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Researching the descendants of David "Surry" Duncan d. 1745 in Surry Co. VA through Daniel Duncan - Halifax, Granville, Edgecombe, Caswell, Person Counties North Carolina and his children. My third great grandfather, Martin C. Duncan, migrated to Fort Harrod - Harrodsburg, KY in 1802, where he met the beautiful daughter of General James Ray, and married in 1806. Martin C. Duncan was a preacher & teacher as well as a farmer and inn keeper. His children migrated to far away places like Missouri, Iowa, and Texas. One son, Major John Ray Duncan stayed in the small village of Duncansville in northwest Mercer County, KY and operated a small rural store and post office. He was also the deputy county clerk, helping folks in the area with wills & deeds since they were in a remote section with poor roads to the county seat. The Duncansville and Bloomfield toll road ran through this location near the Chaplin River and the Washington and Anderson County junction. The Grapevine Christian Church was started by members of this family, along with the Grahams, who intermarried. Eventually some of the family moved to more productive farm land in nearby Anderson County Kentucky. I am an eighth generation Kentuckian, with my fifth great grandmother, Elizabeth Buntin Ray McGary, being noted as one of the first four mothers to settle in Kentucky. She was accompanied by Mrs. Boone, Mrs. Denton, Mrs. Hogan, and a party of men with her second husband, Hugh McGary, and Daniel Boone in September of 1775. My family has been living in the same area since.
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- Asa Bennett Duncan & Alice Jenkins Duncan Children (17 KB)
Children of Asa Bennett & Alice Jenkins Duncan circa 1908. This picture of my grandfather's family (Charles Talbot Duncan is the little boy on the right) was taken in Anderson County Kentucky near the Mercer & Washington County junction. They lived near Duncansville, Mercer County founded by Martin C. Duncan & sons in the early 1830's near the Grapevine Christian Church on the Chaplin Fork of Salt River. These children were the great grandchildren of General James Ray, hero of historic Fort Harrod Kentucky.
From left to right - Haskel, Chesley, Priscilla, Wilmer, Charles Talbot Duncan
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