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Descendants of David Trimble

Generation No. 1

1. DAVID² TRIMBLE (UNKNOWN¹) was born Bef. 1730 in County Armagh, Ireland, and died 1799 in Montgomery Co., Ky.. He married UNKNOWN HOUSTON.

Notes for DAVID TRIMBLE:
      David arrived in America in the early 1730s with his four brothers. There are several accounts that they landed in Baltimore, Maryland aboard a ship owned by the Moffitt and Hayes families. David was a surveyor and carried with him a letter of recommendation from Sir Archibald Atcheson. David first went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There the brothers left their youngest brother, Alexander, in the care of the Reverend Gilbert Tennent, a relative and minister of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Gilbert was the son of William Tennent, founder of Princeton University.
      Upon leaving Pennsylvania, David settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He remained there until about 1798 when he migrated with his family to Montgomery Co., Ky. He died shortly thereafter.

Notes for UNKNOWN HOUSTON:
While the first name of David's wife remains a mystery, it is certain she is of the same lineage as General Sam Houston, first president of the Republic of Texas and namesake of Houston, Texas. Sam Houston studied law under James Trimble, nephew of David and Sam Houston refers to James as a kinsman. The Houstons and the Trimbles lived on neighboring plantations in Virginia.


Children of DAVID TRIMBLE and UNKNOWN HOUSTON are:

	i.	JOHN³ TRIMBLE.
	ii.	NANCY TRIMBLE.
	iii.	THOMAS TRIMBLE, m. ABIGAIL GATLIFF, November 1785, Greenbriar Co., Va. (now WVa.).
2.	iv.	JAMES TRIMBLE, b. 1747, Shenamdoah Valley of Virginia; d. June 26, 1815, Bath Co., Ky. (Formerly Montgomery Co., Ky).
3.	v.	GEORGE TRIMBLE, b. January 01, 1756, Augusta Co., Va.; d. December 14, 1814, Bourbon Co., Ky..
4.	vi.	DAVID TRIMBLE II, b. 1760, Augusta Co, Va.; d. 1827, Montgomery Co., Ky..
	vii.	WILLIAM TRIMBLE, b. 1760.
	viii.	MARY (POLLY) TRIMBLE, b. Abt. 1765, Shenamdoah Valley of Virginia; m. JOHN MCKINNEY, September 20, 1785, Augusta Co., Va..

Notes for JOHN MCKINNEY:
In 1783 John McKinney was the first teacher in the first school in what is now Lexington, Ky.
John was a Revolutionary War soldier, a surveyor, and an Indian fighter. John was also a member of
the Constitutional Convention for Kentucky as well as an elder of the Green Creek Church near Clintonville, Kentucky.

5.	ix.		ISAAC TRIMBLE, b. Bef. 1767, Shenamdoah Valley of Virginia; d. 1816, Bourbon Co., Ky..
	x.		ELIZABETH (BETSY) TRIMBLE, b. 1769; m. FERGUS GRAHAM.

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