Robert Whitledge

WHITLEDGE, William Jr. was the first Whitledge to emigrate to Bullitt County, Ky, from Prince William Co., Va. in October 1792. His great-great grandfather, William Whitledge had emigrated to Norfolk, Va. in 1631 from England. In 1657 William Jr's great-grandfather Robert Whitledge moved the family north up the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River to what is today Prince William County, where the family lived for the next 130 years. William Jr's grandfather, Thomas Whitledge, married Sibel Harrison, the daughter of Burr Harrison a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Justice of Stafford County and the Ambassador to the Piscataway Indians. In 1710 Thomas Whitledge moved the family west in Prince William County, Va. next to the Hugeuenot's Brentown Grant. It was here the Whitledges began to marry into many of the families that would eventually become the first settlers of Bullitt County, the Renos, Grants, Coppedges and the Overalls.

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