Children of Lyddall Bacon, Sr,  and Anne Apperson

John Bacon, born March 10, 1767, New Kent City, Virginia, died May 9, 1817 in Frankfort, Kentucky. John married Anne Patterson on November 13,  1794. They had son, Charles P., born September 28, 1795 and died September 17, 1857. On May 30, 1799 in Frankfort, Kentucky. John married Elizabeth "Betsey" Ware, daughter of William Ware and Sarah Samuel. John and Betsey had children;  (1) Anne A., born March 28, 1800. She married Rev. Philip Slater Fall (2) Sarah Ware., (3) William W., born March 7, 1804 married Ann Noel. (3) Dr. James Ware, born March 23, 1807, married Alice Riggs (4) Richard Apperson, born July 2, 1809, married Elizabeth Ellen Terrell (5) John Mosby, married Sarah Jane Haggin, (6) Elizabeth P., and (7) Albert Gallatin Bacon. Betsey died on July 30, 1849.

Sarah Bacon, born  April 17, 1769

Anne Apperson Bacon, born March 19, 1771

Lyddall Bacon, born August 24, 1775, died April 2, 1847, He married a Martha "Patsy" Graham. Lyddall and Martha had children; John, William Robinson, Caroline, Sarah, Harry R., and Burwell Bacon.

Langston Bacon, born February 26, 1777, died 1847, He married Sarah Samuel on March 8, 1802 in Frankfort, Kentucky. Langston and Sarah had children; Robert P., Martha, Joyce, Giles G., Langston M., Sarah, Mary and William S. Bacon. He later moved his family to Missouri.

Nathaniel Bacon, birthdate unknown.  Deceased prior to August 24, 1809

Edmond Bacon, born August 26, 1780, New Kent City, Virginia and died February 1819. Edmond married Mary B. Hensley, November 3, 1797. Mary was born February 25, 1779 and died May 24, 1826. See Bacon Bible

Children of Lyddall Bacon, Sr. and Lucy Crump

Richard Benedict Bacon, born about 1783 and removed to Kentucky. He married Susan, who died March 30, 1813. Benedict and Susan had daughter, Amanda, born May 7, 1814.

Elizabeth Bacon, about 1790 married Dr. John C. Bacon, son of a William Bacon.

Madison County, Kentucky
Deed, Vol. 42, page 109
Bacon, Lyddall, Sr. heirs - 19 June 1809
Lyddall Bacon, Jr. and wife Patsy, Langston Bacon and wife, Sally, Edmund Bacon and wife ____, deed to Achilles Sneed their right in property of their late father, Lyddall Bacon, Sr., and that conveyed to them by their brother, John Bacon, and of their late brother, Nathaniel Bacon, dec'd, who was an heir of Lyddall Bacon, dec'd, land in Madison County.

Deed Book N, page 202
August 24, 1809
Between Benedict Bacon of the town of Frankfort and state of Kentucky on one part and Achilles Sneed of same place of the other part witnesseth he the said Bacon hath granted bargained and sold by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto said Sneed all his interest as one of the heirs of Nathaniel Bacon, deceased, who was on of the heirs of Lyddall Bacon, deceased 1391 acres north fork of Rockcastle copper creek branch of Dicks River.

Deed Book N, page 204, 205, 206
Lyddall Bacon of New Kent County and state of Virginia died possessed of or entitled to an interest in 5562 acres lying in Madison County and state of Kentucky and which were located in name of said Liddall Bacon with the surveyor of Lincoln County and are the same tracts of land mentioned and described in a Deed of Conveyance from Edmund Bacon to said Achilles Sneed bearing date 5th day of March 1803 and duly recorded in the office of Court of Appeals in Bk H, page 211 and which interest in said lands by death of said Liddall Bacon, became  ??? in their children and heirs towit: John, Langston, Lydall, Edmund, Benedict or Richard, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bacon.  Sum 450 dollars.

