ID: I144522
Name: John James LAMOND
Sex: M
Change Date: 17 OCT 2000
Birth: 10 AUG 1768 in Pennsylvania
Death: 05 DEC 1820 in Kentucky
Note: Name Prefix:<NPFX> Mr. 




Marriage 1 Rebecca Boone GRANT b: 04 JUN 1774 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan Co.NC
• Married: MAY 1789 in Kentucky
Children
1. Eliza Boone LAMOND b: 25 NOV 1795 in Fayette Co.Ky.
2. Francis Augustus LAMOND b: 10 JAN 1798 in Fayette Co.Ky.
3. Mary Grant LAMOND b: 17 JAN 1800 in Campbell Co.Ky.
4. Sarah Grant LAMOND b: 03 OCT 1801 in Fayette Co.Ky.
5. Augustus William LAMOND b: 01 DEC 1803 in Fayette Co.Ky.
6. Rebecca Knox LAMOND b: 04 OCT 1807 in Pendleton Co.Ky.
7. Agnes Verner LAMOND b: 31 OCT 1809 in Fayette Co.Ky.
8. John James LAMOND b: 10 JAN 1813 in Fayette Co.Ky.

Now for the Boones: Elizabeth Boone, the sister of Daniel, married William Grant and according to my records had 11 children. Their daughter, Rebecca Boone Grant, married John James Lamond and they had 8 children. Two of their daughters were Francis Augusta and Sarah Grant Lamond. Francis Augusta married Joseph Winston. As best as I can ascertain, they had 3 children. Francis Augusta died in childbirth(?) and then Joseph married her sister Sarah Grant Lamond and they had 7 children. 

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794The Boone Chair
 
In a little known museum in a well-known part of Fayette County, one of the great treasures of Kentucky history is on display. At Waveland State Historic Site, just off of Nicholasville road, there resides a link to Kentucky's early pioneer period - the Boone Chair. This primitive ladder-back chair was witness to some of the crucial moments in Kentucky's pioneer period.
It is a Pennsylvania chair made in the 1720s and belonged originally to Squire Boone, Daniel Boone's father. The chair was most likely bought when the Boones lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It went with the Boones to North Carolina in 1750 when they settled on the Yadkin River in Rowan County, NC. Then, it came to Kentucky in 1779 when Daniel and his family and neighbors moved to Boonesboro in Madison County. The chair at that point belonged to Daniel's sister Elizabeth Grant, wife of William. Elizabeth actually had two identical chairs; the other has been lost to history. She tied the chairs straddling a horse. The now lost chair carried an anvil.
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The other chair (shown above) had Daniel Boone's four year old niece, Rebecca Boone Grant, tied into it. These pioneers then set out through the mountains for "Kentucke". As tradition tells us, the ladies would take turns riding in the chair when they tired of walking. Little Rebecca Grant spent most of her time in it lest she stray away and be caught by the Indians.
In time, they reached the Kentucky river in what is now Madison County. The party stayed at Boonesboro for a short time and then the Bryans, Grants, Craigs and others resettled north of present-day Lexington at Bryan's Station on the banks of Elkhorn Creek. Bryan's Station had been built in the fall of 1778 by members of the Bryan family.
The first winter at the station was harsh, and there was a constant threat of attack. Some of the settlers left to return to North Carolina. However, many of the pioneers stayed, having resolved to make a home in the wilderness, even if it meant ruin or death.
In 1782, a force of British soldiers and Shawnee warriors attacked the fort at Bryan's Station and laid siege to the settlement. During the three days of the siege, the settlers began to run out of water. A few brave women ventured out of the fort to fetch water from a spring near the fort while the men provided cover for them. One of those who went out was Rebecca Boone Grant, the girl who had been tied into the chair. They brought water back without a shot being fired. Only three settlers were killed during the entire siege. A force of Kentucky Militia, including Daniel Boone, came and drove the attackers away and pursued them to Blue Licks where the militia was defeated some days later. After these tense few years, the Bryan's Station residents fanned out across the surrounding territory, many settling in Lexington. The chair went out of the fort with the Grant family.
In April 1793, Rebecca Boone Grant was married in Lexington to a man named John James Lamond. Rebecca's mother Elizabeth gave her the old chair as a wedding present and Rebecca kept it for the rest of her life. In 1850, when Rebecca was quite advanced in years, the old seat in the chair finally wore out. Rebecca's slave, named Uncle Frank, took corn husks and made them into a cord. He then wove a new seat that remains in the chair to this day.
 
