Person:John Ransdell (2)

Research Notes

• cos1776 Note: if the 1800 Will Records can be verified, it would mean that the John Ransdell who was dismissed from the Baptist Church in Feb 1826 is NOT the same individual.
  • Record: 142 Ransdall, John Dism'd Feb 1826. List of the Early Members of the Baptist Church at Bryans on North Elkhorn in Fayette County, KY. [Source:Baptist History Homepage ]

Working Timeline

1785 - Fayette County - Particular Baptist Church at Bryan's Station is organized.

1789 -

• Nov 2 - named on petition for a tobacco warehouse on Kentucky River at Tate's Creek ⁷

1791 -

• Sep 9 - named on petition for extension of time to return Plots of Surveys to the Registrar's Office ⁷

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Estate Notice for Christopher Chinn, in The Kentucky gazette. (Lexington, Kentucky).

   [Notice was published on: 26 Jul 1788, 2 Aug 1788, and 7 Aug 1788.]
   All persons indebted to the estate of Christopher CHINN, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment that we may be enabled to close our accounts. Those that have any demand will make them known at Fayette August Court. Rawleigh CHINN, John RANSDELL, Executors.

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   [Relationship Notes: Rawleigh Chinn is Christopher Chinn's brother. John Ransdell is Christopher Chinn's brother in law (i.e. married to Christopher Chinn's sister, Elizabeth).]
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   [Note: The Will of Christopher Chinn was destroyed by a courthouse fire in 1803. This notice identifies John Ransdell as Executor to the Will of Christopher Chinn, his brother-in-law.]

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Indenture Record from Thomas and Anne Hall to Walker Baylor, in Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lewis), and Bettie A. (Bettie Anne Cummings) Cook. Fayette County, Kentucky records. (Evansville, Indiana: Cook Publications, 1985-1986).

   [Fayette County, Kentucky Book Number Needed] p 231 - Indenture, May 16, 1797, Thomas HALL and Anne HALL, his wife, late Anne CHINN, of Nelson County, Kentucky, to Walker BAYLOR of Fayette county. Whereas Christopher CHINN died possessed of 500 acres of land in Fayette County, part of George BRYAN's settlement and preemption, and Christopher CHINN did bequeath to his said wife Anne CHINN, now Anne HALL, 1/3 part of 350 acres of the said 500 acres, reserving to John RANSDALL 150 acres as by his purposed of said Christopher CHINN, dec'd. Now in consideration of 100 pounds, Thomas and Anne HALL convey to BAYLOR all of their right and title to the said 116 2/3 acres which is 1/3 part of the 350 acres, as has been divided by commissioners and set apart for the said Anne. Anne HALL relinquished her rights of dower. Recorded May 16, 1797.

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   [Relationship notes: Anne Hall is the widow of Christopher Chinn. John Ransdell is married to Elizabeth Chinn, sister of Christopher Chinn. Walker Baylor is the guardian of Christopher Chinn's children.]

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Notice by Walker Baylor, in The Kentucky gazette. (Lexington, Kentucky).

   
   

   [Kentucky Gazette (Lexington), 3 Dec 1796, p4]
   

   NOTICE. I HAVE been appointed guardian to Benjamin and Nancy Chinn, orphans of Christopher Chinn, deceased. There will be four likely NEGROES exposed to hire for one year, before the subscriber's door, on Monday the second day of January next, three of which are fellows and one woman, said to be as valuable as any in the state. They must be returned well clothed and taxes paid. Those to whom they are at present hired must remember that if it is their contract to clothe the negroes, they must comply with the same by the time above mentioned. Also thirty barrels of CORN to be sold on twelve months credit, near Maj. Ransdell's in the neighbourhood of Lexington. Also fifteen acres of cleard LAND to be rented for one year. Any persons desirous of renting may view the premises before the day. All persons are forewarned from cutting timber on the land of said orphans. Bond and approved security will be required.
   WALKER BAYLOR.
   N.B. The above negroes are not to be hired to any person living more than five miles from Lexington. December 1, 1796.

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   [Relationship notes: Maj. John Ransdell is an uncle to Benjamin and Nancy Chinn as he is married to Elizabeth Chinn, sister of their father, Christopher Chinn.]
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   [Identifies his title as "Major" and his residence as near Lexington.]

   
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 .

   Source: http://www.gwsar.org/ancestors.html
   John Ransdell was born in 1752 near Cedar Run in what was then Prince William County (now Fauquier County), Virginia. On 13 August 1772, in Shelburne Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia, he married Elizabeth Chinn, a descendant of General George Washington's great-grandfather, William Ball. In November 1778, he supported the Revolution by providing a gun to the Fauquier County Minute Men. After the Revolution, he moved with his family to Kentucky while it was still part of Virginia. In 1784, he was at Bryan's Station at Lexington in Fayette County. He died in early 1800 in Fayette County, Kentucky. In 1816, his daughter, Matilda, married a veteran of the War of 1812, John Elston, who was the son of patriot Benjamin Elston
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   [cos1776 note: how do they know he was at Bryant Station by 1784?]

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Probate Records of John Ransdell, in Sifted from the Ashes, Thirteen Generations of One Line of the Ransdell Family in America from its First Known Document until January 1, 1988 by William Keith Ransdell.

   [Source:Burnt records of Fayette County, KY. KY Historical Society film.]
   A fragment of his will was copied after the Fayette County Courthouse burned in 1803. It was written at least six months prior to the date of probate in Jun 1800. He left all of his estate, both real and personal, to his wife, Elizabeth RANSDELL, during her natural life or widowhood. If she "should" marry, she "should" have one third so long as she lives. As children come of age, they are to receive a feather bed and furniture. Something along the burned edge of the document that cannot be clearly determined, having to do with Elizabeth RANSDELL and the youngest children named, and what appears to have been "the age fifteen". This may have dealt with the amount of educa­tion the children were to receive.
   Wits. John RANSDELL Jr., William CHINN, __ BRADFORD.
   
   Jun 1800: Will probated, Fayette Co., KY.
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   [cos1776 Note: it has been said that the witness Bradford was Mary (Chinn) Bradford. Proof is needed.]

6.   Mentioned, in The Kentucky gazette. (Lexington, Kentucky).

   1 Jul 1799 - John Ransdell placed an ad in the Ken­tucky Gazette. Found a silver tablespoon.

7.   Recorded, in Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky; Robertson. KHR976.9 R651.Louisville Free Public Library.

   2 Nov 1789 - John Ransdell signed a petition to the House of Delegates of Virginia, for a tobacco warehouse on Kentucky river at Tate's creek.
   
   9 Sep 1791 - John Ransdell signed a petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia for an extension of time to return Plots of Surveys to the Regist­er's Office.