Grandpa Isaac Coonfield of Holland was on the 1800 Henry County Kentucky Tax List - he came from Pennsylvania and it is not known if he was already married to Barsheba Clark or if she is one of the families migrating from Virginia, before 1800.
There was an Obediah Clark and Archibald Clark living by them. They were my first ancestors known to migrate to Kentucky and soon after, the Little family followed. Their great grandchildren intermarried.
Grandpa George Little of Scotland migrated to Kentucky in 1802 with his second wife Mary Handley Douglass of Ireland. Her daughter, Betsy Douglass, had previously married Jonas Little, son of George, while they were in Union, South Carolina. George and his first wife, also a Mary, came from Scotland and had ten children in SC. Some of those children went to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas.
" Their first halting place was in Barron Co., KY. Here they settled in 1800 or 1802. John Little, becoming dissatisfied, removed Tenn., where he resided until old age. He went thence to Texax and shortly after, died. George Little and his son Jonas, remained in Barren Co for two years. They then removed to and settled a few miles north of the Long Falls of Green River in what was then Ohio Co. The town of Vienna (now Calhoun) at tha point on the river had maintained its fortune from it establishment in 1784. It succeeded a fort of block house erected there some years before.
George Little engaged in farming such as supplied the wants of that primitive day. He had never acquired any considerable means, and was dependent on his own exertions when the time for toll had about passed for him. The Ohio County Court exempted him from poll tax. On account of bodily infirmily! But not probably intended in part a patriotic recongition of his sufferings for his chosen country. These last years were comparatively unaventful in local affairs in this region. Society was primitive, business limited, and mostly in the farming way.
The muster day and the religious meetings were about the only occasions when people assembled together. The pioneer necessarily lived along------exempt from public haunts:
Finding tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
The warwhoop of the Indian had scarcely ceased to echo around the settlers' cabin. Indeed, the Ohio River bounded the Indian country on the south, which reached the Great Lakes on the North and stretched from the Muskegan to the boundless west. Bear hunting was still good, deer abundant, and the wolf and panther still lingered."
There was another Jonas Little in SC who might have been the brother of George but his descendants moved south.
Betsy's sons married Wright sisters who came out of Charlotte VA. Douglass Little married Martha Ann Wright and resided in Owensboro, Davies County KY, while Hiram Lucius Little married Catherine G Wright and her mother was Catherine Weatherford ( daughter of Charles Weatherford ) according to the Virginia records. The third Wright sister married a Waltrip.
John Wright Little, son of Hiram, married Mary Catherine Crigler, a daughter of Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler. Ms Roby's parents were Catherine Simmons and Reason Roby. Abraham's parents were Lydia Carpenter and Owen Crigler. The Criglers came out of Germanna Virginia and they all settled around Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, KY
Lucius Powhatan Little, son of Douglass, married 4 times, was a Kentucky lawyer and judge, authored several books, and researched his family tree, sharing it with his daughter, Laura Simmons Little Hawes, who joined the DAR about 1927 and had the memorial put in place for Captain George Little of the American Revolution - but it also included Anthony Thompson who had married Rachel Handley, a sister of Mary Handley Douglass.
John Handley was their brother, a land surveyor, who came out of Pennsylvania, may have followed them to SC after Alexander Douglass had died, and probably was the one who put the Kentucky migration into place for these families.
Betsy Douglass and Jonas Little also had a daughter, Betsy Little Roberts.
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