Ohio-Daviess-Bullitt County KyArchives History - Letters .....Families Of Handley 1900
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Kathy Cochran KathyCochran@juno.com March 9, 2007, 9:41 am

The Families of Handley, Worthington, and others.

James Mason and Martha Mason, his wife lived in the north of Ireland in the 
year A. D. 1700.  They had several children perhaps, two of whom were daughters 
and named Martha and Mary.  Martha was born in the year 1729 and Mary in the 
year 1746.  Martha married George Handley in 1752 and they had one son and two 
daughters.  John, their son was born in 1754, their daugher Rachel in 1756 and 
Mary in 1760.

John Handley married and had born to him two sons and a daughter.  The sons 
were named George and Samuel and their daughter Sally.

Rachel Handley married Anthony Thompson in 1779.
 
The Handleys came from Ireland to Westmoreland county, Virginia.  Mary was born 
on the ocean on the passage over. Rachel and Anthony Thompson had five sons and 
five daughters.  The following are the names of their sons,  John Handley 
Thompson, Samuel H Thompson, Finley Thompson, James Thompson,  George Thompson.

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note:  Mary Handley married Alexander Douglass, a merchant in Philadelphia and 
after his death she married Captain George Little in South Carolina, where they 
removed to Ohio County Kentucky , then Daviess KY.  The 1810 census shows John 
Handley, John Handley Jr and Samuel Handley near them, as well as Jonas Little, 
the son of George.

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Letter was written by Judge Lucius Powhatan Little, the son of Douglass Little 
and Martha Ann Wright.  L P did a lot of family research and wrote notes for 
his daughter Laura, who was very much involved in their lineage, and she joined 
the DAR.

L P Little also wrote that Alexander Douglass had gone with his brother in law 
John Handley, a land surveyor, to Kentucky to explore the new land, but never 
made it back home, as he was shot and killed.


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