I8858: Mary "Polly" ALVIS (1853

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Benjamin LOGAN 2429, Shelby Co.Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.

"DR. BENJAMIN LOGAN was born at Logan's Fort, in Lincoln County, Ky., in 1789. He was one of the early graduates of the noted Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He was an eminent surgeon of the war of 1812, and participated with the Kentucky troops at the battle of the River Raisin, which brought sorrow to so many Kentucky homes. He was a son of the celebrated Kentucky pioneer and soldier, Gen. Benjamin Logan, who was the companion of Daniel Boone, and Simon Kenton. He was a native of Augusta County, Va. When of age he removed to the banks of the Holston in Tennessee; accompanied the celebrated Dunmore expedition against the Indians in 1774, and in 1775, in an adventurous spirit, moved to the wild forests and canebrakes of Kentucky. Here he built Logan's Fort, in what is now Lincoln County, and soon became particularly distinguished. In all those days of constant and perilous warfare with the Indians Gen. Logan was noted for his conspicuous bravery. He commanded the Kentuckians on a number of perilous expeditions against the Indian tribes in Ohio.

The most noted of these was his attack upon Chillicothe, in 1779, where he displayed rare courage and superior generalship. No more marked instance of personal heroism in sudden warfare was even witnessed than that displayed by Gen.Logan during the siege of his fort by savages in 1777. He rushed forth through a shower of rifle balls, which was poured upon him from every spot capable of concealing an Indian, seized a wounded man in his arms, and running to the fort with him, through the same heavy fire, entered unhurt, although the gate and the picketing near him were riddled with bullets, and his hat and clothes pierced in several places. The fort was closely blockaded, and the siege pressed with savage fury. THe little garrison was in imminent peril from the scarcity of ammunition, and no supply could be had closer than the distant Holston settlement in Tennessee. Logan took upon him the almost certainly fatal office of courier, crawled through the Indian encampment on a dark night, and, shunning the ordinary route, through Cumberland Gap, arrived at Holston settlement, through bypaths which no white man has as yet trodden, through canebrake and thicket, over tremendous cliffs and precipices, where the deer could scarcely obtain foothold. Having obtained a supply of powder and lead, he returned through the same paths to the fort, which he found still besieged and now reduced to extremity. The return of their leader inspired the defenders with new courage. In a few days, by the appearance of a rescuing party from a distant fort, the Indians were compelled to retire.

After assisting for years in conquering the wilderness, and driving the savage tribes from dark and bloody ground, Gen. Logan removed to Shelby County, then just being redeemed from its primeval forest, and entered a large body of land on the banks of Bullskin Creek, five miles west of Shelbyville, which, as a remarkable fact, has continued in possession of his family for more than a hundred years. Here he devoted himself to the civil affairs of his country, which, succeeding war, had begun to assume an important aspect. Here, in the pursuits of peace, in the midst of his family, he ended his days in 1802 at the age of sixty, and lies buried in the family cemetery, on the banks of the creek near his old home."

http://www.logansfort.org/1778-1780.html.

"Annals of Augusta Co., VA" 1726-187? 975.591 H2w Family History Libray Salt Lake City, Utah

General Benjamin Logan's parents were natives of Ireland, but married in PA. Soon after their marriage, they removed to Augusta Co., VA and here, in 1743, their son Benjamin was born. The Rev. John Craig's record shows that Benjamin, son of David Logan, was baptized May 3, 1743. When young Logan was 14, his father died and according to the law of primogeniture then in force, he inherited all the real estate which had been acquired. Upon coming of age, however, he refused to appropriate the land to himself and after providing a home for his mother and her younger children, went to the Holston.
(This was in Hawkins and Grainger Counties, TN) His wife was Anne Montgomery. He was a Sgt. in Col. Henry Bouquet's expedition in 1764 and was with Dunmore in his expedition of 1774. He was one of the people of the Holston settlement who signed the "call" to the Rev. Charles Cummings to become their pastor, in 1773. In 1775, he went to Kentucky, with only2 or 3 slaves and established Logan's Fort, near the site of the present town of Stanford, Lincoln Co. His family removed to KY in 1776. In May, 1777, the fort was invested for several weeks by a hundred Indians. As the ammunition of the small garrison was becoming exhausted, Logan, with 2 companions, repaired for a supply to the Holston settlement and returned in 10 days. In 1779, he was second in command of an expedition against the Indian town of Chillicothe, which terminated rather disastrously. He was in full march to reinforce the whites at the Blue Licks, in 1782, when that fatal battle occurred, but could only receive and protect the fugitives from the field. He was a member of the Kentucky Conventions of 1792 and 1799 and repeatedly a member of the State Legislature. Logan Co., KY was called for him. (Collins' History of KY, Vol II, page 482)

