Names: Doniphan, Keith

 

From: B&J Bickell [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Brown County Surnames

Ken ; I would like to share the following info regarding Peyton R. Keith who died in Mt Sterling, Brown County in  1853. Is there a historical society or such; we plan to visit the area next month. Thank you, Bill Bickell, Roseville, California

PEYTON RANDOLPH KEITH

PEYTON RANDOLPH KEITH B 1786 IN FAUGUIER CO, VA., DIED JANUARY, 1853 MT. STERLING, BROWN COUNTY, ILLINOIS WAS THE SON OF JOHN KEITH & MARY DONIPHAN.

TO PROVE THIS STATEMENT:

1:THE TAX LISTS FOR FAUQUIER COUTY, VA. FROM 1797 TO 1819 FOUND THE FOLLOWING ENTRIES RELATIVE TO JOHN KEITH AND PEYTON R. KEITH:

IN 1799 & 1800 JOHN KEITH IS LISTED & INCLUDES JOSEPH D KEITH AS A TITHABLE PERSON IN THAT HOUSEHOLD. IF AGE 16 WAS THE BASIS FOR AN ASSESSING TAX TO MALE WHITE PERSONS THEN JOSEPH WAS BORN ABOUT 1783.

IN 1801 JOHN KEITH IS LISTED & ANDERSON KEITH IS INCLUDED IN THAT HOUSEHOLD: THIS WOULD INDICATE THAT ANDERSON WAS B ABOUT 1785.

IN 1802 JOHN KEITH IS LISTED WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL TITHABLE WHITE PERSONS; THE DATE OF THAT ENTRY WAS 4/7/1802.

IN 1803 JOHN KEITH IS LISTED WITH PEYTON R KEITH; THE DATE OF THAT ENTRY WAS 6/9/1803; PEYTON R WOULD HAVE BEEN BORN ABOUT 1787 ON THE BASIS OF HIM BEING 16YR OLD AT THAT TIME.

(IN LATE 1808 OR EARLY 1809 JOHN KEITH DIES , SON ALEXANDER D. KEITH WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF JOHN’S ESTATE. ALEXANDER IS ALSO APPOINTED GUARDIAN FOR JOHN‘S YOUNGEST SON: ORPHAN, GEORGE KEITH)

IN 1809 ALEXANDER IS LISTED WITH PEYTON R. TITHABLE AT THAT PROPERTY

IN 1812 PEYTON R IS LISTED SEPARATELY & TAXED ON HIS ONE BLACK MALE AGE12 - 16 , 2 BLACKS AGE GREATER THAN 16,AND ONE HORSE,

IN 1813 PEYTON R LISTING INCLUDES TWO TITHABLES WHITES, 3 BLACKS AND TWO HORSES.

IN 1814 PEYTON IS LISTED WITH TWO BLACKS AND THREE HORSES.

( IN 1814, PEYTON R. KEITH OF FAUQUIER COUNTY , VA. PURCHASES THE 1/9 SHARE OF JOHN KEITHS ESTATE ALLOCATED TO GEORGE KEITH, JOHN’S YOUNGEST SON. AT THAT TIME GEORGE AND HIS WIFE AGNES MCCOY KEITH WERE RESIDENTS OF MASON COUNTY , KENTUCKY.)

IN 1815 THE TAX LIST IS QUITE EXTENSIVE COMPARIED TO OTHER YEAR; PEYTON IS LISTED WITH 2 BLACKS, 16 AND ONE BETWEEN 12 AND 16, 5 HORSES, 9 CATTLE., ONE CLOCK MADE OF WOOD WITHOUT A CASE AND 16 DRAWERS OF FURNITURE MADE OF OTHER THAN MAHOGANY.

2. IN 1820 PEYTON R. KEITH IS LISTED IN THE FEDERAL CENSUS FOR MASON COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

 

3.IN 1821 PEYTON R PURCHASED 149 ACRES IN LEWIS CO., KY. THE BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE HEREIN BELOW INDICATES THAT FATHER PEYTON R APPRENTICED SON ISHAM KEITH, BORN 1808, TO LUDLOW OWENS AT ABOUT AGE 17 IN GERMANTOWN, MASON CO,. KY; IN 1824 MASON COUNTY RECORDS IS FOUND THAT PEYTON R. KEITH PURCHASED TWO SLAVES FROM MANSFIELD SETTLE , SETTLE WAS PEYTON’S WIFE , JUDITH GIBSON’S AUNT’S HUSBAND.