Rebecca, in her old age (at left c.1855), was living with her son John James Lamond II in Trimble County on the Ohio River. In 1854, they decided to move to Union County in western Kentucky, a distance of nearly 150 miles as the crow flies, and since they had to travel by river, that distance was almost doubled. They tore down the house they were living in and built a flat boat from the lumber. The Lamonds floated everything they owned, including the chair, down the Ohio to Union County. When they got there, they took the boat off of the river and rebuilt the house. According to Lamond family tradition, the house was a faithful reproduction of the structure as it had stood in Trimble County.
Rebecca died in 1858 and was buried in Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky. The chair was left to her son. He kept it for the rest of his life and when he died in 1896, the chair went to his son, John James Lamond III. This third John loved the chair; he took it to a

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studio to have his portrait made sitting in it and no doubt he told anyone who would listen the story of the chair. When he died in 1942, the chair was passed to his daughter, Stella Lamond, who was the head of the art department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Stella never married and had no heirs. When Waveland was turned into a museum in the 1950s, she began to donate family items. She put in her will that when she died, the chair was to come to Waveland. In 1968, Stella's sister Lilla K. Lamond brought the chair to the museum. It had finally come home again to Lexington.  The Boone chair is now on display in the mansion.

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794Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond
 
Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond was one of the owners of the Boone Chair at Waveland State Historic Site.  In addition to riding in the chair over the mountains from North Carolina, Rebecca was the last living survivor of the siege of Bryan's Station in 1782.  This daguerreotype was taken shortly before her death in Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky in 1854.  The image is in the collection of Waveland. Her true DOB and DOD are as follows: She was born 4 Jun 1774 and died 7 Nov 1858 in Morganfield, Union Co., Kentucky. She is buried in the Masonic Cemetery.
 
Rebecca Boone Grant Lemond to Lyman C. Draper, July 9, 1845
Draper Manuscripts, 22C34
 
Trimble County Kentucky 9th July 1845
 
Dear Sir
 
Yours of the 10th July inquiring about the Boon family & is Just recevd & I hasten to give you the information you wish in condensed a form & as near as my recollection serves me  Daniel Boone was born in the State of Pennsylvania in February 1735  he imigrated to the State of N Carolina & then to Kentucky  he had 5 Sons & 4 daughters  James the oldest was killed by the Indians on his way to Keny when mooving  Israel 2d was killed at battle of the Blue Licks  Daniel & Jesse died in Missoury  Nathaniel I think is yet living & was when I last heard of him a Colonel in the US Ranging Servis  Squire Boone, the youngest Brother of the old Col Daniel, I have but little recollection of as he settled at an early period a station a little south of Louisville and was driven from it several times by the Indians & finally he mooved across the Ohio into the NW Teritory on the waters of the Waybash  I never assertained the time of his death  I am a daughter ofold Col Daniel Boone’s Sister Elizabeth & William Grant who was born where the City of Washington now stands in the year 1726.  Col John Grant was my oldest brother  my Father went to Kentucky in the Spring of the year 79; in the fall of that year his Son John, the Col, & sixty familys from N Carolina & Virginia Settled Bryants Station & the same year John & 10 other family settled Grants Station 10 Miles East of Lexington; in the summer of 80 the Indians attacked his station and killed several of the Familys & he abandoned the place & went back to NC & remained 5 years & returnd and settled Grants Station
Death of Col. John Grant (1754 - 1826, in Campbell County 5 miles South of Cincinnati on Licking River)  He represented his district in Ky in the Virginia Legislature before it was a State and was a member of the court in Kentucky & was a Military officer many years  he was in NC when the battle of the  Blue Licks was faught  his brothers Grant & William were in that battle and served in the Campain under Col Logan and I might say these brothers were in all most all the Indian engagements .. times and they were not a few   two of my brothers, Samuel was killed in an engagement with the Indians under C. Johnson near the mouth of Grants Creek North of the ... about fifty miles below Cincinnati   you asked of the caracter of the Grant & Boone familys  they were familys that stood first in their day in the moral State of the County  many of them members of the d.. churchs  The old Boone Stock imigrated to the State of Pennsylvania with William Penn and were believers in his religious tenets down to my mother who was a Friend.  The above if of any servise is freely ...
 
