Note: some sources are given in this file. If none are given, it is likely the source is Howard Jenkins' 1897 History of Gwynedd. However, in some cases there may be data from Worldconnect without attribution.

61. JOHN WILLIAMS (CATHERINE3 MORGAN, WILLIAM2, EDWARD1) was born August 08, 1749 in Pennsylvania, and died August 27, 1817 in Darby, Delware Co., PA. He married (1) SARAH KIRK October 21, 1772 in Uwchlan, Chester Co., PA, daughter of WILLIAM KIRK and MARY BUCKINGHAM. She was born January 01, 1750/51 in Nantmeal, Chester Co., PA, and died December 12, 1778 in Guilford Co., NC. He married (2) SARAH PENROSE April 06, 1787 in Exeter, Berks Co., PA.

Children of JOHN WILLIAMS and SARAH KIRK are:

i. MARY5 WILLIAMS, b. July 24, 1773, Uwchlan twp., Chester Co., PA.

ii. KATHARINE WILLIAMS, b. July 19, 1775, Uwchlan twp., Chester Co., PA; m. JOHN MARTIN; b. Abt. 1771.

iii. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, b. December 03, 1777, Guilford Co., NC.

62. DANIEL4 WILLIAMS (CATHERINE3 MORGAN, WILLIAM2, EDWARD1) was born March 13, 1757 in prob. PA, and died October 23, 1825 in Stillwater MM, Belmont Co., OH. He married (1) MARY STRAHL Abt. 1784 in Robeson twp., Berks Co., PA, daughter of CASPER STRAHL and REBECCA BARGER. She was born March 02, 1763, and died April 10, 1799 in Robeson twp., Berks Co., PA. He married (2) JANE JACKSON October 16, 1801 in Robeson, PA. He married (3) MARTHA MENDENHALL October 11, 1815 in East Caln MM, Chester Co., PA.

Children of DANIEL WILLIAMS and MARY STRAHL are:

145. i. JOSEPH5 WILLIAMS, b. January 10, 1784, Pennsylvania; d. July 30, 1863, Spiceland, Henry Co., IN.

ii. JOHN WILLIAMS, b. December 29, 1787.

iii. CASPAR WILLIAMS, b. January 23, 1790.

iv. DANIEL WILLIAMS, b. June 28, 1794.

v. MARY WILLIAMS, b. December 22, 1796.

vi. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, b. December 22, 1796.

63. ANNE4 WILLIAMS (CATHERINE3 MORGAN, WILLIAM2, EDWARD1) was born October 05, 1760, and died October 11, 1831 in Malaga twp., Monroe Co., OH. She married JOHN L. STRAHL October 23, 1786 in Schwarzwald Reformed Church, Berks Co., PA, son of CASPER STRAHL and REBECCA BARGER. He was born January 16, 1767 in Alsace twp., Berks Co., PA, and died April 14, 1844 in Athens Co., OH.

Notes for ANNE WILLIAMS:

Living 1804, Short Creek MM OH

Children of ANNE WILLIAMS and JOHN STRAHL are:

i. MARY5 STRAHL, b. August 29, 1789.

ii. REBECCA STRAHL, b. April 15, 1792.

iii. SARAH STRAHL, b. March 07, 1796.

iv. ELMER STRAHL, b. April 21, 1798.

v. ANN STRAHL, b. March 11, 1801.

vi. ANN STRAHL, b. September 23, 1802.

vii. JOHN S. STRAHL, b. October 19, 1803.

64. MARGARET4 MORGAN (ENOCH3, EDWARD2, EDWARD1) She married BENJAMIN KENDERDINE November 26, 1770 in Gwynedd MM, PA, son of THOMAS KENDERDINE and DOROTHY ROBERTS. He was born 1721 in Pennsylvania, and died 1806 in Pennsylvania.

Children of MARGARET MORGAN and BENJAMIN KENDERDINE are:

146. i. ENOCH5 KENDERDINE, b. February 21, 1773; d. August 24, 1852.

147. ii. THOMAS KENDERDINE, b. January 11, 1775, Pennsylvania; d. 1861, Horsham twp., Montgomery Co., PA.

148. iii. SARAH KENDERDINE, b. May 16, 1789; d. May 16, 1862, Of Horsham twp., Montgomery Co., PA.

65. HANNAH4 MORGAN (ENOCH3, EDWARD2, EDWARD1) was born April 26, 1754 in Philadelphia, PA.. She married (1) JOHN KENDERDINE February 1778, son of JOSEPH KENDERDINE and MARY JARRETT. He was born Abt. 1740 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and died January 02, 1790 in Pennsylvania. She married (2) JOB SPENCER October 07, 1785 in Gwynedd MM, Montgomery Co., PA, son of WILLIAM SPENCER and ELIZABETH LEWIS. He was born March 08, 1750/51 in Northampton, Bucks Co. PA, and died in of Horsham twp., Montgomery Co., PA.

Children of HANNAH MORGAN and JOHN KENDERDINE are:

149. i. JOSEPH5 KENDERDINE, b. November 26, 1778, Pennsylvania; d. September 13, 1822.

150. ii. ISSACHAR KENDERDINE, b. October 13, 1780, Horsham twp., Montgomery Co., PA; d. August 15, 1848.

151. iii. JOHN KENDERDINE, b. November 05, 1782; d. June 26, 1862.

Children of HANNAH MORGAN and JOB SPENCER are:

152. iv. EDWARD5 SPENCER.

v. HANNAH SPENCER.

vi. MARY SPENCER.

vii. JOB SPENCER.

66. CHRISTIANA4 MORGAN (ENOCH3, EDWARD2, EDWARD1) died March 1822. She married HUGH LLOYD May 22, 1777, son of JOHN LLOYD and ELEANOR FOULKE. He was born 1744 in Horsham Township, Pennsylvania, and died January 19, 1824 in Horsham Township, Pennsylvania.

Children of CHRISTIANA MORGAN and HUGH LLOYD are:

i. ENOCH5 LLOYD.

153. ii. MIRIAM LLOYD.

iii. DAVID LLOYD, b. July 31, 1778; d. July 29, 1861.

154. iv. MARY LLOYD.

67. MIRIAM4 LEWIS (HANNAH3 MORGAN, EDWARD2, EDWARD1) was born 1742 in Goshen twp., Chester Co., PA. She married LEWIS WILLIAMS January 13, 1763 in Goshen MM, PA, son of LEWIS WILLIAMS and ANN THOMAS. He was born 1733 in Chester Co., PA, and died 1816 in Chester Co., PA.

Children of MIRIAM LEWIS and LEWIS WILLIAMS are:

155. i. THOMAS5 WILLIAMS, b. July 24, 1763, Chester Co., PA; d. May 26, 1849, Stillwater, Belmont Co., OH.

ii. LEWIS WILLIAMS.

iii. GEORGE WILLIAMS.

iv. ISACHAR WILLIAMS.

v. TACY WILLIAMS, d. May 26, 1847; m. ELISHA GOODWIN.

vi. ENOCH WILLIAMS, b. August 13, 1775, Williston twp., Chester Co., PA.

vii. ABRAHAM WILLIAMS, b. December 26, 1783; d. September 03, 1862; m. RACHEL WHITE, March 04, 1804.

68. EVAN4 LEWIS (HANNAH3 MORGAN, EDWARD2, EDWARD1) He married RACHEL WILLIAMS.

Notes for EVAN LEWIS:

Source: Remember Me by Dorothy Cole

Child of EVAN LEWIS and RACHEL WILLIAMS is:

156. i. MORGAN5 LEWIS, b. 1771; d. 1843.

69. HANNAH4 MORRIS (EDWARD3, ELIZABETH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Abt. 1748. She married JACOB EVANS Abt. 1778, son of SAMUEL EVANS and ANN FOULKE. He was born April 29, 1748 in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co., PA.

Children of HANNAH MORRIS and JACOB EVANS are:

157. i. ELIZABETH5 EVANS, b. Abt. 1788; d. February 24, 1814.

158. ii. JONATHAN EVANS, b. August 24, 1776, Plymouth twp., Philadelphia (now Montgomery) CO., PA.

70. CATHERINE4 MORRIS (WILLIAM3, ELIZABETH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born September 15, 1746, and died May 16, 1813 in Robeson twp., Berks Co., PA. She married JOHN SCARLETT May 17, 1771 in Robeson MM, Berks Co., PA. He was born November 17, 1747 in Berks Co., PA.

Children of CATHERINE MORRIS and JOHN SCARLETT are:

i. WILLIAM5 SCARLETT.

ii. ELIZABETH SCARLETT.

iii. JOSEPH SCARLETT.

iv. SAMUEL SCARLETT.

v. ELLEN SCARLETT, b. March 15, 1774; d. September 17, 1864; m. SOLOMON BRUMFIELD, April 18, 1812; b. September 21, 1765.

vi. JOHN SCARLETT, b. July 17, 1780; d. August 10, 1826, Robeson twp., Berks Co., PA; m. ELIZABETH POWNALL, March 20, 1811; b. March 25, 1787.

vii. CATHERINE SCARLETT, b. November 19, 1783.

71. ENOS4 MORRIS (WILLIAM3, ELIZABETH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born September 14, 1750, and died Bet. August 1830 - 1836 in Of East Nantmeal twp., Chester Co., PA. He married LYDIA JACKSON May 05, 1780 in Exeter MM, Berks CO., PA, daughter of EPHRAIM JACKSON and MARY REGISTER. She was born October 20, 1734.

More About ENOS MORRIS:

Burial: Robeson MM, Berks Co., PA

Child of ENOS MORRIS and LYDIA JACKSON is:

i. WILLIAM5 MORRIS, b. October 26, 1784; m. MARY ANN JONES, May 21, 1817, Nantmeal Friends Meeting, Chester Co., PA.

72. CADWALLADER4 MORRIS (MORRIS3, ELIZABETH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1737, and died August 23, 1812. He married ELIZABETH KASTNER. She died Aft. 1812.

More About CADWALLADER MORRIS:

Occupation: School Teacher

Children of CADWALLADER MORRIS and ELIZABETH KASTNER are:

i. ALICE5 MORRIS.

ii. ABEL MORRIS.

iii. WILLIAM MORRIS.

iv. REBECCA MORRIS.

v. HANNAH MORRIS.

73. WILLIAM4 MORRIS (MORRIS3, ELIZABETH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born March 05, 1738/39, and died April 22, 1821 in Line Lexington, Hatfield twp., Montgomery Co., PA. He married ANN GRIFFITH 1762, daughter of NATHANIEL GRIFFITH. She was born Abt. 1744 in of Hilltown, Bucks Co., PA, and died July 17, 1821 in Line Lexington, Hatfield twp., Montgomery Co., PA.

Children of WILLIAM MORRIS and ANN GRIFFITH are:

159. i. ISAAC5 MORRIS, b. May 05, 1764, Pennsylvania; d. September 13, 1843, Pennsylvania.

ii. BENJAMIN MORRIS.

iii. MORRIS MORRIS.

iv. ELIAM MORRIS.

v. WILLIAM MORRIS.

vi. GRIFFITH MORRIS.

vii. ANN MORRIS.

viii. ELIZABETH MORRIS.

ix. HULDAH MORRIS.

74. EDWARD4 MORRIS (DAVID3, ELIZABETH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Abt. 1757 in Pennsylvania. He married HANNAH WORRALL May 15, 1778 in Robeson M Mtg, Berks Co, Pennsylvania.

Children of EDWARD MORRIS and HANNAH WORRALL are:

160. i. ELIZABETH5 MORRIS, b. Redstone Twp, Fayette Co, Pennsylvania; d. 1845, Guernsey Co, Ohio.

ii. DAVID MORRIS, b. Bef. 1801, Pennsylvania.

iii. JANE MORRIS, b. Bef. 1801, Pennsylvania.

iv. HANNAH MORRIS, b. Bef. 1801, Pennsylvania.

v. LYDIA MORRIS, b. Bef. 1801, Pennsylvania.

161. vi. EDWARD MORRIS, b. Bef. 1801, Pennsylvania.

75. JANE4 MORRIS (DAVID3, ELIZABETH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1760, and died March 28, 1834 in Bradford MM, PA. She married ABIAH COPE December 01, 1785 in Bradford MM, PA, son of SAMUEL COPE and DEBORAH PARK. He was born March 22, 1759 in East Bradford twp., Chester Co, Pennsylvania, and died in East Bradford twp., Chester Co, Pennsylvania.

Children of JANE MORRIS and ABIAH COPE are:

162. i. DAVID5 COPE, b. 1787; d. 1864, Whiteland, Pennsylvania.

ii. SAMUEL COPE, b. 1789; m. (1) MARY ANN PUSEY; m. (2) ANN WILLIAMS.

iii. ABIAH COPE, b. 1791; m. MARY HANNUM.

iv. DEBORAH COPE, b. 1793.

163. v. MORRIS COPE, b. July 26, 1800, East Bradford Twp, Chester Co, PA, London Grove Mtg; d. July 07, 1892, London Grove Twp, Chester Co, PA.

76. DAVID4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born October 22, 1742 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died February 25, 1832. He married KEZIA.

Notes for DAVID WILCOCKSON:

Bill Scroggins:

David Willcockson, who was not included in the list of children of John and Sarah Boone Willcockson by Jeremiah F. Willcoxen, was identified as a son of John Willcockson and a nephew of Daniel Boone by George Bryan, who came to Kentucky, from North Carolina, in 1775, with David and Daniel Willcockson:(44)

30 men of us came out in 1775 - it was 1776 when we got here.

