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1	Aquilla D. Johnson, age 6, was living in the household of James Johnson.	Johnson, Aquilla Donovan (I2867)
2	Brief Life History Nancy's maiden name, date of birth and location is unknown. From the historical information found, published in "Abednego Llewellyn and the Controversy Over Lot No. 23 in the Original Town of Nashville," she married first Nathan Turpin, by whom she had 2 or 3 children. Nathan and Nancy and children were in the historic John Donelson Flotilla that left Fort Patrick Henry in present Sullivan County, TN in December 1779, traveled down the Tennessee River where they were in several Indian attacks, then up the Ohio River to the Cumberland River. Solomon Turpin and Nathan Turpin and their families left the Donelson Flotilla on April 12, 1780 before it reached Nashville, aka the French Lick Fort, along with the Renfroe families, who they were connected to by marriage, and settled 9 miles up the Red River on Parson's Creek in what was later Montgomery County - see Map in PDF. On June 12 or 13, 1780, Nathan Turpin was killed in an Indian ambush within 300 yards of Renfroe's Station (Armistead Miller interview with Lyman Draper, Draper manuscripts, MSS 12C:54-55) Nancy Turpin and her children were with the first group of settlers who were evacuated from Renfroe's Station to the French Lick Station at Nashville before the massacre that occurred on June 15, 1780. Nancy Turpin married George Snow in 1781, and they had 1 child. George Snow was attacked by Indians around 1783 and later died of his wounds. Nancy Turpin Snow married Abednego Llewellyn around 1785-1787, the accounts vary. They had 2 sons, Meshach and Abednego, Jr. Abednego Llewellyn, Sr. was killed by Indians on the Pond River in Kentucky in late 1787. Nancy Turpin Snow Llewellyn married John Leeper before 1792 and moved to Hopkins County, Kentucky, where she died around 1819.	Guyler, Nancy (I2370)
3	Brief Life History Nathan and Nancy Turpin had 2 or 3 children, per depositions in early 1800s. See Account of part of his Life and Death in attached PDF about Abednego Llewellyn in Memories, and photos from "Chronicles of the Cumberland Settlements" by Paul Clements, self published/Nashville, Tennessee, 2012. Tennessee Historical Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1918, "Indian Wars and Warriors of the Old Southwest, 1730-1807" by Albert V. Goodpasture, page 44: "Renfroe's Station, we have seen, was the most western station on the Cumberland, being some 40 miles west of the Bluff". After Joseph was killed instantly by Indians (NOTE by, Jean Morford: he had gone to a spring for a drink, was attacked and instantly killed) and then in June or July the Chickasaws killed Nathan Turpin and another man, the stationers were so alarmed that they resolved to abandon the settlement and take refuge at Freeland's Station, North of Nashville. After a few days flight, some decided to return to their cabins for their personal property they had left behind.	Turpin, Nathan (I2729)
4	Edward Swanson stated that it was 13 June 1780, "E. Swanson's Narrative" in John Haywood Papers, 1768-1796, Microfilm Roll 1723, Folder 5, Appendix 1, Document 3 at Tennessee State Library and Archives	Turpin, Nathan (I2729)
5	From Richmond Missourian, Thursday, July 24, 1930 (Source: Richmond Missourian, Thursday, July 24, 1930, Chapter 32 (an added feature concerning the Renfro Family, written upon request by Mrs. L. B. Browning, Lebanon, MO [formerly Miss Loretta Wood]). page 346: "... when Ransay broke & ran, overtook her, seized the little boy in his arms, & all got off in safety. Mrs. Jones subsequently married a Mr. Berry. Mrs. Nancy Turpin, who escaped, afterwards married a Snow ..."	Guyler, Nancy (I2370)
