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[Birthdate is estimate based on 1820/1830 Census] Also the Bible record shows Hezekiah born Dec 23, 17 __ He was born between George in 1760 and Thomas in 1766.

Hezekiah Proctor is Thomas Proctor's older brother, rather than son as listed in The Blakey Book. He was certainly not Sally Haden Proctor's child, as I have seen listed in some places. Can't possibly get all the people to fit in such a brief number of years re the will of Hezekiah in 1830. In "Men Whom I Remember" George Blakey (who knew these men) does say four Proctor brothers came early to Logan Co - Hezekiah, Thomas, Ben, & John.

Was Hezekiah in Jessamine Co (neighboring couty of Fayette & formed from Fayette in 1799)?
A Hezekiah Proctor is on the 1800 tax list for Jessamine Co, Kentucky, often used as a substitute census. And a Hezekiah is there is 1810. There was no Hezekiah Proctor in Fayette or Logan Counties.
Jessamine Co Census, 1810: Hezekiah Proctor: 2m age 16-26 (could be George and James if James is 16), 1m over 45 (Hezekiah). 1f under 10 (Nancy), 1f 10-16 (Fannie), 1f 16-26 (Polly) and a female over 45 who could be the second wife, Nancy. Does not account for the two older sons John and Charles, however, and they don't seem to be on their own. This could well be the Hezekiah Proctor who settled in Logan Co.

Posted on by Sandi Gorin, 3 Apr 2003:
Hezekiah Procter entered land on 29 Sep 1799 in Logan Co. (but he seems not to have moved there, yet)

Logan Co Court Order Book 1
p. 343 January Court 1805 William Haden Junr locates 200 acres of land on the Waters of Gasper River beginning on a White Oak corner on William Haden Senr Military line thence running north 50 Degrees East to William Haden Senr Military Corner and Edmund Clarks beginning corner thence running with his line to a Corner of Hezekiah Proctors Survey on Said Clarks line thence running with Sd Proctors to Thomas Buckhannans Corner thence running to William Woodys lower Corner thence with his line to William Haden Senr headright Corner On Sd Woodys line thence with William Haden Senr line to the beginning so far as to include the above Quantity of land.

First record indicating Hezekiah Proctor himself was actually in Logan Co:
Logan Co DB C, p.425
18 Mar 1812
William Haden and Sally his wife to Thomas Buchanan ...$1000 ..178a on clear fork of Gaspers by certificate granted to Thomas Blair #394 for 138a and 40a granted to William Haden assignee of Thomas Blair #1205 ...aforesaid William Haden Senr.
Witness: Charles Morehead, William Marrs, Hezekiah Proctor
Signed: William Haden, Sally Haden
Recorded 18 May 1812. Justices examined wife of William Haden, Senr.

Hezekiah's daughter Fannie was married to John White in December of 1813 - he was definitely a resident of Logan Co by then and likely had been since before he witnessed William Haden's deed in 1812.

Logan Co DB F, p.369
14 Mar 1818
Thomas Proctor to Hezekiah Proctor ..$1685 parcel containing 337a on the Gasper Line of Clarks Military Survey ...corner to David McNeelys Survey ..Thomas Blairs line ...Simpsons corner ...P. McCutchens line ... "Having examined the wife of sd Thos. Separate and apart from her sd husband" [Wife not named.]
This appears to be the only piece of property Hezekiah ever purchased. He first showed up in the Logan tax records in 1811 with 13 slaves, 9 horses - but no land. He had no land in subsequent years. The records are missing for 1818 - but in 1819, Hezekiah was taxed on 117 aces which he sold to his son James, as below. 103 of the missing acreage was sold to John White, his son-in-law. He apparently made his home on the land of one of his children.
p.471
14 Mar 1818
Hezekiah Proctor to John White ..$1 103 ½ acres on the Gasper ...Thomas Blairs line Witness: Jas S. Proctor, William Bennet, Thomas Bennet
p.472
8 Oct 1818
Hezekiah Proctor to James S. Proctor $1 117 a on Black Lick fork Gasper River .. Witness: Wm Bennett, Thos. Bennett, John White