1. Daniel Wilcox, nephew of Col. Boon.

2. David Wilcox, son of John W., nephew of Col. Boon. ...

15. Geo: Bryan - myself ...

Although this recollection was in her book, Dorothy Wulfeck did not include David in the list of children of John Willcockson and Sarah Boone. She associated the reference with David Willcockson, son of George Willcockson and Elizabeth Hall, apparently in error, since the identification is clearly stated in the quotation. Furthermore, David, son of George, married (1) Ellender Boone and (2) Janet Pemberton and died in Franklin County, Kentucky, about 1815.(45) The wife of David, son of John, who was born on 22 October 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died on 25 February 1832, was named Kezia, according to a descendant of Benjamin Cutbirth and Elizabeth Willcockson, who visited the Pennsylvania homestead of the Morgan family in 1978.(46)

Apparently David Willcockson, son of John, was taxed in Madison County, Kentucky,

in 1789, while David Willcockson, son of George, was taxed in Fayette County:(47)

Wilcocks, Aaron Fayette 7/24/1789

Wilcocks, Daniel Fayette 7/24/1789

Wilcocks, David Madison 1789

Wilcocks, Ruth Fayette 7/24/1789

Willcocks, David Fayette 12/ /1789

44 . Supra note 5, Draper manuscript 16C976, 9Sh 18b.

45. Supra note 5.

46. Supra note 43, data of Estelle Cosby.

47. "First Census" of Kentucky 1790, Charles B. Heinemann, Washington, 1940, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1971.

Child of DAVID WILCOCKSON and KEZIA is:

164. i. DAVID5 WILCOXSON, b. March 09, 1796, Rowan Co., NC; d. February 04, 1883, Farmersville, Collin Co., TX.

77. JR. JOHN4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1744 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died 1830 in Howard Co., MO. He married SARAH NOTSON 1780 in Fayette Co., VA (now KY). She was born Abt. 1744.

Children of JOHN WILCOCKSON and SARAH NOTSON are:

i. ISAAC5 WILCOCKSON, b. Bet. 1775 - 1780, Rowan Co., NC; d. Missouri; m. REBECCAH WHITE, May 25, 1797, Clark Co., KY.

ii. DANIEL WILCOCKSON, b. Rowan Co., NC.

iii. JOHN WILCOCKSON, b. Rowan Co., NC.

iv. WILLIAM WILCOCKSON, b. August 08, 1779, Rowan Co., NC; d. July 24, 1864; m. MARY ENGLAND, Bath Co., KY.

v. ISRAEL WILCOCKSON, b. Rowan Co., NC; m. MARY FLEMING, Clark Co., KY.

vi. AMOS WILCOCKSON, b. Rowan Co., NC; m. VINA DAWSON, February 14, 1816, Clark Co., KY.

vii. MARTHA WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1785, Rowan Co., NC.

viii. MARY WILCOCKSON, b. Rowan Co., NC; m. JOHN MATHEWS, July 24, 1805.

ix. DAVID WILCOCKSON, b. December 18, 1794, Rowan Co., NC; d. Howard Co., MO; m. NANCY JOHNSON, June 10, 1821, Howard Co., MO.

78. ELIZABETH4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1745 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died 1818 in TN. She married BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH Abt. 1760 in Rowan Co., NC. He was born Abt. 1740 in Augusta Co., VA, and died in TN.

Notes for ELIZABETH WILCOCKSON:

(continued from her husband)

Encouraged by the British, the Indians renewed their attack throughout 1778. So intense were the attacks that Boone went to the British, and the Indians, staying among them for several months, trying to persuade them not to attack the fort. His efforts proved fruitless, however, and he escaped to retum to the fort just in time to help repulse the attack. At the instigation of Captain Richard Callaway, who was intensely jealous of Boone, Daniel was court-martialed for treason. During the trial Benjamin Cutbirth was called as a witness in Boone's defense, to testify as to Callaway's ulterior motives. The prosecution neutralized Ben's testimony, however, bringing up the fact that Daniel once saved Benjamm's life, and was related to Benjamin by marriage. Boone was, "none-the-less", exonerated by the Judge Advocate, Col. Daniel Trabue, and was promoted to major. Callaway was killed by Indians two years later.

In 1779 the new Kentucky settlers gave the whole of their savings, twenty thousand dollars, to Boone so that he might travel to Richmond, Virginia and purchase land warrants. Tragically, before he reached Richmond, he was set upon by thieves who robbed him of the money. A short time later, land speculators from Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York would purchase the Kentucky lands, this time from the Shawnee, thereby voiding the settler's original claims. Dispirited, Benjamin and his brother-in-law, Samuel Wilcoxson, retumed with their families to North Carolina.

When Benjamin first came to North Carolina, he lived on the Fork of the Yadkin. Upon leaving there, he went to the mountains, and first settled on the Blue Ridge, some two miles north east of the Deep Gap in Ashe County. From there he went to the South Fork of New River, some two or three miles above the Old Fields, where he lived through the end of, and following the war.*11 This area called "Old Fields" *12, was previously, an old Indian camp or clearing, and can be found near the present day border of Ashe and Wilkes Counties, North Carolina.

The American Revolution had been raging since 1775 and much of the new nation was divided in it's loyalties; those favoring independence and those remaining loyal to the British Crown, the Tories. Even though the majority favored independence, bands of armed Tories roamed the Yadkin area. The British paid well for Rebel prisoners. In April, 1781, a Tory leader, Capt. William Riddle, came through Wilkes County from his camp at the head of Meat Camp Creek, with his armed band and Rebel captives, on the way to Ninety-Six, South Carolina, where they would collect their bounty*13. We learn from a letter of William Callaway's, to Draper, that "The Callaway's, Cleveland's, Cutbirth's, Shirley's, Taney's, Thompson's, and Baker's, who constituted the principal families of Whigs who lived near the mountains... were kept busy to protect themselves." Riddle found out that a local Revolutionary hero, Col. Benjamin Cleveland was in the vicinity and set out to capture him. On April 14th, Riddle came upon Ben Cutbirth's place, looking for information. As described in John Crouch's "Historical Sketches of Wilkes County"*14 --"Riddle, with his party of six to eight men, reached Benjamin Cutbirth's some four miles above Old Fields, a fine old Whig and an associate of Daniel Boone, who was just recovering from a spell of fever. The Tory Captain, probably from Cutbirth's reticence regarding solicited information, shamefully abused him and placed him under guard....".

Riddle and the rest of his men then left to capture Col. Cleveland. In the meantime, Daniel Cutbirth, Benjamin's eldest son, who had been absent during those events, returned home. Enraged, young Daniel and a friend of his named Waiters, armed and positioned themselves to ambush Riddle on his remm trip. However, when the boys heard Riddle and his party returning, (Riddle and his men were coming through the forest, still out of sight.), they heard so many military commands and commotion, they reckoned that Riddle had increased the size of his patrol and decided not to attack. As it tumed out, Riddle hadn't any more men, but had captured Col. Cleveland. Once again, coming to Ben Cutbirth's, Riddle ordered dinner, for himself, his men, and his prisoners. One of Ben's daughters, Mary Cutbirth, not willingly serving the Tories, received verbal abuse and kicks from Riddle to make her hurry the preparations for the meal. Finally leaving Ben's house, Riddle's group proceeded fourteen miles along New River to a place near Elk Creek, called the Wolf's Den. But they had been followed this time by a group of teenagers, including Daniel Cutbirth and a couple of Callaway boys. As they crept up on Riddle's camp, they spied Col. Cleveland sitting on a log slowly writing out passes for Riddle and his marauders. Cleveland knew as soon as he finished writing, his usefulness to Riddle was through, and his life would be in jeopardy. Suddenly Cleveland saw the youths, threw his huge frame backward over the log, and barely escaped the hail of bullets raining down on Riddle's men. When the shooting ended, Riddle had escaped, but left behind a mortally wounded member of his party, Zachariah Wells. As young Daniel and his comrades saddled up, to retum with the rescued Cleveland, it was decided that they would also leave behind the wounded Wells. A short time later Riddle and two of his men were captured and taken to Wilkesboro, where they were to be hung. The evening before the hangings, Riddle said to Cleveland, "Colonel, you won't hang such a man as I am.", to which Cleveland replied, "I will be damned if I don't hang you when breakfast is over." Cleveland was tree to his word. The 1782 Wilkes County Tax List showed Benjamin (Cuthbert) living in Captain Robert Cleveland's District.

More About ELIZABETH WILCOCKSON:

Burial: Elke River, TN

Notes for BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH:

In 1767 Benjamin Cutbirth, John Stuart, John Baker and John Ward crossed the mountains and went to the Mississippi river where they spent a year or two, going even to New Orleans.

He conveyed 100 acres of land on the South Fork of New River (now Ashe county) to Andrew Ferguson in 1800.

He was a longhunter and companion of Daniel Boone's. He lost title to all his lands in Tennessee and migrated to Tennessee.

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BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH, THE LONG HUNTER

By Glenn Smith

from The RedTower Clan Galbraith Association of North America Sept.1996

[MBruce9681@aol.com]

"The Fall 1983 issue of the RedTower mentioned Benjamin Cutbirth, who was an associate of Daniel Boone. The inquirer was Edwin A. S. Galbraith, who was wondering if this was a variation in the spelling of Galbraith. Some descendants of Benjamin Cutbirth think it is possible that his name was originally Galbraith or Galbreath, but his parentage was not been determined. Benjamin Cutbirth was born sometime between 1730 and 1740. At some later date his son in law Elijah Callaway said that Benjamin was born in Augusta Co., Virginia. After his father died, his mother remarried and Benjamin left home and went to North Carolina.

Benjamin married Elizabeth Wilcoxson, ca1759, probably in Rowan Co., North Carolina. Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson. Sarah Boone Wilcoxson, who was Daniel Boone's eldest sister, had fallen love with John Wilcoxson and married him in 1742 in Pennsylvania. Sarah and her parents were censored by the Quaker Church at Exeter for her "marrying out".

Benjamin Cutbirth, John Stewart and two other unnamed men made a remarkable journey in the summer of 1767. They left the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina, crossed the Appalachian Mountains, and explored the unknown country between the mountains and the Mississippi River. So far as it is known, these adventurers were the first white men to cross the mountains and reach the great river. They spent the fall and winter exploring and hunting and in the spring rafted down to New Orleans. They sold their furs, bear-bacon, and tallow for a considerable sum of money. The men returned home after being gone for about two years. Upon his return, he told his good friend and uncle of his wife, Daniel Boone, about the great country on the other side of the mountains. Benjamin Cutbirth reportedly helped lay out the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap, and made trips with Daniel Boone to Kentucky.

Benjamin and Elizabeth (Wilcoxson) Cutbirth had four known children. They were Daniel Boone Cutbirth, born ca1760; Benjamin Cutbirth, Jr., born ca1763; Mary Cutbirth, born ca1770; and Sarah Cutbirth, born ca1772.

Benjamin Cutbirth, Sr. later moved to Maury and Giles County, Tennessee, where he died about 1817, and was buried on Major Howel's place."

Rachel Wilcoxson, daughter of John and Sarah Boone Wilcoxson, was born in 1759 and married (1) James E. Milar (Mylar), a native of South Carolina, about 1778. They had two children, James born about 1779 and Rachel born about 1789. James E. Milar was a typical frontiersman and a friend of Daniel Boone, whom he assisted in the early development of Kentucky, remaining in the wilderness until he was killed by Indians in 1789. About October 1790, Rachel Wilcoxson Milar married (2) William Briant in Fairfield County, South Carolina, and moved to Briant's Station in Fayette County. Kentucky. Rachel was in her thirties and Briant was in his fifties when they married. In 1806 Rachel Wilcoxson Milar and William Briant signed a marriage consent for her daughter Rachel Milar and Stephen Jett. Brother James Milar witnessed the consent. In 1807 Rachel and William Briant moved to Missouri. (Data of Ray Burgess, 44 Aldridge Lane, Watsonville, CA 95076, Wilcoxson Newsletter, Volume 8, Summer 1997, Georgia Wilcoxson Lane, Editor, 2200 NE 33rd Avenue, Apt. 10-C, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305-1866.)

E-mail from Reg Wilcox:

Dear Bill and Chris,

Tonight a thought struck me and I need your help in assessing its soundness.

Bucks Co. PA Criminal Papers 1697-1786, Court Of Common Pleas, contains the following entry: 154 1732 June 17 Bail Isaac Wilcockson, suit of Richard Mountain. Surety Joseph Wildman of Middletown.

Could that Isaac be the father of John and George?

That Isaac was not the Isaac who married Martha Bane because Martha's Isaac died in or before 1771 at the age of 42 years, which means he was born no later than 1729. He could have been no more than 3 years old at the time that Richard Mountain filed suit against an Isaac Wilcockson in 1732.

An abstract that I have about the McCubbins Collection (Salisbury NC) as it relates to the Willcockson family states: "Adey(?) Wilcock, widow of Isaac Willcocks, & George Wilcox get letters of Adm. on estate of Isaac, deceased, and Matthew Sparks and Daniel Lewis go security for 100 pounds in 1765 on Wednesday after 2 Tuesday in Oct. Isaac gives inventory in 1766 of 150 pounds 14 shillings and 8 1/2 pence".

I assume the Daniel Lewis in the preceding paragraph is the same man who married Hannah Willcockson.

We know that both John and George named sons Isaac.

Incicdentally, that McCubbins abstract also notes that Isaac Wilcoxon rec'd land from Lord Granville 1758-1762 and in another entry it is noted that Isaac rec'd 320 acres of vacant land on Hunting Creek and both sides of Long Branch in 1761 from Lord Granville. I haven't found any evidence that John or George obtained land from any source in Rowan Co. prior to 1783. Could they have been living with their father, Isaac?

What do you think, pro or con?

Reg

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http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cutbirth&id=I0992

(Christy Westell, Worldconnect, Cutbirth database)

This information obtained from the following sources:

KINGS, MOUNTAIN AND ITS HEROES, History of the Battle of King's Mountain, Pges. 438, 441:

Ben Cutbirth mentioned.

THE EAST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS OF EARLY EAST TENNESSEE TAXPAYERS

Carter Co., TN Tax List for 1796, Pges. 144 & 145:

Cutberth, Benjamin, Senr. 1 Poll

The name of Cutburth, in our family, is traditionally known to be Scotch-Irish. It is thought to have been originally spelled Cuthbert as a variant of Gut-Barth. The true meaning of the name Cuthbert is not known, but most surnames originated in one of the following ways: from the father, a locality, an occupation, a rank of office or a nickname. The name is variously spelled Cuthbert, Cutbert, Cutbeard, Culbuth, Culbouth, Culbirth, Cutberth, Cutbirth and Cutburth. Of these, the last two are the forms most often used today.

