John Bratton

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John Bratton, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"
Name: John Bratton
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Spouse's Name: Nancy Hitt
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Event Date: 07 Feb 1818
Event Place: , Mason, Kentucky
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M53987-2
System Origin: Kentucky-EASy
GS Film number: 281841
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Sources:

Author: Gloria Kabler Helton-glorhelt@verizon.net
Title: Rootsweb.com-Kentucky Kinfolk(glorhelt)-#6171967
Repository:
Name: Rootsweb World Connect Project
Title: http://www.FamilySearch.org
Page: CD43 Pin#413767
Title: Rootsweb World Connect Project
Publication: Location: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=;
Repository:
Name: Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project
Page: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=ggcat&id=I14653 Contact: Frank, ggcat@insightbb.com
Text: No sources given by ggcat.
Author: Bobby L Bratton
Title: Bratton Families of North Central Kentucky
Publication: Name: Bratton University Press; Location: Lexington, KY; Date: Abt. 1985;
Repository:
Name: Robertson County Public Library
Note:
Kentucky Room
Page: 3-ring notebook contains this pub.
Text: See attached media

Contains much data re John Bratton (supposed son of James) and his wife Nancy Hitt, and their children including Aaron Hitt Bratton (who m Ann Kabler). Also details Aaron's son James William Johnson Bratton (who m Sarah Jane Jenny Fraysure) and his daughter Ida May Bratton (who m Stephen Jefferson Howard).
Author: Earl J Hitt
Title: Family Trees-Rootsweb-HittHaynie&RelatedFamilies
Publication: Name: Earl J Hitt;
Repository:
Name: Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project
Page: Contact: earljhitt@sbcglobal.net http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hitthaynie&id=I1
Text: Includes descendants of Peter Hitt down through Nancy Hitt who married John Bratton.
Title: Rootsweb World Connect Project-JBHitt
Page: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jbh&id=I23825
Title: Family Trees-Ancestry.com-Soholt Family Tree
Page: owner: msoholt
Text: See attached notes
Note:

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Samuel PEPPER Sr. b. abt. 1725 England (?) d. 1797 Bracken Co KY.
m. 1749 Elizabeth HOLTON b. 1 Apr 1730 Prince William, VA d. 6 Jul 1820
Mason Co. KY dau of Alexander d. 1782 and Elizabeth Brickey Holton.

Our direct line

*Samuel PEPPER JR.b. 22 Feb 1756
m. 15 Dec 1778 Katherine Amelia CONNOR b. VA.

*William PEPPER b. 5Aug 1779 m.7Sept 1802 Mary "Polly" SCROGGS b. 1Feb 1784

*Samuel Stuart PEPPER b. 1803 KY m.22Oct 1829 Dorcas WILEY b. 1811 KY

*My Greatgrandfather; William Allen PEPPER b.29April 1831 m.IL 19Oct 1865 Elizabeth HILL b. 14 May 1840 buried in Jackson, MN.

MY GRANDMOTHER Inez Amanda PEPPER b. 23 June 1882 m.3 Nov 1909 Charles ROUSE
b. 19 May 1882 buried in Lakefield, MN.

My parents; Wallace ROUSE b.19 Feb 1912 m. 28 Aug 1938 Emma Catherine MIER

Pepper line:
I have written--Samuel Sr.& Elizabeth Holton children as
Mary, Jeremiah, Elijah, John, Ann, Elizabeth, Louisa,
Samuel jr., William, Frances and Jesse.

Samuel Jr. and Katherine "Millie" Connor's children as
William, Samuel, Jesse, Lucy, John, Robert, Nelson,
Catherine, Amelia and Lucretia.

I have William (1) and Mary "Polly" Patterson Scroggs children as
Samuel Stuart, Amanda Cowden, Isaabella Lyle, William Allen,
Ebenezer Sroggs, Alex.Lyle, Frances Jane, Polly Ann(Mary?),
Andrew Jackson, Maria Louise, Julia Ann, Jesse Holton,
Ensebia Penelope, and Jacob Applegate.

I have Samuel Stuart and Dorcas Wiley's children as
William Allen, Mary Elizabeth, Martha Jane, Letta Poline,
Hannah Amanda, Penelope Ann, Alexander Campbell,
Samuel Barton, Frances Holton, John Walker and Dorcas Samantha.

William Allen Pepper and Elizabeth Hill's children:

My Grandmother Inez Amanda PEPPER had:
THREE brothers--
1 died in a fall out of a high chair-Theodore Allen
1 had infantile paralysis-Emmett
1 was a lumberjack in Oregon- Jay
None of the males married and our PEPPER line dropped.

TWO Sisters: Charlotte and Alice.
Charlotte m. William ROUSE
(Charlotte & Inez m. Rouse brothers)
Charlotte was a schoolteacher. Lived in ND and WA.

Had 1 son Wayne.
Alice m. Charles MAUNDERS. Had 1 son-died as infant and buried in Jackson, MN. . Alice died in British
Columbia 1931.

