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Descendants of Matthew Rogers




Generation No. 1


1. MATTHEW2 ROGERS (PETER1) was born Abt. 1718 in Ireland?, and died Bet. 1762 - 1767 in Hampshire CO, VA now Mineral CO, WV. He married ANN WOOELS Unknown in ?.

Notes for MATTHEW ROGERS:
Men and Manors In the South Branch Valley

Submitted by: Sara Stevens Patton

Between 1745 and 1797, the South Branch Valley lay within the boundaries of the Fairfax "Northern Neck" land grant, bordered on the north by the Potomac River and in the south by the Hardy-Rockingham county border, extended through Cabins, WV to the headwaters of the northern branch of the Potomac. Within this South Branch portion of his proprietary lands, Lord Fairfax created at least four separate tracts or manors including the South Branch Manor, the South Fork, the Wappacomo or Great South Branch of the Potowmack, and the Peterson Creek Manor. Each was subdivided into lots of a few hundred acres, most to be leased out for the term of 21 years (the life of the tenant) or more, at an annual fee of 25 shillings per hundred acres.

The two primary manors, consisting of about 55,000 acres each, were located along the South Branch of the Potomac. The Wappacomo, or Great South Branch of the Potowmack (sic), lay on both sides of the South Branch River from its mouth on the Potomac to the southern end of the Trough near Old Fields. The "South Branch Manor" extended from the southern tip of the Trough along the river south and west to the Petersburg area to the Royal Glen Gorge and included the lower portions of Mill Creek and Lunice Creek. The third tract lay on the South Fork from its mouth near Moorefield, south to Brake. This tract included only 18 lots. Another 10,000 acres situated along Patterson Creek was divided into 31 lots, extending from Headsville to just southwest of Russeldale on today's maps.

The best description of the South Branch Valley manor lands, their somewhat complicated history, geography, tenure agreements, and the names of the earliest settlers associated with these manors (ca. late 1740s-1750s) appears in two excellent articles by Charles Morrison entitled "Early Fairfax Land Grants and Leases Along the South Branch of the Potomac," in West Virginia History, V37 (Oct 1976), pp. 1-22 and "Early Land Grants and Settlers Along Patterson Creek," in West Virginia History, V40 (Winter 1979), pp. 164-199. Morrison indicates that the rental lists for the South Branch Manor found in the Library of the WV Dept of Archives and History are incomplete, not completely accurate, and undated (though internal evidence shows them to be prior to 1763). But they do include many of names of the lessees or those associated with him, perhaps as witness or bondsman.

1748-1749 Grants on Patterson Creek
Below (North Of) Patterson Creek Manor

Lot # Name Acreage & Approximate Location
1
George Parker
399a
2
John Adam Long
293a
3
Nicholas Reaner
277a
4
John Ratan
354a
5
Abram Johnson
293a
6
David Thompson
312a
8
Power Hasel
328a
10
Nicolas Crist
167a
11
Joseph Hamlin
289a
12
John Parker
312a
13
Mathew Rogers &
379a

Jacob Good
394a
15
Joseph Walter
238a
21
Joseph Robinson
332a
22
Philip Martin
283a
(Nephew of Lord Fairfax)
X
Capt. John Greenfield
200a

The following road orders are taken from Miller, Ann Brush, ed.Orange County Road Orders, 1734-1749. Charlottesville: Virginia Transportation and Research Council, 1984; Pawlett, Nathaniel Mason and Ann Brush Miller, Kenneth Madison Clark, and Thomas Llewellyn Samuel, Jr., eds. Augusta County Road Orders, 1745-1769. Richmond: Virginia Department of Transportation, 1998; and Frederick County Order Books 1-5, microfilm in Winchester, Handley Library.

FC, 3:120, 8 August 1749

On the petition of James Ross, Edward R[?]th, Thomas Rumsey, Jasper Sutter, Francis Ross, John Parker, Simon Irishman, Peter Peterson, John Cunningham, John Ross, William Castleman, Oliver Creamer, Thomas McGuire, Matthew Rogers, John Baur, Nicholas Crist, Power Hazell, John [?]anel, Richard Hazell, William Tallor, George Tebalt, Joseph Robinson, Abner Anderson, William Johnston, John Large, Richard Doston, Jacob Good, Robert Bennett, Caleb Dowd, Christopher Barr, Charles Keller, George Undergrest, William Anderson, Peter Hart, Bagman, Rogers, Frederick Ice, Thomas Hide, Jacob Willf, Michael Teebolt, and Ebearm Baud for a road from the lower part of Patterson's Creek by Power Hazels into the wagon road which leads from the Courthouse [in Winchester] to the South Branch. It is ordered that the said Power Hazel view, mark, and lay off the said road, and when laid off, that the petitioners clear and work on the same under the said Power Hazel, who is hereby appointed overseer thereof. And it is further ordered that the said Power Hazell cause the said road to be kept in good repair according to law.

