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William Settle

CHILDREN: Connie Allen [callen440@aol.com] sent children's names, dates & marriages to T.Mason on 23May2001.

Simon DeWitt Settle shows death date as 28 Feb 1808.  William came to KY in 1797. Inventory:  Appraisers: Henry Carter, John Duff, James Dodd.  Recd. May Court 1808. SETTLEMENT:  Page 85; admrs:  James Cole, Sr., Simon Settle.  Recd. May Court 1808.

Bob Ragland [rags@foxinternet.net] is a descendant.

An internet database shows he was born 25 Feb 1770, and died 28 Feb 1808.

The Settle-Suttle family by William Emmett Reese, edited and published by Fannie Lu Camp Fisher.  FHC 929.273 Se78a., Pages 324-325
"     William Settle, No. 180, son of George and Mary (Morgan) Settle, was born in Fauquier Co., VA, 25 Jan 1770 (William Settle tombstone in family burial plot on home place, Old Rocky Hill, Barren Co., KY); he died in Barren Co., KY, 25 Feb 1808 (tombstone), and was buried in the family burial plot on his home place at Old Rocky Hill.
    He married in Culpeper Co., VA, ca 1790, Elizabeth Huffman (See Power of Attorney, Deed Book L, page 176, Barren Co., KY), daughter of Tilman Huffman, a Revolutionary War soldier (MS. in VA State Archives - "A List of Classes in Culpeper Co. for Jan 1781 For Recruiting this States Quota of Troops to serve in the Continental Army Drafted 19 March". The index to this list contains the names of 16 members of the Hufman family, including Tilman Hufman No. 95), and wife Margaret (Freeman) Huffman, and granddaughter of Margaret and Henry Huffman of Indian Run, St. Marks Parish, Culpeper Co., VA, who died testate 1782-3 (Will Book ?, Culpeper Co., VA), with issue: Tilman, James, John, Eve, Henry, Harmon, Joseph, Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth, Alice and Susan. Henry appears to have been a kinsman of John Henry Huffman, one of the families forming the German colony from the old principality of Nassau-Siegen, Germany, that settled in 1714 on the Rapidan River at a spot they named Germanna.
    They belonged to the German Reformed Church, the German branch of the Presbyterian church family.  Later they made entry for a joint tract of land east of the new Elk Marsh settlement in Stafford (later Fauquier) Co.  The warrant issued in 1718, for 1,805 acres on both sides of Licking Run, to the representatives of the twelve families: Jacob Holtzclaw, John Kemper, John Joseph Martin, John Spillman, Herman Fishback, John Henry Hoffman, Joseph Coons, John Fishback, Jacob Rector, Meichoir Brumback, Tillman Weaver, and Peter Hitt (Fauquier Co. VA 1759-1959, Fauquier Co. Bicentennial Committee, VA Publishing, Inc., Warrenton, VA, 1959, pages 16-17).  Elizabeth (Huffman) Settle was born in Culpeper Co., VA, ca 1772, and died in Barren Co., KY, shortly before 1805 (Deed Book A, page 137, Barren Co., KY).
    William Settle and family moved from Fauquier Co., VA, to Barren Co., KY, in 1798 (Deed Book A, page 137, Barren Co., KY), the same year that Barren Co. was formed from Warren and Green Counties (The Handy Book for Genealogists, George B. Everton, Sr. and Gunnar Rasmusonhe Everton Publishers, Logan, UT, 1957, page 55).  By deed dated 24 Aug 1802 (Order Book A, page 137, Barren Co., KY), he bought from Henry Vowles 398 acres of land on Skeggs Creek, it being a part of the Henry Vowles Military Survey.  Here he built a brick house on a hill overlooking the Skeggs Creek valley.
    By vocation, William Settle was a planter and gunsmith.  He made Kentucky flintlock rifles which he sold to early settlers of this section.  Some of these rifles are in existence today and are highly prized by collectors and antique-firearm fanciers.
    Mr. Simon DeWitt Settle of Bowling Green, KY, owns a full-stock flintlock rifle made by his great-great grandfather, William Settle, who also made Kentucky flintlock pistols (The Curier-Jounal Magazine, Louisville, KY, 3 June 1956, pages 20-24)."

