(1) Name: Daniel DUNCAN
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Misc. Notes
DANIEL DUNCAN [1] was about twenty years of age when he took up his residence in Paris. He soon became a prominent and respected citizen. In 1794 his father-in-law, Richard Timberlake, deeded him three hundred acres on "Paddy's run" and that same year he purchased from the Trustees of Paris an out lott no. 25. One James Taffe of Clark county, Kentucky, gave him power-of-attorney, in 1794, to make a deed to a lot in "Baltimore Town," Maryland, and there are numerous other records filed in the office of the county clerk of Bourbon county regarding this man who for forty years conducted his mercantile business and operated his farms in Paris and Bourbon county. On the first Friday in March, 1797, when the first election of trustees for the town of Paris (formerly Hopewell) was held, Daniel Duncan was among the six gentlemen elected. He was one of the trustees of the Bourbon Academy established by the State Legislature December 1798 and was elected treasurer at the organization meeting April 1st, 1799; was appointed by Governor Isaac Shelby justice of the peace of Bourbon county December 1794.[4] Daniel Duncan married Oct. 7, 1793 Mary Timberlake born Dec. 25, 1776, 10 miles north of Richmond, Virginia, to Richard Timberlake and his second wife, Mary (Munden) Smith born May 19, 1747, widow of Samuel Smith and daughter of Thomas and Rachel Munden. The first wife of Richard Timberlake was the sister of Samuel Smith, first husband of his second wife. In 1790 Richard and Mary Timberlake moved from Hanover county, Virginia, to Harrison county, Kentucky, settling four miles east of Cynthiana and a little later to a farm five miles from Paris, Bourbon county, on the waters of Flat Run. Mary Timberlake, wife of Daniel Duncan, had one own brother, Harry (Henry), who represented Bourbon county in the State Legislature 1814, and three half brothers viz: Samuel, Obediah and William Timberlake and three own sisters viz: Nancy who married Hon. Robert Trimble, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Rebecca who married James Findley of Cynthiana, Kentucky, and Betsy who married first George W. Baylor and second Mr. Chinn of Shelbyville, Kentucky, and one half sister, Sally Smith, who married John Clark of Hanover county, Virginia, who after his wife's death moved with his three children (two daughters and a son) to Harrison county, Kentucky; one of the Misses Clark married a Mr. Kelly of Cynthiana and the other Mr. Respass of Augusta, Kentucky. The will of Richard Timberlake was filed in Bourbon county October 1806.[5]
To Daniel Duncan and wife, Mary (Timberlake) Duncan were born ten children, seven of whom died in infancy and were buried in the Mt. Garrison (Gehrizon) Cemetery, Harrison county, Ky., where their maternal grandparents were interred and which had been given the Church by Richard Timberlake; three children lived to maturity, viz: I-HENRY TIMBERLAKE born Mar. 21, 1800, II-MARY DUNCAN born Sept. 29, 1802, and III-ELIZA DUNCAN born Dec. 9, 1804. Daniel Duncan died in Scott county, Ky., in the summer of 1833 and his widow removed to Missouri and died in Columbia, Boone county, March 1849.
[1]Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Vol. XXIV, pps. 661, 662; Vol. XX pps. 58, 173, 307, 755, etc.
[2] Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Vol. VI, p. 240.
[3] Manuscript compiled by the late John C. Underwood. Manuscript "Ancestral History" left by Mary B. Hardin (1887) granddaughter of Daniel and Mary (Timberlake) Duncan in possession of General George B. Duncan. The Story of Thomas Duncan and His Six Sons by Katherine Duncan Smith (1928). Family chart left by the late Henry T. Duncan in possession of his son, General George B. Duncan. Draper Mss. 16cc250-51 lists children of Daniel Duncan and birth dates; extensive notes gathered by Mrs. Geo. B. Duncan.
[4] Bourbon County Court Records; original minutes of Old Bourbon Academy; First Deed to Daniel Duncan dated 1793; Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 29, P. 209.
[5] Mary B. Hardin manuscript; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. XXXIII, p. 405; Collins' History II, p. 49; Kentucky Court and Other Records, vol. II, pps. 25, 113; Sketches of Paris, Bourbon County Kentucky, by Keller and McCann, p. 13.
Spouses
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1: Mary TIMBERLAKE
Father: Richard TIMBERLAKE
Mother: Mary
Children: Henry Timberlake
Mary
Eliza
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(2) Name: Eleanor DUNCAN
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Birth: January 1, 1795 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: July 14, 1875 Clay County, Missouri Age: 80
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
ELEANOR DUNCAN [1] born January 1, 1795, married January 23, 1817 Eddy Linn Breckenridge, born December 7th, 1788, son of Alexander and Magdolene (Gamble) Breckenridge of Bourbon county, Kentucky. Eddy Linn Breckenridge served in the War of 1812 and later moved with his family to Clay county, Missouri, October 29, 1829. He died July 1st, 1875.
Spouses
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1: Eddy Lynn BRECKENRIDGE
Birth: December 7, 1788 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: July 14, 1875 Clay County, Missouri Age: 86
Father: Alexander BRECKENRIDGE (1743-1813)
Mother: Magdalene GAMBLE (1745-)
Misc. Notes
Notes on Eddie Lynn Breckenridge: [2]
Eddie Lynn Breckenridge (or Eddy Linn Breckenridge) served 60 days in the Kentucky Militia under Captain Richard Watson during the War of 1812. In his pension records, his widow, Eleanor Duncan Breckenridge, described her husband as follows: "6 ft. 1 in. tall, blue eyes, dark hair."
Marriage: January 23, 1817 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Children: Robert (1825-)
Silas E. (~1829-)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
2. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
(3) Name: Eliza DUNCAN
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Father: Daniel DUNCAN
Mother: Mary TIMBERLAKE
Misc. Notes
ELIZA DUNCAN, [1] daughter of Daniel and Mary (Timberlake) Duncan, was born December 9, 1804, in Bourbon county, Ky., married Theodorick Jenkins, April 1822, died February 18, 1848, leaving nine children, viz: (I) HENRY D. married Mame Blackwell of Arcola, Mo., and had John B and Eliza Duncan Jenkins; (II) MARY B. JENKINS married Charles H. Hardin who at the time was located in Fulton, Calloway county, Mo., and who was later Governor of Missouri. Mary B. (Jenkins) left a valuable family record from which much of this information is taken; (III) DANIEL D. JENKINS married Sue Scott of Lincoln county, Ky., and had issue: Mattie, Mary Hardin, Eliza D., Alice Ford and Sue Dan Jenkins; (IV) CATHERINE ELIZA JENKINS married Wm. H. Cutright of Bourbon county, Ky., and had issue: Eliza, died at age of nine years, Henry Theodorick and Charles Hardin Cutright; (V) CARRIE SCOTT JENKINS married W. W. Wilson, merchant of Columbia, Mo., and had issue: Eliza Jenkins, Josiah Woodson married Ida Blue, Caroline (Carrie) Randolph married Alexander Carter, James married Roberta McFadden, Mary Hardin and Walter W. Wilson; (VI) JAMES (JACK) JENKINS married Pamelia Singleton of Boone county, Mo., and had issue: Charles, Lee, James, Harry and Kattie Jenkins; (VII) ROBERT B. JENKINS was accidentally killed while hunting at age of fourteen; (VIII) WASHINGTON died at age of nineteen; (IX) CORDELIA PORTIA JENKINS married William H. Kennon, located in Mexico, Mo., and had issue: Mary Hardin, Hattie Rogers, Carrie Jenkins, Florence Maitland and Churchill Bayard Kennon. There were three other children of Theodorick and Eliza Jenkins all of whom died before 1848 viz: Laura, an infant son and Thomas aged thirteen years.
Spouses
Unmarried:
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(4) Name: Henry DUNCAN Jr.
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Father: Henry Timberlake DUNCAN
Mother: Elizabeth Dunster PYKE
Misc. Notes
HENRY DUNCAN JR., [1] born in Bourbon county, Ky., August 30, 1836, married December 13, 1860 Elizabeth (Lily) Vertner Brand, born February 9, 1840, daughter of George W. Brand and wife, Nancy Abercrombie Griffith. Mr. Duncan was graduated from Harvard College 1859; made a distinguished record in U. S. Army; practiced his law profession in Lexington and later entered the field of journalism. He was the founder of the Lexington Daily Press 1870 (first daily paper in Lexington) which was merged with the Transcript as the "Press-Transcript." In 1896, he disposed of his interest in this publication to Desha Breckinridge who changed the name to the Lexington Herald. Mr. Duncan was elected mayor of Lexington in 1893 and re-elected in 1900. His weekly letters known as "Sunday Sermons" appeared in the Leader and Herald until his death on June 5, 1912. These articles were read throughout the nation because of their fearless attacks on officeholders operating under the spoils system. His wife died October 9, 1881.
Spouses
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1: Elizabeth Lily Vertner BRAND
Birth: February 9, 1840
Marriage: December 13, 1860
Children: George Brand
Eliza McAlester (1862-)
Edward (1864-)
Ellen (1865-1881)
Nana
Henry Timberlake
Lily
Margaret
Daniel (1874-1899)
Fannie
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(5) Name: Henry Timberlake DUNCAN
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Father: Daniel DUNCAN
Mother: Mary TIMBERLAKE
Misc. Notes
HENRY TIMBERLAKE DUNCAN, SR. [1]
1800-1880)
The Duncan family was of Scottish origin, tracing its descent from Thomas and Jane Duncan, residents of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1740. Their eldest son, William, married a teacher in a Moravian Seminary, Mary, the daughter of Francis Albert. After serving as first lieutenant of the Fifth Company of Cumberland County Associators during the Revolution, William Duncan died in that county in 1794.
Leaving Pennsylvania, his fourth son, Daniel Duncan, 1773-1833, arrived in Paris, Kentucky, in time to become acquainted with Mary Timberlake, 1776-1849, the daughter of Richard and Mary Timberlake, to whom he was married in 1795. At Paris he became an early merchant, continuing active in business until his retirement to a Scott County farm.
At Paris, his son, Henry Timberlake Duncan, the subject of our youthful portrait, was born. After completing his classical studies at Washington College, Pennsylvania, he studied law under his aunt's husband, Judge Robert Trimble, and began to practice in 1822. When the Northwest Territory was opened up he acquired several thousand acres in Illinois. One of his productive enterprises was a hemp factory which he established at Paris and operated for fourteen years, manufacturing bagging and rope. In the early thirties he moved to a farm where he began to raise thoroughbred cattle and sheep In this country residence, he installed one of the first two cooking stoves brought to Bourbon County, hauled by teamsters from an iron works near Kentucky River. It was so heavy that six strong men were required to lift it from the wagon. Furthermore, it was not an immediate success as a labor saving device, until some study was given to the operation of dampers, with which cooks were not familiar.
Oil on canvas, 26"' X 21". By Chester Harding
Owner: Mr. Henry Timberlake Duncan, IV, a great-grandson, Lexington
F. A. R. L. print from the late Major General George Brand Duncan
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HENRY TIMBERLAKE DUNCAN, SR. [2]
(1800-1880)
When G. P. A. Healy came to Lexington to paint the portrait of Henry Clay for Louis Phillipe, he made a replica of it for Mr. Clay's warm personal friend, Henry T. Duncan, then living at "Duncannon" about four miles from Lexington. One of the two personal mementos left to friends by the Great Commoner was a ring bequeathed to Mr. Duncan. Consequently, he was chosen chairman of the committee to erect the Clay monument in the Lexington Cemetery.
On this same painting trip Healy painted this maturer portrait of Mr. Duncan. By this time his sitter had acquired three thousand acres in the vicinity of Hutchinson, where he carried on the breeding and training of thoroughbreds. He owned and bred Bourbon Belle, dam of the Great Hanover, also Hanover's first three sons, Grand Parade, winner of the Epsom Derby, and Grey Eagle, celebrated in song and story. For Mr. Duncan, Trove, the renowned animal painter, painted the superb portrait of the little grey mare, Ophelia, the dam of great Grey Eagle. Finally Henry Duncan Moved to a home on Limestone Street in Lexington, where he continued to be the hospitable host to the great and the near great of the day. Of his twelve children four survived him, two shown in the previous illustration, Mary and Henry T. II and two born later, Ellen (Mrs. William Voorhies), and his wife's namesake, Elizabeth Dunster, affectionately known as "Miss Lily".
At Mr. Duncan's death the portrait was inherited by Henry T. Duncan II, 1836-1913, lawyer, captain, newspaper publisher, and mayor of Lexington. From him it descended to the eldest of his ten children, George Brand Duncan, a graduate of West Point in 1886, who became one of the distinguished American commanding officers of the Army of France in World War I. Now it belongs to his son.
Oil on canvas, 30" x 26". By G. P. A. Healy, 1845
Owner: Mr. Henry Timberlake Duncan, IV, a great-grandson, Lexington
F. A. R. L, print from the late Major General George Brand Duncan
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HENRY TIMBERLAKE DUNCAN [3] was born in Paris, Ky., March 21, 1800, married November 5, 1826, Elizabeth Dunster Pyke (named for her paternal grandmother) born, September 6, 1808, to Samuel Pyke, a wealthy Englishman, and wife, Hannah (Orchard) Pyke. Samuel Pyke purchased the old Bourbon Academy in 1805 and established the first wool-carding factory in Paris, if not in the State.[2] Henry Timberlake was a farmer of Bourbon county, especially interested in the breeding of thoroughbred stock. His farms known as the "Scott Farm" and the "Bedford Farm" were located near Hutchison Station. In later life he lived at "Duncannon," his country place two miles from Lexington on the Paris road. He died March 22, 1880, and his wife passed away at "Ingleside," Lexington, Ky., December 29, 1889. Issue:[3]
[1] Mary B. Hardin manuscript; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. XXXIII, p. 405; Collins' History II, p. 49; Kentucky Court and Other Records, vol. II, pps. 25, 113; Sketches of Paris, Bourbon County Kentucky, by Keller and McCann, p. 13.
[2] Sketches of Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., by Keller and McCann, p. 21.
[3] Paris Presbyterian Church records show Samuel Pyke Duncan and Daniel Duncan, inf.nt sons of Mrs. Eliza Duncan, baptized September 12, 1831; Family chart prepared by the late Henry T. Duncan Jr., in possession of Major General George B. Duncan.
Spouses
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1: Elizabeth Dunster PYKE
Misc. Notes
MRS. HENRY TIMBERLAKE DUNCAN (Elizabeth Dunster Pyke) [4]
DANIEL, MARY and HENRY T. DUNCAN, JR.
(1806-1899)
Elizabeth was the daughter of Samuel and Mrs. Hannah Orchard Wooley Pyke. Coming to Paris from England with a few related families, her father established, in 1805, the first wool-carding factory west of the Alleghanies powered with tread wheel. A few blocks away on Church Street, Mr. Pyke built a cotton factory and opened an office on Main Street, in which he kept a small supply of his products. When a fire broke out in the latter place, he picked up the fire-proof safe and carried it, unaided, up the hill to the factory, though it took four younger, stronger men to lift it into a new position the next day. The story is told of a young boy who was sent with a note from his father to the Pyke residence. Eliza, who came to the door, called out, "Father, here is a lad to see you," which so insulted the youngster, who had not previously heard the expression, that he refused a similar errand soon after. By his enterprise, Mr. Pyke amassed a fortune of $400,000, a considerable sum for that date. The family residence was across the street from the Presbyterian Church, of which they were devoted members. When the Synod met in Paris in 1838, the widow Pyke offered to entertain four of the delegates, provided they did not use tobacco. Though the committee availed themselves of her hospitable proposal, they had some difficulty in meeting her requirements.
In 1826 Eliza Pyke was married to Henry T. Duncan. Of the three children shown in this family group, Daniel, the elder, died early, and Mary grew up to marry Colonel Hart Gibson in 1859. The painting hangs in Mrs. George Duncan's home above the same sofa.
Oil on canvas, 621/2" x 54". By Chester Harding about 1842
Owner: Mr. Henry Timberlake Duncan, IV, Lexington
F. A. R. L. print from the late Major General George Brand Duncan
Children: Henry
Mary (1838-)
Ellen (1843-)
Elizabeth “Lily” Dunster (1847-1931)
Sources
1. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 132-133
2. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), p. 137
3. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
4. Whitley, Edna Talbott. Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture, (The National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1956), pp. 134-135
(6) Name: Capt. James DUNCAN
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Birth: February 20, 1750 Shepherdstown, Virginia [1]
Death: October 16, 1817 Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 67
Military: Revolutionary War
Father: Matthew DUNCAN II (ca1720-1793)
Mother: Sarah (1723-1805)
Misc. Notes
CAPTAIN JAMES DUNCAN, [2] born February 20, 1750, who with his brother (see hereafter) came at an early date to explore the western wilderness. About March first 1779, a company of venturesome pioneers set out from Shepherdstown, Virginia to make their way by following "Boone's Trace" to the Kentucky territory. Traveling with them were surveyors and guides who had made the difficult journey before. In the company were the Morgans, Bedingers, Swearingens, Captain John Strode and his son-in-law, Captain James Duncan, and others. When they reached Boonesborough, after a narrow escape from massacre at the hands of the Indians, they found the settlement in such a precarious condition for want of defenders they decided to remain there for a time to protect the women and children. In depositions filed in old Bourbon county suits James Duncan, in 1805, stated he came to Kentucky in 1779 and was at Boonesborough, that he returned to the old settlement the same year and came out to Kentucky again in the fall of that year and assisted Benedict Couchman and his brother build the fort at Strodes Station which was "on a fork", (Clark county) and he moved his family to Kentucky in the Spring of 1784.[1] James Duncan served as a Captain in the Revolution; his original oath of allegiance, a treasury bill issued him for service as captain and never cashed and other valuable documents preserved in the family of his descendant, James Duncan Bell, have recently been presented the Duncan Tavern Museum. Land grants for 1500 acres in Fayette county, Kentucky, were issued him in 1783 and he was one of the first settlers at Lexington the county seat.[2] He was one of the original proprietors of the little town of Hopewell (later Paris), also served as Sheriff of Bourbon county; presided over the first Court of Quarter Sessions, and was a member of the convention that framed the second constitution of Kentucky. He was a large land owner and lived on Kennedys creek on the Winchester road, now the property of A. B. Hancock.[3] He married December 9, 1777, Elizabeth Strode, born December 25, 1757, daughter of Captain John Strode, founder of Strodes Station, and his wife, Mary (Boyle) Strode. Captain James Duncan died October 16, 1817 and wife, Elizabeth (Strode) Duncan, died July 2nd, 1825.