IN 1834 PEYTON R TRANSERS HIS PROPERTY IN LEWIS COUNTY TO HIS SON. JAMES M. KEITH. THIS OCCURS AT WHAT APPEARS TO BE ABOUT THE TIME OF THE BIRTH OF THEIR YOUNGEST CHILD , IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS IS THE TIME AND PLACE OF HIS SECOND WIFES DEATH. IN 1836 THE BILL OF SALE TO JAMES IS REVERSED AND PEYTON RECLAIMS THAT PROPERTY, SELLS HIS INTERESTS AND MOVES MOST OF THE FAMILY TO ILLINOIS. SON JAMES REMAINS IN LEWIS COUNTY FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS.

PEYTON R HAD MAINTAINED THE KEITH FAMILY TRADITION IN THAT THE GIVEN NAME OF HIS CHILDREN FOLLOWED THE LEAD OF REV JAMES KEITH AND MARY RANDOLPH NAMING HIS CHILDREN: ISHAM, JAMES, JOHN, ELIZA, MARY, AND JUDITH.

THERE IS 1846 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JAMES M. KEITH ,THEN OF MT. STERLING, ILLINOIS, TO “DEAR COUSIN” WILLIAM A. GRIGSBY, SON OF ELIZABETH GRIGSBY, OF PUTNAMVILLE, INDIANA. ELIZABETH GRIGSBY WAS THE WIFE OF TALIAFERO GRIGSBY, AND DAUGHTER OF REV. JAMES KEITH AND MARY DONIPHAN KEITH.

4.PERSONAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT CITIZEN’S OF BARTHOLOMEW & ALLEN CO,. IN PUBLISHED IN 1879 WHICH INCLUDES A BIOGRAPHY OF ISHAM KEITH WHICH STATES: “BORN IN FAUGUIER CO.., VA ON THE 15TH DAY OF SEPT 1808; HIS FATHER, PEYTON KEITH, IMMIGRATED TO KENTUCKY WITH HIS FAMILY ABOUT THE YEAR 1817.

5.THE BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHUYLER & BROWN CO..,IL PUBLISHED IN 1892 INCLUDES A SKETCH OF PEYTON R KEITH BORN 1856, WHICH STATES THAT HE WAS ” THE GRANDSON OF PEYTON R KEITH WHO REARED A FAMILY OF THE FOLLOWIN CHILDREN: ISHAM, JAMES, JOHN, ALEXANDER, PEYTON A., MARY, ELIZA A.. AMERICA,. SUSAN, CAROLINE & MARY J”. THESE BIOGRAPHIES SUPPORT ISHAM KEITH AS PEYTON R.’S SON AND HELP TO CONFIRM THE MIGRATION OF THIS FAMILY AS FOUND IN CENSUS & PUBLIC RECORDS.

6.PEYTON R’S WILL DATED JAN 1853 NAMED ALL KNOWN CHILDREN OF HIS MARRIAGE TO JUDITH GIBSON. REFERENCES IN PUBLIC RECORDS TO THIS PEYTON ALWAYS INCLUDE THE MIDDLE INITIAL “R”. THE DISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY FOUND IN JOHN KEITH’S WILL OF 1809 PROVIDED TWO SLAVES TO SON PEYTON R.; ALL PUBLIC RECORD DOCUMENTS INVOLVING LAND OR PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDES THE “R”.; AND THE SIGNATURE ON HIS WILL READS “PEYTON R KEITH”

7. THE WORK OF FAMILY HISTORIANS, KEITH FRAZIER SOMERVILLE AND J. MONTGOMERY SEAVER, INDICATE THAT THIS PEYTON WAS THE SON OF JOHN AND MARY DONIPHAN KEITH. AS ONE STUDIES THE OTHER “PEYTON KEITH’S” OF THIS ERA ONE FINDS THAT NO LINKS TO OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS, NOR SIMILIARITIES TO FAMILY TRADITION CAN BE FOUND LINKING THE PEYTON, BORN 1778 , OF AMHERST AND ORANGE COUNTIES TO THE FAMILY OF THE REV. JAMES KEITH. THE PEYTON , BORN 1816, IN KENTUCKY WAS THE SON OF THOMAS A. KEITH, OLDEST SON OF JOHN AND MARY DONIPHAN KEITH.

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