Person:John Connolly (21)

Citations

http://www.michaeldnestor.com/conley/conleyx3.html

1. ↑ Family Recorded, in Perrin, William Henry; J. H. Battle; and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: a History of the State: Embracing a concise account of the origin and development of the Virginia colony : its expansion westward, and the settlement of the frontier beyond the Alleghanies; the erection of Kentucky as an independent state and its subsequent development. (Louisville: F. A. Battey, 1887).

   ... Elizabeth and Margaret Connelly, the daughters of John Connelly and Frances Brent, who immigrated from Fluvana [sic] County, Va., to Nelson County, Ky., in 1805. The Connellys were of Irish extraction, and were people of great wit and humor, and fine literary tastes. The mother of John Connelly was a Miss Edwards. John Connelly's son, Dr. Henry Connelly, was twice governor of New Mexico. Besides the above mentioned John Connelly had six other children, all of high respectability. ...