Children:
Elizabeth LOGAN
Jane LOGAN
Robert LOGAN
Ann LOGAN

Benjamin Logan's Company. See Kentucky County Militia http://members.aol.com/usmilhist/BLC.html

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died Saturday evening, of a stroke of apoplexy.

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History of Monmouth Co., NJ: "It is said that William Penn, the founder of Philadelphia, had an reprobate son, and from him descended the Penns of Cumberland, Burlington and Ocean Counties. James Penn, Sr. emigrated from Cumberland Co. NJ to Washington Twp., Burlington Co. NJ. He settled on the West Plains, where he lived until about the year 1840, when he died, aged 88 yrs; therefore he must have been born about the year 1752.

He had brothers, William, Richard and Samuel, who remained in Cumberland County. It is said by those who have seen the statue of William Penn the great, and are acquainted with the descendants of the above said James Penn, that the posterity of James Penn, at least some of them, have a striking resemblance to the statue, and other representations of the founder of Philadelphia.

James Penn, Sr., of the West Plains had children: William, James, Joel, Jonathan, Stacy, John, Elizabeth, Rhoda, and Hannah. William, son of James Penn, Sr., married Sarah Jenkins, and had children, Jesse, Zephaniah, James, William, Susan, and Lucy Ann. Rhoda, daughter of James Penn, Sr., married Zachariah Jenkins.
Elizabeth daughter of James Penn, Sr., married Lewis Russell, and among their children were James, Ridgway, Champion, and Samuel. Jesse Penn married Rebecca, daughter of Jacob Headley. Zephaniah Penn married Hope, daughter of Jacob Headley.

The posterity of James Penn, Sr., is quite numerous, but I cannot trace them, several of them went to the West.

History of Burlington County, NJ Washington Twp.: "It is said that William Penn, the founder of Philadelphia, had an adopted son, and from him descended the Penns of Cumberland, Burlington and Ocean Counties. James Penn, Sr. emigrated from Cumberland Co. NJ to Washington Twp., Burlington Co. NJ. He settled on the West Plains, where he lived until about the year 1814, when he died, aged 88 yrs........"

I suspect there are two different James Penns here. The earlier, born abt. 1729, would coincide time wise with the one that married Elizabeth Alloways Nov 3, 1849, Northampton. Or, the date could be in error, fourteen instead of forty.

In addition and with respect to James's unknown wife, could his son Stacy's name be from a Mahlon Stacy, the founder of Trenton, descendant?

If anyone can shed light on this matter, please forward such information. Thank you for your time and effort. Don Jones "Donald L. Jones" "

My Southern Family

Mary "Polly" ALVIS

1853 - ____

ID Number: I8858

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Arrena BONNER

6 Nov 1832 - 20 Jul 1903

ID Number: I3491

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Elizabeth GEORGE

7 Dec 1722 - ____

ID Number: I33560

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Lula Mae GORDON

20 Apr 1902 - 5 Aug 1945

ID Number: I23389

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Helen HONEYCUTT

ABT 1900 - ____

ID Number: I46164

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Margaret HOUSTON

ABT 1775 - 1813

ID Number: I94143

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Sarah JAUDON

24 Sep 1719 - 26 Apr 1779

ID Number: I86906

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Gen. Benjamin LOGAN Sr.

ABT 1742 - 11 Dec 1802

ID Number: I71368

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James Madison MAXWELL

16 Nov 1814 - 1864

ID Number: I42843

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James or Richard PENN Sr.

1729 - 1814

ID Number: I10785

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GERARD de TANKERVILLE

0975 - ____

ID Number: I79993

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Thomas WATTS

ABT 1720 - 1798

ID Number: I38927

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