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James Holman (Holdman, Holeman)
Born: about 1814 in Kentucky
Died: after 1880

James Holman (Holdman, Holeman) was born about 1814 in Virginia or Kentucky. He lived in the area of Brodhead (Stigall's Stand), Kentucky, which is on the border of three Kentucky counties: Lincoln, Garrard, and Rockcastle.

On June 4, 1835 in Garrard County, Kentucky, James Holman was married to Martha Ramsey, the daughter of Alexander Ramsey, by Baptist minister Benjamin Polston.

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Any discussion of the Holmans in Kentucky must include the role the Boone family played in the early settlement of Kentucky.

Daniel Boone, the frontiersman, in 1775, established Fort Boonesborough (originally known as "Boone's Station") in the part of Virginia that became Madison County, Kentucky. The settlement was chartered Boonesborough in October 1779 and served as a way-station for pioneers venturing further into Kentucky during the 1780s and 1790s. (In 1785, Madison County, Kentucky was established from a portion of Lincoln County, Virginia.)

Daniel's son Israel Boone in 1776 established "New Boone Station" in the part of Virginia that became present-day Athens in Fayette County, Kentucky.

Daniel's brother Squire Boone in 1779 established Squire Boone's Station in the part of Virginia that became Shelby County, Kentucky. (In 1786, Squire Boone's Station was turned over to a Colonel Lynch, and its name was changed to "Lynch’s Station".)

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Squire Boone, Sr. was born in 1696 in England and died in 1765 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married in 1720 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Sarah Morgan (both were Quakers). Sarah Morgan, who was born in 1700 and died in 1777 in Mocksville, Daviess County, North Carolina, was the daughter of Edward Morgan and Elizabeth Jarman.

In 1750, Squire Boone, Sr., his wife Sarah Morgan, and their children (including a teenage Daniel Boone) left Pennsylvania for North Carolina. It took almost two years. On the way the family stayed in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia - on Linville Creek, six miles north of Harrisonburg. The Bryans were also early residents on Linville Creek, and the William Bryan who married Daniel Boone's sister probably went to North Carolina at the same time. (See Shenandoah Valley)

The Boones eventually settled on the Yadkin River, in what is now Davie County, North Carolina about two miles west of Mocksville. At the time, this was in the western backwoods area of North Carolina

The French and Indian War began in 1754 and attacks of the Cherokee Indians forced many settlers in the area to flee to safer parts. In 1759 the Squire Boone family was forced to flee to Culpeper County, Virginia for a short time. With the end of the Indian War in 1763, some of the earlier settlers began to return to their land in North Carolina.

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Daniel Boone, born 1734 in Pennsylvania; married Rebecca Bryan in 1756; and died in 1820 in Missouri.

Daniel Boone volunteered in the North Carolina militia during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), serving as wagoner (along with his cousin Daniel Morgan). During the war, he met John Findley, a fur trader, who was familiar with the area that became Kentucky. In 1769 Daniel Boone, John Findley, and a few others discovered that there was a trail through the mountains at the Cumberland Gap to the area that became Madison County, Kentucky.

The Transylvania Company, led by Judge Richard Henderson of North Carolina, in 1775, purchased land in Kentucky from the Cherokee Indians and hired Daniel Boone to help with the settlement, including the building of a wagon road through the Cumberland Gap all the way to "Boonesborough." (Henderson offered the land for sale at twenty shillings per hundred acres. The Virginia provincial government declared Henderson's sales illegal. The government then offered the very same land free in 400-acre parcels to anyone who would improve it and raise corn on it before 1778. This was the basis for the later problems that Daniel Boone had with real estate transactions.)

Daniel Boone in 1775 established Fort Boonesborough (originally known as "Boone's Station") in the part of Virginia that became Madison County, Kentucky. The settlement was chartered Boonesborough in October 1779 and served as a way-station for pioneers venturing further into Kentucky during the 1780s and 1790s.

