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Thomas Douglas and Sarah Douglas
Thomas Douglas (1750-1819)

Thomas Douglas. Thomas was born in Virginia in 1750. He married Sarah who was also born in Virginia in 1750. We have no record of her maiden name.

Thomas Douglas was an early settler on the headwaters of the Holston River. The first records on Thomas are from Montgomery County, Virginia where he was mentioned on early land records. He received a warrant for 200 acres from Lord Donmore. This land was located on the headwaters of the South Fort of the Holston River, near the present Washington County border. Washington County was split off from Montgomery County in 1776. This area is now near Loves Mill and St. Clair Bottoms.

Records show that he had a brother James who lived on the headwater of Cripple Creek Wythe County, several miles east of where Thomas lived. Cripple Creek flows east into the New River. The Holston River flows southwest into the Tennessee River. There was a dividing ridge between where they lived. Both men were mentioned in the Draper manuscripts regarding accusation of being Tories. They both denied this charge in their recorded depositions. It is in these statements that we learn they are brothers. Since they lived in two different counties, the connection was not obvious. Both men served in the Revolutionary War. Thomas was on the personal property tax for Washington County Virginia from 1787 to 1808. Land records show Thomas and wife Sarah selling land to Samuel and to two sons in laws, Samuel Crow and Thomas Crow. In 1773 James and Thomas Douglas appear on Enoch Osborn’s militia list.

The family moved to Pulaski, Kentucky about 1808-9. Thomas is on the tax records there in 1810-1825. We do not know where in Pulaski Co. he lived. He may have lived near his son John. Land records show that a large farm on Flat Lick Creek was owned by John Douglas. This land was later owned by his son John and finally by Milford Douglas. In 1818 Thomas gave power of attorney to Turnstile Quarles to dispose of property in Virginia. (Pulaski county deeds book 3 p 372).

Thomas died in about 1819. We don’t know when Sarah died.

Children of Thomas and Sarah Douglas

SAMUEL
Samuel married Millie Johnson in Washington County, Virginia in 1795. Thomas was a witness to her Father, Curtis Johnson’s will in 1799, so there is a family connection. Samuel and Thomas Douglas moved to Pulaski Co. Kentucky. Thomas Douglas is on the tax lists from 1809 to 1835. Samuel is on the personal property tax list for Pulaski from 1809 to 1826.

MARY
Mary (Polly) Douglas married Samuel Crow in 1801 in Washington Co. Virginia. They also moved to Pulaski Kentucky. [We found] bible records that list their children and some grandchildren. They moved to Lancaster, Boyle County Kentucky. Two of the daughters of Thomas married Crows, we aren’t sure if they are brothers. The Crow family came from the area in Washington Virginia know as Hungry Mother State park.

JANE
Jane Douglas married Thomas Crow in 1802 and they moved to Pulaski with the rest of the Family. [We have] found some of their children’s marriages. There seems to be a lot of Crows in Pulaski. Thomas and Jane were on the 1850 census for Pulaski.

ELIZABETH
Elizabeth Douglas married William Clawson.

JOHN
John Douglas married Elizabeth Gastineau in 1814 in Pulaski, Kentucky. The Gastineau’s were also in Washington, Virginia. John and Elizabeth had a daughter named Sarah who married Silas Todd. Elizabeth died (we think) and John married Anna Herrin in 1821. We think she is the daughter of William Herrin. William Herrin left land to John Douglas and Lemon Hays. John is listed on the 1850 Pulaski census with Nancy. Cemetery records show all of John’s children giving up interest in the land they inherited from their father to brother John. John refers to Nancy as stepmother. Son George went to VanBuren, Iowa: son Thomas stayed in Pulaski and married Mary Ann Gilliland. She was the daughter of James and Mirand Moore Gilliland.

ANNA
Anna Douglas married Charles Gastineau a brother of Elizabeth. He died in 1834 and we couldn’t find if they had children or if she lived as long as he. Thomas gave consent for Anna to marry. Family records say that Charles left a will, but we couldn’t find it.

SALLY
Sally (probably Sarah) Douglas married Thomas Herring in 1808 in Pulaski, Kentucky (we wonder if this is Herrin). Sarah gave consent for her





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