WILLIAM GRANT (III) (Elizabeth' Boone; Squire; Georges), born 10 Jan., 1761, in Virginia; died 20 Feb., 1814.
Married Sally Moseby, sister of Maj. Joseph Moseby and of Mary Moseby who married John Grant, William's brother.
During the Indian outbreak of 1759, William's parents, who at that time were living in the Yadkin Country (N. C.), went to live for a time in Virginia, near where Washington, D. C., now stands. It was while they were living there that William III was born. Before September 1764 the family moved back to N. C. and settled again in the Yadkin Country near Shallow Ford. After living there several years William went with his parents in 1779 to Kentucky, and lived at Bryan's Station near Fort Boonesborough.
While out hunting with a party on the Elkhorn River about May 20th, 1780, he was wounded in an attack the Indians made on the party. It is very probable he was one of the defenders of Bryan's Station when it was besieged in August, 1782, by Simon Girty and his band, for at the battle of Blue Licks, which followed within a few days, Grant was under his uncle, Daniel Boone. At the ford of the Licking, he joined Maj. Netherland in checking the Indians. It was here that he saw an Indian tomahawking some of the exhausted men at the edge of the ford and shot him. While doing this he had left his horse, Keplar, untied, and when he went to get him found that he was gone. Going on a mile or two, he overtook one of his friends who had caught Keplar. Mounting and going still farther, Grant came upon Capt. Wood from the south side of the Kentucky River, who was too fleshy and exhausted to mount his own horse. Grant got down to help Wood and a second time Keplar got away, but was again caught by the same man, and Grant this time escaped safely. (Keplar lived to be 32 years old.)
Grant went out on Clark's campaign in 1782, and again on Logan's in 1786. He used to tell his sons about this campaign.
At some time during this period of his life he was married to Sally Moseby, who was one of fifteen children, seven boys and eight girls, who came from the Yadkin Country and settled in Fayette Co., Ky. Both Grant and his wife were Baptists in their religious beliefs. They lived, died and were buried at the Grant homestead on the Elkhorn, which came to William through his father, William Grant II.
CHILDREN:-
335 Keturah Grant.
336 Eliza Grant.
337 James M. Grant.
338 William Grant.
+339 Mary Grant.
+340 Samuel Moseby Grant (Col.), b. 1 Oct., 1791.
REFERENCES:-
Draper Mss 22 S 230-38.
Draper Mss. 22 C 46.
D. A. R. Year Book.
Filson Club Publications, Vol. XII., "Bryan's Station."
Family Records.
Sally Moseby, sister of Maj. Joseph Moseby and of Mary Moseby who married John Grant, William's brother.
SAMUEL BOONE GRANT (Elizabeth' Boone; Squire; George% born 26 Nov., 1762, in North Carolina; died 13 Aug., 1789, near the Ohio River,
in Indiana.
Married Lydia Craig, daughter of Rev. Elijah Craig of Scott Co., Ky.
Samuel Grant was killed by Indians on Grant's Lick Creek in Indiana, at the same time that his brother Moses was. He was thought, by his nephew, Col. Samuel Moseby Grant, to have been a Captain under Col. Robert Johnson who led the expedition over the Ohio, which ended disastrously for Moses and Samuel Grant.
CHILDREN :-
341 Elijah Grant, mentioned in his grandfather's will.
342 Elizabeth Grant, mentioned in her grandfather's will.
REFERENCES:-
Draper Mss. 22 S 230-38. Draper Mss. 22 C 46.
Married Lydia Craig, daughter of Rev. Elijah Craig of Scott Co., Ky.
341 Elijah Grant, mentioned in his grandfather's will.
Elizabeth Grant, mentioned in her grandfather's will.
(CAPT.) SQUIRE BOONE GRANT (Elizabeth5 Boone; Squire; Georges), born 19 Sept., 1764, in North Carolina; died 10 June, 1833, in Campbell Co., Ky.
Married Susan Hand, whose mother was a Moseby.
Squire Grant commanded a company from Kenton Co., Ky., in the War of 1812. He also probably took part in the Battle of Blue Licks (Revolution), as the name Squire Grant is given in a list of those who escaped, Aug. 1782. He was State Senator from Boone Co., Ky., 1901.
CHILD:-
+343 Israel Boone Grant.
REFERENCES:-
Filson Club Pub. Vol. XII, "Bryan's Station." Draper Mss. 22 S 230-38.
