Person:George Painter (10)

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Big George Painter (1749-1809)--orphan of George Painter of Mill Creek

George had settled with his wife Sophia and sons George Jr. and John in Warren County. The township was called Turtle Creek and was probably east of the Little Miami River in the Virginia Military District, some ten miles east of Mathias. The next year George Painter Sr. died leaving his widow Sophia. His sons both married women named "Banta."

George (I)'s son George (II) married Magdalena Banta, called "Laney," from Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1808 at Turtle Creek.7

In 1813 John Painter, son of the late George (I), took out a patent to 160 acres in the northern part of the new county of Preble created in 1808 from Montgomery County. Although all of these various settlements were surviving it was not without the constant threat of raids from the various tribes still contending to stop the westward movement and encroachment into their lands.