Person:John Conway (7)

Research Notes

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ardery, Julia Hoge Spencer. Kentucky records: early wills and marriages, copied from court house records by regents, historians and the state historian; old bible records and tombstone inscriptions; records from Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Daviess, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: Keystone Printery, Inc., c1932)
   2:112.

   SUITS IN CHANCERY--BOURBON COUNTY
   (Records filed in book found in basement of Bourbon County Court House by Julia S. Ardery).
   
   Depositions taken in Chancery Suit
   To settle disputes between Thomas Respess, John Haggin and John Breckenridge, complainants, vs. Thomas McClanahan, defendant, filed Oct., 1799.
   
   November, 1803
   Thomas McClanahan files bill for review of decree.
   - Lawrence Harrison deposeth: in yr. 1770, in company with Col. William Lynn, in traveling from, Limestone to falls of Ohio, after crossing Hinkston, they fell upon waters of Cooper's Run, and that that fork on which they were runs through the plantation of Thomas Manihon (?), Jr., and where Thomas Strother formerly lived.
   - William Whitesell deposeth: in yr. 1779 he was first acquainted with Cooper's Run in traveling from Boonesborough to Ruddle's old Station.
   - John Conway deposeth: he knew Coopers run 1780, that he was told of said run by Thomas Gilbert, James McBride, Thomas Stephenson, who were there before, and states at that time he lived at Bryant's Station.
   - Abijah Woods deposeth: in yr. 1776 he lived at McGee's Station and that he got information regarding Cooper's Run from John Townsend and others, then moved to Bryant's Station and there lived four or five years, and frequently traveled the trace that led from Bryant's Station to Martin's and Ruddle's Station, passing near where Mr. Strother "now lives." Deposition taken Aug. 13, 1804.
   - John Ficklin states he became acquainted with Cooper's Run 1781 or '82, that he lived at Bryant's Station; at that time; deposition taken Aug., 1804.
   - Jacob Stucker knew Cooper's Run 1781 or '82, when he lived at Bryant's Station; deposition taken Aug., 1804.
   - William Grant, Sr., states he knew Cooper's Run 1779, 1780, and 1781, he moved away after 1781 and did not return until 1787; deposition taken Nov. 18, 1803.
   - John Grant states he became acquainted with Cooper's Run, 1780, which "now runs through place of Larkin and Willis Field"; taken Nov. 18, 1804.
   - John Daugherty states he first knew Cooper's Run 1779; that he, in company with William Whitsell, Samuel Porter and George Lovelace (Lovelance) and Samuel Van Hook, was hunting and encamped first night above Grant's improvement; taken Feb. 9, 1804.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Fayette County, Kentucky Court Order Book
   318.

   p. 318, deposition of John Conover [written Conovery] taken at Paris, June 6, 1808, before Thomas Hughs:
   - Deponent came to Kentucky in 1777 and lived at Boonesborough one an one half years.
   - In the year 1779 I traveled with about 25 men the road from Boonesborough to the Lower Blue Licks.
   - In the spring of 1779 deponent settled at Riddle's [Ruddell's] station and lived at said station until June 1780.
   - I followed hunting in early times.
   - I was taken [prisoner] at Riddle's [Ruddells] station by the British and Indians in June 1780 and carried to Detroit and stayed there until the fall of 1784 and then returned back to Kentucky.
   - At the time I went from Boonesborough to Lower Blue Lick I recollect we crossed Hingston fork and went into big buffalo road that led from Grant's station to the lower Blue Lick at the place known by the name of Ready Money Jack's.
   - I recollect at this time that Colonel Richard Calloway, Colonel Daniel Boone, Cyrus Boone, Joseph Drake, Ephraim Drake, William Buckhammer, Flanders Calloway, Samuel Henderson, James Bell, George Linch, Wiliam Hancock, Jeremiah Price, Thomas Foote, James Mankins were with me on trip to Lower Blue Lick.
   - We returned home on trace that crossed Hingston where Millersburg now stands, and where Grant's station now stands.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Family Recorded, in Weissinger, Joan. History of Nicholas County.

   "John Conway, W 8622, was born in Henrico County, VA, Aug. 10, 1758. He enlisted in the Revolutionary War in the County of Montgomery, VA April or May, 1776. He died June 15, 1837. He applied for a pension living in Nicholas County on May 12, 1834. He stated that he had lived in Nicholas County 34 years and before that in Bourbon County. He was married to Annie Sutton April 15, 1790 in Bourbon County. His children were Polly, Anna, William, John, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Sutton."

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Ogle, Henry C. Letter of 2 Jan 1903.