June 7, 1774, John Floyd, Assistant Surveyor of Fincastle County, Va., surveyed a tract of one thousand acres for John Ware, in consideration of military services performed by him in the war between Great Britain and France ; it
was patented in the name of Richard Terrell and Richard Morris (September 1, 1782; Book 1, p. 179, Kentucky Land Office), and with some additional property, making about fifteen hundred acres in all, was acquired by Alex Scott
Bullitt, who settled there in 1784 or 1785 (see Deed Book 1, p. 310;)
Per the Encyclopedia of Louisville, William Christian bought the land and deeded it to his daughter Priscilla and her husband, Alexander Scott Bullitt as a wedding present on February 10, 1786. It was located about 8 miles from Louisville on Beargrass Creek.
”MY father, Thomas W, Bullitt, spent his summer vacation in 1906 at Charlottesville, Virginia, with his son, Dr. James B. Bullitt, who urged him while there to write out some account of his life as a boy on the Oxmoor farm where he was born, and which has remained in the family continuously since 1785.
He had no books or papers for reference, but between August 16 and September 15, 1906, he wrote from memoryalone the following sketch of Oxmoor and the life there before the war. From day to day he would write whatever occurred to him, without any regular arrangement or revision. The manuscript is wholly in his own handwriting, and consists of odd sheets of note paper, pages from scratch pads, old letter heads, etc. …”
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Thank you Marti.I find this interesting the way Virginia, lacking funds to pay their military personel, deeded them land.
Wayne