Book Purge - History of Scott County, Virginia

Locataion of Scott County

Addington, Robert. History of Scott County, Virginia, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002. 

Originally published in 1932.

p. 1 Some Important Dates in Scott County History

• 1749-50 - Dr. Thomas Walker and companions visit Cumberland Gap and adjacent regions.
• 1763 - Treaty in which France gave up to England all claim to the mainland east of the Mississippi River. 
• 1769 - Danile Boone passes through Big Moccasin Gap on his way to Kentucky.
• Uriah Stone, Casper Mansker, John Rains, and Abraham & Isaac Bledsoe pass through Big Moccasin Gap to Kentucky. 
• Thomas McCulloch made the first settlement within the territory of Scott County near Fort Houston, on Big Moccasin Creek.
• 1770 - The Long Hunters pass through Big Moccasin Gap on hunting expeditions.
• Peter Livingston settled on the North Fork of the Holston at the mouth of Livingston Creek.
• 1771 - Silas Enyart settled on Little Moccasin Creek.
• 1772 - James Green settled near the mouth of Stony Creek.
• Patrick Porter settled on the west side of Fall Creek, near Osborne's Ford.

Book Purge - Kentucky / North Carolina

Theiss, Nancy. Oldham County Live at the River's Edge, Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010.

Richard Taylor

p. 10 Commodore Richard Taylor was certainly one of the most distinguished pioneers and early citizens of Oldham County. Born in Orange County, Virginia, the commodore married twice and had six sons and five daughters. Taylor was comissioned as a captain in the navy during the Revolutionary War in 1775. He was wounded twice, in the knee and thigh, and retired from active duty in 1781. His vessel, the Tartar, was engaged in battle with an English schooner when he received his first wound (the thing). In November 1781, he was commondore of the Patriot in another battle with an English cruiser just outside Chesapeake Bay. The following description of the battle scene was written by Mr. ANderson, who worked with Commodore Taylor and collected historical records, according to Lucien Rule's Pioneering in Masonry:

The sea was calm and the breeze insufficient to manipulate his vessel. Captain Taylor, therefore, determined to attack the Englishmen in open boas and board and capture her by a hand to hand fight. As his boats approached the enemy, they were the target for volley after volley from the guns of the British, but without damage to any of them. The American seamen were enthusiastic and felt that victory was within their grasp, when one of Captain Taylor's sailors, making mock of the British fire, exclaimed, "Why don't you elevate your mettle?"  This hint to elevate the

Book Purge - History of Shelby County, Kentucky

Willis, George. History of Shelby County, Kentucky, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, 1993.

p. 35 Note - Up until the Civil War many old residents dated all happenings from "the night the stars fell." The meteoric shower which so startled all the people of this section and the State at large and so terrorized not alone the superstitious and uninformed, occurred in 1831. [November 12-13, 1833]. The old fashion blacks left over from the Civil War, when in care of the juvenile whites wound up their grave yard stories around the kitchen fireplace in the late evenings with tales of the "night the stars fell." Mr. L.C. Willis, the veteran lawyer, during the famous campaign of 1896 when all the "fixed" stars of deocracy seemed "slipping used to refer to the Carlisle's, Lindsays's, et al, as the "Pleiades," and then tell the story of the mountaineer, who on the  "night the stars fell,' rushed out in his night clothes, found his wife on her knees in front of their little cabin, and after viewing the awful phenomenon called to her, "Pray Ol' WOman, pray hard. I'll step around back, and if the seven stars has slipped, we're gone to hell, shore."  That the phenomenon was general throughout the State is further evidenced by a stroy that Judge Lawrence Anderson, of Graves County, quotes his grandfather, a county physician as elling. The latter

Dad's Notebook No. 10, Part 2

Anderson, Viginia. Pucketts, Vaughans, Harlans, Meeks & Allied Families, Wayne County, Illinois, 1988. 

