was induced to
apply to the county court of Bourbon for an order to Build a
water Grist mill on the said fork ; which was granted your memo-
rialist without any other restrictions than to pay the Damage
any person might sustain from the building of said mill; your
memorialist immediately proceeded to and at the Expence of his
little fortune which is nearly exhausted has got the mill nearly
compleated: Your memorialist notwithstanding he has nearly
spent his fortune in erecting this usefull Building felt himself
happy in a prospect of being Usefull to his country and family;
having proceeded under the sanction of the laws of his country
thought himself safe and his property secure. It is with con-
cern that your Memorialist finds a number of Persons have pre-
pared a Petition to your Honorable House praying that the
navigation of Stoners fork of Licking may not be obstructed
but the subject of the navigation of this little stream has called
the attention of most of the Inhabitants of this County; and
many of them fully convinced of the Impropriety of attempting
such a navigation have petition'd your Honorable House to
permit the erection of Water Grist Mills on the said fork;
However this subject may be agitated by the differant parties
no other Inconvenience can arise to either of them than the
mortification of being outdone by the other; but the case is
materially differant with your Memorialist; his fortune has
been laid out on this usefull building and if your Honorable
House should oblige him to remove her for the precarias &
Dangerous navigation; certain ruin must possess him and his
family that the navigation is precarias apears from hence, near
two years has elapsed since the Navigation was first attempted
and but one boat has had a safe passage several Boats has been
obliged to unlode and waggon their loads to other landings more
safe & certain; that it is dangerous, is equally clear; several
vessels have been overset & their loads lost, some men have been
drowned and many more have been exposed to the Greatest
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
hardship; from these facts your Memorialist trust your Honor-
able House will make no law to affect his property in the premises
& Yr. Memorialist as in Duty Bound shall ever &c —
Laban Shipp —
Endorsement on back of petition. Octo. 27th. 1790. — Refd. to props — Reas-
onable— (repd.)
NUMBER 82.
To THE SPEAKER & GENT OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of Bour-
bon Humbly sheweth, that your Petitioners resident on the
waters of Stoner and Hinksons forks of Licking are destitute
of every advantage accruing from Water Grist Mills except
what must be erected on said streams, every other stream
failing to furnish a sufficiency of water to grind longer than to
the middle of Aprl. Your Petitioners therefore are necessitated
to go from eighteen to thirty miles to mill and even then under
the disadvantage of frequent disappointment, which subjects
us to great loss inconvenience, and labour. Your Petitioners
are very confident if mills were suffered to be built without
restricting the builders thereof to erect Locks &c for the passage
of Boats numbers wou'd be encouraged to build mills sufficient
to grind all the Grain of the Citizens of the County. But
some of our fellow citizens puffed up with the most romantick
expectations of the utility accruing from the free and open
navigation of Stoner and Hinkson have prepar'd a Petition to
your Hon House praying that the navigation of Stoner may
be kept open and that no mills may be erected thereon; Your
Petitioners beg leave to lay before you the following statement
of facts, the distance of Strodes fork a branch of Stoners fork
(the head of the propos'd navigation) to the junction of Hink-
sons and Stoners forks is not more than ten miles of Land and
on the meanders of the Creek not less than thirty five or forty
miles This stream being confind within narrow banks rises and
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falls so quick in the Winter Season (for in no other season is it
navigable) that the water is generally exhausted before it can
reach the confluence of the said Streams and what boats have
attempted to navigate the fork of Stoner have been either
wrecked injur'd or obliged to unlode for want of a water to
continue Their passage These are facts so well authenticated
that they cannot be contested. By an Act of Your Hon.
House passed in October Session An Inspection of Tobo. was
established at Ruddles at the junction of Hinkson and Stoners
forks, from thence your Petitioners believe after a considerable
expence to open the navigation that boats of small burden may
navigate to the mouth of Licking perhaps as many as five or
six times a year provided they manage with care and attention.
Your Petitioners conceive that the erection of Water Grist
Mills on said Streams will be of far greater benefit than the
casual uncertainties of navigation can possibly be. We there-
fore pray that a Law may pass at the ensuing Session appropri-
ating the afore mentioned Streams for the Building of Grist
Mills &c to any person who may build according to Law. And
that the navigation be open'd from the confluence of the forks
to Main Licking by such ways and means as the Hon. the Legis-
lature may [think] expedient and your Petitioners in Duty
Bound will ever Pray &c rvr
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition. Octo. 27th 1790. Refd. to props.
NUMBER 83.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER & MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of Sundry Claimants to portions of Land,
contained in the Illinois Grant & others — Inhabitants of the
District of Kentucky, humbly complaining sheweth.
That the Time limited for the Claimants to exhibit their
Claims before the Commissioners appointed to settle and
determine the claims of Persons entitled to portions of Land in
the Illinois Grant was so short, that a number of Claimants &
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
Infants Heirs at Law to deceased Claimants from their distant
and dispersed situations in different parts of the United States
have been prevented from having their several Claims, settled
and determined according to the Act of October Session 1786
Your Petitioners further shew unto your Honorable Body that
the Commissioners appointed under the aforesaid Law conceive
that they have no power to grant Deeds for Claims that have
already been settled & determined after the first day of Septem-
ber 1789 by which means a number of Claims already settled
which have been assigned to innocent purchasers, & which are
held by Infant Heirs at Law of deceased Claimants, who are
dispersed in different parts of the United States & from a want
of knowledge of the aforesaid Law are intirely prevented from
receiving the benefit of their respective Claims or completing
their Titles thereto, which your petitioners conceive is contrary
to every principle of Equity and Justice. Your Petitioners
therefore pray that you will pass an Act at the ensuing Session
directing them to grant Deeds for all Claims that have heretofore
been settled and determined when application shall be made
therefor by the respective Claimants Assignees of Claimants
or Infant Heirs at Law to deceased Claimants. And your
Petitioners shall ever pray &c.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 28th Oct. 1790. — Refd. to C. of Justice. —
Reasonable.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act giving further time to
the Commissioners for surveying and apportioning the lands granted to the
Illinois regiment, to execute deeds for the same. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 178.
NUMBER 84.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OK THE HOUSE OP DELEGATES.
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the County of
Bourbon Humbly sheweth —
That we your petitioners labour under much inconvenience
for the want of an inspection of Tobacco in our County town —
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To the General Assembly o
The town is situate upon Stoners fork of Licking which has
been found navigable by large Boats loaded, navigating the
same from the sd town — Now this being the most convenient
for the County in general and the navigation is as good as tis
risky Miles below we are convinced it will be of Publick
utility and tend much to the Ease and Convenience of the good
people of sd County We therefore [request] that an Inspection
may be established upon the lots of Land set aside by the propri-
etor Laurance Protsman for that purpose and we your petitioners
shall ever pray
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: To land inspection — Reasonable H. L.
— repd.
NUMBER 85.
THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OP GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA,
the petition of William Bruce and John Lin Humbly sheweth
that your petitioners served as scouts in the county of Bourbon
for the year 1789 and was discharged legally and had their
accounts setled with the auditors of publick accts & by certifi-
cates from the county Lieutenant of said county for particulars
your petitioners must refer you to Mr Conn a member of your
Honorable House — some time in the latter part of November
in the same year Col John Edward Lieutenant of said county
was seting out for Richmond by whome your petitioners hoped
their money would be sent, and applyed to him to fetch the
whole or any part he could get, and do the Best he could for
them as they were in Great want, having made no crops the
ensuing season on account of their being in the service of the
State— the aforesaid Lieutenant reed 45 pound of the money
and on his return to the District of Kentucky was attacked
by a number of Indians well armed in two Boats prepaired
for the capturing of the vessels of Emigrants on the Ohio
river, and was obliged to dessert his Boat and make his Escape
[ 153 ]
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
leaving considerable amount of his own property, his saddle
bags and the money of your petitioners, which fell into the
hands of the Enemy to the great Distress of your petitioners,
who being well informed of the Justice & humanity that has
hitherto marked the conduct of your Honorable House are
Induced to ask a restoration of that money taken by the
Enemy before it came to their hand which money they think
in Justice they ought to receive in the country where they
did the service — therefore your petitioners prays that your
Honours would take the same into consideration and make
such provision for them as in your wisdom may seem best and
your Petitioners shall ever pray.
William Bruce
John Linn.
Endorsement on back of petitions 28th Oct. 1790. — Refd. to Claims — rejected
— reported 3rd November '90.
NUMBER 86.
To THE HONOURABLE THE REPRESENTATIVES OP THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN GEN-
ERAL ASSEMBLY MET
the petition of James Smith Humbly Sheweth, that your
petitioner spent Eleven months in Exploring the Kentuckey
Country as Early as the year 1767 and in the year 1773 made an
improvement on the Waters of Licking River, and sold the
Chief of the land he then possessed in Pennsylvania in order to
move his family to Kentuckey, But as the War with Brittain
at that Post Commenced your petitioner was Called upon to
Serve his Country, and Continued in publick Business During
the whole of Said War either as a Deligate in the House of
Assembly or as a melitia officer in the Jersey State or against
the Indiens on our fronteers or on Expeditions against the
Indien towns; During this time your petitioner was obliged by
the legal tender act to take Depreciated Congress money as
pay for his land — in the year 1786 he came to Kentucky and
aplied for his Right of preemtion but the Court would not
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admit of his proving his Right of preimtion as he had not been
in the Regular Service immediately under Congress — in the
year 1787 your petitioner moved his family to Kentuckey and
being much reduced by the Depreciation of the Congress paper
money could only purchas one hundred acres of land which is
the only land he now possesseth (as an Evidance of what he
has said he sends the following papers), and as the land he
improved in the year 1773. is not yet occupied, your petitioner
Humbley prays that he may be yet admitted to prove his
Right of preimtion, your petitioner would not at this time
trouble the House with this Singular petition were it not that
he looks on his Case altogether Singular, and he makes no
Doubt but the Honourable Hous will Do what is Just and Right
and your petitioner as in Duty Bound shall ever pray —
James Smith.
Bourbon County July the I5th 1790.
Jas. Smith setting forth — that in the year 1773 he acquired a
preemption right to a Tract of Land on Licking River in the
Ky-district — That he afterwards removed into the state of
Pennsylvania in the year 1786 returned into this State: That
upon application to the Court of the County in which the Land
lieth they for reasons unknown to the Petitioners refused to
admit his claim and praying that it may be permitted to prove
his preemption Right to the sd Land
Endorsement on back of petition. Octo. 30th. 1790. Refd. to Ct. of Justice
— Rejected.
NUMBER 87.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE DELEGATES OF
THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
The Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the Town of Mays-
ville, Humbly sheweth; that your petitioners being settled in
the said town of Maysville, which is situated on the Ohio
River at the mouth of Limestone Creek and is a Frontier
[ 155 ]
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
intirely exposed to the depredations of the Hostile Indians,
which reasons alone has put it [out] of the power of your petition-
ers; to Compleat the necessary buildings for Securing their lotts
within the time limited by an Act of Assembly Intitled an Act
for establishing a town in the County of Bourbon; — Your
petitioners therefore pray that your Honorable House will
grant them such further time for Compleating their building
as to you shall appear just & reasonable & your [petitioners]
will ever pray &c
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 1st. Nov. 1790. Refd. to props. — Reas-
onable— (Repd.)
The act establishing the town referred to is entitled, An Act to establish a
town in the cpunty of Bourbon. Henings Statutes, Vol. 12, 633.
The name of the town was Maysville and the trustees were Daniel Boone,
Henry Lee, Arthur Fox, Jacob Boone, Thomas Brooks, George Milford.
The town was on Mays land.
NUMBER 88.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA —
The petition of a number of the inhabitants of the County
of Bourbon In behalf of themselves and others most humbly
sheweth that there is a number of Deeds in the County for
Land that is not recorded there being no Court in said County
from July until January in consequence of the Death of the
high Sheriff of said County in which time deeds run out of
date and the persons who made those deeds are some of them
mov'd out of Kentuckey others of them dead and their heirs
under age so that new deeds cannot be obtained, your
petitioners therefore prays your honorable House to take
their care into consideration and pass a Law to give a
Longer time for Recording those deeds that was lawfully
obtained in the year 1789 and your petitioners as in duty
bound shall pray
[Names.]
[ 156 ]
To the General Assembly of Virginia
Bourbon County
I do hereby certify that the within Petition was advertised
at the door of the Court house according to Law Given under
my hand this 25th day of Aug. 1790.
John Edwards Clk B. C.
Endorsement on back of petition : 1st Novr. 1790 — Refd. to Cts of Justice —
reasonable — Bill drawn.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act authorizing the Court of
Bourbon Co. to admit the recording of Deeds in certain cases. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 13, 150.
NUMBER 89.
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP
VIRGINIA —
The Petition of William Shannon.
Sheweth.
That in the month of March 1779, your petitioner was
appointed Commissary and Quarter Master to the Illinois
a Western department under the Command of General Clark,
and continued to transact the duties of his office for upwards of
three years, had employed several deputies to assist him, and
during that period purchased and issued Sundry supplies to
the troops in that department, which purchases and issues are
accurately entered on his books of Accounts, for which books
and Accounts he has receipts, (by order of the board of Com-
missioners appointed to settle the business relating to that
department) ready to be produced.
That your Petr. in order to obtain a settlement of his Ac-
counts, laid them before the said Commissioners, at their
meeting at the Dutch-station — near Louisville, but the Com-
missioners conceiving them necessary for the purpose of settling
other claims in the same department, kept them in their posses-
sion, without coming to any decision thereon, and appointed
a meeting at Colo. Bowman's in Lincoln County, where your
Petrs. attended, hoping the said accounts wou'd then be finally
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
settled, but the said Commissioners hearing of your Petrs
intention to travel thro' the Wilderness they declined to take
up the said accounts, and appointed another meeting at
Botetourt Court house or Richmond, at which places your
Petr also intended to be present, but unfortunately for him,
he had his Leg broke on his way to Botetourt, which prevented
his carrying his intention into execution, (as will appear by
sundry papers in his possession) whereby he has not been able
to have his accounts settled, or to receive any Compensation
for his services or the services of his deputies.
Your petr further shews, that in procuring the necessary
supplies for the said troops, he became indebted to Sundry
persons, and in order to discharge the same, drew bills of
Exchange on the Treasurer of this State, several of which are
protested, and others not paid, so that your petr remains in
a very disagreeable situation, not only on account of those
bills, but by being charged with monies paid him during the
time he was in office, and no credit allowed him, either by the
supplies furnished or his pay for his services or those of his
deputies.
Your Petr therefore requests, you will be pleased to pass a
Law appointing some person or persons to adjust and settle
his Accounts, and to authorise the auditor to issue warrants
for the amount of what shall appear due to your Petr. for his
pay and depreciation as Commissary and Quarter Master in
the said department, and also for what may appear to be due
to his deputies, and he will Pray.
Jefferson County Set.
This day Docter Samuel Culbertson personally came before
me (James F. Moore) one of the Justices of the Commonwealth
for the County aforesaid, and made oath on the Holy Evange-
lists of Almighty God that in the month of April 1783 Capt.
William Shannon of Lewisville, passed by Field's Station
(where the Deponant then lived) on his way to the settlement
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
as he said to meet the commissioners appointed to settle the
accounts of the Illinois Department and that he the said
Shannon unfortunately broke his leg at Crows Station that
this Deponant was sent for to set the bone which he did and
attended him during his illness, but the bone was so fractured
that he was not able to proceed on his journey that season
and further this deponant sayeth not — Sworn to before me
this 2 ist Sept. 1790.
James F. Moore
We certify that when the Commissioners for Western accounts
sat in the neighbourhood of Louisville in the year 1783 Capt
William Shannon who by appointment from Genl. Clark had
for some time acted as Commissary General to the Illinois
Regiment presented his accounts to have them settled; But
the Board finding that his Books which appeared to be regularly
kept would be helpful in adjusting the accounts of the other
officers of that department detained Capt Shanon from about
the middle of January to the last of February when it was
found that more accounts had been presented and would be
presented than could possibly be adjusted before the time it
would be necessary for the Commissioners to return through
the wilderness, and in the investigation of which Capt Shannons
books would also be needed and finding that Capt Shannon
intended to travel to the eastward about the same time, his
books were detained and he directed to attend the Board
when it should set in Botetourt County or at Richmond to
have his accounts finally classed. But Capt Shannon by having
his Leg bone broken before he set off was rendered incapable
of the Journey; so that his accounts were never settled by the
Commissioners and he informs us that the Auditors have
hitherto declined a settlement by which he is suffering great
loss. Therefore we take the liberty of making this representa-
tion of facts and beg lieve further to observe that as far as
we can recollect, his Books appeared to be accurate & just,
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
only in some instances paper money contracts were not dis-
tinguished from specie, which he assured the Board he did not
know to be necessary when the entries were made, but that he
should be able to make the distinction when it would be requi-
site. We further beg leave to represent that We understood
that complaints had been made against Capt Shannon in the
execution of his office. In order to examine into that matter
the Board of Commissioners notifyed their Intentions to the
publick of hearing all the charges that could be brought against
him relative to his conduct as Commissary and appointed a
time for exhibiting them — But that no charges were brought
forward and supported nor anything made appear to his preju-
dice in the execution of his office given under our hands this
26th day of June 1790 —
Saml McDowell
Caleb Wallace.
Endorsed on back of petition: Novr. 2d. 1790. — refd to Claims — reasonable
— 1st Reso: refd. to Executive — 2nd Reso: that the Auditor of Public accts deliver
him his papers — reported 8th Nov. 90. — 19h pasd.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act granting a sum of money
to William Shannon and others. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 211.
The Auditor of Public Accounts was instructed to issue certificates to those
holding Shannon's drafts and to Shannon two thousand and twenty-six pounds,
six shillings and one penny.
NUMBER 90.
TO THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIR-
GINIA.
The Petition of the Trustees of the Transylvania Seminary
humbly sheweth
That notwithstanding the Indulgence and encouragement
they have hitherto experienced from the Legislature with the
laudable design of propogating Science in this District they find
the funds still so low as to be unable to errect any suitable
Buildings
Encouraged by the favourable disposition to promote
Education that has ever marked the proceedings of your
[ 160 ]
To the General Assembly of Virginia
honorable house we are Induced to pray that a Law may be
passed authorizing the Board of Trustees for the Transylvania
Seminary to raise by Lottery the Sum of five hundred pounds
for the purpose of errecting an Academy Under such regulations
and restrictions as the Legislature may judge proper and we
in duty bound shall ever pray
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Nov. 6 1790. — Refd to Props — Reasonable
— Repd.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act authorizing several lot-
teries and the sale of certain lots in the town of Portsmouth. Henings Statutes,
Vol. 13, 173.
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the
trustees of Transylvania Seminary, or a majority of them, to raise by one or more
lotteries, a sum not exceeding five hundred pounds, for the purpose of erecting
an Academy."
The same bill allows a lottery to build a church, roads, and other academies
in other places east of the mountains.
NUMBER 91.
To THE HBLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
The Petition of the Members composing the Board of Trustees
of the Transylvania Seminary humbly sheweth
Your Petitioners feeling sensebly an inconvenience under
which they labor as a body constituted by Act of Assembly
for conducting the business of the said Seminary, beg leave to
request the interferrence of your Hble House in order the more
effectually to enable them to carry into effect the Trust reposed
in them.
They would suggest to your Hble House that one essential
inconvenience to which they are subjected arises from the
great number of members which by Law are required to con-
stitute a board for the transaction of business as they are so
widely scattered thro the district: And would pray that the
number necessary to conduct the business of said Seminary
[ 161 ]
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
should be reduced to seven or such number as the wisdom of
the House may direct and your petitioners in duty bound
shall ever pray.
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition: Nov. 6 1790. — refd. to props— Reasonable
— Repd.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act concerning the Trustees
of Transylvania Seminary. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 147.
Seven trustees were henceforth sufficient to do business at the two annual
meetings provided by law.
NUMBER 92.
TO THE HONBLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Petition of Henry Banks humbly sheweth
That during the latter period of the War your Petitioner
was engaged in very considerable mercantile Transactions, as
is well known to many honble members of the House, when it
became absolutely necessary for him either to appropriate a
large capital in the purchase of Land Warrants, otherwise a
large sum would perish in his hands, being paper money
That your Petitioner was appointed the Sole agent of the
House of Hunter Banks & Co. who had had very considerable
Transactions with different public agents, and found that they
had a demand for 800 Bus Salt, for which payment had never
been made or a Certificate granted by which payment could
be required, and that after attempting in various Instances
to obtain payment without success your Petitioner was at
length advised to bring a Suit in the High Court of Chancery
against the Honble the Atty General, which suit has in due
Course been referd to William Hay esqr. master Comr to the
Honble High Court of Chancery, and he has reported and certi-
fied a Balance of One Thousand Sixty Six pounds 13-4 to be
due to your Petitioner but the final decree for the same is
suspended until March next
That in Consideration of the necessary purchase of Lands
as aforesaid your Petitioner has created a large demand ag.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
himself for fees, without the Payment of which in advance, he
is not permitted to enter the surveys in the Registers office,
that in Consequence of some Misfortunes your Petitioner is
not prepared with certain funds to pay those expences, and is
therefore in great fear that he will loose some of them
Your Petitioner is well aware of the impropriety of asking
a payment of the aforesaid money until it is established by a
final decree, and therefore only prays that this Honble House
will pass a resolution requiring the Register of the Land office
and the Depy Register of Kentuckey be directed to receive the
warrants which may be issued for the aforesaid claim, when
finally ascertained or that this Honble House will grant to
your Petitioner any other relief respecting the Premises which
may be reasonable, and your Petitioner in duty bound will
pray &c
Henry Banks.
that the petition of the said Henry Banks praying that any
warrants which he may receive from the Aud. of public Ac-
counts by virtue of the said Decree may be received by the
Register of the Land office & Depy Register of Kentuckey in
discharge of fees due for entering surveys & be reasonable the
petitioner for grants [?]
Commissioners Office November 15 1790
Hunter Banks and Company Plfts.
against
Turner Christian Richard Morris, James Innes Attorney
General, and John Pendleton Auditor of public accounts .Defts.
Pursuant to the Direction of James Innes on Behalf of the
Commonwealth in these Words, to wit. Sir, whereas there is
a Suit now depending, in the honourable the high Court of
Chancery, Hunter Banks and Company against myself as
Attorney for the Commonwealth and others, it was my Inten-
tion to have consented that it should be sent to you for settle-
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
ment at the last Term, but my Indisposition prevented, I do
now consent on Behalf of the Commonwealth, that you do
examine state and Report thereon, & that you ascertain what
is due to the Complainants as soon as possible. Witness my
Hand and Seal at Richmond the ninth Day of November one
thousand seven hundred and ninety.
James Innes
To William Hay, Esq.
Your Commissioner, having examined the Papers and con-
sidered the claim of the Plaintiffs, is of opinion that they are
intitled to one thousand and sixty six Pounds thirteen shillings
and four pence for the eight hundred Bushels of Salt mentioned
in the papers which is at the Rate of one hundred Pounds
paper money pr Bushel, reduced by seventy five the scale in
1780, and he submits it to the Court whether they should be
allowed Interest from Decbr 1780.
Wm. Hay, M. C.
Commissioners fee 0.7.6 a copy
Copy 1.6 Wm. Hay, M. C.
0.9.0
Endorsement on back of petition. 20 Nov. 1790 — refd. to props. Reasonable
— Repd.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act giving further time to
owners of entries on western waters to survey the same. Henings Statutes, Vol.
13, 120.
NUMBER 93.
To THE HONOURABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OP
VIRGINIA.
Gentlemen—
We your Petitioners of the District of Kaintucky, do
humbly petition for further time to fulfil, an Act passed last
Session; obliging every person, to return their Plots of Surveys
to the register's Office before the — day of August 1791 — Our
Delegates brought no account of such an Act having passed,
[ 164 ]
To the General Assembly of Virginia
And the Acts of Last Session coming late to this District fell
into the hands of a few individuals; who either from Design
or inattention never communicated to the publick, that such
an Act was in being, Till the time of complying with it, was past,
Therefore your Petitioners knew nothing of the Act till after
the time was expired. And as advantages will now be taken by
designing men; not only against your Petitioners, but against
many of the good and industrious Citizens of this District.
And Schemes entered into by persons, who support themselves,
by fradulent and knavish practices, not only to the great
damage of your Petitioners, but to the immense loss of many
of the good people of this District. Therefore we petition for
longer time to comply with the Act. And look up to you as the
Guardians and Supporters of our lives liberty and property.
Firmly relying on the justice and Equity of your honourable
house so often experienced and which we are ever bound to
acknowledge and your Petitioners will ever pray. September
the oth day 1791. — r,T
[Names.]
Endorsement on back of petition : Oct. 22 1791 — Refd. to Props — Reasonable
— Repd.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for the relief of persons
owning surveys returned to the registers office, on which no patents can issue in
consequence of the erection of Kentucky into an independent state. Henings
Statutes, Vol. 13, 526.
Warrants were to be issued in cases of certificates of survey sent to the land
office of Virginia previous to separation.
NUMBER 94.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The Petition of John Crow humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner did keep in victuals & .... the
Indian prisoners from the time they were put into his possession
untill the tenth of May 1788, for which expenses of his, he has
been paid in full according to his account.
That from the tenth of May 1788 untill the twelfth of
September following your Petitioner still continued to keep
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
those prisoners, & presented his account which was allowed
likewise, but curtailed. Still he had his pay, according to the
Curtailment.
That your Petitioner finding himself a considerable loser
by this Curtail of his account resolved to get rid of the said
prisoners as soon as possible; but it was the fifteenth of January
1789 before he could write to Colonel Benjamin Logan to take
them away; that his account has been since stated before the
Executive who thought it convenient to reject it.
That by the answer of Col. Logan Your Petitioner was
obliged to take care of said prisoners from the isth of January
to sometime early in April, when at last they were taken away,
which expence your petitioner hath not charged to Government.
That your Petitioner conceives he has as much right to be
reimbursed his expences for Nine Indian Prisoners from the
thirteenth of September 1788 untill the fourteenth of January
1789 as he had for the two former accounts, and That whatever
compensation he may have received from the beginning to
the twelfth of September 1788 does not invalidate his claim
for his expences posterior to that last date, as he would still
have had the same compensation, in case the Indians had been
taken away at that time.
That your Petitioner refers your Honorable House to the
letter of John Brown Esqr & the order of Council to shew
that his just claim has been rejected; & to the letter of Col.
Benjamin Logan to prove that your petitioner was still forced
to keep the prisoners at his own expence from January till
April when they were taken away from him.
That on considering the whole, your Petitioner begs of your
Honorab Body that an order may pass ordering the payment
of his expenditures from the thirteenth of September 1788 till
the fourteenth of January 1789, as he is Justly intitled to; and
as to your Wisdom shall seem meet.
And your Petitioner shall ever pray &c.
John Crow
[ 166 ]
To the General Assembly of Virginia
In Council October 15, 1789
On consideration of the Claim of John Crow for maintenance
of Nine Indian prisoners & for Barracks hire — He is advised
that the same be rejected —
The Gov. orders accordingly.
Extract from the minutes.
A Blair C. C.
The Commonwealth of Virginia to John Crow Dr
To the keeping of nine Indian Prisoners from the thirteenth
Day of Septr 1788 till the fourteenth Day of January 1789 —
at I S pr Ration also Barracks at the Rate of £10 pr year —
John Crow.
State of acct according to the prayer of the Petitions
To 1007 Rations for 9 prisoners 123 days — 9
Rations pr day £5O.-7-.o.
Barrack hire 4 mo £io pr an 3. .6. .8.
£53_. 15. .8
Dear Sir
I have considered the situation of the Indians in your
posession I have just Reason to think when you received them
People you intended to have the profits arising from suporting
them then you must know every person would supose any
Deficences in Government ought to fall on you before it should
be fixed on any other indeviduel as you have been liberaly paid
for suporting them part of there time but I think you had better
set them over the Ohio or leve them under the eye of those in
the service of the United States I think this will be making the
best of a bad bargain
I am yours Benjamin Logan
February 16 1787
Staunton Novr. 3d 1789
Sir
Some Business which I did not expect when I left Kentucke
made it indispensably necessary for me to pass through Win-
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
Chester on my way to New York & consequently put it out of
my power to call at Richmond to obtain a settlement of your
Acct But on my arrival at N. York I inclosed your Acct.
Colo. Logans Certificate & a power of Atty to Mr. Saml.
McCraw requesting him to make application for a settlement
on your behalf He did so but the Executive rejected your
Claim supposing you had already reed, a Compensation ade-
quate to your trouble & expence I inclose you a Copy of the
Order of Council upon this application — I am sorry the deter-
mination was not more favorable — Had the Claim been my
own I should not have done otherwise with it than I did —
I am Sir
Your Mo. Hble Sevt.
J. Brown.
Mr. John Crow.
Endorsement on back of petition: Oct. 22. 1791 — Refd to Claims — Mr. Todd
(of Nelson) rejected— reported 2d qre. 1792.
NUMBER 95.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
The petition of Isaac Ruddle Humbly sheweth, that your
petitioner In the year 1779 was appointed to the Command of
a Compy for the Reduction of the Illinois under the then
Colo. Clark, that He raisd a Company on Holstain and sup-
plied them with the necessary arms Provision Bags and pack
Horses, for the falls of Ohio to which place he Marchd them;
that in the Beginning of March 1780 your petitioner with His
Company was ordered on Duty to a frontier station on Licking
By John Bowman the then County Lieutenant of Kentucky
County, that your petitioner with His Company was on the
24th of June 1780 Captured by a party of British and Indians
under the Command of Capt Bird from Detroit, to which place
they were taken and their remaind in Captivity till the 3d
Nov. 1782. when He returnd — to the District of Kenty where
[ 168 ]
To the General Assembly of Virginia
He Has since Resided, that after the return of your petitioner
to the District of Kentucky He made out a pay role for the
time of His last Services and Captivity for which He reed
£497..o..o as will more fully appear Referance thereto being
Had, that your petitioner on His return also made application
to the Commissioners for setling The western Claims for the
Liquidation of His Accounts for His first Services, that they
Did settle His account and that their appeard to be Due to your
Petitioner the sum of £442.. 10.. 03-5 which will more fully
appear by the Inclosd Copy of their proceedings that your
petitioner also furnishd for the service of the District two
Horses which were Valued at £65 which will more fully appear
by the Inclosd affidivate of Colo Bowman that at the time of
settlement some Evil Disposd person informd the Commissioners
that your petitioner while a prisoner was Enimical to the
united States they then gave it as their Oppinion that no
Certificate should Issue without Orders from Govornment that
prior to those proceeding your petitioner on His way from
Detroit stood a trial in the County Court of Fredrick for the
above Crime where all His accusers were, and was accquited,
which will appear by the Inclosd. proceedings and Certificate
which your petitioner could not procure till the Commissioners
had rose and there Powers Had Expird your petitioner therefore
prays that His accounts may be fully and fairly Settled and
that your Honourable body will Direct your Auditors of public
accounts to Issue warrants for the principal and Interest due
thereon in such manner as you in your wisdom shall think fit
and your petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray
Isaac Ruddle.
Endorsement on back of petition: October 26th 1791 — Refd. to Claims —
rejected — repd. 9th. qre. 1791 (?) Voucher delivered to Mr. Waller.
NUMBER 96.
To THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES —
The Petition of Levi Todd Clerk of Fayette County, on
behalf of himself and the other clerks of Courts within the
[ 169 ]
Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
District of Kentucky, Humbly sheweth, That by reason of
your Petitioners remote situation from the seat of Government,
The acts of the last Session of Assembly did not come to his
hands untill a very late period—
That your Petitioner being entirely ignorant that Laws had
passed to repeal those Laws which imposed a Tax on the Clerks
of Courts, and to repeal in part the act imposing new taxes —
did on the Qth day of last March pay to Thomas Marshall
Treasurer of the District of Kentucky for taxes which he
supposed to have become due under the said Repealed laws,
but which were in fact abolished by the said Repealing laws,
£23-?-7 That your Petitioner has great reason to believe
that many other clerks within the said District, have for want
of information made similar payments He therefore Humbly
prays that a Law may pass authorising and directing the said
Treasurer to repay any monies which may have been so paid
to him by mistake as aforesaid—
Levi Todd
Endorsement on back of petition: 1st Nov. 1791 — Refd to Props — Reason-
able— rept.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act concerning the clerks
within the District of Kentucky. Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 313.
The receiver was authorized to pay Todd twenty-three pounds, seven
shillings, and seven pence, which he paid on account of tax imposed on clerks
subsequent to law repealing such tax.
NUMBER 97.
TO THE HONBLB THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF
THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA NOW SETTING
The petition of Joseph Martin humbly sheweth that there
is a very great necessity for a ferry across the Cumberland
River where the Kentuckey road crosses the same from the
land of your petitioner on the South side to the land — on the
opposite shore claimed by William Hord Your petitioner
therefore prays that this Honble House will take the same into
consideration & prays an act may pass for establishing a ferry
[ 170 ]
To the General Assembly of Virginia
at the said place to be called & known by the name of Martins
ferry & your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray &c.
Endorsement on back of petition: 7th Nov. 1791 — refd. to Props — Reason-
able— reported.
NUMBER 98.
TO THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER & HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
The Petition of James McAfee humbly sheweth
That he did in the years 1780 & 1781 furnish the Troops at
the falls of Ohio with money Provisions and whisky for which
he received Bills drawn on the Executive for the several supplies.
That in the year 1782 he sent these papers to be laid before
the Commissioners in the District of Kentucky and then went
to New Orleans, from thence to the West Indies, from whence
he did not return to America before the expiration of the Law
for settling such Claims. That since his return the original
papers have been delivered to him, with the information that
no settlement with the State had been made. Your Petitioner
therefore prays your honorable House to take his case under
consideration and make him such compensation as shall be just
The bills No. I, 2, 3 being drawn by persons not authorized
by Government and not having been Reported on by the
Western Commrs the Auditor cant act on them — The other
Vouchers being in the latter situation the Auditor cant admit
them
Audrs Office ! Pendleton
15 Nov. 1791.
• - • • •
Endorsement on back of petition : 7th Novr. 1791. — Refd to Claims — rejected
— reported 18 qre. 91.
NUMBER 99.
To THE HON'BLE THE SPEAKER & MEMBERS OF THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY. —
The petition of James Wilkinson sheweth
That the Lands now called Frankfort were some years ago
called and known by the name of Lees Town bottom. That
in the Year 1783 an Act passed for establishing an Inspection
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
of Tobacco at the said Lees Town. That your Petitioner in
the confidence and belief that the distance of half a mile or
three quarters would make little or no difference in the site
of the said inspection proceeded to erect a Ware House at
Frankfort. That the County Court of Fayette being also of
the opinion of your petitioner proceeded to appoint inspectors
who were duly commissioned by the Executive & proceeded to
Act. Large quantities of Tobacco have been inspected thereat
but doubts have arisen whether the Tobacco there inspected
are Legal Tenders in Contracts or for officers fees. Your
petitioner therefore prays that an Act may pass for the Inspec-
tion at Frankfort to be established by the name of the Frank-
fort Inspection & your Petitioner &c.
Endorsement on back of petition, llth. Novr. 1791— Refd. to Props — Reas-
onable, H. L. — Reported.
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act to establish an inspection
of tobacco in the county of Woodford, on lands of Jatnes Wilkinson, at Frankfort.
Henings Statutes, Vol. 13, 272.
NUMBER 100.
To THE HONORABLE THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA—
The Memorial of George Rogers Clark, late a Brigadier
General in the Troops of the State, and Commandant through-
out the Western Jurisdiction of that Commonwealth —
Sheweth:
That your Memorialist, relying on the Justice, Magnimity &
Indulgance of your venerable Body, experienced at all times
by himself, and ever bountifully extended, in every instance,
to those of your officers & Privates of the late war who, to say
no more, as advantageously to the public weal as they
could, have faithfully complied with their duty — now presumes
as one among them, by this Instrument, to lay before your
House, as well through devotional deference, as with modest
confidence, his General Statement of claims, Debts, or Arrear-
ages, with authenticated Vouchers substantiating the same,
[ 172 ]
To the General Assembly of Virginia
due to him from your State — , debts of long standing, and
vitally detrimental to your Memorialist's affairs, from their
having been thus long pending & unliquidated — , debts arising
from his past Military Services, or from advances of the better
part of his Fortune for the credit of the State, when that of
the State itself (in the instance, at least, in which these advances
were made) had been prostrate — , debts insured by a free Gift
of your own to the officers of your Establishment for the neces-
sary maintenance of your Troops under my command, in this
Western country, troops (it behoves me to say) who with a
fortitude, fidelity & martial hardihood, perhaps unexampled,
had braved heroically, and with successful effect every kind of
want, and every Species of peril, to preserve the very fairest
portion of your State, and indeed of the whole Union — , debts
of commutation for my half-pay, and debts for having, from
my own funds, supplied your Garrisons & those heroic Troops
with Bread, to feed on.
To say more on a topic so tissued with every incident that
can have a rightful claim to the Equity & Humanity, not to
talk of the Gratitude of any Government — , on a theme so
well known to the existing Generation of our Countrymen — , on
a subject so advantageously to be felt, in its consequences,
not only by those who inhabit the various settlements now
checquering the face of that wide-extended portion of our
Empire, those redeemed from the Foe, but by the many Millions
who, in the progression of not very many years, must cover
it — ; to say more, I say, on a Subject so teaming with past,
present, and future benefits to the citizens of this Common-
wealth itself, as well as to those of the Confederacy in general,
would (in your Memorialist's humble opinion) derogate from
his own, as well as the universal Sense of men, on a Legislature
of the State of Virginia.
Your Memorialist, therefore, thinks it sufficient, at this
Juncture, to have humbly requested, as he does, the attention
of your venerable House to his General Acct, and to every
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Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
Document vouching for or relating to the same as herewith
transmitted in detached Papers, Nos i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and
8 — ; and only to add: that the difficulty of collecting the afore-
said enumerated Papers of document from the different &
remotely resident Persons who had held them, was the sole
cause of your Memorialist's not having made an earlier appli-
cation, for his claims, to the Legislature of Virginia. —
Signed G R Clark
Gloster Town 28th Dec 1796
My friend
I reached this place on the 27th Inst. I found those for
whom I felt the tenderest respect and affection well ; but found
myself impressed with that kind of Gloom which arises on
returning to a country once the seat of grandeur and munificence
but, now alas, exhibiting the most striking proofs of poverty.
But my spirits were revived on seeing the refined buties
of my fair relation. Indeed King I sincerely lament that
fortune has so frowned on relation so dear to me. Come down
my friend & lament with me that worth and beauty are now
become a secondary object with the male sex. Will you do
me the favour to leave the enclosed letter with Boyd & Carr
and will encrease my load of obligation by applying to Mr
Hay for Genl Clarks papers
Adieu John Thurston
Ihave no wafr seal the enclosed J T
Endorsement on back of petition: llth Novr. 1791 — p. 111. Refd to Claims
—rejected 70,000 Flour— Reasonable— Bill Exche.— repd 24th qre 1791. 1 Deer.
1791— p 225-6.
NUMBER 101.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The Petition of John Campbell in behalf of himself & the
Inspectors of Campbells Warehouse Sheweth:
That in the Year 1783 an Act passed for establishing an
Inspection of Tobacco at the Falls of Ohio on the Lands of the
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
said John Campbell without any condition restriction or ex-
ception. That in consequence thereof the said Campbell
hath built a Ware House and Inspectors have been legally
appointed thereto that in the last Year the Quantity of Tobacco
shipped falls short £23. 15 that the said Campbell hath applied
to the Auditor for settlement thereof which he refuses alledging
that if the Inspection doth not support itself it is therefore
discontinued your petitioner thinks and is certain the Inspectors
believed they were to receive their Wages as no orders from
the County Court had issued to suppress or discontinue the
said Inspection which is the only one in Jefferson County and
the only one on Ohio River within the Kentucky District and
one that is essentially necessary as it often happens boats are
wrecked on the Falls and the Tobaccoes cannot be transported
to any other inspection without great expence and decrease in
the Value which will readily appear by considering that an
Inland carriage of many miles & a carriage back again to the
river must be very expensive & distressing to the unfortunate
sufferers Your Petitioner therefore prays the Honorable the
Assembly to take the same into consideration & direct the
Auditor of Publick Accounts to settle & certify the said accounts
in the usual manner or to grant any other relief which to you
may seem just & your Petitioner &c.—
The Auditor thinks that as the Inspection has never produced
any surplus the Act under wch it is established will not suffer
him to give a warrant on the public treasury for the deficiency
and See Revisal Page 217. Chap. XXVIII — Sect 3d.
I. Pendleton.
Audrs office
II Nov. 1791.
Endorsement on back of petition: 12 Novr. Refd to Props — (rejected.) (repd)
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NUMBER 102
THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
the petition of John Stuart Heir at Law to Henry Stuart Deed
Humbly sheweth that the Decedent did in the year 1775 go
down the river Ohio in the Company of Joseph Irwin James
Cornahan James Campbell and others in order to improve
lands in the District of Kentucky that the Decedent did make
an Improvement on the waters of Hinksons fork of Licking
after which he returned to the Monongahala Country that in
Jany 1776 He Inlisted in the I3th Virginia regiment under the
Command of Colo Wm Russell for During the war and that the
Decedant Died in Service —
That in the year 1785 your petitioner then an Infant made
application to Joseph Irwin who was going to Kentuckey to
procure His right to the said land as Heir to the Decedant that
the said Irwin did in April or May 1785 make application to
the County Court of Fayette, in behalf of your petitioner that
the said Court did grant your petitioner a right of settlement
for 400 acres and a pre-emption of 1000 acres of Land adjoining
that after this the said Irwin made application to the register
of the land office who granted your petitioner a warrant for the
land above mentioned, that the said Irwin Engagd to locate
the same that on His way to Kentucky a difrance arose in
which the said Irwin Killd His antagonist and fled Down the
Misisipia river, that on His flight he left the Warrant and other
necessary papers in Kentucky in the Hands of Major Moroson
that Before your petitioner arrivd at the age of 21 years the
time for Entering Certificates for settlement rights and locating
Warrants on preemption rights had Expired your petitioner
therefore prays that a Law may pass Impowering Him to Enter
& Survey the same & your petitioner as in Duty Bound shall
ever pray John Stewart.
Endorsement on back of petition : 12th Nov. 1791. Refd. to Cts of Justice —
15th Nov. 1791 — Reasonable— provided not to interfere with rights of any other
person, or persons — Reported —
The request was granted in an act entitled, An Act for giving further time to
John Stewart to locate and survey certain lands.
Henings Statutes, Vol 13—304.
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
NUMBER 103
To THE HONE. THE SPEAKER & HOUSE OF DELEGATES—
The petition of James Gilmore and Stephen Huston, Humbly
sheweth—
That your petitioners was employed in Lincoln County By
Capt. John Martin and Capt. Samuel Kirkham as scouts to
Discover the approach of the Indian Enemy That they served
as such from the 25th Day of April untill the 2d day of July in
the year 1781 and that they never Received any Compensation
for their services — and prays that your Honorable Body may
take their case into Consideration and grant them such Relief
as you may think Just and Right
And your petitioners in Duty Bound shall ever pray
The Auditors office does not afford any check on these claims
the Vouchers being in the hands of the State by Commr for
setting the continental Account . . . [illegible].
Endorsement on back of petition: Gilmour & Huston Pets. 12 Nov. 1791.
Ref. to Claims. Reasonable Vouchers to Col. Logan repd 25th Ex 91 Lincoln.
NUMBER 104
To THE SPEAKER OF THE HONORABLE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MET IN
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Whereas I am inform'd that a Petition will be presented,
praying the Establishment of a Ferry upon the Lands of John
Kimburlin, with liberty to Land on the oposite shore, across
Pattersons Creek at the Town of Frankfort on the main ford
leading from Winchester to Fort pitt, now your Petitioner
Humbly sheweth that the Land calld in the aforesaid Petition
the Land of John Kimburlin is the real Property of your
Petitioner, and that your Petitioner hath never given, or is
under any obligation to give the sd Kimburlin any title to
sd Land, any further that sd Kimburlin is in possession thereof
by virtue of a Verbial Contract; and your Petitioner further
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sheweth that he is very desirous to have a Ferry Established
over the sd Creek in his own name and is always ready to comply
with the sd Virtual' Contract with sd Kimburlin; But your
Petitioner Humbly prayeth that the General Assembly may
at this time delay the establishment of sd Ferry, if they cannot
consistantly establish the same in the name of your Petitioner
who is the real owner of the Land on both sides of the Creek,
and as in duty bound shall ever pray —
Frankfort Sep. 22d 1792. [Name.]
Endorsement on back of petition: 4 Oct. 1792.— to Props. — (next Session)
NUMBER 105
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER & HOFSE OF DELEGATES
The Petition of George Rogers Clarke humbly sheweth that
he entered the service of this State the second day of January
1778 and commanded the Troops raised for the defence of the
Western frontier from that period until the end of the War, in
the rank of Brigadier General.
Your Petitioner therefore prays the consideration of the
House and that they will allow him half pay for life or a commu-
tation of five years full pay in lieu thereof.
The Commutation has not been paid to the Petitioner.
I. Pendleton
4 Nov. 1793.
Endorsement on back of petition: 4 Novr. 1793 — Claims — Reasonable —
Special— 22d qre. 93.
NUMBER 106
To THE HONORABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OK BOTH HOUSES OF ASSEMBLY
The Petition [of] Daniel Boone Humbly sheweth, that your
petitioner paid into the Treasury of this Commonwealth the
sum of One thousand and five pounds, & was thereby entitled
to a Land office Treasury Warrant, to amount of Six Hundred
and Twenty Eight Acres of Land, as by Certificate obtained
from the auditors of Publick accounts Dated on the 2ist Day
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
of February 1783 will fully appear, — your petitioner begs leave
to represent that this certificate was obtained for him by a cer-
tain Samuel Pattison, who shortly after the Date thereof
Departed this life, and lay amongst the said Pattisons papers
untill some short time ago, when your petitioner applied there-
with to the Register for a Land Warrant, who refused to Issue
the Same, Your Petitioner therefore prays this General Assem-
bly to pass an act Directing that the Register Issue to your
Petitioner a Land office treasury Warrant for the quantity
stated in the said certificate — and your petitioner will pray &c
Endorsement on back of petition: Novr. 24th 1794 — Refd. to Props—
(reasonable) (repd)
NUMBER 107
TO THE HONBLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
the Petition of James Bullock of the State of Kentucky
Humbly sheweth that your Petitioner sometime in the year 1781
obtained from the Auditor of Public Accounts two certificates
of twenty five pounds each for a Horse impressed into the
public service: that some time in or about April 1788 the said
certificates were lost or destroyed: your Petitioner therefore
prays that an act may pass directing the Auditor of Public
Accounts to issue to him Duplicates of the said certificates on his
complying with the necessary requisites — And your Petitioner
as in duty bound will pray &c —
Endorsement on back of petition : Dec 7, 98 — Claims — Reasonable Reported
NUMBER 108.
THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Your Petitioner William Bledsoe in the year 1782 had a beast
taken into the service in an expedition against the Indians as
by Reference to a certificate granted at St. Asaphs the nth
of April 1783 by the Bord of Commisioners will appear Your
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petitioner was Intitled to twenty pounds as a satisfaction for
sd Beast that furthermore your petitioner was informed that
an auditered certificate issued in favour of your petitioner
By the name of William Bledsoe which certificate never came
to the hands of your petitioner; Your petitioner caused due
proof to be made to the court of Lincoln county then a district
of the State of Virginia that sd certificate was the property of
your petitioner and that the same was casually lost or mislayed
upon which your petitioner entered into bond and Christopher
Greenup esqr. Security to Indemnify the commonwealth of
Virginia from the payment of sd Certificate in case a duplicate
should issue that a duplicate has been applied for and your
petitioner is informed that no Law exists in favour of issuing
sd duplicate: forasmuch as your petitioner had sd Beast
arrested from him and lost in the service of the State of Virginia
to the hardship and detriment of your petitioner and not yet
payed for your petitioner prayes that a Law may pass authoris-
ing your petitioner to call on the auditor for his warrant on
the Treasurer for the aforesaid sum of twenty pounds or grant
such other Relieff as may appear Just and Right and Your
petitioner as in duty Bound will pray &c.
William Bledsoe
February 1st 1799—
Your petitioner not having a safe oppertunity to forward this
petition in time hopes this his petition will be received and
acted upon on its Receipt with the voucher and bond certified.
William Bledsoe.
NUMBER 109.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA
The petition of Edmond Southard and Sarah his wife,
formerly Sarah Thornton respectfully sheweth:
That on the igth of April 1783 there issued from the Land
office of this commonwealth, a Land office Treasury Warrant
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
(No 15. 524) to the Revd Thomas Thornton the father of your
petitioner Sarah for 1462 acres which warrant, was lodged at
the time of the death of the said Thornton, and had been
previous thereto, in the Land office of the Western District
for location.
That the said Thomas Thornton died early in the year 1792
having first made a will by which he left the said warrant to
your petitioner Sarah as will appear by a copy of that will
herewith presented : That the Erection of the State of Kentucky
into an independent government, and its consequent division
from this state, and other causes, which are set forth in the
letter of Major Charles Ewell also herewith presented, prevented
the location of the said Warrant, and it remains unappropriated
to this day, as will be seen by the accompanying certificate
from the Registers office, and your petitioners consequently
deprived of the most material and important part of their
patrimony. Your petitioners have had no agency in bringing
upon themselves this lamentable state of things: Their parent
has paid his money to the state for a land right which the State
by its own act has prevented the execution of, and which act
leaves your petitioners "poor indeed" — An affectionate parent
on his death had comforted himself with the belief that he had
made provision for an infant daughter; but the operation of
the Laws of the Commonwealth has deprived that daughter
of the hope of ever enjoying a parents bounty — She throws
herself upon the justice and magnanimity of the Legislature of
her Country, and asks at its hands some compensation for the
loss she has sustained — She begs the Legislature will remember
that money laid out in 1462 acres of Land in Kentucky in the
year 1783 would now produce no small fortune — She asks that
it will remember that lands have greatly appreciated, and
money greatly depreciated since that period; and although she
will not ask full price for her land, she asks a reasonable com-
pensation either in money or other lands — She asks the Legis-
lature to redeem her ijn some measure from the gaping
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jaws of poverty — to relieve her from the situation which her
dying father had never anticipated she would be in, and she
thinks she asks all this not without some reason. Your peti-
tioners have now a numerous offspring to provide for, or they
might not so strenuously press their claim, and they do not
exagerate when they declare they are "poor indeed"-— They
hope therefore that the Legislature will hear their prayer, and
grant them such relief as the nature of their case demands
and they will ever pray &c. Edmund Southard
Land office Treasury warrant No 15,524 issued to The Revd
Thomas Thornton for 1462 acs Apl. igth 1783 — no appropria-
tion stands charged on the Register of said warrant. That
is no survey is founded on said warrant. Searched from the
year 1783 to the year 1793 and find no survey or grant in said
Thorntons name.
On further examination no survey appears to have been re-
turned to this office in his name.
In Case Mr Thornton in his lifetime should have made a
location on said Warrant in Kentuckey and nothing further
down therein, which might have escaped his recollection: By
writing to some person who is acquainted with the nature of
such things perhaps information might be obtained. If the
warrant can be produced an Exchange warrant can issue for
whatever appears due on same. — No location can be made on
a Land office Treasury warrant or Exchange warrant & that
bears date on or before Feby. 2nd 1804 — "such warrants
exchangeable." "By act of 1815 ch: 30. Entries alter 31
December 1816 on such warrants were inhibited."
Land office John DavenP°rt elk.
May 5th 1824.
In the name of God amen I. Thomas Thornton of Fredericks-
burg [clerk] being weak of body but of sound and perfect mind
and memory, do make and ordain in this my last will and testa-
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
ment hereby revoking all former wills by me made, first I
recommend my soul to God who gave it in hopes of a Joyful
resurrection to eternal life though Jesus Christ our Lord and
the worldly Goods and estate wherewith it hath pleased a
gracious God to bless me I give and devise as follows. Imprimis
I give and devise to my loving and well beloved wife Mary Ann
Bertrand Thornton two tracts of land lying situate and being
in the County of Prince William given unto me by her father
Colo Bertrand Ewell containing by estimation four hundred
and three acres be the same more or less to have and to hold
to her during her natural life she making no waste or destruction
thereupon and after her decease I give and devise the same to
my Son Thomas Thornton Jun. to have and to hold to my
said Son his heirs & assigns as an absolute estate of inheritance
in fee simple forever. I further give and devise unto my said
wife all that tract of land lying situate and being in the county
of Prince William aforesaid which I bought of David Reno to
have hold occupy and enjoy the said tract with the building
thereon until my said Son Thomas shall attain unto the full
age of twenty-one years she making no waste or destruction
thereon and after the end and expiration of the said Term, that
is to say when my Son Thomas shall attain unto the Said full
age of twenty one years I give and devise the said tract of land
unto him my said Son Thomas his heirs and assigns as an
absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple forever. It is my
will and desire that all my stock of horses, cattle, sheep, Hogs,
&c and all my household furniture and planatation utensils be
kept together for the joint use of my wife & children until my
said Son Thomas shall attain unto the full age of twenty one
years and then I give and bequeath the same unto my said
wife and my said Son Thomas to be equally divided between
them to their own use & behoof forever. I further give unto
my said wife the following negro slaves viz : Lotto Senr. Winny
Senr. Vernon Squire Tom the Son of Winny Senr. and Maryann
the daughter of Ralph and Mary to her own use & behoof
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forever. Item. I give and bequeath unto my said Son Thomas
four negro slaves, viz: Ralph, Mary, Lotto Jun. & Billy the
Son of Ralph & Mary, all the books I shalt die possessed of
one enameled gold ring in memory of Colo. William Golds-
borough, also all my plate viz: one silver watch one large two
handed cup and cover, two pint cans, two large sauce boats,
one soup ladle, one soup spoon, one silver cup, or lamp four
salts with their glasses and shovels, eleven Table spoons,
twelve tea spoons, one spoon strainer and one pair of sugar
tongs. Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann
Thornton the following negro slaves, viz: Ben Johnston Sarah
and her other two children, Sam and Harry, which she had by
Ben Johnson and her two children Lucy and Jack which she
had by Col Taliaferro Randall to her own use and behoof
forever. Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Sarah Thorn-
ton three negro slaves viz: Abraham, Davy and Winny to her
own use and behoof forever and I further give and devise to my
said Daughter Sarah Thornton a land office Treasury warrant
No. 15.524 drawn in my favor by the Register of the land office
for fourteen hundred and sixty two acres now lodged in the land
office of the Western District for location hereby assigning unto
my said Daughter all the right title or interest which I have in
the same or which may accrue therefrom and to hold
to her her heirs and assigns forever. Item. I give and be-
queath unto my said wife my said Son Thomas and my said
two daughters Ann & Sarah three loan office certificates, issued
from the land office of the United States, in the State of Mary-
land the twentieth of October seventeen hundred and ninety
viz: No 8 for the sum of nine hundred and ten dollars and fifty
cents bearing interest of six per cent per annum from the first
day of January seventeen hundred and ninety one. Also No 8
for the Sum of four hundred and fifty five dollars twenty five
cents bearing interest at six per cent per annum from the first
day of January One thousand eight hundred and one, also No 9
for the Sum of nine hundred and sixty two & eighty four cents
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
bearing interest at three per cent per annum from the first day
of January Seventeen hundred and ninety one also two other
certificates issued December the thirtieth from the loan office
of the State of Virginia Seventeen hundred and ninety both
numbered One hundred and four One for the Sum of Sixteen
dollars & eighty four cents bearing interest at six per cent per
annum from the first day of January seventeen hundred and
ninety one, the other for the Sum of eight dollars and forty
three cents bearing interest at six per cent per annum from the
first day of January Eighteen hundred and one to be equally
divided between them together with the interest that has or
may arise from the same to their own use & behoof forever, and
I do hereby constitute & appoint my said wife to be Executrix
and my worthy and esteemed friend Doctor Robert Well ford
to be Executor of this my will & testament & joint Guardians
to my said children. In witness whereof I the said Thomas
Thornton have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty
fourth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety one.
Thomas Thornton (seal)
March 24th 1791.
Fixed and sealed and declared by the said Thomas Thornton
to be his last will and Testament in presence of
Chilton Randell
W S Stone
Thomas Garnett
At a District court held at Dumfries the I7th day of May 1792
This will was proved by the oath of Thomas Garnett a witness
thereto at a District Court held at Dumfries the igth day of
May 1792 the same was further proved by William Stone
another witness thereto and ordered to be recorded. And at
a District Court held at Dumfries the 2 1st day of May 1792
On the motion of Mary ann Thornton the Executrix herein
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named who made oath & executed & acknowledged bond as
the law directs certificate is granted her for obtaining a probate
thereof in due form
Teste G. Brooke C. C.
A copy teste
M. P. Sinclair C. P. W. S. C.
Endorsement on back of petition. Deer. 4th 1824 — Refd to Claims— 1825
Jany 1 Rejected — Jany. 3 Reported
NUMBER 110.
To THE HONORABLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIR-
GINIA AT RICHMOND ASSEMBLED
The petition of Berry Cawood a citizen of Harlan County
State of Kentucky and former resident of Washington County
& State of Virginia
He represents and Humbly sheweth to your Honorable
body that in fall of 1778 your petitioner enlisted with a Captain
John Williams who was commanded by Col George Clark and
marched on a campaign of seven months servitude and was at
the taking of Lt. Governor Hamilton at the Opost also garded
him to Herods station Kentucky part of the way as a gard &
the residue of the way as a Spie and at which place sometime in
the month of April 1779 your petitioner obtained a Discharge
from his officer and afterwards lost or mislaid the same and
returned to the aforesaid Washington county Virginia and lived
in an Extream of the said County in the hills and mountains
detached from almost Evry community or oportunity of infor-
mation and has ultimately been kept out of his wages and Land
bounty.
Your petitioner begs leave further to state that his former
occupation was that of a hunter and being a man of little or
no information but made repeted enquiry how to come at his
rite his directions that he got were from such vague sources
and such a contrast of opinions that he has hitherto been kept
in the dark We presume there has been lands laid off near the
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To the General Assembly of Virginia
falls of Ohio in the now Indiana state for Colo Clark and his
soldiers & by refferance to the Acts of Congress you will dis-
cover the same but supposes your petitioners lott of Land has
been otherwise appropriated and finely lost.
Your petitioner begs leave further to state it is given up by
both officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war who was
acquainted with that section of Country that Clarks campaign
was amongst the hardest that was been performed enduring
the revolutionary war as they had to travel a number of miles
through inundated Lands and water cold.
Your Petitioner begs leave further to state that he is far
advanced in years which the dates of the aforesaid campaign
will justify the same and from the result of that Expedition
together with divers other hardships through life has rendered
him infirm & is left without the necessary means of support.
Your petitioner will further state that he would be willing
that your Honourable body would contribute land in some
section of country not far distant from this place otherwise
its value thereof. We the undersigned subscribers do trust
that the magnanimity of your Honorable body will hear your
petitioners prayer and Extend your benevolance and in duty
bound your petitioners will ever pray &c
[Names.]
State of Kentucky
County of Harlan
I Berry Caywood aged sixty eight years do upon oath
testify and declare that in the year 1778 I enlisted for the term
of seven months in Captain John Williams Company in the
regiment Commanded by Colonel George Clarke of the Virginia
and that I continued in the service aforesaid during the term
of seven months afsaid was at the taking of Lieut Governor
Hamilton and guarded the said Hamilton to Herod station in
Kentucky at which place I was discharged regularly and said
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discharge is lost or mislaid and that I have not received any
compensation for said services nor has any person been author-
ised by me to receive the same.
Berry Cawood
Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned a justice of
the peace for the County afsd this 7th day of November 1831.
John Noe J. P.
Harlan County State af Kentucky January gth 1830
This day personally came before me Luke Noe One of the
commonwealths justices of the peace for the County aforesaid
William Hudson of the county of Clay & state aforesd and made
oath that in the year of 1779 he saw Berry Cawood on an
Expedition under the command of Colo George Clark & perhaps
in the company of Capt John Williams and the said Cawood
was at the taking of Lt Governor Hamilton & further the said
Cawood held an Indian scalp in his hand and it was said that
the said Cawood killed the Indian sworn to & subscribed this
date above written
William Hudson
Luke Noe J P
Endorsement on back of petition. Deer. 21st 1831. — Refd. to Revy. Claims.
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FACSIMILE SIGNATURES
Tracings made from characteristic signatures found on the petitions herein printed
,
List of Names attached to the Petitions
(Figures indicate the number of the Petition on which the name occurs)
Adams, Alexander (Alexr.)
