Name: Joel Sr. (Uncle Joel) Perry TODD Sex: M Birth: 8 MAR 1801 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Death: 18 SEP 1886 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=wwofn&id=I6126 Note: 1. Gave the land for the founding of Berea College in Berea,Kentucky. 2. Joel Todd was a member and supporter of John G. Fee's "FreeChurch," Glade Church (American Missionary Association). 3. He was a radical abolitionist and was in the group of exileswhen they fled to Cincinnati, Ohio. Later he would sell land tofreed African American Slaves. 4. From "A UTOPIAN EXPERIEMENT IN KENTUCKY", pg 81. "One familyof white Bereans sold hundreds of acres to black settlers: JoelTodd, Sr., and his wife Nancy Mills, who had been exiled fortheir support of abolitionism in 1860, made land available tomany black families. On February 17, 1868, Todd sold land onBushy Fork to Anderson Crawford, Stephen Hagan, and HoraceYates. These settlers living neighbors to one another,constitutes the now nonexistand town of Canton, Kentucky,apparently their name for black settlers on Bushy Fork. DanielHerron bought town lot no. 4 in Canton from Joel Todd, Sr.February 2, 1869. (Lest it appear that [Rev. John] Fee's policyof interspersion was spoiled by this black village, it should bepointed out that everyone in it owned land neighboring a whiteperson's land on one boundry line at least.) In 1873, JoelTodd, Sr., sold another parcel of land on Bushy Fork to HenryAdams, who had purchased materials for building a house in 1866.Probably blacks were permitted to erect houses on land theyplanned to purchase sometime later. Adams is not the onlyinstance of a black man in Berea building a house before heowned land to put it on. The five acres Stephen Hagan bought in1868 included the house where he already lived. Joel Todd, Jr.,a pre-Civil War student in the Berea school and owner of landnear his father's, also sold to blacks including Horace Yates(1874) and Gibson Gill (1878)." 5. Father: John TODD b: 25 MAY 1773 in Easton, Northhampton Co., PENNSYLVANIA Mother: Martha (Patsy) COLLIER b: 16 JAN 1782 Marriage 1 Nancy Ruth LEE b: 1800 in Paint Lick, Madison Co., KENTUCKY Married: 13 MAR 1822 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Children Martha Ann TODD b: 16 FEB 1823 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Elizabeth (Betty) TODD b: 1824 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY John TODD b: 1 JAN 1826 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Richard TODD b: 1827 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Irvine TODD b: 1828 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Newton G TODD b: 1830 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Amanda Lydia TODD b: 12 APR 1832 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Lucinda TODD b: 12 APR 1834 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Mary Jane TODD b: 26 SEP 1836 in Madison Co., KENTUCKY Joel Elias II TODD b: 15 MAY 1839 in Kingston, Madison Co., KENTUCKY Marriage 2 Nancy MILLS Married: 17 DEC 1841 Hope this helps. Doug Park Hurricane, WV