 I am in my 72nd year of age and quit infirm and have not the Family record in my reach at the present  therefore please excuse this imperfect sketch
 
Respectfully yours
Rebecca B Lemond
 
LC Draper Esq
 
PS  I had liked to have forgotten the Grant side of the family were Scotch; their religion of course originally was Protestant.
 
To Lyman C. Draper
Baltimore Md
 
{Draper’s footnote}
*Mrs Lamond’s letter, August 1845, says he died Nov. 11, 1825
 

Rebecca Boone Grant Lemond to Lyman C. Draper, August 23, 1845
Draper Manuscripts, 22C35-36
 
Trimble County Kentucky Aug 23, 1845
 
Mr L C Draper
 
Sir – As I could not obtain any family record containing the dates of my Uncles birth and death I wrote to a gentleman of Frankfort from whom I hoped to obtain the proper information, and have waited untill the present time for an answer but have not received it.  If however these facts come within my knowledge you shall be acquainted with them.  My Mother often told me there was just two years difference between her and her brother Daniel Boone – he being her jun – and upon reference to my Father’s family record I find her to have been Feb 5 1733 which would bring his birth to ’35.  They were both born in Pennsylvania between 25 and 30 miles from Philadelphia.
 
In the Spring of ’49 my Grandfather Boone my Mother and Uncle Daniel with two or three other members of the family came out to North Carolina and made preparations for the removal of the remaining portion  in the ensuing fall.  The settlement in which they lived was on the waters of Yadkin—Bear creek and Hunting creek – about 18 miles from ...lisbury and I suppose this to be Boones settlement but am not certain.  My Father William Grant settled there several years previous
to the Boone family, and married my Mother Elizabeth Boone in 1752.  Although there was not to my knowledge, any regular engagement with the Indians, yet they became so troublesome that my Fathers family and a part of my Grandfathers moved to Virginia and remained some time when the Indians easing their hostilities, for a short time, induced him to return  Several years after this, the Indians again  broke up the neighborhood  my Father removed to South Carolina where he remained one year – from thence returned to North C a second time, where he continued to reside untill his removal to Ky 1779. (Probably in 1776—L.C.D.)
A part of the Boone family removed with him each time, and I do not know the names, nor number of them, nor know what became of the remainder during my Fathers journeying  of course I cannot say anything about the part taken by Uncle Daniel.  Sometime previously but the date I do not know, he travelled through Florida in hope of finding a spot he would like better for a home than NC ... he never liked.  But being disappointed he returned to Carolina where he  stayed untill his first visit to Kentucky.  It has often pained me to read descriptions of him – making him to appear as a fierce fighting savage, holding in repugnance the blessings of friends family .. home!  His wanderings were from duty, his ferocity from necessity and his isolation from compulsion.  No man loved society better nor more ardently attached to his family nor loved society better than he – his noble daring not the dictates of his heart, prompting ... to brave the wily Indian in his hunting ground or repel the m... attacks of his tomahawk. 
 