There is something very interesting about Hezekiah to be discovered in the Logan Co tax records. Although he was taxed on slaves, horses, cattle, he almost never had any property. The 1818 tax list is one of the missing years. In 1817 Hezekiah had no land and Thomas had two tracts - 200 (from P. McCutcheon) and 137 (from Simpson) - acres that appear to be what he sold to Hezekiah. In 1819, Hezekiah was taxed on 117 acres on the Gasper River - since tax lists are usually for the previous year, that would seem to be the tract he sold to his son James. In 1820, Hezekiah was not taxed for land, but James had a total of 230 acres on the Black Lick Fork of the Gasper, said to have been entered by P. McCutcheon. His older sons Charles and George had been landowners for some time - this appears to be Hezekiah helping James get his start in life. Hezekiah must have made his home on property of one of his sons. By 1822, Thomas Proctor is again charged tax for at least some of the tract that he had originally bought from Patrick McCutcheon.

Logan County Court Orders, Book 7
September Term, 21 Sep 1818
p.91 Motion of Betsy Harmon/Hammon ordered that Thos. Proctor, Hezekiah Proctor, Tho Maxwell and John Barnet or any three….appraise estate of John Harmon decd

Logan Co WB B, p.189.
28 Dec 1818. H. Proctor was one of the appraisers of the inventory of John Ham, dec'd, along with his brother, Thomas Proctor and Thomas Maxwell. Elizabeth Ham was executor. Note: this seems to be the same deceased person as in the previous Court Order - just a misunderstanding regarding the surname - Hamm.

Logan Co DB H, p.378
27 May 1820 Hezekiah Proctor to James S. Proctor. $1000. parcel on waters of the Blacklick fork of Gasper and bounded as follows: 117 acres formerly deed to James S. Proctor …corner John White …Whites line …Jack Simpsons corner …Paddy McCutchens line …Signed: Hezekiah Proctor. Witness: Edwd Collins, Thomas Proctor, Levi T. Smith. Oath of Thomas Proctor 7 Aug 1820. [James S. Proctor was a son of Hezekiah.]


1820 Census. Hezekiah was already over age 45, as was the oldest female in his household. 1m under 10 (unidentified - he had no children this young), 1m 16-26 (James, unmarried), 1m +45 (Hezekiah); 1f under 10 (unidentified), 1f 10-16 (Nancy - the only unmarried daughter was just about age 16), 1f 16-26, 1f 26-45 (one of these young women could have been daughter Polly - the other is unknown, or Nancy in the wrong category) and 1f over 45 (Nancy). Looks as though one of their grown daughters with children may be living with them - Polly would be the only candidate as little is known about her Smith husband. Both George & Charles Procter were enumerated close to Hezekiah; both age 26-45, as was John White who had married Hezekiah's daughter Fannie - all four in a row.

1820 Tax list from Logan County, KY Census & Tax Lists, 1820 & 1830, by Don Simmons & Laura Willis, 1995:
Hezekiah Procter: 1 white male over 21, 6 slaves over 16, 10 total slaves, 7 horses. No land.

