John D. Aikman

• Residence: , Daviess, Indiana
• Residence: Bourbon, Kentucky, United States
• Residence: Bourbon, Kentucky, United States
• Residence: Shepherdstown, Berkeley, Virginia, United States - from 1787 to 1792
• Residence: Daviess, Indiana, United States - from 1810 to 1812
• Residence: Daviess, Indiana, United States - 1840
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 17 2021, 14:05:22 UTC

In 1810, John Aikman and his wife, Mary Polly Barr Aikman, along with Mary's brothers Hugh, James and Robert Barr, and other friends and neighbors from Bourbon County, filed deeds in what later became Knox County (and later Daviess County, Indiana) near where the town of Washington stands today.

Along with a number of other friends and neighbors from Bourbon County, several of the family had moved there by 1810. However, as the War of 1812 began, British had infiltrated the area and provided firearms to the Indians and stirred them up to combat the settlers, and bloody Indian attacks and killings of settlers by the Indians became frequent, and some of the family returned to Kentucky for a time.

(Note: Shortly after the birth of their first child, Robert Barr returned to Kentucky with his wife Hannah riding all of the way on horseback with their baby in her arms, not to return until 1816 after the uprisings had settled down. Conversely, John and Mary Polly Aikman evidently stayed throughout the troubles, and lived in one of ten forts built throughout the area where their neighbors gathered when Indian uprisings occurred.)

• Residence: , Daviess, Indiana
• Residence: Bourbon, Kentucky, United States
• Residence: Bourbon, Kentucky, United States
• Residence: Shepherdstown, Berkeley, Virginia, United States - from 1787 to 1792
• Residence: Daviess, Indiana, United States - from 1810 to 1812
• Residence: Daviess, Indiana, United States - 1840
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 17 2021, 15:15:00 UTC
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 14 2024, 19:13:55 UTC

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Date and place of birth have also been erroneously reported to be May 5, 1783 in Kentucky, United States <Kentucky was still part of Virginia at that time, also conflicts with his cited FamilySearch record>.