It is my belief that he was a Milita captain before he left Carolina – at least I think my parents have so told me.  The anecdote ... has shining his “little girls” (the name he always gave his wife) eyes, is  as fabulous as it is absurd.
 
With regard to Blue Lick battle, all I can remember is that the spies returned with inteligence of a large body of Indians having crossed the Ohio and being on the march to Bryants Station and to cut it off, Uncle Daniel with Col. McGarry and their respective companies were immediately on the march to meet them - leaving Logan to collect a reinforcement and follow on.  They reached the bank of North Licking without opposition, and halted to consider.  From Uncle ... knowledge of the Geography of the country and of Indian warfare ... found they were encamped on the hill sides which commanded ... deep ravine just opposite the ford, and proposed crossing the river either above or below the ford and decoy the Indians into open battle.  But Col. McGarry a brave yet imprudent man and the Sen officer, rashly declared that “no man but a coward would refuse to fight.” My brother Wm who was standing by Uncle at the time has often told me that this unjust and cutting taunt deeply affected Uncle Daniel, that he actually burst into tears and after answering that no man before had ever dared to call him a coward, commanded his men to follow him, saying “come on we are all slaughtered men.”  No sooner had they entered the ..., after crossing the river, than the enemy opened their fire upon them from the clifts and cut them down by scores, or as some have remarked “shot them down like pigeons.”  Of course, they retreated in the utmost confusion – those crossing first “treeing” and defending the rest as well as possible.  The Indians pursued them nearly to Bryants Station -- those who fortunately saved the horses covering their retreat. Col. Logans company met them while retreating.  My 2nd brother, Israel, was in Logans company, but how many killed, their names, or how Uncle Daniel escape do not know – neither am acquainted with the particulars of his son’s death.
 
My brother Col John Grant was born Feb 30, 1754.  He came to Ky in '79 and settled his station with ten or twelve families in the winter of 1780, four miles north of Bryants Station on what is now called the Maysville road.  In the  spring of the same year ’80 – when the gates were one morning opened to allow the men to go to their work, the Indians fired upon them and killed two men – Capt.  S..kers father and I think his uncle, and wounded a negro woman who was milking a cow.  I think these were all who were either killed or wounded.  The remainder of the men reached the station as quickly as possible and fired upon the Indians through the port holes nearly all day.  The number of Indians slain is unknown as they…
 
 
 
Letter from the Draper Manuscripts, 22C41.
Rebecca Boone Grant Lemond to Lyman C. Draper, March 22, 1853 Draper Manuscripts, 22C41
 
 
March the 22 1853
 
Mr Draper
 
Dear Sir  You wish to know Some of the particulars of my Mother & Uncles having the Smallpox, I cannot tell you only I know they had it before they left Pensylvania. 
2 – I donot know what year my father went to South Carolina, but I have heard my Father Say it was after he came from Virginia which I think might be about the year 1762, but I donot pretend to be very correct about dates, it was many years before I was born. 
3 – As to Col. Samuel Bryan, I do not know where he died, but I Suppose on his farm where he lived before the war, that was on the Yadkin river the Shallow ford, in what was then calld Bryants Settlement, as to the Political opinion of William James &  Morgan Bryan  I know they diffrd very mutch from the Col for I knew them after I was capable of judging, I think there was no finer family than the Bryans, but some of them were greatly in the opinion of liberty, but it was far from having the opinion of all.
 
I believe the different opinion in Politicks was the greatest reason that induced my Father to come to Kentucky as soon as he did, I have often heard him say; it was one of the most trying things he ever met with, to See Some of his best friends so carried away in so bad a cause.  Col. Saml Bryan was one he so highly esteemed.
 
