Manoah SINGLETON & Sarah "Sally" Davis CRAIG
Father: Manoah SINGLETON, (son of Daniel SINGLETON), b. 16 Jan 1744/1745, Orange County Virginia, d. 1813/1815, Jessamine County Kentucky
Can be found on the 1810 Jessamine County Kentucky Census.in Nicholasville. There is a supposed christening record referred online for Manoah Nathaniel Hawkins Singleton dated for Jan 16 1745. St Thomas Parish.in Orange County Virginia. However there is even controversy about this name. See this post: let me tell you what is on the Rev War memorial
in front of the
Nicholasville courthouse
Manoah's name is longer than the other soldiers and
it shows as:
M'N'H' Singleton
I and others believe that this is an abbreviation
for manoah so it would fit
on the stone those are apostrophes not periods as if
MNH are intials
I believe someone has taken the liberty to give
names to these initials that
are not correct
Hawkins was the maiden name of Manoah's
mother-in-law
Polly Hawkins Craig
POST BY KATHY HALL The Rev War Memorial has his name MNH as apostrophe's not initials according to Neil Singleton. The marriage date is listed as official and not an about date on all Family Search files.Some locations given are also Spotsylvannia Virginia which is what Orange County was formed from. Another location on his death record is that he died in Jessamine County Kentucky near Keene making it very specific. The oddity of this name is very helfpul in locating records. During the Rev War this info was provided about Manoah Singleton at Grant's Fort
Located in Bourbon County, near Fayette County line and was build in 1779 by Col. John Grand and Capt. William Ellis, the military leader of the Traveling Church, for the use of twenty or thirty families who had come to Bryan Station. A group of sixty Indians from Byrd's war party attacked it in June, 1780, and burned the fort without taking prisoners. Forty men from Bryan's went to their relief and found two men named Stucker and a woman named Mitchell killed. James Ingels, Jr., was born here in November 1779. The fort was rebuilt in 1784 but the Grant family sold to Ingels and moved away. The site is about 1 1/2 miles from Antioch Christian Church near the border of Fayette County. Timothy Peyton was shot by Indians about one-half mile away. James Stark carried him to the fort where he soon died. His name is preserved in “Peyton's Run.”
In a letter written by John Grant, founder of Grant's Station, dated April 24, 1780, to Col. John Todd, delegate at Harrodsburg, he told of those persons who at that time were living in the fort. A list of the names:
John Tamplin, John Jackson, John VanCleave, George Stucker, Samson Culpeper, Stufel Stucker, Philip Drake, Christopher Harris, Wm. VanCleave, Manoah Singleton, Thos. Gilbart, Wm. Liley, Wm. Loving, Robert Harras, Jas. Rowland, Josiah Underwood, Frederick Hunter, Wm. Morrason, James Gray, Henry Millar, Stephen Murphy, Michael Stucker, Esmond Lilley, George Stucker (son), John VanCleave (sons), Samson Hough, Wm. Ellis. Manoah is also found in a will as follows Ordered that William Robards, James Dunn, [????] Ramsey, and Menoah Singleton, Commissioners appointed by the Last County Court to divide the estate of James Williams, deceased among his Widow and legal representatives and report Specially to the next Court in what manner they have executed that order. Other info on Manoah JUNE 15, 1779. (40) Constables appointed, viz: James Kirkpatrick in Capt. John Cunningham's Company; Manoah Singleton in Capt. Long's Company. (40) Road surveyor: John Patrick, vice Joseph Poindexter. JULY 20, 1779 Manoah's date of death is generally listed as 1833 and there are many Pedigree files and Ancestral files on Family Search that give the exact date of death as April 1 1833. I am inclined to think it is his son Manoah Mason Singleton who died in 1833 not him. However, there are few files that say 1813 for Manoah the elder. . Here is the specific post that convinces me of this. Note that Mason Singleton is listed on the 1820 Kentucky Jessamine County Census. Assuming that this is actually Manoah Mason going by his middle name and that is a good assumption it shows that the son is alive and well past 1813, so it must be the father's estate that is mentioned in the newspaper in around 1814 and 1815(See below info research at historical society. ) . There are probably not three separate Manoah's who lived then so it is reasonable to assume the father is the one who died in around 1813 and the dates were confused early on and never corrected on old pedigree and ancestral files or World Connect info. I have seen the census myself. Also I have consulted a Singleton genealogist who is named Neil Singleton and who sent off for the newspaper articles and refers to them as such.“ We don't have a copy of Manoah's will. Apparently he took care of everything in 1813, and simply waited to die. Again, I refer to the two pages (December, 1813, and January, 1814) in Kentucky Gazette. The newspaper article from the Woodford Sun, dated 13 Nov, 1980, cites Deed Book C, page 375, where Manoah settled all his affairs and had an “Indenture of bargain” between Sally and himself and their two sons, Mason and Jackonia. This included a place to live, necessities such as a cow and a garden sport, and kitchen furnishings. Also, the two sons agreed to supply slaves, presumably to help with maintenance. The slaves and all the land occupied were to revert to Mason and Jackonia upon the deaths of Sally and Manoah. ” He is again referred to as decd in a 1815 article. Also there is a suggestion that his will was probated as late as 1833 in order to settle the affairs of his son Manoah Mason. This is not probable but it is possible. I have chosen to use the earlier death date. In addition a family Bible of the Lancasters includes the entry regarding a great grandchild's entry of Grandma Lancaster's father dying in 18 January. Others have chosen to interpret this as 1818. I think it is possible it is Jan 18th.
From Rootsweb Jessamine Co Hist Soc
The reason I ask about Manoah is that we here at the are trying to find his grave. WE have found
newspaper articles from 1813 and
1814. and also one in 1815 saying he is deceased
but not giving burial site I said there in Ky Gazette in 1815 they are
talking about his estate
and saying he is deceased
but we cannot find an obit or anything to tell us
exactly where he is buried
tho we think on Sigleton land here off Harrodsburg
Rd
thanks for any help
Kathy Hall Additional legend from Craig genealogists Sarah (Sally) Davis, 1743–, m. 1765 Manoah Singleton. http://singletonfamily.org/library/kentucky/mason_ky/mason_ky.html “Some Craig genealogies record Manoah as a mean man who kept his wife out of the church until his death.”
Mother: Sarah “Sally” Davis CRAIG
Sarah(Sally) Craig Singleton is buried, with her husband, Manoah Singleton, on the Singleton (now Davis) farm, near Keene, in Jessamine Co. KY
Married 10 Jan 1765, Orange County Virginia
Children:
- Jeconias SINGLETON, b. 16 Mar 1766, d. Jul 1836, bur. Singleton Farm, Woodford County Kentucky
- Elizabeth "Betsy" SINGLETON, b. 3 Jan 1768
- Susannah Craig SINGLETON, b. 23 Nov 1769, d. 1833
- Sarah SINGLETON, b. 15 Oct 1771
- Mason SINGLETON, b. 1 Sep 1773
- Mary SINGLETON, b. 28 Jan 1776
- Hannah SINGLETON, b. 28 Feb 1778
- Anna SINGLETON, b. 13 Oct 1781
- Jane SINGLETON, b. 3 Apr 1787
- Martha Patsy SINGLETON, b. 13 Apr 1789
- Johannah SINGLETON, b. 15 Jan 1790