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Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, Volume 2
By Lewis Collins

BOONES STATION, same as Boonesboro.
BOONESBORO, on the W. bank of Kentucky River in Madison county; settled by Daniel Boone, who began the fort on April 1st, and finished it on the 14th of June, 1775.

BRYAN’S STATION, in Fayette county, about 5 miles N. E. of Lexington, on the southern bank of the north fork of Elkhorn; settled by the Bryans in 1774, but a cabin had been built by Joseph Bryan, a son-in-law of Col. Daniel Boone, in 1776.

STRODE’S STATION, 2 miles from Winchester, in Clark co.; in 1779.

Note:
The three stations were located near each other; and were settled by people who knew each other, and in some cases were related by blood or marriage.
* Daniel Boone (Fort Boonesboro) married Rebecca Bryan, the niece of William Bryan (Bryan Station).
* William Bryan (Bryan Station) married Mary Boone, the sister of Daniel Boone (Fort Boonesboro).
* William Bryan (Bryan Station) and Captain John Strode (Strode Station) were 1st cousins.

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Note:
After the creation of these stations, the Capt Billy Bush party moved from the Washington County, Virginia area into the part of Bourbon County, that became Clark County, Kentucky.

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Boone-Related Families

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Bryan

Morgan Bryan was born in 1671 in Denmark and married Martha Strode in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Martha was born about 1696. (Martha Strode was the aunt of Letitia Strode (1725-1789) and Captain John Strode)

Morgan Bryan and Alexander Ross (both were Pennsylvania Quakers) on October 28, 1730 were granted 100,000 acres of un-granted or un-settled land in the vicinity of Winchester, Virginia between the Opequon Creek and the North Mountain (Allegheny), upon which they settled a colony of Friends (Quakers). On April 13, 1744 a deed was recorded from Ross to Joseph Bryan for 214 acres north of Winchester. (See Shenandoah Valley)

In 1734 Morgan Bryan purchased a tract in present-day Berkeley County, West Virginia and settled with his family.

In 1748 Morgan Bryan moved to North Carolina. Bryan would settle his family west of the Yadkin near Deep Creek. Some of the others who accompanied him (including William Linville) took up land on both sides of the shallow ford where the “Wagon Road” crossed. (The Bryans and the Linvilles knew each other in Pennsylvania.)

Children of Morgan Bryan and Martha Strode:

* Joseph Bryan (1720-1804) married second Aylee Linville (1722-1807). Children:
** Rebecca Bryan (1738-1813) married Daniel Boone (1734-1820).
** Martha Bryan (1747-1793) married Edward Boone (1740-1780), brother of Daniel Boone. Edward was killed by Shawnee in 1780 while hunting with Daniel in present-day Bourbon County, Kentucky.

* Elinor Bryant, b 1729, married William Linville. Child:
** Ann Nancy Linville (1744-1814) married George Boone (1739-1820), brother of Daniel Boone.

* William Byran (1734-1780) married Mary Boone (1736-1819), sister of Daniel Boone, and established Bryan's Station (1775–79) near present-day Lexington, Kentucky.

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Stover

Sarah, the sister of Squire Boone, Sr. was expelled from the Quakers in Pennsylvania for associating with a Jacob Stover who was German. Is this the same man?

In 1730, Jacob Stover, a native of Switzerland, was granted leave by the colonial council to take up 10,000 acres of land on the south fork of the Shenandoah. The conditions upon which Stover received his grant were that he should actually locate a family of settlers upon each thousand acres within two years. (In 1735, Jacob Stover sold two tracts of land to George Boone, from Oley, Pa., the said tracts containing 500 and 1000 acres respectively, and being situated "near the end of North Mountain" on a small branch of Shenandoah River.) (See Shenandoah Valley)

At the time, land boundaries were not well marked and some of grants may have overlapped. From 1730 to 1750, the Valley appeared to be the "wild west" for real estate, with lots of "game playing". It appears that grant holders were selling tracts back and forth to each other. (Was this necessary to meet the minimum number of settlers in different grants?) Jacob Stover received an "order" from Council on June 17, 1730. He received his "grant" on Dec 15, 1733 by giving his farm animals human names and claiming them as settlers in order to satisfy the minimum requirements. Later, Adam Miller (Mueller) and fifty other settlers at Massanitting complained that Stover would not (could not?) issue proper deeds.

