David Todd

A Patriot of the American Revolution for PENNSYLVANIA with the rank of Private. DAR Ancestor # A114274

RECORD:

1. David Andrew Todd Descendants, http://genealogyconnections.blogspot.com/2007/11/david-andrew-todd-.... " Descendants of David Andrew Todd

Generation No. 1

1. DAVID ANDREW4 TODD (ROBERT3, JOHN2, JAMES1) was born 08 April 1723 in Down, Armagh Co. Ireland, and died 08 February 1785 in Lexington, KY. He married HANNAH OWEN 04 April 1749 in Lancaster Co, PA.

She was born 25 October 1725 in Wales, England, and died 1814 in Lexington, KY.

Notes for DAVID ANDREW TODD:

Excerpt from "Historic Families of Kentucky," by Thomas Marshall Green, originally published Cincinnati, 1889,reprinted for Clearfield Co., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1996, p. 209:

"David Todd, second son of Robert (emigrant), was born in Ireland, April 8, 1723: when a child was brought by his father to Pennsylvania; lived there, as a farmer, in the Providence townhip of Montgomery Co. until 1783, when he came to Kentucky. His sons, John, Robert and Levi, had preceded him to Kentucky, and John had already been killed at the Blue Licks. His youngest son Owen (settled in Ohio), and his daughter Hannah (who married Elijah Smith) came with him. So too, came his brother-in-law, James Parker, and his sister Mary.

David Todd died in Fayette Co., February 8, 1785. His wife whom he married in Pennsylvania, was Hannah Owen, of Welsh descent, and a Quakeress. They had four sons and two daughters - John, Robert, Levi, Owen, Elizabeth and Hannah."

- - - - - - - - - - - Excert from "History of Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois", by John Carrol Power, 1876.

"The first of this family in America came from the north of Ireland, and it is known that they were originally from Scotland. A man by the name of Todd - it is thought that his first name was David - was married in Ireland to Hannah Owen, and came to America, with other members of the family, previous to the American Revolution.

(NOTE: David came to America as a child. If his family came in 1737, he would have been 14 yrs. old. I really don't think he was married before he came here.) They settled in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pensylvania, and had three sons, John, Robert and Levi. They were educated by their uncle, parson John Todd, who conducted a ltierary institution in Virginia. These three brothers emigrated about 1778 or 1779 to what became Fayette County, Kentucky. They were all influential men in the Indian wars, and in forming the institutions of that state."

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From the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 50, page 141, DAR ID Number: 49322:

David Todd (1723-85) served as a private in the Pennsylvania State troops, 6th and 9th battalions, 4th and 5th Lancaster County, Pa., militia, 1775-80. He was born in Ireland; died in Lexington, Ky.

From "Todd Family," aby Emily Todd Helm, Kittochtinney Magazine, January 1905, p. 75:

"DAVID TODD (born in Co. Armagh, Ireland, April 8, 1723 -- died Feb. 8, 1785), son of Robert and --------- (Smith) Todd, was a farmer in Montgomery Co., Pa. In 1760 he bought from the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania 150 acres of land on the Perkiomen, nearly opposite Phoenixville. In 1765 he purchased another tract of 44 acres, and in 1775 a third tract of 58 acres. These three tracts adjoined each other, forming a plantation of 252 acres.

His home was where the village of Mont Clare now stands. In 1783 he sold his farm, which then comprised 246 acres, for $12,000, and removed to Kentucky the next year to join his sons Levi and Robert. He died in Kentucky.

Mr. Todd's house in Montgomery County stood about two hundred yards east of what was known as the corner store, owned by his brother Robert. It was a few miles distant from Lower Providence Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member. In the graveyard attached to this early meeting house many of the Todd are buried.

Mr. Todd married April 4, 1749, Hannah Owen, (born Oct 25, 1725--died at the residence of her son, Gen. Levi Todd, near Lexington, Ky.), of Welsh descent, said to be descended from the first Quaker in Wales."