    There is a KY Highway Marker (No. 687) on Kentucky Highway 252 in Barren Co., some five miles S.W. of Glasgow, KY dedicated to Settles Rifles.  It has a crossbar made of two rifles, and the following inscription:
    "Settle Rifles, prized by frontiermen now are collectors items. They were made by three generations in Barren Co., Kentucky starting in 1800, Wm. Settle made flintlocks at Rocky Hill.  A son, Felix, had shops in Glasgow and Roseville.  Felix's sons Simon and Willis, made rifles in Glasgow and Hiseville and in Green and Logan Counties. Name of maker and place are on all; some are dated."

CONFLICT:  The following information was sent to T.Mason on 30 May 2005 by Hugh [hfthusma@aol.com]:

"To whom it may concern:
I am addressing the HUFMAN/HUFFMAN aspects of the above quote from Reese's account on William SETTLE.  In the quoted section of Reese's account (above) the issues are:

1) The identification of Henry HUFFMAN as related to John HUFFMAN (1714).
2) The identification of Tilman HUFFMAN as a RW Patriot.
3) The identification of Margaret FREEMAN as mother of Elizabeth HUFFMAN who married William SETTLE.

In what was to become Virginia's Spotsylvania Co. a fore runner of Culpeper Co., the family of Johannes Henrick HOFMANN arrived in 1714 with other indentured Germans to form the Germanna Colony.  This HOFMANN was to be known as John HUFFMAN.  Next came in 1734 Hans Henrick HOFMANN of the group who settled in the Little Fork area of Culpeper Co., VA.  He became known as Henry HUFFMAN.  In 1746 another Johann Henrick HOFMANN arrived and settled near John HUFFMAN (1714 Immigrant), this man became known as Henry HUFFMAN also.  This later Henry HUFFMAN is believed to be a younger brother of John HUFFMAN (1714 Immigrant). The difference between the two Henry HUFFMANs is their wives, their settlement location and their dates of arrival in Virginia.

Henry HUFFMAN (1734 immigrant Hans Henrick HOFMANN) was married to Anna Margaret HUETTENHEN.
Henry HUFFMAN (1746 immigrant Johannes Henrick HOFMANN) was married to Catherina SCHUSTER

The children listed by Reese are those of Henry and Anna Margaret (Huettenhen) HUFFMAN.

John HUFFMAN (1714 immigrant) was married twice.  First to Anna Catherine HAEGAR, and then, to Maria Sabina FOLG.  John and Maria Sabina (Folg) HUFFMAN had a Tilman on 1 June 1744 who died 1814 in Madison Co., VA.

Another Tilman HUFFMAN was born as the first child of Henry and Anna Margaret (Huettenhen) HUFFMAN c1735 after they arrived in Virginia.  He died c1826 in Culpeper Co., VA.

Both Tilmans were old enough and lived long enough to serve in the RW (1776-1783).  The identity of the Tilman (Class #96) listed in the 1781 roster of Culpeper County militiamen eligible for service with the Army of General LaFayette is not assured.

Tilman, son of Henry HUFFMAN (1734 Immigrant), had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married William SETTLE.

I agree that Elizabeth HUFFMAN is the daughter of Tilman HUFFMAN, son of Henry HUFFMAN.  Where the exception takes place is the identification of Tilman as son of Henry HUFFMAN (1746 Immigrant) related to John HUFFMAN (1714 Immigrant), rather than the son of Henry HUFFMAN (1734 Immigrant) with no known relationship to John HUFFMAN (1714 Immigrant).

Also Reese attributes Elizabeth's birth to Tilman and Margaret (Freeman) HUFFMAN.  Since Tilman married Margaret FREEMAN (a widow) in 1794 as his second wife, she could not be the mother of Elizabeth who was b. c1772 and married c1790.  Tilman's first wife is unknown at this time.

The sources for this discussion are found in Germanna Records Three and Five.  The research was done by Dr. B. C. Holtzclaw."