(Adans.) 46,53,76
Adams, George 17
Adams, James 27, 60, 64
Adams, John (Edams) 27, 28,
33, 48, 52, 64
Adams, Peter 12
Adams, Robert 27
Adams, William 33
Admire, George (admire) 52
Ahearn, Edmund (Edmd.). .60,65,72
Aiken, John (Acken) 54
Akers, Joseph 40
Akers, Simon (Achors) 40
Akers, Thomas (Thos.) 40
Aldridge, William 17, 84
Alester, James 27
Alester, Samuel 27
Alexander, James 23, 26, 55 , 56, 58
Alexander, John (Jno.) (Elex-
ander) 47, 63
Alexander, Randall (Randol) . . .60, 65
Alexander, Samuel (Saml.) 63
Alexander, Thomas (Thomas)
(Ellisander.) (Alixander) . . .60, 65
Alexander, William (Wm.) 58
Alford, Ancel (Ansel) 58
Alford, Charles 58
Algire, Adam 78
Alkire, John 78, 84
Alkire, William (Alkier) 78, 84
Allen, Archibald (Allan) 48
Allen, Daniel 48
Allen, David 60
Allen, Elijah 74
Allen, John (Allin)
(Allan) 43, 53, 63, 65, 66, 77, 78
Allen, John W. (Jno.) 49
Allen, Joseph (Jos.) 48, 51, 52, 54
Allen, Richard (Richd.) 40
Allen, Silvanus 52
Allen, Thomas (Thos.) 49, 57
Allen, Zachariah 58
Allen, William (Wm.). 43, 58, 60, 65, 77
Allerson, John [Allison?] 60
Allerson, Peter 60
Allerson, Thomas 60
Allerton, David (Allarton) 78,84
Allerton, Jacob 84
Allerton, Jonathan (Allarton) . .78, 84
Allison, John (Jno.) (Alleson) 45, 52,
53, 58, 60, 63, 78
Allison, Peter 40
Allison, Robert (Robt.) (Alison) 60,78
Allison, Thomas 27, 58
Alsop, George (Geo.) 60, 67
Alsop, Joseph (Jos.) (Allsup) 60
Alston, John McCoy 74
Alston, Phillip 74
Alvey, Robert 60
Ames (Alender) 27
Anderson, Asher 47, 65
Anderson, George 60
Anderson, Henry 52
Anderson, James 27, 46, 58
Anderson, John 15, 27, 64, 78
Anderson, Joseph (Jos.) 52
Anderson, Nicholas 27, 65
Anderson, Presley (presley)24,47,
60,65,78
Anderson, Reuben 66
Anderson, William (Wm.)..15,27,
28, 33, 48, 49, 58, 62, 63, 64, 78, 84
Anderson, William, Jr 48
Andrews, Alexander 58
Andrews, Isaac 54, 56
Archer, Stephen 60
Archer, William (Wilm.) 55
Archer, Zacharias (Zach.) 52
Ardery, James 56
Ardery, John (Jno.) 56
Ardery, William (Wm.) 56
Armstrong, James 27
Armstrong, John 26
Armstrong, Joseph (Jos.) . . .66,84,88
Armstrong, Joshua 55
Armstrong, Thomas 27
Armstrong, William (Wm.) . .27,46,58
Armstrong, William, Jr 27
Arnett, David 58
Arnett, James 43
Arnold, James 24, 27, 52
Arnold, John ... 16, 24, 43, 52, 58, 69, 82
Arnold, Nicholas 52
Arnold, Reuben 69
Arnold, Thomas (Thos.) 53, 60, 93
[ 189 ]
List of Names
Arnold, Stephen 16
Arnold, William (Wm.) 48,49,
52, 55, 56, 58, 62, 66, 84
Arrowsmith, Richard
(Arrasmith) 49, 78, 84
Arrowsmith, Samuel 54
Ashbrooke, Aaron
(Ashbroke) 49, 54, 84
Ashbrooke, Felix 77
Ashby, Daniel (Asbey) 9 (List)
Ashby, David ' 68
Ashby, Fielding 27
Ashby, John 23
Ashby, Stephen 58
Ashford, Thomas (Thos.) 58
Ashley, William 60, 65
Ashurst, Robert 43
Aske, David 78
Askey, Zacharias [Ashby?] 74
Asturgus, James 26
Atchley, James 56
Atchison, James 63
Atkin, Robert (Robard) 78
Atkins, William 69
Atkinson, Jesse (Adkinson) 74
Ayres, Richard (Riard) 54
Ayres, Samuel (Saml.) 46, 51, 53
Baber, Stanley 65, 72
Bacum, Henry 54
Badger, Alexander 77
Bailey, Groombride (Baley) 54
Bailey, John (Jno.) 58
Bailey, Rezon (Baley) 54
Baird, James 60
Baird, Thomas 78
Baker, David 60, 63
Baker, Frederick 78
Baker, H 54
Baker, James 58
Baker, John (Jno.) 16, 63, 74
Baker, Joseph 60
Baker, Joshua (Jasha).32, 34, 48, 60, 63
Baker, Moses 60, 63, 65
Baker, Nathan 63
Baker, Richard 36
Baker, Thomas (Thos.) 27, 77
Baker, Umphrey 69
Baker, William (W.) 54, 83
Baldock, Reuben 36, 58
Baldwin, John 68
Ball, James 63
Ball, William (Wm.) 58, 69
Ballard, Fielden 52
Ballard, George 60
Ballard, Proctor 60
Banks, Henry 92
Banks, Reuben (Reubin) 58
Banks, Thomas 69
Banks, William 58
Barbee, Andrew 93
Barbee, Joshua 83
Barbee, Thomas (Thos.) 83
Barber, Elias (Elijah) 23, 36
Barber, John 23, 36
Barker, Joseph (Jos.) (J.) 48,84
Barker, William 74
Barkley, John 93
Barkley, Matthew 52
Barksbery, Samuel, Sr 58
Barkshire, Dickey 63
Barlow, Ambrose (Ambrous) 60
Barlow, Cornelius (Barlow) 60
Barlow, Flanery 60
Barlow, Henry, Jr 60
Barlow, William 56
Barnard, Jonathan 78
Barnes, Elijah 60,65
Barnes, Francis 60
Barnes, Joshua 54
Barnett, Alexander (Alexr.) ... .62, 78
Barnett, Edward (Barnet) (Eddy) 58
Barnett, George (Geo.) . .27, 47, 60, 78
Barnett, Humphrey 74
Barnett, James (Jas.) 64
Barnett, John (Jno.) 27, 36, 54
Barnett, Robert 17
Barr, Isaac 46, 53, 93
Barr, John 49
Barr, Robert (Robt.) 45, 46,
53,63,76,90,91,93
Bartlett, Anthony (Bartlet)
(Anth.) 60
Bartlett, Edmund 60
Bartlett, Henry (Bartlet) 67, 78
Bartlett, Richard 45
Bartlett, Matthias (Bartlet)
(Mathias) 27
Bartlett, Thomas 45, 60, 67, 78, 83
Bartlett, W 17
Barton, Andrew 77
Barton, Joab 9 (List)
Barton, Joshua 9 (List), 27
Baseman, John 84
Basil, John (Bazel) 27
Baskett, John (Jno.) 65
Basnett, Isaac 47, 72
Basnett, Robert 47
Bassett, William (Basel)
(Wm.) 27,52,58
Bastinett, John (Jno.) 60
Bates, Ephraim (Baits) 60
Battersell, Freeman (freeman) ... 78
[ 190 ]
List of Names
Baugh, John 9 (List)
Baughman, Jacob 9 (List)
Baxter, James 60
Baxter, Samuel 46
Bay, David [Ray?] 82
Baylor, Walter (Wallner) 60
Bayne, Thomas 60
Beale, Leonard 63
Beale, Richard Eustace 16
Beall, Archibald (Beell) (Archd.)
(Archble) 27,69
Beall, Edward 63
Beall, William (Willm.) 63
Bear, William (Bare) 28
Beard, John 53
Beard, Joseph 74
Beams, Will 58
Beaseman, John 78
Beasley, John (Beasly) 32,48,54
Beatty, Daniel (Beaty) 60, 65
Beatty, James 60
Beatty, John (Beaty) .33, 49, 66, 77, 84
Beatty, Thomas (Thos.) 65
Beck, Daniel 60
Beck, Jeremiah (Becks) 48, 54
Beck, Samuel (Saml.) 52
Bedford, Benjamin (Benj.) . . . .62,78
Bedinger, Michael (G) 8, 9
Beesley, William (Majr.) ... .9 (List)
Bell, David 78
Bell, Hugh 78
Bell, John 43, 52, 84, 93
Bell, James 52,78
Bell, Joseph 78
Bell, Richard 63
Bell, Samuel 78
Bell, Thomas (Thos.) 24, 53
Bell, William (Wm.) 57, 58, 78
Benedict, John 36
Benefil, John (Benefiel) 60, 63, 93
Bennett, Benjamin 60
Bennett, Daniel 58
Bennett, George 51
Bennett, Josephus (Bennit) 17
Bennett, Joshua 24
Bennett, Thomas 47
Bennett, William 3
Bennington, William 82
Benson, James (Coin.) (Jas.) 82
Benson, Joshua 84
Bentley, James 60, 65
Benton, John 54
Benton, Simon 54
Berson, William (Wm.) 55
Berry, Benjamin (Benj.) 43, 52
Berry, Edmund (Edmond) (Bery) 72
Berry, Edward 65
Berry, Elijah 32, 34, 48, 84
Berry, George 57, 78, 84
Berry, George Jr 32, 34
Berry, Henry 32, 34, 48
Berry, James 8, 9, 26, 27
Berry, Joel 32, 34, 48
Berry, Joseph 27, 32, 34, 48, 54, 60
Berry, Joseph, Jr 32, 34
Berry, Robert 43
Berry, Reuben (Berry) (Reubin)51,52
Berry, Samuel (Bery) 43, 52
Berry, Themley 54
Berry, Thomas (Tho.) 58
Berry, Thomas, Jr 58
Berry, William 40, 48, 58
Berry, Withers 54
Best, Humphrey 27
Best, Stephen 27
Bethel, George 56
Bett, Josiah 68
Bever, Matthias (Mathias)
(Mattheas) 60, 78, 84
Bever, Obadiah (Bavor)
(Obediah) 47,72
Bibelin, William 60, 65
Bickerstaff, Benjamin (Benj.).... 74
Bickley, James (Bickey) 51
Bickley, William (Beckley) ... 6, 32, 34
Biddle, Daniel 78
Biggs, Daniel 60, 65
Bird, John, Sr 67
Bird, John 46
Bishong, John 63
Black, Hugh 15
Black, James 27
Black, John 27, 58, 64
Black, Samuel 58, 93
Black, William (Wm.) 58
Blackburn, David (blackburn
david) 60
Blackburn, George (Geo.).. .43,51, 52
Blackburn, James 54
Blackburn, Isaac (blackburn) — 60
Blackburn, Joseph (Jos.) 54, 60
Blackwell, Armstead 46
Blackwell, James (blackwell) .... 47
Blackwell, Robert (Robt.) . .51,52,60
Blair, Alexander 66, 78
Blair, Alexander, Jr 49
Blair, 1 49,56,66
Blair, John (Blare) 48, 56, 78
Blair, Samuel (Saml.) 45, 46,
53, 60, 78, 84
Blair, William 49, 56
Blanchard, David 46, 52
Blank, Joseph (Jos.) 52
Blanton, Carter 27
[ 191 ]
List of Names
Blanton, James (Jas.) 52,58
Blanton, John 43
Blanton, Thomas (Thos.) 52, 58
Bledsoe, Abram 52
Bledsoe, Benjamin (bledsoe) ...51,58
Bledsoe, Elijah 69
Bledsoe, 1 58
Bledsoe, James 52
Bledsoe, John 00,05
Bledsoe, Joseph (Jos.) 52
Bledsoe, Moses GO
Bledsoe, William 17, 108
Blincoe, James (Blencoe) 00, 05
Boffman, Catherine 8
Boggs, Andrew 27
Boggs, Andrew, Jr 27
Boggs, James 60, 05
Boggs, John 60, 65
Boggs, Robert 52, 12, 63, 65
Bogie, Andrew 15
Bohannon, Richard 60
Bohun, Benjamin (Bohon) (Benj.)26, 58
Boke, Thomas 15
Bolar, Richard 58
Boling, Henry (Henery) 93
Bonar, Arthur 52
Bonn, Andrew [Boone?] 24
Boone, Daniel (Boon).. 6, 9 (List)
12, 24, 45, 48, 106
Boone, Edward 12
Boone, Israel 12
Boone, Jacob 48,54,87
Boone, Jonathan 11, 58
Boone, Josiah (Boon) 47
Boone, Joseph (Bone) 60
Boone, Misny (Boon) 9 (List)
Boone, Ovid 57, 84
Boone, Samuel (Saml.)24, 27, 60, 65, 83
Boone, Samuel, Jr 24
Boone, Squire 11, 24, 27
Boone, Thomas (Thos.). .24, 54,74, 87
Borns, Basil (Bazal) [Burns?] 54
Boshart, Jacob 60
Boswell, George 60, 67
Boudry , John 69
Bourn, William 40
Bourns, George [Burns?] 66
Bowles, Jesse 84
Bowman, Jesse (Bowmine) (Jesse) 27
Bowman, John 2, 0, 17
Bowman, Joseph 3
Bowman, Robert (Robt.) 58
Boyd, John 16, 52, 66, 84
Boyes, Joseph 00
Boyle, James 78
Boyle, John (Boyls) 32, 34, 54, 64
Boyle, Stephen (Boyl) 60, 78
Bradford, Enoch 53
Bradford, Fielding (F.) 46, 60, 05
Bradford, John 46, 53, 76
Bradley, Dennis GO, 05
Bradley, Dewand [ — ?]
Bradley, Edward 60, 65, 84
Bradley, John 52, 60
Bradley, Moses (Bredley) 32,78
Bradley, Robert 52, 60
Bradley, Samuel (S.) (Saml.) 40, 60, 74
Bradley, Thomas 52
Bradshaw, Benjamin 26
Bradshaw, James (Brashaw) 65
Bradshaw, Thomas (Brashaw) .... 65
Bradshaw, William (Wm.) (Bra-
shaw) 58,65
Brady, William GO
Bram, Andrew 77
Brann, Joseph 66, 77, 84
Branham, Benjamin (Branum)
(Benj.) 52
Branham, Thomas (Thos.). .23, 52, 60
Brank, Robert (Robt.) 27,64
Brasfield, Wiley 58
Brashear, John (Brasher) 78
Brashear, Mashan 11
Bray, James 26, 45, 46
Breet, Joseph 78
Brent, Innes B 93
Brent, James 17
Brent, Thomas (Thos.) 45, 52, 60
Brenton, John 58
Brice, James 84
Brice, Samuel 84
Bridges, John 58
Bridges, William 64
Bright, Henry 69
Bright, John 69
Brice, Daniel (Brise) 27
Briggs, David 28
Briggs, Samuel (Saml.) 17
Brimagen, Jervis 55
Brimagem, John (Brinnagem)
(Jno.) 78
Brink, Hibert 60, 65
Brink, Samuel 24, 12, 60, 65
Brinn, John (Jno.) 58
Bristow, James 56, 63
Brite, Albertus [Bright?] 45
Brite, Samuel (Bright) 66
Brock, Henry 40
Brockman, Thomas (Thos.) 60,65
Bromfield, Joseph 28
Bronson, Zebulon (Bronsun) 58
Brookie, John 60
Brooking, Samuel (Saml.) 58
Brooks, Ebenezer (Ebenr.). .17. 50, 03
[ 192 ]
List of Names
Brooks, Henry (H.) 53, 60
Brooks, Samuel 9 (List)
Brooks, Thomas (Thos.) ... .6, 24,
40, 54, 87
Brooks, William 9 (List)
Brothers, Thomas 84
Brouse, Henry 52
Brow, Bartlett 69
Brown, Absolom 15, 23, 47, 58, 69
Brown, Alexander (Alexr.) 66, 84
Brown, Andrew 66
Brown, Benjamin 60
Brown, Beverly 58, 69
Brown, Daniel 26
Brown, Frederick (Fred.) 47
Brown, James (Brown) 6, 17,
26, 27, 28, 58, 60, 65, 83
Brown, Jeremiah 6
Brown, John 26, 27, 60, 65
Brown, Joseph 69
Brown, Manly 33
Brown, McCagey 69
Brown, Patrick (Patrick) . . .26, 60, 65
Brown, Robert (Robt.) (brown).. 27
Brown, Samuel 6
Brown, Thomas (Thos.) 23, 60
Brown, William (Willm.)
(Wm.) 52, 54, 60, 63, 65
Browning, Caleb 60, 65
Brownlee, John 86
Bruce, Benjamin 65
Bruce, John 17
Bruce, William 85
Brumberry, Jacob 27
Brumfield, Joab 17
Brundidge, Bartlett 72
Brundidge, Solomon 65, 72
Brunner, Timothy 69
Brush, James 84
Bryan, Edmund (Bryans)
(Edmum) 60
Bryan, George 60
Bryan, Samuel (Saml.) .6, 58, 60, 63, 78
Bryan, William (Wm.) 6, 12
Bryant, Daniel 63
Bryant, James (Briant) 9
Bryant, John 17, 47, 58, 60, 63, 69
Bryant, Thomas (Briant) (Tomas) 8
Bryden, Robert (Robt.) 58,64,69
Bryson, George 93
Buchanan, George 26
Buchanan, James (J.)
(Buhanan) 27,48
Buchanan, John 26
Buck, Conrad (Coonrad) 63
Buck, Wilbey 69
Buckner, William (Wm.) 17
Buford, A 45
Buford, John (Buferd) 63, 69
Buford, Simeon 93
Bulger, Edward 11, 12
Bullen, Jedediah 49
Bullitt, Parmenas (Bullett) 26
Bullock, Edmund (Edm.) . . .53, 60, 65
Bullock, Garland 60, 65
Bullock, James (Jas.) 63, 107
Bullock, John 8, 9, 53, 60, 65
Bullock, Lewis 60, 67, 93
Bullock, Nathaniel (Bullock)
(Nathanel) (Nathel) 8, 9,
9 (List) 65
Bullock, Thomas (Thos.) 53,78
Bunch, Callaway 58
Bunch, Charles 58
Bunch, Clark 58
Bunch, Joseph 58
Bunch, Record 58
Bunch, Zachariah 58
Bundan, David 9 (List)
Bunnel, James 93
Bunnel, Jonah (Jona) 93
Bunnel, Stephen 93
Burbridge, Rowland (Roweland) . 63
Burch, John 84
Burch, Joseph 60, 67
Burdette, Frederick, Sr 58
Burdette, Frederick, Jr 58
Burdette, John (Burdett) 58.60
Burdette, Joseph 58
Burdette, Joshua (Burdett) 58
Burgin, Charles 47
Burgin, Dennis 46
Burgin, Thomas 47
Burgur, Henry (burgur) (Henry) . 33
Burgur, John (burgur) 33
Burk, Elihu (Burke) 60
Burk, John 77
Burk, Jonathan (Birk) 52
Burk, R 55
Burnett, William 60
Burns, Andrew 78
Burns, Arthur 66, 78, 84, 88
Burns, George 77,78,84
Burns, James 28, 84
Burns, John 57, 78
Burrows, Thomas (Burress)
(Burows) 65,72
Burton, Ambrose 69
Burton, Gerred 56
Burton, Jesse 84
Burton, John 63
Burton, Reuben (Reubin) 52
Bush, Ambrose (Bush) 52, 72
Bush, Charles 47
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List of Names
Bush, Francis 47, 65, 72
Bush, Gilson (Gholson) 72
Bush, John 47,77
Bush, Philip 47, 65, 72
Bush, Philip, Sr 47
Bush, William (Wm.) ... .6, 47, 52,
60, 63, 65, 72
Bush, William, Sr. (Wm.) 47
Butcher, Gasper 74
Butcher, James (Boocher) 52
Butcher, Joseph 64
Butler, James 58
Butler, John 58
Butler, Joseph 58
Butler, Peter 58
Butler, Samuel (S.) 15, 45, 60
Butler, Thomas (Butlor) 27, 82
Butler, William 52, 54, 55, 57, 78
Byers, David 56
Byers, Jeremiah (Byars) 58
Byers, Joseph (Jos.) 46, 93
Byram, James 32
Byram, Peter (P.) (Fetter)
(Pet.) 32, 48, 56, 77, 78, 84, 88
Byram, William (Wm.) 62, 77
Byrd, Abraham 56
Byrd, John 49, 56, 62
Byrne, Patrick (Patrick) (Byrn)32, 34
Byrne, William 60
Cabel, Hugh (Cable) 27
Cade, Charles 47
Calaman, John 60
Calbreath, John 78
Caldock, Levi 58
Caldwell, Andrew 66
Caldwell, David 48, 54, 60
Caldwell, George (Geo.) 17
Caldwell, James 55
Caldwell, John 27
Caldwell, Robert 84
Caldwell, Thomas 93
Caldwell, William (Wm.) . . .48, 54,
55, 56, 60, 87
Callaghan, Patrick 6
Callaway, Caleb 6
Callaway, Charles 6
Callaway, Chesley
(Calloway) 6, 63, 78
Callaway, Eager 9 (List)
Callaway, Edmund (Edmond)
(Edmon) (Ed) 40, 46, 63
Callaway, Elizabeth 9 (List)
Callaway, Flanders (Coloway)
(Caloway) (Calloway) . 8, 9, 60, 63
Callaway, Francis 9 (List)
Callaway, James 6, 9 (List) 63
Callaway, John (Calloway) 8
Callaway, Richard (Calloway )6, 10, 27
Calvert, Rails 53
Cameron, Angus 6
Cameron, John 60
Cammack, Christopher (Xpher) . . 60
Cammack, John 60
Campbell, Alexander 52, 54
Campbell, Allen 52
Campbell, Archibald
(Archd.) 52,60,93
Campbell, Charles (Chas.).17, 60,
63, 64, 65
Campbell, Daniel 52
Campbell, George (Campbel) . .26, 52
Campbell, Hugh 27, 52, 64
Campbell, James (Jas.) . .36, 52, 54, 60
Campbell, John 19, 40, 52,
58, 64, 83, 93, 101
Campbell, Michael (Mich.) 60, 83
Campbell, Matthew 54
Campbell, Morry (Cample) 69
Campbell, Robert. . . .40,51,53,58,60
Campbell, Samuel (Saml.) 6, 52
Campbell, Thomas 64
Campbell, William (Wm.)
(Gamble) 32,43,45,51,
52, 53, 54, 58, 63, 78, 87
Campbell, William, Jr 32, 52, 58
Cannit, Edward (Edwart) 69
Caperton, William 27
Carey, Holman, (Holn.) 54
Carigan, Edward 58
Carlin, Thomas (Thos.) 42, 58
Carlton, Isaac 58
Carlyle, George 52
Carlyle, James 60
Carmichael, Patrick (Carmikel) . . 26
Cams, John 49
Carneal, Thomas (Tho.) [Corneal?] 63
Carneal, William (Wm.) 52
Carpenter, Adam 36
Carpenter, Christopher 74
Carpenter, Henry (Hennary) 74
Carpenter, James, Jr 54
Carpenter, John 74
Carpenter, Peter 74
Carr, Peter 60, 93
Carr, Walter 40, 43, 51, 63
Carrington, William (Wm.)
(Carinton) 65
Carson, James (Jas.) 78
Carson, John 69
Carter, Braxton 8
Carter, John 60
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List of Names
Carter, Shadrach 60
Cartmill, Andrew 78
Cartmill, John 56, 63, 78
Cartmill, Thomas (Thos.) 78
Cartright, Jacob (Cartwright) ... 26
Cartright, Jesse (Cartwright) 27
Cartright, Peter (Cartwright) . .78, 84
Cartright, Richard, Sr 78
Cartright, Richard (Curtright).33,84
Cartright, Robert (Cartwright) . . 26
Cartright, Samuel (Cartwright)78, 84
Cartright, Thomas (Thos.) (Cart-
wright) 26
Cary, Joseph 84
Case, Goldsmith 78, 84
Case, Joseph (Jos.) 84
Case, Separate 58, 84
Casey, Bellas (Kecy) (Bealleas) . . 24
Casey, John 36
Casey, Peter 58
Casey, Peter, Jr 26
Casey, William (Caysey) (Wm.).. 36
Cash, Thomas 77
Cash, Warren 52
Cashaner, Jacob
(Ceshener) 40,60,65
Castleman, Lewis 43, 52, 63
Casto, Jonathan 65
Gather, Edward 58
Catlis, F [Gatlif ?] 84
Catoline, Benjamin (Bengemen) . . 65
Caughey, John 84
Cave, George 6
Cave, Henry 52, 60
Cave, John 52
Cave, Richard 60
Cave, William 52, 60
Cave, William, Jr 52
Gavins, Edward 60
Cawood, Berry 110
Chambers, Alexander (Allex-
ander) 60,65
Chambers, John 49
Chambers, John Thompson 78
Champ, John 77
Champ, William (Wm.) 27
Champers, George 67
Cheney, Richard (Chania)(
(Chany) 65
Chapman, Amos 27
Chapman, George 74
Chapman, Thomas 74
Cheatham, Edward
(Edwd.) 62,84,93
Cheatham, James 66, 78, 84
Chenoweth, Arthur 54
Chenoweth, Thomas 54
Cherry, Moses 52
Chester, Nixon 27
Childress, John 24
Childreth, Squire 78
Chiles, David 58
Chiles, Henry 58
Chiles, James 58
Chiles, John 58
Chilton, Thomas 69
Chinn, Christopher
(Christophr.) 67,93
Chinn, EHsah 15, 60, 67
Chinn, John 93
Chinn, Raleigh (Rawleigh) 60, 67
Chinn, William 67, 93
Chisley, John 52
Chisom, Absalom 74
Chisom, Elisha 74
Chisom, John 74
Chivelier, Anthony [Chevalier?] . 46
Chrisman, Joseph 15, 63
Christian, John 53, 60
Christy, Ambrose 60
Christy, Julius 60
Christy, Thomas 11
Church, Thomas (Ths.) 52
Churchill, George 52
Churchill, John, Jr 68
Clare, William (Wm.) 33
Clark, Charles (Cs.) 55
Clark, Prances 27
Clark, George Rogers (G.R.).3,5,
13, 17, 100, 105
Clark, George 6, 32, 34, 54
Clark, James 60, 65, 67, 78
Clark, Richard 56
Clark, Robert (Robt.) 32, 34,
55, 56, 78, 93
Clark, Shadrach (Shadrack) 60
Clark, Thomas (Thos.)
(Clarke) .... 17, 55, 56, 60, 65, 74, 84
Clark, William (Wm. ) . 33, 48, 55, 78, 88
Clarke, John (Jno.). 14, 46, 52, 54, 63
Clarkson, David 78, 84
Clarkson, Julius 60, 78
Clarkson, William (Wm.) . . .40,78,84
Clary, Elisha 15, 74
Clary, William (Wm.) 15
Clay, Marstan (M.) 40, 58, 63
Clay, Samuel (Saml.) 27, 78, 84
Cleeland, Alexander 11
Clem, Phillip 67
Clements, Roger 24
Clernand, William 27
Cleveland, Alexander (Clevelad) . 12
Cleveland, Eli 60, 65
Clifford, Michael (Mich.) 52
[ 195 ]
List of Names
Clif t, Joseph 58
Cliffton, Burditt 60
Clindining, Robert (Robt.)
[Clendening?] 78
Cliue, Peter (Clyen Fetter) 78
Clinkenbeard, Isaac 58, 78, 84
Clinkenbeard, William (Clinken-
beard) 24
Clinton, Archibald (Archy) 69
Clock, Richard 60
Cloyd, James 15
Club, William 60, 65
Coachyan, Andrew [Cushan?] ... 78
Coats, William 74
Coburn, John 25, 45, 46,
53,63,76,90,91
Coburn, William 84, 88
Coby, Thomas (Thos.) [Colby?]. . 52
Cochran, Andrew 78
Cochran, Dennis (Cochrin) . . . .27, 64
Cochran, Hugh 43
Cochran, John (Cochran) 27, 64
Cochran, William (Wm.)
(Cochrian) 27
Coffee, Ambrose (Coffy)
(Ambros) 8, 9, 27, 47, 65, 72
Cofman, Abraham (Kauflman?)78, 84
Coker, Jesse (Cokker). . .8, 9,9 (List)
Coker, Augustine (Augustin) .... 78
Coker, Michael 40
Coin, Edward (Coen) 77, 84
Coldwell, David (Caldwell?) 32
Coldwell, Matthew (Mathew)
(Caldwell) 43,51,52
Coldwell, William (Wm.) . . .32,48,49
Cole, Richard (Richd) 52
Cole, Jesse 52
Coleman, Francis 52
Coleman, Page 52
Coleney, John.[?] 64
Colley , James (Colly) .... 33, 49, 57, 84
Colley, Joseph [Colby?] 67
Collier, Alexander (Alexr.). .17,58,69
Collier, Daniel 78
Collier, James 58, 77
Collier, John 43, 51, 52, 58, 64
Collier, Joseph (Colliear) 60
Collier, Moses 58
Collier, Robert 58
Collins, Bartlett 17,51, 12,60
Collins, Edmund 84
Collins, Edward 63
Collins, Elisha 24, 52
Collins, James (Jas.) 60
Collins, Joel 43, 52
Collins, Joseph (Collings). ..43,51,52
Collins, Joshua 24
Collins, Josiah 43
Collins, Robert (Robt.) 48, 63, 84
Collins, Stephen (Colins)
(Stephan) 14, 60, 76
Colter, Thomas (Thos.) 58
Colville, Joseph 78
Colvin, Aaron (Aron) 78
Colvin, Luther (Colwin) .32,34,48,54
Combs, Benjamin (Benj . ) . . . 47, 60, 65
Combs, Cuthbert 12
Combs, William (Comb.) 27, 60
Conaway, John 11
Conaway, John, Jr. (Connaway) . 45
Conaway, Jesse 8
Conaway, Joseph 26
Congleton, William (Wm.) 63
Conn, Jacob 60
Conn, John 62
Conn, Notley 78
Conn, Raleigh (Roily) 84
Conn, Thomas (Thos.) 56, 60, 62, 66, 84
Connell, James (M.) Connall) ... 14, 60
Connell, William (Wm.) 93
Connelly, Arthur (Connely) 46,52
Connelly, James (Connely) 52
Connelly, Robert (Robt.) 52
Conning, Daniel (Danel) 78
Conning, James 78
Conning, John 78
Conner, Daniel 60
Connor, John (Conner) . .43, 52, 60, 65
Connor, William 60
Connors, Dennis (Connyers) 58
Conrad, Abraham (Coonrad) 60
Conradf— ?] 48
Conrey, Jonathan 54
Consenbary, John 84
Consawley, James 54
Consawley, John 54
Constant, Isaac 84
Constant, John 24
Constant, Thomas 78
Conway, James (Jas.) 55
Conway, Jesse (Jesey) 7, 40, 55
Conway, John ( Jno. ) . . 32, 34, 42, 45, 55
Conway, John, Sr 40
Conway, John, Jr 40
Conway, Joseph 40, 45, 60
Conway, Miles (W.) 32, 34, 48, 54
Conway, Samuel 40
Conwenhovn, Joseph 60
Conyers, David[Connors?]60,65,78,84
Conyers, James 74
Conyers, Isaac 78
Cook, Abel 54
Cook, David 12, 36
Cook, Hosea 60
[ 196 ]
List of Names
Cook, James, Senior 74
Cook, James, Junior 74
Cook, John, Senior 49
Cook, John 27, 32, 33, 56, 60, 78
Cook, Samuel (Saml.) .33, 55, 66,78, 84
Cook, Seth 52
Cook, William, (cook) 52, 74
Cooley, Daniel 69
Cooley, Ebenezer 38
Coone, John 59
Cooper, Benjamin 60
Cooper, James 74
Cooper, John (Coopper) 54
Cooper, Samuel 53
Coopstick, Samuel 52
Copelin, William (Copelen) 69
Copher, Jesse 63
Copige, Isaac 52
Copige, John (Coppege) 84
Copige, Rhodus (Rhodes) 52
Copper, McCagy 69
Corneal, Thomas (Thos.)
[Carneal?] 52
Corneh'son, Michael (Kelnelison)
(Cornalisson) (Mickel) 77, 84
Counts, William (Wm.) 52
Courtenay, Charnick (Cortney)32, 34
Courtenay, Charno R. (Courtney) 54
Courtenay, John (Courtney) 27
Courtenay, Nehemiah (Corteney)
(Courtney) (Nemiah) 48, 54
Corn, Andrew 27
Corn, Edward 27
Corn, Ebenezer 27
Corn, George 16, 52
Corn, Solomon 58
Corning, Ebenezer 27
Corwin, I. Chebud 46
Corwin, Jesse 48, 57
Corwin, Joseph 57, 58, 78
Corwin, Matthias 58, 84
Corwin, Michael 60
Corwine, Richard (Richd.) 54
Coryell, Cornelius 77
Coryell, Joseph (Corell) 77
Coryell, Levi 84
Coryell, Lewis (1.) 77
Cosgrove, James 27, 64
Cotner, Frederick 69
Cotton, Henry 60, 65
Cotton, Ralph 60
Couch, Francis (fransses) 65
Couch, James 48
Couchman, Benedict (Benndict
(and Benedick) 49, 84
Couchman, Benjamin 24
Couchman, Frederick 24
Couchman, Malachi 84
Couchman, Michael (Mikal) 49
Coulson, John 33, 48
Cowan, Hugh (Cowen). . .53, 66, 78, 84
Cowan, James (Jas.) 26
Cowan,John(Jno.)(Cowen)3,17,18,42
Cowes, Jacob 57
Cowherd, James (Jas.) 60, 67
Cowley, William (Wm.) 17, 60
Cox, Andrew 93
Cox, Benjamin (Benjn.) 61
Cox, David 60
Cox, Francis 58
Cox, Gabriel 60
Cox, Isaac 42
Cox, John (Cocks) 60, 74 . 76, 93
Cox, Jonathan 60
Cox, Samuel (Saml.) 60
Crabb, John 54
Crabb, Vinson 54
Crach, Joseph [Creech?] 27
Cracraft, Joseph 66
Cracraft, Reuben (Ruben) 84
Cradlepaugh, William (Wm.)