I know nothing of John Bryan  I had forgot to tell you Uncle Samuel Boone with his family went with my Father to South Carolina.  He remained there till the fall of 1779 and that fall moved to Bryant Station
 
My father, William & James Bryan, with 11 men but I donot know their Names, came to Bryans Station.  I expect in 1763 {“[1776]” is written in brackets above the date 1763}, Cleared Ten acres of ground put it in corn & when they laid it by went back for their familys, but was dissapointed, my fathers waggon & team was Presst to carry provision for a Indian campain, Brother Israel drove the team, that prevented them from coming that year.  There was many things took place that prevented them from coming till the Spring 1776  on the tenth of Aprile my father with his little band landed at Bryans Station, it consisting of my Mother, Brother William, sister Elizabeth, my ... and a colord woman, William Bryan & his Daughter Hannah, Sam Bryan, wife and one child; William Hays wife an one child, Mr. Jones with his family & a young man name of garton – they put in corn, there little Field with some more they cleared & in the fall Uncle Bryan & my father went back for the remainder of the family; that winter our Station consisted of 60 Familys & no prospect for Bread but what little corn was raised there.  Uncle Bryan, Brother Israel & Brother William was three that offered there servis as Hunters to supply the Station (there was other hunters at ...) & in a party went out without agare.. or Spies as they were calld to ca..ge in the woods, & if Sign of the Indians to give the alarm to the Hunters, or the Station  The day Uncle B got his Death wound, brother Israel was also wounded, he left his horse an took a tree just as he fired the second time, while loading again he was Shot and fell; there was a Mr. Hargol who saw him lying bleeding  he got of his horse, put my Brother on & held him on for some distance, till he became so faint from loss of blood that Mr. Hargol was forced to take him down, tore a part of his linning & bandaged his wound, that that day there was 8 of the party wounded.  At that time we had no doctors among us & Aunt Bryan & my mother was allmost all that attended on the
sick & wounded.  Uncle was wounded & Aunt could not assist, it is one of the first things that at this time I recollect perfectly is my going with my Mother to assist her in carrying her pail of ooze & ..on of Elm bark bitten to dress the Poor wounded mens wounds, my Mother was a woman of a cheerful disposition & a great fortitude.
 
The winter of ’79 & ‘80 my Father had it very hard:  my Brothers engaged in hunting for the Station, after our little supply of corn was gone, our only chance for bread was packing corn from Louisville  then our Paper Money was of little value, it was under one hundred dollars for one of Silver.  The men could not go only in large companys for fear of the Indians, then there was no road but a Buffalo path, and when we got a little corn it was ground on a handmill.  When we got a little Salt, my Father had to pack his Pots to the Blue Licks to get a few pounds of very inferiour quallity.  That winter my Fathers family was large – we had more cabbin rooms than any one in the Station:  our cabbins made one and of the Station except the big gate.  In one of his cabbins, they commenced a trench & dug it to the Spring and covered it over so they could go to the Spring in safty for fear being attacked and starved out for water.  Our cabbins was near the Spring.  The winter '79 & '80 the Indians were very troublesome, they killed our men, Stole our horses, & destroyed all our stock – Brothers Sam & Squire went out one day, but a few yards from the stockade’s fence, to drive in a cow; they were going round the root of a tree which was blown down but the body did not quite reach the ground.  They met an Indian – boath partys gave back, my Brothers had the presence of mind to secrete themselves under the body of the tree.  The Indian walked on the boddy of the Tree with the hope of suing the cane shake; but the boys did not quit their Share of Safety till they found the Indian had left the place; & then they got Safe to the fort. 
 
That winter my Father had a large family about him.  Brother John’s Family – Brother Mitchels family & a large one of his own; that winter there was a great many gentlemen came to Kentucky on Land business & as my Father & uncle Bryan had the most Cabbins, they had the most company, I have heard my Mother say that they at Some times that winter had a Family of over 50.  I only say this to shew the weight that lay on my Father as the head of so large a Family.
 