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Linville

George Boone (1739-1820), the brother of Daniel Boone, in 1764 in Rowan County, North Carolina married Ann Nancy Linville (born 1744 in Augusta County, Virginia; died 1814 in Shelby County, Kentucky), the daughter of William and Elinor (Bryan) Linville.

William Lenivell bought in 1746 of Hite, McKay, and Green, 1,500 acres about the headwaters of the stream that evidently was named after him - Lenivell's Creek, now Linville Creek. In 1746 and 1749 George Bowman bought two tracts, aggregating over a thousand acres, on Linville Creek: the first tract he bought of William Lenivell; the second, of Jost Hite. (See Rockingham County)

From "The Boone Family, Hazel Atterbury Spraker, 1922."
"George Boone established Boone's Station in 1780 on a site in what is now Madison County, Kentucky, about a mile and half or two miles from the present court house in Richmond. When his brother Squire Boone, Jr. built his fort where Shelbyville, Kentucky, now stands, George and his family went there to live. George and Ann (Nancy) Linville Boone died in Shelby County, Kentucky, but their bodies were returned to Madison County for interment in the George Boone-Robert Harris graveyard near the site of Boone's Station at Cross Plains." [Cross Plains was later named Athens.]

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Van Cleave

Squire Boone, Jr., the brother of Daniel Boone, was born 1744 in Berks County, Pennsylvania; died 1815 in Buck Creek, Harrison Co., Indiana. He married 1765 in Rowan County, North Carolina, Jane Van Cleave (born 1749 in NC; died 1829), daughter of Aaron Van Cleave and Rachel Schenck.

Aaron Van Cleave married in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and in 1780 moved to Rowan County, North Carolina where he raised a family of seven boys and one girl. Two of his children:

* Jane Van Cleave married Squire Boone, Jr., brother of Daniel Boone. Squire Boone, Jr. in 1779 established Squire Boone's Station in the part of Virginia that became Shelby County, Kentucky. Boone's land speculation succeeded for a number of years before failing in 1786, resulting in the loss of all of his property (including the station) to his creditors. Squire Boone, Jr. was so entangled by law suits and overlapping land claims that he stopped defending himself, refusing to show up in court, and ended up in prison for debts. After his release he gave up on Kentucky and went to the Northwest Territory and set up Boone County, Indiana.

* John Van Cleave on 1760 in Rowan County, North Carolina married Mary Sheppard, daughter of Thomas Shepherd and Elizabeth Van Meter. Mary Shepherd was born 1742 in Shepherdtown, (West) Virginia, and died Sep 13 1781 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Mary Shepherd was killed by Indians under command of Simon Girty, during Revolutionary War. She was with a group fleeing from Squire Boone's Station to escape a pending Indian attack. [Mary (Shepherd) Van Cleave and Mary (Van Meter) Henton were first cousins.]

