Person:James Duncan (1)

Research Notes

• pos Birth = 20 FEB 1748, Fleetwood, Culpepper County, Virginia, USA. Source & proof needed.
• pos Birth = 20 Feb 1750, Berkeley, Charles City, Virginia, USA. Source & proof needed.
• pos Birth = 20 FEB 1750, Frederick County, Virginia, USA ¹. Proof needed.

1. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI). (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genea;).

   Name: James Duncan
   birth date: 20 Feb 1750
   birth place: Charles City, Charles, Virginia, United States _LINK: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=agbi&h=2600284&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 POSSIBLE MATCH for review, in Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890 [database on-line].

   residence date: 1779
   Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Virginia Census, 1607-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
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   Name: James Duncan
   State: VA
   County: Accomack County
   Township: No Township Listed
   Year: 1779
   Record Type: Rent Role
   Page: NPN
   Database: VA Early Census Index

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 POSSIBLE MATCH for review, in U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820 [database on-line].

   Source Citation: Document: Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782 [Virginia State Library]; Call Number: FHL Film 2024439; Page Number: 8; Family Number: 10
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   Name: James Duncan
   Gender: M (Male)
   State: Virginia
   County: Accomack County
   Residence Year: 1780
   Household Remarks:
   Tithes above 21: 1; slaves 1; horses 4; cattle 16; carriage wheels 0; "ordinary licenses" 0.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer. Kentucky records: early wills and marriages, copied from court house records by regents, historians and the state historian; old bible records and tombstone inscriptions; records from Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: Keystone Printery, Inc., c1932)
   2:114.

   RANDOM NOTES FROM SUITS FILED IN OFFICE OF CIRCUIT CLERK
   
   Patty Harris vs. Pollock, Box 490
   
   In this suit some of the depositions were taken 1805, others in Clark Co., 1811. - Joseph McGuer states he came to Ky., 1779.
   - Leonard K. Bradley came 1783.
   - Joseph Procter aged 55 yrs. to Ky., 1778.
   - Nathaniel Bullock came to Ky., 1777, had been captured by the Indians at Blue Licks, 1778, his age abt. 51 yrs.
   - William Suddeth to Ky., 1783 and stopped at McGee's and Strode's Stations.
   - Stephen Boyle to Ky., 1779, settled at Strode's Station, 1780.
   - Jesse Coffee to Ky., 1781, settled at Boonsborough.
   - James Morgan of Farquier Co., Va., surveyor, makes statement.
   - David Linch to Ky., 1779.
   - William Clinkenbeard aged abt. 44 yrs., to Ky., 1779, was at Strode's Station.
   - Roger Clements, (Montgomery Co.), to Ky., 1781, was at McGee's Station.
   - Oswell Townsin to Ky., 1775, settled at Boonsborough.
   - Joseph Berry to Ky., 1782.
   - James Duncan aged 55 yrs. (deposition taken 1805) came to Ky., 1779, was at Boonesborough, returned to old settlement same year and came out to Ky., again in the fall of that yr. and assisted Benedict Couchman and his brother to build the first house at Strode's Station, which was on a fork. That he was to and from Va. several times and when in Ky. he generally resided at Strode's Station, that he moved his family to Ky. in the spring of 1784.
   - Benedict Couchman aged 49 yrs. (1805), came to Ky., 1779.
   - William Cradlebough came to Ky., 1776 and lived with Daniel Boone.
   - James Berry came to Ky., 1779.
   - Benjamin Dunaway to Ky., 1779 and settled at Boonesborough:
   - Zacheriah Easton, deposition.
   - Aquilla White to Ky., 1779, settled at Boonesborough.
   - Frederick Couchman to Ky., 1779, settled at Boonesborough and was at Strode's.
   - James Sodowsky to Ky., 1779.
   - Nicholas Proctor aged 53, (1811), to Ky., 1788, was at Boonesborough and at Strode's.
   - Joshua Stamper aged 58 yrs. (1811), was at Strodes, 1779-1784.
   - Charles Morgan, deposition.
   - Deed filed in suit, 1813, Richard Ratcliff of Fairfax Co., Va., to Humphrey Marshall. Isaac Halbert and Elizabeth mentioned.

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer. Kentucky records: early wills and marriages, copied from court house records by regents, historians and the state historian; old bible records and tombstone inscriptions; records from Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: Keystone Printery, Inc., c1932)
   2:117.

   RANDOM NOTES FROM SUITS FILED IN OFFICE OF CIRCUIT CLERK [Bourbon County, Kentucky]
   
   James Duncan vs. Joseph Duncan's Hrs., Box 312, May, 1809
   
   Representatives of Matthew Duncan:
   James Duncan,
   Joseph Duncan,
   John Smith Duncan,
   Polly M. Duncan and
   Thomas A. Duncan, inft. hrs. of Joseph Duncan, decd.,
   by Ann Duncan, their mother, sheweth
   - that Mathew Duncan, grandfather, intermarried with their grandmother, Sarah Duncan, and had the following chdn.:
   - Seth Duncan,
   - Sarah Bell,
   - Jane Wilson,
   - James Duncan,
   - Joseph Duncan, and the orators are chdn. of Joseph Duncan,
   - that said Mathew departed this life, leaving said Sarah, who departed this life intestate, leaving her property in the hands of Seth Duncan and Thomas Duncan (since decd. without issue), and
   - said James Duncan, defdt. to this bill, took upon himself administration of her estate.
   
   Deposition of Sarah Bell taken at the house of Thomas Dickenson at Glasgow, Barren Co., Ky., to be read as evidence in suit wherein James Duncan and others are defdts. and Labon Ship and hrs. of Joseph Duncan, decd., by Ann Moore, their gdn. are Pltfs., deposeth. Before she moved from Berkeley Co., Va., to Western country, her husband, William Bell, gave a note to her mother, Sarah Duncan, that William Bell died in Martinsburgh, Va., in yr. '94 and that she was supported by her step-son, William Bell as long as she remained in Va.
   
   Deposition of Mary M. Laughlin taken in Franklin Co., Pa., deposeth she went to house of Capt. Seth Duncan in Pendleton Co., Ky., about 6 days before death of Sarah Duncan.

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 .

   BOURBON CO. KY WILLS AND ESTATES, 1816-1824 -- originally compiled by Charles M. Franklin, 1991. [1]
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   DUNCAN, James, 20 May 1817, Will Book F p.78, Recorded Nov. 1817,
   Wife: Elizabeth Duncan,
   Son: Matthew Duncan,
   Son: John Duncan,
   Son: James Duncan,
   Son: Thomas Duncan,
   Son: Joseph Duncan,
   Son: William Duncan,
   Son: Seth Duncan,
   Son: Jerry Duncan,
   Son: Stephen Duncan,
   Dau: Polly Breckenridge,
   Dau: Eleanor Breckenridge,
   Exec: Matthew Duncan,
   Wit: Littleberry Bedford, Jonas Berryman, Nicholas Talbott.