John L. LAUGHLIN

Father: John LAUGHLIN
Mother: Mary PRICE

Family 1: Sarah DUNCAN 

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                  _John LAUGHLIN _|
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 _John LAUGHLIN _|
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|--John L. LAUGHLIN
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|                 _Thomas PRICE __|
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|_Mary PRICE ____|
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                 |_Mary CAWOOD ___|
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Notes

Updated December 13, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) LAUGHLIN, Samuel Hervey, "A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and Of My Private Transactions including Studies, Travels, Readings Correspondence, Business Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Memoranda of Men, Literature, Etc From January 1st, 1845 to August, 1845 and Sketch of my Life from Infancy"

The John LAUGHLIN of this record is the father of the author.

"My grandfather John LAUGHLIN had married Mary PRICE in Pennsylvania, removed to what is now Botetourt County, near the place where the town of Fincastle stands previous to the year 1766, for in that year his second son, John who is my father, was born at that place... My father, John LAUGHLIN, was born on November 4th, 1766."

"My father I have stated, was born on the 4th of November 1766, in the same state. They were married in Washington County Virginia, at the place where my grandfather lived and died after the Revolution, sometime in the year 1794. I was born of that marriage, on the 1st day of May, 1799, in the same state and county."

"My father and mother had the following children that lived to years of discretion-myself, Nathan Montgomery, John Randolph, Henry Clinton, Sydney Nelson, Nelson Singleton, Washington Sharpe, and Laura Matilda."

"My father, now (March 1845) in his 79th year, though so lame and crippled by rheumatism, by which he has been more or less afflicted since his 30th year, has general health sound and vigorous, and no failure of mind except in memory of late events-walks with the aid of a staff, or rides a gentle horse a mile from Hickory Hill to McMinnville to the post office, to see his grandchildren, or to vote in the election. In 1799-1800, he aided actively in the election of Mr. Jefferson to the Presidence, and has all his life been a warm democratic republican, and in 1824, 1828, and 1832 warmly supported Gen. Jackson for President, as he did Mr. Van Buren in 1836 and 1840. and President Polk in 1844. He never voted for a federalist or whig for any office, high or low, in his life. Both he and my mother were extensive readers of newspapers-and both more minutely read in the details of our national history than any two persons I have known."

"In the reminiscences of my grandfather LAUGHLIN, and my father, I have omitted to mention in the proper connection that a fierce Indian war broke out on Holston, about Abingdon, in the year 1776, and that the people, among whom was my grandfather's family were for a long time confined to an old stockade fort, called Black's Fort, which stood on the hill just south of the public part of Abingdon, across the little creek."

"I ought also to have stated, that my father, besides being in 1788 in Martins campaign to Look-Out Mountain, was in other expeditions"

(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Name: John L. LAUGLIN
- Gender: male
- Birth Place: PA
- Birth Year: 1766
- Spouse Name: Sarah DUNCAN
- Spouse Birth Place: VA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1773
- Marriage Year: 1793

(3) Mostert family records, August 4, 2000.

"IGI 1993, film #1553468 Batch 5011337-35 Says he was born in Botetourt, VA."