Hezekiah was involved in settling the very complicated estate of William Haden, who had died intestate. Then William Haden's son, James, who was administrator, also died before the estate was settled. Several of William Haden's children were deceased before their father, having left children who were heirs, and William Haden had one very young daughter about age six at his decease.
Logan County Court Orders, Book 7
Sept Term 1821
p.344 On motion of Wm Whitsett ordered that Spencer Curd, Charles Kerchival, John Barnett, Peter Morton, Hezekiah Proctor, any three of whom may ____ be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to settle with the administrator of Wm Haden Decd instead of the former commissioners appointed in this case heretofore and that they make report.
(former commissioners were James Wilson, Wm Kerchival, & Chatham Ewing)
Apr Term 1822
p.396 On motion of Wm Whitsitt ordered that George Barnett, George McCutcheon, Edward Collins, Hezekiah Proctor, Charles Morehead or any 3 of them be appointed to settle with the administrator of Wm Haden dec'd & that they make report.
p.399 On motion of Joseph Haden guardian to the heirs of John M. Haden Dec'd ordered that Jno Barnett, Jm McCutcheon, Edward Collins, Hezekiah Proctor, Charles Morehead or any 3 of them being first sworn do settle with James Haden, administrator of said decedant and that they make report..
July Term 1822
p.414 On the motion of the heirs of Wm Haden decd ordered that Presley Morehead, John McCutcheon, Gabriel Lewis, Edward Collier, & Hezekiah Proctor or any 3 of them be appointed to settle with the admin. of sd. decedant & that they make report.
Oct Term 1822
p.443 (very faint but looks like the following) Sally Haden dec'd ------? Hezekiah Proctor, ____ Collier, Peter Morton and John McCutcheon or any 3 of them be .......... appraise the estate.......decedant and that they make report.

Logan Co WB C, p.46
18 Oct 1822 H. Proctor was one of commissioners to appraise the inventory of Sally Haden, along with Edward Collins and Peter Morton. Admin: Samuel Haden.
[William Haden's widow]

In 1830 Census, Hezekiah (60-70) and his wife are only in the ten-year-older category than Thomas Proctor which would be expected. Sons George and Charles both appear on the 1830 Tax Rolls & Census.
Logan Co KY: 1m 60-70, 1f 10-15, 1f 70-80. 8 slaves.
George was two households away on page 76.

1830 Tax list from Logan County, KY Census & Tax Lists, 1820 & 1830, by Don Simmons & Laura Willis, 1995:
Hezekiah Proctor 1 white male over 21, 5 slaves over 16, 6 slaves total, 7 horses, no land.

Proctor, Hezekiah married Young, Nancy on 20 Mar 1783 in Orange County, Virginia - Marriage found in Liahona's Virginia Marriages book. (see proof of this marriage below)
She is reported to have died in 1794, he apparently married a second Nancy.

I believe the following will indicates children from two marriages, both to ladies named Nancy. John, Charles & Polly, dec'd - from an earlier marriage to Nancy Young. George, James S., Fanny & Nancy, were children of the wife Nancy [surname unknown] at his death.

WB E, p.3
Will written 13 June 1830; probated in Aug 1831
To Nancy, wife, all of estate after bequests. After her death, Negro man Tom to be sold and estate divided equally among George, James S., Fanny White, and Nancy Hoy, sons and daughters. To John Proctor, Charles Proctor and the heirs of Polly Smith, daughter, $1 each for they have already received their shares. To Fanny White, dau, Negro woman and what she already has. To James S., son $1 and what he already has. To Nancy Hoy, dau, 1 Negro man and 2 Negro women after the death of her mother. To Mary Jane White, granddaughter, 2 Negro children and their mother after death of wife Nancy. To George Proctor, son, $50 after death of his mother.
Executors: George Proctor, son. Washington Hoy, son-in-law.
Wit: John Barnett, John Morton, William Marrs, Thomas Maxwell.

