Person:William Horn (20)

Notes

William Horn was mentioned in his brother Matthias Horn's Revolutionary War Service Pension file, as follows: soldier's brother William made affidavit then there [1839], age 74.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 .

   Name William Horn
   Born 16 Jul 1765 Kent County, Maryland
   Gender Male
   Known Presence April 1778 - September 1778 Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky
   William accompanied his father to Kentucky when he was about 12 years old and as Stephen Hancock stated in a deposition given for a court case in 1803, ". . . that Aaron Horn, deceased husband of Mrs. Horn and father of Christopher Horn, moved to this country in the Spring of 1778 and died the following fall in the last of September or the first of October at Boonesborough. He [Hancock] lived in the same fort with him from the time he [A Horn] came to this country until he died . . ." and the statement of William Horn, ". . . that he WM. came to this country with his father A Horn, and knows the statement made by Stephen Hancock to be accurate."
   
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