6	From Wicked Nashville (pp 19-21) by Elizabeth K. Goetsch These courts tried and punished crimes according to the local laws, oftentimes for deeds that are considered acceptable in modern society. In 1784, two women were tried for having a bastard, one man was tried for swearing in court and another man was tried for selling liquor. Among the individuals listed on this 1784 court docket were Abednego Lewellan and Nancy Snow -- they were charged with fornication. Tongues wagged prior to the charge about their relationship status. Nancy was originally married to a Nathan Turpin in Kentucky. They had three children together before Nathan passed away. She then married George Snow in 1781, before finding herself in middle Tennessee. Nancy had one child with George, and then he passed away. Sometime around 1784, rumors spread that she married her third husband, Abednego Lewellan. The clerk of the court shared with his wife that he had never issued a marriage license to Abednego and Nancy. The small population of the fort speculated that the two were "living in sin" or perhaps just married in secret. As one woman who lived at the French Lick fort said, admitting to a tendacy to gossip, "There were very few of us in the fort, and we generally heard of everything that happened." Regardless of their relationship's legal status, Abednego and Nancy lived together. After two years of living together, Abednego went on a hunting trip and was killed by some natives. Nancy lived alone at the fort for a short time before she moved in with a man named John Leeper. One of her neighbors, Nancy Gower Lucas, wrote later of a conversation she had with Nancy Snow-Lewellan. Nancy Lucas recounted that she asked the other Nancy if "she was living with John Leeper in the same way she lived with Abednego Lewellan. She said she was. Then I asked her if she ever married Lewellan. She seemed very much hurt, and told me she had not." Social acceptance of cohabitation has changed over time, but in the eighteenth century, Nancy Turpin/Snow/Lewellan/Leeper lived in multiple situations that neighbors considered wicked.	Guyler, Nancy (I2370)
7	Ilda Johnson, age 14, is living in the home of her step-father Henry E. Duclos. Her birthplace is given as Nebraska. Her father's birthplace is given as Illinois, her mother's as Iowa.	Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)
8	Ilda Johnson, age 5, was living in the household of her mother Maggy Johnson. Her birth is given as Aug 1895 in Nebraska. Father's place of birth given as Indiana, mother's as Iowa.	Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)
9	Monongalia County is now in West Virginia.	Family (F6)
10	Not mentioned in the obituary of her mother as a surviving child.	Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)
11	Plot: Second Addition, Lot 252	Johnson, George Washington (I2864)
12	RESEARCH NOTES 1790 Census - There is a Saml Gaylor listed in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut with 3 members in his household as follows: 1 Male 16 and over, 2 females. 1800 Census - There is a Samuel Guiler listed in West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania with 8 members in his household as follows: 3 males 16 thru 25, 2 males 26 thru 44, 1 female under 10, 1 female 10 thru 15, and 1 female 16 thru 25. There is a Samuel Galer listed in Edgecombe, North Carolina with 8 members in his household as follows: 1 male under 10, 1 male 16 thru 25, 1 male 45 and over, 1 female under 10, 2 females 10 thru 15, 1 female 26 thru 44 and 1 slave. 1810 Census - There is a Samuel Guiler listed in East Whiteland, Chester, Pennsylvania with 11 members in his household as follows: 1 male under 10, 1 male 16 thru 25, 2 males 26 thru 44, 1 male 45 and over, 3 females under 10, 1 female 10 thru 15, and 2 females 26 thru 44. There is a Samuel Gler listed in Washington, Franklin, Pennsylvania with 3 members in his household as follows: 1 male 16 thru 25, 1 female under 10, and 1 female 16 thru 25.	Guyler, Samuel (I2905)
13	The Children of Nancy and Nancy's birth By spouse Nathan Turpin: 1. Nathan Turpin Jr. born about 1771 2. Unknown child Turpin 3. Unknown child Turpin By spouse George Snow: 4. Unknown child Snow By spouse Abednego Llewellyn: 5. Abednego Llewellyn Jr. born about 1786 6. Meshach Llewellyn born about 1787 By spouse John Leeper: 7. Rachel Leeper born 1792 8. James Leeper born 1793 9. Samuel Leeper born about 1794 10. Cassander Leeper born 1795 Since her oldest child, Nathan Turpin Jr., was born about 1771, that puts Nancy's birth year well before the commonly listed 1765. Most women of this period had their first child by the time they were 18. This would place Nancy's birth at around 1753-1755.	Guyler, Nancy (I2370)
14	The Nehawka Register - page 1 "Henry Duclos took Ilda Johnson down to Nebraska City this week to have her eyelids treated. She has been developing a case of granulated lids."	Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)