The Scotch-Irish were among the frequent early arrivals in the colonies. Between 1715 and 1775, over a quarter million Scotchmen (who had been sent to Ulster in Northern Ireland by James I to keep the Irish under control) settled in places like the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, the Piedmont country of North Carolina and all along the Eastern seaboard. By the time the colonies declared their independence from England, one out o ften American settlers was Scotch-Irish. These hearty people helped their new homeland in another way-- when they found all the good land along the coast was already taken, these Scotch-Irish became the corps of pioneers who took wagon trains west to settle America's heartland.

Although it is not known exactly when our Cutburths came to America, it is thought they may have come about 1715 to Pennsylvania or Virginia, and may have come from Castle Hill, Inverness, Scotland by way of Ireland and England.

The author of this history would remind its readers that her work is that of an amateur, and that she has only tried to put together, in chronological order, findings and recollections that have come her way through her research of the Cutburth family name. This book attempts to capture this family's heritage and preserve it on the written page, so that future generations may expand its contents, thus it is not meant that the final chapter be found here, but that it will be used to keep alive this heritage in the years to come. The author would encourage each person who receives this book to write down something about their own lives and include it in this history.

----Melvina Cutburth - Arnett

BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH, SR.

Revolutionary Patriot

Benjamin Cutbirth, Sr., the earliest known ancestor of this history, was born about 1740, more than likely in Pennsylvania. In a letter written on June 10, 1845, by Benjamin's son-in-law, Elijah Calloway, to Lyman C. Draper*1, Elijah states that, "Benjamin Cutbirth, the great hunter and explorer of the West, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, about the year 1740." However, Elijah's son, Dr. James Calloway writes in his letter of February 19, 1852*2 "My grandfather, Benjamin Cutbirth, as I have always heard my mother say, came from Pennsylvania to the fork of the Yadkin...."

There was a large Scotch-Irish settlement in South central Pennsylvania early in the eighteenth century, and the Penn family literally owned the state at that time. The Scotch-Irish, not finding the freedoms they so yearned for began a mass exodus South in the 1750's, over the Great Wagon Road, which led most of them to North Carolina. Their journey, in fact, took them through Westem Virginia along the Blue Ridge Range where Augusta County is situated. Some of the immigrants settled in the Valley of Virginia, and others followed the Trading Path into the Yadkin River area of North Carolina. Dr. James Calloway further states, "My Uncle Daniel (Benjamin's oldest son) was sent back to Pennsylvania when he got large enough and went to school." It is most likely that Benjamin hailed from Pennsylvania, although he may have lived in Augusta County, Virginia at some point in time.

Much of what we know about Benjamin Cutbirth's personal life comes from the Draper Manuscripts. Lyman C. Draper was a great historian of the 1800's. He spent years traveling through the country in search of pioneer history. He gleaned his information from interviews with old settlers, collecting letters, etc., which is evidenced by the letters from Benjamin's son-in-law, Elijah Calloway, and grandson, Dr. James Galloway. Draper's vast collection of manuscripts was deposited with the Wisconsin Historical Society, of which he was secretary and librarian for many years (1854-86). The manuscripts have been released on microfilm to select libraries across the country, and can be viewed only at those libraries.

Elijah Calloway tells us Benjamin was a young boy when his father died*3 "---as his father died when he was young and his widowed mother married when he was grown to manhood and his being an interprising nature he early left his step-father's house and emigrated to Roan County, N.C.when he immediately became acquainted with Daniel Boone, the great hunter. As the woods was Cutbirth's great delight and as he was a hunter himself he set out to hunt with Boone. They ranged the forest far and wide and were frequently among the Indians who very often expressed dissatisfaction with them for killing their game and in one of their hunting tours and when they had killed and caught a great deal of fur on Roan Creek, a branch of the Watauga River. The Indians came upon them and took everything they had. The author (Elijah) has been many a time where the robbery was committed as Cutbirth long afterwards became the author's father-in-law, and as he and Cutbirth was frequently together they frequently covered these subjects." Reuben G. Thwaites, in his book, "Daniel Boone", also tells of Benjamin's father dying while the son was yet young. Benjamin's parents have yet to be identified. Church records indicate Benjamin lived near Mocksville, near John and Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson, his future "in-laws". Cutbirth and Boone hunted in the early 1760's in the Watauga region of westem North Carolina and eastem Tennessee.

At this point, we start noticing the different variations, in spelling, of the Cutbirth name. In the early days record keepers spelled the names as they sounded. The Rowan County Tax List of October 8, 1761 spells the name Cutbeard.

It was about this time that Benjamin met and married Elizabeth Wilcoxson. From Thwaite's notes*4 --"At the close of the French and Indian War there arrived in the Boone settlement a Scotch-Irishman named Benjamin Cutbirth, aged about twenty-three years. He was a man of good character and a free hunter. Marrying Elizabeth Wilcoxen, a niece of Daniel Boone, he and Boone went upon long hunts together, and attained that degree of comradeship which joint life in a wildemess camp is almost certain to produce."

And from Elijah Calloway's letter*5 of June 10, 1845--"About this time a marriage contract was made between Cutbirth and Elizabeth Wilcockson, a niece of Daniel Boone's and as Cutbirth was married in the family he and Boone continued to range the forest for all the Indians would sometimes rout them..." Elizabeth Wilcoxson was probably bom in Pennsylvania, as that is where her parents, John and Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson, were married, and lived, before departing for North Carolina. We also see many spelling variations of the name Wilcoxson.

Benjamin Cutbirth, Sr. and Elizabeth Wilcoxson were married about 1761 and soon began to raise a family. They would be the parents of four children. Their first child, Daniel Boone Cutbirth, was born about 1762, followed by another son, Benjamin Cutbirth, Jr., in 1764.

In the early 1760's the Yadkin River area began to see it's population rapidly grow. This meant one important thing to a hunter; more competition for a dwindling amount of game. In 1765 a group of North Carolinians from the Roanoke River area set sail for New Orleans and established a settlement just north of Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River. Hearing of this, Benjamin decided to investigate this new wilderness for himself.*6 So, in the Spring of 1766, history watched as Benjamin Cutbirth and three other "leather stockings" from the Yadkin, John Baker, James Ward,and John Stewart (Daniel Boone's brother-in-law), saddled their pack horses, set their backs to the rising sun, and set off for the Mississippi. Boone had been asked to go along but declined, and spent the next few months berating himself for not going.

They traveled west along a little known Indian trail across Southern Kentucky and Northem Tennessee, passing through many Indian nations, most of whom had never seen firearms before. Viewing the Great River somewhere near the Missouri bootheel, the foursome became the first whites ever to accomplish this feat overland from the Atlantic. Upon reaching the Mississippi, they found a great deal of lumber and game going down the river to feed the growing city of New Orleans. Sensing a great opportunity, they followed the river north to a large tributary, probably the Ohio or Missouri River and established a winter camp. The spring and summer of 1767 found the four accumulating... "a great deal of bear bacon, and bear oil, buffalo beef and tallow, venison hams, furs and skins and peltry of every kind... ", which they took down river in their water crafts to New Orleans and traded or sold. In the fall they again traveled upstream and wintered.

Benjamin, though he preferred not to talk about "things past and gone", did relate to his son-in-law, Elijah Calloway, several interesting details about his historic journey. Most of the stories he told, as could be expected, were about his exploits on the river, such as the time they were on a tributary trying to enter the Mississippi River-- "They had met the backwater two days before they reached the Mississippi River, which was very hard rowing against, but when they came in sight of the river they found it was extremely high. They, being all good water men, pressed on to get into the mainstream of the river, but the backwater was so strong it drove them back up the river. Again, they made another attempt and got almost into the bottom, but they all being good water men, and as he always thought the hand of Providence preserved him, they extricated themselves from the danger. Being driven up the river again, they doubled diligently and launched out into the mainstream and went on safely to the Orleans."

As Benjamin and his companions were prone to traveling at times both night and day on the river, they found themselves once on the Mississippi at midnight when a violent wind and rainstorm overcame them with such dark and low clouds they could neither see nor find either bank. Their vessel quickly filled with water, but the nature of their cargo of lumber, caused the vessel to float. At length they saw a break in the clouds which revealed the land, and after rowing with all theft might, finally reached the shore, at which time Benjamin repeated one of his favorite sayings... "That no man could die until his time came".

Another story Benjamin related occurred while he was standing on one bank of the Mississippi gazing across at the other side, when suddenly about three acres of land shelved into the river, "as quick as the crack of a gun". Benjamin also told of the time he came upon a bank that had been washed away and he saw the end of a canoe sticking out of the bank about twenty feet below the surface of the ground with large trees growing above and roots entangled about the canoe. Benjamin guessed that it must have been there at least a hundred years.

Having spent the winter upstream, they descended the Mississippi in the spring of 1768 with a large amount of furs and skins. Reaching New Orleans they sold their goods for a small fortune. In the words of a newspaper reporter of the day, they gained*7 "...quite a respectable reward". It is evident that the news of this success reached the wrong ears. Shortly after the four left New Orleans for home, they were set upon by a number of Spanish soldiers who robbed them of their money. They barely escaped with their horses and their lives.

Regrouping, they left again for home. Following the Mississippi North, they reached a Frenchman's house where they could rest and spend the night. Later that evening, a group of Choctaw Indians out on a hunt also called on the Frenchman. As the Choctaws were more in favor of the French rather than the Spanish, one of the Indians endeavored to ingratiate himself into the good graces of his host by ridiculing Benjamin. The more Ben would try to remain calm, the more the Indian would increase his mocking gestures. The Choctaw Indians, a jolly lot, traditionally enjoyed laughing at the misfortunes of others, and this night their entertainment was at Benjamin's expense. Finally, having endured enough, Benjamin walked over to the Indian, grabbed him around the arms, carried him to the bank of the Mississippi and threw him in, much to the delight of the other Indians. The drenched Indian came out of the river laughing and all seemed well. The four Carolinians soon left the Frenchman's home once more intent on reaching their homes. They were followed however, by the Choctaw Indians, who were intent on killing the four "long knives". A few nights later, the Indians caught up with Benjamin and company, but only succeeded in stealing their horses and gear. Benjamin then proceeded to the Choctaw town of Quanshito, where he made his complaint to the great head chief, hoping to retrieve his belongings. The only thing he received was more ridicule and abuse from the chief, who was trying to impress his braves. The only thing left for the Yadkin hunters to do, was to set out for home on foot, which they did, traveling through the Creek Nation, present day Mississippi and Alabama, finally reaching home late in 1768. Finding their families well, the four adventurers vowed never again to retum to that part of the country.

The Cutbirth's first daughter, named Mary, was born about the year 1770. Mary, according to relatives, took after the Boone family, even more than the Boone children themselves.

It was June 1770 before Benjamin ventured out on another hunting trip. In her history of the Wilcoxsons, Dorothy Ford Wulfeck states*8, Janice Holt Giles in "The Kentuckians" gives this account of the Long Hunters; "Price's Meadow, Kentucky was the site selected by the Long Hunters, (so-called because of their long hunting expeditions), as their central camp. A company of about 40 men from Virginia and North Carolina, attracted to the wilderness for the sake of adventure and reports of plentiful game, set out in June, 1770, for Kentucky. They passed through Cumberland Gap and established their base, where they found an excellent supply of spring water. From this point the men went out in parties to hunt, and to this base, they brought their furs and hides every full moon."

"One evening in February, 1771, a group of hunters heard a voice singing in the forest. They cautiously approached the spot whence the sounds came, and there, stretched full length on the ground, was Daniel Boone, singing at the top of his lungs. Boone joined the Long Hunters, and they were met by Squire Boone, Daniel's brother, who had gone home to get supplies. About a month later, after an absence of two years, the brothers set out for home with a large quantity of furs. At Cumberland Gap they were met by Cherokee Indians who appropriated all the peltries. Dejected, and without supplies to enable them to replace their loss, the Boones made their way home empty-handed."

"While, as a whole, the Long Hunters' stay in Kentucky was profitable, it was not without several disasters. After a two-month trip away from the base, they returned to find their peltries spoiled, and their dogs which they had left to guard the camp, a pack of wild animals. With characteristic pioneer calm, one of the Bledsoes inscribed this memorandum on a near-by tree: "2,300 deerskins lost; Ruination, by God."

"In 1772, some of the company became discouraged and departed for eastern settlements. Roving Indians captured two of the remaining and plundered the camp. These misfortunes did not discourage the hardy survivors, however, as it was not until August 1772 that the last of them returned homeward.

Names of a few of the Long Hunters: Anthony Bledsoe, Isaac Bledsoe, Daniel Boone, Daniel Cooper, Squire Boone, Jim Know, Big Jo Copeland, Ben Logan, Benjamin Cutbirth, Kasper Mansker, Henry Scaggs, Col. James Smith."

Benjamin returned home early in 1772, and later that same year he and Elizabeth became the parents of a second daughter, named Sarah, who would be their fourth and final child. Still later that year, Benjamin, Daniel Boone and John Tate set off again, to hunt in Kentucky.

Church records show, that in 1771, Rev. George Soelle, a Moravian Home Missionary, stopped at the Cutbirth home near Mocksville to preach, and the Fall of 1772 a Baptist minister, John McGlamre of the Dutchman Creek congregation stopped by Ben's place. Benjamin was baptized on March 7, 1773 by Rev. William Cook, and Elizabeth Cutbirth dedicated herself to Christ on August 7, 1774.*9

In the spring of 1773, Benjamin took off for Kentucky again with Daniel Boone, delving even further beyond the Cumberland Gap. Daniel remarked that he was "greatly pleased" with the land and planned a trip that fall to colonize Kentucky.