EARLY SETTLERS OF THE PATTERSON CREEK VALLEY
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/pattcksettlers.htm
This information is from the JC Sanders Papers. I'm assuming they were compiled around 1930. At that time, he stated this information was obtained from papers in the possession of Mrs. J H A Brown, a descendent of Abraham (?Abram) Johnson.

Some of the Johnson family, probably either William or Abraham, were connected in some official way, manager or atent, of the Ohio Company whose Ware-houses and store stood on the river bluff at Ridgeley from 1750 till about 1755 when the VA Colonial Government took it and converted in into a Fort. Among these Johnson papers is an account of this Ohio Company with Abraham Johnson
through William Johnson and is as follows:
Dr. Abraham Johnson to the Ohio Company
1750
Oct 5 To Sundrys sent by Wm Johnson
1 Blanket.......................................Lo--16--0
1/2 yd of red stroud.......................@12/6yd. 6--3 L1--2-3
Nov 6 To 1 1/2 yd of half thicks...............@ 3/6-------------L0--12-6
L2--0-0
Cr.
Nov 6.................By Cash..................L0--5--8
Ball'c due the Ohio Company......................................L0--5--8
12--0--0
"Errors excepted"
Evidently the manager of the Company was Mark Webster as the reverse of the accoutn is receipted by him. An old stitched account book bears the following notations:
Hogs -2622 lbs.-----2718 bls -------2710 lbs.

John Koukindal--Dr. in liker-----------0---0---9
Ditto ----------------------------0--0----6
Ditto to ches ----------------------------- 1---5---0
Cr'dt John Koukidal - in "Pancelvany" money--------2007---6
Cr'dt in Cash---------------------------------------------------------7--8
John Koukindal payd to William Anderson in money.4...4...7
Payd to Richard Polson for hog-----------------------------0---6---2
Benjamin Kukendol----------hogs---------------------------35--13--5
John Kukandal----------------hogs----------------------------4---7---7
Dr. to Matthew Rodgers for two hogs---------------------1--17--0
Credit to William Anderson for hogs----------------------14--14--0
Benjamin Kunendal payd in corn----------------------------0--3--0
Mr. Nunigens--mony-------------------------------------------21--00--0
Mr. Stradolds--mony-------------------------------------------6--15--0
Mr. Rays---------mony------------------------------------------12--13---0
Mrs. Ray--------mony------------------------------------------24--14---5
Mr. Cambel-----mony-------------------------------------------5--15--3 1/2
John Deker-------------------------------------------------------1---3---2
Fat for the Company--------------------------------------------14 pounds
From these papers we glean that the following families were settlers in the Patterson Creek Valley and the region between Fort Ashby and Fort Ohio previous to 1750,
JOHNATHAN ROLFE, THOMAS HARDING, WILLIAM HONSON, ABRAM JOHNSON, OKEY JOHNSON,
SOLOMON HEDGES, ROBERT ALLEN, THOMAS CHESTER (sheriff of Frederick Co 1745), QUINTIN
MCCOLME, JAMES COLWELL, MARK WEBSTER (manager of Ohio Co 1750), ALEXANDER CAMPBELL,
SAMUEL LOCKHART, THOMAS ROSS, SAMUEL CANAL, NICHOLAS REASONER, RICH WILLIAM,
NATHANIAL COOPER, EZEKIAL MULFORD, JOHN DECKER, JOHN KUYKENDALL, BENJAMIIN
KUYKENDALL, HUMPHREY BROOK (Clerk of Hampshire Co 1754), WILLIAM ANDERSON, RICHARD
POLSON, MATTHEW ROGERS, NUNIGENS, STRADOLDS, RAY.
From other sources we gather the following residents of that section at that time:
ELIAS SELLER, THOMAS SELLERS, JOHN ASHBY, PARKER, EDWARDS, MCGUIRE, MACGRIGGEN,
WISE, KELLER AND WAGANOR.