[1] Kentucky Court and Other Records, Vol. II, pps. 113, 138.
[2] O1d Kentucky Entries and Deeds, p. 95, by Jillson; Collins' History of Kentucky.
[3] Early Petitions, Filson Club Publication; Sketches of Paris by Keller and McCann
Spouses
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1: Elizabeth STRODE
Birth: December 25, 1759 Berkeley County, Virginia
Death: July 2, 1825 Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 65
Father: Capt. John STRODE (1729-1805)
Mother: Mary BOYLE (1733-1814)
Marriage: December 9, 1777 Berkely County, Virginia
Children: Matthew (1778-1844)
John (1781-1833)
James (1782-1841)
Thomas (1784-<1819)
Joseph (1786-1837)
Mary (1787-1818)
Seth (1788-)
William (1790-1851)
Jeremiah (1792-1876)
Sarah J. (1793-1876)
Eleanor (1795-1875)
Stephen Clarles (1797-1877)
Jones (1800-)
Sources
1. Kathy Wilcox genealogy--Culpeper County, Virginia.
2. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(7) Name: Capt. James DUNCAN Jr.
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Birth: July 8, 1782 Berkeley County, Virginia
Death: March 25, 1841 Clay County, Missouri Age: 58
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
CAPTAIN JAMES DUNCAN, JR., [1] born July 8, 1782, served in the War of 1812, married April 2, 1807 Nancy Musick born January 13, 1793 to Jehoida and Sally (Winn) Musick of Clark county, Kentucky, who later removed to Bourbon county where Jehoida Musick died 1817. James Duncan, Jr., died in Clay county, Missouri, March 25, 1841, and his wife died there some time after the year 1847. Their children were: a-MATTHEW DUNCAN, married Elizabeth Young in Clay county, Mo., November 16, 1848; b-JEREMIAH THOMAS DUNCAN married Amanda Brooks; c-JAMES DUNCAN married Mary A. Duncan in Clay county, Mo., April 20, 1854; d-JOHN (JACK) WILLIAM DUNCAN married first Miss Hall, second Caroline J. Warfield in Clay county, Mo., June 24, 1858; e-STEPHEN M. DUNCAN married Amelia J. Brooks in Clay county, Mo., October 26, 1855; f-JEHOIDA DUNCAN married Eliza Crow, born in Jessamine county, Ky., died in Clinton county, Mo., Oct. 16, 1899, and he died in California 1857; g-JULIET JANE (JENNIE) DUNCAN, born Liberty, Mo., April 14, 1832, married her first cousin, Joseph Duncan (son of Seth and Jane Penn Duncan) "at the home of Mrs. Nancy Duncan," died in Clinton county, Mo., June 1, 1900. Joseph Duncan was born in Henry county, Ky., February 25, 1823 and died in Clinton county, Mo., April 1, 1888; issue: (a) JAMES, died at age of six;; (b) SETH DUNCAN, born 1850, died 1900, married August 6, 1879, Carrie P. Wilkerson; (C) NANNIE DUNCAN died at age of 22 months; (d) LETITIA DUNCAN born 1853, died 1915, married September 11, 1869, Thomas Turner; (e) JOSEPH DUNCAN born 1855, died 1933, married October 11, 1876, Medaline Talbott, born 1854, died 1927; (f) STEPHEN E. DUNCAN, died at nine months; (g) MARY BELLE DUNCAN, born December 29, 1857, Clinton county, Mo., died November 15, 1938, Craig, Colo., married December 6, 1877, William Allen Metcalfe, M. D., born in Trimble county, Ky., July 24, 1849 (son of Sanford and Louisa Spilman Metcalfe) and these were parents of Elizabeth Agnes Lee Metcalfe born October 20, 1878 at Bedford, Trimble county, Ky., who married John Christopher Carr, born October 19, 1876 near Osborn, Mo. (gr. gr. gr. grandson of John Carr, 1684-1794, from county Down, Ireland to Loudoun county, Va.), parents of Nanon Lucile Carr (address 4201 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo.), genealogist for this branch of the family of Duncan who writes-"One of the interesting things I have noticed in following my Duncan line is the prevalence of red hair, probably a dominant characteristic because Joseph and Juliet Duncan were from the same line"; (h) JEREMIAH T. DUNCAN lived one day; (i) HANNAH ELIZABETH DUNCAN, born 1867, died 1938, married Thomas Moore; (j) CHARLES STEWART DUNCAN, born 1869, died 1936, married January 17, 1894 in Clinton county, Mo., Myrtle Ethel Hall; (k) DAISY (DOLLY) DUNCAN, born 1873, married November 5, 1890, Preston Hogan Ringo, born 1856, Carrollton, Ky., died 1940, son of James Henry Ringo (1831-1904) (h) LETITIA DUNCAN married November 20, 1844 in Clay county, Mo., Judge William Harrison Lott, born Clark county, Ky., she was his second wife, his first wife being Sarah J. Duncan (died 1842) daughter of Matthew. Letitia Duncan Lott died 1845; (i) SARAH DUNCAN married James Winn; (j) NANCY DUNCAN married December 28, 1826 in Clay county, Mo., John DePriest Hall (Mrs. M. N. Perkins, Chino Valley, Ariz., is genealogist for this branch); (j) ELIZABETH DUNCAN married Peter Holtzclaw; (k) and (1) (twins-ELEANOR married first April 23, 1835, Jeremiah Hall, and second September 10, 1839, Samuel S. Ligan, and MARY DUNCAN married Col. Lewis Wood; (m) PERMELIA DUNCAN married her first cousin, James Duncan, January 25, 1838, Clay county, Mo.[1]
[1] Notes by Nanon Lucile Carr.
Spouses
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1: Nancy MUSICK
Birth: January 13, 1793 Virginia
Death: after 1847 Clay County, Missouri Age: 53
Father: Jehoida MUSICK
Mother: Sarah “Sallie” WINN
Marriage: April 2, 1807 Bourbon County, Kentucky [2]
Children: Sarah (1809-<1853)
Elizabeth (1810-1885)
Nancy (1811-)
Letitia (1813-)
James (1815-)
Jehoida Musick (1816-1857)
Mary (1818->1895)
Eleanor (1818-1852)
Jane (1820-)
Permelia (1821-)
Juliet (1822-)
Matthew (1824-1853)
Letitia (1826-1845)
James B. F. (1828-)
Stephen M. (1830-)
Juliet Jane “Jennie” (1832-1900)
John William (1835-)
Jeremiah Thomas (1841-1917)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
2. Kathy Wilcox genealogy lists marriage date as March 30, 1807.
(8) Name: James DUNCAN
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Birth: about 1665 Ireland
Death: between 1725-1758 Ireland Age: 60
Misc. Notes
Part One
The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties
By Julia Ardery
It is said the chiefs of the clan Duncan descended from Duncan, eldest son of Malcolm III (see Macbeth). It seems a well established fact that the Gaelic name of the clan Donnchadh, pronounced Donnachy and translated Duncan, was derived from an ancestor of the name, fourth in descent from Conan, son of Henry, last of the ancient Celtic Earls of Atholl, while the other name of the clan, MacRobert or Robertson, found its origin in Robert Duncanson, called Robert Reoch, or "the Swarthy," of the days of James I and James II, who played a prominent part in the dramatic history of his time. The chief seat of the clan was Struan, or Strowan, meaning "Streamy." It was otherwise known as Glenerochie, and the possession was erected into a barony in 1451. In a feud with the Earls of Atholl early in the 16th century the chief was killed and a large part of the lands of the clan were lost. At Struan, however, the chiefs treasured to the last as an heirloom a mysterious stone set in silver. It was known as the Clach na Bratach-stone of the flag-and was believed to give them assurance of victory in the field. [1]
Several families of Duncan apparently not related have lived in Paris and Bourbon county, Kentucky. The first of the Duncans to establish homes in this locality were the sons of Matthew and Sarah Duncan of Berkeley county, Virginia (now West Virginia). It is believed the first American ancestor of this branch of the family was one Matthew Duncan whose estate was settled in Frederick county, Virginia, 1766. Deeds of record in the office of the county clerk of Frederick county indicate this man lived on Tuscarora Creek in what is now Berkeley county which was formed from Frederick county in the year of 1772. It is probable he settled first in Pennsylvania and later followed the general migration into the Valley of Virginia; that he was brother of Seth Duncan who emigrated from the county of Donegal, Ireland, to Pennsylvania about the year 1750, son of James Duncan whose father-Duncan (no record of Christian name) came from ~Queens Ferry, opposite Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth, to Donegal county, Ireland. James Duncan, the father, remained in Ireland (Donegal) with his daughter, Martha, but Seth came to America with his brothers. The latter went further into the interior, while Seth remained until his death in the early part of the century, at Abbotstown, Pennsylvania. [2] Matthew Duncan, thought to have been the son of the elder Matthew Duncan, has been definitely established as the ancestor of several sons and daughters who came out to the Kentucky territory from Berkeley county, Virginia, when the country was a tangled wilderness. This family took a prominent part in affairs effecting the well-being of Bourbon county and the State. Matthew Duncan, the younger, whom we shall refer to as Matthew Duncan II, owned hundreds of acres of land in Berkleley and Hampshire counties, Virginia (West Virginia). It is though he also owned property in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. His name appears as a member of the first grand jury to sit for Berkeley in the year 1772.[3] He rendered a patriot's service during the Revolutionary war by furnishing supplies for the Continental Army.[4] He was a member of the Tuscarora Presbyterian Church of Frederick county, one of the earliest churches established in that section of Virginia and he and his son, James, signed a petition of Dissenters of the congregation to the Virginia House of Representatives in 1776. He died intestate in the year 1793 leaving a widow, Sarah Duncan, and a number of children.[5]
[1] Highland Clans of Scotland" by George Eyre-Todd.
[2] Letter from Lee N. Whitacre, Clerk of Frederick County, Va.; letter written by John G. Ford, 713 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 15, 1896, to Mrs. Katherine Duncan Smith. Note: As the name "Seth" appears in every generation of the Matthew Duncan branch of the family and as Mr. Ford, who descended from Seth Duncan, emigrant, mentioned his distant relationship to Governor Joseph Duncan and brother Matthew, it is reasonable to believe Matthew Duncan of Frederick County, Va., was one of the brothers of Seth who went "further into the interior."
[3]History of Shepherdstown.
[4]Archives Dept., Virginia State Library.
[5]Chancery suit, Bourbon county, Ky., Duncan vs. Duncan; Duncan vs. Swearingen; Duncan's Adm'r. vs. Reeder's Adm'r. and others.
ISSUE OF MATTEW DUNCAN II AND WIFE, SARAH DUNCAN
I-MATTHEW DUNCAN III died in Berkeley county, Virginia, prior to the death of his father. His will appears in will book 2, p. 22, written July 11, 1787 and recorded April 22, 1789. He probably died without issue as he left his estate to his brothers, Thomas, Joseph, and Seth, and sister, Sarah Greer (or Greear, Grier).
II-THOMAS DUNCAN was living in Berkeley as late as 1796 but moved later to Kentucky. By his will filed in Pendleton county, Kentucky, 1806, he left large tracts of land to Matthew, Seth and Eliza Duncan, children of his brother, Seth Duncan. He referred to property due him. from the estate of John Carney of Berkeley county, Virginia, and also property, located in Franklin county, Pennsylvania.
III-CAPTAIN JAMES DUNCAN, born February 20, 1750, who with his brother (see hereafter) came at an early date to explore the western wilderness. About March first 1779, a company of venturesome pioneers set out from Shepherdstown, Virginia to make their way by following "Boone's Trace" to the Kentucky territory. Traveling with them were surveyors and guides who had made the difficult journey before. In the company were the Morgans, Bedingers, Swearingens, Captain John Strode and his son-in-law, Captain James Duncan, and others. When they reached Boonesborough, after a narrow escape from massacre at the hands of the Indians, they found the settlement in such a precarious condition for want of defenders they decided to remain there for a time to protect the women and children. In depositions filed in old Bourbon county suits James Duncan, in 1805, stated he came to Kentucky in 1779 and was at Boonesborough, that he returned to the old settlement the same year and came out to Kentucky again in the fall of that year and assisted Benedict Couchman and his brother build the fort at Strodes Station which was "on a fork", (Clark county) and he moved his family to Kentucky in the Spring of 1784.[1] James Duncan served as a Captain in the Revolution; his original oath of allegiance, a treasury bill issued him for service as captain and never cashed and other valuable documents preserved in the family of his descendant, James Duncan Bell, have recently been presented the Duncan Tavern Museum. Land grants for 1500 acres in Fayette county, Kentucky, were issued him in 1783 and he was one of the first settlers at Lexington the county seat.[2] He was one of the original proprietors of the little town of Hopewell (later Paris), also served as Sheriff of Bourbon county; presided over the first Court of Quarter Sessions, and was a member of the convention that framed the second constitution of Kentucky. He was a large land owner and lived on Kennedys creek on the Winchester road, now the property of A. B. Hancock.[3] He married December 9, 1777, Elizabeth Strode, born December 25, 1757, daughter of Captain John Strode, founder of Strodes Station, and his wife, Mary (Boyle) Strode. Captain James Duncan died October 16, 1817 and wife, Elizabeth (Strode) Duncan, died July 2nd, 1825.
The children of Capt. James Duncan and wife, Elizabeth Strode Duncan:
(1)MATTHEW DUNCAN, born in Virginia September 24, 1778, married October 20, 1803 Elizabeth Breckenridge, born February 1, 1783, daughter of Alexander and Magdolene (Gamble) Breckenridge, removed to Clay county, Missouri on November 11th, 1826 with a large company from Bourbon county. Among their children were George Breckenridge Duncan of Clinton county, Missouri, and James Duncan, who died November 2, 1837. Matthew Duncan died January 27, 1844 and his wife, Elizabeth, died June 10, 1844.
(2) JOHN DUNCAN, born February 28, 1781, died intestate in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in the year 1833. His widow was named Frances and John Grigsby was guardian of his children: Ruth Ann, Elizabeth and John Strode Duncan.
(3) CAPTAIN JAMES DUNCAN, JR., born July 8, 1782, served in the War of 1812, married April 2, 1807 Nancy Musick born January 13, 1793 to Jehoida (to be continued)
[1] Kentucky Court and Other Records, Vol. II, pps. 113, 138.
[2] O1d Kentucky Entries and Deeds, p. 95, by Jillson; Collins' History of Kentucky.
[3] Early Petitions, Filson Club Publication; Sketches of Paris by Keller and McCann;
[4] Family record from Bell-Duncan Bible and old letters written by William Duncan, born 1790, preserved at Duncan Tavern, old Strode Family Record; Bourbon County Court Record.