Having gathered together friends and kinfolk, including Benjamin, Boone started off for "Kain-tuck" on September 23, 1773. This trip was not destined to fare well. A couple of weeks later the group had split into two hunting parties; one under Boone and the other under his brother-in-law, William Bryant. On October 9, Bryant, tired of short meat allowances, split his group into three small groups to search for game. That night, Benjamin and an unknown companion stopped at an old campsite he and Boone had used on previous hunting trips, a place called Wallen's Ridge. But, they couldn't find any wood convenient to make a fire with, and having no axe, they proceeded a bit further before camping for the night. They were awakened the next morning by the sound of gunfire from the direction of Wallen's Ridge. Boone's scattered party quickly responded to the gunshots and came upon the campsite, finding all five hunters dead and scalped, including Daniel's young son, James, who was tortured to death. At this time Benjamin stated, "Oh! I see that I cannot die until my time comes, for if there had been an armful of wood here, we should all have shared the same fate". Daniel and his group returned to North Carolina to inform his wife, Rebecca. He then retumed with Benjamin and Will Grant, to properly bury the dead, and then continued on to Kentucky, wintering in a cave in what is now Jessamine County, and where Daniel, in keeping with his custom, carved his initials into the cave wall-- "D. B. 1773". Daniel and his friends found the land infested with hostile Indians and abandoned their settlement plans, retuming for now to the Yadkin.

The year of 1775 proved to be an eventful one for Benjamin Cutbirth, Sr.. Judge Richard Henderson made a treaty with the Cherokees at Sycamore Shoals, purchasing one hundred square miles of land in Kentucky from them, and commissioned Daniel Boone to lead a seasoned group of backwoodsmen to cut a road for future settlers. The Cherokee chief took Boone by the hand and said, "Brother, we have given you a fine field, but you will have trouble in the settling of it...". An understatement, to say the least, considering the fact that the Cherokee did not own that parcel of land, the Shawnee did; a fact that Boone would later find out for himself. On March 10, 1775, Daniel, Michael Stoner, Squire Boone, Benjamin Cutbirth and others rendezvoused at the Long Island of Hoiston and embarked on their expedition to cut a road through the Kentucky wilds. They blazed a trail through Powell's Valley and passed through the Cumberland Gap, then widened the old Warrior's Path for about fifty miles before heading west near Hazel Patch. Following an ancient buffalo trace northwest they came upon the Rockcastle River, where they had to cut their way through twenty miles of country covered with dead brush, which according to Felix Walker, the chronicler of the group, was a "difficult and laborious task". They then had to cut through thirty miles of thick cane and reed before they eventually reached their objective, the mouth of Otter Creek, on the south bank of the Kentucky River. This destination was reached on March 31, 1775. Work was immediately begun on the erection of a fort. Captain Richard Callaway graciously offered his name forward, as talk of what to call the fort began. But thankfully, the majority of the road cutters disagreed, and posterity came to know the site as Fort Boonesborough, and the trail they created as the Wildemess Road, both national treasures.

Their journey had not been without incident, however, as on March 24, camped outside of what is now Richmond, Kentucky, they were attacked by Indians. They beat the natives back, but suffered injuries and fatalities. It was here that Benjamin was about to be killed by an Indian when Daniel Boone saved his life. Another night, a mad wolf entered camp and attacked James Nail. Boone, Cutbirth, and two others fn-ed at the wolf, killing it. Nail survived the attack and miraculously did not contract the rabies.

A Memorial erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky, under the Auspices of the Transylvanians of Henderson, Kentucky, 1935*10 reads as follows:

"In Testimony of the Gratitude of Posterity for the Historic Service of cutting for the Transylvania Company the Transylvania Trail, the first great pathway to the West, March-April, 1775, from the Long Island of Hoiston River, Tennessee, to Otter Creek, Kentucky, by the Gallant Band of Axemen, Pioneers and Indian Fighters, who at the Risk and Loss of Life opened the Doors of Destiny to the White Race in Kentucky and the West.

"Daniel Boone, Squire Boone, Edward Bradley, James Bridges, William Bush, Richard Callaway, Samuel Coburn, Jacob Crabtree, Benjamin Cutbirth, David Gass, John Hart, William Hays, Rebeccah Boone Hays, William Hicks, Edmund JennIngs, Thomas Johnson, John Kennedy, John King, Thomas McDowell, Jeremiah McPeeters, William Miller, William Moore, James Nail, James Peeke, Bartlett Searcy, Reuben Searcy, Michael Stoner, Samuel Tate, Samuel Tate, Jr., William Twitty, John Vardeman, Feliz Walker, A Negro Man, A Negro Woman."

As event-filled as this undertaking was, it was just the beginning. On June 13, 1775 many men retumed East to bring their families to Boonesborough, just as Indian attacks were resuming.

The Continental Congress refused to recognize the settlement as the fourteenth colony, effectively destroying the dream of Transylvania.

The year 1776 turned out to be just as hazardous. During the summer, outside the fort, Boone's daughter, Jemima, and two Calloway girls, Betsy and Fanny, were kidnaped by Indians. They were soon rescued by Boone and others, who killed the kidnappers in the process.

The year 1777 brought more of the same. Indian raids mounted in veracity and Boone was wounded and nearly killed in an attack on the fort. An escaped slave led one such attack, and when Daniel was told of this during the attack, he left his position, walked to another wall, aimed his rifle at the black man standing at the edge of the forest surrounding the fort, and placed a bullet into the slave's forehead, and then returned to his original position. The settlers also suffered a salt shortage, so severe, that they were compelled to draft a petition to Congress asking the government to take over the salt licks owned by individuals, so that salt could be distributed to everyone equitably.

(continued under his wife)

More About BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH:

Burial: On the Elke River, TN

Children of ELIZABETH WILCOCKSON and BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH are:

165. i. DANIEL5 CUTBIRTH, b. Bet. 1760 - 1762, Rowan Co., NC; d. 1838, Giles Co., TN.

ii. BENJAMIN CUTBIRTH, b. Abt. 1764.

iii. SARAH CUTBIRTH, b. Abt. 1772.

166. iv. MARY CUTBIRTH, b. Abt. 1770, North Carolina; d. December 17, 1843.

79. NANCY4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born March 17, 1744/45 in Berks Co., PA, and died 1790 in Wilkes Co., NC. She married BENJAMIN GREER Abt. 1767, son of JOHN GREER and SARAH ELLIOTT. He was born February 09, 1745/46 in Augusta Co., VA, and died October 23, 1816 in Green Co., Kentucky.

Notes for BENJAMIN GREER:

Watauga Co., NC History 1915 by Arthur says that Ben Greer was a hero of Benjamin Cleveland, the Revolutionary War frontier militia leader. Greer was with men who rescued Cleveland from Tories led by Capt. William Riddle. Those with Greer in the rescue included Daniel Cutbirth, ? Walters, Jesse Duncan, John Shirley, William Calloway and Samuel McQueen (Joseph Calloway rode to Robert Cleveland with the news).

Ben Greer is rumored to have killed Colonel Ferguson at King's Mountain.

April 1801, Three Forks Baptist Church disowns him for drinking hard cider.

Riddle, along with men named Reeves, Goss and Zachariah Wells were later hung as Tories.

Children of NANCY WILCOCKSON and BENJAMIN GREER are:

167. i. RACHEL5 GREER, b. March 31, 1768, Rowan Co., NC; d. Bet. 1840 - 1850, Green Co., Kentucky.

168. ii. JOHN GREER, b. January 14, 1770, Rowan Co., NC; d. Aft. 1850, Johnson Co., TN.

169. iii. WILLIAM GREER, b. January 21, 1772, Surry Co., NC; d. 1879, Ashe Co., NC.

iv. ANN GREER, b. April 26, 1776; m. THOMAS HOLMAN.

170. v. JESSE GREER, b. September 13, 1778, Ashe (then Wilkes) Co., NC; d. September 19, 1868, Ashe Co., NC.

171. vi. DAVID GREER, b. February 02, 1781, Wilkes Co., NC; d. Bef. 1850, Ashe Co., NC.

172. vii. JAMES GREER, b. September 17, 1783, Wilkes Co., NC; d. 1844.

viii. SAMUEL GREER, b. November 26, 1785, North Carolina; d. April 20, 1872; m. (1) SARAH CHURCH; m. (2) JANE ANDREWS.

173. ix. JOSHUA GREER, b. April 08, 1788, North Carolina.

x. THOMAS GREER, b. Abt. 1789; m. KETRON.

80. SARAH4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Abt. 1750. She married THOMAS HAGANS. He was born Abt. 1750.

Child of SARAH WILCOCKSON and THOMAS HAGANS is:

i. RACHEL5 HAGAN, d. Abt. 1821; m. THOMAS T. BYBEE, Clark Co., KY (Probably).

81. GEORGE4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Bef. 1751 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died Aft. March 16, 1799 in Sevier Co., TN. He married ELIZABETH BEAM October 20, 1767 in Rowan Co., NC. She was born Abt. 1750 in Pennsylvania, and died Aft. April 16, 1799.

Notes for GEORGE WILCOCKSON:

It seems likely that George Willcockson, son of John Willcockson and Sarah Boone, was the George who married Elizabeth Beam in Rowan County, North Carolina, on 20 October 1767, with John Willcockson, George Boone and George Willcockson as signatories on the bond, either as witnesses or sureties. It is difficult to sort the various records involving George Willcockson, because his uncle, George Willcockson, married Elizabeth Hall, and his cousin, George Willcockson, Jr., married Elizabeth Pinchbeck.# The published Wilcoxson genealogy does not include a family record for George Willcockson and Elizabeth Beam, who may have moved to Sevier County, Tennessee, where the will of George Willcockson, dated 16 April 1799 and naming his wife Elizabeth and children as legatees, is recorded:#

In the Name of God, Amen. I George Willcockson of the State of Tennessee and of the County of Sevier, being old ... do make ... this my last will and Testament ... First I give and bequeath to Elizabeth my dearly beloved wife one negro woman named Nan, likewise all my household furniture except one good bed after my death while she remains a widow. And likewise one half of the old plantation while she remains a widow, and after her death or marriage the negro woman and land is to be given unto my son George and the household furniture to be sold and equally divided between my Children Mary McKinny, Sarah Campbell, Catharine Willcockson, Rebecca McKinny, David Willcockson and George Willcockson; and my moveable property, such as Horses, Cows, Hogs, and Sheep, Plantation tools of all kinds if they cannot divide it amongst themselves. And ... I do give to Mary McKinny fifty Dollars to be paid in property, Ten Dollars a year till paid ... I give to my Daughter Sarah Campbell forty Dollars to be paid in property ten dollars a year till paid. To my Daughter Rebecca McKinny thirty dollars in property ten dollars a year till paid and the remainder part of the property to be equally divided between David, George, Catharine and her two Children, James and John; and to my son David Willcockson I give my mill and Stills, and the land and possessions to the fence above the mill dam and with the fence till it strikes the Road that leads to William Goforth and all the land to the river one negro man named Dick excepting fifty dollars to be paid out of that to Diana Carter, Nancy Stropes youngest child; and if he refuses to pay to the said Diana Carter at the age of sixteen years, then fifty-dollars worth of the lands to be sold and to raise the fifty Dollars for said Diana Carter and to my son George Willcockson I give my old plantation with the tavern and all my lands adjoining it, and likewise the negro woman before mentioned ...

... And I likewise give to the said Diana Carter my house and lot in the Town of Dandridge, and all other out-land is to be sold and to be divided between David, George, Catharine and her two Children James and John: And I appoint my wife Elizabeth and Jeremiah Mathes my sole Executors ... In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and ninety nine

Signed sealed, pronounced and declared by the said George Willcockson ... in the presence of us ...

John Tharp

Jeremiah Mathes George Willcockson (Seal)

The bequests to Diana Carter infer a close relationship of some kind but it has not been determined.

# . Fayette County, Kentucky, Records, Volume 1, Michael L. Cook, C.G. and Bettie Cummings Cook, C.G., Cook Publications, Evansville, IN, 1985.

# . Supra note 5.

# . Sevier County, Tennessee, Will Book, pages 82-84.

Children of GEORGE WILCOCKSON and ELIZABETH BEAM are:

i. GEORGE5 WILCOCKSON.

ii. MARY WILCOCKSON.

iii. SARAH WILCOCKSON, m. ? CAMPBELL.

iv. CATHERINE WILCOCKSON.

v. REBECCA WILCOCKSON.

vi. DAVID WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1780, Of Tennessee; d. 1857, Hamilton Co., TN; m. ELIZABETH HARRIS; b. Abt. 1790.

Notes for DAVID WILCOCKSON:

The 1790 tax list suggests that David Willcockson, son of John, stayed in the vicinity of Boonesborough. He apparently moved from Kentucky before 1800, when only one David was taxed in the state:#

Wilcox, David Shelby 8/ 7/1800

David Willcockson, son of George, apparently lived near Bryan’s Station. On 19 April 1799, David Willcockson (Wilcox), who was described as of full age, made a deposition at the tavern of Captain Hunter in Georgetown, Kentucky, relative to a law suit. He stated that in year 1779 he went ... from Lexington on an expedition against the Shawnee Indians under the command of Colonel John Bowman and ... passed through or near the Lick now called Eastin’s Lick ... that a few days after he returned from said expedition he and one Lockhart went ... from Bryant’s Station ... to hunt ... camped about ten days near half a mile nearly west from said lick ... Since 1779 he had resided in Fayette and mostly in Woodford counties. In a deposition, taken in the same case, at Robert Megowan’s Tavern in Lexington, on 29 April 1799, Thomas Herndon stated that David Wilcox, and others from Bryant’s station, described the area to him in 1780. Finally, on 08 June 1804, David Willcockson (Wilcoxson) deposed in Woodford County that he passed Eagle Creek on a campaign against the Indians in 1779, but that, before the expedition, in the spring of 1779, he had camped about a mile from the head spring of Eagle Creek. In 1780 he hunted, out from Bryant’s Station, around the spring, which was sometimes called Big Spring.# Due to the statement of residency, these depositions apparently pertain to David Willcockson, son of George.

