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SAMUEL PEVEY/PAVEY I Samuel was born in 1710 in New Hampshire to Nathaniel & Annah Pevey, Sr. He died in 1803 in Harrison County, Kentucky. Samuel first married Sarah ? ? abt 1752. They had 6 children. He second married Mary Cone abt 1767. They had 3 children. The history of Samuel's early life comes from a brief written sketch, in the hand-writing of his son, Jesse and otherwise from Bible records, family tradition, & scattered tombstones. Samuel moved from New Hampshire to Caroline County, Maryland prior o 1772. Then prior to 1790 he moved from Maryland to Bourbon County, Kentucky. The move to Kentucky took him through Cumberland Gap where Daniel Boone blazed a trail in 1775 with a company of men he had brought to help cut the path through the gap to enable a settlement effort. The trail became known as the "Wilderness Road". It was not wide enough for wagon travel until the 1790's. Therefore what little they brought with them was carried on horseback.  Samuel moved from Bourbon County to Harrison County, Kentucky, where he died August 27, 1803, in his 93rd year, and is buried not far from Cynthiana on the road from Cynthiana to Paris. SOURCES: CENSUS 1800, Harrison County, Kentucky CENSUS 1790, Caroline County, Maryland - Samuel must have moved on to Kentucky by 1790 as he was not listed on this census. |