Children of DAVID TODD and HANNAH OWEN are:

• 2. i. COLONEL JOHN5 TODD, b. 27 March 1750, Montgomery Co., PA; d. 18 August 1782, Blue Licks, KY.
• 3. ii. GENERAL ROBERT TODD, b. 19 April 1754, Montgomery Co. PA; d. 01 March 1814, Lexington, Fayette Co., KY.
• 4. iii. MAJOR GENERAL LEVI TODD, b. October 1756, Montgomery Co. PA; d. 06 September 1807, Lexington, Fayette Co., KY.
• iv. ELIZABETH TODD, b. 13 November 1757, Montgomery Co. PA; m. ROGER NORTH.
• 5. v. OWEN TODD, b. 20 April 1762, Providence, Montgomery Co. PA; d. 06 December 1817, Vevay, IN.
• 6. vi. HANNAH TODD, b. 11 January 1765, Montgomery Co. PA; d. 19 September 1822, Georgetown, Scott Co., KY.

Generation No. 2

2. COLONEL JOHN5 TODD (DAVID ANDREW4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, JAMES1) was born 27 March 1750 in Montgomery Co., PA, and died 18 August 1782 in Blue Licks, KY. He married JANE HAWKINS 1780 in VA. She was born 1757 in VA.

Notes for COLONEL JOHN TODD:

The oldest son of David Todd and Hannah Owen, John, was educated in Virginia by his uncle, Parson John Todd, studied law, and became one of the deputy surveyors employed by Col. Wm. Preston.

He is asserted by John Mason Brown to have been an aide to Gen. Andrew Lewis in the battle of Point Pleasant. He came to Kentucky early in 1775, and was at St. Asaphs with John Floy and Gen. Logan in the spring of that year. 

He represented St. Asaphs in the abortive attempt to establish the territorial government of Transylvania. In 1777, he was one of the first two burgesses sent by Kentucky Co. to the Virginia General Assembly.

He succeeded George Rogers Clarke in command at Kaskaskia, and was for several years civil governor and colonel of the company of Illinois. When Bryant's Station was besieged,

in August 1782, Col. Todd was again in Kentucky. With such men as could be assembled at Lexington, and with the forces at Boonesboro and Harrodsburg, he marched without waiting for Gen. Logan with the well-equipped veteral fighters of Lincoln, and fell at the Blue Licks. 

While a Burgess at Richmond he married Jane Hawkins, by whom he had a daughter. This daughter married first, Col. Russell, and after his death became the second wife of Robert Wickliffe, Sr. Her son by Russell dying, she made a deed of gift to her second husband by which all the large estate of Col. John Todd passed to the family of Mr. Wickliffe, to the exclusion of those of her own blood. Mildred Hawkins, a sister of Jane, married Capt. Pierce Butler of the Revolution, and was the mother of Maj. Thomas L., Gen. William O., and Richard Butler, of Carrollton, and of the late Pierce Butler of Louisville.

Col. John Todd was the best educated and most accomplished, and is represented to have been the most richly endowed by nature, of all the early pioneers and surveyors of Kentucky. He was one of the best educated men in Kentucky; possessed a nice sense of honor, was strictly moral, and stood high in the confidence of the people.

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Excerpt from "History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois - Centennial Record," by John Carroll Power, 1876:

"John Todd, under commission from Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, dated Dec. 12, 1778, at Williamsburg, then the capital of the state, was authorized to establish the county of Illinois.

He was styled in his commission as the County Lieutenant Commandant. As such he organized the county, and thus became in fact, though not in name, the first Governor of Illinois.

His first act was to issue a proclamation with reference to land titles, June 15, 1779. Nearly three years later he had been to Virginia, and on his way back made it convenient to visit his family in Kentucky. While at Lexington, news came that the Indians west of the Ohio River were crossing over into Kentucky. 

Colonel Todd, as one of the commanders, was slain at the battle of Blue Licks, August 18, 1782."

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From Emma Siggins White, "Descendants of John Walker of Wigton" 1902, p. 56:

"John, Robert and Levi Todd were educated in Va., in a school taught by their uncle, Rev. John Todd. The eldest, Col. John Todd, studied law, and was the first civil governor and Lieutenant Commander of Illinois.