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Aquilla D. Johnson, age 6, was living in the household of James Johnson.

Brief Life History
Nancy's maiden name, date of birth and location is unknown. From the historical information found, published in "Abednego Llewellyn and the Controversy Over Lot No. 23 in the Original Town of Nashville," she married first Nathan Turpin, by whom she had 2 or 3 children. Nathan and Nancy and children were in the historic John Donelson Flotilla that left Fort Patrick Henry in present Sullivan County, TN in December 1779, traveled down the Tennessee River where they were in several Indian attacks, then up the Ohio River to the Cumberland River.

Solomon Turpin and Nathan Turpin and their families left the Donelson Flotilla on April 12, 1780 before it reached Nashville, aka the French Lick Fort, along with the Renfroe families, who they were connected to by marriage, and settled 9 miles up the Red River on Parson's Creek in what was later Montgomery County - see Map in PDF.

On June 12 or 13, 1780, Nathan Turpin was killed in an Indian ambush within 300 yards of Renfroe's Station (Armistead Miller interview with Lyman Draper, Draper manuscripts, MSS 12C:54-55)

Nancy Turpin and her children were with the first group of settlers who were evacuated from Renfroe's Station to the French Lick Station at Nashville before the massacre that occurred on June 15, 1780.

Nancy Turpin married George Snow in 1781, and they had 1 child. George Snow was attacked by Indians around 1783 and later died of his wounds.

Nancy Turpin Snow married Abednego Llewellyn around 1785-1787, the accounts vary. They had 2 sons, Meshach and Abednego, Jr. Abednego Llewellyn, Sr. was killed by Indians on the Pond River in Kentucky in late 1787.

Nancy Turpin Snow Llewellyn married John Leeper before 1792 and moved to Hopkins County, Kentucky, where she died around 1819.

Guyler, Nancy (I2370)

Brief Life History
Nathan and Nancy Turpin had 2 or 3 children, per depositions in early 1800s. See Account of part of his Life and Death in attached PDF about Abednego Llewellyn in Memories, and photos from "Chronicles of the Cumberland Settlements" by Paul Clements, self published/Nashville, Tennessee, 2012.

Tennessee Historical Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1918, "Indian Wars and Warriors of the Old Southwest, 1730-1807" by Albert V. Goodpasture, page 44: "Renfroe's Station, we have seen, was the most western station on the Cumberland, being some 40 miles west of the Bluff". After Joseph was killed instantly by Indians (NOTE by, Jean Morford: he had gone to a spring for a drink, was attacked and instantly killed) and then in June or July the Chickasaws killed Nathan Turpin and another man, the stationers were so alarmed that they resolved to abandon the settlement and take refuge at Freeland's Station, North of Nashville. After a few days flight, some decided to return to their cabins for their personal property they had left behind.

Turpin, Nathan (I2729)

Edward Swanson stated that it was 13 June 1780, "E. Swanson's Narrative" in John Haywood Papers, 1768-1796, Microfilm Roll 1723, Folder 5, Appendix 1, Document 3 at Tennessee State Library and Archives

Turpin, Nathan (I2729)

From Richmond Missourian, Thursday, July 24, 1930
(Source: Richmond Missourian, Thursday, July 24, 1930, Chapter 32 (an added feature concerning the Renfro Family, written upon request by Mrs. L. B. Browning, Lebanon, MO [formerly Miss Loretta Wood]).

page 346: "... when Ransay broke & ran, overtook her, seized the little boy in his arms, & all got off in safety. Mrs. Jones subsequently married a Mr. Berry. Mrs. Nancy Turpin, who escaped, afterwards married a Snow ..."

