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Note: Samuel had moved to Hardy County, Virginia by 1788 and after his Revolutionary War service on to Mercer County, Kentucky by 1797. His trip probably would have been made in a wagon filled with farm implements, tools, and provisions and a cow or two trailing behind the wagon. It was in Mercer County that he met Olive Willis and they married the next year. They had 7 children in an 8 year span. The family shows 3 sons and 3 daughters on the 1810 Census of Shelby County, Kentucky on page 200. Olive passed away in 1812 when she was 37 and Samuel needed help raising the kids and he married Mary Mitchell the following year. By 1834 Samuel had moved to Spencer County, Kentucky and then on to Indiana. Samuel applied for his Revolutionary War Pension payments in 1834 from Washington County, Indiana. On Feb 20, 1837 Samuel purchased 85.46 acres in the southwest quadrant of Paoli Township in Orange County, Indiana. (The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry Volume XI-I March 1986) "America was moving westward. The planters were leaving the exhausted seaboard for new lands which they might disastrously mismanage. The humble were leaving for--for squatters' rights, for deliverance from contempt of gentry and slaves, for adventure, for the setting sun. It was not possible to make out just why they were leaving, but the migration was under way. Their horses and their oxen and their store were moving down the miry roads. One passed them and shouts came from the trudgers, and songs that would one day be nostalgic in American ears. Westward." Source: Mark Twain's America, page 11 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1840 Census Vernon Township, Washington County, Indiana page 157 W. Lee male 70-80 (1) female 60-70 (1) Next door was listed Samuel Lee (probably his youngest son) male 30-40 (1) female 20-30 (1) Samuel was one of my 32 4th Great Grandfathers - TLE
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