It's been a long, sleepy, sluggish day and just remembered good old Henry. On the 23rd of Aug 1784 Henry Goran (also shown GORAM) was given a military warrant #3408 for his service as an officer and soldier of the Commonweath of VA. He was awarded 200 aces of land. The earliest deed in KY was one in Warren Co in 1796 (before there was a Warren Co), where he was locted at the head of Salk Lick Creek on the west side of the bank. (He is on the tax rolls of other counties earlier). The land is always more fertile along the river banks and when VA paid its soldiers in land, they always got the first pick of the 1st rate land. Gladin Gorin lived nearby. Henry was shown in a list of Commissioned Officers 1799-1804 of Warren Co regiments - he was a Cornet in the Light Horse Company, 25th Regt on 14 May 1798. This is almost to the day when his brother, John Gorin, arrived in Barren Co, just a few miles away. He also was in the Corn Stalk Militia in 1803. His name is spelled Gorrin in the Light Horse Company. Henry appears in various court documents in Warren Co - Apr 1799, 1 Apr 1800 (involving his bro Gladin), 11 Oct 1800,18 June 1800 (deed for land, 3 Dec 1800. He was shown as a Deputy Sheriff in Warren Co in April 1803 and again in Oct 1805. By 1809, Henry was getting ready to move to Christian Co -to the west of Warren Co. He was still serving as Deputy Sheriff. In Warren Co Deed Book E5, p. 149-50, dated 7 June 1810 Henry sold some of his land to his brother Gladin. I have, in my books on Henry, his signature and drawings of his land. Henry didn't really move next, Todd Co moved to him and his land fell in that jurisdiction. In 1820 he is listed as a Justice of the Peace there and he is written up in the History of Todd Co Kentucky He was mentioned as one of the first Magistrates there in 1820. In 1825, he became Sheriff of Todd Co, appointed by the Governor. Henry also became guardian for James Lawrence Terry and B Terry (sons of his daughter Catherine who had lost her husband down in MS - remember that story?). Henry was a large land owner over the years, by 1802 he had 2300 acres in Warren, Green and Hardin Co KY; to this was added 10,500 acres in Warren Co. As a Justice of the Peace in both Warren and Christian Co, he performed a large number of marriages. He also had been granted land in the State of OH based on his Rev. War service. When Henry died, bless his heart, he left a will - the only one of the three brothers who did. He devised to Genmiah {Jemima} Moss his dau 50 acres. To Sanford Pell (son) $300. To Sally, his beloved wife all the rest. There is a site on the web from some fellow who submitted all of Henry's genealogical records (and most of the rest of the Gorins) to the Mormon Church and he shows Henry and Sarah as being divorced. I have written him and asked him to change his records but he refuses to acknowledge my emails or make the changes. You can't trust everything on the web! A deed drawn in 1833 gives a wealth of information in a case of John C Atcheson against the children and heirs of Henry Gorin, decd. Those heirs included: John D Gorin, Sanford P Gorin, John Hinch, Gladdin Hinch & other unknown heirs of Amy Hinch, James Martin, Elizabeth Martin, George and Nancy Pollock, William Moss, Polly Moss, Jemimah Cockerill, James and Catherine Terry, John and Lucinda Harrison, Newton Cockerill and Evelina. Then years after Henry's death, Sally (Sarah) died 25 Jan 1840. Her estate was settled and the following bought from it: Jemima Moss, John Clark, James P Martin, Gladden G Hinch, Edmund Rice and many friends and neighbors. As noted before, the graves of Henry and Sarah are the only ones we cannot find. Sandi Col. Sandi Gorin - Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin