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Facts and Events
Robert Gwinn was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Advisory
- Note: some researchers have claimed that this Robert Gwinn married Mary Jane Lockridge, daughter of Samuel Lockridge, but this appears to be in error. Perhaps a different Robert Gwinn married Lockridge.
Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:
- 15th June, 1770. Joseph Gwin and Mary to his brother, Robert Gwin, £70, 120 acres, part of 544 acres belonging to Robert Gwin, Sr., by patent on Great Calfpasture between tract where Moses McElvain now dwells and John Graham's land, conveyed by Robert Gwin, Jr., to said Joseph Gwin, 21st June, 1763, and now conveyed back to said Robert; corner John Graham. Delivered: Joseph Reaburn, March, 1775.
Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:
- 19th May, 1772. Robert ( ) Gwynn (Gween) to Thomas Kinkead, blacksmith, land conveyed to Robert, 17th July, 1745, adjoining a tract now in possession of William Kinkead and said Thomas Kinkead. Delivered: Grantee, 25th November, 1815.
Will Abstract
- Woodford Co., Kentucky book F, page 5.
- Written 15 January 1818
- Names daughters Patsy Sanderson, Rosan Dillon, Peggy Bunton no relationship listed
- Son, Robert named executor .
- Probated February 1818.
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Vol. 1 - OCTOBER 21, 1778.(363) Samuel Neal, orphan of James Neal, to be bound to Lanty Graham; James Neal to Robert Gwinn.
Records in Kentucky
- 1787 - Fayette County, Kentucky Tax List
- 1791 - All men by these presents that I Robert J. Guienn of the Fayette Distri ct of Kentucky and State of Virginia …rs no good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have and do hereby ordain and appoint James Young of the aforesaid County District to be my true and lawful attorney with full power and lawful authority in my name to demand to receive all debts dues and demand that I may be due or owing to me particularly in the Countys of Augusta, …bryer in the State of Virginia and further to give receipts acquitance ..ame or any other part of them and to have full and absolute authority to enter suits and prosecute the same to final Judgment and execution and recovery of any debts due to me in any or either of the said Counties for me and in my name to administer on the Estate of my Father Robert Senr. Late of Augusta County now deceased and act in that case as my lawfull…… with a full authority therein as if I was personally my self present, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal th is 8th…….Domini 1791. [Source: Burnt Records Book 5 pg 214 Fayette County, Kentucky].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
- Perrin, William Henry; J. H. Battle; and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: a History of the State: Embracing a concise account of the origin and development of the Virginia colony : its expansion westward, and the settlement of the frontier beyond the Alleghanies; the erection of Kentucky as an independent state and its subsequent development. (Louisville: F. A. Battey, 1887).
Among the early pioneers of Kentucky were the GUYNs. Of this family was Robert, who settled in Woodford County, near Green's Mill, and helped to build Black's Station. He had five or six daughters and three sons: Samuel, Moses and Robert. The last named was born in 1774, and died in 1844. He married Jane Black, a daughter of Robert Black, and became the father of thirteen children: Robert, James, John, Hugh, Andrew, Moses, William, Thomas, Harvey, Rankin, Samuel R., Jane (Mrs. Irvin) and Hannah (Mrs. David Black). Samuel R., the eleventh son, was born in 1803, and married Miss Georgeanne Yeagle, who bore him four children: Martha (Mrs. Samuel McCauley), Robert J., John W. and Edwin N. He was a farmer and had 400 acres of land near Troy, Jessamine County. In 1845 he was elected elder in the South Presbyterian Church, and retained his office for over thirty-nine years, or until his death, November 21, 1884. His son, Edwin N. GUYN, was born October 3, 1840, and was reared on the homestead. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H., Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, of Morgan's command, and served until the close of the war, taking partin every fight in which his brigade was engaged. At the death of hisfather, he located on his present place of 120 acres near Wilmore,Jessamine County. July 15, 1872, he married Miss Ann B., daughter of Stephen and Mary E. Schofield, and has had born to him two children: Mattie J. and Mary Lee.
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Headstone Inscription:
Guyn Family Cemetery
Guyn, Robert Sr.
born about 1734  - 1/30/1818
Cemetery Located off Pauls Mills Road in Woodford County
Surrounded by Rock Wall on land owned by Dorothy Leedy Brandenburg
- birthdate was likely later, prob. abt. 1744 according to other sources, headstone appears almost unreadable in photo.
http://kykinfolk.com/woodford/cemeteries/Guyn_Family_Cem.htm
- Fayette Co., KY Burnt Records Book 5, p.214.
All men by these presents that I Robert J. GUIENN of the Fayette District of Kentucky and State of Virginia ?rs no good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have and do hereby ordain and appoint James YOUNG of the aforesaid County District to be my true and lawful attorney with full power and lawful authority in my name to demand to receive all debts dues and demand that I may be due or owing to me particularly in the Countys of Augusta, [Green]bryer in the State of Virginia and further to give receipts acquitance ..ame or any other part of them and to have full and absolute authority to enter suits and prosecute the same to final Judgment and execution and recovery of any debts due to me in any or either of the said Counties for me and in my name to administer on the Estate of my Father Robert Senr. Late of Augusta County now deceased and act in that case as my lawfull?? with a full authority therein as if I was personally myself present, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 8th??.Domini 1791. Robert (x) GUIENN.
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