If there is a more permanent place on which to post messages, please forward (or cut and paste) this information which may help some researcher in the future. It is by no means complete. E.W.Wallace, submitter Added to Jul 2005 JOHN HALLEY. He is reported to have married Elizabeth Simpson, whose relationship to Richard Simpson of Caswell Co. NC is unknown as of July 2005. They probably were originally of Fairfax Co., VA. He owned several pieces of property in Madison Co., KY before 1806, notably on Otter Creek. Madison Co. KY DB A-3 28 Feb 1787 Jacob Stearns & Elizabeth his wife of Madison Co. & State of Virginia to John Halley of same... 100 pds....400 A more or less by survey bearing date the 11th day of February 1783.. on Otter Creek about three miles from Boonesborough. (LDS film 183,283) He was the grantor of several tracts purchased in 1806 by the Oldham family, Jesse Sr. and Jesse's son, Richard (R/M) Oldham. Madison Co., KY DB F-177: 11 Feb 1806 John Halley of Madison Co., KY & Jesse Oldham Senior of same ... 190 pds. ... 145 acres, part of a 1611 acre survey pattented in the name of John Halley & part of a survey patented in the name of Jacob Starnes (?) lying on Otter Creek, Madison Co. ... Samuel Burton's NE corner ... to Jacob Starnes's corner. John Halley (L.S.) Certified by Will Irvine CC [county clerk] 26th day of July 1806 (LDS film 183,287) Madison Co., KY DB F-284, 1 May 1806 John Halley of Madison Co., KY to Richard Oldham of same for 300 pds. 283 A. of land reserving to himself the said John Halley during his natural life the privilege and use of the water & watercourses & the privilege of cutting or digging a canal or race to convey water to water works through any part of said claim & two acres of land within the bounds of said claim to be laid of[f] as said Halley shall think best for the purpose of building mills or other water works on and for the use of same and timber sufficient for building mills and dams on the same. The timber to be taken of said Oldham claim and the said Halley reserves to himself and his heirs the use and privilege of making a butment or butments for a dam or dams adjoining any part of Oldham's claim on Otter Creek and the said John Halley doth warrant .... being part of Jacob Starnes survey of 400 acres on Otter Creek & part of a 1611 survey in my own name ... br. of Otter Creek to Jesse Oldham claim ... to Starnes line at the mouth of the lost Fork to Daughiday's line. John Halley (L.S.) Certified by Co. Clk 21 Nov 1806 Madison Co., KY - 1810 census: 0-0-0-0-1; 0-0-0-0-1 Again, in 1821 John Halley sold land to Richard, Hezekiah, William, and Abner Oldham. The surname Halley is not found in early Caswell Co., NC deeds but is found linked with the Simpson family of Fairfax Co., VA at an earlier time. Jesse Oldham, Sr., an early settler near Boonesborough, was son-in-law to Richard Simpson, Sr. of Caswell Co. who was previously called Richard Simpson, Jr. of Fairfax Co., VA. Refer to the Fairfax Co., VA will of 1764 will of Sarah Simpson, mother of Richard Simpson (II), later of Caswell Co., NC. In it she named two grandchildren: Sarah Halley and Sarah Windsor. Are the Halleys in Madison Co., KY related to those in Fairfax Co., VA? Most probably. These Halley males appear on the 1787 Fairfax Co., VA Personal Property Tax 1787, List B. There are several Harley taxpayers, but we believe they are a separte group from the Halleys: Halley, James, Jr. Halley, John [charged with tax James Halley, Jr.] Halley, Richard Halley, James Halley, Simpson (Netti Schreiner-Yantis & Florene Love, 1787 CENSUS OF VIRGINIA, p. 1063) A William Halley was early in Kentucky, in Fayette Co. as evidenced by this land claim: "William Halley enters 1,000 acres of land on a treasury warrant on ridge between Hingston fork and Stoner fork and adjoining James Moore on the west side. Entered May 11, 1780." (Michael L. Cook and Bettie A. Cummings Cook, FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY RECORDS, VOLUME 1 [Evansville, IN: Cook Publications, 1985], p. 124) From Other Madison Co. Records - Other Instances of Halley Name Marriages: Eckles, Robert & Oldham, Aezela, 5 Mar 1831; Francis Halley bondsman; Moses Oldham, father of bride. Here we have another example of Francis Halley being associated with another Oldham family marriage, this time a child of Richard Ready-Money's second family. Oldham's mother was the former Elizabeth Simpson (dau. of Richard Simpson, Sr.) of Caswell Co. NC: Sutton, John & Oldham, Wella, 14 Nov 1827; Francis Halley, bondsman; Hezekiah Oldham, father of bride giving consent. Return 15 Nov 1827. (Vockery & Vockery, MARRIAGES OF MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, Vol. II, 1823-1851) Francis Halley appears in the 1810 Madison Co., KY census: 3-0-1-1-1//0-1-0-1-1-28 [28 slaves?] Haley-Halley Francis Halley & Nancy Calk, 21 Jun 1796; Edward Bondurant; William Calk, fa of bride gave consent George Halley & Luisey Calahan (no parents in KY for bride) 3 Feb 1809; Barnabas Haley was bondsman and father of groom & gave consent These Halleys (variant spellings) appear in early Madison Co. tax lists. The transcriber shows the name as Holley or Holly until 1797. Holley, Francis - 1788, 1789, 1791, 1794, 1795, 1796 Holley, Idin, Jr. - 1789 Holly, John - 1788, 1796 (3 X) Holly, John, Jr. - 1789 Holly, Richard - 1791, 1792, 1794 Holly & Wilkerson - 1792 Holly & Wilkison [sic] - 1794, 1795, 1796 Hally, Francis - 1797, 1799 Halley, John (3X) - 1797, 1799 From Marriages of Madison Co. 1786-1822: There was a bride in 1820, 28 Feb: Elizabeth Halley & Wesley S. Green; John Grimes bondsman; mother of bride Nancy Halley gave consent. Cemetery inscriptions give this info re a John Halley, buried in Halley/Holley Cemetery, Madison Co.: Halley, John - 92 yrs - Mar 1838. (If 1838 is burial date, he probably was born ca 1746). From Marriages of Madison Co., KY 1823-1851: Holly, Francis & Oldham, Armilda, 2 Feb 1829, Moses Oldham, bondsman and father of bride, giving consent; ret. 5 Feb 1829.