Note:
Mary Van Meter, the daughter of Jacob Van Meter and Letitia Strode, was born February 11, 1757 in Berkeley County, (West) Virginia and died June 29, 1832 Deatsville, Nelson County, Kentucky.
She first married, in 1773, David Henton, son of John Henton and Esther Evans. (David Henton was a descendant of Thomas Hinton, one of the largest stockholders in the London Company, for the settlement of Virginia.) David Henton was drowned in the Ohio River during the spring of 1780 while on the way to Kentucky with the Jacob Van Meter family.
In 1781, the "Widow Hinton" was at Squire Boone's station. In April of that year, a band of Indians, led by the white renegade, Simon Girty, attacked the station. Squire Boone was twice wounded in this affray, one arm being so badly shattered that it never fully healed. In September 1781, it was decided to abandon Squire Boone's Station. All of the families, with the exception of Squire Boone's and the "Widow Hinton's" (there were not enough pack horses to take them) started off to another station, but were killed in an ambush. No men were left at Boone's Station, except Squire Boone and his teenage son, Moses. A large party of about three hundred men from the Falls settlements marched out, buried the dead, and went to the relief of Squire Boone's Station.
In 1779, Major William Chenoweth of Revolutionary War fame entered a land grant in then Jefferson (now Nelson) County. On 5 March 1781, Major Chenoweth was appointed administrator of the estate of David Hinton. The "widow Hinton" married William Chenoweth in October 1781 in Nelson County, Kentucky and had nine children with him. (See Monocracy Valley and Kentucky Surnames)

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Wilcoxson

Sarah "Cassandra" Boone, the sister of Daniel Boone, was born 1724 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. She was a Pennsylvania Quaker (Exeter Meeting House), but around 1742 married outside her church to John Willcockson.

John Wilcoxson (Willcockson) born about 1720 is thought to be the son of George Wilcockson and Elizabeth Powell.

John and Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson migrated to North Carolina and settled near her father, Squire Boone, Sr. John Wilcoxson served as a constable in Rowan County, North Carolina.

John Wilcoxson was one of the early settlers of Fort Boonesborough in Kentucky. (Was this because in 1778 his neighbors in North Carolina suspected him of being a Tory?)

The family then returned to North Carolina. John Wilcoxson died there in 1798. Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson died in 1815 in Estill County, Kentucky.

Notes:

John Wilcoxson (Willcockson) is thought to be the brother of the Isaac Wilcoxson (c1724-c1766) who married Edith Philpot. Isaac and Edith (Philpot) Wilcoxson were the parents of the Catherine Wilcoxson (1762-c1804) who in 1776 married Isaac Hardy Holeman (1757-1843), son of Isaac Holeman, died 1808. (See Isaac Holeman, died 1808, in North Carolina)

John Wilcoxson (Willcockson) is thought to be the brother of the George Wilcoxson who married Elizabeth Hall. George and Elizabeth (Hall) Wilcoxson were the parents of the George Wilcoxson (born 1766) who married Elizabeth Pinchback, daughter of John Pinchback (1739-1811). (See Pinchback in North Carolina Surnames)

The 1759 Rowan County, North Carolina Tax list included Isaac Holdman as well as the Boones, the Linvilles, the Bryans, and the Wilcoxsons.

Isaac Holeman, died 1808, and his wife Mary Benton Hardy had a son, Daniel Holeman (1750-1836) who married Nancy Ann Saunders (1758-1836). Daniel and Nancy Ann (Saunders) Holeman had a son Hardy Holeman (1774-1826) who married Elizabeth Wilson (c1778-aft 1850). Elizabeth Wilson was the daughter of Joseph Wilson and Martha Wilcoxson. After Joseph Wilson died, Martha Wilcoxson married the widower, John "Pegleg" Whitaker (born c1746 in Frederick County, Maryland and died in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky).

Isaac Holeman, died 1808, and his wife Mary Benton Hardy had a son, William Holeman (c1753-1819), who witnessed a deed for Mark Whitaker to sell land in Surry County, North Carolina in 1796. This appears to be the Reverend Mark M. Whitaker who was a well-known Methodist minister and circuit rider for the Holston district in the late 1700s. Mark M. Whitaker moved from Surry County, North Carolina to Washington County, Tennessee and then in 1800 to Russell County, Virginia.

Isaac Hardy Holeman (1757-1843), son of Isaac Holeman, died 1808 had a grandson named Daniel Boone Holeman (1808-1892), (See Woodford County, Kentucky)

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