Full transcript of will.
In the name of God Amen. I Hezekiah Proctor being in perfect mind and memory and considering the frailty of this mortal life do make this and constitute this my last will and testament. It is my will and desire that after my funeral expenses and my just debts are paid that my worldly estate be distributed in the following manner, Viz,
Item 1st I give and bequeath to my son John Proctor one dollar
2nd I give and bequeath to my son Charles Proctor one dollar
3rd I give and bequeath to the heirs of my daughter Polly Smith, dec'd one dollar each the reason why I give no more of my own estate to my three sons above named John Proctor and Charles Proctor and the heirs of my daughter Polly Smith, dec'd because there was a private agreement between their Grandfather John Young and myself which was that he would give them that part of his estate that he intended their mother to have which part they have received in at any rate an acknowledged equivalent.
Item 4th I give and bequeath to my daughter Fanny now Fanny White at the death of her mother Nancy Proctor over and above what I have already given her, my Negro woman Delie if she should then be living.
Item 5th I give and bequeath to my son James S Proctor over and above what I have already given him one dollar.
Item 6th I give and bequeath to my daughter Nancy now Nancy Hoy over and above what I have already given her one Negro man named Nelson one Negro girl named Smith one Negro man named Pat to have them and their increase after the death of her mother Nancy Proctor.
Item 7th I give and bequeath to my wife Nancy Proctor during her natural life my two Negro men Tom & Adam also my three Negro women Eliza Pat & Delie also that part of my plantation that I now live on my stock of all kind horses cattle & sheep and hogs also my household & kitchen furniture and farming. It is further my will that should my wife Nancy Proctor think proper not to continue on the farm that I have herein willed her that my executor or executors whom I may appoint in this my last will & testament, rent out the farm for her benefit or hire out any of the Negroes that she may think proper or sell any or all of my stock and farming tools for her benefit that may remain after my just debts are paid.
Item 8th I give and bequeath to my Granddaughter Mary Jane White my two Negro children Mary and the other is not named and at the death of my wife I will & bequeath her my Negro woman Eliza the mother of the two children with all their increase from this day forever.
Item 9th It is my will and desire that at my death & my wifes my Negro man Tom should be emancipated & set free
Item 10th I give and bequeath to my son George Proctor after the death of his mother fifty dollars the remainder of all my stock household and kitchen furniture and farming tools if any to be sold and then equally divided between my four children George Proctor, Fanny White, James S Proctor, and Nancy Hoy.
Furthermore I do appoint as my executors to this my last will and testament my son George Proctor and my son-in-law Washington Hoy this 10th day of June 1830.
Signed Hezekiah Proctor
Test: John Barnett Jno Morton William Marrs Thomas Maxwell
Logan County August Tern 1831 The within last will and testament of Hezekiah Proctor, dec'd was this day produced in court and proven by the oath of John Barnett, Thomas Proctor & William Marrs subscribing witnesses thereto Ordered to be recorded which is now accordingly given under my hand as clerk of said court the date above.

WB E, p.28
20 Sep 1831 Appraisal of inventory of Hezekiah Proctor, dec'd. Commr: John Barnett, Jacob Yost, Lewis Wood. Exec: G. W. Hoy

The following deed of mortgage mentions Hezekiah and a land transaction to his son-in-law:
Logan DB T, p.475
22 May 1835. John White to Burkett F. Ray, Jacob Yost & George Washing Hay [probably Hoy] Said Hay of Simpson Co. $1. Tract of 103 acres on clear fork of Gasper where said White now lives & conveyed to him by Hezekiah Proctor. One other parcel adjacent purchased by sd White from Thomas Procter & Thomas Bennett containing about 46 acres, and negros, Dilcy age about 50, Mimy about 30, Jenny about 25 years & her daughter Nelly about 8, and son Ben about 4 & her son Jack about 2, & her pucking child Henry about 5 months. For $1175.46. Signed: John White. Deed of Mortgage rec. 23 May 1835
Logan DB X, p.41
25 Nov 1837 John White by Wm Barnett Commission for that purpose apptd by Logan Circuit Court to Burket F. Ray. Ray was Complainant, White defendant. Sell land & Negroes in Logan Co having advertised & exposed to sale to the highest bidder at the Court house in Russellville two tracts. One of 102 acres on Clear Fork of Gasper River where sd White lived & conveyed to him by Hezekiah Proctor. One other purchased by sd White from sd Proctor & ? Burnett cont 46 acres adjoining. The complainant being the highest bidder became the purchaser at $800. Signed: John White by Wm Barnett Commissioner.
16 Apr 1840.


