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Note: N4066 Nicholas Meriwether (1749–1828) © The Meriwether Society, Inc. Nicholas Meriwether was born 4 Jun 1749 in Goochland County, Virginia, the sixth child and fifth son of Col. Nicholas Meriwether (1720–1758) and Miss Frances Morton (~1720–1777). He was the second son named Nicholas, an older brother having been born and died in 1741. Nicholas Nicholas married his first cousin, Elizabeth Meriwether, on 1 Jun 1771 in Louisa County, Virginia. Elizabeth (1755–1785) was the daughter of William Meriwether and Martha Cox Wood. Nicholas and Elizabeth were the parents of eight children, all born in Virginia, although the names of only six are known: Frances, Morton, Nicholas, Richard Henry and William. Of the remaining two, who died as infants, one is believed to have died in Virginia and one in Kentucky. In 1779, Nicholas travelled to the Falls of the Ohio area of Kentucky, near present day Louisville, where he became one of the early Kentucky land locators. About 1784 he moved his family from Virginia to Louisville, where, between 4 October a 27 Nov, his wife and four of his sons died of illness, probably smallpox. In 1786 he married Elizabeth Daniel, sister of Walker Daniel, the first attorney for District of Kentucky. Nicholas and Elizabeth had two children, John Martin and Reuben Meriwether. In 1787 purchased property from Squire Boone in Shelby County and establish a plantation he called "Castle Hill", after the Meriwether/Thornton/Walker estate in Albemarle County, Virginia. In 1804 he moved his family to West Bank, Mississippi, traveling down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. At some point he returned to Shelby County, Kentucky, where he died in 1828. As described by author R. Van Stockum, "Meriwether was an active man, restless, irascible, prone to create adversaries, but a man whose drive and ambition contributed significantly to the development of the Kentucky frontier." See Nelson Heath Meriwether, The Meriwethers and Their Connections (Columbia, Missouri, 1964); R. R. Van Stockum, Kentucky and the Bourbons: The Story of Allen Dale Farm (Louisville: The Filson Club, 1991); R. R. Van Stockum, Nicholas Meriwether in Early Kentucky: Land Locator, Entrepreneur, Settler, Filson Club History Quarterly 59 (April 1985): 223-50. R. R. Van Stockum.
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Note: N4069 Virginia Gazette and Weekly Advertiser (Richmond, VA), 27 September 1787 Advertisememt Rocketts, 14 September 1787 Any person wanting to purchase a thousand acres of furst rate Kentucky land on the waters of Basher's creek, head of Salt river, within twenty miles of the falls of Ohio, and adjoining Mr. Nick Meriwether, Capt. Ben. Roberts, Boon's mills, and about twelve miles from the salt works on Ballit's licks, may have a great bargain for slaves, on application to Alex M'Reobert.
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Note: N4068 Stewart's Kentucky Herald (KY), 14 February 1797 To Be Sold, Three thousand acres of land on the Ohio, eight miles below the mouth of the Kentucky. This land lies level, is well watered and well timbered; and in richness of soil equal to any in the state. My price is 20/per acre -- one fourth of the purchase money to be paid down; the other three-fourths to be paid in four equal annual payments, with legal interest. this land is laid off in 400 acre lots. Nicholas Meriwether 15 October 1796
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