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and Sally (Winn) Musick of Clark county, Kentucky, who later removed to Bourbon county where Jehoida Musick died 1817. James Duncan, Jr., died in Clay county, Missouri, March 25, 1841, and his wife died there some time after the year 1847. Their children were: a-MATTHEW DUNCAN, married Elizabeth Young in Clay county, Mo., November 16, 1848; b-JEREMIAH THOMAS DUNCAN married Amanda Brooks; c-JAMES DUNCAN married Mary A. Duncan in Clay county, Mo., April 20, 1854; d-JOHN (JACK) WILLIAM DUNCAN married first Miss Hall, second Caroline J. Warfield in Clay county, Mo., June 24, 1858; e-STEPHEN M. DUNCAN married Amelia J. Brooks in Clay county, Mo., October 26, 1855; f-JEHOIDA DUNCAN married Eliza Crow, born in Jessamine county, Ky., died in Clinton county, Mo., Oct. 16, 1899, and he died in California 1857; g-JULIET JANE (JENNIE) DUNCAN, born Liberty, Mo., April 14, 1832, married her first cousin, Joseph Duncan (son of Seth and Jane Penn Duncan) "at the home of Mrs. Nancy Duncan," died in Clinton county, Mo., June 1, 1900. Joseph Duncan was born in Henry county, Ky., February 25, 1823 and died in Clinton county, Mo., April 1, 1888; issue: (a) JAMES, died at age of six;; (b) SETH DUNCAN, born 1850, died 1900, married August 6, 1879, Carrie P. Wilkerson; (C) NANNIE DUNCAN died at age of 22 months; (d) LETITIA DUNCAN born 1853, died 1915, married September 11, 1869, Thomas Turner; (e) JOSEPH DUNCAN born 1855, died 1933, married October 11, 1876, Medaline Talbott, born 1854, died 1927; (f) STEPHEN E. DUNCAN, died at nine months; (g) MARY BELLE DUNCAN, born December 29, 1857, Clinton county, Mo., died November 15, 1938, Craig, Colo., married December 6, 1877, William Allen Metcalfe, M. D., born in Trimble county, Ky., July 24, 1849 (son of Sanford and Louisa Spilman Metcalfe) and these were parents of Elizabeth Agnes Lee Metcalfe born October 20, 1878 at Bedford, Trimble county, Ky., who married John Christopher Carr, born October 19, 1876 near Osborn, Mo. (gr. gr. gr. grandson of John Carr, 1684-1794, from county Down, Ireland to Loudoun county, Va.), parents of Nanon Lucile Carr (address 4201 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo.), genealogist for this branch of the family of Duncan who writes-"One of the interesting things I have noticed in following my Duncan line is the prevalence of red hair, probably a dominant characteristic because Joseph and Juliet Duncan were from the same line"; (h) JEREMIAH T. DUNCAN lived one day; (i) HANNAH ELIZABETH DUNCAN, born 1867, died 1938, married Thomas Moore; (j) CHARLES STEWART DUNCAN, born 1869, died 1936, married January 17, 1894 in Clinton county, Mo., Myrtle Ethel Hall; (k) DAISY (DOLLY) DUNCAN, born 1873, married November 5, 1890, Preston Hogan Ringo, born 1856, Carrollton, Ky., died 1940, son of James Henry Ringo (1831-1904) (h) LETITIA DUNCAN married November 20, 1844 in Clay county, Mo., Judge William Harrison Lott, born Clark county, Ky., she was his second wife, his first wife being Sarah J. Duncan (died 1842) daughter of Matthew. Letitia Duncan Lott died 1845; (i) SARAH DUNCAN married James Winn; (j) NANCY DUNCAN married December 28, 1826 in Clay county, Mo., John DePriest Hall (Mrs. M. N. Perkins, Chino Valley, Ariz., is genealogist for this branch); (j) ELIZABETH DUNCAN married Peter Holtzclaw; (k) and (1) (twins-ELEANOR married first April 23, 1835, Jeremiah Hall, and second September 10, 1839, Samuel S. Ligan, and MARY DUNCAN married Col. Lewis Wood; (m) PERMELIA DUNCAN married her first cousin, James Duncan, January 25, 1838, Clay county, Mo.[1]
(4) THOMAS DUNCAN, born February 14, 1784. In Deed Book H, p. 74, Bourbon County, Ky., Clerk's office, is recorded a deed of gift from James Duncan and wife, Elizabeth, to their sons, Thomas and Joseph, for land located on Blyds Creek in Barren county, Ky., dated January 24, 1810. The record of marriage of Thomas Duncan to Eleanor Brooks is filed in Clark county, Ky., December 18, 1810, There is also the marriage of one Thomas Duncan recorded in Barren county, Ky., to Judah Foster, dated December 19, 1819.
(5) JOSEPH DUNCAN, born January 14, 1786, married May 8, 1809, Polly Brooks, born December 15, 1792, daughter of Abijah and Nancy (Strode) Brooks, removed to Glasgow, Kentucky, where a son, Thomas Duncan, was born 1824, and from thence in 1833 to Clay county, Missouri. Joseph and wife, Polly Duncan, died within forty minutes of each other and both were interred in the same grave October 1837. Their son, Thomas Duncan, married his cousin, Mary Ellen Hall, daughter of John Depriest Hall.
(6) MARY DUNCAN, born September 21, 1787, married (as his first wife) March 13, 1810, John Breckenridge of Bourbon county, who was born October 7, 1785, son of Alexander and Magdolene (Gamble) Breckenridge of Virginia and Bourbon county, Kentucky. Alexander Breckenridge was a Revolutionary soldier at the Battle of King's Mountain, and died 1813 on his farm a few miles from Paris on the Winchester Road, now the farm of Charlton Clay. John Breckenridge purchased land on the Hume and Bedford Road and built a brick home. His first wife, Mary Duncan, died 1818 and on February 3rd 1820 he married Ann Weir Brooks, daughter of Abijah and Nancy (Strode) Brooks of Clark county, who was born August 11, 1798. By his first wife John Breckenridge had a son, James A. Breckenridge, who died young, and a son, Oliver Hazard Perry Breckenridge, born September 25, 1813, who married Nancy Ellis and had a daughter, Sally Breckenridge, married Prof. J. W. Ellis and had John Breckenridge Ellis, well known Missouri author.
(7) SETH DUNCAN, born December 29, 1788, married Jane Penn (daughter of Joseph Penn, Revolutionary patriot, of Bourbon county, by his first wife, Charlotte Aker), moved to Henry county prior to the birth of his son, Joseph, in 1823. Family tradition is there were four children: a-JOSEPH, born 1823, married his first cousin, Juliet Jane Duncan (see children of James Duncan Jr.); b-CHARLOTTE DUNCAN, married John Quisenberry; c-JANE DUNCAN, married John W. Stewart, July 30, 1846, and d-SALLY; also probably e-SUSAN who married Mr. Collins.[2]
[1] Notes by Nanon Lucile Carr.
[2] "The Rollins Family," by Mrs. Josephine R. Barnard; Clark County, Ky., Notes.
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(8) WILLIAM DUNCAN, born March 29, 1790, served in the War of 1812, married March 24, 1813, Jemima S. Scott and removed to Platte county, Missouri. His wife was the daughter of Samuel Scott of Bourbon county. She died in 1837 and he was evidently married a second time. Among his children were WILLIAM and THEODORE, both of whom saw service in the War Between the States, and LOUISE, who was born 1824 and married at the age of thirteen years Gibson T. Owen who went from Henry county, Kentucky, to Missouri, and in 1846 these were the parents of two daughters and one son; and a daughter, Mary Ann, who was mentioned in a letter dated 1846 as having married and was then the mother of two daughters and one son.[1] The Kentucky Register, in obituaries published by G. Glenn Clift, gives the following: "Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, relict of C. Dunn, and daughter of Captain William Duncan of Clay county, Mo., died in Fayette county, Ky., residence of Benjamin Scott, June 15, 1835." William Duncan, in his letters, also mentioned niece, Elizabeth Breckenridge who married, November 17, 1837, Thomas Brasfield, his cousin, John and Asa Ecton, cousins, and Elizabeth Ecton, niece.
(9) MAJOR JEREMIAH DUNCAN [2] was born May 11, 1792, rendered service in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War; represented Bourbon county in the Lower House of the Kentucky General Assembly 1845; was an extensive importer and breeder of pure-bred short-horn cattle. On October 14, 1820 Major Duncan was married to Hannah E. Scott, who died May, 1823, sister of his brother William's wife, and daughter of Samuel Scott. His death occurred October 5, 1876. Issue: One son, CAPTAIN JAMES S. DUNCAN, born April 22, 1823; educated at Harrodsburg, Ky., and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; married Decefhber 14, 1843, Mary C. Williams (daughter of Major George W. Williams, lawyer and man of prominence in his profession) and died August 17, 1849; his wife, born 1825, died 1899; issue: (a) WINIFRED DUNCAN, married 1865, James Keith Ford, born October 23, 1844, had one child, died in infancy; (b) HANNAH DUNCAN, born 1848 died 1917, married October 30, 1873, William M. Taylor, born 1846 died 1893, left three sons, viz: J. Duncan Taylor, born 1881, married Lillian Ogden and died 191-8 at Sandlake, New York, leaving daughter, Sarah, wife of Henry Watson Marble, editor, of Fort Scott, Kansas, had daughter, Sarah, she married Mr. Manette; William Taylor married Maria Worthington but left no issue; Louis Webb Taylor born 1886 married first Leslie Turney, born 1887 and died 1936, leaving one son, Amos Turney Taylor, born July 6, 1913, married Betty Brouse Roberts and these have a daughter, Mary Martin Taylor, born January 6, 1940. Louis W. Taylor married second Sue Jordan, of Paris, Ky.; (c) KATHERINE (KATE) DUNCAN, born 1844, died 1915; married December 5, 1865, William P. Chambers born June 13, 1842, at Louisville, Ky., and in 1859 became identified with business interests of Paris, died 1898; left one son, James Duncan Chambers, born October 28, 1881, married lone MacLean, had two children, William and Dorothy. (d) JAMES (JIMMIE) ANNA DUNCAN married George R. Bell September 26, 1867 and had two sons, James Duncan Bell born August 18, 1869, married Gertrude Trimble Renick, these are in possession of the beautiful portraits of Captain James and Mary (Williams) Duncan, shown in this publication, and have contributed numerous valuable family documents to the Duncan Tavern Museum; the second son, Jeremiah (Jerry) Bell, born 1871, was accidentally killed at age of thirteen years.
(10) SARAH J. DUNCAN, born December 8, 1793, died September 19, 1876, married May 21, 1829 John (Jack) Grigsby, born February 2, 1799, removed to Missouri, died October 20, 1865; left issue: a-FRENCH GRIGSBY, married Mollie Bright, no issue; b-JAMES LEWIS GRIGSBY,- born January 1835, died August 7, 1892, married first Louisa Cravens and had (a) Sarah Frances Grigsby, born October 30, 1861, died November 3, 1935, married William Byrd Hodgkin, born July 24, 1865, died December 11, 1935, had Elizabeth Hodgkin, born October 25, 1894, married Floyd Wilkerson Clay of Winchester, Ky., and (b) Lewis Eugene Grigsby married Emma A. Miller, he died 1932 and she 1930, no issue. James Lewis Grigsby married second-Cravens Outten, widow, and sister of first wife, no children by this marriage, married 3rd Talitha Quisenberry, born January 12, 1852, and had three children by this marriage, viz: (a) ELIZABETH Q. GRIGSBY born March 1, 1884, married October 20, 1909 Thomas Stanley Clay born November 20, 1885 and these had Stanley Elizabeth Clay (continued)
[1]Letters written by William Duncan.
[2]Perrin's History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Ky.; Collins History, Vol. II, p. 640; Court Records.
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born July 8, 1914, married October 1, 1938 Miller Adams Welch and Mary Eleanor Clay born February 8, 1917 married January 1, 1938 William Ingram Goodwin who have William Joseph Goodwin born June 3, 1942; (b) ELLA FRENCH GRIGSBY born May 18, 1885, married March 23, 1907 John Hudson Hardwick and had three sons viz: Theodore Hudson Hardwick born February 13, 1908 married August 29, 1931 June Bush Hunter and these have Barbara Bush Hardwick born March 1, 1934, and John Hudson Hardwick born October 22, 1935; John Harold Hardwick born January 12, 1910 married May 21, 1938 June Lanford Warden and these had John Harold Hardwick Jr., born January 10, 1940 and Robert Duncan Hardwick born October 31, 1942; Lewis Eugene Hardwick born March 20, 1913, married September 18, 1938 Mary Emily Downton and these had Pearce Downton Hardwick born June 18, 1940 and Eleanor Dana Hardwick born April 7, 1942; (c) GERTRUDE GRIGSBY born January 28, 1893, married February 15, 1917 Robert Raymond Reid and these had Robert Raymond Reid Jr., born November 12, 1927 and Talitha Reid born June 22, 1930.
(11) ELEANOR DUNCAN born January 1, 1795, married January 23, 1817 Eddy Linn Breckenridge, born December 7th, 1788, son of Alexander and Magdolene (Gamble) Breckenridge of Bourbon county, Kentucky. Eddy Linn Breckenridge served in the War of 1812 and later moved with his family to Clay county, Missouri, October 29, 1829. He died July 1st, 1875.
(12) STEPHEN DUNCAN, born October 17, 1797, married September 17, 1797 in Bourbon county Lucy Browning, born April 9, 1809, moved to Henry county, Ky., and later to Saline county, Mo., where she died May 26, 1836. There were seven children of this marriage. Stephen Duncan married second 1839 Nancy Nicholson (daughter of John Nicholson) born in Trimble county, Ky., October 15, 1814, died April 13, 1875, probably in Clay county, Mo. There were eleven children of this union, only five living to attain majority.
(13) JONES DUNCAN, born August 11, 1800-no record, may have died young.
IV-MAJOR JOSEPH DUNCAN, builder of Duncan Tavern, was born about the year 1752. He served during the Revolution in the 7th Virginia Regiment, enlisting prior to December 28th, 1776, when his name appears on the muster roll; appointed corporal June 1st, 1777 and sergeant July 1777; was detached about July 1777 to Captain Thomas Posey's Company, Colonel Daniel Morgan's famous regiment, Continental troops, on rolls of that regiment until October 1777 and was given furlough November 1777 through January 1778.[1] In depositions contained in old Bourbon county suits, Joseph Duncan stated he "made several trips from Virginia to the Kentucky territory" before he took up his "permanent residence in 1788." In 1791, upon the recommendation of the county court he was commissioned captain in the militia by Governor Beverly Randolph of Virginia and served as a Major of the 14th Regiment of Bourbon County Militia, resigning August 29, 1795, when Governor Isaac Shelby appointed George'Scott to succeed him.[2]
It is to this early settler we are indebted for historic Duncan Tavern which he used first as a residence and later as a tavern. Four years before Kentucky was a state the hand-hewn beams for this magnificent stone building were being lifted into place by sturdy pioneers. It stands today as a memorial to the expert workmanship of those first adventurers into the Western wilderness. Major Duncan conducted his tavern at the time Bourbon county contained within its boundaries thirty-three later Kentucky counties. As early explorers and surveyors in this vast wilderness had to travel to Bourbon county court to transact business one can readily understand the stream of pioneers that passed through the elaborate hand-carved entrance to Duncan Tavern.
Immediately in front of this entrance, Colonel John Floyd, deputy surveyor to William Preston of Fincastle county, Virginia, marked a tree to establish a colonial military grant to Walter Stewart for service in the French and Indian War. This mark, made in 1776, is said to have been the first surveyor's mark on land where the city of Paris stands today. Since Daniel Boone represented Bourbon county in the Virginia Assembly 1787-1788 and Simon Kenton, Michael Stoner, Colonel James Smith and other famious pioneers lived in Bourbon county at the time this building was operated as a tavern, they were unquestionably among those who were extended hospitality. In an old (continued)
[1] War Dept. Record.
[2] Kentucky Historical Register, vol. 28, p. 207; Duncan vs. Fleming, Ct. Ct.
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circuit court record it is stated John Edwards, first senator from Kentucky, lived at the tavern for some time; and on an old batten door in the basement is carved the name of Aaron Burr.[1] In the Kentucky Gazette of December 15th, 1803, appeared an advertisement of one John Porter who had leased this "large and elegant stone building in Paris, which belonged to the estate of Major Joseph Duncan and occupied by him as a Tavern, and since his death by Mrs. Duncan at the sign The Goddess of Liberty." An old lease dated 1815 described the tavern as "the old stone house on the square with kitchen, billiard room, smoke house, lower stable" and mentioned "repairs for the bar" and "partitions to be run across the ball room." The originals of these and other valuable old documents have been presented the Duncan Tavern Museum by a descendant, Hon. George R. Putnam.
Joseph Duncan married Ann Maria McLaughlin, of Cumberland Valley, who bore him six children. At the time of his death in 1803, he left a valuable estate in Paris and 500 acres of land in Barren county, Ky. Later his widow married Captain Benjamin Moore of the United States Army on November 20th, 1809; they had one son, Benjamin Duncan Moore, who was a captain of dragoons and killed in the Mexican War 1846; he left one son, Matthew Moore, who was in the western army in 1888. Captain Benjamin Moore died 1811 and Mrs. Ann Moore's brother, Robert McLaughlin, state treasurer of Illinois in 1818, induced the family to move from Kentucky to Fountain Bluff on the Mississippi River in Jackson County, Illinois.[2]
Issue of Major Joseph Duncan and wife, Ann Maria (McLaughlin) Duncan:
(1) CAPTAIN MATTHEW DUNCAN who was adopted by his uncle, Hon. James H. McLaughlin, first clerk of Christian county, Kentucky, educated at Yale, edited a paper at Russellville, Kentucky, moved to Kaskaskia, Illinois 1814 and published the first newspaper in that state, the Illinois Herald, and the first book in Illinois. In 1817 he sold his paper and entered the army, was made captain of Rangers 1833, resigned after four years and engaged in business at Shelbyville, Illinois. He died January 16th, 1844, only a few hours after his brother, Governor Joseph Duncan, neither knowing of the illness of the other. This double grief proved too great a shock to his aged mother and in a few months she passed away. Matthew Duncan marriad Susan Clayton Slaughter in Nelson county, Kentucky, November, 1810, who died January 11th, 1844. They left one son, Thomas Duncan, born at Kaskaskia, Illinois, 1819, was Brigadier General in regular army, fought in Mexican and Indian wars. In the Mexican war he was wounded in the head by a cannon ball. He died in Washington, D. C., 1887. His wife was Mary Wilson by whom he had two children: (a) WILSON DUNCAN, a Colonel in the U. S. Army, stationed at Fort Sidney, Nebraska; married and had two children: Carol married Major R. Potter Palmer of the United States Army, had two children, Carol Dean Palmer and Patty Palmer and Thomas Duncan, lieutenant U. S. Army; killed in airplane accident at Washington, D. C., leaving widow and daughter. (b) LILLIE DUNCAN married George Baxter of Washington, D. C.; had one daughter, Lillian Baxter, who married Captain George S. Gillis of the U. S. Army; had son, Thomas Duncan Gillis, officer (Captain 1940) in U. S. Army, married, with one child.
(2) CAPTAIN JAMES S. (M.) DUNCAN, [3] educated at Translyvania College, Captain in the War of 1812, returned to home in Paris, Kentucky, when army disbanded 1914. He moved to Illinois, was clerk of the Supreme Court at Vandalia and then at Springfield. He later moved to Jacksonville and became an elder in the Old-School Presbyterian Church. He died at Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois, 1856. He and his wife, Margaret, had five daughters including Caroline, Ann and Jane who married a Mr. Snow.
