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Facts and Events
Records
09 Nov 1781 - James Estill, assignee of Green Clay, enters 1000 acres TW 7269, NE corner of preemption sold by William Hoy to Hickeson Grubbs [sic] on waters of Hays Fork. [Anne Crabb, 1996, p 11]
Sep 1785 - Parmenas Briscoe v. Hickerson Grubbs [sic] upon a caveat for 400 acres of land in Fayette Co. Ordered discontinued. [District of KY Supreme Court Order Book A:69, 114]
06 Sep 1790 - Green Clay's corner in Higason Grubb's line, with Grubbs line to the lower line of Rodes' mill seat tract. [Anne Crabb, 1996, p 93]
1791 - Grubbs' Station was established in the fall of 1791 by a few families under the leadership of Higgason Grubbs. The following summer a crop was raised there, but because of Indian depredations the Station was deserted for a while during the summer, and re-occupied that same fall.
01 Dec 1800 - Higgason Grubbs sold 135 acres on Muddy Creek to James Harris. [Madison, KY, DB E:94]
14 Mar 1801 - Higgason Grubbs locates a corner tree on a survey. He testified that in October, 1780, while he and Jesse Gopher were hunting Buffalo, they camped under a beech tree on which they carved their initials, "H. G." and "J. C." and the date "1780." He also testified that this was the tree called for in the Shelton survey concerned. [Madison, KY ???]
06 Feb 1810 - "... Higgason Grubbs, and wife, Lucy, for 1500 dollars, conveyed to William Boone a tract of land, granted by the Commonwealth of Ky., to Higgason Grubbs, 2 March, 1789, on the waters of Muddy Creek and the Kentucky River. ..." [Madison, KY DB G:431]
References
- ↑ Compiler: Hazel Atterbury Spraker. The Boone Family, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of George and Mary Boone Who Came to America in 1717. (Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1974).
[Hazel Atterbury Spraker compiled this information in 1922 from information furnished by Judge Charles S. Grubbs of Louisville, KY, a grandson of John Grubbs, son of Higgason; and from "History and Genealogies," by William H. Miller of Richmond, KY.]
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"lO. Higgason Grubbs, d. 30 June, 1830; married Lucy Harris, of Albemarle County Virginia, a daughter of James and Mary Harris. (See the Harris Family history for her ancestry.)
The date of the birth of Higgason Grubbs, the only son of William and Susanna (Hearne) Grubbs, is not known. Some time prior to 1780, in Albermarle County, Virginia, he married Lucy Harris, a daughter of James and Mary Harris. (For her ancestry see article on Harris family.) After his death his wife survived him but a short time. He had many land transactions, amassed quite a fortune for those days, and became a prominent and substantial citizen of newly settled Kentucky. He possibly remained in Virginia until after his marriage, and emigrated to Kentucky about 1780, when it was still a part of Virginia and known as Kentucky County. He settled in Madison County, where he lived until his death, with the exception of a few years in Estill County, and possibly some short time in Lincoln County.
The earliest record of his being in Kentucky is found in a deposition in Madison County, given 14 March, 1801, in which he locates a corner tree on a survey. He testified that in October, 1780, while he and Jesse Gopher were hunting Buffalo, they camped under a beech tree on which they carved their initials, "H. G." and "J. C." and the date "1780." He also testified that this was the tree called for in the Shelton survey concerned. It seems that he established two forts in what is now Madison County; Grubbs Station in 1781, on Tates Creek two miles west of Hoyt's Station, and Grubb's Station on Muddy Creek. (See Collin's History of Kentucky.) Grubbs' Station was established in the fall of 1791 by a few families under the leadership of Higgason Grubbs. The following summer a crop was raised there, but because of Indian depredations the Station was deserted for a while during the summer, and re-occupied that same fall.
Higgason Grubbs belonged to the Minute Men of Virginia but not to the regular army, and acquired the title of "Captain". No record has been found of his being a commissioned officer, however. The records of Madison County (Ky.) show that he had a good education, writing a good hand and spelling correctly. These records are documents and depositions, which seem to be made in his own handwriting, made while he was surveyor. He was prominent in the early settlement of Kentucky, having rendered this public service:
1. 1787 One of the Trustees of Boonesboro, appointed by the Governor of Virginia to supply place of Trustees first named (Acts Virginia Hennings Statutes Vol. 12 page 603-788) and at one time residing in the Fort at Boonesboro.
2. Represented Madison County in the two famous Conventions at Danville (1787 and 1788).
3. 1790-91 Member Virginia Legislature from Madison County, Kentucky.
4. 1792 — Member from Madison County at the 1st. Constitutional Convention at Danville, called on the 2d of April 1792 to make a Constitution for the new State of Kentucky, which was to be admitted to the Union on June 1st, 1792.
5. In May, 1792, Isaac Shelby was chosen Governor of Kentucky by forty electors who represented the people and who also elected the first Senators, one of these electors being Higgason Grubbs.
6. 1792 He was also a Representative in the first Legislature, which Convened at Lexington.
7. At various times from 1792 until 1802, he was a member of the House of Representatives (Madison County) Kentucky. About the latter date he forced to retire from public life to look after private interests. Records of Madison County reveal that in later years he lost most, if not all, of the wealth he had amassed in his younger days.
The children of Higgason and Lucy (Harris) Grubbs were: ...
... Note: There is record of an old deed made by Higgason Grubbs dated July, 1812 in which he gives the name of his eight children as Nancy Boone, Thomas Grubbs, Mourning Boone, James Grubbs, John Grubbs, William Grubbs, Jesse Grubbs and Lucy Grubbs.
There is also record of a deed dated July 9, 1812, the opening sentence of which is, "I, Higgason Grubbs of Madison County and State of Kentucky, do hereby relinquish all my claim as husband to my wife Lucy Grubbs, daughter of James Harris deceased, of Albermarle Co., Va."
(The above is compiled from information furnished by Judge Charles S. Grubbs of Louisville, Ky., a grandson of John Grubbs, son of Higgason; and from "History and Genealogies," by William H. Miller of Richmond, Ky.) "
- ↑ LVM6-QDY, in FamilySearch Family Tree
last accessed Aug 2018.
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