Col. James Trotter, Jr.

• Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A116147
• Service: VIRGINIA Rank: LIEUTENANT COLONEL
• Birth: 5-1-1753 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA
• Death: 7-13-1827 LEXINGTON KENTUCKY

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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~trotter/clarkeletters.htm Note the death date they had verses the date of death recorded.

The Evening Post, New York, New York - 24 Aug 1827. Died/death column/mentions. At Lexington, (KY)Col. James Trotter.

Louisville Public Advertiser, Louisville, KY 18 Aug 1827. Obituary section - Died at his residence near this place, on the 12th inst. Col. JAMES TROTTER, one of the oldest inhabitants of Fayette County, and a most respectable and useful man. [KY Gazette]

After a break in to the Trotter Vault, one editor wrote the following.

Morning Herald [Kentucky] 25 Apr 1899 – Law and Sentiment Outraged Under Sections 1335 and 1336 of the Kentucky Statutes it is made a misdemeanor for anyone to unlawfully or secretly disinter or displace any dead human body from the grave or vault in which it has been deposited, or any one to willfully mutilate the rave in which any one has been buried. This is a proper law and ought to be enforced. It is particularly so in the State.

Formerly each family had its family burying ground near to the family homestead, in which were buried the members of the family and its servants. These burying grounds as rule were inclosed [sic] in stone fences. It is not often that the homestead remains in the same family for several generations, and, therefore, these burying grounds are left to the protection of the sentiment of humanity, which makes graves and grave yards sacred, and to the law. It has been found difficult to preserve such burying grounds and many of our larger families have taken the precaution to remove their dead and the monuments over their graves to public cemeteries.

Among the most conspicuous of the early families of Lexington and Fayette County was the Trotter family. The beautiful woodland now known as Chautauqua, and the suburb known as Woodland was owned by this family, and the mansion house erected by it. The plantation originally was much larger than the 110 acres known as the Erwin place, or Woodland, and included what was known as the "Trotter woods" and many other acres on the southwest side of the Tate's Creek pike.

The descendants of that family are still among us, among the most respectable of our citizens. Leslie Combs, Esq., Captain Samuel T. Leavy, at one time Senator from the Woodford District, and various others represent the present generation of Trotters. The history of Lexington could not be written no understood without frequent mention of this name. Members of this family were actors in some of the most dramatic and sensational events in our history; among them were men of the highest ability and character, who filled the most important stations; and among the women of the family were some of the most beautiful, attractive and fascinating women of the nation.

Very early, possibly over a century ago, Mr. Trotter constructed in the thick woods now lying on the northwest of the Tate's Creek pike a large and imposing vault, and it was for probably over ninety years one of the most conspicuous and well-known of the landmarks of Lexington and Fayette County. "Trotter's Woods" and "Trotter's Vault" were as well known as the fair grounds or race course of cemetery is now known. It is inconceivable that anyone who ever lived in Lexington could have been so ignorant of the history of Lexington, and of its families and of its surroundings as not to have known of the conspicuity of the Trotter family and of the existence of the Trotter Vault.

There is, therefore, no excuse that we can imagine for the desecration of that vault, for the wanton and sacriligous [sic] sacking of tis chambers and the savage distribution of the sacred relics therein contained. We can not conceive of how it was possible for any one to confound it with an Indian mound or to imagine that some ancient relic had been discovered. We have no personal feeling in this matter, and we did not on yesterday refer to the remarkable article in The Sunday Leader. Because we thought it best to wait until the descendants of the Trotters could have an opportunity to see that article, and to take such steps as they might think proper.

But there is a public side to this as well as a private side. Scattered all over Kentucky are family graveyards. Many of them are located upon farms long passed out of the ownership and control of the families represented by the dead in those graves. The protection to those grave yards lies partly in the prompt execution of the law and in the name of those Kentuckians scattered all over the South, West and East, we submit to the authorities of Fayette County whether it is not imperative to see that this action is investigated and that the perpetrators of this outrage upon the dead are punished.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 20 2017, 9:28:41 UTC

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• O'Dell, Gary A. "The Trotter Family, Gunpowder, and Early Kentucky Entrepreneurship, 1784-1833." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 88, no. 4 (1990): 394-430. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23381898
• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 20 2017, 9:14:14 UTC

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Col James Trotter BIRTH May 1753 Augusta County, Virginia, USA DEATH 5 Aug 1827 (aged 74) Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA BURIAL Trotter Family Vault Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA MEMORIAL ID 88726184 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 1 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~trotter/clarkeletters.htm Note the death date they had verses the date of death recorded.