Our earliest known Meeks ancestor was William Meeks, who came from England, according to the journal of a great grandson, Priddy Meeks (1795-1886). Two of William Meek's sons were William Jr. and John. We are descended from William Meeks, Jr., who married Molly Nolin / Nolan.  We do not have definite dates for the birth and marriage of William Jr., but it is thought that he was born around 1730 and married about 1750. He may have died in Greenville District, S.C.   There is a bill of sale in Greenville District, SC, Deek Book D, p. 359 from Wm. Meeks to his son Athe Meeks - 7 Jan. 1797. I have no record that William Jr. accompanied his children to Kentucky, so he may have died in South Carolina .

The children of William Jr. & Molly (Nolin) Meeks are believed to have all been born in Allens Creek, Hanover Co., VA. Their children are as follows:

1. Priddy Meeks, b. ca. 1751 md. Elizabeth Denny (our ancestors)
2. John Meeks b. ca. 1753 md. Elizabeth Walker
3. Susanna Meeks b. ca. 1755 md. Paul Meecham
4. Athe Meeks b. ca. 1756, md. Margaret Snead (parents of Priddy Meeks, who wrote

Notebooks - Kentucky #7

Brookes-Smith Joan. Index for Old Kentucky Surveys & Grants, no imprint, ca. 1974

It was on 16 June, 1774, when James Harrod and his party of pioneer settlers reached the plateau between the Salt and Kentucky Rivers in the heart of a land that would one day be called Kentucky. Physically exhausted from their long trip down the Ohio and up the Kentucky River and fearful of the ever present danger from roving bands of Indians, they gave no thought to the restless discontent of their counterparts who lived along the Eastern seaboard. Uppermost in their minds was survival.

Acutely aware that they had penetrated deep within enemy territory, they immediately set about laying out Harrod's Town. . . . 

They were followed shortly by Daniel Boone, Benjamin Logan, John Floyd, Simon Kenton and numerous other pioneer leaders. Their greatest enemy, or so they believed was the Indian. They could not have known that Fate was already laying the groundwork that would lead the Eastern seaboard revolutionary and the Western pioneer to a common goal, a goal to establish a permanent home which was destined to erupt into a long and vicious legal war. 

Unfortunately, many of the earliest settlers believing that just to settle the land was all that was necessary for ownership delayed too long the registration of their surveys and claims. Apparently

Ahnentafel #895 - Nancy (--?--)

Nancy (--?--)

Some genealogical notes call her Nancy Price, others indicate that Mary Price was Samuel's first wife and Nancy Barnes was his second. There is one genealogy that calls her Dorcas Nancy (Barnes) (Price) Hocker, wife of Philip Hocker.  Convoluted to say the least. 

Born: 1754, Frederick Co., Maryland

Died: after 1815

Buried: unknown

Married: 1783 Montgomery Co., Maryland Samuel Hocker as his second wife. 

Records:

1781 - Jan. 12 - Montgomery Co., Maryland - Weaver Barnes will does not mention a daughter Nancy or a daughter married to Samuel Hocker.  He does mention his daughter Dorcas Hocker, grandson Weaver Hocker, son of Philip Hocker his implied son-in-law. 

1800 - Lincoln Co., KY - Samuel Hocker paying taxes in Lincoln Co., Kentucky

Ahnentafel #894 - Samuel Hocker

Samuel Pruitt Hocker

Born: September 7, 1749, Frederick Co., MD, possibly ca. 1747 in Prince George's Co., MD

Died: March 1815 Lincoln Co., KY

Buried: Hocker / Goode Cemetery, Turnersville, KY

Married: 1) Mary Ann Price ca. 1773 in Frederick Co., Maryland

2) Nancy Barnes, 1783 Montgomery Co., Maryland

Records: 

1777 - Montgomery Co., MD - served as a private in the Montgomery County militia Middle Battalion, 2nd Company

1778 - March, Montgomery Co., MD - took oath of fidelity to the state of Maryland

1790 - Montgomery Co., MD - a Samuel Hocker household in the census

• 4 males under 16 - Richard Weaver, Joseph, Philip, John, 

Ahnentafel #893 - Sarah Barnes

Sarah Barnes

Born: April 11, 1751 Montgomery County, Maryland

Died: September 11, 1838, Lincoln County, Kentucky

Buried: Unknown

Married: November 15, 1773 Nicholas Hocker in Montgomery County, Maryland

Records:

1790 - Montgomery Co., MD - Census - in Nicholas Hocker household. Sarah was 39 years old and her children ranged in age from 2 to 15 and she was probably pregnant with Alfred. 

