Person:John Duncan (31)

Name	John Duncan
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	23 Aug 1735	Culpeper County, Virgnia
Marriage	1757	Prob. Virginiato Rachel Warren
Death`^?`	29 Sep 1774	Moore's Fort, Virginia


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1 Disambiguation and Sources
2 Overview
3 Vita
4 Sources

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Disambiguation and Sources

There are several "John Duncan's" in Southwest Virginia during the period of Indian Hostilities. See Disambiguation:John Duncan of Southwest Virginia for clarification. This article is about the John Duncan who settled at Dungannon, and was KBI'd in late September 1774, at Moore's Fort. He is not to be confused with Person:John Dunkin (2) or served at Glade Hollow Fort about this same time, or with Person:John Duncan (33), who is denoted as "John Duncan Jr", on the roster of Moore's Fort.

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Overview

John Duncan, and family, and his brother Raleigh came from Culpepper County, VA about 1773, settling near Hunters Ford on the Clinch River. His wife is identified as Rachaell in land records in Culpepper County. Most genealogies, probably derivative from Source:Roy, 1959 identify her last name as "Warren" but it is not clear what this is based on. The DOB of his eldest child is c1759, implying a DOM for this couple of 1758, when he would have been about 28 years of age. John appears on the militia roster of Moore's Fort in early 1774. Correspondance between Maj. Arthur Campbell to Col. William Preston, dated Oct. 1, 1774 shows that he was killed during an Indian attack on Moore's Fort, on the 29th of September. According to an article by Emory Hamilton, he and three others went out about dusk to check on a pigeon trap, when they were attacked by Indians. Duncan was killed and scalped, but the other men, whose name is not known, made it back to the fort.

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Vita

Name	Datum	Source/Basis/Comment
DOB:	23 Aug 1730
POB:	Culpepper Co, VA	Based on where parents were said to have been living in 1730
DOD:	29 Sep 1774	Source:Campbell to Preston, October 1 1774
POD:	Moore's Fort, Castle's Woods, VA	Source:Campbell to Preston, October 1 1774
Spouse:	Rachael
DOM:	c1757	based on age of eldest child b 1759, but marriage could easily have been ten years prior to that
Father:	William Duncan	Identifies John Duncan deceased in his father's will of 1781; MySource:Duncan Land Records Culpepper Co identifies his wife's name as Rachael; Court records given in MySource:Chalkley, 1912(2):73-74 indicate that John Duncan had come to the Clinch River with his brother Rawley, and wife Rachael. These records form an interlock showing that the John Duncan who lived on the Clinch River is the son of William Duncan of Culpepper Co, VA.
Mother:	Ruth Rawley or Raleigh
Children:	DOB	Source
Martin	c1759	Hamilton's article on the death of John Duncan
William	c1761	Hamilton's article on the death of John Duncan
John	21 Dec 1763	Hamilton's article on the death of John Duncan
Unknown Dau		unknown