(3) JOSEPH DUNCAN born at old Duncan Tavern in Paris, Kentucky, February 22, 1794, in the room on the left, second floor, as one faces the building. He enlisted in the War of 1812, in 1813 as an Ensign took part in the successful defense of Fort Stephenson, Ohio, for which he received a gold sword from Congress. In 1815 he was appointed guardian for his younger brothers and sisters, acting for the family in business matters, and in 1829 offered for sale by auction, town lots in Paris as well as the "Old Stone House on the Square" (continued)
[1] Duncan's Adm'r. vs. Reeder's Adm'r., Ct. Ct. Bourbon County, Ky.
[2] "Biographical Sketch of Joseph Duncan" by Julia Duncan Kirby, "The Life and Services of Joseph Duncan, Governor of Illinois," by Elizabeth Duncan Putnam; Deed Bk. W, p. 448, Duncan vs. Duncan Ct. Ct., Bourbon Co.. Ky.
[3]When a minor, he is shown to have used initial "S." and later "M." Ref: Suit Joseph Duncan Hrs. and deeds of Joseph Duncan Hrs.
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(Duncan Tavern). Joseph Duncan was Representative in Congress 1827 to 1834, fifth Governor of Illinois 1834 to 1838, when Abraham Lincoln was serving his first term in Illinois Legislature. He married 1828 Elizabeth Caldwell Smith of New York City and died at his home at Jacksonville, Illinois, January 15, 1844 leaving a widow, thirty-five years of age, and seven children. His home at Jacksonville was built on the plan of his boyhood home, old Duncan Tavern, at Paris, Kentucky. Known as "Elm Grove," it is now a D. A. R. shrine.
Children of Governor Joseph Duncan and wife: a-MARY LOUISA DUNCAN born 1832 at Greencastle, Pa., at the home of an aunt, and died 1904 at Davenport, Iowa, married Charles E. Putnam, attorney, of Davenport and had a large family of whom two had children viz: (a) GEORGE R. PUTNAM, engineer, born 1865, of Washington, D. C., and Dorset, Vermont; he was director of Coast Surveys in the Philippine Islands for six years, and for 25 years Commissioner of Lighthouses of the United States. He married Marta Aresvik (born in Norway, changed name to Wick in U. S.); two children, Elizabeth Duncan Putnam born in Washington, D. C., 1914 married C. Lombardi Barber instructor at Harvard University, and they have two children: George Putnam Barber born March 18, 1940 and Lucy Lombardi Barber born October 6, 1941; and Kristi Aresvik Putnam, born in Washington, b. C. 1918, married John Hay February 14, 1942, grandson of the former Secretary of State; married in South Carolina. He is now in the Army. (b) BENJAMIN R. PUTNAM, engineer and rancher of Los Angeles, Calif., married Wilella Thorington and these have two sons: William C. Putnam, a professor of Geology in the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and now stationed in Washington on geological work for the Army; he has just published a book on military applications of maps; married Evelyn Smith and they have two adopted children, and Thorington Caldwell Putnam is a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserves; he has for years been an artist on the staff of Walt Disney. (c) JOSEPH DUNCAN PUTNAM, scientist; (d) WILLIAM CLEMENT PUTNAM who endowed a museum in Davenport, Iowa; (e) ELIZABETH DUNCAN PUTNAM; (f) CHARLES M. PUTNAM who married and had two daughters, Mary and Eunice. b-JULIA DUNCAN, married Judge Edward P. Kirby of Jacksonville, Illinois, no issue. (c)-JOSEPH DUNCAN married and lived in Chicago, Illinois, no children, and others who died in infancy.
(4) POLLY ANN DUNCAN married William Linn, attorney; no information as to family.
(5) THOMAS A. DUNCAN graduated from Transylvania College; was lawyer at Nashville, Tennessee; accidentally killed in Louisiana 1831. He married Margaret Jane Stoddard, sister of Mrs. James Bell. Children: one son and one daughter.
(6) JOHN DUNCAN graduated at Rush Medical College, Philadelphia and lost his life during the first year of his practice. He died intestate and unmarried in the state of Illinois prior to 1829. He was styled John Smith Duncan in early suit.
V-SARAH DUNCAN born in Virginia to Matthew and Sarah Duncan, married first Dr. Charles Greer (Grier, Greear), and second William Bell, a widower with at least one son, William Bell, Jr., who was living at Martinsburg, Berkeley county, Virginia, in 1811. After the death of her husband in 1794 Sarah Duncan Bell removed to Bourbon county, Kentucky and later to Glasgow, Barren county, Kentucky. She made a deed of gift to children of Seth Duncan- (see hereafter).
In a deed recorded in Bk. 9, p. 190, Berkeley county (West) Virginia, Charles Grier, William Grier and others (some in the Kingdom of Ireland) made conveyance; also, Sarah Grier, in 1790, gave power-of-attorney to Thomas Duncan to recover bonds and monies oweing the estate of Charles Grier, deceased. Dr. (continued)
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Grier served during the Revolution as Surgeon's Mate, 4th Va. 1777; prisoner at Brandywine, rejoined regt. 1777, transferred 3rd Va. until 1780 (Heitman).
VI-JANE DUNCAN was another daughter born to Matthew and Sarah Duncan of whom we have record. She married William Wilson and moved to Clark county, Kentucky. William Wilson, probably a Revolutionary soldier (War Dept. record) had warrants for hundreds of acres of land in Fayette county, Ky. His will is filed in Clark county, Ky. bk. 4 p. 655 written June 23, 1818, probated August 28, 1820, in which he named his wife, Jane; son, Alvah, balance divided between Edward Wilson, William Wilson, Alvah Wilson and John Lukey; son, John Wilson, Matthew Wilson and son-in-law, James Norwood, previously received. Extr. Thomas Scott. Wts: Abner Robenson, Abraham Inskip, Michael Witton.
The will of Matthew Wilson proved Feb. 1825 named wife, Susannah St. Clair Wilson. It was contested by John Luky, Edward and Alvy Wilson.
VII-SETH DUNCAN, referred to as "Captain," brought his widowed mother, Sarah Duncan, from Virginia to Kentucky in 1796. Sarah Duncan was at that time about seventy-three years of age.[1] She lived for three years with her son, Captain James Duncan, in Bourbon county, but died at the home of Seth Duncan, in Pendletorl county, Ky., after his removal to that county from Bourbon. Her estate was administered in Bourbon county, Kentucky, 1806 with James Duncan Administrator. According to deeds in Bourbon and Pendleton counties the wife of Seth Duncan was named Ruahama (family name unknown) and they resided on Licking river in Pendleton county in 1805. This couple may have moved elsewhere from Pendleton county as no record of Seth Duncan's estate was found recorded there. From the will of Thomas Duncan, heretofore mentioned, and from a deed of gift from Sarah Bell (alias Greer), who was the sister of Seth Duncan, to the heirs of Seth Duncan (Bourbon Deeds F p. 197) dated February 24, 1808, we find Seth and Ruahana Duncan left issue: Matthew Duncan, Seth Duncan, Eliza Ann Duncan and Sarah Maria Duncan at which time they were "of Bourbon county," Kentucky. According to the record of descendants of Matthew J. Duncan, son of Seth and Ruahana Duncan, Seth Dun can was born June 29, 1771 and their son, Matthew J. Duncan, was born August 20, 1795 and died in Larue county, Kentucky, August 29 1848, married December 18, 1817 in Nelson county, Kentucky, Mary Miller, daughter of Jacob and Mary Miller,[2] and left issue: Elizabeth, Cassandra, Elisa Ann married Nicholas, Mary, Harriet married Ferguson and had Millie Adams who moved to Texas, Nancy married ______Seth, killed in War Between States, D. F. married Bettie Neff, Sarah, John Myers born July 10, 1839 married Sara Wood Brown and had one child, Clarence Young Duncan, Susan and Helen.
[1] Chancery Suit, Bourbon Co., Ky. Ct. Ct., Box 312, Duncan vs. Duncan Hrs. Mary M. Davidson, late Mary McLaughlin, of Franklin Co., Pa. deposed in this suit at house of John D. Davidson; also Elizabeth Shannon at house of Wm. Shannon, Pendleton Co., Ky., 1810.
[2] Marriages in Nelson county, Ky., records show Seth Duncan to Jane Carter, 1828; Matthew J. Duncan to Nange Vittitow i1849; Matthew Duncan to Nancy Miller, father Jacob Miller, 1817, and others. Compilation of Duncan Family Records by Mrs. Linnie Wright Barrett.
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DANIEL DUNCAN, merchant and land owner, of Paris, Kentucky, was born near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1773, to William and Mary Duncan. William Duncan and his father, Thomas Duncan, took up land in Hopewell Township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, as early as 1759 and 1762 when they were issued land warrants.[1] William Duncan served during the Revolution as a First Lieutenant, Fifth Company, Fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania;[2] his will, in which he styled himself "of Southampton Township", Cumberland county was recorded April 18, 1794 and mentioned wife, Mary, dau. of Francis Albert) and children: David, John, William (Jr.), Stephen, Daniel (our subject), Joseph, Margaret (married Mr. Blythe), Ann (married Mr. Culbertson of Chambersburg, Pa.), Jane and James. William Duncan Sr. is thought to have descended from Rev. William Duncan A. M., Episcopal minister, born 1630, Pertshire, Scotland; married August 29, 1657 Susan Haldane of Glasgow, Scotland and died 1692 in the 40th year of his ministry. William Duncan, son of Rev. William and Susan (Haldane) Duncan, born October 1, 1659; married 1681 Margaret McMurdo and had among others a son, Thomas Duncan, born January 12, 1686; immigrated with brothers to America and settled in Culpeper county, Virginia; married Jane (family name unknown) removed to the vicinity of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where his will was filed July 18, 1776 in which he named son, William Duncan, who was the father of Daniel Duncan of Paris, Kentucky.[3]
DANIEL DUNCAN was about twenty years of age when he took up his residence in Paris. He soon became a prominent and respected citizen. In 1794 his father-in-law, Richard Timberlake, deeded him three hundred acres on "Paddy's run" and that same year he purchased from the Trustees of Paris an out lott no. 25. One James Taffe of Clark county, Kentucky, gave him power-of-attorney, in 1794, to make a deed to a lot in "Baltimore Town," Maryland, and there are numerous other records filed in the office of the county clerk of Bourbon county regarding this man who for forty years conducted his mercantile business and operated his farms in Paris and Bourbon county. On the first Friday in March, 1797, when the first election of trustees for the town of Paris (formerly Hopewell) was held, Daniel Duncan was among the six gentlemen elected. He was one of the trustees of the Bourbon Academy established by the State Legislature December 1798 and was elected treasurer at the organization meeting April 1st, 1799; was appointed by Governor Isaac Shelby justice of the peace of Bourbon county December 1794.[4] Daniel Duncan married Oct. 7, 1793 Mary Timberlake born Dec. 25, 1776, 10 miles north of Richmond, Virginia, to Richard Timberlake and his second wife, Mary (Munden) Smith born May 19, 1747, widow of Samuel Smith and daughter of Thomas and Rachel Munden. The first wife of Richard Timberlake was the sister of Samuel Smith, first husband of his second wife. In 1790 Richard and Mary Timberlake moved from Hanover county, Virginia, to Harrison county, Kentucky, settling four miles east of Cynthiana and a little later to a farm five miles from Paris, Bourbon county, on the waters of Flat Run. Mary Timberlake, wife of Daniel Duncan, had one own brother, Harry (Henry), who represented Bourbon county in the State Legislature 1814, and three half brothers viz: Samuel, Obediah and William Timberlake and three own sisters viz: Nancy who married Hon. Robert Trimble, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Rebecca who married James Findley of Cynthiana, Kentucky, and Betsy who married first George W. Baylor and second Mr. Chinn of Shelbyville, Kentucky, and one half sister, Sally Smith, who married John Clark of Hanover county, Virginia, who after his wife's death moved with his three children (two daughters and a son) to Harrison county, Kentucky; one of the Misses Clark (continued)
[1]Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Vol. XXIV, pps. 661, 662; Vol. XX pps. 58, 173, 307, 755, etc.
[2] Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Vol. VI, p. 240.
[3] Manuscript compiled by the late John C. Underwood. Manuscript "Ancestral History" left by Mary B. Hardin (1887) granddaughter of Daniel and Mary (Timberlake) Duncan in possession of General George B. Duncan. The Story of Thomas Duncan and His Six Sons by Katherine Duncan Smith (1928). Family chart left by the late Henry T. Duncan in possession of his son, General George B. Duncan. Draper Mss. 16cc250-51 lists children of Daniel Duncan and birth dates; extensive notes gathered by Mrs. Geo. B. Duncan.
[4] Bourbon County Court Records; original minutes of Old Bourbon Academy; First Deed to Daniel Duncan dated 1793; Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 29, P. 209.
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married a Mr. Kelly of Cynthiana and the other Mr. Respass of Augusta, Kentucky. The will of Richard Timberlake was filed in Bourbon county October 1806.[1]
To Daniel Duncan and wife, Mary (Timberlake) Duncan were born ten children, seven of whom died in infancy and were buried in the Mt. Garrison (Gehrizon) Cemetery, Harrison county, Ky., where their maternal grandparents were interred and which had been given the Church by Richard Timberlake; three children lived to maturity, viz: I-HENRY TIMBERLAKE born Mar. 21, 1800, II-MARY DUNCAN born Sept. 29, 1802, and III-ELIZA DUNCAN born Dec. 9, 1804. Daniel Duncan died in Scott county, Ky., in the summer of 1833 and his widow removed to Missouri and died in Columbia, Boone county, March 1849. Children who lived to maturity were:
I-HENRY TIMBERLAKE DUNCAN was born in Paris, Ky., March 21, 1800, married November 5, 1826, Elizabeth Dunster Pyke (named for her paternal grandmother) born, September 6, 1808, to Samuel Pyke, a wealthy Englishman, and wife, Hannah (Orchard) Pyke. Samuel Pyke purchased the old Bourbon Academy in 1805 and established the first wool-carding factory in Paris, if not in the State.[2] Henry Timberlake was a farmer of Bourbon county, especially interested in the breeding of thoroughbred stock. His farms known as the "Scott Farm" and the "Bedford Farm" were located near Hutchison Station. In later life he lived at "Duncannon," his country place two miles from Lexington on the Paris road. He died March 22, 1880, and his wife passed away at "Ingleside," Lexington, Ky., December 29, 1889. Issue:[3]
(1) HENRY DUNCAN JR., born in Bourbon county, Ky., August 30, 1836, married December 13, 1860 Elizabeth (Lily) Vertner Brand, born February 9, 1840, daughter of George W. Brand and wife, Nancy Abercrombie Griffith. Mr. Duncan was graduated from Harvard College 1859; made a distinguished record in U. S. Army; practiced his law profession in Lexington and later entered the field of journalism. He was the founder of the Lexington Daily Press 1870 (first daily paper in Lexington) which was merged with the Transcript as the "Press-Transcript." In 1896, he disposed of his interest in this publication to Desha Breckinridge who changed the name to the Lexington Herald. Mr. Duncan was elected mayor of Lexington in 1893 and re-elected in 1900. His weekly letters known as "Sunday Sermons" appeared in the Leader and Herald until his death on June 5, 1912. These articles were read throughout the nation because of their fearless attacks on officeholders operating under the spoils system. His wife died October 9, 1881. Issue:
A-GEORGE BRAND DUNCAN.[4] born October 10, 1861, married October 23 1895 at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Mary Kercheval. Her father, Benjamin Berry Kercheval, native of Detroit, Michigan, was born 1837 and died in 1885. George Brand Duncan was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy 1886; served grades from a second lieutenant to a Colonel in the Regular Army September 18, 1916; Brigadier General National Army August 5, 1917; Major General April 12, 1918 and later promoted to these grades in the Regular Service. In 1887 he was detailed in charge of Indians in Arizona, his predecessor having been killed; thence to Staff Commanding General of the Army, Washington, D. C. In the Spanish American War, he was stationed at Santiago, Cuba, as Adjutant General Provisional Division, and upon its surrender was with the division in Puerto Rico until 1898, thence to the Department of the Lakes, Chicago, Ill. From 1899 to 1902 and again from 1903 to 1909 he was in the Philippines and was so successful in campaigns against the insurgents that he was selected to organize the Philippine Scouts. From 1914 until June 1917 he was on the General Staff and in June 1917 he went to France with the 1st Division. As Brigadier General, 1st Brigade, he was the first American commander of a sector of the battle front, assigned to command of the 77th Division as Major General May 22, 1918 and later commanded the 82nd Division throughout the Meuse-Argonne offensive. He was the first officer of the American Army to receive the Croix de Guerre in the first world war, this with two palms and star, commander Legion of Honor (France), Companion of (continued)
[1] Mary B. Hardin manuscript; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. XXXIII, p. 405; Collins' History II, p. 49; Kentucky Court and Other Records, vol. II, pps. 25, 113; Sketches of Paris, Bourbon County Kentucky, by Keller and McCann, p. 13.
[2] Sketches of Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., by Keller and McCann, p. 21.
[3] Paris Presbyterian Church records show Samuel Pyke Duncan and Daniel Duncan, inf.nt sons of Mrs. Eliza Duncan, baptized September 12, 1831; Family chart prepared by the late Henry T. Duncan Jr., in possession of Major General George B. Duncan.
[4] Who's Who in America.