• 3 males - 16 Philip, Nicholas, George
• 1 male 16+ Nicholas
• 5 females - Sarah, Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, Dorcas
• 7 slaves 

1796-1800 - moved with family to Kentucky

Ahnentafel #892 - Nicholas Hocker

Nicholas Hocker 

Born: March 5, 1751/2 in Montgomery County, Maryland

Died: Feb. 15, 1813 in Lincoln County, Kentucky

Buried: Hocker / Goode Cemetery, Turnersville, Kentucky

Married: Sarah Barnes in Montgomery County, Maryland, November 15, 1773

Religion: Nicholas is said to have been the first Ruling Elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Stanford, Kentucky, which was the oldest, or one of the oldest in the state.  He said some men had the ambition that they might have a son to be President, but his ambition was that every male descendant of his might, at some time, in his life serve his church as Ruling Elder.

Military Service: 

1776-1781 American Revolution serviced proved by documents:

• Oath of fidelity & support of Maryland, Liber Court Records 1777-1781, Folio 56, Montgomery Co., MD

Ahnentafel #891 - Mary Landis

Mary Landis aka Mary Landers

Born: ca. 1710
Died: May 25, 1795 in Mercer Co., Kentucky

Buried: unknown

Married: 1) Michael Goodnight, Feb. 19, 1762 in Virginia or North Carolina
2) (--?--) Flanigan ca. 1787 in Kentucky

Biography:
The date that Michael Goodnight and his family first set foot in Mecklenburg County, Province of North Carolina is not known, but we do know that he was there on May 3, 1764, because on that date, he and his father-in-law Christopher Landys, purchased 190 acres for 65 pounds from James and Ruth McClain. The location was described as being on Three Mile Creek, being a branch of the Rocky River. Mecklenburg County was then two years old, having been cut off from Anson County in 1762. As was often the case, the deed was not recorded until the property was sold. Then, this deed was proved in the October term of Court 1774 by Martin Phifer, Esq. a subscribing witness thereto. 

For years, we searched and searched trying to identify the parents of Mary Landers/Landis

Ahnentafel #890 - Michael Goodnight

Johannes Michael Goodnight

aka John Goodnight, Hans Goodnight, John Michael Goodnight, Michael Goodnight

Born: ca. 1708 probably in Germany

Died: Sept. 1, 1781 Lincoln County, Kentucky

Buried: Pea Vine Creek, Lincoln Co., KY

Married: 1) (--?--) in Germany

2) Mary Landers / Landis Feb. 19, 1762, Lincoln County, Kentucky. 

Biography: 

John (Hans) Michael Goodnight, farmer, emigrant ancestor, Germany, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky. Born perhaps 1708 in Germany.  Married 1) (--?--) in Germany, 2) Feb. 19, 1762 Mary Landers / Landis.  Died Sept. 1, 1781 Lincoln Co., KY.

Johannes "Hans" Michael Goodnight landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Oct. 4, 1752, with a wife and children. The name of his wife or the number of children that accompanied him is unknown except for one son, Christian, who was five or six years old when the

Ahnentafel #878 - Abraham Adams

Abraham Adams

Born: 1730 Virginia

Died: 1816 Madison County, Kentucky

Buried: Unknown

Married: Perthnia (--?--) aka Bathana / Faner ca. 1750 in Pennsylvania

Records:

1755 - North Carolina, Beaufort County - an Abraham Adams appeared on census, seems unlikely to be same person

1780 - North Carolina - Rowan County - Abraham Adams living in Capt. Johnston's District

1790 North Carolina, Rowan County - Census - there are a couple of options:

Abraham Adams household

1 male 16+ = Abraham

Notebooks - Mom's Families #7

Branom, Jeanne. "Kalcklőser / Colclasure Family Research," Typescript, 1998.

