Benjamin Northcott, Reverend born May 08, 1770 in Chowan County, North Carolina and died April 13, 1851 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky; Benjamin married second Martha ‘Patsy’ O’Dell born August 24, 1781 in Berkeley County, West Virginia and died May 22, 1861 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky - married November 11, 1800 in Fleming County, Kentucky; in 1800, he was extensively engaged in what is known as the ‘great Kentucky revival.’ They had 12 children. My ancestor Elizabeth Northcott (Graham McDaniel) was their second child.
Benjamin had married first Jane Armstrong born about 1774 in Augusta, Virginia and died in childbirth October 25, 1799 in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky - married May 27, 1794 in Hillsboro, Mason County, Kentucky. Benjamin was a Pioneer Local Preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Kentucky. They had 3 children.
1) Drusilla Northcott born about 1796 in Fleming County, Kentucky and died after 1850 in probably Montgomery County, Indiana; married Joshua Van Sandt - married about 1829, when she was perhaps thirty-five years of age. They lived in Indiana and had 1 child.
Drusilla and son were on the Union, Montgomery County, Indiana 1850 Census, her son being born in Ohio.
2) Jane ‘Jenny’ Northcott born March 31, 1798 in Fleming County, Kentucky;
married John Campbell Coldwell, Major born January 08, 1791 in Hawkins County, East Tennessee and died July 17, 1867 on the farm, in Shelbyville, Kentucky - married before 1822.
John Campbell Coldwell served two campaigns under Gen. Jackson, one against the Creek Indians, in which he participated in the battle at Horse Shoe, and the other against the British, in which he was a participant at New Orleans, January 8, 1815. After this campaign he settled at Shelbyville, and was a merchant from 1818 to 1843, at which time he retired to his farm, where he died. They had 4 children.
3) Nancy Northcott born March 31, 1799 (or 1798) in Fleming County, Kentucky and died May 06, 1837 in Hamilton County, Ohio - buried Old Cemetery, New Maysville, Indiana (Wesleyan Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio) - time made its ravages in the little churchyard at Salem, and with a view to better preserving his remains, Van Sandt and his wife, Nancy were removed to the cemetery at Cumminsville, the original epitaph on the tombstone being preserved; married John Van Sandt, Reverend born September 23, 1791 in Fleming County, Kentucky and died May 25, 1847 in Glendale (Pierpoint on
gravestone), Hamilton County, Ohio - married June 16, 1814 in Fleming County, Kentucky by Absalom Hunt. They had 10 (or 11) children between 1815 and 1837. Nancy died at the birth of her third daughter, Nancy.
Nancy Northcott had married John Vansandt, a nephew of Joshua Van Sandt who married her older sister Drusilla. They lived in Hamilton County, Ohio. He was a man of strong mind, well informed, a devoted Christian and the most uncompromising abolitionist ever known. He had purchased a home known as Mt. Pierpoint. There he gave protective shelter and care to any in need. His house was on the ‘Underground Railroad’ of Kentucky to Canada and a hiding and feeding place for slaves fleeing to freedom. In this period of the early 1800’s, it was not safe to be an Abolitionist. But John could not have lived with his conscience had he not tried to help the Black People find freedom and equality.
He helped quite a number, but some owners and losers of slaves of Kentucky brought suit against him for their losses and he had to give up a valuable farm to pay them; his Administrators compromised and paid off the Judgment and costs, a procedure that caused Mt. Pierpoint to be sold, and scattered the family to various states. He was spoken of in ‘UNCLE TOM’S CABIN’ by Harriet Beecher Stowe as John Van Trompe. (Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe: They drove about 10 miles on a solitary road, crossed the creek at a very dangerous fording, and presented themselves, at midnight, at the house of John Van Zandt, a noble-minded Kentuckian, who had performed the good deed which the author, in her story, ascribes to Van Trompe.)
John Van Sandt married second Nancy Mercy Bowen born March 30, 1837 in Hamilton County, Ohio (or Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky) and died August 23, 1898 (or July 18, 1871) in New Maysville, Putnam County, Indiana - married April 17, 1838. They had 7 children between 1839 and 1846 - and possibly one in 1861. So he had a total of 17 or 18 children. The parents of John Van Sandt were: Elisha Van Sandt born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Mary Margaret Crawford born in Virginia.
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