# . Supra note 5.

# . "Second Census" of Kentucky 1800, G. Glenn Clift, Frankfort,1954, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1970.

vii. JOHN WILCOCKSON, b. September 06, 1766.

82. ISAAC4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Bef. 1751 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died Bef. October 10, 1783. He married RUTH (?) JOHNSTON. She was born Abt. 1750.

Notes for RUTH (?) JOHNSTON:

Apparently David Willcockson, son of John, was taxed in Madison County, Kentucky,

in 1789, while David Willcockson, son of George, was taxed in Fayette County:#

Wilcocks, Aaron Fayette 7/24/1789

Wilcocks, Daniel Fayette 7/24/1789

Wilcocks, David Madison 1789

Wilcocks, Ruth Fayette 7/24/1789

Willcocks, David Fayette 12/ /1789

Ruth Willcockson (Wilcocks) was the widow of Isaac Wilcockson, who died before 10 October 1783 when Ruth Willcockson received grant #257, from the State of North Carolina, for 320 acres adjoining the land of James Noland. She was living in Rowan County in 1787 and taxed in Fayette County, Virginia, on 24 July 1789. In a power of attorney, given to William Willcockson of Wilkes County, North Carolina, in 1790, she was shown as a resident of Rowan County. On 06 August 1795, Ruth Willcockson and her son, Joseph, of Woodford County, Kentucky, gave a power of attorney to John Clifford of Rowan County, North Carolina, to sell their property there. On 07 October 1797 Clifford sold 200 acres, on the waters of Dutchman Creek, to John McMahan for them. Joseph Willcockson (Wilcox) and his mother Ruth Willcockson (Wilcox) were identified as residents of Shelby County, Kentucky, in a deed from Isaac and Bethia Larue of Hardin County, Kentucky, for 200 acres on Buck Run in Shelby County, on 13 November 1799. Other Shelby County deeds, in which the name is spelled Wilcox, show joint interest in the same property by Joseph Willcockson, William Congleton and Daniel Bromley.#

Children of ISAAC WILCOCKSON and RUTH JOHNSTON are:

i. JOSEPH5 WILCOCKSON, b. August 23, 1775, Rowan Co., NC; d. July 20, 1841, Randolph Co., MO; m. ELIZABETH WOOLFOLK, August 21, 1809, Shelby Co., KY; b. October 11, 1784, Virginia; d. December 06, 1851, Randolph Co., MO.

ii. MARTHA WILCOCKSON, b. January 27, 1779; m. DANIEL BROMLEY, September 08, 1796, Woodford Co., KY.

iii. MARGARET WILCOCKSON, b. 1782, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1857, Morgan Co., KY; m. WILLIAM CONGLETON, January 11, 1800, Shelby Co., KY; b. Abt. 1771, Beaufort Co., NC; d. Bef. 1850, Wolfe Co., KY.

More About MARGARET WILCOCKSON:

Burial: Mouth of Buck Creek, Wolfe Co., KY

83. DANIEL4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born March 13, 1755 in Rowan Co., NC, and died June 16, 1837 in Shelby Co., KY. He married SARAH FAULKNER October 1780 in Boonesborough or Bryant's Station, KY. She was born July 15, 1760 in Spotsylvania Co., VA, and died August 10, 1831 in Kentucky.

Notes for DANIEL WILCOCKSON:

At the siege of Boonesborough Sep 1778 (400 Indians and British soldiers vs. about 60 men at arms).

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Received via e-mail from Bill Scroggins

Daniel Wilcoxson (Willcockson, Wilcoxon, Wilcoxen, Willcocks, Wilcocks, Wilcox) has been traditionally considered by descendants to be the son of John Willcockson and Sarah Boone, who moved from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Rowan County, North Carolina. Sarah Faulconer (Falconer, Faulkener, Faulkner) was a daughter of John Faulconer and Joyce Craig, who moved from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, to Kentucky in 1779. Daniel Wilcoxson came to Kentucky in 1775 from North Carolina and settled at Boonesborough with his uncle Daniel Boone. Daniel Wilcoxson and Sally Faulconer were married in October 1780 at Bryan’s Station in the part of Kentucky County, Virginia, that became Fayette County, later that year.# [Wilcoxson and Allied Families, Dorothy Ford Wulfeck, Naugatuck, CT, 1958; The Boone Family, Hazel Atterbury Spraker, Rutland, VT, 1922, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1974.]

In 1898, Sarah Jane Herndon, who was over eighty years old, recalled some of the

stories about Bryan’s Station, which had been told to her by her grandmother Martha

Faulconer Stephens: [Reminiscences of Mrs. Martha Faulkner Stephens and her Stay in Bryant Station, Sarah Jane Herndon, typescript copy, Lockett Smith, 12 May 1936, Filson Club files, Louisville.]

July 1898

I remember when I was a little child and that was a long, long time ago, as I am nearing my four score years, sitting by Grandmother’s knees, Martha Faulkner Stevens, daughter of Jossa Falkner, fifth daughter of Tailfera Craig the (or she) first married Martha Hawkins died in 1795 as she sat at the foot of her bed and leaned her chair back against the foot board knitting and telling me of Indian times and of Bryant Station knowing the Indians were not far off they sent to Lexington for reinforcements but before they got there the Indians came headed by Simon Girty, a white man, when he (Simon Girty) called it was my great great grandmother Craig that talked to him they had drums and a life (fife) in the fort and everyone that could handle a stick was given something tin and a stick and beat on the tin imagine the noise.

Girty said afterwards he thought they had a full fort, about one hour reinforcement of - (I have forgotten how many horsemen but I think it was about 20) arrived.

The women and girls took bucket pails and piggins and went for water the woods were full of Indians, they said they could have killed them but would not because they were so brave.

Another incident when plowing time came Daniel Wilcox and brother were in the fields, Daniel was plowing his brother sitting on a log picking the flint of his gun. (one would plow and the other watch for Indians) When an Indian slipped up and tomahawked the one on the log, Daniel ran the Indian after him. The Indian was so near than when Daniel was on the top of the fence the Indian was at the bottom, his mother, Aunt Wilcox was so excited she went out of the fort gate and would hollow "run Daniel run" and let him run in the gate and then followed and the Indian said they could have killed him but he was such a fast runner they wanted to capture him.

A little more Indian news and I am through. My grandfather, John Stevens and grandmother, Martha Faulkner were married in 1785. Was born in Orange county, Virginia. His brother Benjamin Stevens settled near Bryant Station and moved to what was then Campbell County. My grandfather went down in Franklin. Six miles east of Franklin on the Lees town road (Leaving Grandmother with her father, Jossa Faulkner on the south of Lexington about five miles, (near where uncle Lewis Faulkner lived) and built a house. Log house of course and then went back to Fayette for grandmother, that same night the Indians came and burnt it.

He built another house near the first in after years he added more to it and weather boarded it and it is standing today.

He was plowing not far from the house, and Grandmother was out near him, when the news came that the Indians had attacked the Cook settlement, throwing off the gear jumped on his horse taking his gun with shirt and pants, told grandmother to shut up the house and take the old gray mare and go to her father’s taking her child Benjamin in her (this was in the afternoon) and went eighteen miles and the only (road) was through the woods or rather wilderness, the trees being blazed.

Grandmother got to the Cooks which was near the fork of Elkhorn creek a short time after the Indians left one of the men was killed in the other one (being only two) got in the house and helped the women to bar the door, one of the Mrs. Cook’s could shoot a gun but did not know how to load it, the other Mrs. Cook could then bullets began to get fewer and fewer, one of them bit the bullets into and kept up the firing. The Indians then set the house afire, they had hens setting under the house, so tearing up the floor, they took the eggs and put out with them. The Indians thinking the man in the house was still living left. My grandfather helped bury the brothers side by side in one grave.

So good bye for the present.

Mrs. S. Jane Herndon.

Grandfather volunteered when he was about sixteen years old in the revolusing work and served until closed also at Bryant Station and was amongst to first to receive a pension paid by Col. Richard Johnson who got the bill passed. (Grandfather was John Stephens.)

Copied by Lockett Smith,

May 12, 1936.

Regarding the parenthetical correction to the statement in the first paragraph of these memoirs, "Martha Faulkner Stevens, daughter of Jossa Falkner, fifth daughter of Talifera Craig the (or she) first married Martha Hawkins died in 1795," it seems likely that "the" did not mean "she" but that the transcriber read "who" as "the" or "she." The sentence undoubtedly was intended to state that "Martha Faulkner Stevens, daughter of Jossa Falkner, daughter of Talifera Craig WHO married Martha Hawkins AND died in 1795."

There is a handwritten marginal note by the first paragraph that corrects the name Martha Hawkins to Mary Hawkins.

Also the identification of Joyce Craig Faulconer as father in "Leaving Grandmother with her father, Jossa Faulkner on the south of Lexington," obviously should read, "with her mother, Jossa Falkner." Similarly the statement, "Grandmother got to the Cooks," should have been written, "Grandfather got to the Cooks."

This is the only narrative about the incident at Bryan Station which identifies Sarah Wilcoxson as the mother of Daniel. The others refer to her as his wife, which probably represents confusion over their having the same names, Sarah Boone Wilcoxson and Sarah Faulconer Wilcoxson. Sarah Faulconer Wilcoxson was an aunt of Sarah Jane Herndon’s mother Ann Stephens who married Thomas Shockley.

George Bryan, one of the family that built Bryan’s Station, recalled, in an interview with the Reverend John Dabney Shane, that Daniel Wilcoxson came to Kentucky from North Carolina with a group of thirty men in 1775:# [Wilcoxson and Allied Families, supra note 1, transcript, Draper manuscript 16C976, 9Sh 18b, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.]

30 men of us came out in 1775 - it was 1776 when we got here.

1. Daniel Wilcox, nephew of Col. Boon.

2. David Wilcox, son of John W., nephew of Col. Boon.

3. Wm. Cradlebaugh, a Dutchman

4. ----- Cradlebaugh, a Dutchman

5. John Roper

6. Thos: Thompson

7. W: Lee was our Barber. Used to shave us. Lee’s Lick not far from Cynthiana, called for him.

8. Jas: Forbush & his 2 sons.

9. Jas: Forbush

10. Wm: Forbush

11. Jacob Johnson

12. Saml: Bryan - my uncle.

13. Wm: Bryan

14. Jno: Bryan

15. Geo: Bryan - myself

16. Jas: Bryan, oldest bro: had been in Tenn.; was comg back we met him & he turned w. us.

17. Morgan Bryan - bro:

18. Abhm: Wilson

19. Jos: Murphy

20. Moses Baker - bros:

21. Michael Baker - bros:

22. Wilson Hunt

23. Saml: McMahon - bros:

24. Wm. McMahon - bros:

We lay on Cumberland river when a deep snow fell. It fell in the night, as we lay on the bank. We got to Bnsbgh: Feb. 1776. There was then there no fort, only a cabin at the mouth of the Lick branch. They aftwds: concluded to remove the settmet: & place the fort up in the bottom, where there was more room. In 1777, I think it was (when Boon got back, it was) they made the change.

The transcript of the list of thirty men included only twenty-four names, but the transcriber made no comment on that disparity, nor on the identification of David Wilcox as a "son of John W., nephew of Col. Boon," who was not included in the published genealogy as such.# [Wilcoxson and Allied Families, supra note 1.] However other family records do include David Willcockson as a son of John Willcockson and Sarah Boone.# [Towamencin Historical Society files, Morgan Log House, Kulpsville, PA, 1978, data of Mrs. Estelle Cosby, Giles County Historian, Goodsprings, TN.]

The Wilcoxsons and Boones lived on the Yadkin River in North Carolina, from where Daniel Boone made his first exploration of eastern Kentucky in the winter of 1767-68, on a hunting expedition. In the spring of 1769 he began a hunting and exploration trip into Kentucky, that lasted for two years. On this expedition he was accompanied by John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holder, James Mooney and William Cool. Stewart, who was Daniel’s brother-in-law, was killed by Indians in December 1769. Squire Boone, Jr., Daniel’s brother, met the adventuring hunters with fresh supplies, at some point during the trek. The brothers returned home to the Yadkin Valley in May 1771. Daniel Boone attempted to move his family into Kentucky in 1773, with a group of five families and forty men. En route the pioneers were attacked by Indians in the Powell Valley and six men, including Boone’s oldest son James, were killed, causing the group to abandon their plan and return to North Carolina. With the fort at Boonesborough under construction in

1775, Daniel Boone successfully moved his family to the west. His wife and daughter were the first white women to stand on the banks of the Kentucky River.#

Despite their precarious existence, the handful of settlers at Boonesborough, and their small group of friends at the earlier settlement at Harrodsburg, survived. At the end of 1777, there were twenty-two men at Boonesborough, sixty-five men at Harrodsburg and fifteen men at Logan’s Fort, which was also known as St. Asaph’s. One hundred and two men, and their families, against the wilderness; hundreds of miles from their source of re-supply; determined to make their new place of residence habitable and to defend it against the Indians, who were incited and equipped by the British to drive the pioneers back across the mountains to the east. Not only did the frontiersmen defend themselves successfully, they were able to mount small attacks against the Indians and British at times. In 1778 the Americans were on the offensive, under Colonel George Rogers Clark, whose great campaign against the British in Illinois, during the summer of 1778, resulted in the victory at Kaskaskia and the control of St. Vincents (Vincennes).#

In his application for a pension, as a veteran of the Revolutionary War, Daniel Wilcoxson stated that he was born on 13 March 1755, and that, in September 1778 in Rowan County, North Carolina, he volunteered as a private in the company of Captain John Holder, which was ordered to Kentucky, then a part of Virginia, to defend the fort at Boonesborough. In approving his application, the government attributed his service to eighteen months in the North Carolina Line:#