From Kentucky Records, Vol II, p.115 as found on Proctor GenForum; posted by Diana McGinness 11 Jun 2000. "Ambrose Young states 4/5 years before his father's death he heard him express some uneasiness about his grandchildren, vis: John, Charles & Polly Proctor. Deposition of Walter Cav [Cave?] states sometime in 1786 he was going to VA and pursuant to his departure, Mr. Young informed him he was desirous of his son-in-law Hezekiah Proctor coming to this country, first because he was anxious about his daughter and second, that Proctor would be an advantage to the neighborhood.
Ambrose's father, John Young, is said to have died in Fayette Co KY
John Young, died 17 July, 1798 at age 57

Nancy Young's father John gave consent for her marriage. Surety John Turnley. Witness Thomas Jones. Both of St. Thomas Parish, Orange Co VA.
Date 20 Mar 1783 in Liahona's Virginia Marriages book.

The Kentucky Gazette 1801-1820
Genealogical & Historical Abstracts
Karen Mauer Green
Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore 1985
p.50
Vol XVIII, No. 942 Tues 2 Oct 1804
Thos Bodley regarding suit in Fayette Circuit Court, Sept term: Ambrose Young, Abner Young, Hezekiah Harrison and Jane his wife late Jane Young, John Young by John Glover his guardian, Polly Proctor, John Proctor & Chas. Proctor by Hezekiah Proctor their guardian….vs. Richard Taylor, executor, Sarah Beard, Robert Campbell, James Milligan, Charles Symms, Richard Taylor, William Elliott & Philip Ross, Charles Megowan and Elizabeth his wife late Elizabeth Beard, Joseph Beard, Robt John Beard, and William Beard - heirs & devisees of John Campbell, dec'd.

I found the following online which also confirms both the marriage of Hezekiah to Nancy Young and the presence of these families in Kentucky. The letter has a death date for Nancy. Hezekiah obviously married a second time to another Nancy. I believe this must surely all be the same Hezekiah because of (1) the relatively unusual name of Hezekiah; (2) a wife named Nancy; and (2) the continuing references to the three children named John, Charles, and Polly/Mary.

-Copy of letter written by Ambrose Young to his nephew, United States Senator Richard M. Young of Illinois. It was in the diary of Senator Young.-

-Fayette County, Ky.
December 16, 1813

Dear Richard:

I will now agreeably to your request, as far as my knowledge extends, give you a short history of the genealogy of your relations, and in doing so I will go a little further back than your enquiries extended. Your great, great grandfather, Laurence Young, emigrated from England, and was the first white person who settled in Fredericksburgh, on the Rappahannock River, in what is now called Spottsylvania County, Virginia - from which place he was driven by the Indians. He then moved down said river about twenty miles and located himself in what is now called Caroline County. He then had several children (hence the extant of the name); and his last son, your great grandfather, Richard Young, possessed the homestead and lived and died there at the age of 82 years.

He left five sons, and three daughters to wit:
Richard who died in his 77th year
Laurence who died in his 74th year
John who died in his 66th year
Leonard who died in his 72nd year
William who died in his 46th year [he was older - he died in Fayette Co KY, 1793]
Jane who died in her 73rd year
Sarah who died in her 85th year
Mary who died in her 92nd year of their respective lives.

Your Grandfather, John Young, was born in Caroline County, Virginia, and passed the early part of his life in that County; he then moved to Orange County where he married his first wife, Mary Martin, daughter of Robert Martin, a Scotchman who lived to his 82nd year. Your Grandfather had four children by this his first wife, to wit: Nancy, Abner (your father), Ambrose, and Jane. She died in the year 1781 age 34 years. He then married her sister, Sarah Martin, by whom he had three children to wit: Richard, John M., and Colby. He removed to Kentucky in the spring of the year 1785 and settled on Hickman Creek, in Fayette (now Jessamine) County and died July 11, 1798. Your step-grandmother Sarah Young subsequently married John Glover in the year 1800 and afterwards died January 14, 1831, age 82 years.

