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 Abt 1753 - 1807 (54 years)
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| Name |
Gilkison, James [1, 2, 3] |
| Born |
Abt 1753 |
Botetourt Co, Virginia, USA  [1, 4] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
1787 |
Fayette Co, Virginia [5] |
| Residence |
1790 |
Kentucky, USA [6] |
| Residence |
1800 |
Fleming, Kentucky, United States |
| Died |
1807 |
Scioto Co., Ohio, USA [1, 4] |
| Residence |
1810 |
Flemingsburg, Fleming, Kentucky, United States |
| Person ID |
I18460 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Family |
Currens, Elizabeth |
| Married |
9 Sep 1783 |
Greenbrier Co., VA [1, 2, 4, 7] |
- by Elder John Alderson, Baptist Church
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| Children |
| | 1. Gilkison, Jane [natural] |
| | 2. Gilkison, Sarah [natural] |
| | 3. Gilkison, John Creyton, b. Between 1 Jun 1786 and 1789, d. 1859 (Age 72 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Gilkison, James M., b. 1 Jun 1788, Kentucky, USA , d. 1856, Michigan, USA (Age 67 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Gilkison, Jonathan, b. 14 Dec 1793, Greenup Co., Kentucky, USA , d. 3 Feb 1864, Richland Co., Illinois, USA (Age 70 years) [natural] |
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| Documents |
 | Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850
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| Last Modified |
21 Jan 2022 |
| Family ID |
F7441 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
Personal Records, Maureen (Molly) McGUIRE COLSON:
From: Coffinberry. Genealogy of the Coffinberry family, Descendants of George Lewis Coffinberry, 1760-1851, & His Wife Elizabeth (Little) Coffinberry, with rlated families Coffenberry, Gilkison, Keasy, Platt, comp. by B. B. Scott. 64 p. 1927.
[James Gilkison] the father of James M. Gilkison had four half-brothers and two sisters. Their names were Joseph, Mathew, Alick and Stephen Curren; the two sisters were Aunt Sallie Coffinberry and Mrs. Bradshaw. His wife's name was Jennie Williams. Jennie Williams Gilkison had a sister who has a daughter by the name of Mrs. Cazzard, also a daughter by the name of Mrs. Blue. Mrs. Cazzard had a daughter by the name of Mrs.Prowty of Columbus, Ohio, and a son named Johnnie Cazzard. A mention is made of Joseph and Mathew Curren in the Township of Springfield in Graham's History of Richland County.
Graham, The History of Richland County, Page 420
"In the spring of 1816 Mathew and Joseph Curren came and erected a cabin upon Mathew's land. (The Currens came 1815.) This is said to have been the first cabin in the township of Springfield. Shortly after the Currens erectedanother cabin. They had encamped where they intended erecting the cabin and were cooking dinner by a large log out in the open air for workmen who were to erect the cabin. One of Curren's children, a little boy, attempted to walk across the log in sport, made a miss step and fell into a large kettle of boiling coffee, scalding him to such an extent that he died the first death of a white person in the Township of Springfield." A. A. Graham says the Currens were Irish.
Joseph Curren's children: Joseph, Miller, Mrs. Jones of Shelby, Ohio; Mrs. Burgoin, formerly of Plymouth, Ohio. There was another daughter, but do not know her name.
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From Massie, Evelyn Booth, Gilkerson (Gilkison.Gilkeson) Genealogical History and Archives (Chelsea, MI, Bookcrafters, 1996), pages 562-575.
James GILKISON1 was born by 1753, based on an early tax list. Burton in Botetourt County, Virginia, It's Men 1770-1777gives a tithable list that includes a JAMES, JOHN, AND WILLIAM Gilkison in 1774. This suggests that James was 21, born by 1753.
James died in 1807 in Scioto County, Ohio, where an appaisment of his personal property, and the sale of those items are recorded in Case No. 4692. A copy of the record is included in this chapter.
James Gilkison's parentage has not been proven. The John Gilkison who settled in Fleming County (early Mason County) in 1798, is, reportedly, the son of a William Gilkison . Since the three Gilkisons--JAMES, JOHN and WILLIAM--were so closely connected in the early Greenbrier county records in 1780's, and later in Fayette in the in 1790, (and all three were in the eastern Kentucky counties in the decade following) it is possible that they were related. And perhaps James of this sketch and John of Fleming County were brothers and sons of William. However, since the John Gilkison who married Nancy Davis was married in the same county, and by the same Baptist preacher as this James, it seems to suggest that James of this sketch was closely related to THAT John Gilkison, perhaps a brother. No records have been located that would prove any of these theories. Jayne Murphy stated in her letter, "Three brothers came over in 1776, Patrick, Andrew and James." Was that James the subject of this chapter? Please note again that James paid taxes in 1774 (two years before the James came with brothers Andrew and Patrick) in Botetourt County, Virginia married in 1783 and the location for his land was in what later became Greenbrier County: the county where James and Elizabeth were married in 1783. In regard to the Andrew, Patrick and James being brothers, another record fact is that a James Gilkison was a defendant in a court case in 1782 in Greenbrier County, and ANDREW Gilkison was his security. Was there a close relationship, or did the name Gilkison tie them together for any need they had? The Gilkisons are known to be a cohesive group.
On 9 September 1783, in Greenbrier County, Virginia, James married Elizabeth Currens . They were married by Elder John Alderson, pastor of the Greenbrier Baptist Church. Their marriage is recorded in William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 8, Series 2, page 198. Please note again that John Gilkison was married to Nancy Davis in the same county and by the same minister, four years prior; both Gilkisons were associated with the same Church.
