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About Capt. Ambrose Arthur
Capt in 10 Ky Regiment in war of 1812
biography
From The Descendants of Thomas Arthur Jul 11, 2015.
The first school in Flat Lick was built in the 1820s or 1830s and that is where Ambrose Arthur's children went to school. Rock for the chimney of the one-room, log building was split by Ambrose Arthur's slave, Harry.
According to an act of the US Congress, 28 Sept. 1850, certain veterans of military service were eligible for 80 acres of bounty land. In February, 1851, Ambrose Arthur, age 77, filed his application for bounty land. He apparently received a warrant for the land but it had already been sold. In 1855, according to a letter written to the state of Kentucky, he was retaining an attorney "to prosecute his claim and procure his warrant," although the space for the attorney's name is blank on the existing letter. By this time Ambrose Arthur was 79 years old. He died four years later, 20 July 1859 and, like many other soldiers, he probably died before he received the 80 acres of bounty land to which he was entitled."
In 1803, 1806 and 1809, Ambrose Arthur was listed as an assessor and in 1808 as a tavern keeper. In 1800, he became the first deputy sheriff of Knox County. Like his father, he owned slaves and, in 1859, was still listed as a slave owner. He was said to have had the first merchandise store in Flat Lick and hauled supplies from Louisville, approximately 130 miles, by wagon. Although Ambrose Arthur was literate and signed his own name to legal documents, his wife, Jane Gilbert (Fletcher), like many women of her time, was unschooled and made a "mark" instead of writing her name.
According to Ambrose Arthur's will, he left his farm, his slaves, and his personal property to his wife but alter her death they were to go to his son, Edward F. Arthur. To his son, John F. Arthur, he gave $600, and to his daughters, Polly Runyon and Elizabeth Baughman, $500 each. To his daughter, Belinda Bond, he gave the "negro girl" who she had but nothing else. With regard to his daughter, Sarah, was the following: "I give to my daughter, Sarah St. John, five hundred dollars to be retained in the hands of my executor and applied by him as he thinks best to the support ofthe said Sarah St. John and her children and to be in no manner subject to the controls of her husband Granville St. John." To his son, Thomas Arthur, he gave only $10.14 In 1871, the US Congress passed a pension act providing a small pension for widows of veterans from the War of 1812. Jane (Fletcher) Arthur, widow of Ambrose Arthur, filed for her pension in 1871. At that time, she was 83 years old and lived another nine years.
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Capt. Ambrose Arthur's Timeline
| 1776 |
June 5, 1776
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Franklin County, Virginia, Colonial America
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| 1823 |
August 1823
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Kentucky
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| 1825 |
March 27, 1825
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Knox County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1830 |
June 12, 1830
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Flat Lick, Knox County, KY, United States
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| 1859 |
July 20, 1859
Age 83
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Knox County, Kentucky, United States
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Flat Lick, Knox County, Kentucky, United States
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