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Jesse Richardson^{[1, 2]}
1760 - 1839

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• Birth	1760	Louden County, Virginia   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Dec 1839	McCraken County, Kentucky   [1, 2]
  Buried	See this link for complete list of deeds in Lincoln, Garrard and Pulaski counties Jesse Richardson how he got land:
  Person ID	I1337	John Colyer family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2025

  
  

  Family 1	Martha English,   b. ABT. 1754, Louisa County, Virginia ,   d. Aft 1832, Pulaski county, KY
  Children	> 1. William Richardson,   b. 1787, Kentucky ,   d. 19 Jul 1853, Pulaski county, KY   2. David E. Richardson,   b. 11 May 1781, Garrard County, KY ,   d. 12 Feb 1859, Pulaski County, KY   3. Nancy Richardson,   b. Abt 1783   4. Charles L. Richardson,   b. Abt 1784   5. Lucy Richardson,   b. 17 Feb 1785, English Station, KY   6. Mary Polly Richardson,   b. Abt 1787,   d. 6 Apr 1833, Pulaski County, KY   7. Thomas Stephen Richardson,   b. Abt 1789 > 8. John Richardson,   b. 8 Apr 1796,   d. 4 Dec 1877, Pulaski County, KY   9. Jesse English Richardson,   b. 15 Aug 1800, Pulaski County, KY ,   d. 26 Apr 1866, Macon, Missouri > 10. Chilton (Shelton) Greenup Richardson,   b. 15 Jan 1805, Pulaski County, KY ,   d. 27 Jan 1840, Pulaski County, KY
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2025
  Family ID	F295	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Starr
  Married	Aug 1836	McCracken County, KY
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2025
  Family ID	F8149	Group Sheet

  
  