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the Bath (England), Distinguished Service Medal (U. S.). General and Mrs. Duncan had two sons: Daniel, born April 5, 1901, died November 12, 1906, and Henry Timberlake Duncan, born July 24, 1903, graduated V. M. I. 1926, attended law school, Northwestern University and received his degree 1929, member of law firm Allen, Duncan and Duncan, Lexington, Ky., and at present serving as Lieut. Colonel, Legal Department, Army Air Corps, Washington, D. C. He married Frances Stanhope, July 5, 1939, and to this union was born Mary Duncan, December 15, 1942. General and Mrs. George Brand Duncan are in possession of the following Duncan portraits: Henry Timberlake Duncan by Chester Harding; Group, Mrs. Henry Timberlake Duncan and sons, Daniel and Henry T. (standing) and daughter, Mary Duncan, by Chester Harding, a copy of which appears in this book; Henry Timberlake Duncan, by George Healy, and his cousin, Dr. Stephen Duncan, of Natchez, Miss., by Bush; General George Brand Duncan, by Sudduth Goff.
B-ELIZA MACALESTER DUNCAN, born December 23, 1862, married February 3, 1885, Colonel John R. Allen, whose long service as commonwealth attorney of Fayette county, Ky., was one of honor and distinction.[1]
C-EDWARD DUNCAN, born May 4, 1864, married Georgia Barnes, was commissioned major during the first world war, in U. S. Engineering Corps, later located at San Diego, Calif. He died June 9, 1941 leaving no issue.
D-ELLEN DUNCAN died August 17, 1881, at the age of sixteen years.
E-NANA DUNCAN is unmarried.
F-HENRY TIMBERLAKE DUNCAN III, [2] born August 9th, 1868, married March 12, 1914, Carolyn Goff, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Sudduth) Goff, (continued)
[1] Kerr's History of Kentucky, vol. III, p. 362.
[2] Kerr's History of Kentucky, vol. IV, p. 209.
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residents of Lexington, Ky. Mr. Duncan was graduated from Transylvania College 1889 and later from Harvard Law College when he became one of the founders of the firm of Allen and Duncan at Lexington, his partner being his brother-in-law, Colonel John R. Allen. He has an honorable and distinguished record as one of the leading attornies of the Commonwealth. To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan were born two children: John Allen Duncan and Nancy Griffith Duncan.
G-LILY DUNCAN in April 1892 married George Otis Draper. Mr. and Mrs. Draper have children. Their home is at Santa Barbara, Calif.
H-MARGARET DUNCAN married December 9, 1902, Algernon Daingerfield who died June 10, 1941. Mrs. Daingerfield lives in New York and has an unmarried daughter, Margaret Daingerfield.
I-DANIEL DUNCAN born January 8, 1874, died by drowning August 8, 1899 at Fort Sheridan, Ill. He graduated at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, 1895, and was a Second Lieutenant of Infantry at the time of his death.
J-FANNY DUNCAN is unmarried.
(II) MARY DUNCAN, daughter of Henry T. Duncan and wife, Elizabeth Dunster (Pyke) Duncan, was born November 13, 1838, married September 22, 1859, Hart Gibson. Ref: Gibson Bible, Ky. Court and Other Records, Il p. 199. Issue:
A-Dunster Gibson married Harry Foster; B-Louisiana Gibson married first Maxfield, second F. H. Von Engleken; C-Duncan Gibson, unmarried; DHart Gibson married, no children; E-Mary D. Gibson married her cousin Richardson Gibson, have children and reside in New York.
(III) ELLEN DUNCAN, daughter of Henry T. Duncan and wife, Elizabeth Dunster (Pyke) Duncan, was born January 28, 1843, married June 22, 1865 William Voorhies. These had children and reside in Decatur, Ill.
(IV) ELIZABETH (LILY) DUNSTER DUNCAN, daughter of Henry T. Duncan and wife, Elizabeth Dunster (Pyke) Duncan, was born May 14, 1847 and died April 7, 1931.
II. MARY DUNCAN, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Timberlake) Duncan, was born in Bourbon county, Ky., September 29, 1802, died April 22, 1881, married February 13, 1824, Robert L. Barr of Fayette county, Ky., and moved to Boone county, Missouri, immediately thereafter. Issue: (I) JAMES BARR, killed at age of seven years; (II) MARY ELIZA BARR married Middleton Singleton and died January 7, 1885 leaving seven sons and one daughter viz: Charles, Robert who married Annie Burton of Centralia, Mo., Seth who married Maggie Bates of St. Charles county, Mo., Clinton, William, Dixie, Middleton and Mary Washington Singleton (in 1887 only the two mentioned were married); (III) DANiEL BARR died in infancy; (IV) CAROLINE IMLEY BARR married B. F. Fulenwider of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and in 1887 was living in Dakata; (V) ROBERT BARR was killed by a horse at age of four years; (VI) WILLIAM BARR was killed when he jumped from a horse at the age of twenty years.
III. ELIZA DUNCAN, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Timberlake) Duncan, was born December 9, 1804, in Bourbon county, Ky., married Theodorick Jenkins, April 1822, died February 18, 1848, leaving nine children, viz: (I) HENRY D. married Mame Blackwell of Arcola, Mo., and had John B and Eliza Duncan Jenkins; (II) MARY B. JENKINS married Charles H. Hardin who at the time was located in Fulton, Calloway county, Mo., and who was later Governor of Missouri. Mary B. (Jenkins) left a valuable family record from which much of this information is taken; (III) DANIEL D. JENKINS married Sue Scott of Lincoln county, Ky., and had issue: Mattie, Mary Hardin, Eliza D., Alice Ford and Sue Dan Jenkins; (IV) CATHERINE ELIZA JENKINS married Wm. H. Cutright of Bourbon county, Ky., and had issue: Eliza, died at age of nine years, Henry Theodorick and Charles Hardin Cutright; (V) CARRIE SCOTT JENKINS married W. W. Wilson, merchant of Columbia, Mo., and had issue: Eliza Jenkins, Josiah Woodson married Ida Blue, Caroline (Carrie) Randolph married Alexander Carter, James married Roberta McFadden, Mary Hardin and Walter W. Wilson; (VI) JAMES (JACK) JENKINS married Pamelia Singleton of Boone county, Mo., and had issue: Charles, Lee, James, Harry and Kattie Jenkins; (VII) ROBERT B. JENKINS was accidentally killed while hunting at age of fourteen; (VIII) WASHINGTON died at age of nineteen; (IX) CORDELIA PORTIA JENKINS married William H. Kennon, located in Mexico, Mo., and had issue: Mary Hardin, Hattie Rogers, Carrie Jenkins, Florence Maitland and Churchill Bayard Kennon. There were three other children of Theodorick and Eliza Jenkins all of whom died before 1848 viz: Laura, an infant son and Thomas aged thirteen years.
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NOTES ON OTHER DUNCAN FAMILIES IN BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
There were others of the name of Duncan living in Bourbon county, Ky., at an early date but the link of kinship, if any, which connects these with the Duncans heretofore mentioned is not a matter within our knowledge. It has therefore seemed advisable to add a few abstracts from records filed in the office of the county court which bear on these families.
THOMAS DUNCAN-will-Will Bk. H, p. 398-To grandson, Thomas Duncan, son of son, Roger; to grandsons, John and George, sons of son, Roger; to son, Roger; to daughter, Peggy, wife of George Hays; sons, Roger and John and daughter, Sally Duncan. Extr. friend, Abraham Spears. Written June 12, 1824-recorded September 6, 1830.[1]
ROGER DUNCAN-Estate Settled, Bk. C, p. 334-George Duncan, Admr. February court 1836.
Roger Duncan's Heirs-Deed Bk. 38, p. 204-April 2, 1840-John Duncan and wife, Sarah J.; Thomas Duncan and wife, Mary Ann; Benjamin B. Taylor and wife, Mary Ann; George Duncan and wife, Leddy; Moses Wilkerson and wife, Amanda of Calloway county, Missouri, deed to Joseph Collier.
Vol. 37, p. 262, Register, Kentucky State Historical Society-deed from Benjamin Forsythe of Harrison county, Ky., to Redmon heirs, among whom Roger and wife, Sally, late Sally Redmon, August 19, 1807.
Bible record of John and Sarah Duncan as follows: "John Duncan was born April 9, 1807, died February 14, 1866. Sallie (Sarah) Adair, first wife of John Duncan, was born January 23, 1811. John Duncan was from Bourbon county, Kentucky, and married Sallie J. Adair and two years after their marriage they moved to Millersburg, Calloway county, Missouri. Sallie J. Adair was the daughter of William and Annie (Griffith) Adair. John Duncan was the son of Roger and Sally (Redmon) Duncan of Bourbon county, Ky." William P. Adair was a resident of Nicholas county, Ky. He was born in Delaware 1786 (U. S. Census), will proved 1852. Wm. P. Adair married first wife, Annie Griffith, January 24, 1810.
WASHINGTON DUNCAN[2]-Will Bk. K. p. 34-Administrator, Jacob Duncan, April 23, 1835. Estates Settled C. p. 264-Widow's dower-the "Rannels Tract," upon which decedent lived and died, where widow now resides, located on Hinkston adjoining lines of Isaac Ruddell, Thomas Champ and Millersburg road. Commissioners appointed on motion of Jacob Duncan for self and as guardian for Archibald and Daniel Duncan with William Cook guardian for Mary Cook child of Rachel Cook, deceased, whose land adjoined Amos land; and Joseph Duncan, another heir.
Deed Bk. 33, p. 410-April 1, 1835-Mary Duncan, "widow of Washington Duncan," deeded Franklin Hutchison her dower interest in land on Hinkson.
Washington Duncan Heirs to Robert Palmer-Deed Bk. 38, p. 195, May 16, 1836-Jacob Duncan, Joseph Duncan, Archibald Duncan, Daniel Duncan and Mary K. Cook by commissioner to Robert Palmer, convey 212 3/4 acres.
Deed Bk. 44, p. 24-Aug. 4, 1849-Joseph Duncan and wife, Charlotte, of Ray county, Mo., gave power-of-attorney to Jacob Duncan to deliver deed to Daniel Duncan of Bourbon county, Ky., their one fifth interest in tract subject to life estate of Mary Duncan who "now resides on the land."
Deed Bk. 43, p. 300-318-January 1849-Archibald Duncan and wife, Margaret Jane, late Margaret Fisher, daughter of Nathaniel Fisher.
SARAH DUNCAN-Will-Will Bk. P. p. 713-To granddaughter, Sally Duncan; daughter, Matilda Duncan and her son, William Duncan. Written (continued)
[1]Circuit Court suit (776) Bourbon county, Ky., and deeds (13k. X, p. 149, Ek. Z, p. 587) show Catherine Duncan at time of marriage to Thomas Duncan was the widow of Elias Rymel; that later Catherine separated from Thomas Duncan and in 1818 he made a deed of trust through James Hutch;son conveying his interest in land and personalty; said Thomas Duncan died August 1, 1830, and June 3, 1833 Catherine Duncan joined with George Rymel (her son) in conveying to James E. Hutchison her interest in tract of 102 1/2 acres as widow of Elias Rymel. From these records it is evident Catherine was a second wife of Thomas Duncan and not the mother of his older children.
[2]Joseph Duncan's Will, Harrison Co., Ky., dated 1822, mentioned son, Washington Duncan. See Kentucky Court and Other Records, vol. 1, p. 47, also notes by Mrs. Linnie Wright Barrett (Address 2803 Travis, Dallas, Texas) in Register, Kentucky Historical Society, Jan. 1932. Obituary of Jacob Duncan, Western Citizen, January 9, 1871, gives age as 62 years. Children of Jacob Duncan were Daniel, Archibald and Mary C. married Elijah M. Holsell. One Archibald Duncan lived in Nicholas county, Ky. Rachel Cook died 1835 (Petition for sale of land by Washington Duncan's Hrs.-Box 974, Ct..Ct.)
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September 23, 1857-recorded November 2, 1857. Executor, grandson, William Duncan. Wts.: Wm. David, Charles Rush.[1]
Sarah Duncan from John Smith and wife, Malvina, of Bourbon county, Ky. -Deed-Bk. 48, p. 392, October 26, 1855-Tract located on Licking in Bourbon county, Ky.
Sarah Duncan to John Smith of Bourbon county, Ky.-Deed Bk. 49, 575, October 26, 1855-Tract located on Stoner in Bourbon county, Ky.
Deed Bk. 36, p. 89-October 1837-Barsheba Duncan, late Barsheba Hughes, widow of James Hughes, and George Hughes of Bourbon county, Ky., deed Mason Hughes of Calloway county, Mo., 50 acres.
Bk. 2, p. 304-May 28, 1847-Barsheba Duncan, now of Boone county, Mo., deeds James M. McGuffin of Bourbon county, Ky., all profits of decree in suit against John Hughes for benefit of John M. McGuffin, May E. McGuffin and Joseph F. McGuffin, children of James M. McGuffin who is a grandchild of the said Barsheba Duncan. Barsheba Hughes married Elias Duncan, Aug. 21, 1813.
Joseph Duncan-Estate Appraised-Will Bk. G, p. 7-December 2, 1821Appraisers: Andrew Barton, Wm. Hutchison, Wm. Barton. Extrix., Elizabeth Duncan. Order Bk. G. contained another mention of this man but this book destroyed. In Inventory notes on and monies received from the following were listed, viz: Jno. Gregg, Jos. Kendall, Edward Waller, Elijah Current, Abraham Spears, Jos. Cummins, Thos. Current, Robt. Trabue, Thos. Stone, Walker Baylor, Jas. Edwards, Nathl. Parish, George Ruddell, Soloman Spears, Wm. Barton.
Deed Bk. E, p. 684-May 2, 1802-James Duncan to son, Reuben Duncan, deed of gift of slaves and personal property on plantation. Wts: Valentine E. Peyton, Valentine Matson.
DUNCAN MARRIAGES FILED IN BOURBON COUNTY, KY.
Margaret Duncan to Thomas Davis, Oct. 26, 1788.
Daniel Duncan to Mary Timberlake, Oct. 17, 1793.
Frances Duncan to Wm. Shackleford, Oct. 5, 1797.
Hannah Duncan to John Wilson, Feb. 6, 1798.
Annie Duncan to Charles Jackson, Sept. 26, 1798.
James Duncan to Polly Wells, Nov. 7, 1798.
Charles Duncan to Jenny Musick, Oct. 11, 1802.
Matthew Duncan to Elizabeth Breckenridge, Oct. 20, 1803.
James Duncan to Nancy Music, Apr. 2, 1807.
Patsy Duncan to William Shannon, March 24, 1808.
William Duncan to Nancy Davis, Oct. 7, 1807.
Anna Duncan to Benjamin Moore, Nov. 20, 1809.
Mary Duncan to John Breckenridge, March 13, 1810.
John Duncan to Elizabeth Wain, July 5, 1813.
William Duncan to Jemima S, Scott, March 24, 1813.
Elias Duncan to Barsheba Hughes, Aug. 21, 1813.
Thomas Duncan to Catherine Rymell, Nov. 25, 1813.
Eleanor Duncan to Eddie L. Breckenridge, Jan. 23, 1817.
James Duncan to Polly Perkins, Sept. 1817.
Jeremiah Duncan to Hannah E. Scott, Dec. 14, 1820.
Stephen Duncan to Lucy Browning, Sept. 17, 1822.
Patrick Duncan to Malinda House, March 5, 1823.
Mary Duncan to Robert Barr, Feb. 13, 1824.
Rachel Duncan to William Cook, May 9, 1833.
Seth Duncan to Keturah Talbott, Oct. 17, 1831.
Samuel Duncan to Elizabeth Shrader, Jan. 7, 1841.
Archibald Duncan to Margaret Fisher, Dec. 7, 1837.
George Duncan to Lidda Taylor, Sept. 23, 1835.
Jacob Duncan to George Ann Bushby, Feb. 5, 1839.
James S. Duncan to Mary C. Williams, Dec. 14, 1843.
Sarah J. Duncan to John Griggsby, May 21, 1829.
America Duncan to Elijah Harding, June 8, 1857.
Polly Ann Duncan to Benjamin B. Taylor, July 25, 1835.
Nancy Duncan to Shelton Watts, Aug. 31, 1827.
Peggy Duncan to Samuel Watkins, July 1832.
[1] Vital Statistics, Kentucky Historical Society, year 1857, states Sarah Duncan died 1857, Bourbon county, Ky., aged 67, born in Delaware.
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Mary E. Duncan to Randolph Wilson, June 5, 1860.
Kate Duncan to William P. Chambers, Dec. 5, 1865.
Winefred Duncan to James K. Ford, 1865.
James Anna Duncan to George R. Bell, Sept. 26, 1867.
Narcis Duncan to Matthew Sons, Jr., Dec. 15, 1868.
Hanna E. Duncan to Wm. M. Taylor, Oct. 30, 1873.
DUNCAN MARRIAGES IN CLARK COUNTY, KENTUCKY, 1793-1820 (Copied by Bayless Hardin, State Historical Society.) DUNCAN:
Betsy, to Wm. Lester, Nov. 21, 1817; b. Elisha Duncan; f. James Duncan, Sr.
David, to Luvicia Halsell, Sept. 12, 1812; b. Jno. Halsell, f. John Halsell.
Diana, to Wharton Lampton, Dec. 22, 1812; b. Chas. Gilkey; f. Joseph Duncan; attest. Cary K. Duncan.
Elizabeth, to Thomas Embree, Aug. 24, 1795; b. Jas. Jackson; f. Joseph Duncan; teste. James Duncan.
Fielding, to Peggy Matthews, Dec. 28, 1809; b. Jas. Mysee; f. Peter Matthew.
James, to Joice Quisenberry, Dec. 29, 1794; b. Roger Tandy; f. Jas. Quisenberry; teste. Wm. Bush.
