-----Original Message----- From: Storm See <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 6:02 AM Subject: news paper > MT.STERLING ADVOCATE >June 17,1982 Mt.Sterling >KY. > Montgomery Notes > By Hazel Mason Boyd >John See: > John See, an early resident of Montgomery County,Ky.,applied for a pension >[ as provided for in the Act of June7, 1832] for his services in the >Revolution .Because of the similarity of L and S in early American >penmanship, his application was listed under John Lee and filed under L. In >1834 John See , in a effort to correct the matter >appeared before Justice of Peace of Fayette County,and swore to his >identity. He finally received a few payments,but unfortunately not ever >record was corrected. The name John Lee continued to appear in publications >as the pensioner and in 1961 a descendant was still trying to have the >correct name of John See listed in a >new publication of Revolutionary soldiers. > John See was the son of Martin See and was born on June 6,1775, in Berks >County Pa..At the age of 13 he moved to Augusta County,Va.In 1782 he >volunteered to serve nine month in the Virginia Militia. He was at the >surrender of >Cornwallis in 1782. > He probley married about this time,as he had children born around 1785. His >wifes name was Mary [Polly]-----.John See came with his family to >Kentucky,and according to a deposition of 1825,he settled as tenant of Enoch >Smith on Somerset and Pasture Lick [now Grassy Lick] Creek in Montgomery >County. He lived there until 1796 On the 1801 tax list for the county he is >listed as living on Slate Creek. > The Kentucky Gazette [Lexington] in February , 1799,lists a Jacob See also >on Sycamore Fork of Slate Creek, but the relationship to John See is not >known. > John See [b.1752] died in Montgomery County between March and May of 1837. >he left a will naming his wife.Polly,and children >James,George,Joseph,Martin,John >[the eldest],Elizabeth Wyatt,Margaret Woodward.He also lists as heirs,Emily >Howard [daughter of Polly Howard,deceased] and Benjamin and John Jr.See >[sons of Andrew See deceased]. > The estate of John See ,deceased, was divided March 22,1838 [Montgomery >Order Book A-1,page152, shows that the farm on Slate Creek was divided into >10 portions]. His wife received no portion, and was probley deceased. The >heirs of Polly See Howard , [ John,Emily,and Evaline ] recieved one >portion.Samuel[?] and John See heirs of Andrew See deceased also received a >portion. > When the estate was finally settled , we find that nearly all of John See's >children had left Kentucky and gone west.John the eldest , was presumed dead >in 1846, as he had not been heard from in 20 years.His portion was given to >John See [ son of his deceased brother Andrew and Nancy See] James See son >of John] and wife Eleanor went to Missouri. Joseph See [son of John] and >wife Nancy [Betty] went to >Indiana. > Elizabeth See [daughter of John and Polly] married Douglas Wyatt [son of >Francis >Wyatt of Montgomery county] They went to Warren County ,Missouri. Their >children were :Hayden ,Amanda,Emily,Frank,Douglas Jr.,Joseph, and Mary >Wyatt. > Polly See [daughter of John] married a Howard. She was deceased at the time >of her fathers death.Her children also went west and in 1864 her daughter >Evaline [m.William Best] lived in Buchanon County Missouri. Her daughter >Emily Howard [m.Phillip Perry] lived in Davis County,Missouri. Margaret See >[daughter of John] >married Silas Woodward and went to Monroe County,Ind. Her issue included >sons >James and Chesley. George See [son of John] was born in 1783. He died in >Bourbon county Ky.,in 1843. He left a wife,Mary and a least one child , >Julia G. who m1 G.Boulding,2 Wm. Turney. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >--------------------------------------------- >This article was sent to me by Opel Bartlett of Mt.Sterling Montgomery CO.KY >who confessed to me that her ggrandfathe was convicted in 1921 in shooting >and killing a Saint See,she wrote me that if Saint See was a relative of >mine she is extremely sorry for her Xgrandfathers actions and will be glad >to help me in anyway in my research. I have informed Opel that I no Saint >See in my line that I know of >but will be more than happy to accept the offer anyway. > >Storm E.See >Bellevue WA. >