Ahnentafel #368 - James Maulding

James Maulding

Born: ca. 1725 Caroline Co., Virginia
Died: 1797 Logan Co., Kentucky

Buried: Unknown

Married: Caty Tyler, ca. 1753 in Caroline Co., Virginia

Occupation: Farmer, Judge

The Tennessee Mauldings scattered all over Middle and West Tennessee as well as into Western Kentucky. Each branch of the family had many children, some of whom married into some of the most prominent families of the Red River section.  The men in the Mauldin family were keen sighted and made money rapidly. They acquired vast landed estates, moving with the progress of migration of their day. [Red River Settlements, p. 48]

Records:

1777 - Oct. - Nov. - George Rogers Clark's diary - The following extracts include the entries made by Clark on his way to Williamsburg, after leaving the Wilderness Road:

Oct. 14 - left Capt. Pawling; marched 15 miles.

Oct. 15 - crossed Powell's river; marched 20 miles; camped on the south of side of Powell's mountain.

Oct. 16 - Go to the 'rye cocks' - 9 miles.

Oct. 17 - [Got] to Blackamoore's - 6 miles


Oct. 18 - Parted with the company; lodged at More's fort - 20 miles.

Oct. 19 - Lodged at Capt. Kincaid's 22 miles.

Oct. 20 - Crossed Clinch mountain; met Mr. Maulding; and heard from my friends; lodged at Col. Campbell's - 24 miles.

Oct. 21 - Lodged at Jasper Kindser's; got my horse shod on the way; breakfast and feed, 1s, 3d - 22 miles.

Oct. 22 - Cloudy morning, no rain; lodged at Sawyer's; expenses 1s, 3d - 28 miles.

Oct. 23 - Falling in company with Capt. Campbell, an agreeable companion, we travelled 33 miles; lodged at Cook's; poor fare; expenses 6s, 6d.

Oct. 24 - Sold my gun to Mr. Love [for] 15 pounds; swapped horses with I. Love; gave 7 pounds, 10 s, boot; lodged at H. Neelie's - 25 miles.

Oct. 25 - Received a letter from Captain Bowman, informing me that he had an order of court to carry salt to Kentucky; . . . lodged at Botetourt - 25 miles; 412 miles from Harrodsburg.

Possible route of George Rogers Clark:


1776-1781 - James Maulding is credited with having given civil service during the Revolutionary War along with sons, Ambrose and Morton, who were also engaged in this war. In 1777 James and the family were living in eastern Tennessee, then part of the state of North Carolina. 

1777 - Dec. 18 - Washington County, Tennessee created by an act of the North Carolina assembly.  The county was laid out in districts by the county courts . . . which . . . appointed three 'honest and intelligent persons' in each district to assess the property in their district for the purpose of collecting property tax.  In the first district of some fifty-five taxpayers, James Maulden, Josiah Hoskins and John Higgans were appointed this taks. Listed are Morton Maulding, James Maulding & Wilsons with thos taxpayers enumerated on each side of them: John Grimes, [Mort]on (?) Maulden, William flanary; John Higgans, James Maulden & Edward Sweeten; Ning Hoskins, Ricd. Willson, Benjamin Willson, & John Davis. [Creekmore, Pollyanna. Early East Tennessee Taxpayers, Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1980]

1778 -  Nov. 24 - Wautaga Co., North Carolina - November Term 1778. Met at the dwelling house of Matthew Talbert. 

Danl. Kennedy, John Nave, Benja. Cobb, Solomon Smith, Saml. Henry, Jonas Little, Caleb Odull, Jas. Hollis, Ed. Smith, Hum. Gibson, Jas. Pearce, John Moore, Matt Little, Jas. Mauldin, Julius Robertson, James Henry and William Asher, jurymen. [White, Katherine. The Story of the Battle, with Sketches of the American Soldiers Who Took Part, Dayton, VA: Joseph Ruebush Company, 1924]

1779 - Ambrose Maulding, Morton Maulding, Josiah Hoskins and Samuel Mason accompanied Thomas Kilgore to Western (Tennessee) North Carolina. On the banks of the Red River, these pioneers helped build Kilgore's Station named after Thomas Kilgore, who in 1778 had blazed this wilderness area alone and returning east to secure title to this property.  [Goodspeed History of Robertson Tennessee, Columbia, TN: Woodward & Stinson Printing Company, 1886]

1780 - moved to Logan Co., Kentucky - "Finley says that in the Fall of 1780, James Maulding came with his family and settled on Red River southeast of Adairville and called the settlement Maulding's or Red River Old Station.  Finley says this station was 'not very far from Kentucky.' (p. 17, Bk. 1)  It was in what was then the state of North Carolina but is now Tennessee. This station was broken up by Indians in 1782.  The Maulding family returned and in 1783 or 1784 made a permanent settlement on Red River in what is Logan County."

Historic Sites of Kentucky, p. 238 - #1137 Maulding's Fort (Russellville, 10 miles south, KY 663, Logan County)  Site of stockade built in 1780 on the Red River as protection against Indians. Named for James Maulding family, immigrants from Virginia and leaders in Russellville's early development. Morton Maulding was the first representative of Logan County to Kentucky legislature, 1794.  In 1782, Indians compelled a temporary abandonment of the fort."

Ambrose and Morton a year or two later (1780-81) and constructed Maulding's Station. This station is said to have been the second settlement in the present Robertson County, Tennessee.  [Goodspeed History of Robertson Tennessee, Columbia, TN: Woodward & Stinson Printing Company, 1886]

1780 - Cumberland Compact - settlers on the Cumberland drafted the compact.  This document provided a "form of orderly government . .  that location of land should be regulated; protection and provision were made for the children and widows of the men who should die or be killed in fighting the Indians; and a basis for military defense was formulated."  This Compact was signed by some two hundred and fifty settlers including Ambrose Mauldin, Morton Mauldin, Nicolas Tramal and Robert Goodloe.  

1783 - Sumner Co., Tennessee - Because of an almost incessant warfare with the Indians the court of Triers had held but few sessions since its creation two years before and of these no official record had been kept. It now began to sit regularly, the first recorded session being  held on January 7, 1783.  At this time the following judges were present to wit: James Robertson, George Freeland, Thomas Molloy, Isaac Lindsey, David Roundsevell, Heydon Wells, James Maulding, Ebenezer Titus, Samuel Benton and Andrew Ewing. At a second meeting held on January 18, Isaac Bledsoe and Capt. John Blackmore appeared and took the oath of office, completing the twelve, and thus constituting a full bench.  

1783 - April 1 -  Sumner Co., Tennessee - court minutes record "motion made ordered . . . that a road be opened from Nashborough to Mansco's Station [Mansker's], and thence to Maulding's Station."  Capt. Mansco [Mansker] and Moat [Morton] Maulding were to lay off the road between Mansker's and Mauldings. 

1783 - Davidson County, Tennessee - James Maulding land grant #424, 640 acres on the middle fork of the Red River. 

1790 - Oct. 21 - Petition of Lincoln Co., VA [state of Kentucky] residents to create a new county in the vicinity of Logan County, Kentucky. 

Number 74 - To the Honourable the General Assembly of the State of 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 adjacent doth Respectfully shew. --

That your Petitioners find themselves sensibly agrrieved 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 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. -- 

Endorsement on back of petition: 21st Oct. 1790 - Refd. to Props. Reasonable - (repd.)

Signed by: Elijah Allen, Zacharias Askey / Ashby?, Jesse Atkinson / Adkinson 

Jno. Baker, William Barker, Humphrey Barnett, Joseph Beard, Benj. Bickerstaff, Thos. Boone, Saml. Bradley, Gasper Butcher

Christopher Carpenter, Hennary Carpenter, George Chapman, Thomas Chapman, Absalom Chisom, Elisha Chisom, John Chisom, Thos. Clarke, Elisha Clary, William Coats, James Cook, Senior, James Cook, Junior, William Cook, James Cooper

John Diar, Edward Dickerson, Griffen Dickerson, Jacob Donelson, Julis Dirggars, James Dromgoole

John Elim

Elisha Flanery, Ralph Frazer

William Gates, Hennary Gherhart, Peter Gibbs, John Gilbert, Richard Glover, James Green, Jesse Green, William Grissum, Alexander Guffey

Benjamin Hardin, Samuel Hardin, Robert Haregrove, William Harrison, Abijah Herrinton, Charles Herrington, Elisha Herrington, William Herrington, William Hood, John Hostitler, Elihu Howard, John Howard, John Huffstudler, John Huntor

Edward Jarvis, George Geffison / Jefferson, John Jones, Stephen Jones

Benjamin Lamar, Samuel Lamar, Gally Lemare, Samuel Loggins, Aquilliah Low

Dorsey Mason, Isaac Mason, John Mason, Samuel Mason, Thomas Mason

Ambrose Mauldin

James Mauldin

West Mauldin

Andrew Miller - is this a son of Michael Miller, brother of John Miller and Mary Miller who married Andrew Crissel, Sr.? 

James Milles / Mills, James Morris, Thos. Moseley, Richard Mauloch, Daniel McDuff, Andrew McFaden, William McFadin, James McGill, James McClain / McLean, Thos. McMullen, John McMurry

Micall / Michael Odom, John O'Neal, Jonathan O'Neal

Parmar / Parmoinus / Parmenus Palmer, Joshua Powell, Nelson Puntiney

John Reborn / Raburn, John Reburn / Raburn Sr., James Riley, Obediah Russell

Val. / Valentine Sevier, James Smeathers, Briant Sovarnts, B. Station, Chalres Staton / Station, Abraham Stewart, Jas. Stuart / James Stewart, William Stewart, Elihugh / Elihu Stricklin

Elkin Taylor, James Tarrell / Terrill, Andrew Thomas, John Tilley, Thomas Tilley, Peter Tylor / Tyler

Webb Vance, Christopher Vorris / Voorhies

John Walker, William Walles / Wallis, George Ward, Thomas Watkins, John White, John Williams

1796 - Nov. 16 - Frederick Davis, Davidson Co., Tennessee to John Deaderick & George M. Deaderick, $500, tract on north side Cumberland River on dry fork of Bledsoe's Creek, beg. at northwest corner of James Mauldin, said tract, originally granted to Marmaduke Scott by patent no. 362 & conveyed to Davis. Wit: Stephen Cantwell, F.B. Lakington (?).