Johan Hendrick Kalcklőser was born in Frankenthal (Rhineland Palatinate), Germany about 1696.(1)  Frankenthal is near Mannheim. Very little proof is available, at this time, concerning the early life of Johan Hendrick. However, it is probable that he joined the Seventh Day Baptists at an early age, since it has been recorded that he left Frankenthal at age 19 to join Alexander Mack's group in Schwarzenau (Wittgentstein),(2) due to religious persecution in the Frankenthal area. . . . 

In 1724, after the reading of the banns (three times at two-week intervals) or proclamations, Johan Hendrick and Anna Flys Layen were married on 28 February 1724.(4)  It is believed that all three sons were born of this union. Some time between the date of this marriage and the departure for Philadelphia in 1729, Anna Flys Layen probably died, since Johan Hendrick had a different wife, Agnes (Anna) Margaretha,(5) at the time of sailing from Rotterdam. (Alexander Mack, Jr. records that he knew "the two wives of Johan Hendrick.")(6) . . . 

The ship Allen arrived in Philadelphia on 15 September 1729.(7) Among the passengers were Johan Hendrick Kalcklőser with his family: his wife Agnes, sons Christophel (or

Notebooks - Kentucky #6, Part 2

Coffman, Edward. The Story of Logan County, Nashville, TN: The Parthenon Press, 1962.

Map of Logan County, Kentucky

Logan County, Kentucky is situated in the southwestern part of the state and is one of the southern tier of counties bordering the northern Tennessee line.  It is bounded on the north by Muhlenberg and Butler Counties, on the east by Warren and Simpson Counties, on the west by Todd County and on the south by Robertson County,  Tennessee.

Russellville, the county seat, is almost in the center of the county. It is 144 miles by railroad southwest of Louisville and 72 miles by rail south of Owensboro, Kentucky. It is 55 miles due north of Nashville, Tennessee. . . . 

Logan County is one of the early counties of Kentucky being the thirteenth of the 120 counties of the Commonwealth. It was originally formed in 1792, the year in which Kentucky became a state. 

Kentucky itself was at first a part of Virgnia. Fincastle County, Virginia, from which Kentucky was formed, was the frontier county of Virginia from 1772 through 1776. By an act of the legislature of Virginia, Fincastle County was dissolved, effective December 31, 1776 and one

Notebooks - Kentucky #6, Part 1

Boyle County Genealogical Association. Boyle County, Kentucky, Cemetery Records, 1792-1992, Danville, KY: Boyle County Genealogical Association, 1992

Goodknight Cemetery - This cemetery is located 3 miles north of Perryville, off US 68, near the Mercer County line on Claunch Road. 

 

Confederate Marker with inscription - Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of an unascertained number of Confederate soldiers said to have died while prisoners of war at Goodknight farmhouse, from wounds received at the Battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862, whose graves cannot be identified and whose names are unknown.

• Dye, Elizabeth, b. 10 Dec. 1797, d. 5 Oct. 1874 
• Hankla, Infant son of J.H. & M.F. Hankla b. 18 Dec. 1894, d. 18 Dec. 1894
• Weems, Frances M. CSA Company B, 3rd Florida Infantry, b. 16 Jan. 1842, d. 8 Oct. 1862
• Goodknight, Willie L. son of John J. & D.V. Goodknight b. 7 Aug. 1859, d. 13 July 1860
• Goodknight, H.L. stone broken, son of J. & S.C. Goodknight, b. ----, d. ---- 

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Fint, Susan & Anne Lee comp. Repeat After Me, Marriage Bonds 1795-1810 Franklin County, Kentucky, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1983

• William Lowry and John Pemberton signed the bond June 7, 1802 for the intended

Ahnentafel #866 - Thomas(?) Cloyd

Thomas(?) Cloyd

Born: by 1740
Died:

Buried:

Married: by 1759

Records/Possibilities:
1654 - Lancaster Co., VA - A certificate of land is granted Geo. Taylor for bringing over Geo. Adams, Eliza Shaw, Columbus Cloyd, and August Cloyd, Lancaster Co., Deed Book 1 p. 162.

