I54163: Susannah BLACKMORE (BEF 1630

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Virginia Grants Hancock Lee Fayette County, KY Book 11 Page 496-497 FHC #0272815. Beverley Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by virtue & in Consideration of a Preemption Treasury Warrant No 960 Issued the 20th day day of June 1780, there is Granted by the said Commonwealth unto Hancock Lee, Heir at Law to Willis Lee a certain tract or parcel of land containing five hundred acres by Survey bearing date the 4th day of May 1789, lying and being in the County of Fayette on the waters of South Elkhorn and bounded as followeth, to wit. Beginning at a Sugar tree Hackberry and white Oak and Military Survey of Edmund Taylors, made for three thousand acres running thence South seventy degrees East four hundred and four poles crossing Steels Run to two Sugar trees and white oak thence North twenty degrees East two hundred and seventy seven and a half poles crossing a Branch to two ashes and a Sugar tree thence North seventy degrees West one hundred and fifty one poles to two while Elms and Cherry on said Lee's Settlement line thence with said line South twenty degrees West one hundred twenty six and a half poles to a Stake corner to said Settlement, thence North seventy degrees West two hundred and fifty three poles with a line of said Settlement to two small hickories and white thorn in Taylors line, thence with said line South twenty degrees West one hundred and fifty one poles to the Beginning with its Appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Hancock Lee and his Heirs forever In witness whereof the said Beverly Randolph Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond on the twenty fifth day of may in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety and of the Commonwealth the fourteenth.

From Bio of William Berry Taylor: #10095: The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort,Ky. May, 1920, Vol. 18, No. 53. "Spring Hill," Oldham County, Ky. "Willis Lee accompanied Hancock Taylor to Kentucky....
Willie Lee, and Abraham Hapstonstall, were making surveys in Kentucky, near the present site of Louisville. Governor Dunmore was in what is now Ohio, and finding an Indian war pending, sent expresses of warning to Daniel Boone and the others, but Hancock Taylor delayed too long, and in an encounter,Taylor was severely wounded. One of the party attempted to cut out the ball with his pocket knife, but not succeeding and seeing that the wound was a serious one, Taylor was borne off on a litter by Lee and Hapstonstall, hoping to reach Virginia for proper attention, but he died on the way and was buried by Lee and his faithful friend Hapstonstall, who carved his name on a stone with a tomahawk. He afterwards return and identified the grave.

Hancock Taylor's will, made shortly before dying, left among other bequests to Willis Lee and Hapstonstall, two-thirds of his lands lying on the Western Waters, and the remainder of his vast estates to his two brothers, Colonel Richard and Captain Zachary Taylor, father and uncle of the President. This will dated the 29th of July, 1774, was the first legal document except surveys ever executed in Kentucky. It was probated in Orange Co., Va. A copy is now in the Kentucky Historical Society rooms,Frankfort, Ky."

My Southern Family

Susannah BLACKMORE

BEF 1630 - ABT 1656

ID Number: I54163

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Nancy CAMM

ABT 1770 - ____

ID Number: I98226

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Mary CLAYTON

11 Nov 1755 - ____

ID Number: I69701

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Anthony Lee ENNIS

Willis LEE

ABT 1730 - 1774

ID Number: I31388

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Sir THOMAS PERROTT

ABT 1500 - ____

ID Number: I94905

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Elizabeth YATES

ABT 1740 - BEF 1773

ID Number: I87992

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