Draper Mss. 22 C 46.
Married Susan Hand, whose mother was a Moseby.
John Moseby, brother of Major Joseph Moseby.
97 Elizabeth Grant, b. 28 Aug., 1766; d. 10 July, 1804, in Scott Co., Ky.; m. John Moseby, brother of Major Joseph Moseby.
James Lamond, and lived in Pendleton Co., Ky.
REBECCA BOONE GRANT (Elizabeth5 Boone; Squire'; Georges), born 4 June, 1774, in Shallow Ford District (Yadkin) of North Carolina; died 7 Dec., 1858.
Married James Lamond, and lived in Pendleton Co., Ky.
A letter written by Mrs. Lamond, or a portion of it, was furnished to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, Nov. 15, 1866, by her granddaughter, Mrs. W. Page of Madison, Ind. This letter is known as Draper Mss. 22 C 46, and is preserved in the Draper Collection of Manuscripts in the library of the Historical Society of Wisconsin.
CHILDREN
+344 Mary Grant Lamond, b. 17 Jan., 1800.
+345 Rebecca Knox Lamond, b. 4 Oct., 1807.
346 - Lamond, a daughter, who m. Joseph Winston, and had a son Capt James L. Winston.
REFERENCES:-
Draper Mss. 22 C 46. Family Records.
NATHAN BOONE (Daniels; Squire; Georges), born 2 Mar., 1781, at Boone's Station, now Cross Plains, Fayette Co., Ky. (a); died in Green
Co., Mo., 16 Oct., 1856, in his 76th year. (b
Married 26 Sept., 1799, in Kentucky, Olive Van Bibber (b. 13 Jan.,
1783, in Greenbriar Co., on the banks of Greenbriar River, Ky.; d. in Missouri 12 Nov., 1858, in her 75th year), daughter of Peter Van Bibber and wife Margary Bounds. (b) Some say she was a sister of the wife of
Jesse Boone (107).
Nathan Boone spent his early childhood in the primitive settlements of Kentucky, and married at the age of eighteen. In September, 1799, he assisted his father in removing the family to Missouri. Draper Manu-
script 6 S 18-254, gives an account of this journey as follows:
"Daniel M. Boone and Nathan Boone started with their mother in the boat (called a pirogue) while Col. Boone started with the s,tock by land, assisted by a young man named George Buchanan and D. M. Boone's negro Sam. At Limestone (now Maysville) Nathan Boone got his marriage license and returned (75 miles) to Little Sandy, where Mr. Peter Van Bibber then lived, and Sept. 26th was married to Miss Olive Van Bibber; then started out and went all the way by land via Lexington, Louisville, Vincennes and St. Louis."
"The young couple located in St. Charles Co., Mo. In local history we find the following:-
"From 1800 to 1812 he (Nathan Boone) was employed surveying Government land in what are now St. Charles, Montgomery and Warren Counties. In 1870, he with his brother Daniel surveyed a road from St. Charles to Blue Lick in Howard County, a road that is still in use. In 1820 he finished a large stone two-story house in St. Charles County, Mo. In this house his father Daniel Boone died, September 20, 1820. * * * * Nathan Boone was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and was in the U. S. Army from 1832 to 1853." (d)Gardner's Dictionary of the Army" gives Nathan Boone's exact military record as follows:-
"Capt. Rangers 25 March, 1812; Major Missouri Mtd. Rangers, 10 Dec., 1813; continued Capt. Rangers in 1814; disbanded June, 1815. Mounted Rangers, 16 June, 1832; Capt. 1st. Dragoons, Aug 1833; Major 1st. Dragoons 16 June, 1847; Lieut. Col. 2nd. Dragoons 25 July, 1850; resigned 15 July, 1855."