John, to Sally Bush, Jan. 30, 1797; b. Jos. Bush; m. Sary Bush; teste. Jas. Duncan.
John, to Peggy Redmon, Dec. 9, 1808; b. W. Redmon.
John, to Mary Strode, June 16, 1811; b. Jno. Strode.
Joseph, to Polly Brooks, May 8, 1809; b. Jno. Breckenridge.
Nancy, to Chas. Daniel, Aug. 14, 1800; b. Jos. Duncan.
Nancy S., to Morgan Wright, Dec. 10, 1816; b. Cary K. Duncan; f. James Duncan.
Peggy, to James Daniel, Feb. 9, 1799; b. Jos. Duncan.
Polly, to Wm. Anderson, Feb. 3, 1810; b. Joshua Duncan.
Sally, to Jos. Bush, July 29, 1797; b. Wm. Duncan; James and Elizabeth Duncan, parents of Sally.
Sally, to Jacob Vert, Jr., Oct. 21, 1811; b. Joshua Dunkin.
Thomas, to Elender Brooks, Dec. 18, 1810; b. M. Brooks.
William, to Jemima McEntire, Sept. 6, 1816; b. Hughy McEntire; f. Francis McEntire.
Andrew Dunkin to Frances Colliver, July 10, 1793; b. Jonathan Bryan; f. Jos. Colliver.
James Dunkin, to Nancy Tillery, Dec. 20, 1806; b. Radford McCargo; f. Thos. Tillery.
Richard, to Mary A. Redman, Sept. 10, 1835.
John H., to Paulina Hoett, Nov. 14, 1816.
Joshua, to Winney McIntire, Aug. 5, 1824.
Asa, to Frances Bush, Mar. 17, 1825.
James, to Nancy Davis, Jan. 18, 1849.
William R., to Mary Quisenberry, Jan. 4, 1849.
James, to Catharine Jordon, Nov. 26, 1826.
John, to Emily Quinn, Apr. 3, 1838.
HARRISON COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGES-1799-1843
William Duncan to Ann Plunkett, Oct. 15, 1799.
Charles Duncan to Patsy McKee, April 8, 1808.
Squire Duncan to Rheananey Milner, Oct. 11, 1812.
John P. Duncan to Nancy Davis, March 13, 1816.
Polly Duncan to John Courtney, March 13, 1810.
John H. Duncan to Paulina Holt, license, Nov. 13, 1816.
Joseph Duncan to Elizabeth O'Banion, Sept. 25, 1817.
Wm. Duncan to Matilda Heiatt, March 24, 1825.
Matilda B. Duncan to John Reitzell, license, July 8, 1823.
Elizabeth Duncan to Benjamin Ellis, Dec. 21, 1825.
Elizabeth Duncan to Thomas Harding, May 7, 1826.
Asa Duncan to Christeen Newell, license, Oct. 1, 1826.
Wilford Duncan to Martha Morris, license, Jan. 15, 1828.
Charles Duncan to Harriet Jackson, August 12, 1830.
Wesley Duncan to Huldah Duncan, license, Sept. 16, 1830.
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George H. Duncan to Isabella Gilbreath, April 22, 1832.
Catherine O. Duncan to Bliar Ritzel, license, Oct. 21, 1828.
Rosanah Duncan to James Courtney, April 11, 1831.
Polly Duncan to John Keith, Dec. 26, 1832.
Lydia Duncan to James Wilson, March 13, 1833.
William Duncan to Elizabeth VanHook, Jan. 23, 1834.
Jacob Duncan to Margaret Galbreath, Dec. 7, 1834.
Nancy Duncan to Henry Hitch, Oct. 3, 1837.
Polly Ann Duncan to Colvin Courtney, Nov. 2, 1842.
Jesse Duncan to Sarah H. White, license, Dec. 14, 1842.
Elizabeth Duncan to A. L. Morgan, March 3, 1844.
Note: There were numerous marriages under the spelling of Dungan. Thomas and wife, Mary Dungan, died there, leaving issue; division of his esstate 1839.
EARLY PENDLETON COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGES
Willis Duncan to Frances Colvin, April 10, 1800.
Susannah Duncan to Gabriel Miles, May 22, 1800.
Matilda Duncan to Edward McCarty, March 20, 1819.
Fanny Duncan to Elijah Williams, February 21, 1820.
Polly Duncan to Vivian Daniel, February 23, 1805.
Louisa Duncan to Francis D. Lightfoot, March 29, 1834.
Susan Duncan to John Forsythe Jr., consent of gdn. Bannon, December 28,1835.
Ambrose Duncan to Cythia Colvin, February 1, 1836.
Hansford Duncan to Cynthia Forsythe, Sept. 29 or Oct. 1, 1830, daughter of John.
Mariah Duncan, daughter of Elias, to Elias G. Byland, 1813.
EARLY NICHOLAS- COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGES
Betsy Duncan to Jacob Averell, April 14, 1814.
Sally Duncan to William Hardin, February 27, 1811.
Betsy Duncan to Daniel Jackson, March 14, 1816.
Enfield Duncan to Nimrod Ashcraft, October 20, 1814.
EARLY FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGES
(Copied by Nina Visscher, State Historical Society)
Names and dates in the following paragraphs will come in this order:-
Groom, Bride and Parents, Date, Bondsman.
Duncan, Samuel-McIsaac, Jane-10-20-1828-McIsaac, Jas.
Duncan, Clement R.-Woodruff, Ann C.-2-11-1825-gdn. Kisir, Benj. C.
Duncan, Garnett-Martin,Patsy-Jno. L. Martin-7-6-1826-Robert Sanders.
*Duncan, Jas. S.-McQuillen, Margaret-6-15-1837-Krickel, F.
Duncan, Coleman-Postlethwait, Mary S.-4-18-1831-Price, Andrew.
Duncan, Jas.-Kidwell, Hester Ann-Kidwell, Mary-12-19-1850-Duncan, James.
Copy from Old Marriage Book:-
*Duncan, James-McMillen, Margt.-June 18, 1837.
Dunkin, Jas. W.-Clayton, Rebecca-Apr. 6, 1832.
Cockrill, Benj.-Duncan, Jane-2-14-1817-Samuel Duncan.
Gentry, Garland-Duncan, Nancy-6--26-1821-Samuel Duncan.
Mahan, Wm.-Duncan, Sarah-7-24-1820-Samuel Duncan.
Poindexter, Arnett-Duncan, Eliza-12-15-1827-Garland Gentry.
Redman, Chas.-Duncan, Geggy-1804-4-11-Duncan, John.
Sharp, Tilford-Duncan, Merriam-12-24-1838-Poindexter, Arnett.
Yates, Abner-Duncan, Lucy-11-5-1824-Duncan, Wm.
Note: Duncan marriage were recorded in various Kentucky counties and
have been published in the Kentucky Historical Register and by Mrs. Annie
Walker Burns in her compilations of Kentucky records.
KENTUCKIANS BY NAME OF DUNCAN IN WAR OF 1812
Almownder Duncan, Anderson Duncan, Arthur Duncan, Ashley Duncan, Charles Duncan, Charles C. Duncan, David Duncan, Ennes Duncan, Fielding Duncan, Flemmin Duncan, George Duncan, Howsen Duncan, Jacob Duncan, James Duncan, James M. Duncan, Jeremiah Duncan, John Duncan, John S. Duncan, Joseph Duncan, Joshua Duncan, Little B. Duncan, Matthew Duncan, Peter Duncan, Pope Duncan, Richard Duncan, Thomas Duncan, Travers Duncan, Walter Duncan, William Duncan, Willis Duncan.
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Miscellaneous Notes on Duncans in Kentucky
DUNCAN MEMORIAL CHAPEL
Duncan Memorial Chapel stands on a sixteen acre plot, including the old Floydsburg, Kentucky, Cemetery where five generations of Duncans were buried. It was built by a gift of $250,000 from Alexander Edward Duncan, former native of Floydsburg, now a Baltimore banker, as a memorial to his wife. Designed by Fred H. Elswick, it was built of stone that came from old stone fences in Spencer county and is surrounded by well-spaced gardens, evergreens and magnificent old hardwood trees, flowers throughout the season and a large lake. Over 25,000 persons visit this early English Chapel each year.
John Wesley Duncan, after his marriage to Emily McClelland in Mason county, Ky., in 1827, lived for a short time in Bourbon county, Ky., where his daughter, Mary Ann Duncan, was born 1828, returned to Mason that same year and died while Mary Ann was still an infant. Descendant-Mrs. Wm. W. Weis, Maysville, Ky. (1943).
Rev. George Strother born in Culpepper county, Va., Feb. 14, 1776, married 1796 Mary Duncan (1776-1851) and removed to Bourbon county, Ky., and in 1802 to Trimble county, Ky.
Joseph Duncan, Revolutionary soldier, married May 22, 1772 Nancy Stevens in Orange county, Va., and removed to Clark county, Ky., where his will was probated April court 1826. He left a large estate to his wife and children. He was the ancestor of Mrs. Voris Rariden Norton, New London, Mo., (1943) who descends through a daughter, Sarah Montague Duncan, wife of Dillard Collins. (See Register Ky. State Historical Society, vol. 37, p. 172).
Joseph Duncan and William Duncan died in Harrison county, Ky., 1822 and 1830 respectively. See vol. I Kentucky Court and Other Records for abstracts of wills. Frances Duncan's Inv. is recorded in Harrison county 1834; also the will of one Archibald Duncan as follows: wife, Hannah; grandsons Wm., Archibald and Joseph Duncan; dau. Sally Harding; balance equally between Jefferson Duncan, Jacob Duncan, Elizabeth Jackson, Huldah Duncan, Polly Keith, and Naomi Hitch. Extrs: David Snodgrass and nephew Thomas Parkerproved Dec. 1839.
Thomas Duncan died in Mason County, Ky., between 1823 and 1826; David Duncan died in Mason county between 1826 and 1829; both left wills.
Duncan's will and Margaret Duncan's division of estate are listed in index to Bath county estates under early dates.
Andrew Duncan is listed in Montgomery County, Ky., Census of 1810.
William Duncan's Estate is settled in Fleming county, Ky., in bks. A and B.
James Duncan and Charles Duncan came to Kentucky territory in spring of 1788 and to the present limits of Jessamine county, Ky., from Culpeper county, Va. Charles Duncan was born there 1742. James Duncan born 1746 was murdered by Indians near mouth of Paint Lick Creek, Madison county, Ky., Nov. 7, 1792, and left a widow and three small children. James and Charles Duncan had a brother, Rawley Duncan, born in Culpeper county, Va., 1736, who also moved to Kentucky. Ref: Old letter written by Charles Duncan, grandson of Charles Duncan, to Samuel M. Duncan of Nicholasville, Ky., from Edenton, N. C., dated Sept. 23, 1888, published in the Jessamine Journal, Nov. 2, 1888. This letter containing much information on these pioneers, was sent to the editor for publication by Samuel M. Duncan, grandson of James Duncan, who gave the birth dates of Charles and James Duncan as 1762 and 1764 respectively, both having been born in Culpeper county, Va. Note: It is probable these men were of different generations-see article by Mrs. Linnie Wright Barrett, Kentucky Register, vol. 31, in which she refers to confusion in various (continued)
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branches of Culpeper and Fauquier Duncan families caused by duplication of given names.
Madison county, Ky., deeds:-Duncan Hrs. viz: Robert Covington, Nimrod Duncan, William Duncan, Charles Duncan, Shadrack Duncan, Isaac Duncan, John Duncan, Garrett Phelps, Henry Duncan, Zachariah Duncan, Eli Simmons and Sarah Duncan guardian for Zachariah Duncan, bound themselves to receive from each other in sum of 2000 pounds to be received from each or any of them that might not abide by a sale of the estate of Charles Duncan, deceased. Dated Sept. 1803.
John Duncan-will-Madison county, Ky., named: wife, Lucy; to William Harris and Malinda; to dau. Emily Goodloe and Henry Goodloe; to dau. Susannah Hart and John Hart; son, John; dau. Livia Goodloe; dau. Elizabeth Taylor. Extr. son, John. Will proved 1848.
Benjamin Duncan-will-Madison county, Ky., named: wife, Elizabeth; son, John Samuel; son, Benjamin; dau. Elizabeth Arnett. Proved 1796.
Gabriel Duncan-will-Madison county, Ky., named: wife, Mary; granddaughters, Susan and Elizabeth, daughters of daughter, Elizabeth Williams; daughters, Nancy Edge and Patsy Batterton; son, Anderson; children of dau., Polly Bennett; dau., Charlotte Hainline. Proved 1845.
Edmund Duncan, of Warren county, Ky., born 1787 in Fauquier county, Va. (son of Charles born in Culpeper county, Va. 1751, died Fauquier, 1818, married 1771, Elizabeth Dillard who died 1802) married 1st Harriet Ann Dulaney (1794-1835) moved to Warren county, Ky., married 2nd Sally Patterson Blakey Proctor. Edmund Duncan's will proved, Warren county, Ky., 1860, named a numerous family.
Joseph Dillard Duncan born 1814, Culpeper county, Va., died in Warren county, Ky., 1905. He married 1841 Jane Covington (1817-1900) and left seven sons and three daughters.
James Duncan will-Warren county, Ky. "late of Natchez, Miss.," mentions annuity from Dr. Duncan of Natchez; land in Texas to Maria and Henry P. Duncan, children of Dr. Stephen Duncan; to William S. Walker, Extrs.Joseph P. Brown of Nashville, and A. B. Macey of Bowling Green; codicil mentions Duncan S. Walker, extrs., Warner L. Underwood and John Marshall. Wts: Richard Curd, C. T. Duncan. Proved July 1838.
Pierson Duncan (wife Winny), Knox county, Ky.-"Advanced in age," made deed of gift to daughter, Melinda Brittain, dated 1847.
One Wilson Duncan was the son of William Duncan and wife who was a Miss Alexander. William Duncan died when his son, Wilson, was seven years of age. William Duncan was related to Governor Joseph Duncan of Illinois. Mrs. Mary Duncan Allen of 215 West Pierce Street, Council Bluffs, Iowa, descends from this branch. (1943).
Samuel Duncan's Inv. of Estate is filed in Fayette county, Ky., between 1824-1826.
John Duncan, Merchant, of Cumberland county, Pa., is listed in deeds of Woodford county, Ky., 1791.
John Duncan, styled "Captain John Duncan," Nellie Sharp Duncan and Master Duncan (son) resided at Ruddles Fort, Bourbon (now Harrison) county, Ky., at the time that fort was taken by Captain Bird and his British and Indian warriors in 1780. Ref: Draper Mss.
The names of James Duncan (1822), Benjamin Duncan (1824), Phoebe Duncan (1834), and Archibald (1836), appear in index to estates in Nicholas county, Ky.
Joshua Duncan, Sr., and Joshua Duncan, Jr., came to Clark county, Ky., at an early date from Loudoun county, Virginia.-Descendant, Mrs. A. C. Edsall, 821 East Main St., Lexington, Ky. (1943).
Joshua Duncan, Admrs. sett. dated 1815, Clark county, Ky. mong items: "note on James Dunkin which is money he collected from his uncle James Dunkin of the State of Indiana."
Charles Duncan, sale bill, with C. K. Duncan, admr. will bk. 4, p. 332, dated 1818, Clark county, Ky.
Jane Duncan, wife of John, late Jane Kennedy, commissioner for heirs of John Parrish, Clark county, Ky., Early Deeds.
Seth Duncan was complt. in suit in chancery vs. Thomas Lafferty and wife, Eleanor, Jeremiah Strode, John Strode, Wm. Lander and wife, Letitia, James Strode, Jacob Wilson and wife, Nancy, John Parish and wife, Mary, Elizabeth Duncan and Stephen Strode defts. and in consideration of decree deed was made dated 1821, Clark county, Ky.
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John W. Duncan's will-Clark county, Ky., Will bk. 8, p. 487-Mentions wife, Margaret; son, Thomas W.; son, William R.; daughter, Elizabeth Bowren; daughter, Sally Duncan; granddaughter, Mary Duncan Browen; mentions Alfred Bowren; mentions wife's property from her father, William Redmon's estate. Proved 1836.
Margaret Duncan, widow, died in Clark county, Ky., 1861, aged 79, born in Pa. to William and Margaret Redmon. Vital Statistics, State Historical Society.
Henry Duncan married,Polly Combs, daughter of Wm. Combs, Revolutionary soldier, in Lincoln county, Ky. 1803. Mrs. Robert W. Diver, 416 West 6th St., Coffeyville, Kans., (1943) descends from this branch.
Coleman and Mary (Lyne) Duncan brought their family of grown children to Nelson county, Ky., from Va. in 1792. He was the son of Henry Duncan by his first wife, Rebecca Reid, daughter of Coleman Reid. Henry Duncan married second Charity Mitchell, widow, and died in Richmond county, Va., 1772, to which county he moved from W%stmoreland, following the death of his wife, Rebecca. Mrs. C. A. Duncan filed4complete records of this branch at Kentucky Bldg., Dowling Green, Ky.
George Duncan settled in Wayne county, Ky., about 1801. He came from N. C. and had two sons, George and William.
One Daniel Duncan is mentioned in the will of Stephen Lee, 1809, Pulaski county, Ky., as son (son-in-law). Samuel Duncan was in Pulaski 1807.
There were Ducans living in Logan county, Ky., at an early date among whom Melcher Duncan, born February 2, 1789, married Sarah Irvine, born in Logan, April 22, 1792. Melcher Duncan's son, John, was born in Tenn. 1810. Mary Duncan, sister of Melcher Duncan, married Wm. Irvine of Todd county, Ky
Henry Duncan left will in Jefferson county, Ky., 1814, exts: Nancy Duncan and Coleman Duncan.