• Documents		Richardson Family Genealogy report prepared by Mr. Dean Hunter on related Richardson Family Status: Located
  		A History of Pulaski County Kentucky--Richardson Book published by The Franklin Press Louisville Ky 1952 by Alma Owens Tibbals
  		1822 March Pulaski County Court Order: Salt Works Road (current day hwy 692) Jesse Richardson appointed surveyor of road mentioning route from Meece, to John Langdon to Charles Colyear (Colyer). I have not determined if this was Charles Colyer Sr. or Charles Colyer Jr. Based on 1823 deed to Charles Colyer on Pitman Creek, it appears that Charles Colyer (likely Jr.) had 67 acres closer to current Grundy Rd (hwy 692) on Pitman Creek. It appears this road order is in the direction from Pitman creek on hwy 692 Grundy Rd and down the same toward where Pitman creek crosses Grundy Rd hwy 692. John Langdon had two properties in the era...one on current Barnesburg rd near hwy 461 and the other at current day hwy 192 at Pitman Creek. It appears this road order is current day Grundy Rd, out Barnesburg Rd to hwy 461 to Charles Colyer property.
  		1821, May Pulaski County Court Order: Saltworks Road Jesse Richardson Jesse Richardson appointed road surveyor of Saltworks Road from Somerset to Pitman Creek. This is believed to be origin of Mt. Vernon Street going east out current hwy 692 Grundy Rd to Pitman creek.
  		1821, May: Pulaski County Court Order: Saltworks road going east from Pitman creek Appears to be road (current hwy 692) going east after crossing Pitman creek out dahl road.
  		1815 August Pulaski County Court Order To make the Salt Works Road leading to the Goose Creek salt works in present day town of Machester KY, pass through land of Jesse Richardson on Pitman creek on current day hwy 692 Grundy Rd.
  		1816 May Pulaski County Court Order whereby Jesse Richardson requests that the Salt Works road to Goose Creek Salt Works in present day Manchester KY pass through his land that may be part of 1000 acre land purchased from William Augustine Washington that from 1808 grant to Washington appears to be near Flat Lick Creek and Pitman Creek toward the Shopville end of Grundy hwy 692.
  		History of the Salt Works Road Pulaski County Kentucky Historical society pub on history of Grundy and the Salt Works Road----see page 4----John Colyer log house was on the Whitley Road (hwy 192)
  		1836 Pulaski county road orders: Saltworks Rd and Ironworks Rd Gives indicattions of where Jesse Richardson lived near current day Grundy Road and hwy 80, also mentions Charles Colyer at bend of Flatlick Creek. See also Ironworks Road, later called coalbank road, that goes from Haynes Knob down hwy 1643 to later Hail Bridge Rd down buck creek and cumberland river to and across to Waddle hollow (Alcalde, Strawberry area)
  		1822 deed Jesse Richardson to Rock Lick Baptist Church one trustee is Moses Keeney. This is Pulaski County KY deed bk 5, pg 189
  		Jesse Richardson burial in McCracken or Ballard County KY. The memorial marker that was placed at Rock Lick Baptist Church in Somerset KY is not his burial place, but a memorial since Jesse Richardson donated the land for the church.
  		1830 McCracken County KY census - Jesse Richardson there does not appear to be any females at this time in household
  		1831 McCracken County KY property tax -Jesse Richardson
  		1832 McCracken County KY deed- Jesse and Martha Richardson to Crice In spite of some reporting Martha English Richardson death in 1817, this deed from Martha indicates she was alive at that time.
  		1832 McCracken County KY deed division Jesse Richardson vs Crice The plat shows 770 acres to Jesse Richardson on Humphreys creek. In 2025 this is before Clanton creek empties into Humphreys creek in Ballard County KY. It would be located near hwy 1105 and Sallie Crice Rd. Also nearby is Ohio Valley Baptist Church and historic Crice cemetery.
  		1832 McCracken County KY deed 770 acres to Jesse Richardson
  		1832-1841 Revolutionary pension file Jesse Richardson fought with Preston in VA, Benjamin Logan and George Rogers Clark in KY. His second wife, Elizabeth Starr Richardson, whom he married in 1836 and separated from in 1837, collects the pension in 1841. William Owen in Pulaski County testifies for him.
  		1835 McCracken County KY property tax Jesse Richardson shows land on Pitman Creek in Pulaski County Ky
  		1835 McCracken County KY purchase deed Jesse Richardson 200ac
  		1836 McCracken County KY marriage to Elizabeth Starr Here as an elderly man, Jesse Richardson marries Elizabeth Star. A year later he legally separates from her with pre-nuptual type property separation.
  		1837 McCracken County KY marriage separation from Elizabeth Starr Jesse Richardson separates with a pre-nuptual type property separation
  		1837 McCracken County KY sale deed by Jesse Richardson Notice that no wife signs sale deed as is customary
  		1837 McCracken County Ky 1250ac purchase deed Jesse Richardson on Ohio River
  		1837 McCracken County Ky Jesse Richardson sale deed This deed is signed by new wife Elizabeth. Perhaps this was before their legal separation in 1837.
  		1837 McCracken County Ky property tax Jesse Richardson
  		1839 codicil to last will Jesse Richardson Here, he frees 2 slaves for their taking good care of his first wife, Martha until her death, and also taking good care of him as elderly.
  		1839 McCracken County Ky court record last will freed slaves Jesse Richardson
  		1840 McCracken County Ky David Richardson estate administrator
  		1842 McCracken County Ky Jesse Richardson estate settlement Personal property settled by administrator David Richardson. Real property passed outside by will or law.
  		1808 Pulaski County Ky news from Washington to Jesse Richardson 1000ac George Washington's nephew, sells 1000 acres on Flat Lick Creek to Jesse Richardson for $1000. The article claims that William Augustine Washington was brother to George Washington. In fact, he was son of Augustine Washington, a half brother to George.
  		1808 pulaski deed bk 2 washington to jesse richardson 1000ac George Washington's nephew, by George's half brother, Augustine, sells 1000 acres on Flat Lick Creek Pulaski County Ky to Jesse Richardson for $1000. William Augustine Washington was The son of the half-brother of President George Washington, he was also one of the seven executors of the former President's estate. William Augustine Washington died in 1810, and is buried at Mt. Vernon,VA. One witness to the lastwill of William Augustine Washington was Francis Scott Key, writer of the star spangled banner. William Washington had an agent located in Frankfort KY to sell his land grant holdings in KY named Mr. McIver. A Mr. Thomas Landford writes to William Washington recommending Pulaski Clerk William Fox as appraiser of land and they say worth $1/acre. Jesse Richardson writes several letters to William Washington, revealing 1st that William Washington had been ill during Jesse Richardson's stay at William Washington's house in Washington DC. Other letters show concern of slowness of William Washington getting a grant certificate to land to be sold, since there were competing preemption grants that could get it first if William Washington does not act faster. They use congressman Adair to help. On letter from Jesse Richardson to William Washington gives indication that he paid for the land with horses delivered to Washington in Georgetown VA from Kentucky.
  		1808 Va Old Ky land grant to William Augustine Washington This land grant was sold to Jesse Richardson in 1808. It had been under contract for sale to Jesse Richardson since 1806, but evidently waiting for the state of Ky to issue the grant that was pursuant to a VA revolutionary soldier survey for military service done in the late 1700s. As was often the case, the military grant was sold assigned, ending up in the hands of William Augustine Washington.
  		1772 Last Will of Jonathan Richardson, Bedford County VA names some children including Jesse Richardson, and wife Anne
  		1799 Jesse Richardson officer cornstalk militia KY shows as a Pulaski County Colonel and then a brigadier General by 1808
  		1985 Rena Hughes Lewis remembers Thanks to Mitch Hughes for this historical write up of the families and surrounding area of Ruth KY found in the papers of his grandmother, Verda Mae Hughes. She mentions Lindsey Colyer, Matilda Richardson Meece, Jesse Richardson, Ephraim Meece, Louisa Meece Colyer, Moses Keeney, John Sharpe (Doc) Keeney, Lewis family, Hughes family. Also mentioned is Sloans Valley, Indian Creek coal.

