History of Allen and Woodson counties, Kansas : embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county . as Pucket. Joshua Townsend migrated to Kentucky near the beginning of the19th century and, later, brought his family into Indiana and died in Clarkcounty, that State, about 1821. H2 was a slave owner in Kentuckyand was one of the strong exponents and earnest advocates of the Demo-cratic faith. Major Townsend, as a citizen, was much the man his father was. Hepermitted no man to chal
History of Allen and Woodson counties, Kansas : embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county . as Pucket. Joshua Townsend migrated to Kentucky near the beginning of the19th century and, later, brought his family into Indiana and died in Clarkcounty, that State, about 1821. H2 was a slave owner in Kentuckyand was one of the strong exponents and earnest advocates of the Demo-cratic faith. Major Townsend, as a citizen, was much the man his father was. Hepermitted no man to challenge his Democracy but in the exciting days ofNullification and of the fiery congressional debates he saw troubles aheadfor his party. He prophesied that the Calhoun wing of Democracy wouldcause a split in the party and that families would be divided, brothersagainst each other and father against son. How true the prediction washistory will reveal. Major Townsend married Phebe Biggs, a grand-daughter of an Irishman and patriot soldier of the American Revolution. The Biggs family is one of the original families of the United history starts with that of our country and begins with Robert Biggs, the. ytt^^ / (? a CD ^vOODSON COUNTIES, KANSAS. 575 Patriot. He was born in Erins Isle and married Jane Miller, a Scotchlady. Their children were: John, who married Marj Jane Collins; Robert,Andrew, married Miss Criss and Nancy, Nicholas Criss: Joseph; Hannah,wife of Robert Carnes; Sa;iuiel; Mary, Thompson; Abner, married MissMiller, and Elizabeth and Jane married Henry and William Criss,respectively. John Biggs was our subjects grandfather. He was in the UnitedStates .service at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1812, at the time of the historicIndian massacre of the Pigeon Roost. In this massacre many of our•subjects ancestors were victims, both on the Biggs and Collins side, and abrief notice with reference to it will not be uninteresting. The place thenknown as the Pigeon Roost
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