The Rev. John Dupuy of Pocohontas County, Virginia, a Baptist minister, came to Woodford County about 1786, but some years later removed to Shelby County, Kentucky, where he died in 1831.
His brother, Bartholomew Dupuy, Jr., married Mary Motley in Virginia, and came to Woodford County at the time the Rev. John came, but he only lived a few years after taking residence in the county, dying in 1790. His will, giving the names of his children and devising his estate, bearing date June 5th, 1790, is recorded in the office of the county court. His children who married 1n the county were,
- Joel who married Lucy Craig;
- Nancy who married Alexander McClure;
- Martha who. married Col. Abraham Owen, who lost his life at Tippecanoe, and
- Elizabeth who married Mr. Fogg.
There were eleven children in all.
Joel Dupuy, son of Bartholomew, built a mill three miles from the old Greer’s Creek Church and operated it for many years. The walls of the mill are standing, but 'I am under the impression that the roof has fallen in. I am told that Joel and his wife, Lucy Craig, afterwards lived on a farm that adjoins the Hart estate on Frankfort pike two miles out of Versailles, and that they died there.
Elizabeth and Mr. Fogg also lived and died in the county, and I think he was a relative of Captain Elijah Fogg, the father of Mrs. Oakley Thompson of the county.
Mary Motley Samuels, a granddaughter of Bartholomew Dupuy and Mary Motley, married David Castleman Suggett of Scott County and the late Mrs. Sophronia Offutt of Midway, Ky., was a daughter. Manly Offutt, of the Citizens Bank of Midway, is a son of Mrs. Sophronia Offutt.
The Dupuys were Huguenots and closely related to the Sublett, Trabue and Woolridge families who came to Woodford County about the same time. ...