"A similar record is found in Heitman's "Historical Register." (e) Still another account of his military life reads as follows:-
"As the war (1812) had now fairly commenced, an act of Congress authorized the raising of six companies of Rangers, three to be raised on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, and the other three on the Illinois side. The Missouri companies were commanded by Daniel M. Boone, Nathan Boone, and David Musick. The commission of Nathan Boone was dated in June, 1812, to serve a year. * * * * On 15 August, 1813, Capt. Nathan Boone, and a party of spies under his command, while on a scout between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, were attacked in the night by three times their number, but no lives were lost. About the September following, Maj. Nathan Boone was of the party which accompanied Gen. Howard's expedition to Peoria, where a fort was built. A little later, there were some Indian disturbances, and Maj. Nathan Boone and Capt. Samuel Whitesides scoured the country." (f)In 1837 Nathan Boone located with his family on a farm near Ash-grove, Green County, Mo., where he remained until his death. He and his wife are both buried in the family graveyard of the old farm two miles north of Ashgrove
CHILDREN:-
400 James Boone, b. 3 July, 1800; m. Polly Allen and lived near Bolivar, Mo.. in 1851. (b)
401 Delinda Boone, m. James Craig.
402 Jemima Boone, m. Henry Zumalt. 40.3 Susan Boone, m. Joseph Van Bibber.
404 Nancy Boone, d. young.
405 Olive Boone, m. Phil Anthony.
+406 Benjamin Howard Boone.
+407 John Coburn Boone.
+408 Levica Boone.
+409 Melcina. Boone, b. abt. 1820.
+410 Mary Boone, b. 22 Jan., 1822.
411 Sarah Boone, m. Winfield Wright
412 Mahala Boone, m. Robert C. Printy.
413 Mela Boone, d. when a child.
REFERENCES:-
(a) Draper Mss. 6 S 13-16.
(b) Draper Mss. 6 S 18-254.
(c) "Pioneer Families of Missouri," Bryan and Rose (1876).
(d) "Missouri Historical Review," Vol. 1, Oct., 1906.
(e) Heitman's Historical Register (1789-19-), page 230.
(f) Wisconsin Historical Collection, Vol. I & II, "The Personal Narrative of Col. John Shaw," page 206; pp. 211-212.
(g) "Genealogy, a Journal of American Ancestry," edited by William Montgomery Clemens, Vol. VII, No. 8.
Married 26 Sept., 1799, in Kentucky, Olive Van Bibber (b. 13 Jan.,
1783, in Greenbriar Co., on the banks of Greenbriar River, Ky.; d. in Missouri 12 Nov., 1858, in her 75th year), daughter of Peter Van Bibber and wife Margary Bounds.A brief history of Olive (Van Bibber) Boone's early life and marriage is contained in a statement made by her during her lifetime. A newspaper clipping, unnamed and undated, was sent to us, containing an
account of this interesting record. Efforts have been made to locate the branch of the family in which this quaint and interesting document is preserved, but without success. It is said to be a statement made by Mrs. Nathan Boone, recorded in the handwriting of Mrs. John C. Boone (her
daughter-in-law) and preserved in the family of L. N. Boone of Webster Grove, Missouri. After saying that she was born the 13th of January,
1783; and grew up at the mouth of the Big Kanawha River, Mrs. Nathan Boone continues:
"After the death of my father, Peter Van Bibber, my mother and I lived with my brother in Ohio, on the Ohio, opposite the mouth of the Big Sandy River. I was married on the 26th of Sept., 1799. On the first of October, without any company but my husband, I started to Missouri, or Upper Louisiana. We had two ponies and our packhorse. After being on our journey some time we were overtaken by a man and woman who travelled with us to Vincennes. We remained there nearly three weeks, in consequence of getting one of our ponies crippled. We travelled alone the remainder of the way, arriving in St. Louis the last of October. My husband was offered eighty acres of land (in the center of what was afterwards the city) for one of our ponies. He laughed and said he would not give one of the ponies for the whole town. We went to St. Charles County, and located about twenty miles above St. Charles. We crossed the Missouri River at St. Charles by placing our goods in a skiff. My husband rowed and I steered and held the horse by the bridle. It was rather a perilous trip for so young a couple. I was just sixteen, my husband eighteen."
Nancy Boone, d. young.
Mela Boone, d. when a child.
SAMUEL BRYAN (Mary' Boone; Squire; Georges), born 1756, in North Carolina; died 4 Mar., 1837.
Married 5 Oct., 1775, in Rowan Co., N. C., Mary Hunt, daughter of Col. Jonathan and wife Isabella Hunt.
