"Some Descendants of John Endecott, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony" by Mabel McFatridge Mcloskey, 1943, and "The History of the
Endecott Family" by Teddy H. Sanford, Jr., 1997.  Woodford Co.
THOMAS ENDECOTT was born in Mt. Holly, New Jersey on 27 March 1737.  He
was the son of Joseph Endecott (1711-1748) and Ann Gillam (1715-)  He
was the great, great grandson of John Endecott (1588-1665) and Elizabeth
Gibson.  John Endecott was the first governor of Massachusetts.  At the
age of 22, Thomas Endecott married Sarah Welsh(d.1790) on 19 June 1759.
They began their marriage on a Burlington County, New Jersey farm where
their first two sons were born- Moses (b. 31 Oct. 1759) and Joseph in
1761.  In the later 1760's their family picked up and moved south.  They
stayed for some time in Virginia, and then moved on to Surry County,
North Carolina where they lived from 1775-1786.  One son, Moses was an
active member of the North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary
War.
In 1886, the family left their home near Endecott Creek in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Surry County, N.C. and came through the Cumberland Gap and
along the Wilderness Trail to a new home in Kentucky. By this time the
family had grown.  In addition to Thomas and Sarah, the children
included Moses, 27, Joseph, 25, Aaron, 22, Barzillai, 20, Thomas, 15,
Samuel, 11, William, 8, John, 5, and Nancy, 2.  Joseph was already
married, but his wife's name is unknown.  Shortly after their arrival in
Kentucky, she had a daughter named Phoebe, the first Endecott born in
Kentucky. 
	
For the first few years after their arrival in Kentucky, the Endecotts
lived in what is now Woodford County.  Here, Thomas bought his first
Kentucky land in April, 1789.  However, the folowing February, this land
was sold after the family moved to Bourbon County and bought 160 acres
on Indian Creek.  In 1790, Thomas, his sons, and some neighbors built a
church which was called the Endecott Meeting House.  This church
continues to be a place of worship in 1997, and is the oldest church
using the original building on the original site West of the Allegheny
Mountains.  It is located just East of Cynthiana, Kentucky, and many of
the Endecotts are buried in the churchyard.  One of the first burials
there was Thomas Endecott's wife, Sarah, who dies in 1790.  
	
In 1815, a company of Kentucky families from the vicinity of Cynthiana
moved to Posey County, Indiana.  This included many of the Endecotts
including Joseph (6 Dec 1784-8 July 1867), son of Moses, his wife and
five small sons.  From 1818-1820, other Endecotts moved to Posey County
including Aaron, his wife and five daughters, and two more of Moses'
sons- Jesse (6 July 1786-1863) (died in Fremont County, Iowa) and John A.
Endecott (29 April 1789-1874) (died in Grant County, Wisconsin).  Also
widow Nancy Forrest and her family.  Her husband had been 
Captain Memorial Forrest (b. 1783) who was killed in the War of 1812
while serving under Lt. Col. Andrew Porter at Fort Gratiot on 15 March
1815.
At the age of 80, Joesph Endecott also moved to Posey County.  He was
accompanied by his second wife (married 4 October 1814 when Thomas was
77), Susannah Turner Young, and a small son named Absolam Turner
Endecott (b. 21 November 1815). After living in Posey County for 14
years, he died at his farm home one and one half mile south of
Cynthiana, Indiana at the age of 94 on 22 January 1831.
There is a striking similarity between the lives of Thomas Endecott and
Daniel Boone.  Boone was born in Pennsylvania in 1735 on the West bank
of the Delaware river.  Two years later, Thomas was born on the East
bank of the same river.  Boone went to Yadkin in N.C. in 1735.  By 1775,
Thomas was living in Surrey County, N.C.  Thomas settled in Kentucky
eleven years after the settlement of Boonesborough.  Boone left Kentucky
declaring that he no longer had elbow room and settled on the Missouri
Frontier where he died in 1820.  Thomas Endecott, at the age of 80 left
Kentucky and lived in Indiana until his death in 1831.  Boone was a
close friend of the Miller family.  Absalom Miller married Elizabeth
Endecott and Jane Miller married James H. Endecott.  A compass and
sunglass, prized heirlooms of the Endecott- Miller family, once belonged
to Daniel Boone.
Endecott Gillam Gibson Welsh Forrest Boone Miller
Bourbon-KY Harrison-KY MA NJ VA NC IN MO

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