State of Kentucky

Shelby County Sct

On this 17 day of December 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Shelby County Court now sitting Daniel Wilcoxen of the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky aged 78 years the 13th day of March next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, That he was born in the year 1755 on the 13th of March in the fall of the year 1778 in September he volunteered as a Private in the said county of Rowan and State of North Carolina in the company commanded by Capt. John Holder which company was ordered to come to Kentucky, then a part of Virginia, to guard and defend Boonesborough, a fort situated on the Kentucky River, He and the said Holders company remained at Boonesborough, until the first of July 1779, when he was ordered to Bryants Station, at which place he remained in service until the fall 1783 being four years in service at that place, three years of which time he the said Wilcoxen was Lieutenant, first in Capt William Hogans company, secondly in Capt Robert Johnstons company, the father of Col Richard M. Johnston, in whose company he the said Wilcoxen remained until the fall 1783 when he was discharged, The said Wilcoxen has his age Recorded in a family bible at his house, He the said Wilcoxen resided in Woodford County Kentucky from the time he left Bryants Station until twelve years since, when he moved to Shelby County where he now lives, He knows of no living witness by whom he can prove all his services, He further states that he has lost his commission as lieutenant, and his discharge, He the said Wilcoxen hereby Relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or Territory Sworn to and subscribed on Open Court the day and year aforesaid

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Daniel X Wilcoxen

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We Abraham Cooke a Clergyman Residing in the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky and Robt. F. Gale Residing in the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Wilcoxen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 78 years of age, that he is respected and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid

Abrm Cook

Robt F Gale

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Abraham Cooke who has signed the preceeding Certificate is a Clergyman Resident in the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky and that Robert F Gale who has also signed the same, is a Resident in the County and State aforesaid, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Wm. Shanks -- JPSC

I James S. Whitaker Clerk of the Court Shelby County Kentucky, do hereby Certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Daniel Wilcoxen for a pension. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 19th day of December 1832

Att

Ja S Whitaker C

Children of DANIEL WILCOCKSON and SARAH FAULKNER are:

i. MARTHA5 WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1780; m. (1) JOSEPH WILSON, October 06, 1797, Woodford Co., KY; m. (2) JESSE RICE, June 26, 1806, Shelby Co., KY.

ii. ANN WILCOCKSON, b. May 18, 1780, KY; d. 1860, Of Shelby Co., KY; m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Abt. 1803; b. May 18, 1780, VA.

iii. DANIEL WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1781, Of Woodford Co., KY; d. November 13, 1877, Red Colony, Sevier, AR; m. LUCY MASTERSON, December 10, 1816, Shelby Co., KY; b. 1795.

iv. FRANCES WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1782, Fayette Co., KY (then VA); d. Bet. 1820 - 1825, Of Shelby Co., KY; m. SETH COOK, February 27, 1796, Woodford Co., KY; b. Abt. 1766, Halifax Co., VA.

174. v. MARY WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1786, Fayette (now Woodford) Co., KY (then VA); d. August 09, 1842.

vi. WILLIAM WILCOCKSON, b. April 12, 1789, Fayette (now Woodford) Co., KY (then VA); d. October 06, 1874, Barren Co., KY; m. CATHERINE WILCOCKSON, December 18, 1818, Green Co., KY; b. November 07, 1798, VA; d. November 09, 1882.

Notes for CATHERINE WILCOCKSON:

Event: Marriage Minister 18 DEC 1818 in By William Moss, Green Co., KY

vii. JANE WILCOCKSON, b. July 17, 1791, Woodford Co., KY; d. Aft. 1882, Shelby Co., KY; m. WILLIAM BOHANNON, February 09, 1808, Woodford Co., KY; b. April 19, 1786, Mercer Co., VA.

viii. ISAAC WILCOCKSON, b. August 04, 1796, Woodford Co., KY; d. September 27, 1848, Barren Co., KY; m. NANCY WILCOXSON, December 06, 1828, Barren Co., KY; b. May 22, 1808, Barren Co., KY; d. December 16, 1874, Barren Co., KY.

Notes for NANCY WILCOXSON:

Marriage Minister 6 DEC 1838 in Rev. Daniel Shirley

Name alternatively given as Nancy Herron

ix. JOHN WILCOCKSON, b. 1798, Kentucky; d. Probably Lauderdale Co., AL; m. LEVINA RICE, September 13, 1821, Shelby Co., KY.

x. SARAH WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1800, KY; d. Aft. 1834; m. HUGH MONTGOMERY, December 10, 1820, Shelby Co., KY; b. November 01, 1800.

xi. JOYCE WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1802; m. ABRAHAM LEWIS, September 18, 1821, Shelby Co., KY.

xii. LEWIS WILLCOCKSON, b. September 12, 1803, Woodford Co., KY; d. May 10, 1861, Shelby Co., KY; m. (1) NANCY MILES, October 27, 1829, Shelbyville, Shelby Co., KY; b. November 18, 1810, Shelby Co., KY; m. (2) LARUINDA GRIFFY, October 01, 1846, Shelby Co., KY.

84. SAMUEL4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1755 in Rowan Co., NC, and died 1825 in Estill Co., KY. He married ANNE JORDAN. She was born 1756 in NC, and died 1840 in Fulton Co., IL.

Notes for SAMUEL WILCOCKSON:

# Church Affiliation 1794 Three Forks Baptist Church (Dismissal) 1

# Event: Church Locality 1794 Wilkes Co., N.C. (later Watauga Co.)

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Bill Scroggins:

Samuel Willcockson probably died in Estill County, Kentucky. He is buried in a cemetery next to St. Helen's Grade School in Lee County, Kentucky, which was formed partly from Estill County. Among the flat fieldstone markers, beside the remains of an Indian mound, in a grove of old beech trees, only one is inscribed:

Here Lies The Body of Samuel Willcockson

Born 1755 Died N V R 1825

The date of death is crudely engraved but the rest of the inscription was carved in beautiful and precise Gothic letters.

The date of birth conflicts with Daniel Willcockson's stated birth date of 13 March

1755.

More About SAMUEL WILCOCKSON:

Burial: Cem. Next to St. Helen's Grade School, Lee Co., KY

Children of SAMUEL WILCOCKSON and ANNE JORDAN are:

i. ALFRED5 WILCOX.

ii. FRANCES WILCOX.

iii. JESSE WILCOX.

iv. MARY WILCOX.

v. SARAH WILCOX.

vi. SQUIRE WILCOX, b. 1779; d. 1837, Fulton Co., IL; m. SARAH TATUM.

Notes for SQUIRE WILCOX:

Sarah Tatum, who married Squire Willcockson, was a daughter of James Tatum, whose will was dated in 1822 and was probated in Ashe County, North Carolina, in 1828. After serving in the War of 1812, as a militia captain in North Carolina, Squire Willcockson moved to Estill County, Kentucky, about 1815 and to Fulton County, Illinois in 1828

175. vii. SAMUEL WILCOCKSON, b. 1780, Rowan Co., NC; d. 1859, Texas.

176. viii. ELIJAH WILCOXEN, b. July 24, 1789, North Carolina; d. July 03, 1860, Fulton Co., IL.

177. ix. ISAIAH WILCOCKSON, b. 1795, Wilkes Co., NC; d. February 20, 1870, Willard, Pike Co., KY.

x. DEBORAH WILCOCKSON, b. March 03, 1801, Ashe Co., NC; d. April 08, 1872, Fulton Co., IL; m. (1) DANIEL JENNINGS; m. (2) THOMAS T. BYBEE.

85. MARY4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1759 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan Co., NC, and died Aft. 1849 in Lafayette Co., MO. She married RENELDER WALKER November 28, 1778 in Wilkes Co., NC. He was born Bet. 1749 - 1750 in Prince George Co., MD or Frederick Co., MD, and died Bet. 1825 - 1828 in Knox or Whitley Co., KY.

Notes for RENELDER WALKER:

Bill Scroggins:

Renaldo and Mary Willcockson Walker lived in Claiborne County, Tennessee, near Cumberland Gap, when their son Pleasant Walker was born on 08 March 1796

Children of MARY WILCOCKSON and RENELDER WALKER are:

i. NATHANIEL5 WALKER, b. 1779, Wilkes Co., NC; d. September 09, 1859, Saline Co., MO; m. MARGARET GOODIN, October 31, 1811, Knox Co., KY.

ii. JOHN WALKER, b. 1779.

178. iii. MARY WALKER, b. 1780, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1860, Whitley Co., KY.

iv. SAMUEL WILCOCKSON WALKER, b. 1782, Wilkes Co., NC; d. March 16, 1849, Lafayette Co., MO; m. NANCY ENYARD FARRIS.

179. v. JESSE P. WALKER, b. 1783, Wilkes Co., NC; d. 1871, Whitley Co., KY.

vi. DIANA WALKER, b. 1788.

vii. JOEL HAYDON WALKER, b. December 07, 1789, North Carolina; d. 1875, Johnson Co., MO.

More About JOEL HAYDON WALKER:

Burial: Liberty Cem., Johnson Co., MO

viii. JANE D. WALKER, b. Bet. 1791 - 1794, North Carolina; d. February 20, 1875, Bates Co., MO; m. JAMES B. SEARS, December 03, 1812, Knox Co., KY.

ix. RACHEL WALKER, b. November 06, 1794, North Carolina; d. February 28, 1835, Henry Co., MO; m. WILLIAM THOMAS SWIFT; b. May 28, 1798.

x. ELIAS WALKER, b. 1793, Wilkes Co., NC; m. MARIA MOFFETT.

xi. PLEASANT PHILIP WALKER, b. March 08, 1796, Claiborne Co., TN; d. May 24, 1879, Shawnee Mound, Henry Co., MO; m. (1) REBECCA LANGFORD; d. January 1832; m. (2) MISSOURI ADELINE LINDSAY, October 22, 1840, Henry Co., MO.

xii. SARAH "SALLY" WALKER, b. 1798; m. JOHN F. SHARP, May 14, 1819, Whitley Co., KY.

xiii. GEORGE WILCOXSON WALKER, b. 1800.

86. WILLIAM4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Abt. 1760 in Rowan Co., NC, and died Bef. November 1828 in Barren Co., KY. He married NANCY SPARKS, daughter of WILLIAM SPARKS and ANN.

Notes for NANCY SPARKS:

Lynne Gorden Howard Date: May 20, 2001 at 18:09:11 (Sparks GenForum):

I am looking for information on Nancy SPARKS and William WILCOXSON

(spelled a variety of ways). William WILCOXSON was the son of Sarah

Cassandra BOONE (sister of Daniel BOONE)and John WILCOXSON. Sarah and John

lived in NC before moving to KY. Nancy SPARKS was the daughter of William

SPARKS and ANN ?. Is there anyone out there who comes down from these

lines? Love to connect! Lynne Gorden Howard boch@dwx.com

Children of WILLIAM WILCOCKSON and NANCY SPARKS are:

i. DANIEL5 WILCOCKSON.

ii. MARTHA WILCOCKSON, m. DAVID CALDWELL, February 21, 1810, Green Co., KY.

iii. MARY WILCOCKSON, m. JOHN MASTERS.

iv. NANCY WILCOCKSON, m. WILLIAM MANN, April 04, 1808, Green Co., KY.

v. RACHEL WILCOCKSON, m. JOHN TIBBS.

vi. SARAH WILCOCKSON, m. HORATIO SHORT, February 07, 1814, Green Co., KY.

vii. THOMAS WILCOCKSON, m. SARAH.

viii. GEORGE WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1783; m. RACHEL HALL, April 04, 1808, Green Co., KY.

ix. ISAAC WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1784, Wilkes Co., NC; d. November 08, 1826, Howard Co., MO; m. PRISCILLA HACKLEY, August 06, 1804, Franklin Co., KY.

x. WILLIAM WILCOCKSON, b. Abt. 1794, North Carolina; m. ELEANOR GALLOWAY, April 27, 1814, Green Co., KY.

xi. CATHERINE WILCOCKSON, b. November 07, 1798, VA; d. November 09, 1882; m. WILLIAM WILCOCKSON, December 18, 1818, Green Co., KY; b. April 12, 1789, Fayette (now Woodford) Co., KY (then VA); d. October 06, 1874, Barren Co., KY.

Notes for CATHERINE WILCOCKSON:

Event: Marriage Minister 18 DEC 1818 in By William Moss, Green Co., KY

87. RACHEL4 WILCOCKSON (SARAH3 BOONE, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Bet. 1765 - 1770 in Rowan Co., NC, and died Abt. 1821 in Calloway Co., MO. She married WILLIAM BRYANT 1790 in Rowan Co., NC. He was born 1754 in Orange Co., NC, and died October 01, 1834 in Stonesport, Boone Co., MO.

Notes for WILLIAM BRYANT:

Birth date and place given by other sources as 1739, Wales (information from Norma Nyberg, GSCM Reporter Quarterly 12(2) Summer 1993, 50-51). Nyberg listed the following children in addition to Jeremiah: Hiram Bryant, Huram Bryant, Thomas Bryant born 10 January 1795; Benjamin Bryant,

Rachel Bryant, Susan Bryant, Henry Bryant was born in 1802, William Bryant, George Bryant, Elizabeth Bryant. No citation of sources.

This information on date and place of birth provided 05/14/2000 from based on statement in his pension application. William Bryant claim number in the U. S. National Archives is s-16660 and award is 22339. ref to date of birth. Ray Burgess, Watsonville, California 95076.

In applying for a Revolutionary War pension, William Bryant made a declaration in Boone County, Missouri, Circuit Court, on 25 June 1833, that he was aged 79 and that he was born in Orange County, North Carolina, in 1754. He volunteered into the militia in Rowan County, North Carolina, on 10 February 1780, and was sent to Goose Creek, about thirty miles from Charleston, to guard prisoners, wagons and munitions. Here he was captured by a scouting party belonging to Tarlton's dragoons. He served eight months as a private and did not explain how he was released from captivity. In January 1781, he turned out under Captain Hemphill to chase Tories and his unit joined with General Green for the Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina. On 30 March 1781 he enlisted as a private in the Regular Army under Captain John Dial and was discharged in 1782. Afterward he lived in Fayette, Madison, Estill and

Montgomery counties, Kentucky, and in Calloway and Boone counties, Missouri. [Note 66] Family tradition reports that, after he was captured, William Bryant was placed on board a prison ship in Charleston harbor, from which he escaped by jumping overboard and swimming ashore to rejoin his military unit.

