Henry Polsgrove

1784 - 1842  (58 years)

• Name	Henry Polsgrove
  Birth	1784	New Hanover Twp, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	1842	Jordan, Hickman, Kentucky, USA
  Person ID	I679	Horton
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2016

  
  

  Father	Jacob Polsgrove,   b. 1748, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA d. Aft 1810, Pendleton, Kentucky, USA (Age > 63 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Barbara Biddle,   b. Abt 1753, Douglassville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. Between 1785 and 1790, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA (Age 32 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Marriage	13 Dec 1774	Douglassville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
  Family ID	F234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  [grayshouse3.FTW] Henry is listed on the 1810 Pendleton Co., Ky census page 108, line 7. 2 males age under age 10, 1 male 26-45 (Henry). 2 females under age 10 and 1 female 26-45 (his unkn 1st wife). Henry appears in the 1830 census of Hickman Co., Ky., age 50. Tombstone states he was born in 1784, born Pennsylvania, by census. Henry is listed with 6 sons in 1830. He served in the Kentucky Cornstalk Brigade as an Ensign, 21st regimentg 20, 1808, Pendleton co., Ky. He was in Campbell Co., Ky between 1795 and 1806, in Pendleton Co., Ky after 1806. He received a land grant of 160 acres about 1825 in Hickman Co., Ky, which became Fulton Co., Ky after 1845. Henry is buried in the woods northwest of Jordan, Fulton co., Ky. Tombstone still legible. Henry Polsgrove, by Kent Forbis Henry, the eldest, after serving in the Cornstalk Brigade, Ky Militia, 21st reg. as an Ensign (ca 1808) stayed for awhile in the area of Polsgrove Landing at the junction of Flatt Creek and the Kentucky River, about 10 miles north of Frankfort, Ky. There his brothers Jacob & George established a small business shipping local farmers produce downriver on flat boats to Louisville, Ky. The community that grew up around them was called Polsgrove Landing and later Polsgrove, Ky. When the Jackson Purchase was ratified by the U.S. Congress, Henry was given (actually bought for $1.00 per acre) a land grant, just north of Jordan, Ky. His land grant was for the NE Qtr Section 36 Township one, Range 4 West. In 1825, Henry and four related families (Huffman, Brown, Lewis & Wilson) left Polsgrove Landing on flattop riverboats, coming down the Kentucky River to the Ohio, down the Ohio to the Mississippi to the port of Hickman, Ky and thense upstream on the Bayou de Chien to the port of Moscow. Henry's land just a short distance overland from there. An interesting bit of family history tied to actual historical fact during this time. In 1779-80, Dr. Walker had surveyed the boundary line to separate the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. His line failed to establish the true parallel of 36 degrees 30 minuets, his line falling from 6-10 miles north of the true parallel. After disputes between the states involving this area, an agreement was reached in 1820, by which these lands were to be given to Kentucky. That is why the boundary line between the Tennessee River west to the Mississippi River is farther south than the boundary line in east of the Tennessee River. In the Polsgrove family all records show a daughter of Henry born in 1825, as born in Tennessee. Obviously, the information had not spread to such rural areas at this time, and would not have been of much importance to farming people. Therefore, Henry's farm was in Tennessee he thought in 1825 and when the census was taken in 1830 and thereafter, it was recorded that Emeline had been born in Tennessee in 1825. In legal terms and from then on, his farm would stay in Kentucky. Henry and the related families, all very closely connected, all had land grants or purchased lands adjoining one another, or close by, mainly along the western side of what is now Route#166. Henry and James Lewis, his father-in-law had 320 acres each. James Lewis also had 18 slaves. He would have considered a moderately wealthy man in his time. This "Plantation" comprised 1440 acres of prime agricultural land. In 1837 Phillip Huffman, Henry's brother-in-law, appears to have wanted to liquidate and move on. First on Mar 18, 1837 he mortgaged his land for $672.00 to John Hanna, agent for Caldwell Hanna & Co. a firm of lawyers based in Louisville, Ky a an and Hickman, Ky., although John Hanna lived near by in the area. The mortgage was for one year. On Oct. 21, 1827, Phillip Huffman sold this same land to David James for $800.00, with the following notation on the deed...."with the excepeptioion of a lot sold off to Ryan Fisher including Larks of ole tan yard." On Nov. 6, 1837, Phillip Huffman to Rilan Fisher for $150.00..."a certain lot of land...containing 8 acres more or less and being the NE corner of quarter section 29 Twp One, Range 4 West, all that east of the Spring branch to include Larky old tan yard." A tan yard is place were animal skins are processed to make leather. David James took possession of the land he had bought and had his family established there for the 1840 census, Hickman Co., Ky with 8 members in his household. Rilan or Rylan Fisher was not recorded in any document before or after the land sale deed and he appears on no census. In a history of Franklin Co., I came across this item..."Coleman settled south of Franklin about 1806 and established a tan-yard near a spring known then as Brown's Spring, named for Hezikiah Brown who lived adjacent." In 1845, William Locke Alexander moved to the Jordan, Ky area and purchased land. Part of this land was the SW Qtr Section 25m Twp One Range 4 West where my great-great-great grandfathers grave site is located. When he purchased this tract, he could not get a clear title. He had to bring suit against Thomas M. Smith, Stephen Hanna, Charles Hanna, Charles Irvine and Elizabeth Irvine. All heirs of the deceased partners in Caldwell Hanna & Co. On Oct 28, 1846, the Fulton County Circuit Court awarded Alexander the entire and complete quarter section in question. The Fulton County Court Clerk could not find the records on this suit, nor the deed when originally sold to Alexander. Thihhis court proceeding took place during the transition when Fulton County split off from Hickman County in 1845, and must have been misplaced or lost. However, in looking at the deed involved originally, the lot sale. The Court Clerk had made an error, writting section 29 and not section 25. Also, Rilan Fisher seems to have just disappeared. There is also the possibility that the mortgage of 1837 had never been paid off. Whatever transpired at the time may never be known, but the fact is that William Locke Alexander was awarded the property and built his home close by the wooded area and called it "Pleasant Green". Henry was buried in 1842 on this lot which may never have been farmed. It is a pleasant, wooded area, possibly with a spring at that time, on a slight ridge, overlooking Henry's "Plantation". I am grateful and pleased that William Locke Alexander's descendants and relatives have been aware of an preserved my ancestors tombstone and probable grave site. Kent Forbis - Aug. 21, 2001