  
  

• Notes

  Served as soldier of the American Revolution: Volunteered from Botetourt County, VA in 1778. Servied six months in Colonel Preston's REgiment Capt. James Newell's Company. Remvoed to the West in 1779 and in 1780 served in Col. Benjamin Logan's Regiment, under Capt. George Adams, Lieut. William Moore and Joseph Kennedy. In 1782 served under Gen. George Rogers Clark in the Northwest. All this per Edith Colyer Curtis DAR app in 1970. Pulaski County, Kentucky Deed for Rocklick Baptist Church Moses Keeney and Robert McAllister, trustees of the Baptist Church at Rocklick in the county up last guy constituted and agreed to an act of the General assembly and the rules (?) Of the said church, etc.-that the said Jesse Richardson conveyed to the said trustees, a certain tract of land laying in the county on which the meetinghouse now stands, known by the name of Rocklick meetinghouse containing 4 acres, for the use of the Baptist Church, provided however, that if the said church ever be dissolved and be no more-than the tractor ground shall revert to the children of Polly Woods dated December 14, 1822 [Deed Book 5, page 199 or 189. This is an excerpt from the deed.] 1820 Lincoln county Ky court deposition taken of Jesse Richardson at his house in Pulaski County states that he first came to Kentucky via the Wilderness Trace and Cumberland Gap in 1779. This researcher has found confusing information as to whom was the father of Jesse Richardson. Most people report his father as a Jonathan Richardson married to an Anne Massey. Jesse Richardson's Revolutionary pension application has Jesse testifying that he was from Loudoun County VA and that his father died when he was very young. A Jonathan Richardson shows up on 1760s tax lists, road orders and a land lease assignment in Loudoun County VA. Then Lincoln County KY court documents show in 1797 William Richardson being appointed to administer the estate of Jonanthan Richardson with Jesse Richardson surety. Then a Lincoln County KY shows a Jonathan Richardson who was married to Mary Denton involved in a land preemption lawsuit in 1796. Then in 1810 a Pulaski County and Franklin County KY deed shows this Jonathan and Mary Denton Richardson selling the lawsuit land that was located on Shawnee creek in Mercer County KY as well as home in Franklin County KY. So there is a Jonathan Richards who died in Lincoln County in 1797, which would be when Jesse Richardson was 37 years old, i.e. not when Jesse was very young, and a Jonathan Richardson still living in Pulaski County Ky in 1810. There does exist a lastwill of Jonathan Richardson from 1772 in Bedford County VA that names Jesse Richardson as a son and appears to be father of this Jesse Richardson given other names that also appear in later court records of Lincoln County Ky such as Amos, a brother. Name: It has been reported that in Pulaski County KY, Jesse Richardson owned most all of what is today known as Blaze Valley off Pitman Creek. It had been said that Jesse Richardson was a General in the Revolutionary War or high officer and that he obtained 1500 acres in Blaze Valley as a Revolutionary service land grant. My research has dispelled all of this. Through an exhaustive examination of all deeds of record for Jesse Richardson in Lincoln, Garrard and Pulaski counties, it is shown that he obtained at most 50acres via military grant. All the land he owned in various counties appears to have been purchased by him. Although the question of where he got the money at various times to invest in land has not been answered, it appears by 1820 his land sales made him a relatively rich man. The deed transactions show that his wealth came to him rather slowly over the period of 1780-1820. In 1820 he sold is remaining Garrard county land on Drakes creek (formerly in Lincoln county) for a large sum. Documents about his military status, show that he was a private in Revolutionary war and the war of 1812. Correspondence in William Augustine Washington papers show that he was considered a colonel , at least in local militia, by 1808.




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  [S14494] Alice Colyer Gala. Date of Import: Sep 19, 1998 [S27813] ColyerV2.FTW. Date of Import: Sep 30, 1998