In his will, dated 27 September 1824, William Bryant of Boone County, Missouri, mentioned his wife Nancy, sons Henry, Thomas, Benjamin, Hurum, Jeremiah, William and George, and a daughter Elizabeth Shifflet. The estate was administered by John Ellis, who listed the known legatees of William

Bryant, on 29 September 1845,as the heirs of Hiram (sic) Bryant of Boone County, Henry Bryant of the same place, Susan Hutcherson of unknown residence, Hiram (sic) Bryant of Kentucky, who supposedly was dead, Thomas Bryant and Ben Bryant, both of unknown residence, and three or four children, whose names are not known, by a second marriage. [Note 67] The first Hiram must have been intended to be Hurum.

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Bill Scroggins:

Due to the similarity of their surnames, which are spelled interchangeably in variants, William Bryant who married Rachel Willcockson may have been a nephew of William Bryan, who married Mary Boone, sister of Sarah Boone Willcockson, about1755, in Rowan County, North Carolina. William Bryan, who, with his brothers, built Bryan's Station near Lexington, Kentucky, was born in 1733 and died on 07May 1780 in Kentucky, from wounds received from Indians on 01 May 1780, while on a hunting expedition. William Bryan, Jr., was killed by the Indians, when his father was mortally wounded.

In applying for a Revolutionary War pension, William Bryant made a declaration in Boone County, Missouri, Circuit Court, on 25 June 1833, that he was aged 79 and that he was born in Orange County, North Carolina, in 1754. He volunteered into the militia in Rowan County, North Carolina, on 10 February 1780, and was sent to Goose Creek, about thirty miles from Charleston, to guard prisoners, wagons and munitions. Here he was captured by a scouting party belonging to Tarlton's dragoons. He served eight months as a private and did not explain how he was released from captivity. In January 1781, he turned out under Captain Hemphill to chase Tories and his unit joined with General Green for the Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina. On 30 March 1781 he enlisted as a private in the Regular Army under Captain John Dial and was discharged in 1782. Afterward he lived in Fayette, Madison, Estill and Montgomery counties, Kentucky, and in Calloway and Boone counties, Missouri. Family tradition reports that, after he was captured, William Bryant was placed on board a prison ship in Charleston harbor, from which he escaped by jumping overboard and swimming ashore to rejoin his military unit.

This declaration disproves the family tradition, held by some, that confuses William Bryant, who married Rachel Willcockson, with William Bryan of Bryan's Station. It indicates that William Bryant probably was not at Bryan's Station before 1782. It also refutes the published statements that William Bryant was born in Wales in 1739; that he came to America in 1764; that he served in the Revolutionary War for two and a quarter years in Blount's Company, beginning on 26 April 1778; and that he was a captain under Colonel Todd and Colonel Boone during the Revolution in Kentucky.

In his will, dated 27 September 1824, William Bryant of Boone County, Missouri, mentioned his wife Nancy, sons Henry, Thomas, Benjamin, Hurum, Jeremiah, William and George, and a daughter Elizabeth Shifflet. The estate was administered by John Ellis, who listed the known legatees of William Bryant, on 29 September 1845,as the heirs of Hiram (sic) Bryant of Boone County, Henry Bryant of the same place, Susan Hutcherson of unknown residence, Hiram (sic) Bryant of Kentucky, who supposedly was dead, Thomas Bryant and Ben Bryant, both of unknown residence, and three or four children, whose names are not known, by a second marriage. The first Hiram must have been intended to be Hurum.

Children of RACHEL WILCOCKSON and WILLIAM BRYANT are:

i. JEREMIAH5 BRYANT, b. August 20, 1791, Estill County, Kentucky; d. July 11, 1834, On a Missouri River Steamer; m. MARTHA PLUMMER; b. Abt. 1790, VA; d. Bef. August 16, 1860, Boone County, Missouri.

Notes for JEREMIAH BRYANT:

GSCM 1996, 44-45; data from Norma Nyberg, GSCM Reporter Quarterly 12(2),

Summer 1993, 51.

Evans and Thompson, Wills and Administrations of Boone Co., MO, p. 9:

BRYANT, JEREMIAH - No. 198 - Adm. Martha Bryant Admr. Gr. Sept. 29, 1834.

F.S. Sept. 18, 1856. Heirs - Martha Bryant, widow; Rachael, Christiana, Susan, Crayton P., Cornelia, Jeremiah M., Martha, America, Amanda, and Sally F. Bryant, children.

Notes for MARTHA PLUMMER:

1840 census, BRYANT, Martha 6-98, Cedar Township.

NARA M-432, Roll 392, 1850 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Dist. No. 8, p. 423, #1301/1301: Martha Briant, 58, f, $3000, Virginia; Jeremiah M, 25, m, [birthplace omitted]; Jeremiah Jones, 11, m, Missouri; Cornelia Coons, 27, f, Kentucky; Martha A, 3, f, KY.

NARA M-653, Roll 608, 1860 U.S. Census, Boone Co., MO, Cedar Township, p.

707, #513/496: Martha Bryant, 72, f, $200/$7500, KY; Jeremiah M Jones, 20,

m, MO.

Evans and Thompson, Wills and Administrations of Boone Co., MO, p. 73:

BRYANT, MARTHA - No. 1755 - Will. John Ellis & Jeremiah Bryant, Exec. Gr.

Aug. 16, 1860. F. S. Apr. 5, 1869. s. Jeremiah M. Bryant, d. Susan Ramsey,

gr. s. Jeremiah M. Jones, s. Craton P. Bryant, d. Christiann Coons, d.

Martha Melon, d. Corneliann Coons. Wit. July 15, 1858 Richard Spencer &

Gilpin A. Jones.

180. ii. HIRAM BRYANT, b. Abt. 1792, Clay Co., KY; d. 1839, Breathitt Co., KY.

iii. THOMAS BRYANT, b. January 10, 1795; d. September 05, 1846, Ripley (now Carter) Co., MO; m. MARY BENNETT, December 11, 1817, Estill Co., KY.

iv. BENJAMIN BRYANT, d. 1866, Polk Co., Iowa; m. ELVIRA BURGE, June 1846, Polk Co., Iowa.

v. RACHEL BRYANT.

vi. SUSAN BRYANT.

vii. HENRY BRYANT.

viii. GEORGE BRYANT.

ix. ELIZABETH BRYANT.

x. WILLIAM BRYANT.

88. JESSE4 BOONE (ISRAEL3, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1748 in Pennsylvania, and died Abt. 1830 in McMinn Co., TN. He married SARAH MCMAHAN Abt. 1772 in Rowan Co., NC, daughter of JAMES MCMAHAN.

Notes for JESSE BOONE:

raised after his parent's death of consumption by Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone.

Patricia Joubert, Rootsweb Worldconnect:

JESSE BOONE, oldest child of Israel Boone, was born in 1748, either in Pennsylvania or Virginia, died in McMinn County, Tennessee, about 1830; buried in the family graveyard at the old Homestead where he had lived, near Athens, Tennessee.

Married about 1772, in Rowan County, North Carolina, Sarah McMahan, daughter of James McMahan of Rowan County.

From selected portions in Dr. Hodges' book, including additional quotes from Dr. Draper, in his "Notes on Jesse Boone", page197, the following is noted:

"Jesse Boone was a son of Israel Boone, a brother of Col. Daniel Boone"; and from notes left by Daniel's son Nathan and wife, "Young Jesse was mainly raised by Daniel Boone and wife".

Daniel had married only 2 months after his brother Israel's death. And Jesse's granddaughter, Mrs. Sarah Henderson said, "His parents dying when Jesse was young, he lived in Daniel Boone's family".

Jesse was known to have gone into Kentucky a time or two with Daniel and his brother Squire Jr., to help with supplies.

Jesse is said to have been about 5 feet, 8 to 10 inches tall.

According to the findings of Dr. Hodges, Jesse first entered land in Burke County in 1777, and by 1801, he had entered four tracts. Burke County was just being formed in 1777, but it was not uncommon for persons wishing to settle in a new county, to go a year or two in advance of its establishment, and "squat" on the portion which they wished to occupy for a home site. The land grants are recorded in the Raleigh Land Grant Office.

Jesse Boone raised his family of 8 children in Burke County, but soon after 1810, he moved to the Watauga territory of North Carolina, settling near Coffey's Gap of the Blue Ridge, now know as Watauga County, the County Seat of which is Boone. A creek flowing through that section into the Watauga River was named Boone's Fork. (Dr. Hodges).

Jesse Boone was always an active worker in the church, having been chosen clerk and "Dacon" at different times in the old Yadkin Baptist church in Burke County. The church in the Watauga section to which they moved after 1810, was called the Three Forks Baptist Church. It had been founded in 1790, and its old Minutes, still preserved, contain many entries concerning the Boone's. But after several controversies with the Three Forks Church, a short time before leaving North Carolina, Jesse was said to have been excommunicated because of a remark he made. This may have been the reason he decided to make another move, as he was quite advanced in years at the time.

He sold his farm in 1823, and moved to McMinn County, Tennessee where he built with his own hands, his last home, a large room twenty by twenty feet with a lean-to. The house had a large stone fireplace that would take a log 6 feet long, and it was equipped with pot hangers and all that went with a good fireplace in those days. Behind the house was a small cabin for their faithful old Negro woman, Dinah, who had come with them from Burke County, North Carolina, and had joined the Three Forks Church with them. She lived to be more than a hundred years old.

The church in McMinn County was known as the Zion Hill Baptist Church, and is located about 5 miles east of Athens, Tennessee. It was organized in 1822, by a group of pioneers standing on the banks of Chester Creek. They then cut logs and put up the first church building. The Zion Hill Church is the oldest church in McMinn County and is still active, and the Cemetery well-kept.

Sometime after the move to McMinn County, Tennessee, Jesse Boone came forward to the Church and explained to them the situation between him and the Three Forks Church, and the people at the Zion Hill Church decided that he had been wrongfully excluded, and they wrote his former church requesting a letter, but the Church refused to send one. However, the Zion Hill Church was more lenient, and voted to accept Jesse as a member, letter or no letter. At this time Jesse was about 80 years old, and in the old church Minutes, he is referred to as "Old Father Boon", possibly because his grandson, Jesse Boone, was also a member of the same church.

The following are a few quotes from the old Zion Hill Minutes:

page 21: 3rd Saturday in February 1828: "Old Father Boon came forward to the Church and stated that he had been a member in the Baptist Church and was excluded from church and told us the circumstances and we concluded to write the church where it was done for a bill of charges, and appointed brethren John Byler and James Sewell to write the church concerning the matter".

page 26: 3rd Saturday in February 1829: "Received an answer from the New River Church concerning Old Father Boon's case and laid the matter over until the old man could be present".

One record states that Jesse Boone died in 1829, so his health may have been poor at this time.

The Courthouse of McMinn County was in Athens, and was burned during the Civil War, but most of the old records were saved, and persons interested in historical records, come from all over the country, seeking information on ancestors who lived there.

(JESSE BOONE'S LAND GRANT)

Grant No. 503

Jesse Boone this day enters as occupant enterer, agreeable to law, the southwest corner of Section 5, Township 5, Range 1, East of the Meridian, in the county of McMinn, Hiwasse District. Beginning on the Northwest corner of said quarter, 160 acres.

July 27, 1824 Jesse Boone

(NOTE: This will of Jesse Boone was copied from Dr. Hodges' book)

In the name of God, Amen. I, Jesse Boon of the county of McMinn and State of Tennessee, of sound and disposive mind and memory do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament.

1st, I commit my Soul to God who gave it, and my body to my friends that it may be decently buried.

All my property, both real and personal, that may remain after my debts are paid I lend to my beloved wife, Sarah Boon, for her use during her natural like and widowhood. After her death I wish my Negro woman, Dinah, be freed and set at liberty.

My land lying on Middle Creek to be divided between my sons Israel and Jonathan according to lines thereto agreed a fore, viz. the parts laid off for Israel and Daniel Boone to belong to Israel and the parts laid off for Jonithan Boon and Marvel Coffey to belong to Jonithan, the whole to be valued at seven hundred dollars; out of the property which may then remain, I give to the amount of two hundred dollars to Jonithan Wilson, Smith Coffey, William Coffey and William Gragg, which with a Negro man named Martin heretofore given to them and valued at five hundred dollars is intended as equivalent to the land already disposed of, then the remainder, if any, to be equally divided between Daniel Boon, Israel Boon, Jonithan Boon, Marvel Coffey, Jonithan Wilson, Smith Coffey, William Greeg and William Coffey.

Lastly, I appoint Israel Boon and Asbury M. Coffey Executors of this my last will and Testament.

Signed, sealed and published in presence of us this 23rd day of Nov. 1829.

Jesse Boon (Seal)

Witnesses:

A. M. Coffey

Jonithan Allen

Copied from McMinn County, Tennessee, Wills, Book A -- Fragment, Book B -- Complete. Copied under Works Progress Administration, 1936.

Isabell E. Allmond

Asst. Librarian, N.S. D.A.R.

Certified to be a true copy of the original record. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of May, A. D. 1950, at Washington, D.C.

(Notarial Seal) Ida E. McWhorter

Notary Public

(NOTE: The Will of Jesse Boone was copied from Dr. Hodges' book)

Children of JESSE BOONE and SARAH MCMAHAN are:

181. i. JONATHAN5 BOONE, b. Abt. 1775, Rowan Co., NC; d. 1849, Osage, Maries Co., MO.

ii. DANIEL BOONE, b. Bet. 1776 - 1777.

iii. ISRAEL BOONE, b. February 07, 1780.

iv. SARAH BOONE, b. Abt. 1781.

v. HANNAH BOONE, b. Abt. 1783, Burke Co., NC; d. November 22, 1886, Caldwell Co., NC; m. SMITH COFFEY, Abt. 1802, Burke Co., NC; b. 1776, Albemarle Co., VA.

vi. ANNA BOONE, b. July 26, 1785; m. WILLIAM COFFEY.

vii. CELIA BOONE, b. Abt. 1790; m. WILLIAM GRAGG.

viii. RACHEL BOONE, b. Abt. 1793.