These three brothers were in the Revolutionary War under Gen. George Rogers Clarke.

Col John Todd was appointed by Patrick Henry, Dec. 12, 1778, Lt. Commander of Illinois. He represented Kentucky in the General Assembly of Virginia in 1778, and his brothers formed a part of the expedition to Illinois County.

For three years Col. John Todd held the responsible position of Lt. Cmdr. In 1780 he was again chosen a delegate to the Virginia Legislature. In this year Kentucky (county) was divided into three counties, Lincoln, Jefferson and Fayette; and Thomas Jefferson, then governor of Virginia, appointed Col. John Todd colonel of Fayette County, Daniel Boon Lieutenant Colonel, and Thomas Marshall Surveyor.

During the summer of 1782, an Indian uprising aroused the county, and the militia was summoned to repel it. Col. Todd, as senior colonel, took command of the little army sent in pursuit of retreating savages. The force included Daniel Boone and many other illustrious Kentuckians. On Aug. 18, 1782, they came up with the Indians at Blue Licks, and one of the most disastrous battles to the whites on Kentucky soil followed. Col. John Todd fell at the head of his men, shot through the body. Nearly all of this little band was killed or wounded.

Among the wounded were his brothers, Gen. Levi and Gen. Robert Todd. Gen. Levi Todd, the 3rd brother, was the grandfather of Mrs. (Abraham) Lincoln and father of Hannah, who married Robert Stuart." It is noted that three members of a scouting party in 1775 carved their names on a tree near what is now Boonesboro, Kentucky; one was Daniel Boone, and another was this John Todd.

From http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyfayett/lexfort.htm is a description of the fort in Lexington built by troops commanded by Colonel John Todd.

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From "Todd Family," by Emily Todd Helm, Kittochtinney Magazine, published by G.O.Seilhamer,
Chambersburg,PA, Vol. 1, No. 1(Jan 1905), pp 83-84:

"JOHN TODD (born in Montgomery Co., Pa., March 27, 1750 -- died at Blue Licks, Ky., Aug. 19, 1782), son of David and Hannah (Owen) Todd, was educated in the school of his uncle, the Rev. John Todd, in Louisa County, Va., and studied law with Gen. Andrew Lewis, under whom he served as adjutant-general in the expedition against the Indians that resulted in the battle of Point Pleasant, in 1774.

In 1775, he went to Kentucky, then a wilderness. On the north side of Barren River, about three miles from Bowling Green, a group of beech trees is still standing on which were cut the names of thirteen members of an exploring party from Harrod's Station, now Harrodsburg One of these names is that of J. Todd, with the date of June 13, 1775. Another tree is inscribed, "J. Todd, June 17, 1775.

" In 1776 he settled at Lexington, where he served as judge of the first court in Kentucky county. With Richard Calloway he was chosen a burgess in the Virginia Legislature, April 19, 1777, and he was appointed county lieutenant and colonel of militia for Fayette county upon its creation.

After the conquest of the Illinois, by Gen. George Rogers Clarke, in 1778, in which he participated, Colonel Todd was appointed by Gov. Patrick Henry, Dec. 28, 1778, county lieutenant of the county of Illinois, and he arrived at Kaskaskia from Vincennes early in May 1779.

He thus virtually became the first governor of the Illinois territory. He was instructed to use every effort to win the friendship of the French; to conciliate the Indians as far as possible, and to punish all violations of their property, especially of their lands; and to give assistance to General Clarke in his projected expedition against Detroit. Todd's administration though brief was vigorous. He organized the militia and directed the election of judges and court officers. Licenses to trade were granted. Being a shrewd man he provided against an inrush of a horde of Virginia and Kentucky speculators, who would seize upon the best land on the river bottoms, by a decree that each settler should take up his land in the shape of the narrow French farms that stretched back from the water front, no claim to exceed the number of acres in one of these French farms. His financial policy, however was a failure because it was based on Continental money, and this rendered it difficult to get the creoles to furnish supplies. Finally, Todd was compelled to resort to impressment to feed the troops, paying at the regulation prices one-third in paper money and two-thirds in peltries. Colonel Todd's 'Record Book' contains the history of his rule as the first civil governor of Illinois. The MS. of this 'Record' is in the possession of the Chicago Historical Society, and there is an account of it in the Fergus Hist. Series. In 1780,Todd was again elected a member of the Virginia Legislature, and he afterward made one of two flying visits to Illinois, but took little active part in the affairs of the country, leaving their control to his deputy or lieutenant commandant. In the Virginia Legislature he secured the passage of acts that resulted in the foundation of Transylvania University, and he introduced a bill for negro emancipation