Early Presbyterian Congregations (website)
Patterson's Creek Church, Fort Ashby (also called Frankfort), Mineral Co.,
West Virginia est. 1768
The creek was first settled about 1735, Fort Ashby was built in 1755 and was a trading post with a garrison. The census of 1782 showed 622 inhabitants along the creek. Patterson's Creek congregation appears for the first time on the records of the Donegal Presbytery on October 13, 1767, with a request for a licentiate to supply with, of course, a view to a settlement.

Fort Ashby was built next to Patterson Creek. At the time it seemed like an ideal spot; however, the low hills nearby allowed the indians to loft fire arrows over the stockade. In fact, the fort caught fire a few times, but the proximity to the creek enabled the settlers to survive the indian wars.

In 1756 Troops under George Washington stayed at the fort while enroute to Fort Cumberland. Fort Cumberland was under indian siege, then. The local militia under Col. Ashby joined Washington on the March to Cumberland. Washington surprised the indians. The battle was a route. The indians fled. Word of the victory reached the capitol. Soon people spoke of the heroics of Fort Ashby. Ever since then it has been called Fort Ashby.

Additional data re Fort Ashby:
John Lederer, a German physician and explorer employed by Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, was the first Englishman to set foot in present day Mineral County. He explored the area in 1669. One of the earliest settlers in the county was a farmer named Brown. He entertained George Washington in his cabin when Washington passed through the county in 1748 on behalf of the Ohio Company, a land investment company. In 1755, Colonel George Washington gave the order to build a stockade and fort on the east side of Patterson's Creek, at the present site of Frankfort. The Fort (later called Ashby's Fort, in honor of Colonel John Ashby who commanded the militia there for many years)served as part of the colonists' line of defense during the French and Indian Wars (1754-1763).

All that territory comprising the Patterson Creek Valley and area between Patterson Creek and Knobley Moutains ending at Ridgeley was prosperous agricultural land at the beginning of the French and Indian War. But the inhabitants were soon driven east to the Blue Ridge. Washington, when writing to Gov. Dinwiddie from Winchester in 1756, states that all the inhabitants of the Hampshire County west of the South Branch Valley have been driven out and the land is a barren forsaken section. "The plantation of Paterson’s Creek is entirely ruined..the smoke of the ruined houses is so great as to hide the adjacent mountains, and obscure the day." The Gentlemen’s Magazine, London, January 1756 My note: WHERE did the Matthew Rogers family live during the French and Indian War??

Excerpt quoted from "Rogers Run" (James Rogers and His Descendants) by "Rogers Run", by Linda Saul Czany, 1977:
"Most of the early events of the Rogers family took place in the royal colony of VA, which included all of what is now KY, WVA, part of SW Pennsylvania, and all of the Northwest Territory to the Mississippi River. In 1792 KY became a state and WVA in 1863 as a result of the Civil War. It must be remembered that events which took place before 1792 in the present day KY would be considered as taking place in VA. The same is true of events in WVA.
The Rogers family, beginning with Matthew Rogers, said to be born in Ireland, settled on Patterson Creek, Frederick CO, VA, (now WVA). Matthew...was granted 370 acres of Lot 13, Patterson Creek Manor, by Thomas, Lord Fairfax on June 10, 1749. He was later granted another 115 acres along the creek by Lord Fairfax on May 19, 1762."

SIMS INDEX TO LAND GRANTS IN WEST VIRGINIA HAMPSHIRE COUNTY VA (MINERAL COUNTY WV) 1762 - 1863

NAME OF GRANTEE ACRES LOCAL DESCRIPTION YEAR BOOK PAGE
Rogers, Mathew 115 Patterson's Cr 1762 1 130

(NOTE: The formation of the county authorized 13 Dec 1753 by the General Assembly of VA, effective 1 May 1754. parts of the CO were included in the land grant given to Thomas Lord Fairfax and surveyed by the young George Washington.

Romney was first settled by hunters and traders around 1725. In 1738, John Pearsall (or Pearsoll)and his brother Job built homes in the town. Their settlement was then known as Pearsall's Flats. In 1748, Lord Fairfax sent a surveying party, including 16 year-old George Washington, to survey his lands along the Potomac and South Branch Rivers. Washington spent three summers and falls surveying Lord Fairfax's estate, which included present-day Hampshire County. In April 1748, he laid off several lots in an area known as the Trough, about 10 miles south of Romney, and he is known to have been in present-day Romney on October 19, 1749. Oral traditions claimed that Washington laid present-day Romney out into lots at that time, but written records from that era indicate that Romney was surveyed and laid out into lots prior to Washington's arrival by James Genn, another surveyor employed by Lord Fairfax.

