John, the son of Thomas Haydon and Hannah Kirke was born on 17 May 1728 at Northumberland, Virginia.
Marriage and Children
John married Lucy Morton (1745-1811), the daughter of John and Sarah (Hawkins) Morton on 31 January 1765 at Spotsylvania, Virginia. They had thirteen children:
Abner Haydon (b. 1765; d. 1834) m. 1790 at Spotsylvania, VA, Mildred Garnett (1770-1830)
William Haydon (b. 1765; d. 1830) m. Sarah Garnett (1764-1860)
Susannah Haydon (b. 1768; d. 1839) m. 9 Jul 1783 at Lincoln, KY, James Stephens (1757-1832)[1]
Sarah Haydon (b. 1769; d. ) m. Robert Thomas Jr. (1764-)
Elizabeth Haydon (b. 1770; d. 1846) m. 1791 at Orange, VA, Francis Abner Bourne (1769-1848)
Lucinda Haydon (b. 1772; d. 1829) m. 1792 at Buckingham, VA, Abraham Sallee (1767-1829)
Thomas Haydon Sr. (b. 1776; d. 1838) m. 17 Jan 1801 at Jessamine, KY, Mary Keller (1781-1839)
John Haydon (b. 1777; d. 1834) m. 1798 at Kentucky, Catherine Faulconer (1781-1845)
Jeremiah Haydon (b. 1778; d. 1811) m. 1803 at Fayette, KY, Elizabeth Faulconer (1784-1859)
Theresa Haydon (b. 1779; d. 1832) m. 1794 at Fayette, KY, Covington Nelson (1773-)
Elijah Haydon (b. 1780; d. 1858) m. 26 Jan 1803 at Barron, KY, Susan "Sucky" Gorin (1789-1833)
Noah Haydon (b. 1789; d. 1861) m. 28 Sep 1812 at Woodford, KY, Nancy Mitchum (1792-1834)
Louis Lunsford Haydon (b. 1793; d. 1812)
Death
John Haydon died on 27 July 1801 in his 73rd year at Jessamine, Kentucky.
Research Notes
Land Record 1778: Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004. Original data: Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Originally published in 1912. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/55460:7832?tid=&pid=&_phsrc=Ekf1151&_phstart=successSource
Land Record 1781: Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004. Original data: Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Originally published in 1912. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/55456:7832?tid=&pid=&_phsrc=Ekf1157&_phstart=successSource
Biography written in full with inline sourcing and connected to parents following further research by Carol Baldwin on 13 January 2024 during the 2024 WikiTree Challenge 1: New Mexico.
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