The three brothers, John, Robert, and Levi, were all opposed to slavery as a permanent institution, and though each owned slaves, they were treated in the most humane manner.

At the time of the Indian attack on Bryan's Station, in 1782, Col. Todd, as County Lieutenant of Fayette county, by virtue of his commission in the Virginia line, was next to General Clarke, the ranking officer of the Kentucky forces, and Colonel Commandant he led the centre at the battle of Blue Licks.

The defeat was precipitated by the headlong disobedience of Major McGarry. While Todd, by voice and example was doing all in his power to keep his men firm, he was shot through the body and mortally wounded. The blood gushed from his mouth; his strength failed him; he leaned forward and fell from the saddle. According to some accounts his horse carried him to the river and he fell in its current. An account of his death was written in the Lexington Observer & Reporter, June 17, 1848, in which his brother Levi gave in writing the facts connected with the death of his brother. "He rode a white horse, and being struck with a ball and faint he dismounted, but recovered, remounted and a second shot closed his career. After the troops had re-crossed the Licking the Indians were observed in considerable numbers around the white horse where he lay." With Todd's death the battle became a rout. Todd was the only officer in the fray that carried a sword, which he had borrowed from Boone. The blade was short and roughly made of good steel. The hilt was buckhorn and the guard was of iron, one eighth of an inch thick. This sword was lost in Licking river. When recovered it was identified by Mrs. Todd as the one that her husband borrowed from Daniel Boone. Colonel Todd was a man of generous impulses and of 4 high and noble character. He was once before defeated by the Indians at the Licking, while conveying a quantity of power to Clarke from Limestone Ridge, in 1777. With him was a party of nine men, four of whom were killed.

Todd county was named in his honor, in 1819.

Colonel Todd married in Virginia, in 1780, Jane Hawkins; A daughter, born after his death, and his only child that lived was MARY, married (1) James Russell; they had one son, John Todd, who died aged twenty. Mrs. Russell married (2) Robert Wickliffe, Esq. of Lexington, Ky., but they had no children."

Notes for JANE HAWKINS:

Jane had a sister, Mildred Hawkins who married Capt. Pierce Butler of American Revolution. Their children were: Maj. Thomas L. Butler, Gen. William O. Butler, Richard Butler, and Pierce Butler.

Child of JOHN TODD and JANE HAWKINS is:
7. i. MARY6 TODD, b. Aft. 1780.

3. GENERAL ROBERT5 TODD (DAVID ANDREW4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, JAMES1) was born 19 April 1754 in Montgomery Co. PA, and died 01 March 1814 in Lexington, Fayette Co., KY. He married NANCY ANNE TODD 03 January 1782 in VA, daughter of JOHN TODD and MARGARET THOMPSON. She was born 26 August 1754, and died 31 August 1828.

Notes for GENERAL ROBERT TODD:

Excerpt from "Historic Families of Kentucky," by Thomas Green, 1889, in VA State Library, Richmond, VA, 1952, in "Todds":

"Robert, second son of David Todd and Hannah Owen, was well educated at the school of his uncle, Parson John Todd, whose daughter he married; then studied law in Virginia, it is said in the office of And. Lewis; came early to Kentucky; was sent as a burgess to the Virginia Legislature before the separation; was a member of the Danville Convention of 1785; was an elector of the senate, and a senator, in 1792; was a lot owner in Lexington in 1783; was wounded in the defense of McClellan's Fort, now Georgetown, in 1776; active and brave soldier all through the trouble with Indians, and was often entrusted with important commands; and was for many years, after the state was established, a judge of the Circuit Court of the Fayette District, - (Collins). One of his daughters

married Gen. Wm. Butler. Judge Levi and Col. Thomas Todd, of Indiana, and the late Dr. John Todd of Danville, were his sons."

