Chronicles of Boone County

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• Graves, Bartlett O.
• Utz, Benjamin
  Benjamin Utz and his family moved to Kentucky sometime between 1820 and 1830.
• Sebree, Uriel
• Garnett, Elijah
• Mills, Thomas
  Thomas Mills was born on 29 September 1760, in Long Island, N.Y. He moved to South Carolina with his father and older brother and signed up with Lt. Col. Francis Marion during the Revolutionary War. Mills was only 12 or 13 years old at the time. He served with the 2nd South Carolina Regiment and Marion's group, the Swamp Fox Soldiers, from 1776 to 1779. He later traveled to Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio where he was a scout and Indian fighter. He met Daniel Boone and knew Simon Kenton well. In 1786, Mills was among several families who petitioned the Commonwealth of Virginia to establish the towns of Washington and Limestone, later known as Maysville. He served in the Corn Stalk Militia between 1791 and 1799 and fought in the War of 1812.
• Sanders, Isaac D.
• Calvert, Willis
• Herndon, Wesley
• Creager, Peter
• Florence, James
• Cloud, William
• Clark, Amos
• Botts, Joshua
• Delph, Adam
• Foster, Samuel
  The information in the 1820 census implies that Samuel and Susan had at least seven children.
• Brann, Thomas M.
• Glackin, William McKindrie
• Grant, John [2]
• Barker. Isaac, Sr.
• Jones, Leroy
• Gaines, John Pollard
  Born to Elizabeth and Abner Gaines in 1795, John P. Gaines moved with his family from Augusta County, Virginia to Boone County, Kentucky shortly thereafter. (Hanger, page 5)
• Boyle, Andrew
• Barkshire, Jeremiah
• Percival, Timothy, Jr.
• Leathers, Benjamin William
  Benjamin Leathers was the brother of Col. John Leathers and Nancy Leathers Watts. He lived in Kenton County (Ky.) and appears in the 1820 census residing in Covington (Ky.). The family held seven slaves: two males under 14 years of age, one male between 26 and 44 years of age, and four females between 14 and 25.