(Criddlebough) (Cradle-
bough) 6,8,27
Craddock, Thomas (Tho.) 42
Craddock, W 83
Cradle, Thomas (thomas) 69
Craig, Absalom 48, 54
Craig, Anne 71
Craig, Benjamin (Bingn.)
(Benj.) 17,52
Craig, Elijah 51, 52, 60
Craig, James 15, 17, 52
Craig, Jeremiah 24, 43, 52, 60
Craig, John. .15, 24, 23, 43, 45, 52, 61, 65
Craig, John H 24,51,52,93
Craig, Joseph 17, 60
Craig, Joseph, Jr 60
Craig, Lewis .... 17, 43, 45, 52, 60, 63, 67
Craig, Martin (Martan) 15
Craig, Reuben 52
Craig, Robert 60, 78
Craig, Samuel (Crage) 15
Craig, Toliver, Sr 43, 52, 60
Craig, Toliver, Jr 60
Craig, William (Craige) 58, 78, 84
Crancher, George 69
Cranchfield, William (Cranchfeld)
(Wm.) 69
Crass, Michael (Crase) 58
Crass, John 69
Crawford, Abel 58
Crawford, James 53, 58, 65, 90, 91
Crawford, Josiah (Crofford) ... .32, 34
Crawford, William 60, 65
Creals, James (Creal) 56, 57
Creamer, Henry 6
[ 197 ]
List of Names
Creed, Elijah 52
Crenshaw, James 65
Crcsswell, Hugh 53
Cresswell, Samuel (Saml.) 52
Crew, David (Crews) 27, 30, 64
Crew, Elijah (Crews) 27, 47
Crew, Jeremiah (Crews) 27
Crew. Thomas (Thos.) 47
Crimm, Jacob (Crim) 65, 78
Crimm, John (Crim) (Jno.) .58, 65, 78
Crimm, Joseph 65
Crimm, William 65
Cripedge, Rhpdin 52
Crisel, Jeremiah 52
Crittenden, John (J.) 3, 11, 60, 61
Crockett, Anthony 27
Crockett, Joseph 40, 45
Crocy, William 17
Cromwell, Joshua 58, 60
Crook, Absalom 24, 27
Crook, Jeremiah (Cruck) 77
Crook, John (Crooks) 27, 51, 58
Crosley, John 54, 63
Cross, Henry (Crose) 78, 84
Cross, John 9 (List)
Cross, Phillip (Crose) . . 78, 84
Cross, William 93
Crosthwait, Reuben 47
Crosthwait, Samuel 47
Crouch, Joseph 47
Crouchman, Benjamin (Ben)
[Couchman?] 78
Crow, Daniel 56
Crow, John 94
Cruikshanks, Joseph (Crook-
shanks) 52
Crum, Daniel (Crume) 60
Crump, Richard 60, 65
Crutcher, John (J.) 58
Crutchfield, William 65
Cruzen, Benjamin 78
Culberson, William (Culbertson)
(Wm.) 49,55
Culberton, Samuel (Saml.) 16
Cullin, Charles 55
Cunningham, Hugh 27
Cunningham, John (Jno.) 52
Cunningham, R. (Cuningham) ... 60
Cunningham, W 58
Curd, Charles 8,11
Curd, James 40
Curd, John 40
Curd, Price 58
Curl, Dudley 60, 65
Curry, James 58
Curry, Robert 28, 48
Curry, William (Currey) 27, 77, 78
Curtis, John 48
Cusenberry, Elijah 32, 34, 84
Cusenberry, James (Quiseubey)47, 72
Cusenberry, John (Crisenberry)
(Cusenbury) (Quisen-
berry) 32,33,65,72
Cusenberry, Moses (Crusonberry)
(Chrisenberry) 32, 34, 48, 84
Cusenberry, Vinson (Vincin)
(Cuseubary) 32, 34, 84
Cusenberry, William (Cusenbary) 84
Cusley, William (Will.) [Owsley?] 47
Cutbearth, Benjamin 6
Cutts, Shadrach (Shadrich) 65,72
Dale, Abraham 52
Dale, George 52
Dale, Ignatius 52
Dale, William 51, 52
Daly, John 58
Daniel, John 63
Daniel, Peter 72
Daniel, W 42
Daniels, Nathan (Dannals) 27
Darnaby, Edward 67
Darnaby, John (Donebey) . .40, 67, 78
Darnwood, Boston 58
Darot, David [Durrett?] 51, 52
Date, Robert 52
Davenport, Jonas (Davinport) .45, 53
Davenport, William (Wm.) 60,65
David, Charles 60
David, H 66
David, Zebediah (Zebadiah) 54
Davidson, Adonijah (Davidson)
(ADonijah) 32,34
Davidson, George (Geo.) 17
Davidson, James [Davison] .... 77, 88
Davidson, John 58
Davie, Charles 54
Davies, Azariah 6, 32, 34
Davis, Alexander 47
Davis, Augustine 65
Davis, Benjamin 54, 60, 58, 65
Davis, David 54,84,88
Davis, Edward 52, 74
Davis, Elijah 52
Davis, Hananiah 51
Davis, Harrison 58
Davis, J 68
Davis, James 58, 74
Davis, John (Davis) . . .8, 15, 60, 63, 65
Davis, Joseph 27, 52, 58, 65
Davis, Lamach (Lamack)
(Davies) 49, 55, 77, 78, 88
Davis, Leonard (Lenard) ; . 65
Davis, Patrick 60
[ 198 ]
List of Names
Davis, Reason 78
Davis, Richard 27, 40, 51, 63
Davis, Robert 49, 54
Davis, Samuel (Sarnl.) 27, 33
Davis, Stephen 51
Davis, Theodore (Theodorus) 27
Davis, Thomas (Davice).. .24,28,
32, 33, 49, 55, 58, 60, 66, 84
Davis, Thomas, Jr 49
Davis, William 14, 52, 58, 78
Davy, Thomas 48
Dawes, William (Wm.) 54
Dawson (Christopher?) 52
Dawson, Henry 78
Dawson, James (Dason) 14
Dawson, John 28, 49, 55, 77
Dawson, Richard (Rich.) 52
Dawson, Thomas (Tho.) (Dosson) 62
Deadman, Samuel (Dedman) . . .51, 52
Dearangar, Jacob 52
Dearengar, John 52
Deatherage, Hillis 60
Deford, Charles 93
Delaney , Joseph ( Jos. ) 45, 52
Demint, Jared 52
Denham, Obed 52
Denison, David 78
Denison, Daniel (Danl.) 63
Denison, Thomas (Thos.) 78
Denison, William 63
Denman, Samuel 54
Denney, Jeremiah (Deney) 68
Denney, Lewis (Denny) 43
Denney, William (Wm.) 77
Dennis, Moses 27
Dennis, Samuel (Saml.) (Dinnis)
26,27,58
Dennis, Samuel, Jr 36
Denton, David 40, 63
Denton, James 58
Denton, John 6
Denton, Silas 32
Denton, Thomas (Thos.) 6,26,58
Delay, Henry 84
Devine, John 27
Deweese, John (Jno.) (Dweise) . . .52
Deweese, Lewis (Dewese) 27, 52
Deweese, Samuel (Saml.) (Dewees) 46
Deweese, William (Wm.) 52
Dewitt, Elisha (Elishua) (Dwitt)
(Dewit) 32,34,48
Dewitt, Henry 55,82
Dewitt, Peter 23, 43, 52
Dewitt, William 84
Dexter, Silas (Silos) (Siles)
(Dextor) 34,48,54
Diar, John 74
Dibrell, Charles 27
Dicken, Joseph 23
Dicken, William (Wm.) 60
Dickerson, A 43
Dickerson, Edward 74
Dickerson, Griffen 74
Dickerson, Josiah 48
Dickerson, Martin (Martain) .... 43
Dickerson, Valentine (Valentine)
(Vaul) 24,43,60
Dickerson, William 24, 43
Dickey, David 58
Dickey, James 52
Dickey, John 58
Dickey, Michael (Mich.) 52
Dickey, Samuel 51
Dickinson, William (Wm.) 52
Dickson, John 78
Dickson, Josiah 78, 84
Dickson, Thomas 84
Dike, William 77
Diller, Samuel (Sam.) 40
Dillon, Isaac (Dillion) 56
Dillon, John 48
Dillon, Michael 68
Dillon, Samuel 63
Dinwiddie, James (Jas.) (Dun-
woodie) (Dunwiddy) . 17, 43, 53, 93
Dinwiddie, Thomas (Thos.) 60
Dive, Martin 60
Diver, Dean (Dienn) 27
Doak, James 26, 27
Dobyns, Edward 32, 34, 48, 54, 62
Dods, Finley 48
Dodson, Joshua 58
Dodsshuler, Benjamin (Benj.)
60,65
Doman, Bartholemew (Barth.)... 63
Dougester, James (Dogester) 6
Dougester, James, Jr 6
Dole, John (Dolls) 78
Dole, Josiah M 49
Dole, William (Doll) 45
Dolome[— ?] 17
Donald, Thomas 28
Donaldson, Israel (Donalson) .... 87
Donaldson, Jacob (Donelson) .... 74
Donaldson, James 78
Donaldson, John (Donnalson) 65
Donaldson, Richard (Donelson) . . 93
Donaldson, Thomas (Thos.)
(Donnalson) 62
Donaldson, William (Wm.)
(Donalson) 52
Doniphan, Joseph 8, 9
Doogans, William 58
Dooley , Abner 58
Dooley, Jacob 72
Dooley, Moses 58
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Dooley, Thomas 52
Doran, Patrick 21
Dorsey, Laken 54
Doster, Elijah (Dostor) 65
Doster, James 8, 9
Doty, John (Jno.) 27
Dougherty, Cornelius 15, 64
Dougherty, David (Doaherty) ... 27
Dougherty, James (Jas.) (Daugh-
erty) 52
Dougherty, John (Doherthy) .... 78
Dougherty, Roger (Doughorty)
(Rogar) 54
Dougherty, Thomas (Thos.) 17
Dougherty, William 27
Douglass, George 58
Douglass, Hugh (Dougless) 78
Douglass, James 71, 84
Douglass, John 24, 58
Douglass, Nathaniel (Dugles)
(Nathan) (Nathenel) 58, 78
Douglass, Samuel (Saml.)
(Dugles) 49,57,78
Douglass, William 57
Dove, Augustine (Auguston) 47
Dove, Francis 15
Dowden, Michael (Michl.)
(Dowden) 52
Dowden, Nathaniel 52
Dowell, Martin (Dowel) 51
Dowling, James 60
Downer, E 54
Downing, Andrew 58
Downing, Ezekiel (Ezekel) 58
Downing, James 17
Downing, John 17, 58
Downing, Robert 48
Downing, Thomas (Tomas) 58
Downing, Timothy 32, 34, 48, 54
Downs, Jonathan 65
Downs, Richard 65
Downs, William 58
Doyle, Martin (Martain) 52,58
Doyle, Thomas (Doyal) 47
Drake, Abraham 54
Drake, Cornelius 54
Drake, Ephriam 40, 60
Drake, Isaac 54
Drake, James 60
Drake, John 60
Drake, Joseph 6 (List)
Drake, Margaret (Margret) 8
Drake, Nathaniel (Nath.) 40, 60
Drake, Philip 24, 32, 34, 48, 54
Drake, Samuel 60
Drake, William 60
Driggars, Julius (Julis) 74
Drinkard, Francis (drinkard) .... 58
Dromgoole, James 74
Dryden, David 53
Dryden, [— ?] 64
Dryden, William (Wm.) 58
Dudley, Ambrose 40, 60
Dudley, William 60, 67
Dukes, Samuel 58
Dulan, James (Dulen)
(Duling) 24, 27, 60, 65, 66
Dumpard, Daniel 47
Dumpard, John (Dumferd)..9 (List)
Dumpard, Michael (Domppart)
(Dompard)(Dompor)(Michal)
(Mikel) 47, 51, 59, 60, 65
Dunaway, Benjamin
(Dunniway) 8, 9, 47, 60, 65
Dunaway, Thomas (Thos.) 47, 65
Dunaway, William 47
Duncan, Benjamin 27
Duncan, Charles 40, 60
Duncan, Gabriel (Dunkin)
(Gabril) 64
Duncan, James (Duncken). .6, 49,
55, 62, 66, 78, 79, 84, 88
Duncan, John 88
Duncan, Joseph 84, 88
Duncan, Nimrod 26, 27
Duncan, Samuel (Duncom) 69
Dunlap, William (Wm.) 63
Dunn, Jacob 104
Dunn, James 60
Dunn, Jeremiah 32, 34
Dunn, John 9 (List)
Dunn, Joseph 58
Dunn, Richard (Richd.) (Dun) 27,64
Dunn, Samuel 17, 58
Dunn, Vincent 26, 27
Dunn, William 60
Dupuy. Bartholemew (Dupey)
(Bartw.) 52
Dupuy, James 40, 43, 52, 60
Dupuy, James, Sr 43
Dupuy, James, Jr 51
Dupuy, Joel (Dupey) 52
Dupuy, John (Dupey) 43, 52, 60
Dupuy, John, Jr 43, 52
Dupuy, Joseph 43, 51, 52
Durbin, Christopher 47
Durbin, Joseph 47
Durrett, Richard 48, 56
Dusker, John [Doster?] 84
Dust, David 43
Duval, William 60
Dykes, Henry 84
[ 200 ]
List of Names
Eades, Robert 66
Eades, Thomas (Thos.) 62, 66, 88
Eakin, John 93
Eartywine, George 82
Easley, Stephen [~~'J
Easley, Thomas [— ?]
Eastin, Achilles ... .55, 56, 66, 78, 84, 88
Eastin, Richard (Rich.) 68
Eaton, George 52
Eaton, Jonathan 60, 65
Eaton, Joseph (Jos.) 52
Eaton, Levi 52
Eckles, Robert (Eckels) 53
Edgar, David 54
Edgar, John 63
Edington, John 40
Edmiston, David 49, 66
Edmiston, Robert 66
Edmiston, Thomas 93
Edmundson, David 55
Edmundson, James (Edmondson) . 58
Edrington, John 43
Edson, George (Eidson) 60
Edwards, Alexander 32, 34
Edwards, Benjamin 69
Edwards, David, Jr 56
Edwards, Elipha (Elepha) 60
Edwards, Frederick 68
Edwards, Haden 49, 56, 66
Edwards, Jacob 48, 54
Edwards, James 48
Edwards, John (Jno.) 12,42,56,60,
66, 79, 90, 91
Edwards, Sanford 12
Edwards, Simon 52
Egbert, David 52
Egner, Isaac 82
Egner, John 82
Elam, John (Elim) 74
Elam, Josiah 43, 52
Elder, Andrew 58
Elder, William 51
Elgin, Samuel (Saml.) 49
Elkin, Robert (Robt.) 47, 65
Elkin, Zachariah (Zachriah) 50, 65, 72
Ellet, Thomas [Elliot?] 65
Ellet, William (Win.) 51
Elley, Henry 52,60
Elley, Thomas (Thos.) 52
Elliott, John (Jno.) 52, 55
Elliott, Martin 43,63
Elliott, Robert (Robt.) 52
Elliott, Samuel (Eliot) 6
Elliott, Thomas 60, 65
Elliott, William (Eliot) (Wm.)
14, 49, 53, 55, 60, 65, 66, 84
Ellis, John Jr 60
Ellis, Jezreel 15, 33, 49, 56
Ellis, Thomas (Thos.) (Elliss). .53,54
Ellis, William Jr 43
Ellison, Benjamin (Benj.) 52
Ellison, John 52, 60
Ellison, Joseph 27
Ellison, Thomas (Thos.) 52
Ellmaker, Edward 63
Embree, Jacob 72
Embree, Jesse (Embrey) 27
Embree, Joel (Embry) 27
Embree, John (Embry) 27, 58
Embree, Joshua 58
Embree, Joseph (Embrey)27, 60, 65, 72
Embree, Tarlton (Embry) (Tal-
ton.) 27,64
Embree, William . 47, 65
Emerson, Ash (Emison.) 50
Emerson, Hugh (Emison) 26, 52
Emerson, Reuben 60, 65
Enbow, Joseph 60
Enbow, Robert 36
Endamond, John 53
English, Charles 15
English, John 15
English, Stephen 15
Erickson, Benjamin (Earockson)
(Benj.) 68
Ervin, Mary (Arvin) 38
Erwin, James 48
Essvey, John 60
Estes, Elisha (Eastes) 23, 46, 52
Estill, Benjamin 6
Estill, James 8
Estill, Samuel (Samel).. 8, 9, 27, 60, 64
Eubank, Willis (Killis) ..47,60,65,72
Evans, Alexander (Evins) 60, 65
Evans, Jacob (Evens) 28
Evans, Nathaniel (Evins)
(Nathl.) 23,60,93
Evans, Peter 60, 65
Evans, Thomas 51
Evans, William (Wm.) 93
Ewing, Baker 17
Ewing, Charles 60
Ewing, George (Geo.) 60
Ewing, William (Eiliom.) 84
Pagin, David (fagin) 77
Fagin, William (Fegines) 78
Fair, Edmund (fair) 8, 9, 58, 63
Farbett, James 51
Farlow, John (Forlow.) 28, 33, 49
Farlow, Robert (Forlow) 28, 49
Farmer, Abner 43
Farrar, Joseph R 60
[ 201 ]
List of Names
Parrel, Michael (Mickel) 15
Farrow, George 23
Faulkner, John (Faukner) 65
Faulkner, Joseph (Faulconer)
(Fauconer) 53,60,93
Faulkner, Thomas (Thos.) 27
Fay, Jacob 57
Felty, John 68
Fenton, Bartholomew 6, 64
Fenwick, John 03
Ferguson, Abraham (Farguson) .51, 67
Ferguson, Bryant 40, 53, 63, 65
Ferguson, Hugh 60
Ferguson, Isaac (Forgason) 54
Ferguson, James (Jas.) (Fargeson)
52,60
Ferguson, Joseph 60
Ferguson, Josias 60, 65
Ferguson, Larkin (Farguson) 52
Ferguson, Robert 52
Ferguson, Thomas (Thos.) 52
Ferguson, Thomas, Jr. (Thos.)... 52
Ferry, Jes 60
Ficklin, John 24, 43, 53, 63
Ficklin, Thomas 24, 52
Ficklin, William 52
Field, Henry (Fields) 51, 52
Fidler, Francis 63
Fight, Isham 77
Fight, Jacob 56
Filson, John 53
Finch, Josiah 49
Finet, John 53
Finley, David 17, 58
Finley, George (Findly) 28, 33, 64
Finley, Isaac 58
Finley, James 68
Finley, John (Fendly) . . .58, 60, 64, 77
Finley, Samuel 26, 58
Finney John [Finnie?] 52
Finney, Robert [Finnic?] 53
Finney, William (Wm.) [Finnic?]. 52
Fishback, Jacob 42, 65
Fisher, Adam 58
Fisher, Barnett 58
Fisher, Elias 26, 58
Fisher, James 52, 60
Fisher, John 27
Fisher, Stephen 17
Fisher, Zachariah 52
Fitch, Salathiel 77, 84
Fitzgerald, Batn. (Fitzgarld. ) . . 52, 60
Fitzgerald, Daniel (Fitzjarrell)
(Danl.) 52
Fitzgerald, William (Wm.) 32, 34
Fitzwater, Thomas 56, 60
Flanery, Elisha 74
Flannigan, Dominick 16
Flannigan, Lewis (Flanighan) . . 12, 24
Fleming, John (J) (Jo.) 11,24,48
Fleming, Ralph 17
Fleming, William (Willm.) 18
Fletcher, Thomas (Thos.) 48, 49, 77, 84
Fletcher, William 27, 65
Flinn, Thomas (Thos.) 54
Flinn, William (Fliue) (Flin) 49, 54, 56
Flournoy, David 43, 51, 52, 60
Flournoy, John (Jno.) (Flournia)
52, 54, 62
Flower, Thomas 58
Floyd, Benjamin 58
Floyd, Charles 48
Floyd, David 58
Floyd, George 58
Floyd, John (Jn.) 18,58
Floyd, Robert (Robt.) (Floid)... 54
Fluetey, John 47
Foley , Henry 60
Foot, Thomas 9 (List)
Forbis, George 60
Forbis, James 6, 36
Forbis, Joseph 11,60
Forbis, Robert (Forbas) (Robart) . 69
Ford, John (Jno.) 62
Ford, Peter 58
Ford, William (Willm.) 60, 65
Foreman, John 74
Forker, Robert [Forbis?] 26, 27
Forkner, Alexander [Faulkner?] . . 78
Forkner, John [Faulkner?] 78
Forkner, Thomas [Faulkner?] .... 77
Forsythe, Phillip 95
Forsythe, Robert 65
Forsythe, William 78
Fort, Christopher 52, 60
Foster, Asa (A.) 60,65
Foster, Henry 60
Foster, Ichabod 54
Foster, Isaac 16
Foster, Isaac, Jr 68
Foster, Isaih 27
Foster, James 60, 65
Fowler, Benjamin 60
Fowler, John 45, 61, 63
Fowler, Joseph 47
Fox, Arthur 32, 33, 48
Fox, Richard (Richd.) 52, 54, 67
Frakes, Joseph 58
Frakes, Robert 66
Frame, John 60
Francis, Evan 46
Francis, William (Wm.) 46
Frankfort, William 104
Franklin, Benjamin (Benj.) 47
[ 202 ]
List of Names
Franklin, James (franklin). .40,43,60
Franklin, John (franklin) 40, 60
Franklin, Stephen (franklin) 78
Franks, John M 46, 53
Frazel, Phillip 15
Frazer, George (Geo.) 51, 54
Frazer, James C. (Freser) . . .60, 78, 84
Frazer, Joseph (Jos.) 43, 60
Frazer, Levi 54
Frazer, Martin 58
Frazer, Ralph 74
Frazer, William 43, 46, 54
Freman, Samuel 27
French, Henry 16
French, James (Jas.) 47, 48, 64
French, Mo 72
French, Thomas 11
French, William 65
Frier, David (Fryer) 60, 65
Frier, Donald (Donal) 26
Frier, James 60, 65
Frier, Robert, (Robt.) 60
Friend, John 43
Froman, Jacob 27
Frush, Francis [Brush?] 58
Fry, Jacob 60
Frye, John 60
Fulton, Hugh 43
Fulton, James 46
Fulton, Joseph 53
Fulton, William 60
Funk, Adam, Sr 26, 78, 84
Funk, Adam, Jr 26
Furnish, James (Firnish) 28,49
Furtad, Anthony (Anthy) 78, 84
Gaddy, Elijah 27
Gaines, B 45
Galbraith, Hugh 27
Gale, Joseph 45, 52
Gale, Josiah 60
Gale, Matthew 24, 60
Gale, Robert (Robt.) 52
Galloway, James 52, 55, 66, 84
Galloway, John 49, 54, 84
Galloway, William (Wm.) (Gello-
way) (Gallway)49, 55, 56, 62, 66, 84
Gamble, David 84
Gamble, William 65
Gamblin, Andrew 58
Gano, Daniel (Dan.) 54, 60
Gano, Isaac E 62
Gano, John S 54
Gardiner, J 6
Gardiner, Thomas 68
Garnett, John 52, 60
Garrard, James 42, 55, 56, 62
Garrard, William 28, 33, 49, 56
Garrett, William (Wm.) 52
Garry, Henry 46
Gaskins, John 66, 78
Gass, David 8, 27
Gass, John (Gess) 27, 60, 64, 65
Gates, David 58
Gates, Elijah 58
Gates, William 56, 74
Gate wood, Andrew 43, 52, 60, 93
Gatewood, Augustine 43
Gatewood, Hugh 43
Gatewood, James 43, 60
Gatewood, John 43
Gatewood, Peter 43, 60
Gatliff, Charles 8
Gay, James 52
Gay, James, Jr 77
Gay, Joseph 56
Gayley, Benjamin 58
Gayley, James (Galey) 58
Gayley, Samuel (Galey) 58
Gayley, William (Galey) 58
Geddis, James (Jas.) 43
Geklege, John 69
George, Gabriel 78, 84, 88
George, Nicholas (Nichs.). .27,65,72
George, Whitson 27, 72
George, William (Wm.) 54
Gerhart, Henry (Gherhart, Hen-
nary) 74
Ghursin, Garret [?] 88
Gibbs, Ezekiel 69
Gibbs, Hugh 27, 33
Gibbs, Jeremiah 69
Gibbs, John 27
Gibbs, Julius 52, 60
Gibbs, Peter 74
Gibbs, Samuel 27
Gibson, Francis 52
Gibson, George (Geo.) 26, 27
Gibson, John 26, 45, 52
Gibson, Paul 26, 52
Gilbert, John 74
Gilderess, Samuel 54
Gilkey, David 60
Gilkison, William (Wm.) 93
Gill, George 36
Gill, James M 58
Gill, Samuel 69
Gilles, Thomas (Thos.) 51
Gillet, Jonathan (Jona.) 88
Gilmore, James 27, 58, 103
Gilmore, John 63
Gilmore, Samuel (Saml.) 17, 93
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List of Names
Gilpin, Israel 66, 77, 84
Gilpin, James 88
Gilpin, Joseph 62,88
Ginkinsjohn [Jenkins?] 77
Giraud, Andrew 54
Girdle, James (Girdles) 32, 48
Girey, Richard 9 (List)
Gist, Thomas (Thos.) 26
Gist, William (Wm.) 53
Glascock, James (Glasscock)32, 48, 49
Glascock, Nimrod 32
Glass, Thomas (Thos.) 45
Glen, David 6
Glencock, William 6
Gleson, David 32
Gloove, Matthew (Mathew) 46
Glover, John 60
Glover, Richard (glover) ... 16, 17, 74
Goff, Thomas 78, 84
Goff, William 60
Goforth, William 54
Goggin, John 17, 23, 64
Golden, William 27, 65
Gooey, John 65
Gooey, Thomas (Thos.) 65
Gooden, Lewis 52
Goodey, William (Wm.) 54
Goodloe, Thomas 60, 67
Goodloe, Vivion 60, 65
Goodman, Ancel 9 (List)
Goodman, Daniel 9 (List)
Goodnight, David 32, 34
Goodnight, John 32, 34
Goodnight, Michael 32, 34, 60
Goodnight, Peter 32, 34, 60
Goodwin, Jonas C 60
Goodwin, Patrick 60, 78
Gordon, Ambrose 58
Gordon, Evander (Evender) 6
Gordon, George (Geo.) . .46,60,63,76
Gordon, James 17, 23
Gordon, John (Gorden) 16, 60, 65
Gordon, Patrick (Gorden.) 58
Gordon, Robert (Gordan) 27
Gordon, Samuel (Gordane)
(Saml.) 15,27,64
Gordon, William 58
Gorham, Sandford 84
Gorham, Thomas (Goram) 93
Gorin, John 43, 51
Gorten, Uriah (Garton) " .24, 46
Goudy, Hugh 62, 66, 77
Goudy , John 46
Goudy, Robert 62, 66, 77, 78, 84
Grace, Jeremiah (Jaremiah) 58
Grady, Jesse 52
Graham, Arthur 60
Graham, Benjamin 26
Graham, David (Grihem Daved) . 54
Graham, Forgis 60, 78
Graham, H 36
Graham, George 53
Graham, James 46, 58, 60, 65
Graham, John 58
Graham, Joseph 26
Grant, Adam 58
Grant, G 66
Grant, Israel 52, 78
Grant, John( Jno.)45, 55, 56, 62, 66. 78, 84
Grant, Michael 55, 78
Grant, Moses 52, 57
Grant, William Sr. (Willm.) 52
Grant, William, Jr 52
Graves, Benjamin (Benj.) 52
Graves, Bartlett 52, 60
Graves, David 40
Graves, George 49
Graves, John 45, 51, 60, 65
Graves, Leonard 27, 58
Graves, Richard (Richd.) 40, 63
Graves, Thomas (Thos.) 52, 60
Graves, William 40, 60
Gray, Archibald (Arcabold) 54
Gray, David 40, 60, 63
Gray, Drakeford 60
Gray, George 52, 60, 65
Gray, James 45, 47, 60, 65, 84
Gray, Jonathan 52
Gray, John 53, 54, 63, 93
Gray, Patrick (Patt.) 63, 93
Gray, Presley 60
Gray, Richard 53
Gray, Robert 54, 60
Gray, Samuel 63,65,72
Grayson, John (Jno.) 46
Grayson, Richard (Grayston) .... 54
Grayson, William 66
Greathouse, John 40
Greathouse, William 40
Green, Benjamin 58
Green, George 74
Green, Henry 24, 58
Green, James 74
Green, Jesse 74
Green, John 49, 58, 77, 78
Green, Robert 58
Green, Samuel (Sammuel) 27
Green, Stephen 43, 63
Green, Willis 17, 36, 90, 91
Greenup, Christopher (Christ.)
39, 63, 83, 90, 91
Greer, Samuel 60
Greeton, John [Grayson?] 27
Gregg, John (Gregs) 33, 36, 56
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List of Names
Gregg, Joseph (Jos.) 77
Gregg, Matthew 82
Gregory, Samuel (Saml.) 52
Gridler, James 34
Griffey, Gorden 65
Griffey, Ralph 51
Griffey, Thomas (Tho.) 51
Griffing, Ebenezer 84
Griffmg, Thomas 84
Griffith, Thomas (Griffeth) 40
Griffith, William (Wm.) 23, 48, 55
Grisby, Nathaniel 60
Grimes, Benjamin 58, 63, 65
Grimes, Carlos (Carlis) 65
Grimes, David 87
Grimes, Esther 54
Grimes, Harris 65
Grimes, James 60
Grimes, John (Jno.) 53, 54, 65
Grimes, Noble 54
Grimes, Philip 53, 60, 65
Grimes, Stephen 65, 67, 88
Grimes, Thomas 48, 54
Grimsley, James 52
Grissum, William 74
Groom, Zachariah (Zach.) 52,60
Grubbs, Higgas 27, 42, 46
Grundy, George 60
Guffey, Alexander 74
Guil, James [?] 56
Guilliam, Benjamin (Gulliam) .52,60
Guilliam, Edward 60
Guilliam, Jeremiah (Gullian) 60
Guilliam, Robert (Robart) 60
Guilliam, John (Gullian) 46, 60
Guilliam, Starke 58
Guilliam, William 58
Guiltner, Abraham 57
Gullen, Jeremiah (Jeremh.) 52
Gullen, John 52
Gutridge, James 48
Gutridge, John (Jno.) . . . .32, 34, 48, 54
Guttrey, Benjamin (Benj.) 43,52
Gwinn, John (Gwenn.) 62
Gwinn, Thomas 17
Hackett, Peter 8,
Haff, Peter [Hoff?]
Haggard, Bartholomew (Barthw.)
Haggard, Bartlett 65,
Haggard, James 60,
Haggard, Martin
Haggard, Nathaniel (Hagard)
(Nathl.)