Guyler, Nancy (I2370)

From Wicked Nashville (pp 19-21) by Elizabeth K. Goetsch
These courts tried and punished crimes according to the local laws, oftentimes for deeds that are considered acceptable in modern society. In 1784, two women were tried for having a bastard, one man was tried for swearing in court and another man was tried for selling liquor. Among the individuals listed on this 1784 court docket were Abednego Lewellan and Nancy Snow -- they were charged with fornication. Tongues wagged prior to the charge about their relationship status. Nancy was originally married to a Nathan Turpin in Kentucky. They had three children together before Nathan passed away. She then married George Snow in 1781, before finding herself in middle Tennessee. Nancy had one child with George, and then he passed away. Sometime around 1784, rumors spread that she married her third husband, Abednego Lewellan. The clerk of the court shared with his wife that he had never issued a marriage license to Abednego and Nancy. The small population of the fort speculated that the two were "living in sin" or perhaps just married in secret. As one woman who lived at the French Lick fort said, admitting to a tendacy to gossip, "There were very few of us in the fort, and we generally heard of everything that happened." Regardless of their relationship's legal status, Abednego and Nancy lived together.

After two years of living together, Abednego went on a hunting trip and was killed by some natives. Nancy lived alone at the fort for a short time before she moved in with a man named John Leeper. One of her neighbors, Nancy Gower Lucas, wrote later of a conversation she had with Nancy Snow-Lewellan. Nancy Lucas recounted that she asked the other Nancy if "she was living with John Leeper in the same way she lived with Abednego Lewellan. She said she was. Then I asked her if she ever married Lewellan. She seemed very much hurt, and told me she had not." Social acceptance of cohabitation has changed over time, but in the eighteenth century, Nancy Turpin/Snow/Lewellan/Leeper lived in multiple situations that neighbors considered wicked.

Guyler, Nancy (I2370)

Ilda Johnson, age 14, is living in the home of her step-father Henry E. Duclos. Her birthplace is given as Nebraska. Her father's birthplace is given as Illinois, her mother's as Iowa.

Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)

Ilda Johnson, age 5, was living in the household of her mother Maggy Johnson. Her birth is given as Aug 1895 in Nebraska. Father's place of birth given as Indiana, mother's as Iowa.

Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)

Monongalia County is now in West Virginia.

Family (F6)

Not mentioned in the obituary of her mother as a surviving child.

Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)

Plot: Second Addition, Lot 252

Johnson, George Washington (I2864)

RESEARCH NOTES
1790 Census - There is a Saml Gaylor listed in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut with 3 members in his household as follows: 1 Male 16 and over, 2 females.

1800 Census - There is a Samuel Guiler listed in West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania with 8 members in his household as follows: 3 males 16 thru 25, 2 males 26 thru 44, 1 female under 10, 1 female 10 thru 15, and 1 female 16 thru 25.

There is a Samuel Galer listed in Edgecombe, North Carolina with 8 members in his household as follows: 1 male under 10, 1 male 16 thru 25, 1 male 45 and over, 1 female under 10, 2 females 10 thru 15, 1 female 26 thru 44 and 1 slave.

1810 Census - There is a Samuel Guiler listed in East Whiteland, Chester, Pennsylvania with 11 members in his household as follows: 1 male under 10, 1 male 16 thru 25, 2 males 26 thru 44, 1 male 45 and over, 3 females under 10, 1 female 10 thru 15, and 2 females 26 thru 44.

There is a Samuel Gler listed in Washington, Franklin, Pennsylvania with 3 members in his household as follows: 1 male 16 thru 25, 1 female under 10, and 1 female 16 thru 25.

Guyler, Samuel (I2905)

The Children of Nancy and Nancy's birth
By spouse Nathan Turpin:
1. Nathan Turpin Jr. born about 1771
2. Unknown child Turpin
3. Unknown child Turpin

By spouse George Snow:
4. Unknown child Snow

By spouse Abednego Llewellyn:
5. Abednego Llewellyn Jr. born about 1786
6. Meshach Llewellyn born about 1787

By spouse John Leeper:
7. Rachel Leeper born 1792
8. James Leeper born 1793
9. Samuel Leeper born about 1794
10. Cassander Leeper born 1795

Since her oldest child, Nathan Turpin Jr., was born about 1771, that puts Nancy's birth year well before the commonly listed 1765. Most women of this period had their first child by the time they were 18. This would place Nancy's birth at around 1753-1755.

Guyler, Nancy (I2370)

The Nehawka Register - page 1
"Henry Duclos took Ilda Johnson down to Nebraska City this week to have her eyelids treated. She has been developing a case of granulated lids."

Johnson, Ilda Lucinda (I2874)

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