89. JONATHAN4 BOONE (ISRAEL3, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born November 21, 1750 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan Co., NC, and died Abt. 1826 in Caldwell Co., NC. He married SUSANNAH NIXON 1773 in Rowan Co., NC. She was born September 18, 1751 in North Carolina, and died Abt. 1821 in Caldwell Co., NC.

Notes for JONATHAN BOONE:

Raised after his parent's death of consumption by Daniel and Rebecca Bryan

Boone.

Nov 1815, Jonathan an elder of Three Forks Baptist Church, Watauga Co., NC

1816, he is ordained by Reuben Coffey and Elijah Chambers

1819, he is disowned for drinking and non-attendance

More About SUSANNAH NIXON:

Burial: Kincaid Cem. near Lenoir, NC

Children of JONATHAN BOONE and SUSANNAH NIXON are:

i. JEMIMA5 BOONE, b. May 1786.

182. ii. THOMAS JONATHAN BOONE, b. November 22, 1774, Rowan Co., NC; d. Bet. 1850 - 1860, Burnsville, Yancey Co., NC.

183. iii. RACHEL BOONE, b. January 11, 1777, Rowan Co., NC; d. 1869, Owen Co., IN.

iv. JESSE BOONE, b. January 06, 1779.

v. MARY BOONE, b. November 24, 1780.

184. vi. ELEANOR BOONE, b. August 08, 1783, Burke Co., NC; d. March 1820, Burke Co., NC.

vii. JEREMIAH BOONE, b. February 08, 1785.

185. viii. JOHN BOONE, b. September 19, 1789, Burke Co., NC; d. November 22, 1837, Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC.

186. ix. JOEL BOONE, b. January 19, 1792, North Carolina; d. Of Shelby Co., IN.

90. ELIZABETH4 BOONE (ISRAEL3, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born November 28, 1752 in Rowan Co., North Carolina, and died 1817 in Fayette Co., Kentucky. She married JOHN POWER Abt. 1770 in Rowan Co., NC. He was born 1748 in VA, and died 1802 in Fayette Co., KY.

Child of ELIZABETH BOONE and JOHN POWER is:

187. i. MARY5 POWER, b. November 10, 1773; d. July 07, 1836, Marthasville, Warren Co., Missouri.

91. SARAH "SALLIE"4 BOONE (ISRAEL3, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born 1754 in Rowan Co., NC, and died February 1777 in Fort Boonesborough, Madison Co., Kentucky. She married JOHN MCMAHAN Abt. 1770 in Rowan Co., NC.

Children of SARAH BOONE and JOHN MCMAHAN are:

i. JAMES5 MCMAHAN, b. February 13, 1771, Rowan Co., North Carolina.

ii. JESSE MCMAHAN, b. 1773, Rowan Co., NC.

iii. WILLIAM MCMAHAN, b. 1775.

iv. JOHN MCMAHAN, b. 1777, Ft. Boonesborough, KY.

92. JOHN4 BOONE (JONATHAN3, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born Bet. 1755 - 1767, and died February 27, 1837 in Guilford Co., NC. He married ANNA STARNES. She died August 06, 1860 in NC.

Notes for JOHN BOONE:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncrandol/bits.pieces.html

John Boon (Boone) died on 27 Feb 1837 in Guilford Co., NC. First cousin of Daniel Boone. John offered his daughter Polly a negro when she married, but she refused. Polly was greatly opposed to slavery. Information on John Boon's family comes from Dorothy Ellington, page 52, Alamance County, edited by Elinor Samons Euliss, copyright 1984. Guilford Co., NC book B, page 562, the will of John Boon made while "frail & Weak" on march 16, 1834. Wife Anne, Sons; Jacob, John, David, Jesse Lewis, William and Caleb (the youngest), Daughters; Catherine (deceased), Polly (deceased), Betsey May, Ann, Barbara and Milly. Exr, son Jacob.

Witnesses; Jos. Gibson and Mary Ann Gibson. A codicil made July 22, 1836.

Death date from Montgomery May

Bible, copy in archives at Raleigh, NC. The same source has an ANNA BOON

dying 6 Aug 1860.

Child of JOHN BOONE and ANNA STARNES is:

188. i. MARIA "POLLY"5 BOONE, b. January 23, 1785; d. September 27, 1825.

93. SUSANNAH4 BOONE (DANIEL3, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born November 02, 1760 in Yadkin River area, NC, and died October 19, 1800 in St Charles Co., MO. She married WILLIAM HAYS March 1775 in Fort Blackmore, VA. He was born December 13, 1754 in NC, and died December 13, 1804 in St. Charles Co., MO.

Notes for SUSANNAH BOONE:

http://www.danielboonefamily.org/children/susannah/susannah.shtml

Susannah was born 2 (3?) November 1760 at the Boone home on the Yadkin River in North Carolina. In the family Bible her date of birth is given as 3 November 1760 but the date was added at a later time and her actual date of birth is believed to be 2 November 1760. She died 19 October 1800 in St. Charles County, Missouri, only one year after the move from Kentucky. Susannah was buried on the family farm (Spanish Land Grant #1670) in what is now Matson, Missouri in the Missouri River bottoms. The cemetery was washed away by floods and her grave can no longer be found. A small rocking chair passed down in the Hays family and now housed at the Daniel Boone Home in Missouri, is said to have belonged to Susannah. The family says she brought it with her in the Boone's dugout canoe when they all moved from Kentucky.

Susannah married William Hays in March, 1775 at Fort Blackmore on the Clinch River in Virginia. Not much is known about this William Hays. He was born in North Carolina on 13 December 1754. We are still trying to research his family. [There were a lot of men named William Hays in his time period.] He accompanied Daniel Boone on his first expedition to cut The Wilderness Road into Kentucky. William was a soldier and was well educated. He became a Captain in Captain John Holder's company at Boonesborough in 1779. He and Susannah moved with her parents to Missouri in 1799. William worked as a tailor in Missouri and we have found original receipts from his tailoring business.

William Hayes was killed by James Davis, his son-in-law, on 13 December 1804 in St. Charles County. The Grand Jury indictment "in Louisianna Territory under American government" read as follows.

"That one James Davis, late of the District of St. Charles, in the territory of Louisiana, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil, on the 13th of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four (1804), at a place called Femme Osage, in the said district of St. Charles, with force of arms, in and upon William Hays, in the peace of God and the United States, there and then Felonicously, willfully, and with malice aforethought, did make an assault, and that the said James Davis, with a certain rifle gun, four feet long, and of the value of five dollars, then and there loaded and charged with gun powder and one leaden bullet, with said rifle gun the said James Davis then and there in his hands had and held, fired and killed William Hays."

William Hays had quarreled with James Davis and had told him not to come on his place, but he did anyway. Mr. T.P. Davis of Wright City, Missouri, a descendant of James Davis, said in 1958, that the arguement was over a land dispute.

William Hays was said to have been a heavy drinker and prone to fights and disturbances. Apparently because of his 'rough reputation' sympathy seems to have been with James Davis. In fact it is said that even though Daniel Boone, as Commandant of the Femme Osage District, was the one who arrested James Davis and delivered him to the "calabazo" in St. Charles, he spoke up on his behalf and believed that William Hays had pulled a pistol on James Davis first. The shooting was eventually determined to be "self defense."

Notes for WILLIAM HAYS:

A weaver by trade, he was more educated than many on the frontier and helped Daniel Boone "some in writing an improved hand." He was with Boone at Fort Boonesborough in 1776 which is where his first child was born. He was part of a daring rescue of Fort Bryan. In 1781 he was in charge of building canoes and gathering provisions fro George Rogers Clark. He left Kentucky in 1799 for Missouri. He was killed by his son in law, James Davis in 1804. It is suspected that William had a drinking and wife beating problem that may have led to the shooting. Davis was acquitted.

Children of SUSANNAH BOONE and WILLIAM HAYS are:

i. ELIZABETH5 HAYS, b. June 12, 1776, Ft. Boonesborough, KY; d. August 03, 1828, Missouri; m. ISAAC VAN BIBBER.

ii. JEMIMA HAYS, b. August 31, 1778, Boonesborough, KY; d. November 06, 1843; m. JAMES DAVIS.

iii. WILLIAM HAYS, b. 1780, Boone's Station KY; d. 1845, Callaway Co., MO; m. PHOEBE STEVENS.

iv. SUSANNAH A. HAYS, b. 1782, Kentucky; m. (1) JOSHUA DODSON, August 25, 1801, St. Charles Co., MO; d. Abt. 1816; m. (2) JAMES MURDOCK, July 13, 1818, St. Charles Co., MO.

189. v. BOONE HAYS, b. Abt. 1783, Kentucky; d. 1850, While traveling to California.

vi. DELINDA HAYS, b. 1784, Kentucky; d. Bef. 1846, Montgomery (now Warren) Co., MO; m. LEWIS JONES, March 21, 1815, St. Charles Co., MO; b. Virginia.

vii. DANIEL HAYS, b. December 07, 1789, Kentucky; d. March 23, 1866, Femme Osage, St. Charles Co., MO; m. MARY BRYAN, April 28, 1813, St. Charles Co., Missouri.

viii. GREENUP HAYS, b. 1790; m. ELIZA CLANTON.

ix. MAHALA HAYS, b. 1792; m. JONATHAN DAVIS.

x. JESSE HAYS, b. 1794; d. Bef. 1818, (unmarried).

94. JEMIMA4 BOONE (DANIEL3, SARAH2 MORGAN, EDWARD1) was born April 10, 1762 in Yadkin River Country, Rowan County, North Carolina, and died 1829 in MO. She married FLANDERS CALLAWAY 1777 in Boonesborough, Kentucky, son of RICHARD CALLAWAY and FRANCES WALTON. He was born December 09, 1758 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died August 19, 1824 in MO.

Notes for JEMIMA BOONE:

Kidnapped by Indians from the Kentucky River in 14 Jul 1776 and rescued by the settlers (led by Daniel Boone) after a 2 or 3 day chase. One of the kidnapping Indians was the famous Cherokee Hanging Maw. When she was an old woman she said, "The Indians were really kind to us, as much so as they could have been, or their circumstances permitted." Her husband to be was one of the rescuers. When Daniel was captured by the Shawnee, it was she who waited for him in Kentucky when the rest of the family retreated to North Carolina. It was with her that Daniel lived in his old age.

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http://www.danielboonefamily.org/children/jemima/jemima.shtml

Jemima Boone was born 4 October 1762 in North Carolina. She is one of the most widely recognized of Daniel Boone's children, mainly because of the much published story of her kidnapping by Indians and subsequent rescue by her father and future husband.

Jemima lived at Fort Boonesborough for several years. She seems from all accounts to have been much like her father, in that she enjoyed the wilderness of Kentucky in spite of the dangers and was very heroic.

On a warm summer day, 7 July 1776, Jemima and two friends, Betsy Callaway and Fanny Callaway, managed to talk their parents into letting them take the fort's only canoe for a short float trip on the Kentucky River. Jemima had, a few days earlier, stepped on the "staub" of a cane stalk which stabbed into the bottom of her foot. On this Sunday, she begged her father, saying that her foot still hurt and she wanted to dangle it in the cool water for awhile. Daniel Boone, enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon gave in. The girls had gone a short distance when the canoe jammed on the edge of the bank across and down the river from the fort. Before they could free the canoe, a band of Indians came out of the tall canebrake and grabbed all three of the girls.

The three girls were marched through the woods barefoot. The Indians, seeing how the girls were slowing them down tore strips of cloth from the bottom of the girls' skirts and fashioned leggings to cover their feet. Jemima started tearing off bits of thread and fabric and dropping it along the trail whenever she could risk it under the watchful eye of their captors.

The girls' families back at the fort did not realize they had not returned until "milking time." Discovering the jammed canoe and the missing girls, Daniel Boone headed into the forest and up the high rocky bluffs without taking time to return to the fort for his shoes. He tracked the Indians through the forest for many hours before another of the men, arrived to help in the search, and brought along a pair of moccasins for Daniel.

The Girls were held captive for 2 days and nights before a dramatic rescue by Daniel Boone, Flanders Callaway, and some other men from Fort Boonesborough. Jemima is said to have stated that she knew the whole time that her father would find her and bring her home.

When Daniel Boone was taken prisoner by the Shawnee in 1778 and adopted by Chief Blackfish, most everyone believed that he had been killed. This time even his wife, Rebecca believed that he was dead. She took her children and along with her married daughter, Susannah and husband, William Hays, returned to North Carolina to her relatives. However she could not convince Jemima to go along. Jemima never gave up hope that her father would return and she didn't intend for that to happen with no family there to greet him. She stayed at Fort Boonesborough and was there to meet him the day he made it back to the fort after escaping from the Indians in Ohio. Later they learned that the very day that Rebecca had arrived back at the Bryan cabin in North Carolina, Daniel had arrived back at Fort Boonesborough.

Jemima Boone worked alongside the men in times of attack at Fort Boonesborough. She made bullets, kept the guns loaded, put out fires from burning arrows, bravely led a group of women to the spring to get water while the fort was under siege, and could shoot a gun with precision when it was needed. She learned to survive from her father, Daniel Boone.

Jemima married Flanders Callaway in 1777 at Boonesborough. Flanders was born in Virginia on 9 December 1752, a son of James and Sarah Callaway. He was a much respected and well liked man both at Fort Boonesborough and throughout his life.

Flanders Callaway formed a close bond with Daniel Boone and respected and learned from him. He went on many long hunting trips with Boone and became a seasoned woodsman and trapper. In 1799 when Daniel moved west to Missouri, Flanders and Jemima, along with their children, were with them