Haggin, John
Hakens, Samuel
27
84
60
72
65
58
65
Halbert, Isaac 60
Halbert, Isaih 65
Hale, Job 58
Hale, John 58,60
Hall, Aaron 60,63
Hall, Alexander (Alexr.) ... .43, 53, 93
Hall, Caleb 56, 63, 78
Hall, Case 47
Hall, Clifton 63
Hall, Edward 45
Hall, Edward Senr 47
Hall, Horatio 62, 66, 84
Hall, James 77, 78, 84, 88
Hall, John 27, 40, 47, 52, 58, 78, 84
Hall, Henry (Henery) 28, 33, 55
Hall, Leonard 58
Hall, Moses 63
Hall, Palmer (Farmer) 26, 27, 58
Hall, Richard 47
Hall, Thomas (T.) 63,78,84
Hall, William (Wm.) (W.)..27,51,
52, 57, 60, 68, 84, 88
Halleck, Benjamin (Hallack) . .57,84
Halleck, Thomas (Hallack) 57
Halsey, Benjamin 51
Halsey, Joseph 54
Halsey, William 60, 65
Ham, William 27
Haman, Charles (Chas.) 63
Hamilton, Archibald (Archd.).... 93
Hamilton, Benjamin 93
Hamilton, David 93
Hamilton, Elias 54
Hamilton, Galbreath (Gelbroath)
(Gilbreath) 77,84
Hamilton, James 36, 54, 78
Hamilton, John .... 26, 48, 55, 62, 66, 77
Hamilton, Joseph 77
Hamilton, Robert 56, 84
Hamilton, Samuel (Hamelton) ... 52
Hamilton, Thomas (Thorn.) .55,66,84
Hamilton, William 93
Hammon, Edmund 26, 58
Hammon, James 58
Hammon, John 58
Hammon, Martin 6
Hampton, Andrew 60
Hampton, David (Hamton) 72
Hampton, Michael 58
Hamson, William [Hanson?] 26
Hancock, George 27
Hancock, Samuel (Saml.) 93
Hancock, Stephen (Hencock) 8, 27, 64
Hancock, William (Hankock)
(Hanckok) (Hencock). .. .8,9,
9 (List) 64
Hand, Edward (Edwd. ) 5, 8
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List of Names
Hanks, Absalom 47, 60, 65
Hanks, B. 47
Hanks, George 52, 60, 65
Hanks, John 55
Hanks, Peter 47
Hanks, William 60, 65
Hanley , George 47
Hanley , John 47
Hannan, James 46
Haimingston, Bartholemew 56
Harbeston, John 58
Hardage, William 60, 65
Hardesty, Benjamin (Hardisty)
49, 78, 84
Hardesty, Henry (Hardisty). . .78, 84
Hardin, Benjamin 74
Hardin, John 60
Hardin, Samuel 74
Harding, John 60
Hardwick, John 40, 72
Hardwick, John, Jr. (Jno.) 65
Hargis, John (Harges) 26, 27
Hargrove, Robert (Haregrove) ... 74
Harlan, Silas (Harland) 3, 16
Harlow, Claiborn (Clabon) 58
Harlow, Michael 58
Harlow, Samuel 58
Harmon, Israel 64
Harmon, Robert (Robt.) 52
Harmon, Sol 23
Harmon, Thomas (Thos.) 52
Harp, Joseph 32, 34
Harper, Alexander 60
Harper, James 24
Harper, John 27, 47, 58, 60
Harper, Peter (Harpar, Petar) 9,
24, 47, 65
Harper, Samuel 68
Harrard, Samuel 11
Harris, Andrew (Andw.) (Harriss) 64
Harris, Archibald (Harriss) 65
Harris, Christopher 27, 64
Harris, James (Harriss) 11, 63
Harris, John 46
Harris, Joshua 72
Harris, Robert 27
Harris, Sherwood 43
Harris, Thomas (Harriss) 65
Harris, William (Wm.) 49, 65, 66
Harrison, Benjamin (Benj.),28, 55, 66
Harrison, Cuthbert 60
Harrison, Garret (Harsin) 84
Harrison, George (Geo.) 60
Harrison, Hezekiah (Hez.). .51, 53, 93
Harrison, Hiram 40, 45
Harrison, John 54
Harrison, Joseph (Jos.) 52
Harrison, Law 56
Harrison, Nicholas (Nicolas) 28
Harrison, Robert 78
Harrison, William 74
Harrod, Edward (Herod) 9,27,47
Harrod, James 3, 40, 63
Harrold, Moses 60
Hart, George (Hartt) (Geo.)ll, 58, 60
Hart, James 60
Hart, John 78
Hart, Nicholas 77
Hartford, Adam 47
Harthis, Robert [Hargis?] 52
Hartman, Adam 60, 65
Hartman, Peter 26
Harvester, John 8
Harwood, Joseph (Jos.). 45
Hastings, William 52
Hastlerigg, Charles
(Hazelrigg) 12, 45, 47, 48, 65
Hastlerigg, James (Haselrigg)
(Jas.) (Hazelrigg) 47, 65
. Hastlerigg, James, Jr. (Hazelrigg) 65
Hastlerigg, John (Hazelrigg) 12
Hastlerigg, Joshua (Hazelrigg)
(Jossway) 12
Hastlerigg, William (Hazelrigg) 12, 65
Hathaway, David 32, 34
Hathaway, Jonathan 60
Hatton, Adam (Hatten) 65
Hatton, JohnM 51,65
Hatton, Robert 54, 60
Haughn, Jonas [Vaughn?] 65
Havens, Michael (Havns) 88
Hawkins, Gregory (Hewkins) .... 78
Hawkins, James 52, 60
Hawkins, John (Jno.) . . . .52, 60, 90, 91
Hawkins, John, Jr 11
Hawkins, Philemon 52
Hawkins, Samuel 56
Hawkes, Nicholas 64
Hawle, Henry [Hall?] 58
Hay, James 60
Hay, William (Will.) 69
Hayden, Nehemiah 78
Haydon, Abner 43, 58
Haydon, Benjamin 14, 24, 52
Haydon, Enoch (Hayden) 58
Haydon, James 24, 52, 60
Haydon, John 40, 43, 51
Haydon, Noel (Hayden) 58
Haydon, Samuel (Hadon)
(Headon) 27,51
Haydon, Thomas (Thos.) 52, 60
Haydon, William (Wm.)
(Haden) 24,51,52,60
Haydon, William, Jr 52, 60
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List of Names
Haynes, Richard (Rich.) 52
Hays, Hugh 36
Hays, James 36
Hays, John 36
Hays, Patrick 36
Hays, Richard (Hayse) 27
Hays, Robert 68
Hays, William (Wm.)6, 12, 24, 40, 60, 63
Hazard, James (Hazyard) 47
Hazard, John (Jno.) 52
Hazard, Martin 43,93
Hazard, Thomas (Thos.) 52
Hazard, William 52
Hazel, Daniel 26, 27, 58
Head, Benjamin (Benj.) 69
Headen, Samuel 51
Headdy, Thomas 54
Headley, George 54
Heath, Charles 53
Hedger, William (Wm.) 78
Heldridge, John 56
Helm, John 11
Helm, Meredith (M.) .23, 32, 34,48, 54
Helm, William 11,12
Help, Henry 77
Henbine, Henry 6
Henderson, Alexander 93
Henderson, David 24
Henderson, James 60, 63, 64
Henderson, Joseph 58
Henderson, Nathaniel 7
Henderson, Robert 54, 64
Henderson, Samuel 6, 43, 49, 60
Henderson, William 12, 24
Hendrick, James 47
Hendricks, Absalom 28
Hendricks, George 9 (List), 46
Hendricks, Peter [Henricks] 46
Hendricks, William (Hendrick)
(Hendreck) 60,65
Hendrickson, John 63
Heney, William (Wm.) 17
Henry, John 65, 78 84
Henry, Moses 60, 65
Henry, Robert (Henery) 64
Henry, Thomas (Thos.) 58
Henry, William (W.)
(Wm.) 46,52,60,66,84
Hensley, William (Wm) 51, 52
Henson, Iran. 6
Herndon, David 24
Herndon, Henry 24, 60
Herndon, Thomas (Thos). 23, 24, 52, 60
Herren, William (Wm.) 60
Herring, Langford 65
Herrinton, Abijah 74
Herrington, Bartholemew (Ber-
themelu) 28
Herrington, Charles 74
Herrington, Elisha 74
Herrington, William 74
Hester, Jacob 84
Hiatt, Abner 58
Hiatt, Frederick 69
Hiatt, John 69
Hiatt, William (Haiet) 58, 69
Hicklin, Hugh 43
Hicklin, John 84
Hickman, Francis 60
Hickman, James 60, 65
Hickman, Joel 60, 65
Hickman, Prescott (Phascott) 52
Hickman, Richard (R.) 47, 60, 65
Hickman, Thomas 60
Hickman, Trammell 60
Hickman William (Wm.). 40, 43, 52, 60
Hickman, William Jr 52
Hicks, Daniel (Hix) 58
Hicks, Harris 45
Hicks, John (Hikes) 49
Higbee, John 60
Higbee, Joseph (Higby) 53
Higbee, Peter (Higby) 53
Higgins, Gideon (Giddron.)
(Gidn.)... 26,27,58
Higgins, Henry (Hnry) (Higgin)
6, 16, 26, 27, 78
Higgins, Jesse (Higgin) 67
Higgins, Joel (Higgin) 60, 67
Higgins, John (Higgin) ..60,65,67,84
Higgins, Richard (Richd.) ..60,63,65
Higgins, William (Willm.) (Hig-
gin) (Heggen) 26,67,78
Hildreth, John (Hildridg) .. .55, 66, 84
Hildreth, Joseph (Jos.) 78
Hildreth, Squier 56
Hill, Clemuel 58
Hill, Humphrey 84
Hill, Joseph 65
Hill, Joshua 24
Hill, Robert 15, 27, 64, 77
Hill, Russell (Russle) 55
Hill, Samuel 52
Hill, William (Wm.) 43, 58, 78
Hilman, Benjamin 77
Hilts, Frederick 58
Himans, Samuel (Saml.) 43
Hinck, Samuel 28
Hind, Samuel 55, 66
Hindman, Samuel 49, 66, 84
Hines, Richard 9 (List)
Hinkson, John 28
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List of Names
Hinkson, Robert (Robt.) . . . .27, 33, 48
Hinkson, Thomas 33,54
Hinkson, William 33, 84
Hitchcock, Obadiah (Hichcock),
(Obediah) 36
Hite, Abraham, Jr 2
Hite, Charles (Kites) 52
Hite, F 16
Hite, Isaac 3
Hite, J. (James) (Kites) .. .16, 17,
42, 52, 93
Hite, Martin 27
Hite, Thomas (Hiet) 27
Hitt, Joel 60,93
Hitt, Joseph (Josef) 69
Hizer, Christopher (Hiser)
(Christ) 60
Hobbs, John 60
Hoden, Thomas (Thos.) 27
Hodges, Jesse (Hodgis) .8,9,27,60, 65
Hoff, Paul 40
Hoffman, Valentine (Hofman)
(Valintine) 60
Hogan, James 29
Hogan, John 55, 56, 66
Hogan, Philip (hogan) 27
Hogan, Richard (Hoagans) 6
Hogan, Thomas (Hogans) 65
Hogan, William (Hogon) 6
Hoge, David 28
Hoge, Michael (Michl.) 28, 56. 78
Hogg, Aaron (Aron) 26
Holbert, Thomas 60
Holder, Francis 47, 60, 65, 72
Holder, John 6,8,24,47,51
Holder, Luke 47
Hole, John 53
Holland, Alexander 27
Holland, Henry (Henery) (Rol-
and) 46
Holley, Francis (Frans.).27,47, 60, 65
Holley, John (Hollay). .9 (List) 27,47
Holliday, Stephen (Holladay). .60,65
Holliday, William 56
Holloway, James 35, 51, 60, 63
Holman, Daniel (Holeman) 52
Holman, Edward (Holeman) 52
Holman, Edward Jr. (Holeman)
(Edwd.) 43,52
Holman, George (Holeman) 52
Holman, Henry (Holeman) 52
Holman, Nicholas (Holeman) .... 52
Holms, John 60, 65
Holsdon, Jacob 16
Holway, Clayton (Halway) (Cla-
ton) 58
Roman, Ebenezer 57, 58, 84
Hone, Jonah 65
Honey, George 58
Honey, John 56, 77
Honsley, William 60
Hood, Andrew Sr. (Andw.) 78
Hood, Luppin 78
Hood, William 74
Hooge, John [Hoge?] 77
Hook, John 84
Hope, Richard 27
Hopkins, Eldridge (Eldrege) 58
Hopkins, Francis 58
Horn, Aaron 27
Horn, Christopher 27, 65
Horn, Elizabeth . 8
Horn, Matthias 27
Hornback, Abraham 78, 84
Hornback, Jacob 78
Hornback, James 78
Hornback, John 78,84
Hornback, Samuel 84
Hornback, Simon 78, 84
Home, William (Willm.) 27
Hoskins, William 27
Hostitler, John 74
Hougham, Moses 48, 54
Houghton, Aaron 54
House, Adam 78, 84
House, John 58
Houston, John [Huston?]. . .66, 78,88
Howard, Charles 26
Howard, Clement 54
Howard, Elihu 74
Howard, John 74
Howard, Joshua 77
Howard, Leroy 52
Howard, Philip 77, 84
Howard, Samuel 60
Howard, William (Wm.) 64
Howe, Thomas (Hoo) 54
Howes, Aaron (Hoes) 27
Hoy, Tm 84
Huckstoft, John (Jno.) 53
Hudgens, Daniel 36
Huffman, John (Hufman) 58
Huffstudler, John 74
Hughes, David (Huse) . . .55, 65, 78, 84
Hughes, James 93
Hughes, G 58
Hughes, John (Jno. )32, 34, 56, 63, 83, 93
Hughes, Ralph (Hughs) 56
Hughes, Spencer (Hewes) 32
Hughes, Thomas (Hughs )..!!, 56,
60, 62, 66
Hughes, William (Wm.). .32,34,60,82
Hulse, Daniel 60
Humble, Michael (Michl.) 26, 58
Humble, Noah 84
Hume, George (Geo.) 53, 60
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List of Names
Hume, Joel 63
Hummer, Robert 63
Humphrey, Merry 52
Humphrey, William 60
Hunt, John 67
Hunt, Thomas 26
Hunter, Charles 12, 52
Hunter, Henry 12, 24
Hunter, Jacob 12, 24
Hunter, John (Hun tor) 46, 74
Hunter, Peter 12
Hurst, Henry (Henery) 93
Hurst, John 93
Hurst, Michael 93
Hurt, James 82
Huston, Archibald (Archd.) (A.)58, 76
Huston, James 27, 65
Huston, John 12
Huston, Samuel 27
Huston, Stephen 103
Huston, William (Wm.) 53
Hutcheson, James (Hutchison) ... 56
Hutcheson, John 52, 78
Hutcheson, Peter (Hutchison) .28,
33, 49, 55, 56
Hutcheson, John Jr 52
Hutcheson, Robert (Robard) 87
Hutcheson, William 55, 88
Hutson, Rawley [Hudson?] 52
Hutson, Skinner 58
Hutton, Hendrick 58, 60
Button, James 58, 60
Hutton, Joseph 58, 60
Hutton, Samuel 58
Hynes, Andrew (Andw.) [Hines?]. 12
Hynes, William R. (Wm.) 60
Ignew, James [Agnew?] 82
Indicut, Aaron [Endicott?] 52
Indicut, Joseph 52
Indicut, Moses 52
lies, Nicholas 84
lies, Thomas 78
Ingles, James (Ingeles) 78,84
Ingram, Samuel 6
Ingram, Uria 63
Innes, Henry (Harry) 25,42,50,59,83
Ireland, David 78, 84
Ireland, James 66, 77, 84
Irvine, Abraham (Irvin) 69
Irvine, Christopher 17, 23, 24, 27
Irvine, James (J) (Irvin) (Erwin)
83,93
Irvine, William (Irwin) (Will.) .42,
62, 64, 66
Isrig, Michael 84
Jacks, John, 52
Jackman, John 58, 69
Jackson, Burwell 23
Jackson, Congreve (Cougrave) .47, 72
Jackson, Ephraim (Ephrim) 58
Jackson, John 27, 43, 60
Jackson, Joseph 9 (List)
Jackson, Josiah 47
Jackson, William 62
Jacoby, Henry (Jecoby) (Henery) 78
Jacoby, Ralph (Jecoby) 84
James, Daniel 52, 60
James, Abraham 11
Jameson, Andrew (Andw.) . .16, 26, 58
Jameson, George 60
Jameson, James (Jas.) 45, 93
Jameson, John 16, 54, 93
Jameson, Robert 26
Jameson, Samuel 26
Jameson, Thomas 15
Jamison, David 43, 63
Jamison, John 53, 84
Jamison, William (Wm.) 43
January, Ephraim 46
January, James 14, 22, 43, 46
January, John 46, 52
January, Peter (Fetter) 14
January, Samuel 46
January, Thomas (Thos.) 46, 63
Jarvis, Edward 74
Jefferies, Moses 60
Jefferies, Thomas (Jefferys) 58
JefTeries, William (Wm.) 58
Jefferson, George (Geffison) 74
Jenkins, Richard 65
Jenkins, Samuel (Jinkins) (Saml.) 57
Jenkins, William 52, 60, 65
Jenners, John 27
Jennings, Jonathan 58
Jockars, Charles 8
John, Thomas 54
Johnson, Andrew. 9 (List) 24, 43, 51, 52
Johnson, Cave 24, 51, 52
Johnson, Isaac 52
Johnson, James 66
Johnson, John (Jonson) ... .27, 47,
49, 52, 54, 72, 77
Johnson, Jonathan 82
Johnson, Joseph (Jos.) 52
Johnson, Randolph 84
Johnson, Robert 24, 45, 51, 52, 55, 60, 66
Johnson, Samuel (Saml.) . . .24, 23, 43
Johnson, Thomas 84
Johnson, William 32, 34, 69
Johnston, Alexander 60
Johnston, Benjamin [B] 68
Johnston, Ga. J 68
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List of Names
Johnston, Jacob 9 (List)
Johnston, James 63
Johnston, John 45, 56, 84
Johnston, Martin (Jonston) 60,65
Johnston, Robert (Robt.). .12,60,
67, 84, 90, 91
Johnston, Samuel (Sam) 40
Johnston, Thomas 78
Johnston, William (Wm.) (Will.)60, 68
Jolly, David 52
Jolly, Jared 77
Jones, Aaron 104
Jones, Benjamin Sr. (Benj.) . . .52,58
Jones, Benjamin Jr. (Benj.) 52
Jones, Charles 64
Jones, Daniel 104
Jones, David 6, 58
Jones, Francis (Fras.) 65, 76
Jones, Frederick (Frd.) 60
Jones, James (Jas.) 52, 58, 65
Jones, John 27, 52, 58, 60, 65, 74, 84
Jones, John Gabriel 3
Jones, John Jr 104
Jones, Josua 60, 104
Jones, Roger 65
Jones, Samuel Paul 60
Jones, Stephen 74
Jones, Thomas 52, 60, 62, 66, 88
Jones, Thomas Jr 88
Jones, Uriah 82
Jones, William (Wm.) 23, 27,
49, 60, 67, 77
Jordan, Patrick 26
Joyes, Patrick 68, 83
Judy, John 60
Kage, August 68
Kamper, Henry 67
Kamper, John 58
Kamper, Reuben 60, 67
Kamper, William 60, 67
Kautzman, Michael 78, 84
Kavanaugh, Charles 17, 27, 64
Kavanaugh, Charles Jr 27
Kavanaugh, William 27, 36
Kay, James 54
Kay, John 52, 60, 93
Keen, Jonathan 93
Keenan, Patrick (Pattk.) 58, 78
Kegans, John 60
Kellar, Isaac 52
Kellar, John 104
Kelly, Beal (Kelley) 72
Kelly, Benjamin 9 (List)
Kelly, Emanuel 24
Kelly, James 55
Kelly, John (Kelley) (Kellie).8,9,
27,47
Kelly, Joseph (Kelley).. 9 (List) 60
Kelly, Samuel 24,51
Kelly, Stephen (Kelley) 47
Kelly, William 52
Kelsoe, Andrew 58
Kelsoe, Robert (Robt.) 58
Kendall, Joseph 28, 32, 55, 77
Kendall, William 60
Kennedy, Andrew 27, 64
Kennedy, James (Caneday)
(Kaneddy) 77,78
Kennedy, John 6, 27, 77
Kennedy, Joseph 6, 27
Kennedy, Peter (Kanaday) 77
Kennedy, Thomas (Thos.) .24,27,
49, 62, 64, 78
Kennedy, William (Wm.) 23, 25
Kenton, Eran [Aaron?] 6
Kenton, John 32, 34, 48
Kenton, Simon (Kinton) (Cen-
ton) 17, 32, 34, 48
Kerlin, Thomas 87
Kerns, John 33
Kerns, William 28, 33
Kerr, David 6
Kersey, John (Jno.) [Searcy?] 60
Ketcham, Jonathan 6, 9 (List)
Kibbey, Ephraim (Ephm.) 54
Kidwell, Jonathan (Kidwel) 27
Kilgore, John 56
Killogh, Allan 84
Kilpatrick, Thomas (Thos.) 62
Kimbrough, Samuel (Sammel)
(Sam) 55,56
Kimbrough, William (Wm.) 82
Kindred, Edward 65, 72
Kindred, William 72
King, Aaron (Aron) [ — ?]
King, John (Jno. E) 6, 26, 36, 43
King, George (Geo.) 6, 60
King, Valentine (Vale.) 12, 26
Kinkead, Andrew (Andw.) .17,27
36, 56, 62 66, 84
Kinkead, David 43, 77
Kinkead, Hopson 58
Kinkead, James (Kinkiad) 27
Kinkead, John 53, 58, 60
Kinkead, Samuel (Kinkade) 56
Kinkead, William (Kinkaid)
(Wm.) 27
Kinnett, Chester 60
Kinney, Clement (Kiuey) (Clem-
ment.) 60
Kinney, James (Jas.) 11, 49,
53, 60, 62, 84
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List of Names
Kinney, John M 53,65
Kirby, Samuel (Saml.) 68
Kirchevall, John 63
Kirke, Vincent 57,58,78,84
Kirkham, Samuel 43,51,52
Kirkman, Robert 36
Kirkpatrick, Elijah 66
Kirkpatrick, George 28
Kirkpatrick, Hugh 64
Kirkpatrick, John 66, 84
Kirkpatrick, Joseph 77, 88
Kirkpatrick, Thomas 66, 77, 78
Kiser, Christopher (Keiser) 53,93
Kiser, Jacob (Kieser) 28, 53, 60
Kiser, John 28,53
Kiser, Phillip (Ciser) 78, 84
Kisley, Joseph 78
Knight, James 40
Knightley, John 60,65
Knox, David (Davd.) (D.)....43,
46, 53, 60
Knox, James 17, 40
Knox, John 84
Knox, William (Willem) 60, 65
Kringle, James 93
Kyle, Joseph 53
Lacassange, Nl 68
Lacfaild, Excell (Execell) 58
Lamar, Benjamin 74
Lamar, Samuel 74
Lamb, William (Wm.) (Lamm) 32,
34, 48, 54, 58
Lamwalt, Jacob 88
Lancaster, John (Jno.) 60
Lance, George 63
Lander, Charles 60, 65
Lander, Jacob 65
Lane, Ellis (EHs) 84
Lane, Samuel (Sammel) 77
Lane, Edmund (Lanes) (Edmond) 52
Lang, Thomas 60
Langford, Stephen 15
Langstone, Jacob 56, 77, 78
Langstone, John 77
Lanier, Henry 62, 66
Lanier, Isham 55, 66
Lanier, James (Jas.) . .66, 77, 78, 79, 88
Langwait, Thomas (Thos.) 84
Lapsley, Samuel (Sam) 26, 27
Larsh, Charles (Chas.) 60
Laughlin, William 62, 66
Lause, Jeremiah 64
Lawrence, John (Larrance) 26
Lawrence, James 58
Lawson, Aaron 58
Lawson, Nicholas (Lason) 63
Lawson, Ro 83
Lawson, William (Wm.) 58
Layson, John. . .28, 49, 55, 62, 66, 78, 88
Layson, Robert 28,49, 66, 78
Layson, William 78
Lea, Francis W 24, 52, 60
Leach, David (Leitch) 63
Leach, James (Leatch) 58
Leary, Daniel (Lary) 78, 84
Leary, Dennis 78
Leary, William (Willm.) 76
Lease, James 52
Lease, William 52
Le Cont, Charles (Lacount) 52
Lecky, Nathaniel (Nathl.) 78
Ledgerwood, James 12. 27, 65
Ledgerwood, William Sr 65,78
Lee, Conrad (Lea) (Coonrad) . .51, 52
Lee, Henry 32, 34, 42, 46, 48
Lee, James (Jas.) 52
Lee, Peter 32,48,54
Lee, William 58, 60, 65
Leforge, Abraham .... 32, 34, 48, 54, 56
Legget, James (Ligget) 43, 52
Legget, John 36
Legon, Charles 52
Lemare, Gaily 74
Lemasters, Richard 77
Letcher, Joseph 78
Levie, Isaac 60
Lewis, Alexander 58
Lewis, Francis 40
Lewis, George (Geo. ) . 34, 45, 46, 62, 67
Lewis, John (Jno.) 54, 58
Lewis, Joseph 42
Lewis, Nicholas 53
Lewis, Samuel (Sammel) 77
Lewis, Thomas (Thos.) . . .40, 45, 58, 60
Lewis, William 16, 32, 34, •
40, 52, 53, 58, 63, 93
Lighter, John (Jno.) 57
Lighter, John Jr 57
Lilly, Anniger 65
Lincoln, George (Linen) ... .9 (List)
Lincoln, Hananiah 24
Lindsay, Anthony 52
Lindsay, Arthur 16
Lindsay, David 56
Lindsay, John (Lindsey) 52
Lindsay, Joseph (Jos.) 14, 15
Lindsay, Michael (Linsey)
(Michel) 60
Lindsay, Nicholas 43, 52, 60
Lindsay, Vachl. (Lindzey) 52
Lindsay, William (Wm.) 51, 63
Linet, John 53
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List of Names
Linkhorn, Mordccai (Mordica) ... 60
Linn, John (Lyn) 58, 85, 93
Linn, Joseph 30
Linn, Patrick 54
Linn, William 11
Linville, Morgan 78
Lips, Jacob 52
Lisle, Henry 60, 65, 72
Lisle, John (Lyle) 60, 65, 72
Liter, John 84
Liter, John Jr 60
Liter, Lewis (Lues) 84
Little, James (Jas.) (Littel) (Lit-
tell) 24, 27, 49, 55, 56, 78, 79, 88
Little, John (Li tie) 43, 93
Little, William [Lytle?] 53
Livingston, Thomas 58
Lizenby, William (Wm.) 43, 52
Lloyd, Richard 54
Lock, Joseph 58
Lockett, James 60
Logan, Archibald (Archibal) 63
Logan, Benjamin . . .6, 16, 17, 18, 25, 42
Logan, David 60, 93
Logan, George 52
Logan, John 17, 32, 34, 36, 42, 54
Logan, Nathaniel (Nathl.) 53
Logan, Samuel (Saml.) 52, 54
Logan, William (Wm.) 28, 32,
33, 34, 36, 52
Loggins, Samuel 74
Long, George 26,27,78
Long, Jacob 27
Long, John 24, 26, 27, 43, 60
Longley, Thomas 54
Longstreet, Jonas 64
Loper, Jacob 74
Lorin, John 27
Lott, John 51,52
Lott, William (Wm.) 52
Loughead, David 93
Love, Isaac 60
Love, John 49,77
Love, Thomas 77
Love, William (Wm.) 6, 52, 78, 84
Loveless, John (Lovlis) 54, 87
Low, Aquilla (Aquilliah) 74
Lowe, Edward 43
Lowry, James 49, 53
Lowry, John 40, 58
Lowry, Samuel 49
Lowry, Stephen 52
Luckie, John 60,84
Luckie, Robert 84
Luless, John 48
Luper, George 36
Luper, Hugh 36
Lusk, Hugh 58
Lusk, Samuel 40, 63
Luttrell, Thomas 6
Lynam, Andrew 26, 58
Lynch, David (Lintch) 27
Lynch, William 58
Lyne, Edmund 32, 48, 54
Lyne, James 54
Lyne, Henry 78
Lyon, Hezekiah (Essekiah) 55
Lyon, Humphrey 49, 66
Lyon, John 27, 28, 32, 33,
49, 55, 56, 66, 78, 84
Lyon, John Jr 55
Lyon, Joseph 27
Lyon, Peter Jr 58
Lyon, Samuel 27, 28, 33, 49,
55, 56, 62, 66, 84, 88
Lytle, William 22, 93
Machan, Thomas 56
Machir, John 54
Mack, Daniel 27
Mack, John (Jno.) 52
Mack, Randall 60
Mack, Thomas (Meek) 93
Mack, William 33
Mackey, Robert [ — ?]
Maddox, Wilson (Madox) 32, 34
Madison, Gabriel 16, 17, 42
Madison, George 63
Magill, Alexander 78
Magill, David 65, 78
Magill, James 60, 65
Magill, John (Jno.) 63,78
Magill, William 78
Mahan, Arthur 60
Major, Francis (Frans.) 84
Major, James 52
Major, John 52, 78, 84
Major, Thomas (Thos.) 52
Mallory, William 67
Malon, Michael (Micheal) 78
Malster, John 28
Man, William (Mand) 69
Manian, Thomas J 27
Mankins, James 9 (List)
Manley, James 54
Mann, Francis (Frances) 82
Manuel, George 60
Marble, Earl 32, 34, 48
Marble, Abner 32, 34, 48
Marble, Ezra 32,34,48
Marks, Thomas (Thos.) 77
Marks, William 60
Marksberry, John 58
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List of Names
Marksberry, Samuel Jr 58
Marsh, John 28,49
Marsh, William (Willim) 28
Marshall, Alexander 78,93
Marshall, Archibald 78, 84
Marshall, George (Marshel) . . . .48, 54
Marshall, Henry 45, 46, 53, 60, 76
Marshal, James 63
Marshall, John (J.) (Marshal). 32,
34, 43, 48, 52, 54, 61
Marshall, Joseph 47
Marshall, Robert (Marshel). . .48,
54, 60, 65
Marshall, Thomas Sr. (Thos.) (T.)
17, 52, 61
Marshall, Thomas Jr. (Thos.) . .45,
46,52
Marshall, William 11, 58, 63
Martin, Abner 36, 58
Martin, Benjamin (Beiij.) 36, 58
Martin, David 26,27,33
Martin, Henry 43, 47
Martin, Hugh 14, 24, 78
Martin, James (Marton) . . .27, 32,
51,52,63,93
Martin, James Jr 47
Martin, John (Martain) (Mear-
ten).,8, 12, 14, 17,47,52,54,60,
63, 65, 72, 84
Martin, Joseph (Jos. ) 17, 97
Martin, Lindsay (Lindza) 58
Martin, Orson 72
Martin, Reuben (Rubin) 58
Martin, Richard 43
Martin, Samuel 14, 51
Martin, William (Wm.) (Martan)
(Marton) ... 14, 27, 47, 52, 65, 72, 93
Martzgar, Nicholas 6
Mason, Dorsey 74
Mason, Isaac 74
Mason, James 27, 60, 67
Mason, John (Meson) .40, 60, 67, 74, 76
Mason, Michiah (Micijah) 60
Mason, Peter 51
Mason, Samuel 74
Mason, Thomas 74, 93
Massie, David 27
Massie, Harris 27
Massie, Nathaniel Jr. (Nathl.)
