Annotated Bullitt County 1850 Census

We continue the Bullitt County 1850 census written by Mrs. W. V. Mathis, Wallace A. McKay and W. C. Barrickman. Betty Darnell shared this in The Pioneer News on 16 Dec 1992.

This particular article contained no census data, but is worth sharing for its content.

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1 September 1950 (no column)
8 September 1950

"Troutman Families of Kentucky"

The leading article in the Filson Club's History Quarterly for July, 1950, is a 30-page genealogical summary of the Kentucky TROUTMANs. It is written by Mrs. Evelyn Crady Adams, a native of Nelson County, who formerly lived at Nelsonville.

Mrs. Adams carefully and accurately reviews the family history of John Michael and George Peter TROUTMAN, their pioneer background in Maryland, their migration to Kentucky, and their descendants.

The father's name of these two men, supposedly brothers, is not known. Family tradition asserts Michael came to Pennsylvania with his parents, who emigrated from Germany, and that Peter was his brother, some records examined by Mrs. Adams, seem to imply this Michael and Pater both lived in Frederick County, Maryland, and John Leonard TROUTMAN, a German immigrant who landed in Philadelphia in 1751, was a citizen of Frederick Co., Md., in 1754. He was associated with Michael and Peter, and may have been their father, but there is no record evidence of it.

John Michael, or Michael, was born about 1739, he died in Bullitt Co., Ky., in 1814. He was married twice in Frederick Co., Md., and is said to have been the father of 24 children; but 18 only have been identified. He married (1) Rebecca BEARD, abut 1762; eight of their children were John, married Joanna BAINBRIDGE; Catey, married Jacob AMBROSE; Petr, married (1) Peggy DUNCAN, and (2) Catherine Spurgeon; Michael (Jr.), who came to Kentucky, but settled finally in South Carolina; Anna and Joseph, of who there is no data; Leonard, married Catherine WILHITE, whose parents, Tobias and Mary SHIRLEY WILHITE, were born in Virginia, settled in Bullitt County between 1790-1800, and joined the Shaker Society in Mercer Co., Ky., in 1807; and Elizabeth or "Bettie," married James CARRICO.

Michael's second wife was Elizabeth SCHROEDER, or "SHRADER,' as it was generally pronounced. Ten of the children were Elizabeth, christened in the Lutheran Church, Middletown, Md., Oct. 10, 1784, her parents being the sponsors; Abraham, married Eleanor MAGRUDER, oldest child of Archibald and Cassandra OFFUTT MAGRUDER; Jacob, maried (1) Ursula, sister of Eleanor MAGRUDER, and (2) Lucinda HOLMES; Isaac, married Elizabeth JAMES; Rebecca, married John PATTERSON ; Barbara, supposedly a twin to Rebecca or Mary; she is not mentioned in Michael's will; Mary, married Jonathan SIMMONS, Jr., Philip, said to have married (1) Catey ?? and (2) Ann AUD, daughter of Joseph AUD; Margaret, married Lewis BROWN; Cathy (little is known of these three children; they are named in Michael's will.)

Two years after Michael's death, his widow married Thomas HALL, a widower, in Bullitt County. But having children by their previous marriages, they signed an agreement, "retaining their individual properties, to be disposed of according to the will of each."

Michael was a captain of Frederick County, Md., Militia, and was enrolled in the Lincoln Co., Ky. Militia, in Gen. George Roger CLARK's expedition against the Shawnee Indians of the northeast territory. He acquired large landholdings in Kentucky, and at various times owned land in Frederick Co., and in Bullitt, Nelson, Jefferson and other counties in Kentucky.

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