In the early years, by the Maulding family, consisting of James Maulding,  one of the two first settlers of the county, and his four sons, Ambrose, Morton, Richard and Wesley. They were political leaders in the beginning years and held a number of local and state offices.  Ambrose was one of the first magistrates and Wesley was the first sheriff. Some years after the death of James Maulding, three of his sons left the county and only Wesley remained until his death in 1832. [Coffman, p. 25]

Children: 
Morton b. 1754, d. ca. 1820, sometimes called Molton or Martin.  He served in the 23rd Regiment, "Cornstalk Militia" of Kentucky in 1792 for which he received a number of land grants in Kentucky. Morton was the first representative of Logan County in the Kentucky legislature.  Morton left Logan County in 1808 and lived first in Christian County, then in Livingston County where he died in 1820 or 1821. He married Mary (--?--) date unknown. 

• Laodicea b. ca. 1775 md. 1) Ragland Langston & 2) William Moore 1833, Langston children: Mary, Agnes, Jackson Perry Carroll, Joseph Joh, Arriam / Aviana, Ragland Morton, Mangham Ephraim & Walter
• Mary Catherine b. ca. 1788 md. Pitts Lynn 1804, child: Mariah Lynn
• Frances / Sinia md. Joel Moore 1807, children unknown
• Charlotte b. ca. 1793 md. 1) James Adams 1811, 2) William Pyle Jr. 1821 children: Mary Adams, Agnes Adams, Samuel Gove Pyle, Maxelline Pyle, Theresa Pyle, Elmire Pyle
• Govey md. 1) Jane Adams 1815, 2) Winnifred Cartwright 1817, probable child: Frances S. 
• James B. md. Polly Synn 1823, children unknown

Ambrose

Frances b. ca. 1759 aka Frankie md. 1) Nicholas Trammel ca. 1778, who died in the defense of Nashville in 1784, & 2) Zachary Askey before 1820

• Nicholas Trammell II b. ca. 1780, d. 1856 md. 1) Sarah (--?--) & 2) Mary Sadberry.  Children by Sarah: Nathaniel, Philip, Robert, Henry & Nancy.  Children by Mary: Sarah Jane & Nicholas III
• Morton Askey b. ? d. 1831 md. Lucinda Hill, child: Harrison

Richard Tyler b. ca. 1765, d. 1835 md. Elizabeth (--?--).  Richard was a captain in the "Cornstalk Militia" in 1792.  He moved his family to Henderson County, Kentucky and then to southern Illinois where he served in the militia between 1810 and 1813. Richard eventually moved his family back to Tennessee where he was living as late as 1830. 

• Daniel
• Claiborne
• James b. ca. 1774 md. Mary Berry ca. 1794 children: Wesley, Lucinda, Littleberry, William Poe, Elihu, Exar Jane, James 
• Tyler b. between 1784-1794
• Sarah/Sally b. 1791, d. 1840 md. Bartholomew Stewart 1809, children: Elizabeth, Mary, Montgomery, Henry Taylor, Frances, Bartholomew, Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, William Arnold, Robert Weakley
• son b. ca. 1795, probably died in infancy
• Prestly / Presley b. ca. 1805

Wesley / West b. ca. 1771, d. 1832 md. Selah Barker 1793. Wesley was appointed the first sheriff of Logan County in 1792. Feeling that the sheriff should have a suitable house in which to live the citizens assisted in the erection of a home known as the Cedar House. Finley says it had two rooms above, two rooms below and a cellar and was 'the most commodious and elegant in the Green River country.' Here Wesley presided as host while sheriff and it was in the nature of an inn where travelers and important visitors were entertained.  It was located on the hill near the forks of the Bowling Green and Franklin roads at the east end of the town of Russellville." [Coffman, p. 30]  By the year 1807, fewer than one hundred families were living within the town of Russellville. An election to select Trustees for the town was held, and the following persons were voted:  Richard, Tyler & West Maulding.  

According to census records West and Sarah were the parents of seven sons and four daughters.  His family left Logan County after 1830, possibly moving to Texas with the Trammels and other members of the Maulding clan. 

Jane md. William Barker

Mary md. probably Isaac Whyte, not verified, children listed in Isaac Whyte's will April 5, 1814, Logan Co., Kentucky: 

• Daniel
• Thornton
• Benjamin
• Samuel
• Polly

Revised 8/26/2018