45, 60, 63
Masten, John 43
Masten, Peter (Mastin) 51, 63
Masterson, James (Jas.) 24, 53
Masterson, John 32, 34
Masterson, Moses 32
Masterson, Richard 45, 51
Masterson, Zachariah 32, 34, 52
Matan, John 6
Matan, Lewis [Meytin] 43
Mathers, Samuel (Meathers) 84
Mathers, Thomas (Tomas) 78
Mathers, William (Meathers) ..66,78
Matland, John 36
Matson, Henry 78
Matson, James 78, 84
Matson, James Jr 78, 84
Mattox, Rolf (Mattex) 58
Matthews, William (Mathews) ... 56
Mattingly, Basil (Basel) 60
Mattingly, John 60
Mauldin, Ambrose 74
Mauldin, James 74
Mauldin, West 74
Maupin, G 63
Maupin, James (Moppin) 62
Maurice, Maurice 77
Mavrots, Thomas 56
Maxwell, George 40, 43, 51
Maxwell, John 3, 14, 27, 60
Maxwell, Thomas (Thos.) 40, 62
Maxwell, William 40
May, Jesse 15
May, John 18
May, William 60
Mayfield, Isaac 58
Mayfield, John 60
Mayhall, Timothy 54
Meeker, Abner 78
Meeker, Joseph 54
Meekins, John (Mekins) (Mik-
kins) 17,46,53
Mefford, George 32, 48
Megg, Rolistin 60
Menefee, Jarret (Jarrot) 56
Menefee, Jonas 6
Menefee, William 6
Meri wether, Nicholas 11, 12
Merritt, Joseph (Merit) 27
Merritt, Stephen (Merit) 27
Merry, Thomas (Thos.) 65, 67, 72
Mershom, Titus 60
Metcalfe, John 52
Mickey, Daniel 28, 33
Middleton, John (Midlton) 40,60
Migbee, John [Higbee?] 76
Mikel, George 23
Miles, Henry 60
Miles, Isaac 52, 60
Miles, John 24, 26, 58, 60
Milholland, John (Jno.) 33
Millar, Charles 27
Millar, Jacob 27
Millar, John Conrad (Miller)
(Coonrad) 60,65
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List of Names
Miller, Abraham 69
Miller, Andrew 27, 74
Miller, Charles 60
Miller, Ebenezer 26, 27
Miller, George 60, 65
Miller, Henry (Henery) 27
Miller, James 93
Miller, John 66,84
Miller, Thomas (Thos.) 54
Miller, William (Wm.) 27
Million, John 27
Mills, Aaron 78
Mills, Edward 32,34,48
Mills, Jacob 54
Mills, James (Milles) 74, 78
Mills, Jesse (Jessy) 52
Mills, Moses 78
Mills, Thomas 32, 34, 54
Milner, Isaac 93
Miner, John 58, 60, 65
Miner, Thomas 60,65
Minter, Joseph 60
Mira, Michael 9 (List)
Miranda, Samuel (Meranda) 78
Misbeth, James [ — ?]
Mitcham, Dudley[ Meatcham?] 43, 52
Mitchell, Alexander (Mitchel)
(Alex.) 78
Mitchell, David 14,84
Mitchell, Edward 52
Mitchell, Elijah 66, 84
Mitchell, Ignatius 41
Mitchell, Isaac 55, 66, 84
Mitchell, James (Jas.) (Mitchel). 84
Mitchell, John (Jno.) (Mitchel). 52, 77
Mitchell, Joseph (Jos.) 49, 84
Mitchell, Moses (Mitchel) ..33,60,65
Mitchell, Thomas (Thos.) (Mitch-
el) 40, 43, 52, 60, 77, 84
Mitchell, Wilson (Mitchel) 84
Mitchell, William (Willm.).49,51,
55, 66, 84
Mitchell, William Jr. (Mitchel).. 78
Moat, Alexander More 88
Moberley, Edward 58, 69
Moberley, John 64
Moffett, George (Moffet.) 52
Moffett, John 52
Moffett, Robert (Robt.) ... .51, 52, 60
Moffett, Thomas 72
Moffett, William (Wm.) (Moffot)
60, 65, 72
Monroe, Alexander (Alexr.) 60
Montgomery, James 36
Montgomery, John 43, 69
Montgomery, Joseph (Jos.) 60
Montgomery, Robert 36
Montgomery, Thomas 60
Montgomery, William (Wm.). .17,
36, 42, 60, 62, 93
Montgomery, William Jr. (Wm.)17, 36
Moody, Henry 69
Moon, Thomas 78
Mooney, Samuel 54
Moore, Arthur 64
Moore, Benjamin (Benj.) 52
Moore, Charles 60, 65
Moore, David 78
Moore, Edward (More) 36
Moore, Elias 60
Moore, George 65
Moore, Henry 60, 65
Moore, James (More) 53, 60, 65
Moore, John (Moor) (Jno.) . . .6, 27,
52, 58, 78
Moore, Joseph (Jos.) 6,43,58,93
Moore, Joseph, Sr 15
Moore, Luke (Look) 64
Moore, Martin 15
Moore, Moses 60
Moore, Peter 43, 55, 56, 66, 78, 84
Moore, Philip (More) 78, 84
Moore, Quintin 51
Moore, Robert (Moor) 27, 43, 60, 65, 78
Moore, Samuel (Saml.) (Moor)... 60
Moore, Shadrach 52, 58
Moore, Thomas (Thos.). .26, 57,
58, 60, 78
Moore, Simeon 58
Moore, William Sr 15, 17, 43
53, 60, 64, 65, 66, 88
Moore, William Jr 15,88
Morehead, John 60
Morehead, Samuel (Morehed) . . 66, 84
Morel, Basil (Bazel) 27
Morey, James 60
Morgan, Charles (Chas.) 58,60,65,72
Morgan, David 68
Morgan, Evan 60
Morgan, Jeremiah 65
Morgan, John 12, 47, 60, 65, 78
Morgan, John Sr 47
Morgan, Mordecai (Mordeceia)
(Mordachey) 12, 47, 65
Morgan, Morgan 43
Morgan, Samuel (Morgen) (Sam-
mel) 60
Morgan, William 65
Morin, James (Morir) 56, 62, 66
Morin, John 84
Morrell, Joseph (Yoseph) 54
Morris, David 54
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List of Names
Morris, Kellis 47
Morris, John [Moris] ... .33, 48, 77, 78
Morris, James 74
Morris, Robert (Morriss) 54
Morris, Thomas (Thos.) 49,
56, 66, 84
Morris, William (Wm.) 55, 66, 84
Morrison, Hugh 24
Morrison, John (Morrason) . . 12,
14, 23, 40, 43, 45, 51, 53
Morrow, James 14, 24, 47, 60
Morton, Andrew (Andw.) (Mor-
tens) 60
Morton, Benjamin 24
Morton, David 60, 65
Morton, Jeremiah 52
Morton, John (Mortin)..9 (List)
20,27,47.51.52
Morton, Jonathan 47, 60, 65
Morton, Thomas (Thos.) . . .24,52,63
Morton, William (Will.) (Wm.)..
27, 32, 34, 52, 67, 68
Mosely, Jacob (Moely) (jacop) . . 58
Mosely, Thomas (Thos.) (Mose-
ley) 60,74
Moseby, Abraham (Abram.). . .52, 58
Moseby, Daniel (Mosby) . . .49, 57, 78
Mosby, David 45
Mosby, Isaac 52
Mosby, John 17
Mosby, Robert (Robt.) 42
Moss, Frederick (Fredk.) 40
Moss, John 40,51,58
Moss, William (Wm.) 40, 51, 58
Moulson, John 24
Moulson, Thomas 55
Mouncy, Matthias [Muncey?]... 58
Mount, Absalom 15
Mount, John (Mounce) 58
Mount, Smith (Mounce) 58
Mount, Thomas (Mounts) 55
Mount joy, Alvin 32, 48, 66, 77
Mount joy, Edmund 55, 88
Mountjoy, George 77
Muir, Samuel 46, 65
Mulberry, Jacob 52, 60
Mullikin, James 60
Muloch, Richard Taylor (Mau-
loch) 74
Mulvan, John 82
Muncey, John 27
Munday, Edward 27
Munday, Edmund (Edmd.) 58
Munson, Isaac 52
Munter, Patrick (Muntere)
(Patk.) 53
Murphy, Andrew 60
Murphy, Dennis 54
Murphey, John (Jno.) 58, 60
Murray, James (Murrey) 27, 52
Murray, William (Murry) 27
Murray, William, Jr 53
Musselman, Christian 104
Musselman, John 104
Muter, George 25, 42, 45, 59, 83
Mutson, James 33
Myers, George (Mier) 82
Myers, Jacob 17
Myers, Melcher 76
Myers, Phillip (Myars) 74
Myers, William (Miars) 58
McAdams, Samuel 60
McAfee, George 26, 27
McAfee, James 16, 26, 27, 98
McAfee, James, Jr 26
McAfee, Jesse 27
McAfee, John 26, 27
McAfee, Samuel 16, 27
McAfee, Robert 16, 26, 43
McAllister, Joseph 27, 58
McBrayers, James (McBriers) . 16, 27
McBrayers, William (Wm.). . . .16,26
McBride, James (McBrids) (Jas.)
14,53
McBride, John 69
McBride, Robert (Robt.) (Mc-
Bridg) 78
McBride, William 11
McCafferty, John 78
McCaffrey, William 65
McCall, David (McAwl) 33
McCall, James 49
McCall, William 46
McCandlars, James 58
McCann, David (McCame) 28
McCann, John (McCane) 52
McCann, Joseph 60, 93
McCann, Neal 93
McCann, Pleasant 60
McCann, William 88
McCard, David, Jr 60
McCarge, Radford (R) 43, 65, 93
McCarver, Archibald 6
McChandless, John 84
McChord, John (Jno.) 60
McClanahan, Elijah (McClena-
han) 88
McClanahan, Thomas (Thos.) 84
McCleland, William (Wm.) .48, 49,
64, 84, 88
McClintock, Joseph 33, 66, 82
McClintock, William (Wm.) 82
McClung, Matthew 93
McClung, William Jr. (Wm.) 42
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List of Names
McClure, Alexander (McCluer)
(Alexr.) 26,27,58,63
McClure, James 53,58
McClure, Andrew 86
McClure, John (McLure) (Mc-
Cluere) 23, 36, 53, 58, 62, 84
McClure, Moses (McCle.).9 (List)
26, 27, 60
McClure, Nathan 27
McClure, Samuel (McCluer)
(Saml.) 55,58,64,78,84
McClure, Thomas 26, 27, 58, 60
McClure, William (McCluere) .36,
53, 60, 69, 78
McComb, James (Macomb) 27
McComb, William (Macomb) ..27,33
McComsey, John 52
McConey, John 63
McConnell, Adam 58, 60
McConnell, Alexander (McConall)
(Alexr.) 46,51,53,60
McConnell, Andrew 3
McConnell, Francis 12, 60
McConnell, James (Jas.) . . .22, 24,
43, 45, 53, 60, 63
McConnell, John 60, 93
McConnell, William (Willim.)
(Wm.) 3,14,22,23,26,
45, 46, 49, 52, 55, 58, 62, 84
McCormick, Daniel (McCormack) 36
McCoun, Andrew (McCune) 62
McCoun, David (McCune) 33
McCoun, James 16, 26, 66
McCoun, James, Jr 16
McCoun, John 16, 33, 62
McCoun, Joseph 24, 78
McCoy, William (Wm.) 33, 53
McCracken, Cyrus (McCrakin) . 12, 60
McCracken, John 77, 78
McCray, Robert (Robt.) 46, 53
McCreery, Andrew 77
McCreery, James 77, 78, 88
McCreery, John 60, 78, 84
McCulloch, James (McCoollouch)
(Coullouch) 16,26,93
McCulloch, John (McCollough)
(McCullough) 26, 76
McCullom, Samuel 54
McDaniel, Alexander 55
McDaniel, Francis (McDannel)
33, 49, 55
McDaniel, James 27
McDaniel, John (McDanel) ... 55,
56, 60, 77
McDaniel, Joseph 77
McDaniel, Mack 52
McDaniel, Robert 55
McDaniel, Samuel (Mack Daniel) 77
McDaniel, Rowland 55
McDermed, Francis (Frcs.)..14,
23, 43, 47, 53, 76
McDermed, Hugh 53, 76
McDonald, Alexander (McDonal) 33
McDonald, Eneas (McDoneld)
(Enes) 33,49,55
McDonald, Francis (McDonnal)14, 78
McDonald, Henry (McDonnal) . . 14
McDonald, Hugh (McDonnal) ... 14
McDonald, James (McDonnal). 14, 78
McDonald, Jeremiah (McDonel). 78
McDonald, John (McDonnal)
(McDonnald) 14, 49, 66, 78, 87
McDonald, William 40, 51
McDougall, Robert 46
McDowell, Daniel 55, 56, 66
McDowell, James (Jas.) . .26, 43, 63, 93
McDowell, John (Jno.). . .17,40,
45, 54, 60, 63
McDowell, Josias (McDowl) 55
McDowell, Samuel (Saml.). . . .17,
25 42 59 73 83
McDowell, William (Wm.)'. . .55, '
66, 84, 93
McDuff , Daniel 74
McElheany, John (Jno.) 68
McFaden, Andrew 74
McFaden, William (McFadiu) .... 74
McFarland, Robert (McFadland)
(Robt.) 60
McFawl, John 58
McFawl, Joseph 60
McGary, Daniel (Magary) (Me-
gary) 26,27
McGarry, Hugh (McGary) 3, 5
6,26
McGarry, Robert (Magary) 27
McGee, David 8
McGee, James 26
McGee, John (Magee) (Megee) . 16, 26
McGee, Samuel (McGehee) 45
McGee, William 6, 8, 60, 65
McGentery, James 14
McGill, David 36
McGill, James 74
McGinnis, John (McGinis) . .32, 34, 78
McGinnis, John Jr 32, 34
McGinnis, Thomas 54
McGinnis, William (Wm.) . . .32, 34, 64
McGowan, Robert (Megowan) ... 60
McGuire, Alexander (Air.) 60
McGuire, Cornelius 60
McGuire, James (Meguire) . .24, 43, 52
McGuire, John (McGire) (Jno.) . .
47, 60, 62, 63, 65
McHatton, John 60
McHuron, Silas 52
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List of Names
Mcllvain, Hugh 43, 76
Mcllvain, James 43, 53
Mcllvain, John 53
Mcllvain, Moses 53
Mclntyre, Alexander (McEntire)
(Alexndr.) 48
Mclntyre, James (McEntire) 78
Mclntyre, John (Mclntire) .24, 56, 60
McKay, Alexander (McCay) 82
McKay, James 48, 54
McKee, David 63
McKee, William (VVm.) (McCee). . 69
McKenzie, Archibald (McKenzey)
(Arch) 36
McKenzie, Daniel (McKensy)
(Danl.) 27
McKenzie, James (Jas.) (McKin-
sey) 27
McKenzie, William 70
McKeough, Dennis 74
McKibbins, John 93
McKinley, James (Jas.) 54
McKinney, Alexander 78
McKinney, David 51
McKinney, Daniel 87
McKinney, James (Jas.) 66
McKinney, John 12, 60, 62, 84
McKinney, Joseph (Jos.) 64
McKinney, Robert 78
McKinney, Wilson 6
McKittrick, Robert 66, 78
McLaughlin, Thomas (Thos.). .66,77
McLean, Alexander (McClain) ... 14
McLean, Daniel (McClain) (Dan-
niel) 14
McLean, James (McClain) 74
McLean, John M 27
McLean, Nathaniel (McClane) ... 53
McLean, Robert 27
McLean, Thomas 27
McLeary, John 27
McMillan, David (McMillin) 45
McMillan, James (McMillion) . . 12, 65
McMillan, Jonathan 12
McMillan, J. M. (McMillin) 24
McMillan, Robert (McMillion) . .
12, 60, 65, 72
McMillan, Samuel (McMillion)..
9 (List) 12, 14
McMillan, William (McMillion) . . 65
McMoney, William (Willm.) 58
McMordie, Tres 93
McMullen, Charles 58
McMullen, John (McMullin) 58
McMullen, Samuel (Saml.) 46
McMullen, Thomas (Thos.) 74
McMullen, William 60
McMurry , John 74
McMurtry, James 43
McMurtry, John 53
McMurtry, Joseph 26
McMurtry, William (McMirtry)60, 62
McNab, John 54, 60, 77
McNeely, Michael 64
McNeely, Hugh 48
McNelly, John (McNeely) 69
McNickel, Arthur 77, 84, 88
McNiel, Allen (McNele) 47
McNeil, Arthur (McNeile) 55
McNeil, Jonathan 45
McNiel, Joseph 77
McNiel, Thomas (McNeal)
(Thos.) 45,52
McNulty, Joseph 78, 88
McPayne, Daniel (Danl.)
McPherson, Adam (McFarson) . .
48, 49, 55
McQuady, John 60
McQuady, William (McQuiddy) 43, 52
McQueen, John (Jo.) 47
McQuid, Arthur (McWhidd) 66
McWhinney, William 9 (List)
McWilliams, William .27
Nagle, W 65
Napier, John (Napper) 14
Naylor, John 17
Naylor, Nathaniel (Nat.) 93
Neal, Allan (Neil) (Allen) 65, 72
Neal, Benjamin (Neale) 12, 78, 84
Neal, Daniel (Neel) (Dannel)
(Dan) 52,60
Neal, Daniel, Jr 52
Neal, John 52, 56, 66
Neal, Spence 52, 60
Neal, William (Wm.) (Neel) 36
Neely, Alexander 9 (List)
Neely, Isaac (Niely) 58
Neely, Matthew (Mathew) 66, 84
Neely, William (Niely) 58, 60
Nelan, Benjamin (Nelson) 6
Nelson, Edward 8, 9, 12, 24, 51
Nelson, Joseph 78
Nelson, Moses 8, 65
Nelson, Thomas (Thos.) 65
Nelson, William 11
Nesbit, Jeremiah 56
Nesbit, Nathan (Nesbet) 56
Nesbit, Robert (Nesbet) (Neis-
beit) 33,56,93
Nesbit, William (Nesbet.) 56
Netherland, B 14, 17
Newby, John 9
[ 217 ]
List of Names
Newell, Hugh 78
Newell, William (VVm.) 40
Newland, George 78
Newland, Horeb (Nuland)
(Hored) 84
Newman, Nathaniel (Nathannel) . 93
Newton, Peter 58
Niblack, John 24, GO, 65
Niblack, William 14, 24
Nichol, Arthur (Nickle) 55
Nicholas, G 82
Nichols, John (Nickols) . .32, 34, 48, 54
Nichols, Thomas (Nicolls) (Thos.)
(Nickols) 32,34,48
Nicholson, John (Nichosen) 68
Nicholson, Thomas (Nichelson)
(Thos.) 40,55,56,00
Nicholson, William (Nickleson) . . 27
Nickell, Joseph 63
Nicklin, Thomas 60
Noble, James 78, 84
Noe, Randall (Randal) 65
Noel, Barnard 27
Noel, Benjamin (Noahels) (Benj.)
15,58
Noel, Garret (Noell) 58
Noel, George (Noahels) 15
Noel, Musco (Noell) 58
Noel, John (Noell) 58
Noel, Thomas (Noell) 8, 9
Noland, Henry (Nowland) 27
Noland, Matthew (Nowlon) (Now-
len) 60,65
Noland, William 27
North, Abijah 28
Norton, John 60, 63
Nott, John 14
Nourse, James 42
Nourse, James, Jr 12
Nudigate, William (Wm.) 78
Nutt, Matthew 52
Ocoler, Nicholas (Oyler) [?]... 78, 88
Ockly, William (Okly) 64
Oden, Thomas (Thos.) 47
Odom, Michael (Micall) 74
Odor, Joseph 63
Ogg, Joshua 78
Old, John 65,72
Oldfield, Joseph 12
Oldham, Richard (Richd.) 65,72
Oldover, George 52
Oldridge, William 57
Oliver, Andrew (Andw.) 27
Oliver, John 6, 78
Olley, Cripley 69
O'Neal, John 74
O'Neal, Jonathan 74
O'Neal, Robert 43
Orchard, Isaac 62, 78, 84
Orchard, John 47
Ormsby, John Jr. (Jno.) 46
Ormsby, Stephen (Stepn.) 68
Orr, Alexander D. (Alexr.). .42, 45, 46
Orr, Samuel (Our.) 60
Orr, Thomas (Thos. ) 60
Osborn, James (Osburn) 78
Osborn, Samuel (Osburn) 60
Oscar, William 27, 47
Overfield, Abner 32, 34
Overstreet, Thomas (Thos.) 60
Overton, I. Jr 53
Overton, Richard (Rd.) 26,27,45
Overton, Samuel 58
Overton, Walter 11,51
Owen, John 52
Owens, Owen 26
Owens, Patrick 14
Owings, John Cockey (Jno.) (John
C.) 23,83
Owings, Joshua 78
Owsley, John 48
Owsley, Thomas (Thos.) 18
Owsley, William 65
Paddock, Jonathan 65
Paddock, William 65, 78
Palmer, Ellis (Palmore) 32, 48
Palmer, Gideon (Giddion) 32
Palmer, John 28, 33
Palmer, Parmenus (Parmar) (Par-
moinus) 74
Parberry, James 44, 46
Pardinez, James 6
Paris, David 63
Paris, Moses 65, 78
Park, Robert 57
Parker, Alexander (Alexr.) .. .45,
46, 53, 60, 93
Parker, Barry 60
Parker, Henry (Harry) ....53,62,63,
67,76
Parker, James 46, 53, 60, 63
Parker, John (Jno.) 27, 45, 46, 53
Parker, Richard (Richd.) 52, 60
Parker, Robert (Robt.) 46
Parker, Thomas (Thos.) ... .15, 60,
67,74,84
Parker, William (Wm.) 46, 6 J
Parkison, William (Wm.) 54
Parks, John 82
Parks, Richard 46
Parrish, Robert 65,72
Parrish, Timothy 65
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List of Names
Parsons, John 77
Partchment, Jacob 54
Partchment, John 54
Parton, Uriah 24
Patterson, Arthur 53
Patterson, Francis 53
Patterson, John 52
Patterson, J 25,43,45,
46, 51, 53, 63, 76, 93
Patterson, Joseph (Jos.) 23, 52
Patterson, Matthew (Mat.) 46, 63
Patterson, Moses 46, 53, 60, 93
Patterson, R 14, 51
Patterson, Robert (Robt.) 42
Patterson, William 8, 9
Pattie, John 60
Patton, Benjamin (Ben.) 17
Patton, James (Patten.) 11, 54, 87
Patton, John (Patten) 49
Patton, Roger 16, 43
Patton, Thomas (Patten) 66, 87
Patton, William (Wm.) (Patten).
17, 36, 49
Paul, Andrew (Paull) 60
Paul, James 58
Paulding, Benjamin (Benj.) 6
Paxton, Thomas 93
Payne, Edward (Edwd.) 53, 60
Payne, Edward, Jr. (Edwd.).. 53,
60, 63, 65
Payne, George 11
Payne, Henry 63, 84
Payne, Jilson 53, 60, 63
Payne, John : .43, 51, 52
Payne, William (Wm.) (W.)
43, 51, 68
Peak, Daniel 52
Peak, Jesse (Peek) 40, 60
Peak, John (Pleak) 40, 52, 60, 72
Peak, Presley 60
Peak, Thomas (Thos.) 52, 60
Peally, Peter 27
Pearce, Thomas 17, 78
Pearl, William 16
Peary, Robert (Robt.) 33, 48, 66
Peary, Thomas (Thos.) 78
Peebles, Robert (Robt.) 49
Pelham, Charles (Chas.)- •• .51,60,61
Pemberton, Charles 69
Pendleton, Curtis 66, 78
Pendleton, Rice 77
Penick, Charles 58
Penick, Jeremiah (Penck) 63
Penick, William 53, 63
Penington, Isaac (Pennington) . .
32, 49, 54
Peuix, Joshua 8, 9
Penland, Alexander (Elexander)47, 65
Perkins, James (Purkins) 77
Perkins, William 52
Perry, John 52
Perry, Lewis 52
Perry, Ted 32
Persons, Edward 60
Peters, John (Jno.) 12, 58
Peters, William (Willm.) (Petters) 58
Pettill, Benjamin 6
Petty, Ebenezer 58
Petty, John (Pettey) 58, 78
Peyton, Lewis (Payton) 36
Peyton, Timothy (Timoy.) 32
Pharis, Elijah [Paris?] 58
Phelps, Josiah 11
Phillip, Edmund (Edmond) 48, 66
Phillips, Elijah 78
Phillips, Jenkins 68
Phillips, John 54
Phillips, Moses 32, 34
Phillips, Phillip (Philips) 60
Phillips, William 52
Piatt, John 88
Pickens, Aaron 14
Picque, William (Willm.) 68
Piels, Conredus 58
Pierce, Jeremiah (Jeremia) 60
Piettens, Jonathan 69
Pirn, John (J.) 58,60
Pirn, John, Jr 43
Pitman, Joseph (Jos.) 16
Pittey, Henry 54
Pitts, Josiah 51, 52
Pittlen, Frederick 54
Platt, Ebenezer S 32
Playle, Richard 52
Pleak, John 51
Pleak, John, Jr 47
Plugh, Elias 52
Plummer, Benjamin (Benj.) 32,34,48
Plummer, George 32, 34
Plummer, Samuel 32, 34, 54
Plummer, William 48
Poage, Elijah 51
Poage, Thomas 40
Poage, William 6
Poage, Phillip (Pogue) 65
Poe, Benjamin (Benj.) 52
Poe, William 69
Poff, George 17, 32
Polke, Charles 60
Pollard, Absalom 58
Pollard, Braxton 93
Policy, Edward (Edwd.) 58
Pollock, James 56
Pon, John 52
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List of Names
Pope, William 11, 12
Port, Francis 77
Porter, Andrew 57
Porter, H. J 60
Porter, Joseph 57
Portwood, Lloyd (Loyd) 27
Portwood, Page 27, 46
Portwood, Ludy 27
Portwood, Thomas 27, 47
Portwood, Samuel 27
Potter, Samuel 54
Powell Ambros (Powell) (Am-
orous) 47,60,65
Powell, John 52
Powell, Joshua 74
Powell, William 52
Power, J. W 78
Power, James 43
Prather, Alexander (Preator) 27
Prather, Edward (Preator) 26, 27
Prather, Henry (Prater) 6, 26, 58
Prather, John (Prater) 26
Prather, Thomas (Preator)
(Thommes) 26, 27
Preston, John 6
Prewitt, Joseph 40
Pribble, James [Prebble?] 84
Price, Alexander 78
Price, Benjamin 69
Price, Bird 40, 51, 53, 63
Price, David 24
Price, John (J.) 15,17,40,43,51,60,63
Price, John, Jr 51
Price, Moses 11, 27
Price, Pugh 40, 45, 63
Price, Robert 51
Price, Samuel 58, 65
Price, Vinson 15
Price, William (Wm.). 17, 40, 51, 58, 93
Proctor, Benjamin 27
Proctor, Hezekiah 63
Proctor, John (Jno.) 52
Proctor, Joseph 9, 24, 27
Proctor, Little Pag 24
Proctor, Nicholas (Procter). .8,9,
24, 27, 64
Proctor, Nicholas, Jr. (Nickles) . . 8
Proctor, Reuben (Ruben) 8, 24, 27
Proctor, Thomas 60
Protzman, Lawrence 55
Provin, John 69
Pryland, Nicholas 32, 34
Pryor, Samuel (Sam.) 42
Puckett, Allen 63
Puckett, William 63
Pullen, Jedediah (Pulcn) (Jed-
yah) 58,78,84
Pullen, John 58, 78, 84
Puntiney , Nelson 74
Puppey, Samuel 54
Purcel, Thomas (Tho. ) 68
Purviance, John (Jno.) 42, 84
Pyburn, Lewis 60
Pyburn, Richard 60
Qualey , Patrick 78
Quigley, Michael (Michal) 77, 78
Quinn, Benjamin (Benj.) 52
Quisenbury see Cusenberry
Raburn, James (Reburn) 33, 46
Raburn, John (Reborn) 74
Raburn, John, Sr. (Reburn) 74
Raburn, Robert 27, 60, 65
Raburn, William 65
Radcliff, Benjamin 58
Radcliff, Edward 78, 84
Ragland, Edmund 47, 60, 65, 72
Ragland, James 60, 65
Rains, Cornelius (Reins) 34, 48, 54
Rains, James (Reins) 32, 34
Rains, John (Reins) 32, 34, 48, 54
Rains, William 32, 34, 48, 54
Rails, Horeb 84
Ralph, Morris (Moris) 68
Ralston, James 63
Ralston, John (Rolston) 63
Ralston, Joseph 63
Ramdell, John (Jno.) 63, 93
Ramey, Daniel [Remy?] . . . .47, 60, 65
Ramsey, Alexander 58
Ramsey, George 58
Ramsey, John 58
Ramsey, Larkin 58, 69
Ramsey, William 78
Randolph, Malachi (Malachiah). 43
Rankin, Adam 83
Rankin, Benjamin (Benj.) (Ran-
kins) 27,60,65,84
Rankin, David 40, 52, 78
Rankin, Reuben (Rankins) (Ru-
ben) 27,48,56,57,78
Rankins, Robert (Robart) (Robt.)
27, 32, 34, 54
Rankin, William (Wm.) ... .43, 46,
51, 53, 63
Ratcliffe, Richard 58
Ravenscraft, Thomas (Thos.).33,
49,55
Rawlings, Aaron 93
Rawlings, Pemberton 6, 8
Ray, James 26, 84
Ray, John (Ree) 26, 27, 69
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List of Names
Ray, Joseph 27
Ray, Stephen 27
Ray, William 27
Read, Andrew 77
Read, William [Reed?] 16
Reading, Robert, M 66
Reager, Barket 68
Reager, Jacob 68
Record, Josiah (Records) .32, 34, 48, 54
Record, Laban 48, 54
Reding, George 28
Reding, Isaac (Redding) 52
Reding, John 28
Redmon, Daniel 48
Redmon, Gabriel 48
Redmon, Thomas 48
Reed, Alexander 64
Reed, James 78
Reed, John 53, 58, 64, 65, 72, 78
Reed, Joseph (Jos.) 60
Reed, Matthew 69
Reed, Robert 54
Reed, Thomas (Thos.) 58, 66, 84
Reed, William (Wm.) 46, 53, 55
Rees, Azor 33, 48, 66
Rees, David 45, 46, 77
Rees, Isaac (Reas) 77
Reemer, David 60
Reeves, Elijah 32, 34, 48, 54
Reeves, George 68
Reeves, Matthias (Mathias) 57
Reeves, Michael (Michel) 57
Reeves, Spencer 33, 48
Reid, Alexander (Alexr.) [Reed?]. 64
Reid, John [Reed] 69
Remy, Archibald (Archebauld)
(Artchy) 56,77,88
Remy, Ferdinand (Ferd.) 33, 49
Remy, Jeremiah (Jerh.) (Ramy)
(Jerry) 56,78,88
Remy, Joel 84
Remy, Linnet (Ramey) (Reimy)
(Raimy) 56,66,77,84
Reno, Teky 56
Rentfro, James 52
Rew, Richard (Rue) 43, 52
Rew, Raleigh (Rews) (Rawleigh)
32,34
Reynolds, Aaron 24
Reynolds, Thomas (Thos.). .40, 58, 60
Rhea, Alexander (Alexr.) 55
Rhodes, Clifton (Rodes) 63
Rhodes, John (Rodes) 77
Rhodes, Frederick (Roads) 53
Rhodes, Robert (Rodes) 27
Rice, David 46, 58
Rice, John 24, 65
Rice, William (Wm.) 52, 67
Richards, Robert (Robt.)27,60,65, 72
Richards, William 40
Richardson, James (Jas.) 51
Richardson, Jesse 15
Richardson, Laudie 93
Richardson, Turner 52
Richardson, William 15
Richey, Edward 52
Richey, John (Ritchey) 60
Richey, Samuel 60
Ridmer, Gabriel 78
Riggs, John 32,34,48,54
Riley, James 74
Ringbolt, Jacob 46
Ringo, Cornelius 60, 65
Rippey, Samuel 54
Roach, Henry 63
Roach, Little Berry 58
Roach, William (Rosh) 67
Robbins, Aaron 60
Robenit, John 77
Robert, Benjamin, Jr 11
Roberts, Edward (Robards) . . . .27, 58
Roberts, John (Robers) . . .6, 52, 58, 60
Roberts, Joseph 11, 12, 27
Roberts, Nathan 27
Roberts, Nealey 52
Roberts, Nimrod 52
Roberts, Thomas (Robartes) 52, 60, 64
Roberts, William (Roberds)
(Willm.) (Wm.) 52,68
Robertson, Absalom (Absm.)
