Moses Mann

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F. John Mann, Jr.1725 - 1774
M. Frances Elizabeth 'Dames' CarpenterAbt 1724 -
m. abt. 1749

Children:

• Moses Mann abt 1750 - 1849
• Elizabeth Mann 1752 - abt 1825
• Jean Mann 1755 -
• Asa 'Esauh' Mann abt 1758 - 1786
• John Mann 1764 - 1766
• Joseph Mann 1765 - 1820
• Priscilla Mann 1770 - 1870

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18800710/moses-mann
1757-1854 m. Oct 3, 1778
He was a Revolutionary Veteran and founded Mannsville.

In the latter part of the 1800's he came with his family to Kentucky, also accomplishing the entire journey on pack-horses and first settled in Bradfordsville in what is now Marion County, on the Rolling Fork, where he entered wild land and improved a farm upon which he remained several years. While living here, he was appointed a government scout, Coppage, and were for several years engaged in hunting and Indian fighting from Rolling Fork to the Cumberland River. Just before he engaged in hunting and Indian fighting, however, he had a son, a nephew and a hired man, Nathaniel Carpenter, shot and scalped by the savages while fishing on the Rolling Fork. Carpenter was the only survivor, being left for dead and also having been scalped, crawled up to the palisade fort and finally recovered from his injuries. Later, his associate, Coppage, was also killed and scalped while on one of their expeditions.

Mann then sold his farm and fort and moved to what is now Taylor County where he settled on 2,000 acres near Mannsville, which was named for him. He was one of the most noted and successful hunters in the country and paid for several thousand acres of land through his skill with the rifle. He located some 7,000 acres of wild land on Robinson's Creek, improved a large farm and became quite wealthy. There he resided until his death in 1843. He was for several years extensively engaged in the manufacture of salt in connection with farming and stock raising. He and his wife were long members of the Old School Presbyterian Church. His age at his death was 97, his wife's 87. Potentially given land:

Land grant states: John Floyd, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia: To all to whom there present shall come, greeting: Know ye, that in conformity with a survey, made on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1785 by virtue of a Land Officer Treasury Warrant No. 12465... June 24th 1782 there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto Anthony Bower, Moses Mann, Jr., William Hamilton, Nancy McCoy, John Bird, Elizabeth Bird, William Bird, Andrew Bird, Thomas Bird, Jane Bird, and ..., Heirs of Andrew Hamilton, ... A certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing Six hundred acres situate in Greenbrier County on Sandy Creek a branch of Elk river, joining a survey made for John Dickison below, on the Creek about eight miles up the said Creek, and bounded as followeth to wit Beginning at the top of a ridge at the White Oaks corner to Dickison and running S45*E 200 poles with Dickisons line to the bank of Sandy Creek to a beech and hickory; N70*E 66 poles to the hickories; S20*E 70 poles to a White oak and beech; S60*E 60 poles to two White Oaks on the point of a ridge N30*E 200 poles to two sugar trees on the side of a ridge; N30*W 400 poles to two White Oaks, and S30*W 50 poles to the beginning. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land, with its appurtenances, to the said Heirs of Andrew Hamilton, med and their heirs forever. In witness whereof, the said John Floyd, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his Hand, and caused the lesser seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed, at Richmond, on the sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one and of the Commonwealth the fifty fifth. John Floyd