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Information on the family of John Young was found in a WorldConnect file
"Ancestries of Errol S. BEVAN and Hollie C. ATKINSON BEVAN to ADAM and EVE including REINHARDT Cousins and more"
Updated 11 Apr 2007; Posted by Errol Bevan.

And this letter:
-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



Found copy of John Young's Will on the Proctor GenForum. Posted 11 Jun 2000 by Diana McGinness .
From Fayette Co KY Will book, p.177. Named wife Sally. Sons Abner, Ambrose, and John. Colby also named but not specified as a son. [My note: of course he was a son - he received equal shares with the others] Daughters Jinney Harrison, wife of Hezekiah Harrison, and Nancy Proctor. Nancy's children John, Charles & Polly Proctor are to receive her part so she was apparently deceased. Patsy Hobday, relationship not given, to receive a horse & 15 £. Executors Abner & Ambrose Young and Hezekiah Harrison. Dated May 21, 1798. Witnesses were Eli Mills, Benjamin Whitman, Martha Hobday & John Price. Probate July Court 1798.

Fayette Co KY Records Vol. 4
Michael L. Cook & Bettie A. Cummings Cook
Vol. 11 of KY Records Series
Cook Publications, Evansville, IN
1985
p.19 WB A, p.177 Will of John Young of Fayette Co. To grandsons John & Charles Procter the land lent their father & mother to be equally divided. To granddau Polly Procter, negro woman Mary lent to her father and girl Venice. Son Ambrose Young, tract where he now lives, two Negroes. Son Coly, 200 acres including mill land and one-half of tract got of Thomas Carneal near mouth of Licking R. Son Abner, the equal half of the land left in tract of 200 to include Abner's plantation where he lives and two negroes. Son John, plantation & balance of land where testator now lives, reserving to wife for her life one equal part of the cleared land for her support and after her death the whole to son John, three negroes. Dau Jinney Harrison, two negroes & other equal part of land from Thomas Carneal Wife Sally, during her life, land & mansion house, negroes, household & plantation tools. 1/3 of livestock to be divided after her death between Abner, Ambrose, Jinney, John & Colby. To Patsy Hobday, horse or mare. All not devised to be equally divided between Abner Young, Ambrose Young, John Young, Colby Young, and Jenny Harrison and the children of dau Nancy Proctor, to receive their mother's part: John, Charles & Polly Proctor. Ext: Son ABner & Ambrose and Hezekiah Harrison.
21 May 1798
Wit: Eli Mills, Benj Whitman, John Price
Statement signed by John Price, Saml Armstrong & Richard Sr that John Young declared before them that his man Sam should be the property of wife Sally during her widowhood and after should choose any of testator's children to live with.
Probate: Jul Court 1798
p.267
Court Order Book 2
Apr 10, 1809 Deed of emancipation from Hezekiah Harrison, Abner Young, John M. Young, Ambrose Young, John Proctor, Charles Proctor and Polly M. Proctor to Negro Sam was Ack by Ambrose Young and ordered recorded.


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 also found in the "burnt records" of Fayette Co, the many-paged will of John's brother William. There is also a deed from William to John [William had a son called John Jr, but he was not yet old enough to have been a land holder. Here is an abstract of that deed from Vol. 7, p.147:
William Young and wife Milly to Jno. Young. Date of the deed did not survice the fire. Land on the west fork of Hickman 150 acres adjoining lands of ____ham Venable [possibly Abraham Venable]. And the residue of 100 acres. The 250 acres being part of a tract of 616 acres, purchased of Isaac ___by [maybe Busby]. Being the land the said John Young is settled ____.
Signed by William Young, Milly made her mark.
Witnesses: Hart. Harrison, Ambrose Young, James (X) Busby
Fayette Court, May 1793. Deed produced by Hezekiah Harrison and Ambrose Young. Fully certified by James Busby, July Court, 1793.
[Hezekiah Harrison was the husband of John Young's daughter Jane or Jinny, and Ambrose was a song of John's.]

The Will of William Young was dated 15 May 1793. It was presented to the October Court, 1793. Most of his children seemed to be underage. Witnesses were Hezekiah Harrison, Polly Smith who presented the will. There was a 2nd Smith and a Young, perhaps Laurance Young [a brother of William] whose names are only partially visible. The following provisions can be read from the will:
To son Minor Young, slaves already in his possession.
Daughter Judah Martin Lewis, ___ bond for 300 acres and slaves. And to her husband James Lewis, 210 acres where he is living, joining John Young Senr, James Young, and Thomas Morton. Part of the land purchased of Moses & Even Shelby.
To son Richard Young, part of the tract I now live on which my brother John will point out; my half of the saw mill and the grist mill at the age of Twen____
My beloved wife Milly, slave ____
My daughter Lett___ one half of William Campbell's bond, slaves in her possession. Horse. ____ pounds a year for 3 years provided she does not marry sooner than 3 years
To my son John Young, half the bond for 800 acres that _____ brother John hath of Thos. Carnels. If the said land should be lost, my estate should make up my son 100 pounds, the damage can be recoverd from Thos. C____
___ now live on ___ reserving to my wife and Douglas Young ___ until son John reaches age 21, after which my wife is to have only that part on the east side of Hickman. ____after which I give my son Douglas Young [apparently the half of the home farm that son John is not to get - brother John was also mentioned as knowing the dividing line]
To my youngest children, John Young, Patsey Young and Douglas Young, slaves. to be divided when John reaches age 21.
the saw mill my wife to enjoy if she remains single, until son Richard arrives to age 21 ...and the grist mill
if wife remarries to be equally divided among children
[executor] my beloved wife Milly Young

Birth	1732	Caroline County, Virginia
Marriage	8 Aug 1781	Goochland County, Virginia - Sarah Martin
Death	11 Jul 1798	Fayette County, Kentucky
Marriage		Mary Martin

Spouse	Mary Martin (1747 - 1781)
Child	Nancy Young (1765 - 1794)
Child	Abner Young (1769 - 1814)
Child	Ambrose Young (1772 - 1839)
Child	Jane "Jinny" Young (1775 - 1847)

Spouse	Sarah Martin (1749 - 1831)
Child	Richard Young (1782 - 1795)
Child	Colby Young (1784 - 1800)
Child	John M. Young (1786 - 1819)