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Samuel Duncan (1740 - 1825)

Samuel (Sammy) Duncan
Born in Prince William County, Virginiamap
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Died at about age 85 in Pulaski County, Kentuckymap
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1776 Project
Private Sammy Duncan served with Kentucky County Militia, Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sammy Duncan is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A034990.

Samuel Duncan, son of Robert Duncan and Ann Gallop

Birth Estimate between 1740 and 1745 in Prince William County, Virginia Colony

Samuel married Nancy Withers, daughter of James Withers Jr and Catherine Barbee, about 1764 in Fauquier County, Virginia Colony .

He served in the military as a Private in Clark's Illinois Regiment (DAR accepted). A list of those serving under Clark is shown in "The Scotch-Irish: Or, The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America Vol 1. By Charles Augustus Hanna Page 53" The names include Duncan.

He moved to Kentucky County, Virginia (now Kentucky), in 1785

Samuel made a will in Pulaski County, Kentucky dated 2-274: 2 April 1821; Proved 1825[1]

Children

In 1828, Wm. Duncan, Garrard Co. Ky., deposes that his father, Samuel Duncan died in 1825, Pulaski Co. Ky. leaving a will devising his property to his six children, VIZ: John, Daniel, and Wm. Duncan, Susan McNeely, Betsy wife of Humphry Pope and Hannah wife of Stephen Wilkerson; from Garrard Co. Ky.: [2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Pulaski Co. KY Will (FHL film 598,753)
  2. ↑ Court Recs: Courtesy, Forrest Calico, Historian, Lancaster, Garrard Co. Ky.; from "Documented Notes on Jennings and Allied Families" by Beatrice Mackey Doughtie; FHL book 929.273 J441d)

Mary Ann Duncan Dobson "Duncan Research Files" (Consolidated, sourced and acknowledged); and the many Duncan Researchers that have provided information.
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