In 1756, Fort Pearsall was constructed on Job Pearsall's plantation for protection against Indian raids and George Washington provisioned and garrisoned the Fort at various times until 1758. At that time,there were at least 100 people living in the general area. Following the end of hostilities in the area,Lord Fairfax recognized that more settlers would be interested in moving into the area and that he could earn some extra revenue by selling plots in the town. He sent a survey party to Romney in 1762 to formally lay out the town into 100 lots. Lord Fairfax then renamed the town Romney, in honor of a port city on the English Channel. Some confusion ensued for several decades concerning the ownership of land within the town as counterclaims were made by the original settlers and those who purchased lots laid out by Lord Fairfax's surveyors.

Hampshire County was the site of numerous battles during the 18th and 19th centuries. During the early 1700s, a fierce battle between the Catawba Indians, who lived in the county, and an invading party of Delaware Indians left hundreds dead at what is called the Hanging Rocks on the Wappatomaka River. It is believed that very few of the Delawares escaped. In 1753, Chief Killbuck led a group of Shawnee and other Indian warriors in a "death claim" for the lands near the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Ohio River. The residents in the Romney area built Fort Pearsall and formed themselves into a "regiment" under the command of George Washington to protect themselves.

According to Wilmer L. Kerns, WVA, email correspondence: "Patterson's Creek is in present-day Mineral County, WV. It was one of the early settlements in Old Frederick County. From notes of a speech that I delivered several years ago in Moorefield, WV, I quote:
Lot #13. Matthew Rogers Sr. built a log house on the east side of the (Patterson's) Creek, and received a Fairfax grant for 379 acres, June 10, 1749. George's Road is on this lot. Neighbors whose land touched Rogers' were: Joseph Hamblin, David Yart (York?), Jacob Good and Walter Casper. It is believed that Matthew Rogers Sr. died before 1753. His son, Matthew Rogers Jr. inherited the lot. (My note: this is incorrect, the father Matthew is known to have purchased more land in 1762 and the oldest son, William, inherited the property and subdivided it with his brothers.) The widow of Matthew Rogers Sr. married second to a Mr. Lindsey. Peter Beaver moved to this area about 1760.

Mr. Kerns further stated: I should add that Matthew Rogers was not in the Patterson's Creek Manor, but in the Patterson's Creek settlement that consisted of 22 lots that were closest to the Potomac River. The Manor lots were much further upstream and went into Grant County, WV.
In a subsequent email, Mr. Kerns stated that there were settlers on the Patterson Creek settlement as early as 1740, if not sooner. He thinks it could have been 1735, but there are no land records before 1748. The survey of the Patterson's Creek settlement was done by James Genn in 1748. Squatters were already living there waiting for a surveyor. Some did not live to receive a Fairfax grant, which was in 1749 or later.
He adds: Take my word that Matthew Rogers Sr. was the owner of Lot #13. This is proven by a map drawn by the surveyor in 1748. I am not aware that he may have owned land also in Patterson's Creek Manor. I do know that his primary residence was on Lot #13 in the Patterson's Creek settlement. I have visited his home site and studied his farm site. Re the 1753 date, I need to check my references, which means a trip to the courthouse in Romney, WV. I believe that I found the information in a land record. (10 Mar 1998)

Data below courtesy of Mel Rogers March 1998 email:
"Northern Neck of VA 1749-1771 (Frederick and Hampshire Counties)
1. Land Grants, 1747-1751, Book G, p. 159 By this grant, the Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Va conveyed 379 acres of land (Lot No. 13) on Patterson's Creek to Matthew Rogers (SR) on 10 June 1749.

2. Frederick County Deed Book 3, pp. 72-75 By this indenture, Jacob Good sold 290 acres of land on Patterson's Creek (Lot No. 14 to Matthew Rogers (Sr) on 29 Dec 1752 for 75 lbs current money of Pennsylvania. Apparently, Jacob Good obtained this tract from the Proprietor in a grant earlier, and a lease and release was involved in the purchase. Including this addition, Matthew Rogers had a total of 669 acres on this date. Note Pennsylvania currency was used to purchase this tract.

3. Land grants 1757-1762, Boo K, p. 431 By this grant, the Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Va conveyed 115 acres of land adjoining Lot No. 14 on Patterson's Creek to Matthew Rogers (Sr) on 19 May 1762. Considering this addition, Matthew Rogers Sr had a total of 784 acres on Patterson's Creek this date.