The Evening Post, New York, New York - 24 Aug 1827. Died/death column/mentions. At Lexington, (KY)Col. James Trotter.

Louisville Public Advertiser, Louisville, KY 18 Aug 1827. Obituary section - Died at his residence near this place, on the 12th inst. Col. JAMES TROTTER, one of the oldest inhabitants of Fayette County, and a most respectable and useful man. [KY Gazette]

After a break in to the Trotter Vault, one editor wrote the following.

Morning Herald [Kentucky] 25 Apr 1899 – Law and Sentiment Outraged Under Sections 1335 and 1336 of the Kentucky Statutes it is made a misdemeanor for anyone to unlawfully or secretly disinter or displace any dead human body from the grave or vault in which it has been deposited, or any one to willfully mutilate the rave in which any one has been buried. This is a proper law and ought to be enforced. It is particularly so in the State.

Formerly each family had its family burying ground near to the family homestead, in which were buried the members of the family and its servants. These burying grounds as rule were inclosed [sic] in stone fences. It is not often that the homestead remains in the same family for several generations, and, therefore, these burying grounds are left to the protection of the sentiment of humanity, which makes graves and grave yards sacred, and to the law. It has been found difficult to preserve such burying grounds and many of our larger families have taken the precaution to remove their dead and the monuments over their graves to public cemeteries.

Among the most conspicuous of the early families of Lexington and Fayette County was the Trotter family. The beautiful woodland now known as Chautauqua, and the suburb known as Woodland was owned by this family, and the mansion house erected by it. The plantation originally was much larger than the 110 acres known as the Erwin place, or Woodland, and included what was known as the "Trotter woods" and many other acres on the southwest side of the Tate's Creek pike.

The descendants of that family are still among us, among the most respectable of our citizens. Leslie Combs, Esq., Captain Samuel T. Leavy, at one time Senator from the Woodford District, and various others represent the present generation of Trotters. The history of Lexington could not be written no understood without frequent mention of this name. Members of this family were actors in some of the most dramatic and sensational events in our history; among them were men of the highest ability and character, who filled the most important stations; and among the women of the family were some of the most beautiful, attractive and fascinating women of the nation.

Very early, possibly over a century ago, Mr. Trotter constructed in the thick woods now lying on the northwest of the Tate's Creek pike a large and imposing vault, and it was for probably over ninety years one of the most conspicuous and well-known of the landmarks of Lexington and Fayette County. "Trotter's Woods" and "Trotter's Vault" were as well known as the fair grounds or race course of cemetery is now known. It is inconceivable that anyone who ever lived in Lexington could have been so ignorant of the history of Lexington, and of its families and of its surroundings as not to have known of the conspicuity of the Trotter family and of the existence of the Trotter Vault.

There is, therefore, no excuse that we can imagine for the desecration of that vault, for the wanton and sacriligous [sic] sacking of tis chambers and the savage distribution of the sacred relics therein contained. We can not conceive of how it was possible for any one to confound it with an Indian mound or to imagine that some ancient relic had been discovered. We have no personal feeling in this matter, and we did not on yesterday refer to the remarkable article in The Sunday Leader. Because we thought it best to wait until the descendants of the Trotters could have an opportunity to see that article, and to take such steps as they might think proper.

But there is a public side to this as well as a private side. Scattered all over Kentucky are family graveyards. Many of them are located upon farms long passed out of the ownership and control of the families represented by the dead in those graves. The protection to those grave yards lies partly in the prompt execution of the law and in the name of those Kentuckians scattered all over the South, West and East, we submit to the authorities of Fayette County whether it is not imperative to see that this action is investigated and that the perpetrators of this outrage upon the dead are punished.

Family Members Spouse Margaret Downey Trotter 1755–1816

Children Photo George Trotter 1778–1815

Photo Samuel Trotter 1778–1833

Photo James Gabriel Trotter 1791–1826

Photo Margaret Trotter Leavy 1817–1892

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