Excerpt from "Centennial Record - History of Early Settlers of Sangamon Co., Ill," by John Power, 1876:

"Robert Todd, the second brother, acquired the title of General in connection with the Indian wars, and later military operations in KY. None of his descendants ever came to Illinois. One daughter became the wife of Wm. Butler, of Carrollton, KY."

From http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyfayett/surveyfound.htm is a story from the Lexington Leader dtd Jan 1891,

identifying the first town survey of Lexington. The survey is dtd Mar 24, 1791, and is signed by Robert Todd, S.F.

Affidavit of William Meriwether, Jan 11, 1833, in behalf of the heirs of Levi Todd and Robert Todd. (See p. 563)

Rev. War Records VA: Section IV:
"William Meriwether stated that he joined Capt. John Rogers' Troop of Light Dragoons, which was raised in Spotsylvania and Culpeper Cos., VA, which was to be sent to the Western Country to join Gen. George Rogers Clark's Regt. John Rogers was comm. Capt. of the Co., and marched to the Ill. Country to join Gen. Clark's Regt. Shortly after Christmas 1779 or 1780, the Troop of Dragoons landed at Ft. Pitt, then called by that name, where Pittsburgh now stands. The river Ohio then froze up so that the troops were detained there until the Spring of 1780. When the ice broke up, the troop went down the river to the Falls of the Ohio, and from there to Ft. Jefferson, a few miles below the mouth of the Ohio on the Mississippi river, where Rogers' Troop of Horse joined for the first time Gen. George Rogers Clark's Regt. When the troops got there Clark's Regt. was on the ground. The troop together with Clark's regt. built the fort, called Ft. Jefferson. Sometime before this, that is in the winter of 1779, Clark had taken Vincennes and Kaskaskia, and many other places of the British forts in the Ill. country. At Ft. Jefferson, or at the Falls of the Ohio, Meriwether stated that he will recollected that Robert Todd and Levi Todd were there in Clark's Regt. and acting commissioned officers in the same. He does not recollect their rank, but believed they were bros., and went into the Regt. when it was raised and marched from VA with the Regt. The country around Ft. Jefferson was a wilderness for 400 miles distant. He believes that both Levi and Robert Todd completed the entire expedition in taking the several British posts in Ill. In the fall of 1780, Clark's Regt. came from Ft. Jefferson to the Falls of the Ohio, while the troop of Rogers, under the command of John Montgomery was taking or destroying other posts of the enemy in the summer of 1780. In the year 1781, after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis the regiment of Clark was reduced and Robert todd went to VA and married in 1782, and Levi Todd remained in KY., and was in the Blue Lick defeat, fought in Aug. 1782, when Col. John Todd was slain. William Meriwether was not again required by Gen. Clark to go into service, nor was Robert Todd or Levi Todd."

revolutionary War Officers; Alphabetical List of Officers of the Continental Army; Fifteenth Virginia, pg 545;

Todd, Robert (VA). Capt. of Clark's Ill. Reg. 1778 to 1782.

From "Todd Family," by Emily Todd Helm, Kittochtinney Magazine Jan. 1905 p. 85:

"ROBERT TODD, born in Montgomery Co., PA., Apr. 19, 1754 - died Mar 20, 1814, son of David and Hannah (Owen) Todd, went to KY in 1776. He was in McClellan's Ft, (Georgetown), when it was attacked by the Indians in the year of his removal, and was severely wounded in the hip. While convalescing he was attacked by a buffalo bull; his shoulder blade was broken and one of the animal's horns penetrated his lungs. When McClellan's Ft. was abandoned, Jan 30, 1777, Mr. Todd went to Harrodsburg. In 1778, he became a captain in Gen. George Rogers Clarke's little army of conquest, and was in all of Clarke's campaigns against the English and the Indians. His commission was in a VA state regiment, 1778-1782. In 1787 he was in command of an expedition to the Scioto