Several entries were made for James Gilkison in the Greenbrier County Court records, and land records. In 1781 he and William Fullerton were defendants in case with William McClung ; in August 1782 he was assignee of Thomas Edgar for 100 acres of land by part of a state warrant for 1000 acres ; in 1782 he was a defendant in a court case concerning the estate of Matthew Arbuckle, and Andrew Gilkison was James' security; in June 1782 he was given allowance for one bay horse 13 hands high; again in 1783 James was defendant, and the case regarding William McClung , was set aside: in September 1783 he was an appraiser for the estate of James McCaslin ; and in 1785 the court ordered the clerk to grant a certificate to James Gilkinson and John McFerrin, agreeable to their claims in hands of Col . Donnally. Information for this paragraph is from Helen Stinson’s Land Entry
Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and Greenbrier county (West) Virginia Court Orders 1780-1850: also from Larry G. Shuck's Greenbrier County (West) Virginia Records, Volume 1.
James served in the American Revolution and was listed on page 33 of Reddy's West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors, as a Greenbrier county veteran. James Gilkison was also listed in Gwathmey's Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, page 307, in Gist 's Regiment. Virginia state Library, List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia, Special Report of the Department of Archives and History for 1913, by H. J. Edkenrode, lists James Gilkison on page 42.
In 1787 he appeared as a tithable in Fayette County, Virginia, per Yantis, 1787 Census of Virginia, Now Kentucky; and again in 1790, per Heinemann, First Census of Kentucky 1790. Fayette County later became a part of Kentucky. In 1791 he was in Woodford County as a tithable (Woodford was formed from Fayette). In 1792 and 1793 he appeared in Bourbon County; in 1794 through 1797 he was on the Harrison County tax lists. In 1800 he was included in Mason County as a tithable, per "Second Census" of Kentucky 1800, by Clift. In 1804 he paid taxes in Fleming County (Fleming was formed from Mason in 1798, and he probably did not change geographical locations); and in 1806 he was on the Greenup County tax list. These counties were all in Kentucky.
His name appeared several times in the Harrison County court records in the 1790's. He was actively engaged in the civil affairs of the county: he was a juror several times, as well as an overseer of
the road. In January 1795 he appeared as a defendant in a court case, and in March he was a plaintiff. In 1796 he was on several cases as a juror, and again in 1798. In 1800 Alex Currens, assignee of James Gilkison, brought suit against Michael Isgrig. Alexander Currens was a member of the jury several times in Harrison County records. Please note that James married Elizabeth Currens, and Alexander Currens was, no doubt, a relative; he gave bond for Elizabeth to be administratrix of James' estate in 1807. Alexander was a recorder of Scioto County, and his name appears on many deed records (Evans, A History of Scioto County, Ohio; also, Genealogical Abstracts of Scioto County Ohio Deed Books ABC 1803-1812, prepared by Ohio Genealogical Society). Some have thought that Alexander Currens may have been the son of Elizabeth by a previous marriage. He seemed to follow James and Elizabeth in their travels, in Kentucky and on to Ohio. If not her son, he was probably Elizabeth's brother. He married Elizabeth Barns in Harrison County, Kentucky, 27 November 1797. Graham, History of Richland County, Ohio, on pages 385, 391 and 481, gives the following accounts about him: Alexander Curran purchased at public auction a hewn-log house in December 1816 in Richland County, Ohio, for $56.40; in 182 he was named as county Commissioner of Richland County; and Alex also taught school in Mansfield for one winter.
Deed Book C, page 402, of Bourbon County, Kentucky, includes the sale of a black girl by James Gilkison to William Harriss. James was a resident of Harrison County, and Harriss was of Bourbon County. The girl, named Feller, was sold for sixty pounds in June 1795.
On 9 June 1797, in Mason County, a commission was issued to James Gilkerson as an Ensign of the 15th Regiment. The citizens of that county kept a powerful militia unit to protect them against the
Indians. The county had a fine harbor for boats coming down the Ohio, and they also had a large wagonroad to Lexington per History of Maysville and Mason County, Vol 1, by Clift.
In 1804 James Gilkison sold a rifle gun and livestock to John Gilkison, per Fleming County Deed Book A-2, page 164. You will notice in a previous paragraph that James was a tithable in Fleming County that year, paying on 100 acres on Locust Creek, and no livestock; perhaps he sold his livestock before moving into the county of Greenup. In 1806 James Gilkison was a resident of Greenup County where he was included on the tax list.
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- [S148] Gilkison Family Research, Maureen (Molly) McGuire Colson, (Name: GEDCOM Import;).
Date of Import: Mar 26, 2001
- [S1746] Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S1897] U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;).
- [S1635] Gilkerson (Gilkison.Gilkeson) Genealogical History and Archives, Massie, Evelyn Booth, (Name: Bookcrafters; Location: Chelsea, MI; Date: 1996;), pages 562-564.
- [S1743] The 1787 census of Virginia : an accounting of the name of every white male tithable over 21 years, the number of white males between 16 & 21 years, the number of slaves over 16 & those under 16 years, together with a listing of their horses, cattle & carriages, and also the names of all persons to whom ordinary licenses and physician's licenses were issued, Schreiner-Yantis, Netti, (Name: Genealogical Books in Print; Location: Springfield, Virginia; Date: 1930, 1938, 1987;).
- [S1744] First Census of Kentucky, 1790, Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Charles B. Heinemann, (Name: Janaway Publishing;).
- [S142] Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family: Descendants of George Lewis Coffinberry (1760-1851) Revolutionary War Soldier, compiled by Mrs. Beatrice Berman Scott b. 1893, (Name: published 1927;), page 31.
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