Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,
1887, Spencer Co.

J. G. VAN DYKE was born in Spencer County, Ky., in 1825, the first of
two children born to Richard and Sarah (Green) Van Dyke.  Richard 
was a son of Peter Van Dyke, was born in what is now Spencer 
County in 1790, and died in 1868.  He was an extensive farmer, and 
also followed the milling business.  Peter Van Dyke came to Kentucky 
from Culpeper County, Va., about 1785, and was descended from a 
Dutch family, who settled in New Jersey, afterward  moved to Culpeper 
County, Va., and were among the first settlers of the colony.  Peter was 
twice married, and become the father of fourteen children.  He had a 
landed estate of 1,400 acres, and left 100 acres to each of his 
children, besides giving to each two slaves.  Mrs. Sarah (Green) Van 
Dyke was the daughter of Lebur Green, who came from Virginia to 
Nelson County about 1785.  She was the third of a family of four, was 
born in 1784, and died in 1852.  Mr. Green was a farmer, and the 
owner of a large and valuable property near Bloomfield, Nelson Co., Ky. 
 He died about 1830.  Richard Van Dyke was a Jeffersonian 
Democrat, and he and his wife were life-long Baptists.  Our subject has 
followed farming pursuits exclusively, and is the owner of 1,900 acres 
of land in Spencer, Shelby and Jefferson Counties, his residence being 
on the Louisville and Taylorsville Pike, about eleven miles from 
Taylorsville and twenty-one from Louisville.  In 1859 he married Mary A. 
Johnston, of Spencer County, Ky.  Her father William Johnston moved 
from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and thence to Spencer County about 1825. 
 He was born in 1807, and died in 1873; was a son of Joseph 
Johnston, of Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Van Dyke's mother was Indiana 
Pruett, daughter of Joseph Pruett, a Virginian, who was among the 
early settlers of Kentucky.  Mrs. Van Dyke was born in Spencer County 
in 1832.  She is a member of the Baptist Church.  Four children  have 
blessed their union:  William Lee, Richard, Eugenie and an infant 
deceased.

Van_Dyke Green Johnston Pruett
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Culpeper-VA NJ Nelson Shelby Jefferson PA OH

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