river region, north of the Ohio, in which three Indians were killed and seven captured. He was a man of rigid, unbending integrity, and one of the bravest soldiers of Kentucky of that early day. Captain Todd was a skillful surveyor and served as surveyor of Fayette county. He settled at Lexington, where he became an extensive land owner. He was one of the commissioners to choose the seat of government for the new State of Kentucky, and gave his deciding vote for Frankfort instead of Lexington to avoid a suspicion of being governed by self interest in his choice. He held a number of civil offices. He was chosen a state senator for Fayette Co., in 1792, and was Quarter Sessions Judge and afterward Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of the County. When the record office of the county was burned, Jan 31, 1803, he was one of the nine gentlemen who carefully copied the charred record books. Like his brothers, John and Levi, he was opposed to slavery, and in 1799 he emancipated his slaves, one of whom had accompanied him in all his campaigns. Captain, afterward known as General Todd, married Jan. 3, 1782, his cousin, Anne Todd (b. Aug 26, 1756 - d. Aug 31, 1828), daughter of John and Margaret (Thompson) Todd."

Notes for NANCY ANNE TODD: One source says she was b. 1756.

Children of ROBERT TODD and NANCY TODD are:

• i. COLONEL JOHN6 TODD, b. 15 October 1783.
• ii. MARGARET THOMPSON TODD, b. 28 September 1787.
• iii. DAVID FAYETTE TODD, b. 08 May 1788.
• iv. THOMAS J. TODD, b. Lexington, Fayette Co., KY.
• v. GENERAL LEVI LUTHER TODD, b. 26 July 1791, Lexington, Fayette Co., KY; m. JANE BRIGGS.
• vi. ELIZA TODD.
• 4. MAJOR GENERAL LEVI5 TODD (DAVID ANDREW4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, JAMES1) was born October 1756 in Montgomery Co. PA, and died 06 September 1807 in Lexington, Fayette Co., KY. He married (1) JANE BRIGGS 25 February 1779 in Stanford, KY, daughter of SAMUEL BRIGGS and SARAH LOGAN. She was born June 1761, and died 1800. He married (2) JANE HOLMES 1801 in KY. She was born 07 August 1770 in VA.

Notes for MAJOR GENERAL LEVI TODD:

One of the first emigrants to Kentucky. Appointed first clerk of Fayette County Court (1780-1807) by Kentucky's first governor, Isaac Shelby. Built first house in Fayette Co., KY. Named "Ellerslie" after the small Scottish village where his 16th century Todd ancestors had lived. Buried in Lexington Cemetery. Tombstone reads, "General Levi Todd - a youthful adventurer to Kentucky and active in its defense in the most perilous time."

From "Robert Stuart and his Descendants," by Robert Stuart Sanders, 1962:

"Major General Levi Todd was one of the defenders of the fort at Horrodsburg; he afterwards assisted Logan to hold Ft. St. Asaphs at Stanford, KY; was major, colonel, brigadier and major general of Kentucky forces till his death in 1807."

