More on the Kentucky Conn families.
William Henry Conn traveled about quite a bit. Or there was more than one man by the same name...and he is frequently confused with a brother named Henry Conn (1764-1835) They also had another brother, James Conn (1765-?) Henry is noted for also serving in the
Revolution. There's very little information about James, though I did
just find his wife's name, and a lot of children as well.
As of today (with the flexible nature of my research at Ancestry) William had been born in Somerset County, New Jersey, possibly as early as 1757.
On Dec 6, 1778 he married Elisabeth Alexander (1760-1845) in Lincoln County, North Carolina, probably in Lincolnton, the main town. That's a long way from New Jersey.
He had served in the American Revolution at some time, under the Virginia State Troops, as "Pri, Cav'y & Inf'y," (Private, Calvary & Infantry) for which he received pensions starting in 1834 in Henry County, KY, (The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol· III, 10 Kentucky).
Lincoln County NC was formed from Tryon County NC in 1779, and his marriage record there is for a bond for marriage in 1778. The county was named for General Benjamin Lincoln of the Revolutionary War.
William and Elisabeth Conn had eight children, and it looks as if some were born in Virginia, some in North Carolina, and some in Kentucky. The sources of this information are from other ancestry trees, and seldom from original documents. For instance, Elisabeth is noted to have been born in Guilford County, NC in 1760, but the Guilford County, North Carolina records didn't begin until 1771 when that county was formed out of 2 other counties.
They did both live their later lives in Kentucky. Henry County, Kentucky was formed June 15, 1799 out of portions of Shelby County, KY. About 12 counties came into existence in the KY legislature at the same session in 1798.
My ancestor was his son, James A. Conn who I spoke about HERE.
I'll be climbing up the branches of this tree for a while now...in hopes of learning more about the Conns, or Konns, as they immigrated to America.
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