When they went to Louisville for corn they had to go in large Company, for Fear of the Indians; at one time my Father Started & forgot something – Brother Willm went after him & over took the party, my Father was leading a Horse with a Buffalo halter the young horse was unbroken & got Fritend, my Father got his hand entangled in the halter and lost his middle finger on his right hand  he sufferd greatly from the wound & Brother W went on with the Company through the winter  Brother John & some men was building Cabbins and making arrangements to move to his own Land 5 miles North of Bryan’s Station.  Early in the Spring ’80, he with 7 Familys, moved to his Station  they had not been there but a few weeks, when one morning as soon as the men opend the gate to go to the work they were attacked by the Indians   3 was killed  & several wounded; among the rest a woman of my Brother’s was going out to milk, that broke up his Station.  Brothers wife had a babe 3 days old, they rapd her up put her on a Sled & brought her to Bryans Station as soon as he could   he Started for Carolina with a great many others   my Father insisted on my Mother going also with Elizabeth Moses & myself, Brother Israel was to go with us, to get horses to move the balance of the Family back as the Indians had taken all of our horses except 4, when my Father came here (when my Father came to Kentucky he brought with him Twenty Seven Horses) my Mother continued to go & purchas horses to move the ballance back   when they went to Start, there was nohorse to carry a bed for my Mother, my Father gave a young the Name of Colwell 4 hundred acres of Land lying
10 miles North of Lexington for his horse (which we kept but Three weeks till the Indians took him)  my Mother Started with the company; the first Night they camped about 10 miles from the Station, Some of the company told my Mother, that my Father did not think of returning till Fall, as he intended to try to raise Some corn & bring them back again.  Brother Israel was to bring horses for there use he felt better Satisfyed now he thought my Mother & the younger children was in Safty ---- as soon as my Mother heard it early in the morning She packed her horses & returnd to the Station deturmind to Suffer hardships & danger with my Father – my Father Said it was one of the most trying moments of his Life, he knew what hardships & hungers She would have to go through & he knew She was one of the Noblest of women and able adviser & there was no inconvniance She would not go through for the advantage of her Husband & Children  that Spring Brother Israel Married Susanna Bryan, daughter of James Bryan  --- ..he 1780 the Indians were not so troublesom as they had been.  This year my Father raised a fine crop of corn.  Brothers Saml & Squire came out to see my Mother, in the fall when the ballances of the family came, with the intention of returning in the spring to the School they had left, Samuel Stayd but Squire returned to College to stay till he got his Eduation & after got an appointment of Survayer in Pennsyl  While on one of his Survaying tours his camp was attacked, one many killed & himself wounded  they were more than 20 Miles from any Settlement  it was cold & Snowing, my Brother soon became so weak from the loss of Blood & fatigue that he could not go any further, he Sat down on a log, & found it was hollow, he then broke some cane crept in the log feet foremost & drew the cane in to him from the cold wind – next day he got to Col Bledso where he was kindly taken care of; it was along time before he was able to go home to Carolina  Brother Saml got an appointment of Survayer in Kentucky; he went through a great deal of hardship an danger – in the year 1789 he went to Virginia on land business & Married Lydia Craig daughter of Elijah Craig  of his Death you are acquainted with the circumstance.
 
In the Spring ’81 My Father moved to Mercer County, 8 miles North of Danville, near the Mouth of Hickman – he built Some large cabbins & inclosed them with Strong picketing, the Night after he finished his little fort the Indians took his last horse.
 
I forgot to tell you, moving was but aslow business with 4 horses an 2 Slids, our corn Bufflow & Bears meat, was the greatest Part of our  plan ...   negro woman and child was to Stay at Mr Rogers to take care of things, till the last load, before my Brothers came back  She was takn prisoner by the Indians & a young man namd Jones Killd near the Gate; that day there came & express from Lexington for assistance & all of the men had left the Station, She was not more than one hundred yards from the gate – the women saw her draggd off, but could not Save her. 
 
When the Indians took our last horse there was a gentleman had just come to Smith’s Station of the name of Archable Woods who brought Severel horses  he loand my Father Some till my Brother went to Carrolina for a fresh Supply.
 