1758 - Sept. - Augusta Co., VA - Lt. James McDowell militia regiment:

• George Moffett
• Dan'l. Cloud - may be Cloyd
• James McClung
• John McClung

Ahnentafel #857 - Rhoda (--?--)

Rhoda (--?--)

Born: ca. 1730
Died: after 1800 in Kentucky

Buried: unknown

Married: Captain John (?) Durall by 1750

Records:

Ahnentafel #852 - William Morgan

William Morgan

Born: ca. 1700 Fauquier Co., Virginia
Died: 1797 between August 6 and September 9, Pulaski Co., Kentucky

Buried: unknown

Married: 1) Mary Duncan
2) Elizabeth (--?--), d. after 1800, she may have been a Withers

Records:

1736 - April 30 - Culpeper Co., Virginia deed:

Surv'd. for William Morgan of St. Mark's Parish, Orange Co. 178 acres in Great Fork of Rappahannock of branches of Mt. Run; adj. Col. Wm. Beverley, Benja. Roberts, Francis Kirtlet, John Kilgore, Wm. Payton, Dan'l. Huff.  Surv. J. Wood. Is this our William Morgan?

1747 - Aug. 6 - Culpeper Co., Virginia - deed:

George Roberts of Orange, assignee (in 1747) of William Morgan; 6 Aug. 1747 -

Notebooks - Mom's Families No. 4, Part 3

Guthrie, Nelson. Genealogy of J.W. Nelson Slavens Guthrie, typescript, nd.

This information is very convoluted and in some instances contradictory to itself.

Generation 1
John Slavin b. 1723 Tyrone Co., Ireland, d. 1788 Highland Co., VA, md. Elizabeth Stuart b. 1726 Scotland, d. 1796 Highland Co., VA.  John was a weaver.  Lived for a time in Pocahontas Co., WV at Meadow Dale.

Generation 2
1. Isaac/Isaiah Slavens b. 1761 Augusta Co., VA, d. 1840 Putnam Co., IN, md. Martha Stuart.  Isaac was a soldier and moved to Kentucky then on to Indiana. - Isaiah Slavens in DAR b. 6/12/1752 Rockingham Co., VA, md. Martha /Patsy Stuart md. 2) Barbara Perkee. He was a Revolutionary War soldier, fought in the battles of Hot Water Springs, Jamestown. He was in the company of Captain KinCade of Colonel Moffet, Captain Thomas Hecklin, Company of Col. Simpson Mathias, Virginia Regiment, 1780.  Isaiah applied for a pension on April 26, 1833, died 1840.  Said to have had 17 children.
2. Comfort b. 11/4/1750
3. John b. 4/10/1760, soldier in American Revolution
4. William b. 6/3/1753 soldier in American Revolution

Notebooks - Mom's Families No. 4, Part 1

Brooks, Robert. Timothy Brooks of Massachusetts & His Descendants, Pompton, Lakes, NJ: Biblio Company, 1927

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Kahn, Edythe. Jacob & Sarah Wolf Lotz: Their Ancestry & Descendants 1760-1994, no imprint, 1994.

Gen. Jacob Lots/Louts/Lotts, the third child of Jonas Lotz was born 21 Dec. 1760 in Stoverstown (now Strausburg), Virginia, in that part of Frederick County that became Shenandoah County in 1772.  He died 12 Oct. 1839 in Wilkesville Township, in that part of Gallia County [Ohio] that became Vinton County in 1850. He served in the American Revolution.  Soon after Jacob was released from service, he was married to Sarah Wolf/Wolfe, otherwise known as Sarey.  Sarah's mother, Mari (sic) posted marriage bonds for Sarey Wolf to Jacob Loots (sic) on 22 Dec. 1782 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Sarah was born 17 Oct. 1761 in Frederick Co., VA. Some records say she was born in Staunton, VA. She died 6 Oct. 1837 in Wilkesville Twp.

Sarah's mother, Maria Gertrude (Brumback) Nisewanger Wolf otherwise known as the widow, Mary Wolf, was the daughter of Melchior & Mary Elizabeth (Fishback) Brumback of Prince William Co., VA. Melchior emigrated from