4. Hampshire County Deed Book 1, pp. 359-360 By this indenture, William Rogers and wife Sarah conveyed 264 acres of the 379 passed on 10 June 1749 to Matthew Rogers Sr to James Rogers on 14 April 1767. Since William Rogers owned this tract this date, one can discern that Matthew Rogers Sr died sometime between 19 May 1762 and 14 April 1767. Also, there is a record of James Rogers marrying and living in the West Augusta District of VA in 1766. He must have returned to Hampshire County about this time to get his share of his father's land.

5. Hampshire County Deed Book 2, pp. 163-165 By this indenture, William Rogers sold by lease and release 115 acres of land to Matthew Rogers (Jr) on 14 March 1770. This tract of land was the same for which Matthew Rogers (Sr) deceased obtained a deed from the Proprietor of the Northern Neck on 19 May 1762. Since this tract was that adjoining Lot No. 14 (290 acres), then William Rogers must have lived on Lot 14 himself.

6. Hampshire County Deed Book 2, pp. 161-165: By this indenture, William Rogers sold by lease and release 115 acres of land to Jonathan Rogers on 14 March 1770. This 115 acre tract was part of the original 379 acres conveyed by the Proprietor to Matthew Rogers Sr on 10 June 1749.

7. Hampshire County Deed Book 3, pp. 231-232. By this indenture, James Rogers and wife Martha sold 220 acres of land being part of the original tract patented by Matthew Rogers Sr (Lot No. 13, 379 acres) to Nathaniel Parker on 25 March 1771. This land fell to Matthew Rogers Sr's son William by the Va Law of Primogeniture (i.e., in intestate cases, property of a deceased person went to the first-born child--in this case to William the oldest son. Virginia abolished the Law of Primogeniture in 1785). William then sold the land to his brother James, possibly in accordance with the prior desire or intention by Mattew Sr to his son William.

My note: for an excellent history of Patterson Creek Manor, see http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh40-2.html
Included in this history is this statement:
"Lot No. 13 was apparently subdivided; in 1767 William Rogers conveyed 264 acres to James Rogers, and in 1772 Jonathan Rogers sold the remaining 115 acres to Peter Jones. "

From the book West Virginia History/Early Land Grants and Settlers, pages 176-177 p. 176 PLAT OF PATTERSON CREEK MANOR 1747/1793. The plat distinctly shows Lot 13 as part of the whole Patterson Creek manor from Genn's survey, 1747, and Neville's plat, recorded Sep 7, 1793. I had the document in front of me and it distinctly puts Lot 13 in the Plat of Patterson Creek Manor 1747/1793. "

Grandson John, son of Matthew, stated that his parents migrated from Hampshire CO (now WVA) and Yogohonia CO, VA (now PA.) Also stated Matthew, born 1718, died in 1770 in Hampshire CO.

NOTE: Hampshire CO was formed in 1754 from Frederick CO, Augusta was county seat.

A Rough Division of Hampshire County used for the Tax Enumerations of 1782 & 1784 listing the enumerator, number of his list in both years, general location, and names of a few residents. Use as a starting point for further research.
Submitted by Joyce Reiss

Enumerator
Abraham Johnson Location may be in area to the north.
List 12 & 6 Patterson's Creek, (Short Gap, Reeces Mill, Beaver Run)
Some residents: Umstott, Staggs, Rogers, Jones, Parker, Good, Hollenback, Cunningham, Cooper, Taylor, Beaver, Huffman

McGuire, Edward Grantee
8 December 1793.
NOTE
Location: Hampshire County.
NOTE
Description: 403 acres on the waters of Pattersons Creek adjoining the lands of Nathaniel Parker, and Matthew Rogers decd.
NOTE
Source: Northern Neck Grants W, 1792-1795, p. 338-339 (Reel 302).
NOTE
Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Surveys No. 2, 1788-1794, p. 489 (Reel 313).
NOTE
Original survey exists.
NOTE
Part of the index to recorded copies of land grants issued by the agents of the Fairfax Proprietary between 1690 and 1781 and by the Commonwealth between 1786 and 1874.

Notes for ANN WOOELS:
May have married a second time to a man with the surname of Lindsey.