Mr. Woods was A Brother in law of Ben Cooper who Married my Father’s Niece (Mr Woods was killd at the Battle of the Blue Licks)  Brother William was in that Battle, also, & B. Cooper  Brother after crossing the river left his horse and took a tree to defend those crossing, his horse left him  Mr B Cooper caught him, they did not go far till William dismounted again to assist some Poor wounded man, his horse left him the Second time, Mr. Cooper was near on horseback overtook & brought him back – Brother Israel was with Logans Party  you know they did not get to the Battleground   There was noone lived in our little Fort the first year but our own Family  the second year Uncle George Boon & Jesse Cafar lived with us, the, next Spring they moved back to Madison
 
 For four Summers after we moved to Mercy the Indians was troublesome stealing horses but never killed any Person in our Neighbourhood  the second year they Took a boy prisnor named Lewis Garrard  it was not more than one mile from my fathers – in 1787 in the Spring  Part of my Fathers Family came to Fayatte 10 Miles north of Lexington to his own Land, to raise corn & build to bring the remainder in the fall, our nearest neighbours was six mile that was Grants Station (my Brother John Grant had returnd ___ years before (Moses Mitchel & John Landers my two Brothers in law, had come also), Brother William had not been there at work more than a few weeks when the Indians came through the Neighbourhood, killed Elizabeth Sanders in Sight of her Father’s house  She was going part of the way home with a little girl the name of Mosby who had stayd with her all Night, they also killd Mr. Paton [Peyton]  They went on further near the road that goes to Cincinati killd & took whole Family the name of Shanks – that broke up the Settlement; they all moved to Grants Station for Safty) that Prevented my Father before he was 60 he had gone through so mutch fatigue boath of body & mind, when he left Carolina he Sold two Farms & two mills an in Payment was to take Paper Money; you know the fate of that Currency, he bought 5 warrents to locate Lands  he lost every entry except one, that was four Hundred acres  four Hundreds of them he gave Mr. Colwell for A horse – when he went to Mercer he soon cleard afarm raised a great deal of corn  he supplyd the nedy & never Sent the Poor empty from his door; his cabbins was free to every traveler who chose to Shelter under its Rough.   The first association held in Kentucky, by the Baptist Church, was held in my Father’s cabbins in Mercer and at meeting there was the widdows of Trigg Christian Woods McBride Lapsley Fields & Vancleave, you may be Sure it was a meeting of Sympathy, those ware the Relicts of my Fathers belovd friends & acquaintance.
 
Mr. Draper I might quit I fear you will not have the patiance to wade through this uninteresting detail, Mr. Draper you may form an Idea of the hardships & privations my Parents went through in Kentucky, but the half is not told  This is the only thing of any length I have rote for many years  You might know I neer went to School one Month in my life, what little I learnd was from my Parents, my riting bad my diction poor speling worse  I fear very much you cannot read it, but I thought it would be rather a curiosity to see a letter from an Auld woman that never went to School  I assure you it was a great task for I could not rite but afew minuts till my Hand would become so weak & unstuddy I would have to quit  I have heartfore got my Granddaughters to rite for me
 
I did not tell you that Sister Sanders Second Son James was killed at Winchesters defeat & Brother Israels Second Son William was killd at Dudlys defeat, I could enumerate a great many of my Mothers near Connections if worthwhile  I only tell you those things to let you know how our Family has sufferd in the farwest
 
 I believe my Father was worth more Property, when he left Carrolina than he was when he died, but he had given all his Children some thing to live on
 
 Mr Draper please excuse me for riting So mutch, that you have no Intrust in,  Sir I wish to purchase a coppey of your work when finished
 
 My Brother I believe was in allmost all of the Scouts that ever was calld out in our Neighbourhood  William was in Logans Campaign & also in Scotts
 
 Believe me your well wishes & Friend  Rebecca B Lemond
 
Lyman C Draper

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