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Subject: Families.Of.Handley.1900.Ohio-Daviess-Bullitt.HISTORY-Letters


Families Of Handley 1900
Ohio-Daviess-Bullitt County KyArchives History Letters

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.


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/South-Carolina-Roster-Little-brothers.jpg

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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.


Submitted by: Kathy Cochran
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