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Facts and Events
John Atherton of Maryland
- In a book titled "The Revolutionary Records of Maryland", under Montgomery County, it shows among the men signing the Patriots' oath of fidelity and support, returned on 16th of March, 1778 the names of William Lee Sr., Joseph Lee, Joseph Lee, Jr., Samuel Lee, Aaron Atherton, Benjamin Atherton, John Atherton, Aaron Atherton Jr., and Daniel Cresop.
- In "A Maryland Revolutionary War Militia List", compiled by the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America from the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore located in the Filson Club in Louisville,KY, on page 225 under Captain Daniel Cresap; Col. Barret Bn; Washington, Company are listed John Eatherington, Cpl; Joshua Eatherington, Private 1st class; William Lee, Pvt 1st class; Samuel Lee, Pvt 2nd class; Benjamin Eatherington, Pvt 3rd class; Aaron Aetherington, Pvt 6th class & Josiah Lee, Pvt 7th class. On page 267 - list of discharged soldiers of 2 Bns of militia raised to serve in Continental Army - pd 1781 to Wm Lee no., 479, nine pounds and one shilling. Since the first names are the same, Eatherington is a phonetic varient spelling of Atherton and Daniel Cresap is a phonetic varient for Daniel Cresop, and visa versa.
- Those same named Lees and Athertons show up on tithable and tax records in Nelson Co., Ky (which was then still Virginia) and one of Aaron Atherton Sr. and Jr. daughters married one of William Lee Sr., and Jr. sons, according to Kentucky marriage records. There is a Jessee Lee who was the son of this William Lee Jr., through his marriage to his wife, Sarah Jane Morgan nee Reeves.
- Maryland Census, 1772-1890
- Name: John Atherton
- State: MD
- County: Washington County
- Township: No Township Listed
- Year: 1778
- Record Type: Fidelity Oath Database: MD Early Census Index
- Ancestor #: A003555
- Service: MARYLAND
- Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
- Birth: (CIRCA) 1740 MARYLAND
- Death: (POST) 12-2-1816 OHIO CO. KENTUCKY
- Service Description: 1) SIGNED OATH
- Grantee: Etherton, Jno
- Acres: 1,000
- Book: 3
- Survey Date: 29 Oct 1792
- County: Shelby
- WaterCourse: Bullskin
- Reference: THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
- Volume 1
- Part 1
- CHAPTER III OLD KENTUCKY GRANTS (1793-1856) THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
- page 172
- More Info: Grantee: Etherton, Jno
- Acres: 1,000
- Book: 3
- Page: 194
- Date Survey: 10-29-1792
- County: Shelby
- Watercourse: Bullskin
- U.S. Compiled Service Records, Post-Revolutionary War Volunteer Soldiers, 1784-1811
- Name: John Atherton
- State or Territory: Kentucky
- Military unit: John Caldwell´s Battalion, Mounted Volunteers
- Service Year: 1794
- Name: John Sr. Atherton
- State: KY
- County: Ohio County
- Township: No Township Listed
- Year: 1800
- Record Type: Tax list
- Database: KY Early Census Index
Beaver Dam Church, Ohio Co., KY
- Beaver Dam church was constituted on the 5th of March, 1798, of the following five persons: John Atherton, Sr., and his wife Sally, Aaron Atherton and his wife Christina, and James Keel.
- BEAVER DAM church is located in Ohio county, about four miles south of Hartford, the country-seat. It takes its name from a small tributary of Muddy creek, near which it is situated. It is, by several years, the oldest church between the Green River and Ohio River, west of Elizabethtown, and is the mother of a large family of similar organizations in that region of the State. There was a very early settlement at Hartford, probably not far from the year 1780. Among these early settlers was a German family, bearing the name that is now spelt Coleman.
- John Atherton Sr of Ohio Co bought 800 acres from John Adair and wife Catherine of Mercer Co, on 12 Sep 1799, but John's wife Sarah forgot to relinquish her right of dower by signing the papers. This matter was clarified on 30 Aug 1832.
- John and Sarah Atherton sold 100 acres at Beaver Dam, land next to Charles Atherton, on 16 Oct 1815.
- John Atherton Sr and wife Sarah Atherton sold 124 acres at Beaver Dam on 2 Dec 1816; land was next to Aaron Atherton's property. They could not write. Also, they sold 51 acres at Beaver Dam to “John Atherton Junior son of Charles Atherton Decest of Ohio Co.”
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