He was a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner. In July, 1777, he enlisted in Virginia; received the rank of Colonel and served at various times for nine months. He served under Captains William Bayley Smith, John Holder, William Hogan and Benjamin Logan in Gen. George R. Clarke's Expeditions in North Carolina. Under J. Johnson and James Stinson, he fought in battles with the Indians at Pequa Towns. At the time of enlistment he lived in Rowan Co., N. C., and at date of application for pension he resided in Marion Co., Ind., where, in 1834, he and his wife Mary Bryan lived with their sons, Luke and Thomas. (a)CHILDREN:-
414 Ann Bryan.
415 Phoebe Bryan.
416 William Bryan.
417 Abner Bryan.
418 Luke Bryan, b. 2p Nov., 1784; m. 1807, Mary Sanders, dau. of Sarah and Capt. John Sanders.
419 Thomas Bryan.
420 Sarah Bryan.
421 Mary Bryan.
422 Daniel Bryan.
423 Hampton Bryan.
424 Samuel Bryan.
REFERENCE
(a) Pension Application, U. S. Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Married 5 Oct., 1775, in Rowan Co., N. C., Mary Hunt, daughter of Col. Jonathan and wife Isabella Hunt.
Married about 1792, Jesse Copher (b. about 1760; died 1822), son of Thomas Copher who was born in Pennsylvania but settled in Virginia.
Jesse Copher was raised in Culpepper Co., Va., and came to Kentucky as a young man. He was rather clumsy in build, so never made much of a hunter, but became a farmer instead.
He was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army; was captured with Kenton and Bullock, and taken to Detroit, where they were all kept a long time. Eventually they escaped thro' assistance given them by the wife of a storekeeper there. Kenton became acquainted with her and frankly said he wished help to escape. She promised •to furnish provisions secretly, and arms if she could, but her husband must not be involved, and her life might be the forfeit if it were known she had helped them. She hid some "jerk" in a hollow tree, which had been agreed upon, and one evening, when some Indians had encamped nearby and stacked their guns while they were drinking, she stole three of the guns and hid them: She took ammunition from her husband's store, and one night with a ladder climbed the picketing (the prisoners were confined in some sort of stockade) to give them the guns and ammunition. She had gotten an Irishman who lived in Detroit to tell them, that if he were a prisoner and wished to escape he would take the usual route thro' the Wyandotte, Shawnee and Delaware country, then clown to the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville, Ky.). "Profiting by this hint, they steered in that direction," and although they frequently heard guns, they saw no Indians, but supposed they were being pursued. At first they traveled only during the nights. Their "jerk" gave out, and finally they were forced in spite of their fear of discovery to shoot a deer. Just as it fell they discovered a party of Indians at a distance and hid themselves in a thicket. The Indians, however, disappeared and they enjoyed a feast of venison, "jerking" the rest of it. Soon after they reached the Falls of the Ohio. (a)
Jesse Copher and Elizabeth Boone were married in 179-, in Ky., and settled in Clark Co., where he took up a pre-emption of 1400 acres on Stoner Creek, most of which he lost later by a prior location. (a)
In the War of 1812 he was Captain of the Kentucky Militia Volunteers, commanded by Col. Richard Davenport.
Following the loss of his land he moved to Boone Co., Mo., in 1819. For many years he and his wife were members of the Baptist Church.
Both of them died in Missouri, leaving a large family of children, one of whom, Samuel, lived ten or twelve miles north of Columbia, Boone Co. (a)
Jesse Copher and Elizabeth Boone had eleven children, all mentioned in his will, which was signed 5 July, 1822; produced in Boone Co. (Mo.) Circuit Court and proven 21 Sept., 1822; and recorded on 18 Oct., 1822, in Will Book "A" page 120, 1 and 2.
ELIZABETH BOONE (Georges; Squire4; Georges), born about 1765; died when past 90 years of age.
+436 Nancy Boone Copher.
437 Thomas Copher, was a soldier in War of 1812.
438 Mary Copher, m. - Nesbit.
439 Phebe Copher, m. - Haden.
440 Udosha Copher, m. - Steel.
+441 Nettie Boone Copher, b. 22 Dec., 1803.
442 Jerusha Copher, m. - Kirkly.
443 Samuel B. Copher, m. Mrs. Anna Maupin Turner (b. 29 Dec., 1801; d. Sept., 1882). He lived 10 or 12 miles north of Columbia, Boone Co., Mo.
444 David N. Copher.
445 Sarah Copher, m. - Dooly.
+446 Eleanor (Nellie) Copher, b. 1805.
REFERENCE:-
(a) Draper Mss. 22 S. 241-68.
Thomas Copher, was a soldier in War of 1812.