(Robinson) 65, 78
Robertson, Alexander 27
Robertson, Benjamin (Robinson)
12,43
Robertson, Hosea 58
Robertson, James (Roberson) . . 27, 46
Robertson, James Jr 27
Robertson, Jesse (Ropertson) .... 65
Robertson, John 27, 60
Robertson, Jonathan 52
Robertson, Matthew 27
Robertson, Mills 54
Robertson, Samuel 60
Robertson, William 27, 60, 64
Robeson, John (Jno.) 26, 58
Robinson, Jeremiah 53, 63, 78
Robinson, James 64
Robinson, Joseph 28
Robinson, William (Wm.) 40, 51
Robison, Alexander 58
Robison, George 60
Robison, James 58
Robson, Samuel 9 (List)
Rock, John 57,78
[ 221 ]
List of Names
Rock, Patrick 78
Rodgers, Andrew (Andw.) 17
Rodgers, Joseph [Rogers?] 28
Rodgers, William 03
Rodney, Martin (Roddeney)
(Marten) 55
Roe, Charles 54
Roe, William (Wm.) 54
Rogers, Anthony 15
Rogers, Barnard 2
Rogers, Edward 52
Rogers, James (Jas.) 25, 52, 60, 77
Rogers, Jeremiah (Jereh.)40,60, 65, 67
Rogers, John 52, 60, 67, 84
Rogers, Joseph 40, 45, 60, 65, 67, 93
Rogers, Thomas (Thos.) 75
Rogers, William 60, 67, 84, 104
Rooney, Patrick (Pattk.) (Runey) 57
Rooney, William (Roney) 84
Rorison, Basil 46
Rose, Enoch (Enock) ... .32, 34, 48, 54
Rose, Jonathan 54
Rose, Obezar 27
Rosett, George 47
Ross, Ambrose (Ambriss) 27,46
Ross, Ignatius (Ignatious) 54
Ross, Samuel 57, 78, 84
Ross, Thomas (Thos.) 27
Routt, Byram (Buram) . .55, 56, 66, 77
Routt, George 65
Routt, Hardy (H.) (Rowts) .15,33, 56
Routt, William 60, 62
Row, Adam 60
Row, William • 84
Rowl, Thomas (Rowles) 45
Rowl, William 78
Rowan, W 60
Rowland, David 51, 52
Rowland, John 60
Roy, James, Jr 84
Royston, Elijah 65
Ruble, Jacob 60
Ruby, David 60
Rucker, James 52
Rucker, John (Roocker) (Jno.)..
32, 34, 52
Ruddle, Isaac 95
Ruffner, Reuben 58
Rule, Andrew 24
Rule, Samuel 84
Runyan, Henry (Runnen.) 60, 67
Runyan, Joseph 58
Rupert, George (Georg) 78
Russell, Charles 60
Russell, Edward (Edwd.) 47
Russell, H 45
Russell, James 6
Russell, Joseph 54
Russell, Obediah 74
Russell, William (W) 23, 60, 93
Russellhill, Robert 78
Ruth, Davis 32,34
Rutherford, John (Reatherford)
(J) 36,58
Rybolt, Daniel 49
Rybolt, Jacob 53
Rybolt, Michael (Mickal) 33, 49
Rylands, Nicholas 46
Ryman, Jacob 40,47
Sacry, James 60, 63
Sage, Alexander (Alex.) 58
Sage, Jeremiah (Jerrimiah) 58
Sage, Jesse 58
Sage, John 58
Sage, William 58
Sage, William, Sr 58
Said, Edmund 60
Said, William 60, 65
Salley, Abraham 60
Salley, Jezreel (Jessril) 45
Salley, John 58
Salter, William 56
Sammuel, Anthony 67
Samples, Benjamin 52, GO
Samples, David (Sample) 52
Samples, John 52, 60
Samples, Samuel (Sample) 52
Samples, Samuel, Jr 52
Sanders, Elisha 57
Sanders, Gunnell 93
Sanders, James 53
Sanders, Hezekiah 60, 65
Sanders, Julius 6
Sanders, John 12, 17,
46, 58, 60, 69, 78, 84
Sanders, Nathaniel (Nath.) 40, 52
Sanders, Robert 24
Sanders, Samuel 9 (List)
Sanders, Thomas 60
Sandidge, David 67
Sandidge, Larkin 67
Sandusky, James 43
Sandusky, John (Sanduske) 77
Sapleton, Jobe [Saptleton] 26
Sapp, George (Georg.) 47
Sappington, Hartley 46
Sappington, John, Sr 47
Satterly, Samuel (Saml.) 52
Scheibeler, George 78
Scholl, Joseph 12, 24, 51, 52, 60, 65
Scholl, Peter 12, 24, 53, 60, 63, 65
Scholl (Wm.) 12, 24, 60, 65
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List of Names
Schwartzmer, Nicholas 6
Scofield, Thomas 78
Sconce, James 49, 84
Sconce, Robert (Robart) 49, 84
Sconce, Thomas 49, 84
Scooler, William (Wm.) (Schooler)
28, 48, 56
Scott, Arthur 84
Scott, Charles (Chs.) 51,61,83
Scott, David 43
Scott, Elijah 60
Scott, Elisha 60
Scott, Gabriel 52, 60
Scott, George . . .23, 49, 52, 55, 58, 60, 66
Scott, Henry (Henery) 84
Scott, James (Jas.) . . .23, 28, 33, 52, 55
Scott, John 33, 49, 58, 77, 78
Scott, Joseph 47, 58
Scott, Levi 60
Scott, Robert 28, 33, 52, 58
Scott, Samuel (Saml.) 58
Scott, Thomas (Thos.) 43, 48
Scott, William (Wm.) 53, 60
Seal, John 60
Seaman, Charles (Charls) 14
Searcy, Bartlett.6, 9 (List) 12,43,51,52
Searcy , Berry 51
Searcy, Edmund (Searcey) (Ed-
mond) 52
Searcy, David 66
Searcy, Reuben (Sercey) (Cercy)
(Reubin) 6, 8, 43, 51, 60, 64, 93
Searcy, Richard 6, 43
Sebastian, Benjamin (Ben.) . . . .42, 83
Self, Charnt 53
Sellers, James 58
Sellers, John 58
Sellers, Joseph 58
Sellers, Nathaniel (Nathan). 28, 33,58
Sellers, Samuel 58
Sellers, William 58
Settle, Thomas 60
Sevier, Valentine (Val.) 74
Sewell, Hugh 84
Sewell, John 11
Shad, George 58
Shanklin, Robert 60
Shannon, Nathaniel (Nath) 52
Shannon, Hugh 52
Shannon, William 89
Sharp, Abraham 27, 58
Sharp, David 49
Sharp, John (Sharpe) 24, 67
Sharp, Moses . 63
Sharp, Solomon 77
Shaw, William 54
Shawhan, Daniel 57
Shawhan, Daniel, Jr 57
Shawhan, John [Sheehan?] 57
Sheehan, John 60
Sheetz, Henry 104
Shelby, Evan 54, 87
Shelby, Isaac 17, 45
Shelton, Samuel (Saml.) 17
Shelton, Thomas (Thos.) 27, 64
Shepard, George 46
Shepard, Samuel (Sam) 52, 60
Shepherd, Adam 17, 26
Shepherd, David 60
Shepherd, John 69
Shepherd, William (Wm.) 26
Sheridan, Martin 60
Sherratt, Tudor (Sherrask) 73
Sherry, Bernard (Bernerd) 46
Shids, Samuel 84
Shields, Patrick (Shiells) 58
Shipp, Colby (Coly.) .23,52,60,62,67
Shipp, Laban 51, 52, 62, 66, 81
Shipp, Richard W. (Richd.) 52
Shoots, John 43
Short, John 52
Short, Peyton 90, 91
Shortridge, George 12
Shortridge, George, Jr 58,84
Shortridge, Lewis 52
Shortridge, William 24
Shortridge, Samuel 12, 60, 65
Shotwell, John 54
Shrope, Adam 57
Shrope, Sebastian 57
Shropshire, Benjamin (Shopshare)
56, 58, 60, 63, 78, 84
Shropshire, James 33, 55
Shropshire, John 78, 84
Shropshire, Joseph 67
Shropshire, Edward 78
Shubling, William 65
Shumaker, Daniel (Shewmaker) . . 54
Shut, John 60
Sibley, John 12
Sidwell, Elisha 77
Sidwell, Hugh 32, 34, 48, 55, 56, 84
Silvers, Samuel 60
Simbrell, Francis 60
Simons, Robert 78
Simons, Sebre 60
Simpson, Allan 48, 54
Simpson, Gilbert (Gilbt.) 32
Simpson, James (Simson) 60
Simpson, John 32, 34, 51, 58
Simpson, Samuel 32, 34
Sims, John (Jno.) (Simms) 52, 55, 77, 84
Singleton, Edmund (Edmd.) (Ed-
mond) 46,52,60,63
[ 223 ]
List of Names
Singleton, Jcchonias 43, 52, 60
Skiner, Joseph 27
Slack, Randolph 26
Slagle, Jacob 104
Slater, John, Toms 46, 53, 63
Slaughter, Cad 68
Slaughter, George, Col 26, 68
Slaughter, James R 68
Slaughter, Thomas 4
Sledd, William 58
Sleet, Weden 69
Sleet, John 69
Slott, John 28
Sly, George 27
Smallwood, John 65
Smart, James 78
Smart, Jose 84
Smart, Richard (Richd.) 78
Stneathers, James 74
Smiley, John 49, 55, 66
Smith, Alexander (Alexr.) 60, 93
Smith, Benjamin (Benj.)- • .27,40,
45, 52, 60, 67
Smith, Charles, Sr 40,78
Smith, Charles, Jr. (Chas.) . . .28,
33, 62, 63, 79, 84
Smith, Christian (Smit) 54
Smith, Christopher 48, 58
Smith, Daniel (Danl.) 78, 84
Smith, Ebenezer 32, 34
Smith, Edmund 58
Smith, Elijah 40, 45, 53, 67
Smith, Eleazer 60, 63
Smith, Francis 60
Smith, Garland (Garld.) 60, 67
Smith, George 60, 67
Smith, George Stovall (S) . . 15, 17, 60
Smith, Hawkins 60, 67, 78, 84
Smith, Henry 53, 58
Smith, Hugh 27
Smith, Jacob 60
Smith, James, Sr 60, 86
Smith, James (Jas.) 17, 23, 26,
27, 33, 48, 49, 60, 66, 67, 84
Smith, Jesse 32, 34
Smith, John (Jno.) 17, 27, 33,
40, 60, 65, 82, 83, 84, 88
Smith, Joseph 60, 65, 78, 84
Smith, Josiah 52
Smith, Lucas (Lucous) 32, 34
Smith, Michael (Micael) 78
Smith, Peter 78
Smith, Rhodus (Rodes) 67
Smith, Samuel (Saml.). ..51,52, 54, 60
Smith, Thomas (Ts.) 27,52,58,67
Smith, Trevance 84
Smith, William (Wm.) . . .23, 53, 60, 93
Smith, Walter 60, 65
Smith, Zacharias 17
Smock, Henry 60
Smock, Joseph (Smott) 84
Smyth, Jacob 78
Snell, Charles (Chas.) 78, 84
Snell, John 52
Snell, William 78
Snoddy, John 15,17,27
Snowber, Christopher 33
Sodowsky, Jacob [Sadowsky?] ... 60
Solomon, Andrew (Andw.) 52
Solomon, Jacob (Solsman) 52,60
Solomon, William (Wm.) 52
Sorenency, David 56, 78, 84
South, John, Sr 8, 9, 23, 27, 40, 46
South, John, Jr 8, 9, 63, 64
South, Samuel 8, 27
South, Thomas 9 (List)
South, Zedikiah (Zediakah) 27
South, William 27
Southard, Edmund (Edmond) 109
Southern, William 58
Sovarnts, Briant 74
Spangler, William 12
Sparkle, Andrew 63
Sparks, Elijah 65
Sparks, George 48
Sparks, Isaac 65
Sparks, William (Wm.), Sr. .32,34,
48,49
Sparks, William, Jr 32, 34
Spaulding, William (Wm.) (Spawl-
din) 52
Spaur, Matthias (Matts.) 24
Speaks, Hezekiah (Hesekiah) . . .28, 49
Speed, James (Jas.) 17, 42
Spence, William (Wm.) 78
Spencer, Michael (Spenser) 60
Spencer, William 78
Spiers, William (Spirs) 60, 65
Spiller, Craven 62
Spillman, Henry (Spilman) (Spel-
man) 26,27
Spillman, Jacob (Spilman) 26
Sportman, William P 43, 52
Springer, John 12
Springkel, Michael (Michel) 68
Spurgin, Ezekiel 77
Spurgin, George 78
Spurgin, Isaac 77
Spurgin, James 77, 84
Spurgin, Jeremiah, Sr 77
Spurgin, Jeremiah, Jr 77
Spurgin, John 77
Spurgin, Samuel 77
Spurgin, Zephaniah (Spurin) 77
[ 224 ]
List of Names
Spurr, Richard (Richd.) 65
Stafford, Henry (Staford)
(Henery) 45,93
Stagge, William 9 (List)
Stagner, Barnabas 26
Stamper, Joshua 24, 46
Standford, Aquilla (Standeford)
48, 49, 62, 84
Standford, George 55, 78, 88
Standford, Nathan (Standeford)
49, 55, 56
Stanhope, Robert (Stanhop.) 14,
46,53
Stapleton, John 60
Stapp, Achilles (Achihles) 60
Stapp, Paul 63
Stark, James 28, 57
Stark, Thomas 49
Starns, Edward
Starns, Frederick 9 (List)
Starns, Jacob 8, 9, 27, 47
Starns, Joseph 9
Station, B 74
Station, Charles (Staton) 74
Station, John, Curtis 54
Station, John (Staton) 74
Station, Thomas (Stayton) 60
Steel, Adam 63
Steel, Andrew (Andw.) 24, 51
Steel, David 58
Steel, Hugh 82
Steel, John 42,53
Steel, Joseph 46, 60, 77, 78
Steel, Richard 60
Steel, Robert 60, 65
Steel, William (Wm.) (Steele). .22,
23, 24, 31, 46, 52, 53, 58, 60
Stephens, Andrew 27
Stephens, John (Stevens) . . .27, 51, 52
Stephens, Joseph (Stevenze) . . .47, 72
Stephens, Thomas L. (Stevens)
(Ts.) 46,56,64,66
Stephens, William (Wm.) 93
Stephenson, Abraham (Abram.).. 58
Stephenson, Benjamin (B.)
(Stevenson) 53, 61
Stephenson, David (Stevenson) . . 77
Stephenson, James (Stevenson) . .
27, 61, 64, 77, 84
Stephenson, John (Stevenson) . 12,
24,43,45,51,53,61,63,93
Stephenson, Jonathan 78, 84
Stephenson, Marcus 54
Stephenson, Robert (Robt.)
(Stevenson) 24, 45
Stephenson, Samuel (Stevenson)
(Saml.) (Stevenston) 12, 51, 53, 60
Stephenson, Thomas (Thos.)
(Stevenson) ... 17, 24, 43, 53, 60, 93
Stephenson, William (Wm.)
(Stevenson) . . . .23, 45, 53, 60, 61, 93
Sterett, James 52, 60
Sterett, John (Starrete) (Jno.) . .52, 60
Stewart, Abraham 74
Stewart, Alexander (Alexr.) . . . .60, 65
Stewart, Ezekiel 65
Stewart, James (Jas.) (Stuart). 26,
43, 52, 53, 74
Stewart, John 67, 74, 82, 102, 93
Stewart, Levi 65, 82
Stewart, Richard 40
Stewart, William 60, 74
Stidger, Peter 53, 60
Stivers, Edward 60, 65
Stivers, Reuben 60, 65
Stocker, Edward 84
Stocker, Hezekiah 40
Stockton, Dorsey 54
Stockton, Robert 54
Stockwell, Samuel 54
Stokes, Edward 77,78
Stone, Obadiah, Jr 32
Stone, Valentine (Ston) (Volen-
tine) 27,47,60,65
Stone, William (Steon) 58
Stoner, Michael (Stonar) (Mical)
8, 46, 52
Story, James 84
Story, William (Wm.) 23, 34
Stott, Rawley 52
Stotton, George (Geo.) 54
Stout, Benjamin, Jr 60, 76
Stout, Jonathan 54
Stout, Obadiah, Sr 32, 54
Stout, Obadiah, Jr. (Obediah) ... 33
Stout, Josiah 54
Stout, Thomas 32, 34, 54
Strange, Philip (Phelep) 60
Strange, Stephen (Stepen) 64
Strekes, Allen 17
Stricklin, Elihu (Elihugh) 74
Stringer, Edmund (Edmond) 63
Striplin, William (Wm.)(Stribling) 72
Strode, James 32, 55, 60, 65, 66, 78
Strode, John 60, 65, 78
Strode, John, Sr 60
Strode, Samuel 12, 23, 34, 54
Strode, Stephen 78
Strong, Walter E 58
Strother, Thomas 54
Strother, William 52
Stubblefield, Robert 60, 67
Stubblefield, William (Wm.) 60
Stucker, Jacob 24
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List of Names
Stucker, Michael (Mical) . . .24,52,60
Stuphelbuh, John (Stofelbeen)
(Stopelbeen) 28, 55, 66
Stutville, Charles 60, 65
Sublette, Allen (Sublett.) 58
Sublette, Lewis (Sublett.) 43, 52
Sudduth, William 65, 78
Sudland, Angus 66
Suggett, John 52, 55, 60
Sullivan, Daniel, Jr. (Dan) 26
Sumalt, Andrew (Zomault) 49, 55
Sumalt, Christopher (Cimmolt)
(Christerfer) (Zumbalt)
(Christifer) 49, 55, 56
Sumalt, Jacob (Zumalt) (Jackob)
49,55
Summers, Edward (Edwd.) 27, 65
Summers, Elijah (Summars) 54
Summers, John (Summars). .54,
60, 65, 69, 72
Summers, John, Jr 58
Summers, Robert 58
Summers, Thomas 69
Summit, Christian 82
Summers, Edward 60, 65
Summers.Elijah 60, 65
Summers, John 27, 58, 60, 62, 65
Summers, Thomas (Thos.) 58
Suter, Jesse 52
Sutherland, David 65
Sutherland, Frederick (Suther-
ling) 60,65
Sutherland, Thomas (Sutherling) . 47
Sutherland, William 60
Button, Benjamin (Benj.) 54, 87
Sutton, James 55,78
Sutton, Nathaniel 55
Sutton, Robert 23
Swaine, Thomas (Thos.) 60
Swearingen, Thomas (Thos.) 23
Swearingen, Van (Swearengen) . . .
45, 56, 62
Sweet, Benjamin (Benj.). 32, 34, 48, 54
Sweet, Joseph 32, 48
Sweet, Joshua 33,48
Sweet, Thomas 32, 34, 48
Swindler, Henry 60
Swope, Jacob 27
Tabb, William [Taub?] 60, 65
Talbot, Edmund 62
Talbot, Haile 64
Talbot, Isham 23, 62
Talbot, Isham, Jr 58
Talbot, James, S 62
Talbot, Samuel (Saml.) (Talbert)
60,65
Talifer, Richard 82
Tandy, Achilles (Ach.) 51, 63, 93
Tandy, John (Tanday) 52, 67
Tandy, Moses 93
Tandy, William 63
Tandy, William, Jr 63
Tanner, Archelaus 63
Tanner, John 27, 52
Tanner, William 60
Tarbel, Conrad (Torbell) 27
Tardiveau, P 42
Tatmnn, Joseph 57
Taub, Arthur Thomas (Thos.) . .60, 63
Taylor, Abraham 16
Taylor, Benjamin (Benj.) 63
Taylor, Chapman 52
Taylor, Elkin 74
Taylor, George (Geo.) 52, 93
Taylor, Griffen 27, 33
Taylor, Henry (H) 17,93
Taylor, Isaac 32, 33, 48
Taylor, John 27, 48, 52, 54, 62
Taylor, John, Jr 27, 32, 34, 62
Taylor, Philip, W 40
Taylor, Richard (Richd.) 52, 60
Taylor, Robert 27, 32, 34, 48, 54
Taylor, Samuel 27
Taylor, Thomas 60
Taylor, William (Wm.) 58, 78
Taylor, Zachary 60, 63
Tegarden, George 46, 76
Telford, Alexander (Alexr.) ... .63, 93
Telford, James (Tillford) 27
Telford, William (Wm.) 63, 93
Templin, James 48
Templin, John (Templen) 27
Tenant, John 54
Terry, Enes 27
Terrill, Henry (Terrell) 65
Terrill, James (Tarrell) 74
Terrill, Joseph (Terrel) 15
Terrill, Robert 28, 33, 49, 56, 66
Teters, George (Teter) (Geo.) .16,58
Teters, Jonathan 58
Teters, Samuel 58
Thanks, Michael (Mical) 67
Thatcher, Amos (Thetcher) ... 32,
34, 46, 57
Thatcher, Daniel (Danl.) 57,78
Thatcher, Joseph 78
Theobalds, Clement 55, 78, 84
Theobalds, Thomas 55, 66, 88
Thoebalds, Sam 55, 56, 84, 88
Theobalds, William 78
Theron, Hugh 60
[ 226 ]
List of Names
Thomas, Absalom 54
Thomas, Charles (Chas.) 60, 67
Thomas, Eli 62
Thomas, Enos 60
Thomas, Ephraim (Ephram) 65
Thomas, Henry 26
Thomas, John ... .26, 27, 32, 34, 43,
52, 54, 60, 65
Thomas, Levi 54
Thomas, Philip 52
Thomas, Plummer 60, 67
Thomas, M 49
Thomas, Richard 43
Thomas, Rowland 60, 67, 84
Thomas, William (Wm.). . .40,52,
56, 60, 65, 79, 84
Thompson, Andrew 32, 34, 48, 74
Thompson, Charles 69
Thompson, Clifton (Thomson) ... 93
Thompson, Even 26
Thompson, Gloss 52
Thompson, Henry 49
Thompson, Hugh 17, 53
Thompson, Isaac 12
Thompson, James 17, 52, 58, 65
Thompson, John (Jno.) 26, 54, 58
Thompson, Joseph (Tomson)58, 63, 78
Thompson, Lawrence (L.) . . .26, 27, 52
Thompson, Robert (Rober.)
(Robt.) 14,53,56
Thompson, Rhodus (Thomson)
(Rodes) 52,60
Thompson, Samuel (Saml.) .58,77,78
Thompson, Thomas 104
Thompson, William (Wm.).. 17, 43, 63
Thompson, Zacharias 54
Thorp, David 28, 55
Thorp, Dodson 27, 64
Thorp, Henry (Henre) 28, 55
Thorp, John 24
Threlkeld, John 26
Threlkeld, Moses 26
Threlkeld, Thomas (Thos.) 26
Threlkeld, Thomas, Jr 26
Threlkeld, William (Willam.) 58
Tichenor, Elijah 54
Tilley, John 74
Tilley, Thomas 74
Tillery, William 52
Tilton, Robert 43, 46, 53
Tilton, William (Tulton) 65
Timberlake, John 64
Timberlake, Richard 64
Timberlake, Samuel 62
Tindall, William (Tindul) 56
Timmons, Stephen 58
Tingley, Levi 78
Tinsley, William (Wm.) 52
Tipton, Thomas 58
Tired, Joseph 58
Titus, Joseph 64
Todd, Jane 37,75
Todd, John (Tode) 45, 61
Todd, John, Jr. (Jno.) 14
Todd, Levi 6, 14, 17, 18,22,
25, 42, 45, 46, 51, 53, 63, 90, 91, 96
Todd, Owen 40, 46, 53, 60, 62, 67
Todd, Robert (Robt.) 41, 43,
45,46,52,63,75,90,91
Todd, Robert, Jr. (Robt.) . .43,46,51
Todd, Thomas 83
Tolbert, Isham 27
Tollen, Robert 69
Tomlin, Nicholas (Nicklis) 60
Tomlin, William 24
Tomlinson, Ambrose (Ambrus) ... 93
Tomlinson, Elijah 93
Tompkins, George R (G. R.) .60, 67, 93
Tompkins, Giles 64
Tompkins, Ham 60
Tompkins, John (Tompskin) 27
Toole, William 11
Tonines, David 93
Torbit, James 52
Torrans, John 14, 24
Torry, Keeble 24
Toul, Benjamin I (Benj.) 60
Townsend, Garret (Townsen)
(Townson) (Garrett)... .47,60, 65
Townsend, James (Jas.) (Town-
sen) 47,65
Townsend, John 11, 69
Townsend, Oswald (Townsin) (Oz-
wel) (Towns) 6, 27, 29
Trabue, Daniel 52
Trabue, Edward (Edwd.) 43, 52
Tracy, Samuel (Saml.) (Trasey).. 52
Tracy, William (Trasey).. 9 (List) 52
Trible, Andrew (A) (Tribble) . .47,
60, 65, 78
Trible, Samuel 65, 72
Trimble, George (Trimbal) (Trim-
bell) 60,78
Trimble, Isaac 78
Trimble, James 45
Trimble, John (Jon) (Trimbel) . .
28, 40, 48
Trimble, Thomas (Thos.) 77
Trimble, Walter 84
Trimble, William (Wm.) (Will). 17, 47
Triplett, William 65
Trop, Martin 15
Trotter, David 51, 53, 60
Trotter, James 42, 45, 60
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List of Names
Trotter, Richard 77
Trotter, William 40
Troutman, Jacob 57, 60, 84
Troutman, John (Jno.) ..62,66,78,84
True, Charles (Chas.) 32, 34
Trurabo, Andrew 78, 84
Trurnbo, George (Trumbow.) . . . . 84
Trumbo, Jacob 78
Trumbo, John 78
Trumbo, William 78
Tucker, Edward 28, 49
Tucker, George 60
Tucker, Jacob 58
Tucker, John 49, 54, 56
Tucker, Leonard (Lenord) 49
Tucker, William 28
Tull, William 60
Tully, Israel (Isarel) 43, 51
Turner, Daniel 58
Turner, Edward 27, 64
Turner, George 58
Turner, James 27, 34, 77
Turner, John 77
Turner, Joseph 14, 63
Turner, Lewis C 53
Turner, Philip 64
Turner, Thomas 27
Turner, William (Willm.) 63
Turner, Z. E 63
Turney, Michael 58
Turnham, Thomas (Thos.) 60
Turpin, William (Wm.) (Terpin) 53, 58
Tuttle, David 54
Twetty, William 9 (List)
Twyman, James (Jas.) 24, 51, 63
Twyman, Reuben (Twiman)
(Reub.) 51,52,60
Twyman, Thomas (Twieman) .... 60
Twyman, William (Twiman) . . .52, 60
Tyler, John (Tylor) 74
Tyler, Peter (Tylor) 74
Tyler, William (Wm.) 32
Ulery, Henry 78
Umphreys, William (Umphress)
9 (List)
Underwood, Nathaniel 28, 49, 55, 56, 84
Underwood, Reuben 28, 49, 55
Uria, Robert 32, 34
Usselton, George 52
Utman, Patrick 69
Utterback, Benjamin (Benj.) 52
Valandigham, James (Vanland-
ingham) (Jas.) 52, 60, 65
Valandigham, George 65
Valandigham, Lewis (Valandag-
ham) (Valladigham) 52, 60
Vance, Andrew (Andw.) 56, 84
Vance, David 14, 24
Vance, John (Jno.) 53
Vance, Joseph 36
Vance, Webb 74
Van Cleve, John 69
Van Cleave, William 6
Vanderen, Barnard 84
Van Hook, Samuel (Samm.) 6,26,
28, 48, 49, 77
Van Hook, Samuel, Jr 28, 33
Vaniman, Garrett 66
Vanmatre, Jacob [Van Meter?] ... 12
Vanzant, John (Jno.) 32, 52
Vardiman, Peter (Vardeman)
(Peater) 15,32,56
Vart, Jacob (Vert) 57, 58, 84
Vaughn, John 52
Velley, Benjamin (Bengiman) .... 66
Venable, A 23, 40, 43, 51, 53, 63
Verble, Philip (Phillip) 52
Verzadt, John 48
Vice, John 54
Vinson, P 15
Violet, Henson 60, 65
Virgin, Price 32, 33
Vivian, John, Sr. (Vivion) 47
Vivian, John (Vivion) 47, 65
Vivian, Thachet 65
Vokes, George (Geo.) 58
Voorhies, Christopher (Vorris) ... 74
Voorhies, Garrett (Voorheese)
46,53
Waddle, James 78, 88
Wade, John 47, 60
Wade, Dawson (Dorson) 47, 65
Wade, Dawson, Jr 47
Wade, James 60, 65
Wade, John 65
Wade, Josiah 54
Wade, Richard 9 (List)
Waggoner, John 46
Walden, John 69
Walker, Archibald 52
Walker, David 58
Walker, Henry 52, 58
Walker, James 93
Walker, John 6,52,74
Walker, Joseph (J) 58, 64
Walker, Matthew (Mat. ) 24, 46
Walker, Nathaniel 55
Walker, Randall (Randel) 52
Walker, Richard 64
Walker, Robert 53
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List of Names
Walker, Samuel 93
Walker, William 43, 52
Wallace, Andrew 78
Wallace, Caleb 42, 59, 63, 83
Wallace, James 60
Wallace, John (Jno.) 43, 60, 78, 93
Wallace, Joseph 78
Wallace, Robert 43, 51, 53, 58
Wallace, William 64
Waller, Benjamin, Jr 60
Waller, Edward (Edwd.) .55, 62, 66, 79
Waller, James (Wallers) 27, 51
Waller, John 28, 32, 55, 60
Waller, Joseph 52
Waller, Patrick 69
Waller, Stephen 67
Waller, William (Wm.) (Williem)
60,67
Wallis, David 74
Wallis, John 53
Wallis, W. E 53
Wallis, William (Walles) 74
Wallingfitch, Daniel (Dan)
(Daniel) 32,34,62
Wallingford, Benjamin (Wolling-
ford) (Wallingsford) 32, 34
Walter, Barnet 54
Walter, John 104
Walton, Matthew 17, 83
Wann, John (Jno.) 48
Ward, George 74
Ward, Isaac 43
Ward, Jacob 52
Ward, James ... .45, 51, 53, 60, 62, 63, 65
Ward, James, Sr. (Jas.) 60, 93
Ward, John 51,63
Ward, Joseph 78
Ward, Richard 64
Ward, Thomas (Thos.) 77
Ward, W 43, 46, 51, 53, 63, GO, 91
Warden, Philip 52
Ware, Daniel (Wer.) 27
Ware, Dudley 58,69
Ware, Marcum (Markim) 47
Ware, Thomas 15
Ware, William (Wm.) 52, 60
Warford, John 68
Waring, Thomas (Thos.) (T.)48,54,56
Warnock, Michael 14, 23, 93
Warren, John 26
Warren, Thomas 27
Warren, William (Warran) 60,65
Wasson, Charles 78
Wasson, James (Jas.) (Wason) . .46, 53
Waters, James 6
Waters, R. J 68
Watkins, Evan 60
Watkins, John 45, 52, 60
Watkins, Samuel 68
Watkins, Thomas 74
Watkins, William 69
Watson, Jesse 27
Watson, Michael (Michel) 54
Watson, Robert 63
Watts, David 60,65
Watts, John (Wats.) 27, 52, 62
Watts, Julius 52
Watts, William (Wats) 15, 60, 67
Webb, Augustine (Augustin) . . .65, 72
Webb, Charles 52
Webb, Forest 43, 60
Webb, James 78
Webb, John (Web) 63, 65
Webb, William E 88
Weddle, George [Waddle?] 32, 34
Weekley, Thomas (Thos.) 52
Weiser, Jacob (Wesirr) 60
Welch, John (Job.) [Welsh?] ..31,55
Welch, Walter (Wilch) 8, 9
Wells, Abraham 60
Wells, Barnet 60, 65
Wells, Basil (Basel) (Bazel) .31, 55,66
Wells, Benjamin 33, 55
Wells, James 78
Wells, John 60, 65, 82
Wells, Jonas (Jones) 84
Wells, Peter 27
Wells, Thomas (Thos.) 93
Welsh, John 28
Welton, John [Walton?] 26
Wentzell, Daniel 68
West, Charles 40
West, Jonathan 46
West, Joseph 58
West, Nathaniel (Nethennell). . . 47
West, Rezin 56, 88
West, Thomas (Thos.) . . . .46, 47,
53, 55, 62, 66, 84, 88
West, William (Wm.) 67
Westerman, Charles 52
Whaley, James 65
Whaley, John 54
Wheeler, Benjamin (Benj.) 72
Whitaker, Joel 60
Whitaker, Mark (Whitacer) 52
Whitaker, Thomas (Thos.) 52
White, Abraham (Abrm.) 43
White, Ambrose 9 (List)
White, Aquila (Aqulla) 27, 46
White, Aquilla, Jr 27
White, Benjamin 9
White, James 27, 47, 60
White, Jeremiah 60, 65
White, Joel 40,43
[ 229 ]
List of Names
White, John 60, 74
White, John, Sr 27
White, John, Jr 27,82
White, Stephen (Steven) 63
White, Thomas 49
White, William 52
Whiteman, Benjamin (Benj.) 48
Whitesett, John 60
Whiteside, John (Jno.) 62,78
Whiteside, Robert 60
Whiteside, Samuel 60
Whiteside, William 60
Whitledge, Robert 33, 53, 56
Whitledge, Thomas (Thos.) .48,58,84
Whitley, James (Whittley) 15, 32
Whitley, Solomon (Whittley) ..32,48
Whitley, Thomas (Thos.) 15
Whitley, William 6, 15
Whitsel, Lewis [Whitsett?] 32, 34
Whitsett, William 78
Whitson, George 47, 65
Whiwitt, Joseph [— ?] 88
Whorl, Samuel 56
Wick, Moses 54
Wickliff, Charles (Wichliff)
(Chars.) [?]