Va. and Ky. Holton's

Alexander Holton, Sr., was married to Elizabeth and she is mentioned in his will dated 5 Mar 1782 in Fauquier Co., Va. Son William is named the executor.
All material and goods are left for her care. I don't have a death date for her. Supposedly she was Elizabeth Brickey born about 1707 in Va.

Four children -

Alexander, Jr. who married Margaret Mc Ginnis Sarah who married a Johnson and died 28 June 1820 in Mason Co., Ky.
Elizabeth Ann who married Samuel Pepper and went to
Mason Co.
William who married Abigail Gorman and died 2 Dec 1831 in Mason Co., Ky.

They had ten children and all went to Mason Co., except for Milly who married a Orear and stayed in Va.
Alexander Holton who married Sarah Hieatt
John B. who married Nancy Blasinger
William Holton, Jr. who married Elizabeth Cook
Elijah Gorman who married Susanne Mosby
Rebecca Holton who married John Dowden
Jesse Holton who married Jane Ireland
Elizabeth who married Robert Walton
Enoch Walton who married Martha "Patsy" S. Brock
Abner who marred Mary Ann Blackerby.

Enoch Holton who married Patsy is Dee Bouces husbands 3rd great grandfather.
Enoch and Patsey's had :
James Bracken Holton - great grandfather
John C. Holton = grandfather
Maude Holton = mother

msoholtadded this on 14 Jan 2009
Title: Family Files-Bratton
Page: Handwritten information
Text: Birth and death dates recorded

See media attached
Title: KYGenWeb-Bracken County
Repository:
Name: http://www.kykinfolk.com/bracken/
Page: From the Robertson County Review, July, 1971 http://www.kykinfolk.com/bracken/bcn/tabitha/tt20080828.jpg
Text: Lists the children of John and Nancy Hitt Bratton with birth and death dates.
Title: The Robertson County Review
Repository:
Name: Personal copy of John Howard
Page: July, 1971. Centennial Edition.
Text: Articles on the children of John and Nancy Hitt Bratton. Special focus on Aaron H Bratton and George Washington "Wash" Bratton, on Bratton's Mill (or Pinhook), KY. Dates given.
Author: Bobby L Bratton
Title: Bratton Families of North Central Kentucky
Publication: Name: Bratton University Press; Location: Lexington, KY; Date: Abt. 1985;
Repository:
Name: Robertson County Public Library
Note:
Kentucky Room
Text: Possible Family of James Bratton and Elizabeth his wife:
John-10/6/1791-2 to4/10/1846
Eli- ca 1815-aft 1870
Taylor ca 1803-1890
Sally
Nancy
Aaron- b 1806
Milton b 1812
Elizabeth
David- died bef 1823
Wallace- ca 1800-9/26/1888
Robert b 1818
Benjamin
Title: Family Bible-Bratton
Repository:
Name: John Howard Family Files
Text: See media attached
Title: Kentucky Marriages 1802-1850
Repository:
Name: http://www.ancestry.com
Author: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
Title: Marriage Records of Mason County, KY Vol III 1814-1820
Publication: Location: Chillicothe, MO;
Repository:
Name: Kentucky Gateway Museum-Gen. and Hist. Reseearch Library
Text: 1818 Bratton, John and Nancy Hitt, Feb 7, 1818. Aaron Hitt bondsman.
Title: Mason, Ky Genweb, Groom Index 3
Page: http://kykinfolk.com/mason/bk3groom.html
Text: 7 Feb 1818 John Bratton and Nancy Hitt. Bondsman: Aaron Hitt
Title: Ancestry.com-Joshua Clinton Hale's Family Tree
Page: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/1354740/family/familygroup?fpid=-1949361805 Contact: brohale
Text: lists Nancy Hitt being born in Cherry Grove, Grant, Ky in 8/7/1799 and death in Robertson, Ky 6/27/1859 Married John Bratton, son of James Bratton and Elizabeth Peper.
Author: B.C. Holtzclaw
Title: Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750
Publication: Name: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc.; Location: Virginia; Date: 1964;
Repository:
Name: John Howard Family Files
Page: p185-192 Chapter 11: The Heite-Hitt Family
Text: Discusses Aaron Hitt, grandson of Peter Hitt the immigrant and probably the son of John Hitt, who married Catherine Holtzclaw and had a daughter Nancy Hitt who married John Bratton.
Title: Marriage Bond-Mason County, Kentucky
Page: Reproduced in Ancestry forum post by Terri Duff
Text: See Notes above.
Note: "Know by all Men by these Presents That we John Bratton and Aaron Hitt are held firmly unto the Commonwealth of Kentuck in the penal sum of 50 pounds current money, for the payment of which well and truly be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, or administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated the 7th day of February 1818. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is intended to be had and solemnized between the said Jno Bratton and Nancy Hitt. Now if there is no legal cause to obstruct the same, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue."
signed "John Bratton" with a circle with what look like his initials and "A.Hitt" with a circle and what appear to be his initials.

John married Nancy Hitt on 7 Feb 1818 in Maysville Mason Kentucky. (Nancy Hitt was born on 7 Aug 1799 in Cherry Grove Grant Kentucky and died on 27 Jun 1859 in Robertson Co Kentucky.)