Madison County, Kentucky
Deed Book N, pages 474-475
256 acres from John C. and Elizabeth Bacon to Moses M. Prices - 1819
This indenture made this 7th day of September in the year of Our Lord 1819 between John C. Bacon and Elizabeth, his wife of the county of Franklin and State of Kentucky of the one part and Moses M. Price of the county of Estill and state aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that the John C. Bacon and wife for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars current money of Kentucky  in hand paid the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and forever acquit and discharge the said Moses M. Price his heirs executors and administrators do by these presents grant bargain and sell alien and confirm unto the said Moses M. Price his heirs and assigns forever all that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Madison containing by survey two hundred and fifty-six acres, beginning at a white oak and two black gums at O and corner to John Wood's survey of 243 1/2 acres thence with his line North 66 degrees West 146 poles to the intersection of said line with a line of the survey of Lydall Bacon at S thence with the said South 17 degrees West 230 poles to a stake at Q thence South 70 degrees East 180 poles to a stake at R thence North 17 degrees East 300 poles to a stake in the line of said Woods survey thence with a line of the same South 24 degrees West 90 poles to the beginning together with all and singular the appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise appertaining and reversions remainders and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, property claim and demand of them the said John C. and wife of into the same. To have to the land hereby conveyed with all and singular the premises and every part and parcel thereof with every of the appurtenances unto the said Moses M. Price heirs and assigns forever to the only proper use and behoof of him the said Moses M. Price and assigns forever and the said John C. Bacon and wife
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and their heirs, all and singular the premises hereby bargained and sold unto the said M. M. Price heirs and assigns against them the said John Bacon and wife and their heirs and all and every person or persons whatever doth and will warrant and forever defend by these presents.  In witness whereof the said John C. Bacon and wife hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of John C. Bacon and Elizabeth Bacon

Kentucky
I Achilles Sneed, Clerk of the Court of Appeals for the state aforesaid being duly authorized by law to receive and take the acknowledgment of deeds and other writings in my office do hereby certify that the foregoing deed was produced to me in my office in Frankfort on the 7th day of September 1819 and acknowledged by the grantors therein named to be their act and deed and the said Elizabeth, wife of the said John, being privately and apart from her said husband examined declared that she willingly relinquished all her right and title to the land hereby conveyed which is hereby certified to the clerk of the Madison County Court where the land lies for record.
Achilles Sneed, C.O.A.

