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Continued: Notes of Byram ROUTT - 878
Byram was his mother's family name. He was a surveyor and land speculator. Byram married Margaret Hughes about 1784. They had at least 6 children. William H. was their 1st child. Byram patented about 1000 acres in what was Fayette Co., Kentucky in the same year he married. He returned to Virginia in 1796 and brought back 50 families to settle in Mason Co., Kentucky, apparently on land he sold them. The families established a pioneer town named Gath which is no longer in existence.The town was near the present town of Sherburne on the Licking River. A Rev. Shackle was brought from Virginia as minister for the group. He preached at the Licking Locust Baptist Church near Gath.
In the following years Byram with his then 2 partners, Alexander Ramsey and Basil Hunt, purchased and sold a lot of land in the Kentucky counties of Mason, Clark and Fleming. One parcel they purchased in Fleming Co., Ky. in 1796 was 62 12 acres. This particular parcel cost them 310 pounds and 12 shillings.
By 1800 Byram was a justice of the peace in Fleming County. Besides his land holdings he owned a grist mill and a saw mill on Locust Creek. He was personally taken to court on at least 2 land claims. On 14 May,1800, the Fleming County Court awarded Hopkins & Henry 10 pieces of his property and his 2 mills for "debts and cost." On 17 July, 1800, the sheriff seized a 150 acre tract of his land to satisfy "debts and costs"of Humphreys and Keith.
When Byram died is unknown; but he was alive in 1811 when he sold 200 acres of his land in Fleming County. He died before 1816 when his father's will was written. If Byram wrote a will, it has not been found.
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Letter from Mrs. E.R. Jensen to the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky
Fleming County Deed Books 1797-1818, 8 books
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