To Grady: 11 Feb 1954 by Edward Manley Abner Luce Sr. seemed to have been the emigrant of the Luce families and prior to migrating to Muhlenberg Co. before 1800, the residence seemed to have been Morristown, Morris Co., NJ, and earlier from Shelterberg Island, LI, NY. Abner Luce Sr. appears in the records of Muhlenberg as early as 1800 when the newly formed county exempts the elderly Abner from county levies. this usually was due to old age or being inform. William Luce, evidently a son of Abner Sr. appears in Muhlenberg records Feb 25, 1800 when his name is listed among others including Henry and Alexander Keath (Keith) where they were to mark out a road from Adam's Ferry to Greenville. Feb. 2, 1801, William Luce records his stockmark as "a crop of the left ear and a slit in the right." This same William Luce had several hundred acres patented in his name including all the land around Skilesville where the Muddy River empties into the Green River. The many lots where Skilesville was laid out were a part of the William Luce survey, evidently the original patent included acreage on both sides of Muddy River, the one side being in Logan County prior to the formation of Butler County in 1810. Benjamin Luce appears in the 1811 and 1813 tax lists of Butler County, part of the land had been patented in the name of David Luce. John Luce married Betsy McQuery in 1808 and Jacob Hunsaker married Mary (Polly) Luce in 1880, both marriages recorded in Muhlenberg. Later records include Isaac, Jacob and Jonathon N. Luce. David was appointed constable in 1807, resigning the same year, and in 1810 his excellency, the Governor of KY, appointed David Luce a justice of the peace. This David was a private in the Company of Capt. Alney McLean, from Muhlenberg, 1812. Very early when the migrations were heading for the newly opened Indiana, David Luce, son of Abner Sr., removed his family to Warrick Co., IN, including David's son, Abner, named for his grandfather. Abner Luce Sr., and is wife Mehettable, joined son David and the many Muhlenbergers going into IN, including Daniel and Betsy (Coates) Hunt, Keath (Keith), Hunsaker, Miller and other families. Abner Sr. died in 1818 and Mehettable in 1836, both buried in the Baker Creek Baptist Church graveyard in Spencer Co., IN. these dates copied from their headstones. David Luce's son, Abner, laid out the town of Newburgh, IN in 1829, on the Ohio River and was a prosperous merchant there, also postmaster until 1849 when he and his family moved to Seguin, TX via the Ohio, Mississippi, and Red rivers, then proceeding by wagon-train.