Madison County, Kentucky
Deed Bk P, pages 225-229
Heirs of Lydall Bacon convey land to Green Clay - 1821
Page 225
This indenture made this fifteenth day of October in the year 1821 between John Bacon, Landsell Bacon, Lydall Bacon, Edmund Bacon, Richard Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon and Elizabeth Bacon, heirs and representatives of Lydall Bacon, dec'c, Daniel B. Price as Commissioner of the one part and Green Clay of the County of Madison and state of Kentucky of the other part witnesseth
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that whereas at a Circuit Court held for the county and Circuit of Jessamine at the July Term 1817 the following order and decree was made towit, "state of Kentucky Jessamine Circuit July Term 1817 Green Clay complainant against Jonathan Patterson and other defendants in Chancery the Commissioners appointed by the interlocutory decree of this Court at the October Term 1815 having made a division of the lands between the complainant and the said Bacon heirs agreeably to said interlocutory decree and the Court being fully satisfied therewith a decree do decree and order that the defendants John Bacon, Lansolott Bacon, Lydall Bacon, Edmund Bacon, Richard Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon and Elizabeth Bacon, heirs and devisees of Lydall Bacon, deceased on or before the first day of October 1817 convey unto the complainant all that part of the tract of 1390 acres patented to the said Lydall Bacon, dec'd on the waters of Muddy Creek and allotted to the complainant by said Commissioners and bounded as follows towit - Beginning at a white oak in William Hayses line at the Otter R on the platt returned by the Commissioners thence with the same N 17 degrees E 190 poles to a stake at F being intersection with the line of John Wood's survey of 500 acres thence with his line S 40 degrees E 180 poles to a white oak tree in said line at G in said plat thence S 20 degrees W 134 poles to a large white oak and dogwood at S in the plate thence N 57 degrees W 150 poles to the beginning containing 130 acres ; also 112 acres part of said Lydall Bacon, trace above mentioned allotted to said complainant beginning at a red oak tree marked in the plat return T the North West corner of John Wood. Survey of 242 1/2 acre thence with a line of said survey S 66 degrees E 96 poles to the corner at H in the platt a black walnut and ash continuing the same course 37 poles further to a stake at O in said line thence S 24 degrees W 153 1/2 poles to the old line at N a stake thence with said line N 66 degrees to the intersection of said line with a line of said Lydall Bacons; thence with his line N 20 degrees E to the corner at a black oak and white oak thence with another line of Bacons N 70 degrees W 100 poles to the intersection of said line with the said Wood's line at P thence with a line of Woods N 2 degrees E 143 poles to the Beginning WVYZ is the said Lydall Bacons survey of 300 acres that part thereof allotted to the complainant by the said commissioners containing 100 acres and bounded as follows towit - Beginning at an ash and poplar at U the NW corner of said survey of 300 acres thence with a line of the same S 20 degrees W 155 poles
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to the corner at V a hickory and double dogwood; thence S 70 degrees E 103 1/2 poles to a stake at W in the old line thence N 20 degrees E 155 poles to a stake at the intersection of the line of the 1390 acres survey at X thence with a line of the same N 70 degrees W passing the corner in all 103 1/3 poles to the beginning.  The balance of the two tracts are allotted by the commissioners to the heirs of said Lydall Bacon and it is farther decreed and ordered that the said Bacon heirs do on or before 1st day of October 1817 convey unto the complainant 1391 acres of land granted to the Ancestor said Lydall Bacon, deceased allotted to the complainant by said commissioners on the North fork of Rockcastle and bounded as follows towit - Beginning at the S W corner of Wm. Mayo's upper entry of 1000 acres a poplar tree at F thence S 577 poles crossing two branches of the North fork of Rockcastle to two white oak trees at A thence W 386 poles to a double white hickory and three white walnut trees near the branches of Copper Creek at D thence S 577 poles to a stake at B thence East 386 poles to the Beginning the upper survey of 1391 acres adjoining on the North allotted by the Commissioners to the heirs of said Lydall Bacon, dec'd and it is farther decreed and ordered that the said defendants heirs of said Lydall Bacon, dec'c not convey unto the said Complainant with special warrantee deed warranting from themselves and their heirs and those claiming under them or either of them on or before the said first day of October 1817 the several tracts of land herein allocated to the said Complainant.  That Daniel B. Price is hereby appointed a Commissioner to convey to the Complainant the several tracts of land herein decreed to be conveyed by said Bacon heirs to the said Complainant with like warrantee and this cause is continued for further proceedings. A copy attest Daniel B. Price, C. J. Clk.

Now this indenture witnesseth that the said Daniel B. Price in pursuance of and in conformity to the decretal order as aforesaid and in consideration thereof: do for and on behalf of the said Lydall Bacons said heirs release, transfer and convey unto the said Green Clay his heirs and assigns forever the said four tracts or parcels of land described and bounded as aforesaid, in the decree aforesaid with all singular the appurtenances. To have and to hold the said several tracts of land with all and sincular the appurtenances hereunto belonging or in anyway appertaining to the only proper use and behoof of him the said Green Clay his heirs and assigns forever and the said Daniel B. Price as Commissioner as aforesaid for and on
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behalf of the said Lydall Bacon's heirs do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Green Clay his heirs and assigns that the aforesaid several tracts or parcels of land described and bounded in the decree aforesaid with all and singular the appurtenances hereunto belonging or appertaining will warrant and forever defend against them the said Lydall Bacons heirs and their heirs and all person or persons claiming or to claim the said four several tracts or parcels of land by virtue of said warrants surveys or patents granted to the said Lydall Bacon, dec'd the one lying in the county of Madison on the waters of Muddy Creek for 1390 acres the patent bearing date the 10th day of May in the year 1786 and of the Commonwealth of Virginia the tenth the tract of 1391 acres of land lying on the waters of the North fork of Rockcastle granted to the said Lydall Bacon, dec'd by patent bearing date the 25th day of May in the year 1800 and of the 8th year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the third and last patent for 300 acres of land lying and being in the said county of Madison on the waters of Station Camp Creek, granted to the said Lydall Bacon, by patent bearing date of 9th day of March in the year of 1800 and of the Commonwealth of Kentucky the 8th by through or under them the above named heirs of Lydall Bacon, deceased and not against any adverse or interferring claim survey or grant whatever and not devised under the three patents aforesaid.  It is to be clearly understood that this is a special warrantee deed conveying all the right title claim and interest which the said heirs of Lydall Bacon, dec'd are entitled to as children and representatives of their said ancestor Lydall Bacon, dec'd making them no way further or otherwise liable.  In testimony whereof Daniel B. Price Commissioner as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written, Danl. B. Price, Comr.

State of Kentucky
Jessamine Circuit
October term 1821 and the 18th of said Month. I Daniel B. Price, Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing deeds from Daniel B. Price, Comr. under a decree of said court to convey for the heirs of Lydally Bacon, dec'd certain tracts of land described in said decree to Green Clay was on aforesaid 18th day of October in the year 1821 produced in Court and acknowledged by the said Danl. B. Price, Comr. as aforesaid to be his act and deed in pursuance of said decree and for the purposes therein specified and being examined and approved by the Court was ordered to be entered of record in the said Circuit Court and certified to the counties wherein the land lies, which record has been made, all which is certified in conformity to said order.
Attest:
Danl. B. Price, Clerk of Jessamine Circuit Court

The Beacon Family,  The Descendants of Capt. Edmund Bacon, by Larry A. James, page 23.  Lyddall Bacon, the son of Lantston and Sarah Miller Bacon was born in 1745 and died after 1785.  Nothing is said as to whether he died in Virginia or Kentucky. Lyddall married Ann Apperson and four son of the marriage are listed - John, Lyddall, Langston and Edmund.  Lyddall Bacon, Sr. married a second time to Mrs. Crump and had
a son Benedict (who was probably born about 1783.  This Benedict also removed to Kentucky.

The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 25-26
This is a record of a Bacon family bible which primarily shows the family of John Bacon (1767-1817)
Information about Lyddall Bacon and his children comes from a Bacon Family bible. The four sons; John, Lyddall, Langston and Edmund are given
and a reference is made to Benedict Bacon, a son of Lyddall, Sr.'s by his second wife, a Mrs. Crump.

Parish Register of Saint Peter's, New Kent County, Virginia 1680-1787
Page, 147 - 1767, John son of Lydall and Ann Bacon
Page, 147 - 1769, Sarah, daughter of Lyddall and Ann Bacon, born 17 April 1769

Genealogies of Kentucky Families, A-M, pages 25-26
Abstracts from a Bacon family history by Sallie Jouett James
Page 25
While my grandfather, John Bacon, was still a youth, his father died, and upon his stepmother's second marriage ina a short time, he conveyed his share of their patrimony to his sister and younger brothers and came to Kentucky in about 1790, determined to make his fortune. He married a niece of Robert Patterson, the founder of Lexington, but she died after a few years, leaving one son, Charles.

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Four of John Bacon's brothers, Langston, Lyddall, Edmund and Benedict, followed  him to Kentucky.  Edward married first Eleanor Pemberton and second Pamela Anderson (afterward Mrs. Sawyer).  Lyddall married Miss Graham and Langston married Miss Samuel and moved with his family to Missouri.

Information submitted by:
Kim Mackey Rop

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