More About ANN WOOELS:
Fact 1: Surname also given as Woods
     
Children of MATTHEW ROGERS and ANN WOOELS are:
2. i.   WILLIAM3 ROGERS, b. Abt. 1740; d. Abt. 1810, VA or KY.
3. ii.   JAMES ROGERS, b. March 04, 1741/42, VA or Ireland; d. March 24, 1828, Mercer CO or Boyle CO, KY.
4. iii.   MATTHEW ROGERS, b. Abt. 1744, Ireland; d. Abt. 1802, KY.
  iv.   JONATHAN ROGERS, b. Abt. 1746; d. 1783, Nelson CO, KY.
  Notes for JONATHAN ROGERS:
From the work Rogers Run (James Rogers and His Descendants) written by Linda Saul Czany: " Many people lived at Rogers Station, at least temporarily. Besides Col. James Rogers' family, his brothers Matthew, William, and Jonathan were there. (Jonathan's sudden death in 1783 may have been due to Indians.)"
Jonathan died unmarried.

Land Grants and Patents UVA Electronic Card File
Card 44
Cox, David 20 January 1784
Jefferson County
444a on Rogers Branch of Fromans Run a branch of Cox Creek adjoining Jonathan Rogers &c
Grants I, p. 336



  v.   NANCY AGNES ROGERS, b. Abt. 1748; d. 1833, IL; m. (1) JOHN "CAPTAIN" BAILEY, Abt. 1768; m. (2) JOHNSON, Unknown.
  Notes for JOHN "CAPTAIN" BAILEY:
1st husband of Nancy Agnes. see Notes for Col. James Rogers for court case after his death and Nancy's - no heirs were left other than Nancy's brothers' descendants. Case was not settled until 1856.
John Bailey was a Captain in George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment in 1778-9 as commissioned by VA...John Bailey..died 10/22/1822, Nancy lived on and appears to have died in 1833 in IL. (The Nelson CO Pioneer, Vol. 1V, No. 3, Bardstown, KY, Winter, 1880)

In the federal military pension files, in 1834, the "Pension Committee" approved a pension payment for Revolutionary Service to the widow of Captain John Bailey of Clark's Illinois Regiment. According to the papers Captain Bailey had died in 1822 in Nelson County, Kentucky, without heirs except for his widow.

VA Land Office Patents and Grants UVA Electronic Card File Card 33
Bailey, John 14 Aug 1786
Jefferson CO, KY
1000a
See Harrison, William and Bailey, John
14 August 1786
Grants 6, p. 123

Card 65
Harrison, William and Bailey, John 14 Aug 1786
Jefferson CO, KY
1000a on the waters of Floyds fork adjoining William Mays 1500 acre survey
Grants 6, p. 123
(My note: after Isaac Cox, the well-known founder of Cox's Station, the first such station to be built in Kentucky, was killed by Indians in 1788, his wife, the former Miss Enoch, married William May.)

"A History of Kentucky" By William B Allen, author of the Kentucky Officers' Guide. Louisville, Ky - Bradley & Gilbert, Publishers. 1872

pg 153

The first Constitution of Kentucky was formed, as has before been stated,
in the year 1792. At that time there were only nine counties in the State.
The Convention was held at Danville, Mercer County, where all previous
conventions of importance had been held. Among the members of that
Convention, even at so early a date, were some of the most talented men in
the United States. The following are the names of those who composed the
Convention and the counties they represented, some forty-five in all:

County of Fayette -- Hubbard Taylor, Thomas Lewis, George S Smith, Robert
Fryer, and James Crawford.

County of Jefferson -- Richard Taylor, John Campbell, Alexander S Bullitt,
Benjamin Sebastian, and Robert Breckinridge.

County of Bourbon -- John Edwards, James Garrard, James Smith, John
McKenny, and Benjamin Harrison.

County of Nelson -- William Keen, Matthew Walton, Cuthbert Harrison, Joseph
Hobbs.

County of Madison -- Charles Kavendor, Higgerson Grubbs, Thomas Clay,
Thomas Kenedy, Joseph Kenedy.

County of Mercer -- Samuel Taylor, Jacob Froman, George Nicholas, David
Rice, and Samuel McDowell.

County of Lincoln -- Benjamin Logan, John Bailey, Isaac Shelby, Benedict
Sayre, and William Montgomery.

County of Woodford -- John Watkins, Richard Young, William Steele, Caleb
Wallace, and Robert Johnston.

County of Mason -- George Lewis, Miles W Conway, Thomas Waring, Robert
Rankin, John Wilson.

Samuel McDowell, of Mercer County, was President of the Convention, and
Thomas Todd, Clerk.






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