Thank you for the information. I appreciate it. :) Marianne Dillow Jul 3, 2010 05:23:33 AM, vafauqui@rootsweb.com wrote: >Well Fayette county is where Lexington is located. Bryan Station is still a familiar >name as it is a high school in that county. I would contact the genealogy section >of the Fayette County Public Library and see if Univ. of Kentucky or Transylvania >University have a genealogy section in the > >Kelley Moseley DrPH >Professor and Director >Program in Health Administration >Texas Woman's University >kmoseley@twu.edu >713-794-2061 > >-----Original Message----- >From: vafauqui-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vafauqui-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >Behalf Of vafauqui-request@rootsweb.com >Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 2:02 AM >To: vafauqui@rootsweb.com >Subject: VAFAUQUI Digest, Vol 5, Issue 90 > > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. The Life of Moses Cushenberry as Is nown Now > (marlowest155@verizon.net) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:58:00 -0500 (CDT) >From: marlowest155@verizon.net >Subject: [VAFAUQUI] The Life of Moses Cushenberry as Is nown Now >To: VAORANGE@rootsweb.com >Cc: vastaffo@rootsweb.com, vaspotsy@rootsweb.com, > vaculpep@rootsweb.com, vacaroli@rootsweb.com, vafauqui@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <1956878119.27689.1278107880912.JavaMail.root@vms170053> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >I am still working on my grandfather Moses Cushenberry that died in 1792 in >Bourbon County. He was from Virginia but I don't know where. I found a new record >on him today. > >I am trying to put the land records together. > >His first record I can find is 1783 where he signed the petition for the formation >of a new state from Virginia. Then in 1786 he signs the Petition for a new town >called Washington in the Limestone Settlement. His sons Elijah and Vincent sign >it as well as Miles Conway and Simon Kenton. > >In 1787 the second petition to Virginia from the settlers of Limestone was signed >by Moses and Daniel Boone, Jacob Boone, Miles Conway and Simon Kenton. > >About 1787 Moses purchased 16 1/2 acres in the town of Washington , then in >Bourbon county (now Mason County). He bought it from Simon Kenton. ' to have >and to hold natural lives of Moses and his wife Ann (maiden name unknown.) 10 Oct >1787 Bourbon County , Ky. Court Records Deed Book A, p. 139. > >In Dec 1789 Moses purchased 150 acres from Simon Kenton on South Fork Licking >Creek, Bourbon County. Witnessed by Josiah Dixon, and sons Elijah and Vincent Cushenberry. > >The record I found today is another petition 27 Oct 1790 from Bourbon County >for Inspection for tobacco at the town of Hopewell and there were many signatures >and among them were James Kenny, Moses Chrisenberry, Elijah Cusenbary, ANSON CUSENBARY >(I don't know who ANSON is ), William Cusenbary, A. Eastin, John Cousenberry, >Ovid Boone, and William Crisinberry. > >In the Fayette County 1787 Tax List it names Rawleigh Chinn and Smith Darnell >with Moses Coosenberry with John Tandy on down from him.. > >In 1790 Moses and Ann were "dism'd" from Bryan's Station Church >Minutes 1798-1898-, p. 20 They then were listed as members at Coopers' Run Baptist >Church. > >Moses son John Cushenberry married Rebecca Dowden and she is a sister to Martha >Dowden who married Simon Kenton making John Cushenberry and Simon Kenton brother-in-laws. > >Then in 1792 Moses died leaving no will and the court oversaw the estate in >May of that year. It was recorded in June 1792. Moses estate was granted to his >wife Anne Quesenberry who came to court and qualified with Nicholas Lindsay (her >son-in-law) and William Qusenberry (her son), her securities and gave bond. > >There was a problem with the estate as a suit was advertised in the Kentucky >Gazette 15 Sep 1800 in Bourbon County, Ky. James Kenny filed a complaint against >John, William, Elijah, Vincent and Daniel Cushenberry( an infant under the age of >21 years) , and Lindsay and Mary his wife, Rachel Cushenberry (under the age of >21 years) , Widow (Ann) of said Moses deceased. Miles W. Conway and Simon Kenton >were defendants. I do not know why this action was taken or the reason for it except >Moses wife Ann was deceased at this time and two children were under 21 years of >age.. > >The article was incorrect as Betsy Cushenberry married Zachariah Ross and Anna >married Vachel Lindsay. > >Moses wife Ann Cushingbery, Daniel (my next grandfather), Elijah and Vincent >was last in the 1800 Fayette County Census. . About 1810 the sons moved to Warren >County and Allen formed from it with Vincent going on to a adjoining county of Logan >except William Cushenberry who had bought land from Lewis Craig in Bourbon County >on the waters of David's Fork of Elkhorn, being part of a tract of land of 1,000 >acres granted to John Craig, Sr on a treasury warrant, bounded by Hormbuck's >plantation and the heirs of William Robinson, dec;d. This was dated 8 Sep 1802. >. > >Through the years Moses and his family were close both in Fayette and then to >Warren County, Ky with the Rev. James Quisenberry and his bother John A. Quisenberry >with John A. moving to Warren County, Ky in 1808. > >In saying all of this I am trying to learn the geography and history as I know >Bourbon was formed from Fayette and Mason was formed from Bourbon. The first record >of Moses is 1783 and Kentucky County, Virginia was split in 1780 to Lincoln, Jefferson, >and Fayette counties. So, in trying to find where Moses came from in Virginia it >is hard to find another record because of the division and formation of counties >and Virginia to the State of Kentucky in 1792. > >Any suggestions where to look for anymore records on Moses would be appreciated. >I might make mention the different spellings of the surname makes it hard to find >records I hope this record on Moses Cushenberry's life will be of value after >myself as it will now be in the Archives for future researchers if I can't come >to a conclusion myself of his parentage which I believe points to the Quisenberry >family of Virginia about the generation of Aaron Quisenberry, Sr that married Joyce >Gayle Dudley or before. >Moses would have been born ca 1720-1740 with a death date of 1792. This is my >last posting unless a new record can be found on Moses. > >Marianne Dillow >Illinois > >