James Knox Jr.
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James Knox Jr. (abt. 1740 - 1822)

Col. James Knox Jr.
Born about in Irelandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married about 1 Jan 1805 in Shelby Co., Kentucky, USAmap
Died at about age 82 in Shelby, Kentucky, United Statesmap
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Biography

James was the son of James Knox and Jean Unknown.


James Knox, a storied one of the "Long Hunters," was leading parties out of Augusta County, Virginia, through a station camp on the Green River as early as 1770 -- parties known to travel along the Cumberland River and then down into Tennessee.[1] James eventually built a cabin at Beargrass Creek in 1775,[2] and by some is believed to be the namesake of a Knox County, Kentucky.[3] James was "a Scotsman, [who] had emigrated from northern Ireland when he was fourteen.[4]

He married widow Ann (Montgomery) Logan in 1805[5] It is not believed they had any children together.

Notes

Maddox-1056 adopted this profile and added the bio. Assertions that were here (birth,death dates) remain unsourced until someone has the time to source them. James represented Jefferson Co. VA and Lincoln Co. KY, so there is more which could be written.

Sources

  1. Rice, Otis K. Frontier Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975; digital images "Frontier Kentucky - Otis K. Rice", Google Books, p. 24 (https://books.google.com/books?id=EsoeBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false : accessed 25 August 2015).
  2. Ibid., (https://books.google.com/books?id=EsoeBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false : accessed 25 August 2015), p. 78.
  3. John Curry, text accompanying 'webpage for canvas print, An Auspicious Encounter: James Knox and Captain Dick by Andrew Knez Jr. (http://www.andrewknezjr.com/ENLARGEMENT%20OF%20AN%20AUSPICIOUS%20ENCOUNTER.html : accessed/archived 25 Aug 2015). "Several years after Knox’s death in December of 1822, one of his closest friends, Robert Wickliffe tells us: 'I can give you a short sketch of Col. James Knox upon whom our Knox County was called and not after Gen. (Henry) Knox as Collins has stated.'"
  4. Emory L. Hamilton, "The Long Hunters," Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia: Publication 5, March 1970, vagenweb.org (http://vagenweb.org/lee/HSpubl35.htm : accessed/archived 25 August 2015).
  5. "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F477-5H4 : accessed 26 August 2015), James Knox and Ann Logan, Jan 1805; citing , Shelby, Kentucky, reference ; FHL microfilm 259,278.




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