Levi Todd (1756 - 1807)

Born 4 Oct 1756 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Briggs) Todd — married 25 Feb 1779 in Lincoln County, Virginia

Husband of Jane (Holmes) Todd — married 1801 in Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA

Descendants

Died 6 Sep 1807 at age 50 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA

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Biography

Levi Todd is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A114376.

Levi Todd is Notable.

Gen. Levi Todd was born on 4 Oct 1756 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ^[1]to parents David Levi Todd and Hannah Owen. He first married Jane (Betsy) Briggs on 25 Feb 1779 in St. Asaph's, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Children: Hannah, Elizabeth, John, Nancy, David, Ann Maria, Robert Smith, Jane Briggs, Margaret, Roger North, Samuel Briggs. After Jane died in 1800 he married second Jane Holmes (Tatum) in 1801 in St. Asaph's, Lincoln County, Kentucky. He died on 6 Sep 1807 in Lexington, Kentucky.

"Levi Todd was an 18th century American pioneer who, with his brothers John and Robert, helped found Lexington, Kentucky. He was raised and educated in Louisa County, Virginia, and studied law before following his brothers to Kentucky. He fought in the western theater of the American Revolutionary War under General George Rogers Clark. He was both a farmer and a lawyer. For 27 years, he was court clerk of Fayette County, Kentucky. He served in the Fayette County Militia, eventually succeeding Daniel Boone as commander and becoming a major general. Levi, John and Robert were leading prominent landowners and statesmen in the state of Kentucky prior to its admission into the United States in 1792.

He was also the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln, the later wife of President Abraham Lincoln, born to his son Robert S. Todd, a longtime clerk of the Kentucky House of Representatives and later representative of Fayette County. His grandson John T. Stuart, born to his daughter Hannah Todd and noted Presbyterian preacher Rev. Robert Stuart, was a prominent Illinois lawyer and a later partner of Lincoln.

At the time of his death in 1807,^[2] he owned 7,000 acres (28 km2) in Fayette and Franklin Counties and was worth over $6,000. Among his possessions included silver, fine china and leather-bound books; his personal library also contained rare works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke and William Blackstone. He also owned twenty-one slaves, nine horses and other livestock, and a carriage. He was buried in Lexington Cemetery." (from Wikipedia) The inventory and appraisal of his estate was conducted 27 October 1807.^[3]

Settled Todd's Station in 1779 [[1]]

Sources

1. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999", Levi Todd, 4 October 1756. FamilySearch database accessed 21 May 2021.
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #6045068
3. ↑ Levi Todd, Appraisal and Inventory of Estate, Fayette County, Kentucky Will Book A, Pages 436 -441. FamilySearch database accessed 22 May 2021.

See also:

• Kentucky Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index

• Kentucky Land Grants

• Inventory of the County Archives of Kentucky, Fayette County

• North America Family Histories

• DAR Lineage Book of Charter Members Vol 050 p 141

• "Helms Papers," MSS 425, reels 12, 13 and 14, it is available from The Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, KY, on inter-library loan only

• Wikipedia: Levi Todd

• Wikidata: Item Q6535535, en:Wikipedia

• Clift, G. Glenn. Remember the Raisin! Kentucky and Kentuckians in the Battles and Massacre at Frenchtown, Michigan Territory, in the War of 1812. Published with Notes on Kentucky Veterans of the War of 1812. 2 vols in 1. Partially indexed