Person:Nicholas Lafon (3)

Information on Nicholas Lafon

Nicholas Lafon was a Revolutionary War officer and a native of Virginia who came to Kentucky with General James Wilkinson. Both Wilkinson and Lafon settled in Fayette County in 1784. Wilkinson later invited Lafon to move to the new town he had founded, Frankfort, and offered Lafon a selection of land on which to build. In later years, Lafon owned farms in Woodford County.

Source:

Title: Nicholas and Maria Upshaw Lafon Papers,

Creator: Lafon, Nicholas, 1762-1831

Inclusive dates: 1808-1835

Extent: 3 items. 1 folder, .1 c.f.

Call number: 86SC10

Repository: Kentucky Historical Society. Special Collections & Archives.

1.   Descendants of Nicholas LaFon and Elizabeth Sthreshley.

   12. NICHOLAS6 LAFON (RICHARD5, NICHOLAS4, FRANCIS3, JAMES2, RENE1) was born 6 April 1762 in King & Queen Co. VA, and died 20 January 1831 in Spring Garden, Woodford Co. KY. He married MARIA UPSHAW 12 March 1801 in Essex Co. VA, daughter of JOHN UPSHAW and MARY LAFON. She was born 1772 in Essex Co. VA, and died 1857 in Woodford Co. KY.
   
   Notes for NICHOLAS LAFON:
   Captain LaFon went to Kentucky with General James Wilkinson and settled in Fayette County. He was afterwards induced by General Wilkinson to remove to Frankfort in 1787, and he very generously presented him choice of the most valuable lots in the town in the center, comprising the block frontage on St. Clair street, Main, Washington and Broadway.
   
   Captain LaFon's Revolutionary record is found in "Virginia Baptist Ministers" and army records. He was eithteen years old when he enlisted as a private in Green's army; was in the battles of Eutaw Springs and Cowpens.
   
   Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia
   page 154
   1826,
   LAFON, NICHOLAS
   Married Maria, daughter of John Upshaw, of Frankfort, Kentucky
   Book: D 42,
   Page: 97
   
   THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
   Volume 1
   Part 1
   CHAPTER III OLD KENTUCKY GRANTS (1793-1856)
   THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
   page 199
   Grantee: Lafon, Nicholas
   Acres: 500
   Book: 13
   Page: 339
   Date Survey: 11-15-1796
   County: Franklin
   Watercourse: Cedar Cr
   
   THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
   Volume 1
   Part 1
   CHAPTER III OLD KENTUCKY GRANTS (1793-1856)
   THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
   page 199
   Grantee: Lafon, Nicholas
   Acres: 1,000
   Book: 3
   Page: 58
   Date Survey: ----
   County: Military
   Watercourse: Russell Cr
   
   Children of NICHOLAS LAFON and MARIA UPSHAW are:
   i. JAMES7 LAFON, b. 1806, Woodford Co. KY; d. 28 November 1823, Woodford Co. KY.
   34. ii. MARY VIRGINIA SABON LAFON, b. 14 February 1808, Frankfort, Franklin Co. KY; d. 28 October 1880, Spring Garden, Woodford Co. KY.
   35. iii. LUCY LETITIA LAFON, b. 1810, Woodford Co. KY.
   36. iv. JOHN UPSHAW LAFON, b. 1813, Woodford Co. KY; d. Abt. 1850, Caddo Parish, LA of yellow fever.
   
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