 Dickey
Diaries
Interviews
Anderson
Philpot
March
21, 1898
Submitted
by: [email protected]
Submitted on: January 1, 2004
I was
born in Clay County KY March 2,
1822. I am the son of Thomas
Philpot
who was born in England. When
Thomas was a lad, he came with
his father to
America. He died August 5, 1847,
in his 99th year. This would
place his birth
ca 1749. He was probably about 10
years old when he emigrated to
America. This
would place the arrival of the
Philpot's in this country 1759.
They landed at
Charleston South Carolina and
located in that state not far
from Charleston.
His brothers were Timothy, John,
Peter, Joseph and James, one
sister Polly .
Thomas married Nancy Bates,
perhaps related to the Bates of
Letcher, as they to
came from that State. I think
they had 3 or 4 children when
they came to
Kentucky. My sister Ester was
born first after they came here,
She died at home
at the age of 71 or 72. This
would make his coming ca 1800.
Thomas told me that he
made boards to cover the first
salt shed put up on Goose Creek.
It was made at
the mouth of Tanyard Branch, half
a mile from town. He gave me the
froe he
used and I still have it. When
the wood gave out there, they
moved the furnace
to where Manchester now stands.
One can see the ashes near Doug
White's stable
now. Next they moved the furnaces
to Dr Burchell's gate and pumped
water from
the same well above town.
Abner Baker made salt at the
latter place. My Uncles remained
in South
Carolina and North Carolina when
my father emigrated to KY.
My grandparents died in South
Carolina. My father was in the
Rev War, hr
fought under Lafayette. He said
the Tuscaloosa River was red with
blood during
the engagement. My Uncle Joseph
was captured by Tory guerilla's.
I think my
father had two or three brothers
in the Rev War. My grandmother 's
maiden name
was Wood or Woods. She belonged
to a wealthy family and said that
there would
be a fortune coming to him
someday. I have been advised by a
letter that such a
estate exists. The information
came from Philpot living in the
west. He
visited a neice of mine in
Louisville and she wrote me at
his request. I have
heard nothing since. My father
had 12 children; seven sons and
five daughters. I am
the youngest and only one living.
They all lived and died in this
county
except two, one died in Missouri
and one in Indiana. Granville
Philpot is my
nephew. I have seen the furnace
back near the water after coal
was used.
When I was a young boy the corn
sack was tied on my horse. The
grist mill
was just this side of James
Benge's still house. My father
lived then where
Cotton's Mill now stands on Radar
Creek, 5 miles from Manchester
and Cornett's
Mill. 11 miles via the one Radar
and one near Colston's Store
where Dick Allen
lived recently. He sold it to
Helton. Henry Radar, for whom the
creek was
named, lived near where
Ponder's Mill is now. He was a
german or Dutchman and came
to settle on the creek that is
now named after him. When he was
old and a
widower, he used to shave barrel
timber for my father. My father
made salt
barrels, Henry Radar had 3
sons; George, John, Henry. The
Radar's of Jackson County
are their decendants. The toll
gate at Rubin Cornett's was first
in Laurel,
kept by Soaper.
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