Ludwell Duncan is listed in index to estates of Oldham county, Ky., 1843.
Spouses
Unmarried:
Children: Martha
Matthew (~1693-~1766)
Seth (1730-)
(9) Name: Captain James S. (M.) DUNCAN
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Father: Major Joseph DUNCAN (1752-1803)
Mother: Ann Maria McLAUGHLIN
Misc. Notes
Notes on James Duncan: [1]
From "The Duncans of Bourbon County, Kentucky:" Captain James S. (M.) Duncan educated at Transylvania College, Captain in the War of 1812, returned to home in Paris, Kentucky, when army disbanded 1814. He moved to Illinois, was clerk of the Supreme Court at Vandalia and then at Springfield. He later moved to Jacksonville (Morgan County, Illinois) and became an elder in the Old-School Presbyterian Church. He died at Berlin, Sangamon County, Illinois, 1856. He and his wife Margaret had five daughers, including Caroline, Ann and Jane who married a Mr. Snow.
NOTE: When a minor, he is shown to have used initial "S." and later "M." Ref: Suit Joseph Duncan Hrs. and deeds of Joseph Duncan Hrs.
Spouses
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1: Margaret
Children: Caroline
Ann
Jane
Sources
1. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
(10) Name: James Scott DUNCAN
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Birth: April 22, 1823 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: August 17, 1849 Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 26
Father: Major Jeremiah DUNCAN (1792-1876)
Mother: Hannah E. SCOTT
Misc. Notes
The connection of James Duncan to Jeremiah Duncan is very tentative based upon a reference in Perrin’s biography of W. P. Chambers, as follows: . “James was a son of Major Jerry Duncan, a farmer who was an old resident of the County of Bourbon.” (Perrin, p. 458)
Spouses
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1: Mary C. WILLIAMS
Birth: 1825 Kentucky
Death: 1899 Age: 74
Father: Maj. George Washington WILLIAMS
Mother: Winnefred WEBB
Marriage: December 14, 1843 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Children: Winifred
James “Jimmie” Anna
Katherine “Kate” (1844-1915)
Hannah (1848-1917)
(11) Name: Major Jeremiah DUNCAN
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Birth: May 11, 1792 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: October 5, 1876 Missouri Age: 84
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
Notes on Jeremiah Duncan: [1]
Rendered service in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War; represented Bourbon county in the Lower House of the Kentucky General Assembly in 1845; was an extensive importer and breeder of pure-bred short-horn cattle.
MAJOR JEREMIAH DUNCAN [2] [2] was born May 11, 1792, rendered service in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War; represented Bourbon county in the Lower House of the Kentucky General Assembly 1845; was an extensive importer and breeder of pure-bred short-horn cattle. On October 14, 1820 Major Duncan was married to Hannah E. Scott, who died May, 1823, sister of his brother William's wife, and daughter of Samuel Scott. His death occurred October 5, 1876. Issue: One son, CAPTAIN JAMES S. DUNCAN, born April 22, 1823; educated at Harrodsburg, Ky., and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; married Decefhber 14, 1843, Mary C. Williams (daughter of Major George W. Williams, lawyer and man of prominence in his profession) and died August 17, 1849; his wife, born 1825, died 1899; issue: (a) WINIFRED DUNCAN, married 1865, James Keith Ford, born October 23, 1844, had one child, died in infancy; (b) HANNAH DUNCAN, born 1848 died 1917, married October 30, 1873, William M. Taylor, born 1846 died 1893, left three sons, viz: J. Duncan Taylor, born 1881, married Lillian Ogden and died 191-8 at Sandlake, New York, leaving daughter, Sarah, wife of Henry Watson Marble, editor, of Fort Scott, Kansas, had daughter, Sarah, she married Mr. Manette; William Taylor married Maria Worthington but left no issue; Louis Webb Taylor born 1886 married first Leslie Turney, born 1887 and died 1936, leaving one son, Amos Turney Taylor, born July 6, 1913, married Betty Brouse Roberts and these have a daughter, Mary Martin Taylor, born January 6, 1940. Louis W. Taylor married second Sue Jordan, of Paris, Ky.; (c) KATHERINE (KATE) DUNCAN, born 1844, died 1915; married December 5, 1865, William P. Chambers born June 13, 1842, at Louisville, Ky., and in 1859 became identified with business interests of Paris, died 1898; left one son, James Duncan Chambers, born October 28, 1881, married lone MacLean, had two children, William and Dorothy. (d) JAMES (JIMMIE) ANNA DUNCAN married George R. Bell September 26, 1867 and had two sons, James Duncan Bell born August 18, 1869, married Gertrude Trimble Renick, these are in possession of the beautiful portraits of Captain James and Mary (Williams) Duncan, shown in this publication, and have contributed numerous valuable family documents to the Duncan Tavern Museum; the second son, Jeremiah (Jerry) Bell, born 1871, was accidentally killed at age of thirteen years.
[2]Perrin's History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Ky.; Collins History, Vol. II, p. 640; Court Records.
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1860 Bourbon Co. KY Census, Paris, Pg.515, #213-230, Jerry DUNCAN 68 KY farmer $105,000-$30,000
Mary C. 35 KY
Catharine 15, Winnie (f) 14 KY
Hannah 12, J. Anna 11 KY
Spouses
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1: Hannah E. SCOTT
Father: Samuel SCOTT
Marriage: December 14, 1820 Bourbon County, Kentucky [3]
Children: James Scott (1823-1849)
Sources
1. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
2. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
3. Varon lists marriage date as October 14, 1820.--REF
(12) Name: John DUNCAN
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Birth: December 9, 1807 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: February 14, 1866 Callaway County, Missouri Age: 58
Father: Roger DUNCAN (ca1782-)
Mother: Sallie REDMON (ca1786-)
Misc. Notes
Notes on John DUNCAN: [1]
Bible record of John and Sarah Duncan as follows: "John Duncan was born April 9, 1807, died February 14, 1866. Sallie (Sarah) Adair, first wife of John Duncan, was born January 23, 1811. John Duncan was from Bourbon county, Kentucky, and married Sallie J. Adair and two years after their marriage they moved to Millersburg, Calloway county, Missouri. Sallie J. Adair was the daughter of William and Annie (Griffith) Adair. John Duncan was the son of Roger and Sally (Redmon) Duncan of Bourbon county, Ky." William P. Adair was a resident of Nicholas county, Ky. He was born in Delaware 1786 (U. S. Census), will proved 1852. Wm. P. Adair married first wife, Annie Griffith, January 24, 1810.
Spouses
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1: Sarah “Sallie” J. ADAIR
Birth: January 23, 1811
Father: William P. ADAIR (1784-1852)
Mother: Anna GRIFFITH (1790-1817)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(13) Name: John DUNCAN
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Birth: February 28, 1781 Berkeley County, Virginia
Death: June 27, 1833 Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 52
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
JOHN DUNCAN, [1] born February 28, 1781, died intestate in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in the year 1833. His widow was named Frances and John Grigsby was guardian of his children: Ruth Ann, Elizabeth and John Strode Duncan.
Spouses
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1: Mary Frances STRODE
Birth: about 1785 Virginia
Marriage: June 6, 1811 Clark County, Kentucky [2]
Children: Ruth Ann (1802-)
Elizabeth (1804-)
John Strode (1806-)
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2: Frances HOLMES
Marriage: September 3, 1829 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
2. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
(14) Name: Major Joseph DUNCAN
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Birth: 1752 Berkeley County, Virginia
Death: 1803 Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky Age: 51
Father: Matthew DUNCAN II (ca1720-1793)
Mother: Sarah (1723-1805)
Misc. Notes
MAJOR JOSEPH DUNCAN, [1] builder of Duncan Tavern, was born about the year 1752. He served during the Revolution in the 7th Virginia Regiment, enlisting prior to December 28th, 1776, when his name appears on the muster roll; appointed corporal June 1st, 1777 and sergeant July 1777; was detached about July 1777 to Captain Thomas Posey's Company, Colonel Daniel Morgan's famous regiment, Continental troops, on rolls of that regiment until October 1777 and was given furlough November 1777 through January 1778.[1] In depositions contained in old Bourbon county suits, Joseph Duncan stated he "made several trips from Virginia to the Kentucky territory" before he took up his "permanent residence in 1788." In 1791, upon the recommendation of the county court he was commissioned captain in the militia by Governor Beverly Randolph of Virginia and served as a Major of the 14th Regiment of Bourbon County Militia, resigning August 29, 1795, when Governor Isaac Shelby appointed George'Scott to succeed him.[2]
It is to this early settler we are indebted for historic Duncan Tavern which he used first as a residence and later as a tavern. Four years before Kentucky was a state the hand-hewn beams for this magnificent stone building were being lifted into place by sturdy pioneers. It stands today as a memorial to the expert workmanship of those first adventurers into the Western wilderness. Major Duncan conducted his tavern at the time Bourbon county contained within its boundaries thirty-three later Kentucky counties. As early explorers and surveyors in this vast wilderness had to travel to Bourbon county court to transact business one can readily understand the stream of pioneers that passed through the elaborate hand-carved entrance to Duncan Tavern.
Immediately in front of this entrance, Colonel John Floyd, deputy surveyor to William Preston of Fincastle county, Virginia, marked a tree to establish a colonial military grant to Walter Stewart for service in the French and Indian War. This mark, made in 1776, is said to have been the first surveyor's mark on land where the city of Paris stands today. Since Daniel Boone represented Bourbon county in the Virginia Assembly 1787-1788 and Simon Kenton, Michael Stoner, Colonel James Smith and other famious pioneers lived in Bourbon county at the time this building was operated as a tavern, they were unquestionably among those who were extended hospitality. In an old circuit court record it is stated John Edwards, first senator from Kentucky, lived at the tavern for some time; and on an old batten door in the basement is carved the name of Aaron Burr.[3] In the Kentucky Gazette of December 15th, 1803, appeared an advertisement of one John Porter who had leased this "large and elegant stone building in Paris, which belonged to the estate of Major Joseph Duncan and occupied by him as a Tavern, and since his death by Mrs. Duncan at the sign The Goddess of Liberty." An old lease dated 1815 described the tavern as "the old stone house on the square with kitchen, billiard room, smoke house, lower stable" and mentioned "repairs for the bar" and "partitions to be run across the ball room." The originals of these and other valuable old documents have been presented the Duncan Tavern Museum by a descendant, Hon. George R. Putnam.
Joseph Duncan married Ann Maria McLaughlin, of Cumberland Valley, who bore him six children. At the time of his death in 1803, he left a valuable estate in Paris and 500 acres of land in Barren county, Ky. Later his widow married Captain Benjamin Moore of the United States Army on November 20th, 1809; they had one son, Benjamin Duncan Moore, who was a captain of dragoons and killed in the Mexican War 1846; he left one son, Matthew Moore, who was in the western army in 1888. Captain Benjamin Moore died 1811 and Mrs. Ann Moore's brother, Robert McLaughlin, state treasurer of Illinois in 1818, induced the family to move from Kentucky to Fountain Bluff on the Mississippi River in Jackson County, Illinois.[4]
[1] War Dept. Record.
[2] Kentucky Historical Register, vol. 28, p. 207; Duncan vs. Fleming, Ct. Ct.
[3] Duncan's Adm'r. vs. Reeder's Adm'r., Ct. Ct. Bourbon County, Ky.
[4] "Biographical Sketch of Joseph Duncan" by Julia Duncan Kirby, "The Life and Services of Joseph Duncan, Governor of Illinois," by Elizabeth Duncan Putnam; Deed Bk. W, p. 448, Duncan vs. Duncan Ct. Ct., Bourbon Co.. Ky.
Spouses
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1: Ann Maria McLAUGHLIN
Father: Robert McLAUGHLIN
Mother: Masea KING
Marriage: about 1775
Children: Matthew (-1844)
James S. (M.)
Thomas A. (-1831)
John (-<1829)
Joseph (1794-1844)
Polly Ann (~1800-1850)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(15) Name: Mary DUNCAN
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Birth: September 21, 1787 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: 1818 Kentucky Age: 30
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
MARY DUNCAN, [1] born September 21, 1787, married (as his first wife) March 13, 1810, John Breckenridge of Bourbon county, who was born October 7, 1785, son of Alexander and Magdolene (Gamble) Breckenridge of Virginia and Bourbon county, Kentucky. Alexander Breckenridge was a Revolutionary soldier at the Battle of King's Mountain, and died 1813 on his farm a few miles from Paris on the Winchester Road, now the farm of Charlton Clay. John Breckenridge purchased land on the Hume and Bedford Road and built a brick home. His first wife, Mary Duncan, died 1818 and on February 3rd 1820 he married Ann Weir Brooks, daughter of Abijah and Nancy (Strode) Brooks of Clark county, who was born August 11, 1798. By his first wife John Breckenridge had a son, James A. Breckenridge, who died young, and a son, Oliver Hazard Perry Breckenridge, born September 25, 1813, who married Nancy Ellis and had a daughter, Sally Breckenridge, married Prof. J. W. Ellis and had John Breckenridge Ellis, well known Missouri author.
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1: John BRECKENRIDGE
Birth: October 7, 1785 Virginia
Father: Alexander BRECKENRIDGE (1743-1813)
Mother: Magdalene GAMBLE (1745-)
Marriage: March 10, 1810 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Children: James A.
Oliver Hazard Perry (1813-)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(16) Name: Mary DUNCAN
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Father: Daniel DUNCAN
Mother: Mary TIMBERLAKE
Misc. Notes
MARY DUNCAN, [1] daughter of Daniel and Mary (Timberlake) Duncan, was born in Bourbon county, Ky., September 29, 1802, died April 22, 1881, married February 13, 1824, Robert L. Barr of Fayette county, Ky., and moved to Boone county, Missouri, immediately thereafter. Issue: (I) JAMES BARR, killed at age of seven years; (II) MARY ELIZA BARR married Middleton Singleton and died January 7, 1885 leaving seven sons and one daughter viz: Charles, Robert who married Annie Burton of Centralia, Mo., Seth who married Maggie Bates of St. Charles county, Mo., Clinton, William, Dixie, Middleton and Mary Washington Singleton (in 1887 only the two mentioned were married); (III) DANiEL BARR died in infancy; (IV) CAROLINE IMLEY BARR married B. F. Fulenwider of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and in 1887 was living in Dakata; (V) ROBERT BARR was killed by a horse at age of four years; (VI) WILLIAM BARR was killed when he jumped from a horse at the age of twenty years.
Spouses
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1: Robert L. BARR
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(17) Name: Mary Ann DUNCAN
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Father: Captain William DUNCAN (1790-1851)
Mother: Jemima S. SCOTT (-1837)
Misc. Notes
Notes on Mary Ann Duncan: [1]
According to Julia Spencer Ardery's book on the Duncans of Bourbon County, Kentucky, Captain William Duncan's daughter Mary Ann was mentioned in a letter dated 1846 as having married and was then the mother of two daughters and one son.
Spouses
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1: James FORD
Marriage: August 15, 1839? Clay County, Missouri
Sources
1. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
(18) Name: Matthew DUNCAN II [1]
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Birth: circa 1720 Scotland
Death: 1793 Berkeley County, Virginia Age: 73
Father: Matthew DUNCAN (~1693-~1766)
Mother: UNNAMED
Misc. Notes
Notes on Matthew Duncan and Sarah: [2]
Source: The Duncans of Bourbon County, Kentucky (Julia Spencer Ardery) - "Matthew Duncan, the younger, whom we shall refer to as Matthew Duncan II, owned hundreds of acres of land in Berkeley and Hampshire counties, Virginia (West Virginia). It is thought he also owned property in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. His name appears as a member of the first grand jury to sit for Berkeley in the year 1772. He rendered a patriot's service during the Revolutionary war by furnishing supplies for the continental army. He was a member of Tuscarora Presbyterian Church of Frederick county, one of the earliest churches established in that section of Virginia and he and his son, James, signed a petition of Dissenters of the congregation to the Virginia House of Representatives in 1776. He died intestate in the year 1793 leaving a widow, Sarah Duncan, and a number of children."
Spouses
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1: Sarah
Birth: 1723
Death: 1805 Pendleton County, Kentucky Age: 82
Marriage: about 1740
Children: Matthew (~1742->1787)
Thomas (~1744-~1806)
Sarah (~1746->1795)
Jane (~1748-)
James (1750-1817)
Joseph (1752-1803)
Seth (1771-)
Sources
1. Information on James Duncan of Ireland, Matthew Duncan I and Matthew Duncan II is sketchy and comes from another researcher, whose data was sent to me without knowledge of researcher's name or sources. These three bear more research.--Sheryl Varon
2. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
(19) Name: Matthew DUNCAN
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Birth: September 24, 1778 Berkeley County, Virginia
Death: January 27, 1844 Clay County, Missouri Age: 65
Residence: about 1826 Clay County, Missouri Age: 47
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
MATTHEW DUNCAN, [1] born in Virginia September 24, 1778, married October 20, 1803 Elizabeth Breckenridge, born February 1, 1783, daughter of Alexander and Magdolene (Gamble) Breckenridge, removed to Clay county, Missouri on November 11th, 1826 with a large company from Bourbon county. Among their children were George Breckenridge Duncan of Clinton county, Missouri, and James Duncan, who died November 2, 1837. Matthew Duncan died January 27, 1844 and his wife, Elizabeth, died June 10, 1844.