From "Historic Families of Kentucky," by Thomas Marshall Green, originally published Cincinnati, >1889, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1996, p 212-213: "Levi, third son of David Todd and Hannah Owen, was born in Pennsylvania, 1756; was educated with his elder brothers in VA; with them studies law, became a surveyor, came early to KY, and at first seems to have been one of the defenders of the fort at Harrodsburg; afterward he assisted Logan to hold St. Asaphs. He was stationed at St. Asaphs when he married Jane or Betsy Briggs. Afterward, he fortified Todd's Station, in Jessamine, whence he removed to Lexington, where he was a purchaser at the first sale of lots, 1781. He was a clerk of the first court of quarter sessions held in Harrodsburg, spring 1777; was a member of both the Danville conventions of 1785, and 1787. When Fayette Co. was formed, he was appointed its first clerk, and held the office until his death in 1807. The three brothers, John, Robert, and Levi, were all opposed to slavery as a permanent institution, and though each owned slaves, they were treated in the most humane manner. He was a lieutenant under George Rogers Clarke against Kaskaskia, and Vincennes; was with Logan in the attack upon the Indian town when Bowman's panic thwarted the well-concerted plan; was major of Logan's Lincoln Co. regiment, and participated in two other expeditions against the Indians of Ohio and Indiana; and was a major in the hottest of the fight at Blue Licks, where his gallant and gifted brother fell. According to an article in the Lexington Observer & Reporter, June 17, 1848, he commanded a battalion in the battle of Blue Licks. He dismounted, tied his horse, and fought on foot that day, and subsequently gave in writing the facts connected with the death of his brother, Colonel John Todd. Afterward, he became brigadier and then a major-general. Those military titles were won by actual service; his reputation was secured by real and hard fighting. A solid, substantial, enterprising citizen; a sensible, intelligent, well-educated man; a consistent Presbyterian; a valuable and faithful public servant; a good soldier; - of course he was respected at a time when those qualities were most useful and honored. Gen. Levi Todd and Jane or Betsy Briggs, were the parents of 11 children. After the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Tatum, by whom he had a son, James, the father of Dr. L. B. Todd, of Lexington."

From "Centennial History - History of Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois," by John Power, 1876.

"Levi Todd, the youngest of the three brothers, was engaged in the early Indian wars in Kentucky, and was a lieutenant under Col. Clark in the expedition that left Corn Island, opposite Louisville, and captured Ft. Gates and the village of Kaskaskia, July 4, 1778. M. Rocheblave, the commander of the fort, was so mortified at his having been surprised and captured without firing a gun, that he would not accept any courtesies from his captors, and was sent under a military guard to VA. Lieutenant Levi Todd commanded the squad of soldiers who took the prisoner back. He afterwards acquired the title of General, was clerk of the second court of Fayette Co. KY, the greater part of his life, and lived and died in Lexington."

From the "Reminiscences from the Life of Col. Cave Johnson", by Cave Johnson, 1849, several months before his passing. Pub. in the KY Register May 1922. Reprinted in the Johnson Digest, by Robert & Louise Stracener Payne. Private Printing, 1990:

"In the year 1786, the government authorized Gen. Clark to carry out another expedition against them, which he undertook, and raised a considerable force. Col. Levi Todd was selected to command Fayette troops, and Benj. Logan from the south of KY; Col. Wm. Steele, Capt Robert Sanders and myself were selected as Captains, with others whose names I do not recollect. In Col. Todd's regiment we rendezvoused at the Falls, where Gen. Clark took command. He sent his field piece by water down the Ohio and up the Wabash. The army marched by land, and on the way, before reaching Vincennes, the officers held a council of war, and sent Col. Logan back for the purpose of raising another army and marching into the Indian country on the Miami, presuming that the Indians were generally collected on the Wabash in order to meet our expedition. We marched on to Vincennes where we remained a number of days waiting for our cannon, which was detained by low water, until we had eaten up nearly all our provisions. When the cannon arrived, we marched on up the river about two days, when the regiment that Logan left, mutinied and refused to go further, alleging they had not sufficient stock of provisions, etc. I suppose losing their Colonel had its influence. Gen. Clark was mortified. We returned home. Col. Logan with the command he had raised, went into the Miami country, and succeeded against the Indians fully up to expectations." Among the list of residents of Ft. Harrod were Levi Todd and family, and Robert Todd.

General Todd married (1) Feb. 25, 1779, Jane briggs (died 1800), daughter of Capt. Samuel and Sarah (Logan) Briggs, and a niece of Gen. Benjamin and John Logan. It is a tradition in the Todd family that Jane Briggs wove her wedding garmet from a weed known as wild cotton. General Todd married (2) the widow, Mrs. Tatum (born Holmes), of Carlisle, PA

Notes for JANE HOLMES:

When Jane married Levi Todd, she was Mrs. Tatum, a widow.

