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About Joseph Gaines

Joseph moved to Kentucky in 1807. He appears in Culpepper county, Virginia records from 1781, Will records of his father, James Gaines, and mother, Mary Gaines, until 1807 when he made a deed, witnessed by William P. Gaines. Both Joseph and his brother, Francis, moved to Kentucky.

A descendant relates that Joseph had a son, William Prior Gaines, who had sons: Joseph, Jr., French, and Thomas and a daughter, Lucy Gaines. This information was related by Thomas Henry Gaines of Rich Pond, Kentucky.