Your Aunt Nancy Young married Hezekiah Procter in the year 1783 by whom she had 4 children, to wit: John, Charles, Elizabeth and Mary. Elizabeth died an infant, and her mother (your Aunt) died in August 1794 age 33 years. Your father died in July 1814 age 45 years. Your Uncle Richard died in June 1795 age thirteen years; your uncle Colby died August, 1800, age 14 years and your uncle John M. Young died October 2, 1819 age 33 years. (John never married).

I Ambrose Young was born October 12, 1772, married Fanny Alcock of Virginia October 12, 1796, and have had by her nine children. Your aunt Jane Young was born in April 1775 and was married to Hezekiah Harrison in 1792-3. They've had six children, to wit: Nancy, Dulcina, John D., Mary, Margaret and Sarah. I cannot give you their ages. Thus I have complied with your request as far as I know and could not have gone this far had not I myself endeavored to keep a kind of memorandum of the like myself.

Your affectionate uncle,
Ambrose Young

To Richard M. Young Quincy, Illinois

- Addenda:

Ambrose Young appears to have been born in 1772 and died (source not available) 1839. Young Ambros, 800 acres is listed in the Directory of the City of Lexington and County of Fayette; KY for 1838 & '39 by Julius P. Bolivar Mac Cabe, Lexington: Printed by J.C. Noble, Nos. 6&7, Hunt's Row 1838

Richard M. Young, Senator from IL was born in Fayette Co. KY 1798. Admitted to the KY bar in 1816 and moved to IL in 1817. Served in US Senate 1837 to 1843. An Associate Member of State Suprime Court 1843-1847. Died in Washington D.C. 1861. A small collection of papers exists in the files of the IL State Historical Library; Springfield, IL. Abstracted from info. provided by US Senate Historians office, 1999. The IL State Historical Library; Springfield, IL. has reported to me that their files do not contain a diary by/for Richard Young , nor do their files contain the original of this letter by Ambrose Young.

Note: It is clear that the year date (1813) of the typed copy of the letter cannot be correct. Richard Young was still a resident of KY at that point, if the Senate Historians record is correct. In addition, dates of events in 1814, 1819 and 1831 are mentioned in the letter. Finally, Richard did not become Senator until 1837. To sum up, confirmation is needed.

[My note: the letter could very well have been written at an earlier time, 1813, but the note of explanation and location added with the embellishments by a descendant. The diary, or personal journal of Richard Young, could also have been in the hands of a descendant and never placed in the collection. It seems quite detailed to have been a fabrication and I have substantiated some of the information contained therein.]

Birth	Abt 1764
Marriage	30 Mar 1783	Orange County, Virginia - Nancy Young
Marriage	Abt 1792	Nancy [Proctor]
Death	Bef Aug 1831

Spouse	Nancy Young (1765 - 1794)
Child	John Proctor (1785 - 1847)
Child	Charles Proctor (1785 - 1835)
Child	Polly Proctor ( - )
Child	Elizabeth Proctor ( - )

Spouse	Nancy [Proctor] ( - )
Child	George Proctor (1795 - )
Child	James Samuel Proctor (1795 - 1835)
Child	Frances "Fanny" Proctor (1796 - )
Child	Nancy Proctor (1804 - 1854)

Father	George Proctor Jr. ( - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Proctor (1755 - )
Sibling	William Proctor (1756 - )
Sibling	John Proctor (1758 - )
Sibling	George Proctor (1760 - )
Sibling	Maj. Thomas Proctor (1766 - 1841)
Sibling	Nancy Proctor (1768 - )
Sibling	Mary Proctor ( - )
Sibling	Agness Proctor (1770 - )
Sibling	Charles Proctor (1772 - )
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Sally Proctor (1777 - )
Sibling	Benjamin Proctor (1779 - 1851)
Sibling	Lucy Proctor ( - )