Person:Aaron Higgins (2)

Notes

• Jul 1785 - granted 1000 acres "around his settlement on Buck Lick Creek (Fayette County, KY) per Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys, Library of Virginia Archives
• Jul 1785 - granted 400 acres on the waters of said creek (Buck Lick)
• 1 Sep 1785 - 1106 acres on Buck Lick Creek, and another 3093 1/2 acres on the waters of Bank (probably Buck) Lick Creek, which Aaron Higgins apparently shared with Robert Johnston.
• 15 Mar 1790 - granted 1000 acres on the waters of Station Camp Creek, adjoining John Doley's Survey

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Perrin, William Henry, ed. History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky. (Chicago, IL, USA: O. L. Baskin, 1882)
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   ...William Higgins was the first of whom there is any definite account, he being the great-grandsire of our subject; he removed from Ireland to the Old Dominion, and settled prior to the Revolution, and raised a family of seven sons and one daughter; the sons were: William, Moses, Aaron, Capt. James, John, Joel and Jesse ...
   
   ... Aaron Higgins was the first one of the name that came to Kentucky about 1780, and entered 3,000 acres of land in what is now Montgomery County; upon this land all of his brothers (above mentioned) settled; Aaron was killed by the Indians at Sinclair's [sic - probably St. Clair's] defeat. ...
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   [Note: St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy of Native Americans, as part of the Northwest Indian War.]