Children of LEVI TODD and JANE BRIGGS are:

• i. ANN MARIA6 TODD, b. 17 June 1778; d. 1884; m. WALTER BULLOCK.
• ii. HANNAH TODD, b. February 1781, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co., KY; m. REV. ROBERT STUART.
• Notes for HANNAH TODD:
• Died of cholera."

2. Emilie and Katherine Helm , Todd & Helm family Papers, http://beauproductions.com/marylincoln/biography/geneology.htm. NOTE Emilie and Katherine protected, and often changed, ages of women in the family. Emilie’s grandmother commented that a woman’s age was aschangeable number," and Emilie heeded her grandmother’s advice on several occasions. Even in census records, Emilie changed her daughters’ ages. To further protect their age, Emilie listed family members by listing all the male children in their order of birth, and then listing the female children in their birth order. Here, when information is available, the lists have been changed from Emilie’s original order to placing the children in their descending order of birth. If information is not available, the lists have been left as Emilie originally wrote them. "DAVID TODD (Robert, John, James) b. April 8, 1723 in County Armagh, Ireland. d. February 8, 1785 in Lexington, Kentucky. Before coming to Kentucky he had been a farmer in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He moved to Kentucky to join his sons Levi and Robert in 1783. On April 4, 1749, DAVID TODD married Hannah Owen (b. October 25, 1725 d. 1813 at the home of her son Levi.) They had six children:

A.     John Todd  b. March 27, 1750 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania d. August 18, 1782 at the battle of Blue Licks, Kentucky.  He married Jane Hawkins in Richmond, Virginia in the year 1780.  John came to Kentucky in 1775.

B. Elizabeth b. November 13, 1752 died February 5, 1803. On January 4, 1774, Elizabeth married Roger North (died in 1831),

C. Robert b. April 19, 1754 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania d. March 20, 1814. Robert went to Kentucky in 1776. He rose to the military rank of General. On January 3, 1782, he married his cousin Anne Todd (b. August 26, 1756 died August 31, 1828) the daughter of Rev. John and Margaret (Thompson) Todd.

D. LEVI TODD b. October 4, 1756 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania d. September 6, 1807 in Lexington, Kentucky. He moved to Kentucky in 1776. As a member of the military he eventually earned the rank of General. General Todd married Jane Betsy Briggs on February 25, 1779. She died in July 1800. General Todd then married Jane Holmes Tantum in about 1803.

E. Owen b. April 20, 1762 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania d. December 6, 1817. He moved to Kentucky in 1794 with his parents and the family of his brother-in-law, Elijah Smith. Owen later became a Judge and moved to Ohio. Then in early 1817 moved to Vevay, Indiana. Judge Todd was first married in 1782 to Elizabeth Smith (d. 1783), who was reported to be his cousin. On June 9, 1790, Judge Todd married Maria Jane Paxton (b. April 22, 1771 died 1834 in Madison, Indiana.)

F. Hannah b. January 11, 1765 - d. 1824 near Georgetown, Kentucky. In February 1782, Hannah married first to Elijah Smith who was the father of all of her children. After Mr. Smith’s death, Hannah married James Kelley. Together they lived in Scott County, Kentucky."

US Revolutionary War Soldier

Son of Robert TODD and Ann Jean SMITH.

Husband of Hannah OWEN (m. April 4, 1749, Pennsylvania).

Great-grandfather of Mary TODD (Mrs. Abe Lincoln).

Military service: Soldier during the Revolutionary War. Established by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a "Patriot." His Patriot number is A-114274: He served from Pennsylvania, in the Lancaster County militia. He served with Capt. James McCreight, Capt. Daniel Bradley, and Col. John Rogers.

Children of David and Hannah: Col. John TODD, b. March 1750. Elizabeth TODD, b. Nov. 1752 Robert TODD, b. April 1754 Levi TODD, b. Oct. 1756 Andrew TODD Owen TODD, b. April 1762 Hannah TODD, b. Jan. 1765 (m. 1st Elijah SMITH; 2nd James KELLY)

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via daughter Hannah Smith (born Todd) by SmartCopy: Feb 18 2015, 17:55:44 UTC

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• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 25 2020, 2:21:25 UTC