Spouses
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1: Elizabeth BRECKENRIDGE
Birth: December 25, 1783 Wythe County, Virginia [2]
Death: June 10, 1844 Age: 60
Father: Alexander BRECKENRIDGE (1743-1813)
Mother: Magdalene GAMBLE (1745-)
Marriage: October 20, 1803 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Children: James (1805-1837)
Elizabeth S. (1807-)
Alexander Breckenridge (1807-1889)
Magdalene (~1809-)
John B. (~1812-)
Rachel C. (~1816-)
George Breckenridge (~1817-)
Matthew (~1825-)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
2. Varon lists birthdate as February 1, 1783.
(20) Name: Sarah DUNCAN
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Birth: about 1746 Berkeley County, Virginia
Death: after 1795 Berkeley County, Virginia Age: 49
Father: Matthew DUNCAN II (ca1720-1793)
Mother: Sarah (1723-1805)
Misc. Notes
SARAH DUNCAN [1] born in Virginia to Matthew and Sarah Duncan, married first Dr. Charles Greer (Grier, Greear), and second William Bell, a widower with at least one son, William Bell, Jr., who was living at Martinsburg, Berkeley county, Virginia, in 1811. After the death of her husband in 1794 Sarah Duncan Bell removed to Bourbon county, Kentucky and later to Glasgow, Barren county, Kentucky. She made a deed of gift to children of Seth Duncan- (see hereafter).
In a deed recorded in Bk. 9, p. 190, Berkeley county (West) Virginia, Charles Grier, William Grier and others (some in the Kingdom of Ireland) made conveyance; also, Sarah Grier, in 1790, gave power-of-attorney to Thomas Duncan to recover bonds and monies oweing the estate of Charles Grier, deceased. Dr. Grier served during the Revolution as Surgeon's Mate, 4th Va. 1777; prisoner at Brandywine, rejoined regt. 1777, transferred 3rd Va. until 1780 (Heitman).
Spouses
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1: Dr. Charles GRIER
Death: 1790 Virginia
Misc. Notes
Dr. Charles Grier served during the Revolution as Surgeon's Mate, 4th Va. 1777; prisoner at Brandywine, rejoined regt. 1777, transferred 3rd Va. until 1780 (Heitman). [2]
Marriage: about 1765
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2: William BELL
Marriage: after 1794
Children: William (>1794-)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
2. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
(21) Name: Mrs. Sarah DUNCAN
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Misc. Notes
SARAH DUNCAN-Will-Will Bk. P. p. 713-To granddaughter, Sally Duncan; daughter, Matilda Duncan and her son, William Duncan. Written September 23, 1857-recorded November 2, 1857. Executor, grandson, William Duncan. Wts.: Wm. David, Charles Rush.[1]
Sarah Duncan from John Smith and wife, Malvina, of Bourbon county, Ky. -Deed-Bk. 48, p. 392, October 26, 1855-Tract located on Licking in Bourbon county, Ky.
Sarah Duncan to John Smith of Bourbon county, Ky.-Deed Bk. 49, 575, October 26, 1855-Tract located on Stoner in Bourbon county, Ky.
Deed Bk. 36, p. 89-October 1837-Barsheba Duncan, late Barsheba Hughes, widow of James Hughes, and George Hughes of Bourbon county, Ky., deed Mason Hughes of Calloway county, Mo., 50 acres.
Bk. 2, p. 304-May 28, 1847-Barsheba Duncan, now of Boone county, Mo., deeds James M. McGuffin of Bourbon county, Ky., all profits of decree in suit against John Hughes for benefit of John M. McGuffin, May E. McGuffin and Joseph F. McGuffin, children of James M. McGuffin who is a grandchild of the said Barsheba Duncan. Barsheba Hughes married Elias Duncan, Aug. 21, 1813.
Joseph Duncan-Estate Appraised-Will Bk. G, p. 7-December 2, 1821Appraisers: Andrew Barton, Wm. Hutchison, Wm. Barton. Extrix., Elizabeth Duncan. Order Bk. G. contained another mention of this man but this book destroyed. In Inventory notes on and monies received from the following were listed, viz: Jno. Gregg, Jos. Kendall, Edward Waller, Elijah Current, Abraham Spears, Jos. Cummins, Thos. Current, Robt. Trabue, Thos. Stone, Walker Baylor, Jas. Edwards, Nathl. Parish, George Ruddell, Soloman Spears, Wm. Barton.
Deed Bk. E, p. 684-May 2, 1802-James Duncan to son, Reuben Duncan, deed of gift of slaves and personal property on plantation. Wts: Valentine E. Peyton, Valentine Matson.
[1] Vital Statistics, Kentucky Historical Society, year 1857, states Sarah Duncan died 1857, Bourbon county, Ky., aged 67, born in Delaware.
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Note: A “Mrs. Duncan” is listed on 1877 Beers map of Bourbon County. The location of Mrs. Duncan’s house is on Nancy SHAWHAN’s dower property. The above land deed from John Smith to Sarah Duncan thus makes sense. John Shawhan Smith sold his tract of land to Mrs. Duncan before leaving for Missouri.--REF
Children: William
Matilda
(22) Name: Seth DUNCAN
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Birth: June 29, 1771 Virginia
Father: Matthew DUNCAN II (ca1720-1793)
Mother: Sarah (1723-1805)
Misc. Notes
SETH DUNCAN, [1] referred to as "Captain," brought his widowed mother, Sarah Duncan, from Virginia to Kentucky in 1796. Sarah Duncan was at that time about seventy-three years of age.[1] She lived for three years with her son, Captain James Duncan, in Bourbon county, but died at the home of Seth Duncan, in Pendletorl county, Ky., after his removal to that county from Bourbon. Her estate was administered in Bourbon county, Kentucky, 1806 with James Duncan Administrator. According to deeds in Bourbon and Pendleton counties the wife of Seth Duncan was named Ruahama (family name ) and they resided on Licking river in Pendleton county in 1805. This couple may have moved elsewhere from Pendleton county as no record of Seth Duncan's estate was found recorded there. From the will of Thomas Duncan, heretofore mentioned, and from a deed of gift from Sarah Bell (alias Greer), who was the sister of Seth Duncan, to the heirs of Seth Duncan (Bourbon Deeds F p. 197) dated February 24, 1808, we find Seth and Ruahana Duncan left issue: Matthew Duncan, Seth Duncan, Eliza Ann Duncan and Sarah Maria Duncan at which time they were "of Bourbon county," Kentucky. According to the record of descendants of Matthew J. Duncan, son of Seth and Ruahana Duncan, Seth Dun can was born June 29, 1771 and their son, Matthew J. Duncan, was born August 20, 1795 and died in Larue county, Kentucky, August 29 1848, married December 18, 1817 in Nelson county, Kentucky, Mary Miller, daughter of Jacob and Mary Miller,[2] and left issue: Elizabeth, Cassandra, Elisa Ann married Nicholas, Mary, Harriet married Ferguson and had Millie Adams who moved to Texas, Nancy married ______Seth, killed in War Between States, D. F. married Bettie Neff, Sarah, John Myers born July 10, 1839 married Sara Wood Brown and had one child, Clarence Young Duncan, Susan and Helen.
[1] Chancery Suit, Bourbon Co., Ky. Ct. Ct., Box 312, Duncan vs. Duncan Hrs. Mary M. Davidson, late Mary McLaughlin, of Franklin Co., Pa. deposed in this suit at house of John D. Davidson; also Elizabeth Shannon at house of Wm. Shannon, Pendleton Co., Ky., 1810.
[2] Marriages in Nelson county, Ky., records show Seth Duncan to Jane Carter, 1828; Matthew J. Duncan to Nange Vittitow i1849; Matthew Duncan to Nancy Miller, father Jacob Miller, 1817, and others. Compilation of Duncan Family Records by Mrs. Linnie Wright Barrett.
Spouses
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1: Ruahamy HENSHAW
Marriage: December 25, 1792 Frederick County, Virginia
Children: Seth (-~1864)
Eliza Ann
Sarah Maria
Matthew J. (1795-1848)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(23) Name: Seth DUNCAN
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Birth: December 29, 1788 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
SETH DUNCAN, born December 29, 1788, married Jane Penn (daughter of Joseph Penn, Revolutionary patriot, of Bourbon county, by his first wife, Charlotte Aker), moved to Henry county prior to the birth of his son, Joseph, in 1823. Family tradition is there were four children: a-JOSEPH, born 1823, married his first cousin, Juliet Jane Duncan (see children of James Duncan Jr.); b-CHARLOTTE DUNCAN, married John Quisenberry; c-JANE DUNCAN, married John W. Stewart, July 30, 1846, and d-SALLY; also probably e-SUSAN who married Mr. Collins.[2]
[2] "The Rollins Family," by Mrs. Josephine R. Barnard; Clark County, Ky., Notes.
Spouses
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1: Jane PENN
Father: Joseph PENN
Mother: Charlotte AKER
Marriage: about 1813 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Children: Charlotte
Jane
Sally
Susan
Joseph (1823-1888)
(24) Name: Stephen Clarles DUNCAN
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Birth: October 17, 1797 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: April 6, 1877 Clinton County, Missouri Age: 79
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
Notes on Stephen and Nancy Duncan: [1]
In the 1870 Federal Census; Twp. 56, Range 30, Clinton County, MO, Stephen Duncan is listed as the head of household, age 72, a farmer born in Kentucky, with real estate valued at $7,500 and personal property valued at $1,000. Living with him are wife Nancy L., age 56, born in Kentucky, and children P. (Pembroke) S., male, age 24; Martha, age 22, and Nannie, age 14, all born Missouri. In addition, there are three black females in the household — Eliza, age 30, a domestic servant, Ada, age 08 and Cora, age 02, all born in Missouri.
STEPHEN DUNCAN, [2] born October 17, 1797, married September 17, 1797 in Bourbon county Lucy Browning, born April 9, 1809, moved to Henry county, Ky., and later to Saline county, Mo., where she died May 26, 1836. There were seven children of this marriage. Stephen Duncan married second 1839 Nancy Nicholson (daughter of John Nicholson) born in Trimble county, Ky., October 15, 1814, died April 13, 1875, probably in Clay county, Mo. There were eleven children of this union, only five living to attain majority.
Spouses
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1: Lucy BROWNING
Birth: April 9, 1808 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: May 26, 1838 Saline County, Missouri Age: 30
Father: William BROWNING
Mother: Lucy McCLANAHAN
Marriage: September 17, 1822 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Children: Thaddeus Clastentine Sylvestapaul (1824-1863)
James William (1825-1911)
Sarah Ellen (1827-)
John Seth (1829-)
Lucy Jane (1833-)
Mary Ellen (1836-)
Stephen Charles (1833-1908)
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2: Nancy NICHOLSON
Birth: October 15, 1814 Missouri
Death: April 13, 1875 Missouri Age: 60
Father: John NICHOLSON
Marriage: February 25, 1839 Trimble County, Kentucky
Children: Martha (1840-)
Henry Clay (1841-1925)
Octavia Kay (1842-)
Pembrook Sommerset (1844-1922)
Martha Ann (1845-)
Benjamin (1847-)
Lucreta Cloy (1847-)
Emily Charlotte (1849-)
Oscar Fitzgerald (1850-)
Nancy Georgette (1854-)
Sources
1. Sheryl Varon, “The Descendants of James Duncan,” June 15, 2000, PrivateArt@aol.com.
2. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(25) Name: Thomas DUNCAN
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Birth: February 14, 1784 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: before December 1819 Age: 35
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
THOMAS DUNCAN, [1] born February 14, 1784. In Deed Book H, p. 74, Bourbon County, Ky., Clerk's office, is recorded a deed of gift from James Duncan and wife, Elizabeth, to their sons, Thomas and Joseph, for land located on Blyds Creek in Barren county, Ky., dated January 24, 1810. The record of marriage of Thomas Duncan to Eleanor Brooks is filed in Clark county, Ky., December 18, 1810, There is also the marriage of one Thomas Duncan recorded in Barren county, Ky., to Judah Foster, dated December 19, 1819.
Spouses
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1: Eleanor “Nellie” BROOKS
Birth: December 12, 1794
Father: Abijah BROOKS (1759-1812)
Mother: Anne Nancy STRODE (1770-1855)
Marriage: December 18, 1810 Clark County, Kentucky
Marriage Memo: Sheryl Varon lists marriage location as Bourbon County, Kentucky.--REF
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2: Judah FOSTER
Marriage: December 19, 1816 Barren County, Kentucky
Marriage Memo: Other source material presents Judah Foster as a male, married second to Eleanor Brooks.--REF
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery
(26) Name: Thomas DUNCAN
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Misc. Notes
THOMAS DUNCAN-will-Will Bk. H, p. 398-To grandson, Thomas Duncan, son of son, Roger; to grandsons, John and George, sons of son, Roger; to son, Roger; to daughter, Peggy, wife of George Hays; sons, Roger and John and daughter, Sally Duncan. Extr. friend, Abraham Spears. Written June 12, 1824-recorded September 6, 1830.
Circuit Court suit (776) Bourbon county, Ky., and deeds (13k. X, p. 149, Ek. Z, p. 587) show Catherine Duncan at time of marriage to Thomas Duncan was the widow of Elias Rymel; that later Catherine separated from Thomas Duncan and in 1818 he made a deed of trust through James Hutchison conveying his interest in land and personalty; said Thomas Duncan died August 1, 1830, and June 3, 1833 Catherine Duncan joined with George Rymel (her son) in conveying to James E. Hutchison her interest in tract of 102 1/2 acres as widow of Elias Rymel. From these records it is evident Catherine was a second wife of Thomas Duncan and not the mother of his older children.
(27) Name: Washington DUNCAN
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Misc. Notes
WASHINGTON DUNCAN[2]-Will Bk. K. p. 34-Administrator, Jacob Duncan, April 23, 1835. Estates Settled C. p. 264-Widow's dower-the "Rannels Tract," upon which decedent lived and died, where widow now resides, located on Hinkston adjoining lines of Isaac Ruddell, Thomas Champ and Millersburg road. Commissioners appointed on motion of Jacob Duncan for self and as guardian for Archibald and Daniel Duncan with William Cook guardian for Mary Cook child of Rachel Cook, deceased, whose land adjoined Amos land; and Joseph Duncan, another heir.
Deed Bk. 33, p. 410-April 1, 1835-Mary Duncan, "widow of Washington Duncan," deeded Franklin Hutchison her dower interest in land on Hinkson.
Washington Duncan Heirs to Robert Palmer-Deed Bk. 38, p. 195, May 16, 1836-Jacob Duncan, Joseph Duncan, Archibald Duncan, Daniel Duncan and Mary K. Cook by commissioner to Robert Palmer, convey 212 3/4 acres.
Deed Bk. 44, p. 24-Aug. 4, 1849-Joseph Duncan and wife, Charlotte, of Ray county, Mo., gave power-of-attorney to Jacob Duncan to deliver deed to Daniel Duncan of Bourbon county, Ky., their one fifth interest in tract subject to life estate of Mary Duncan who "now resides on the land."
Deed Bk. 43, p. 300-318-January 1849-Archibald Duncan and wife, Margaret Jane, late Margaret Fisher, daughter of Nathaniel Fisher.
Joseph Duncan's Will, Harrison Co., Ky., dated 1822, mentioned son, Washington Duncan. See Kentucky Court and Other Records, vol. 1, p. 47, also notes by Mrs. Linnie Wright Barrett (Address 2803 Travis, Dallas, Texas) in Register, Kentucky Historical Society, Jan. 1932. Obituary of Jacob Duncan, Western Citizen, January 9, 1871, gives age as 62 years. Children of Jacob Duncan were Daniel, Archibald and Mary C. married Elijah M. Holsell. One Archibald Duncan lived in Nicholas county, Ky. Rachel Cook died 1835 (Petition for sale of land by Washington Duncan's Hrs.-Box 974, Ct..Ct.)
(28) Name: Captain William DUNCAN
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Birth: March 29, 1790 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Death: May 21, 1851 Missouri Age: 61
Father: Capt. James DUNCAN (1750-1817)
Mother: Elizabeth STRODE (1759-1825)
Misc. Notes
WILLIAM DUNCAN, [1] born March 29, 1790, served in the War of 1812, married March 24, 1813, Jemima S. Scott and removed to Platte county, Missouri. His wife was the daughter of Samuel Scott of Bourbon county. She died in 1837 and he was evidently married a second time. Among his children were WILLIAM and THEODORE, both of whom saw service in the War Between the States, and LOUISE, who was born 1824 and married at the age of thirteen years Gibson T. Owen who went from Henry county, Kentucky, to Missouri, and in 1846 these were the parents of two daughters and one son; and a daughter, Mary Ann, who was mentioned in a letter dated 1846 as having married and was then the mother of two daughters and one son.[1] The Kentucky Register, in obituaries published by G. Glenn Clift, gives the following: "Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, relict of C. Dunn, and daughter of Captain William Duncan of Clay county, Mo., died in Fayette county, Ky., residence of Benjamin Scott, June 15, 1835." William Duncan, in his letters, also mentioned niece, Elizabeth Breckenridge who married, November 17, 1837, Thomas Brasfield, his cousin, John and Asa Ecton, cousins, and Elizabeth Ecton, niece.
[1]Letters written by William Duncan.
Spouses
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1: Jemima S. SCOTT
Death: 1837
Father: Samuel SCOTT
Marriage: March 24, 1813 Bourbon County, Kentucky
Children: William
Theodore (-1861)
Elizabeth (-1835)
Mary Ann
Louisa (1824-)
John G. (1830-1851)
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2: Sarah RATLIFF
Marriage: August 5, 1838 Clinton County, Missouri
Children: James (-1856)
Sources
1. The Duncans of Bourbon County--With Notes From Other Counties By Julia Ardery