The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

" I.oiiSMi.i.K, K_v., April 27, 1869.
"This form was enclosed to my father, living in Bardstown, Ky., who wrote the above.
He has four sons, John, Samuel and Thomas and myself. My father came to this State about
40 years ago, and settled in Bardstown, Nelson Co., where he still lives. He is a farmer, and
before the war was in independent circumstances, though considerably reduced by the plundering
of both armies.
"Resp't'y & Very Truly,
"WM. TAYLOR HUMPHREYS, M. D."
HUMPHRIES FAMILY OF VIRGINIA.
•• Charles' Humphries 's said to have been the grand-son of one of three gentlemen
by the name of Humphries, who came from Wales, in England, and settled in Virginia, in the
troublous times of the Stewarts, more than two hundred years since. This is the account of his
Huviphries ancestry given by Capt. Thomas Humphries, at various times, during a period of fifty
years. It is claimed that their ancestor was Ralph Humphreys, a cavalier of Wales, who was
driven thence to Ireland, and his descendants to America.
Charles Humphries was born in Virginia, about 1710-15. He married about 1735, ,
a daughter of IMr. Bennet, a Virginia farmer. They had ten children. The sons were all born
in Virginia, except Richard. A short time before the Revolutionary war, he settled, with all his
family, near Raleigh, Wake Co., North Carolina; and, at a later date, in Chester District, South
Carolina, where he and three of his sons died and were buried. Many of their descendants are
still living in the northern part of South Carolina.
Children (besides three daughters);
2. I. JoHN^; served, as a volunteer, in the Revolutionary war: d. at Chester District. S. C.
3. II. Charles-; volunteered, and joined the American army at the commencement of the
Revolutionary war, as did four of his brothers; d. at Chester District, S. C.
4. III. Thomas =; b. 18 Dec, 1756; m. Mary Wall. Family 2.
5. IV. Absalom.' At the beginning of the Revolutionary war, joined the American army as
a volunteer, and continued in the service until the close of the war. He removed
from Chester District, S. C, to Christian (now Trigg) County, Kentucky.
6. V. James'; died of small-pox, while a prisoner of war in South Carolina, he having joined
the American army, as a volunteer, at the commencement of the Revolutionary
struggle. The last message he sent from his prison was to his brothers Thomas
and Abraham, telling them to avenge his death upon the tories.
7. VI. Bennet'; d. in Chester District, S. C.
8. VII. Ruhakd.'
FAMILY 2.
9. Captain ThomaS' Humphries U] (Charles^) was born in Virginia, 18 Dec, 1756.
At the commencement of the Revolutionary war, he and his brothers John, Charles, Absalom and
James, all volunteered, and joined the American army in North Carolina. Thomas held a captain's
commission, continuing in the service until the close of the war. He campaigned in the Carolinas,
Georgia and Virginia; was in the battles of Guilford Court House (N. C.) and Eutaw Springs
(S. C), besides many other engagements and skirmishes; was associated in army with Gen. John
Adair, of Kentucky, then a Major in South Carolina. Many stories went the rountls of the news-
papers, when General Adair was a candidate for Governor of Kentucky, about the military feats
and hair-breadth escapes of Maj. Adair and Capt. Humphries with the tories of South Carolina.