John DUNCAN

Father: John DUNCAN
Mother: Eleanor SHARP

Family 1: Mary LAUGHLIN 

                                         __
                  _Thomas DUNCAN _______|
                 |                      |__
 _John DUNCAN ___|
|                |                       __
|                |_Elizabeth ALEXANDER _|
|                                       |__
|
|--John DUNCAN
|
|                                        __
|                 _John SHARP __________|
|                |                      |__
|_Eleanor SHARP _|
                 |                       __
                 |_Jane HAMILTON _______|
                                        |__

Notes

Updated December 11, 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"

"My grandfather and his family, and all his friends, with all persons captured in Riddles and Martin's Station, old and young, black and white, were carried as prisoners by a party of British and Canadians... After he was conveyed to Montreal, his eldest son, John, who afterwards married my father's sister, Polly, and in Kentucky about the year 1817, made his escape from Montreal in company with one or two young Americans, and made their way through the mountains and woods of western New York, and got in safely to Washington's army, having come very near starving on the way, having been driven to eat a polecat, and such wild winter berries and roots as they could find... John rejoined his family after their return to the United States."

"My mother's elder brother, John, married my father's sister, Polly. He removed to Kentucky about the time my father died, and died in Whitley Co. near Williamsburg on his farm, now owned and occupied by Judge Tunstall QUARLES, a number of years since, and his widow, and nearly all her children-all except one-now live in Missouri, not far from Wm. MARTIN."

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

- Name: John DUNCAN
- Gender: male
- Birth Place: VA
- Birth Year: 1765
- Spouse Name: Mary LAUGHLIN
- Spouse Birth Place: PA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1767
- Marriage Year: 1786
- Marriage State: VA

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

"Maellen Ford in her King book, revised edition, call #929.273 K589f, says his name is John Thomas Duncan. Don't know where she got it."