Wightman, Shardless 58
Wiginton, Henry 58
Wilburn, Zachariah (Zach.) 64
Wilcox, Aaron 52
Wilcox, Daniel (Willcox) (Wil-
cocks) 24,52
Wilcox, John (Willcocks).32,33,34,43
Wildres, John [Hildreth?] 49
Wiley, John 82
Wilkerson, James 52, 78
Wilkerson, John 47
Wilkerson, John, Jr 60
Wilkerson, Moses 27, 47, 65, 72
Wilkerson, William 47
Wilkinson, Daniel (Wilconson). .6,43
Wilkinson, James 25,99
Willcockson, Daniel 8
Willcockson, David 63
Willcockson, Edward [— ?]
Willey, James 93
Wilkin, John 24
Williams, Andrew (Andw.) 58
Williams, Alfred (Alferd) 60
Williams, Barnett 17
Williams, Basil (Bazal) 54, 77, 78
Williams, Beverley (Beaverly) ... 58
Williams, Charles 46, 77
Williams, Daniel 27, 65
Williams, David 14, 48, 51, 52, 58
Williams, Edward 27, 47, 60, 65
Williams, Evan 68
Williams, Isaac 27,64
Williams, James 33, 40, 78
Williams, Jesse 49, 56
Williams, Joel 54
Williams, John . . .12, 14,24,27,32,
34, 43, 45, 48, 51,.52, 54, 56, 60, 66,
74, 77, 78
Williams, John, Jr 32,34,48
Williams, J 23
Williams, Joseph 43, 49, 54
Williams, Lawrence 54
Williams, Peter 24
Williams, Pleasant 54
William, Shadrach (Shadrack) ... 27
Williams, Thomas 17, 32, 34, 48, 54
Williams, William (Wm.) (W.).27,
43, 58, 64
Williams, William, Jr. (Wm.) 53
Williams, Zadock 54
Williamson, Alden (All.) 72
Williamson, Henry 48
Willmore, Jacob 27
Willmott, Robert 78, 84
Wills, Andrew (Andw.) 60, 65
Wills, Barnet 65
Wills, Matthew 60, 65, 72
Wills, Oscar 65
Wills, Robert (Will) 27
Wills, Samuel 82
Wills, Thomas (Thos.) 60, 65
Wills, William 60, 63, 65, 66
Wills, William, Jr 60
Wilson, Amos (Willsou) . .32, 34, 48, 54
Wilson, Andrew (Willson) 78
Wilson, Daniel 65, 77
Wilson, David 28, 33
Wilson, Edward 49,78
Wilson, George 25, 26, 68
Wilson, Henry, Sr 26
Wilson, Henry, Jr 26
Wilson, Isaac 52
Wilson, James 26, 40, 60, 77, 78
Wilson, Jeremiah 60
Wilson, John (Willson) 15,26,
33, 48, 54, 58, 65, 77, 78, 84
Wilson, John, Jr 58
Wilson, Joseph (Willson) 52
Wilson, Moses 27
Wilson, Nathaniel (Nathl.) 46,63
Wilson, Peter 77, 78
Wilson, Samuel 28, 33, 60, 63
Wilson, Thomas (Thos.)51, 52, 65, 84, 93
Wilson, William (Willson) 78
Wiman, Lewis (Lues) 60
Wimore, Frederick (Wimour) .... 40
Wimore, John (Wymore) . . . 14, 24,
40, 51, 63, 93
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List of Names
Windsor, Christopher 26,27
Winemiller, Jacob 48, 55
Winlock, Joseph 68
Winn, Adam 60, 63, 65
Winn, Daniel 65
Winn, George 65
Winn, Jesse 67
Winn, Owen (Oen) 65
Winn, Thomas 53, 65
Winn, Thomas M. (Thos.) 68
Winn, William 60, 65
Winters, Elisha 53, 60, 63
Winters, William 27
Wisdom, John 58
Wise, Adam 60
Withers, Berry 52
Withers, James 12,60,62
Withers, James, Jr 11,60
Withers, John, Sr 62
Withers, John 60, 62
Withers, Peter (Fetter) 62
Withers, Stephen (Witters)
(Steven) 60
Wolts, Christopher 65
Wood, Abraham 32, 34, 48
Wood, Ahijah 52
Wood, Amos 54
Wood, Andrew (Hood) . . .32, 34, 48, 65
Wood, Archibald (Archd.) 64
Wood, Benjamin (Benj.) 32, 34, 48
Wood, Christopher 54
Wood, George (Geo.) 48, 54
Wood, Henry 60
Wood, James 60, 67
Wood, John (Jno. ) . 15, 27, 32, 34, 48, 52
Wood, Joseph 33
Wood, Nathaniel (Nathl.) 76
Wood, Nicholas (Nichs.) 52
Wood, Richard 32,34,48
Wood, Robert (Robt.) 68
Wood, Samuel (Sammel) (Saml.)28, 62
Wood, Samuel, Jr. (Sammel) 28
Wood, William, Sr 34
Wood, William (Wm.) . . . .32, 33, 48, 54
Woodcock, Joseph 58
Woodfolk, Augustin 40
Woodfolk, Loyal (Lowyell) 52,60
Woodfolk, Saul (Soyl) 51
Woodfolk, Richard 40
Woodlay, William 78
Woods, Adam 27, 64
Woods, Ahijah 24, 43
Woods, Andrew 27
Woods, Archibald (Archd.) 27
Woods, David 27
Woods, John 27,78
Woods, Michael (Mical) 58
Woods, Peter 27
Woods, Samuel, Jr 62
Woods, Thomas 58
Woods, William 58
Woodruff, David (Woodroff ) 27
Woodruff, John (Woodroof) ... .24, 27
Woodward, Chesley 60, 72, 84
Woodward, John (Woodard) . . .65,72
Woodward, Levi 54
Wooldridge, Edmund (Woodridge)
(Edmond) 40,45
Wooldridge, Edward (Edwd.).... 52
Wooldridge, Elisha 52
Wooldridge, John (Wooldreg) . . 15, 77
Wooldridge, Josiah 43, 52
Wooldridge, Robert 52
Wooldridge, William 77, 84
Worel, Apewell 55
Workman, Daniel 55, 77
Workman, Morris (Moris) 77, 78
Worley, Caleb (C.) 60
Worley, Caleb, Jr 52
Worrel, William 40
Worrindon, Owen (Ohen) 27
Worthington, B 17
Worthington, Edward (Edwd.). 43, 58
Wothershead, Christopher
(Chris.) 63
Wrayley, James 60
Wright, James 78
Wright, John 65, 66, 72
Wright, Samuel (Saml.) 66
Wright, Thomas 60
Writedge, Thomas 11
Yager, Cornelius 6
Yager, Jacob (Yauger) . . .32, 34, 48, 78
Yager, Peter (Yawger) 49, 57, 78
Yager, Philip (Yeiger) 60
Yarbrough, John 60, 67, 78, 84
Yarnell, Jesse 84
Yates, John (Yets) 84
Yeatman, John 28
Yoacom, George (Yoocom) 58
Yoacom, Jacob (Yoocom) 58
Yoacom, John (Yocam) 26, 27
Yoacom, Matthew (Yocam) (Mat-
thias) 26,27,58
Yoacam, Samuel (Yoaham) 26
York, Elijah 54
York, Isaac 78
York, Jeremiah (Jarama) 54, 78
York, Jesse (Yeork) 84
Young, Abner 63
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Young, Ambrose 63
Young, Henry 58
Young, James 58, 60, 67, 69
Young, John 40, 53, 54, 63, 65, 87
Young, John, Jr 52
Young, Joseph 65
Young, Lawrence 52
Young, Leonard (Leo.) 40, 52, 67
Young, Lewis 52
Young, M 63
Young, Reuben 52
Young, Reuben, Jr 52
Young, Richard (Richd.). .43,45,
52,61,93
Young, Thomas (Thos.) 32, 34,
53, 90, 91
Young, William (Wm.). .. .40,51,
52, 60, 63, 65, 67
Younger, Joshua 57
Zechledge, William 58
Zimmerman, Frederick (Zimer-
man) (Fredk.) 65
Names in Petition No. 1, are not included in this Index, unless they appear
on later Petitions.
The word "List" following the number 9, refers to list of persons killed
and wounded at Boonesfort, according to Petition No. 9.
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Alleghany Mountains 1, 7, 9, 80
Askins, John 96
Augusta, West:
Model for procedure in West Fincastle 38
Bardstown :
Proposed site for sitting of Supre me Court 124
Baylor, Walker:
Trustee of Stanford 94
Beach Knobs 56
Beal, Tavener 35
Beallsborough, Nelson County 16
Bedinger, Michael:
His lands 128
Big Sandy 90, 110, 118
Bird, Captain:
Invasion of Kentucky 168
Blair, Alexander:
Trustee of Stanford 94
Blue Lick 73, 117
Bogg's Fork (of Boone's Creek) 130
Boone, Daniel 8, 49
Capture at Blue Lick 73
Request for treasury warrant for land 178
Trustee of Washington and Maysville 92, 156
Boone, Jacob:
Trustee of Maysville 156
Boone, Squire 61
Boone's Creek 118, 130
Boonesborough :
Request for a town at 48
Act to establish 52
Proposed county seat 107
Boonsfort:
Seige of 44, 45
Request from inhabitants of 48
Slaves at , 44, 49
Botetourt, Baron de:
Petition addressed to 35
Bounty land 49
Bourbon County:
Act establishing 86
Requests for division 89, 107, 108, 117, 130
Protests against division 91, 110, 119, 131
Acts for division 119
Requests for towns 91, 121, 127, 147
Requests for gristmills 144, 148, 150
Protests against gristmills 145, 146
Tobacco inspection 120, 152
Recording deeds 156
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Bourbon Courthouse:
Request for town at 121
Bowman, John 157
County Lieutenant in Lincoln County 168
Bradley, Edward:
Trustee of Boonesborough 52
Bramlett's Lick 118, 146
Brashiers, Marshem:
Trustee of Louisville 55
Brooke, G 186
Brown, J. :
Of Staunton, Virginia, a letter of 168
Brown, John:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Buchanan, James 35
Buchanan, William 104
A deposition 45
Bullitt, Alexander Scott:
Trustee of Louisville 134
Burks, Samuel 35
Bush, William:
His land 139
Cabell, Frederick 35
Cabell, Hector 35
Cabell, John, Jr 35
Cabell, Joseph, Jr 35
Cabell, Nicholas 35
Cabell, Sanders 35
Cabell, William, Jr 35
Calendar of State Papers 2
Calloway, Richard:
Trustee at Boonesborough 51, 52
Campbell, John:
Request to repeal act establishing Louisville 72
Tobacco inspection in Jefferson County 174
Campbellstown, Jefferson County 16
Cartright, Robert 50
Casey, Peter:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Caveats 76, 77, 124
Chaplaine, Abraham:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Charlestown :
Request for town at 100
Act to establish 100
Charlton, Edward:
Notary at Williamsburg 45
Cherokees 36, 37, 48
Christian, Turner:
Party to law suit 163
Christian, William:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Claims, law for settling 171
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Clark, George Rogers:
References to 39, 40, 43, 100, 157, 159, 168, 186, 187, 188
Requests for pay for services 57, 178
A memorial 172
His papers 174
Lands for his soldiers 60
Clark's Run 84
Cleveland, Eli:
His lands 132
Collins, Henry:
Tory landholder 70
Colonial Governor, petition addressed to 35
Commissions, military 42
Commissioners :
For Western accounts 159, 171
Court of 74
To settle claims 100
Act to create 102
Act to extend powers of 102
Congress, Continental 38, 64
Conn, Notley:
Trustee of Hopewell 128
Connolly, John:
Tory land-owner 54, 72
Constitution 62, 64
Continental Congress 38, 68
Convention, petitions addressed to 36, 38
Conway, Miles W. :
Trustee of Washington and Charlestown 92, 100
Counties, division of:
Request for, in Fincastle County 36, 38
Reqnest for, in Kentucky County 55
Request for, in Bourbon County 89, 107, 108, 117, 130
Request for, in Fayette County 85, 107, 114, 130
Request for, in Lincoln County 84, 141
Court, General, of Virginia 12
Courts :
Request for Supreme Court 65, 66, 67
Act to establish 66
Acts to amend.. 98, 136
Request for removal 124
Protest against removal 135
Docket of 124
Courts, county 41, 57
Cowan, John:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Craig's Creek 105
Crow's Sinking Spring 84
Crow's Station 159
Cumberland, Falls of:
Request for sixty thousand acres of land at 35
Currency, paper, depreciation of 64, 154
Danville, seat of Supreme Court 121. 124
Davis, John 35
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Deeds :
Request to extend time for recording 156
Act to extend time 157
Dick's River 84
Delawares 40
Detroit :
Kentucky captives in 46, 169
District of Kentucky:
Act to establish 66
Douglass, James 138
Dry Run 75
Dumfries 185
Duncan, James:
Trustee of Hopewell 128
Dunmore, Lord:
His land policy 7, 36
Dutch Station, near Louisville 157
Eagle Creek 86
Edmund, John, Clerk of Bourbon County 105
Education :
Lands for public 69, 137
Interest in 70
Transylvania Seminary 72, 112, 160, 161, 162
Edwards, John:
Clerk of Bourbon County 118, 120, 145
Trustee of Hopewell 128
Elections :
Difficulty of attendance 109
Method at Boonesborough 50
Elkhorn Creek 61
Emerson, Ash:
Employe of Lytle 74, 75
Emigrants on Ohio River 153
Ervin, Mary:
Request to waive escheat 96
Act to waive 97
Escheat :
Of lands 69, 70, 72
Location of lands 138
Act for 71, 137
Estill, James:
Trustee of Boonesborough 51
Express to Pittsburgh 42
Falls of the Ohio:
Requests of inhabitants at (see Louisville, Jefferson
County) 53, 54, 56
Fayette County:
Requests for division 85, 107, 114, 130
Protest against division 116
Acts to divide 86, 116
Tobacco inspection 98, 102, 105, 113, 132, 139
For town at Lexington 60, 106
Complaints about land 66
Concerning clerks 169
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Ferries :
Requests to establish:
Across Kentucky River 53, 87, 88, 89
Across Cumberland River 170
Acts to establish 53, 88
Fincastle County:
Its extent 39
Fincastle, West:
Request of inhabitants for jurisdiction of Virginia and es-
tablishing of county 36, 38
Floyd, John:
His survey 61
Trustee of Louisville 55
Fox, Arthur:
Trustee of Washington and Maysville 92, 156
Frankfort :
Tobacco inspection by James Wilkinson 171
Garnett, Thomas 185
Garrard, James:
Surveyor of Bourbon County 104
Trustee of Hopewell 128
Gass, David 51
Georgetown, Woodford County 16
Gilmore, John:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Gloster Town 174
Grant, John:
Trustee of Charlestown 100
Green, Willis:
Clerk of Lincoln County 85, 88, 94
Greenup, Christopher:
Clerk of Supreme Court 97
Gristmills :
Requests for 144, 148, 150
Protests against 145, 146
Gutridge, John:
Trustee of Washington 92
Hains, Benjamin 35
Hains, Joseph 35
Hamilton, Lieutenant Governor :
Instigation of Indians 45
His capture 186
Hammond's Creek 56
Hancock, Stephen 51
Hand, Edward:
Brigadier General 43
Harman, Thomas 35
Harmon's Lick 84
Harris, Edward 35
Harris, John » 35
Harris, Thomas 35
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Harrod, James:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Harrodsburg:
Request of inhabitants for jurisdiction of Virginia 36, 38
Request for town at 82
Act to create (see Lincoln County) 83
Hart, Nathaniel:
Complaints against 49, 50
Hay, William 164
Henderson, David 89
Henderson, Richard:
Complaints against 49
Reference to petition from 35
Henderson, William:
Trustee of Lexington 62
Hening, Statutes:
Authority for acts quoted in this book 2
Henry, Patrick 3
Herod's Station:
Place of Hamilton's captivity 187
Hickman's Creek 87, 99
Hines, Andrew:
Trustee of Louisville 55
Hinkson's Fork of Licking River 144, 145, 150, 176
Hite, Abraham 35
Kite, Abraham, Jr 35
Hite, Isaac 35
Hite, Isaac, Jr 35
Hite, Joseph 35
Holder, John 51
Holder's Landing 139
Holloway, James:
Services in Revolution 92
Holston River 104
Company raised on 168
Hopewell :
Request for town at 127
Act to establish 128
Changed to Paris 148
Hopkins, James 35
Hopkins, William 35
Hopson, Henry 35
Hord, William:
His lands 170
Hornsby, Joseph 35
Horsley, John 35
Horsley, Robert 35
Horsley, William 35
Howard's Creek 86, 139
Hudson, William 188
Hughs, John 35
Illinois :
Request of claimant to land in.. 151
Indians :
Depredations 41, 62, 85, 93, 109, 153
Prisoners 165
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Innes, Harry : 35
To present request for separation from Virginia 81
Innes, Hugh 35
Innes, James 35
Attorney-General 163
Innes, Robert 35
Irwin, Will:
Clerk of Mason County- 119
Irwin, Joseph 176
Jack's Creek 88
Jefferson, Thomas:
Committee in House of Delegates 3
Jefferson County:
Complaint about land 66
Request for separation from Virginia 79
For division of Kentucky County (seeLouisville and Falls of
the Ohio) 55
Shipments of tobacco from 175
Johnston, William:
Clerk of Jefferson County 134
Johnson, Robert, Surveyor (see facsimile map) 62,72, 115
Jones, John Gabriel 37, 39, 40
Journal :
Of House of Burgesses 1
Of Convention 1
Of House of Delegates 2
Kanawha :
Battle of the Great 37
Kaskaskia 57
Kennedy, John:
Trustee of Booaesborough 52
Kennedy, William:
Trustee of Harro'dsburg 83
Kentucky :
Separation from Virginia . 27, 62, 66, 78, 79, 82, 91, 121, 122, 141, 165
Kentucky County:
Request of inhabitants for defense, Act creating 41
Development of salt springs 43
Relief in land troubles 45,62
Request for division of county 55
Tobacco inspection 128
Act for division of county 57
Kentucky District:
Act creating 66
Request of inhabitants for circuit courts 76
For settlement of claims by county courts 100
To increase places for Supreme Court 124
Protest against removal of Supreme Court 134
To give Supreme Courts power to establish tobacco
inspection 129
To amend act for separation from Virginia 140
To extend time for registration of survey 164
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Kiccapoos 40
Kimburlin, John:
His lands 177
Kirkham, Captain Samuel:
Indian scout 177
Lamb, William:
Trustee of Washington 92
Land laws:
References to 7, 8, 36, 51, 59, 60, 63
Acts 47, 48, 52
Amendments 48, 77
Land office 36, 46, 47, 60, 63
Lanier, James:
Trustee of Hopewell 128
Lapsley, Samuel:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Lawrence's Creek 100
Lee, Henry:
Trustee of Washington, Charlestown, and Maysville.92, 100, 156
Leestown 61
Lee's Town Bottom 171
Lexington Station 56
Lexington :
Request for town at 60, 106
Act to establish town 62
Request for corporate body 106
Request for added powers 143
Act to grant added powers 144
Licking River 61
Navigation of 144, 145, 146, 148, 150
Limestone Settlement 62, 89, 92, 108, 110, 117
Lincoln County:
Complaint of inhabitants over land troubles 66
Request for laws on marriage, etc 68
Request for towns at Harrodsburg and Stanford 82, 93
Request for division of county 84, 141
Act to divide 85
Litigation, extent of 64, 76, 77
Little, James:
Trustee of Hopewell 128
Logan, Benjamin:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Lands in Lincoln County 93
Trustee of Stanford 94
Regarding Indian prisoners 167
Logan, John:
Trustee of Stanford 94
Long knives 40
Louisa River (Kentucky) 38
Louisville :
Request for town at 53
Act to establish town 55
Request to repeal act creating town 72
Act to repeal 73
Request for trustees living in town 133
Act to add trustees 134
(See Falls of the Ohio and Jefferson County.)
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Luttrell, John:
Complaint against 49
Lyne, Edmund 101
Trustee of Washington 92
Machir, John:
Trustee of Charlestown 100
Madin, George 50
Madison, James:
Committee in House of Delegates 3
Madison County:
Act to create 85
Request for division 107
Marriage :
Request for civil 69
Act for civil 69
Martin, Captain John, Indian scout 51, 177
Mason County:
Act to establish 119
Maxwell, John:
A deposition 61
Maysville :
Request for town at 155
Act to establish town 156
McAfee, James:
Claim for supplies 171
McConnell's Station 56
McCowwald, William:
Trustee of Lexington 62
McCraw, Samuel 168
McDonel, John 35
McDowell, Samuel:
President of Convention for Separation 141
McKee, Alexander 70
McKenzie, Robert:
Tory landholder 70
Megginson, William 35
Mercer County:
Act to create 85
Meriwether, George:
Trustee of Louisville 55
Milford, George:
Trustee of Maysville 156
Milford:
Act to create town in Madison County 128
Militia 42, 55, 56, 68
Enumerations 91, 111, 114
Mississippi River 6, 46, 176
Mitchell, Ignatius:
Site of Charlestown 100
Mitchell, William:
Trustee of Lexington 62
Monongahala 176
Moore, James F. :
Affidavit 159
Morrison, Major 176
Morris, Richard:
Party to law suit 163
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Mosby, Robert:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Moyers :
Settlement on State Creek 132
Muster, general 56
Muter, George:
To present request for separation from Virginia 81
Navigation of Licking River 144, 145, 146, 148, 150
Nelson County:
Request for separation from Virginia 79
New Market:
Mercer County 16
Noe, John:
Justice of Peace in Harlan County 188
Norborne, Baron de Botetourt 35
Obache (Wabash) 57
Opost 40
Orphans, request for law to care for 68
Paint Lick 84
Pamphlet on " Public Good" 64
Parberry , James 103
Paris :
Act to change from Hopewell 148
Patterson, R 61
Patterson, Robert:
Trustee of Lexington 62
Pauling, Henry:
Trustee of Stanford 94
Payne, Edward 115
Pendleton, John:
Auditor Public Accounts 163, 171, 178
Petitioning, the process 2
Petitions, references to some not in this book 16, 35
Pittsburgh 42, 43
Pope, William:
Trustee of Louisville 55
Powell, Levin:
Trustee of Boonesborough 52
Powell's Valley 36
Quartermaster of Illinois Department 157
Quit rents, attitude of settlers to 6
Randle, Abel 35
Randell, Chilton '. 185
Rankin, Robert:
Trustee of Washington 92, 100
Rations:
Bill for and price 167
Ravin Creek 86
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Rawlings, Pemberton 51, 52
Religion, prevailing forms 69
Reserve lands for soldiers in Lincoln County 141
Richmond :
Capital of Virginia 2, 123, 164
Roads:
Great Kanawha to Lexington 19
Limestone to Lexington 103
Winchester to Fort Pitt 177
Robinson's Fork of Boone's Creek 130
Rockcastle River 84
Ross, Philip 35
Ruddle's Mill 120
Russell, William 115, 176
Saint Asaph's 179
Salt:
Development of springs 43
Acts for conservation of 44
Claim for sale of 162
Salt Spring of Licking 61
Sandy Creek 86
School, public:
Escheated lands for 69
Interest in 70
Law for escheated lands 137
Scott, General Charles 105
Scouts, claims for service 177
Separation of Kentucky from Virginia:
Account of 27
Suggested 62,66,78,91
Requested 79
Protest against 121
Acts for 82, 122, 141
Titles after separation 165
Severn, Ebenezer 35
Seymour, Felix 35
Shannon, William:
Claim as Quartermaster to Illinois Department 157
Act to settle claim 160
Shelby, Isaac:
Trustee of Stanford 94, 101
Silver Creek 118
Simon, Joseph:
Partner of John Campbell 72
Sinclair, M. P 186
Slaughter, George:
Trustee of Louisville 55
Slaves :
At Boonsfort 44, 49
Brought to Kentucky without notice 126
Act regarding 127
Provisions concerning in will 183
Smith, Charles, Jr.:
Trustee of Charlestown 100, 128
Smith, James:
Early explorations, 1767-1773 154
Smith, John:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
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South, John 51
Stanford :
Request for town at 93
Act to create town 94
Stanwix, Treaty of Fort 37
State Creek 132
Staunton, Virginia 167
Steel, Andrew:
Trustee of Lexington 62
Steel, William:
Trustee of Lexington 62
Stone, William 185
Stone Lick Creek 113
Stoner's Fork of Licking River 108, 110, 144, 145, 148, 150
Strays, request for laws 69
Stuart, Henry, journey down Ohio 176
Sullivan, James:
Trustee of Louisville 55
Supreme Court:
Request to remove 12, 124
Protest against removal 135
(See Courts.)
Surveys :
Request for extension of time to record 162, 164
Act to extend time 164, 165, 176
Tate's Creek 128
Taxes:
Tobacco used for 102, 105
Payable in specie only 123
Tax on clerks of court 170
Act regarding 170
Taylor, Edmund:
Trustee of Boonesborough 52
Taylor, Emanuel 35
Taylor, Richard 101
Taylor, Samuel:
Trustee of Harrodsburg 83
Thomas, Cornelius 35
Thomas, James, Jr 35
Thomas, John 35
Thornton, Thomas, of Fredericksburg:
His will 182
Thruston, Buckner:
Trustee of Louisville 134
Thruston, Charles:
Trustee of Boonesborough 52
Thurston, John 174
Tobacco :
Requests for inspection:
In Fayette County 98, 102, 105, 113, 132, 139
In Bourbon County 120, 152
At Tate's Creek 128
At Frankfort 171
Protest against inspection 129
Acts to establish inspection 99, 120
Use for taxes 102, 105
Use for currency 103, 172
Shipments from Jefferson County 175
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Todd estate 95, 142
Act to create trustees for gg
Amendment 143
Todd, j. N ; ; ; '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. ei
Todd, Jane, widow of John Todd 95 142
Todd, John:
Trustee of Lexington 62
Todd, John, Jr. :
Trustee of Louisville 55
Todd, Levi:
Clerk of Fayette County 86, 87, 169, 170
Todd, Mary Owen 95
Todd, Robert 139
Executor of estate 95; 142
Tories :
Law to escheat lands 137
Cases of men 54, 69, 70, 72
Towns, request for establishment of, at:
Boonesborough 48
Louisville 53
Lexington 60, 106
Harrodsburg 82
Stanford 93
Washington 91
Charlestown 100
Bourbon Courthouse 121
Hopewell 127
Paris 148
Maysville ; 155
(See respective towns.)
Towns :
Lists of trustees 50, 51, 52, 55, 62, 83, 92, 94, 100, 128, 134, 156
Transylvania Company 8
Characterization of policy 36
Transylvania Seminary:
List of trustees 72
Act to grant escheated lands 72
Request for surveyor's fees 112
To secure fund by lottery 160
Act to grant lottery right 161
Request for reduction of trustees 161
Act to grant reduction 162
Trigg, Stephen:
Trustee of Louisville 55
Trustees:
Of escheated lands for school 69
For towns 50, 51, 52, 54, 62, 71, 83, 92, 94, 100, 128, 137, 156
Turner, Joseph 35
Unity Station 56
Vincennes (Saint Vincents) 57
Van Meter, Garret 35
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Waller, Edward 92
Trustee of Washington and Hopewell 128
Wallace, Caleb 160
Warberton, Benjamin 35
Warberton, John 35
Warren, Thomas:
Trustee of Charlestown 100
Warwick, Lincoln County 16
Washington County line 56
Washington :
Request for town 91
Act to create 92
Welch's Fork of Boone's Creek 130
West, Thomas:
Trustee of Hopewell 128
West Indies 171
Wilkinson, Gary 35
Wilkinson, James:
Trustee of Louisville 134
Request for tobacco inspection 171
Williams, Captain John 186
Williamsburg, capital of Virginia 2
William and Mary College, too distant from Kentucky 23, 112
Wilson's Station 84
Woodford County:
Act to establish 116
Young, Richard:
Justice of Fayette County 115, 116
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