Looking for father of Jane Fleming m. Eli Hand 1804 Washington, Kentucky

Question

The mariage bond was signed by James Fleming and witness by a John Reid.

Answer 1

Maybe this will help you:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilcchs/Biographies/ArthurWilliamHand.html

Excerpt:

"The father of Woodford D. Hand was James Fleming Hand, born in or near Bourbon Co., Kentucky May 20, 1805.  He died Oct. 9, 1876.  He was the son of Eli Hand, born June 14, 1779 near Scotch Plains, New Jersey, the son of Jesse Hand, a shipping merchant who operated a trading vessel down the Delaware River to Philadelphia.  Jesse’s wife was Nellie ____, a Swedish girl, no doubt from the Swedish settlement on the Delaware.  Eli Hand’s wife was Jane Fleming, a granddaughter of the Col. William Fleming who was a commander in the famous battle with the Indians at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774.  He was of the very noted Fleming Family of Scotland and heir of the earldom of Wigton.  For 500 years the royal fortress of Dumbarton Castle in Scotland had for its warden a Fleming.  There is a tradition is the family that Jane Fleming was a descendant of Pocahontas, the Indian princess, but this has not been accounted for.
                Jane Fleming Hand, wife of Eli Hand, was born in Virginia April 3, 1778.  She was brought over the Blue Ridge Mountains into Kentucky when she was seven years old.  She and Eli were married in “the wilds of Kentucky about the year 1800”, according to their daughter Mary Ann Hand Shepard Franklin, whose letter to her nephew Woodford D. Hand was published in the Robinson Constitution on March 14, 1900.  This letter was written on her 89th birthday, Feb. 23, 1900.  She says further, “My two older brothers, James and George Hand were born there (Kentucky).  From Kentucky my parents moved to Ohio, near Chillicothe (Deer Creek), where I and the younger members of the family were born.”  The other children besides those mentioned were Henry Wilson Hand, Margaret (who married Christopher Lamb), and Lorenzo Dow (named after the famous pioneer preacher of that name)."

 

Comments

I have had no luck documenting Jane's relationship to the famous Col. Fleming who is mentioned in the Crawford County Illinois biography above.  Has anyone been successful doing so?

There is another oral history that appears in the book The Hand Family Scrapbook:  Eli Hand and Jane Fleming and Some of Their Descendants. Web: familysearch.com, LDS microfilm. It provides additional leads and reads, Jane's father was left for dead on the battlefield, but survived. This would have been a major event for the family - who knows how long he was missing and what he returned to.  The Scrapbook also reads, Jane told her granddaughters that she was related to the founder of Fleming County, Kentucky.

These two oral traditions led me to investigate the Flemings of Chester County, PA from whom Col. John Fleming and his half brother George Stockton descend, both founded Fleming County, Kentucky   I also failed to find our Jane in this Chester County family.  But there is a Jane with a similiar birthdate of whom there is no further mention.

Several histories exist for William and James Fleming of Chester . . . they are consistent . . .the author indicates that many he speaks of went to Fleming County Co., Kentucky.  There is a Jane born April 1772 (twin of Ann) and a story about the Revolution concerrning James.   It reads, "I think he was killed in a battle of the Revolution while in New Jersey."  Egle, William Henry, ed., Notes and Queries: Historical, Biogrpahical, and Genealogical Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania., Vol. 2:180, Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1895; web googlebooks.com.

While the famous surgeon Col. William Fleming (mentioned in the Crawford Co. Illinois bio of Author Hand) was wounded at the battle of Brandywine and was expected to die, he was not left for dead.

There are many interactions between the Flemings of PA and VA and the families appear to have  intermarried.  This is confounding the research process as well as lost records for the bordering counties during this timeframe.  A connection to the Reade or Reed family is possible.

Any primary documentation for Jane's relationship to her father or Eli Hand's relationship to his father Jesse Hand would be helpful.

Answer 2

It looks as if Eliza Jane Fleming's father's name was John A. Fleming, not Eli Hand.  1835-1870.

His wife was Masey Susan Branson  1834-1880

I found this information on FamilySearch.org  

On FamilySearch the Fleming family goes back to Peter David Fleming Sr.  1719-1762