Edward Clifford

• General Notes
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    "He was buried in Rocky Springs Cemetery, near Breckenridge, Harrison County. Possibly Edward was the first person buried in this cemetery. There is at least one stone for an Edward Clifford buried in Rocky Springs Cemetery, but the inscription is not legible. Edward married Ruth circa 1789 probably in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Ruth was still alive in 1834, the time of the 'Edward Clifford heirs' to John Berry document.
    
    "Family legend maintains that Charles had a first wife, and Edward was a son of Charles and first wife. Apparently it is Edward who has a stone in Fort Palmer Cemetery, Fairfield Township, with the inscription "E. Clifford 1755-" there being no death date. The stone is a memory stone. The "1755" possibly is an error by the person inscribing the stone.
    
    "Edward was in the Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 1790 federal census, Tyrone Township. Edward was taxed in Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1786 (single man), 1787, 1789, 1791 (single man-although he was apparently married by this time, his son Robert being born in 1790), 1793, and 1795. There were no lists for 1790, 1792 and 1794.
    
    "Edward's second known child, James, was born 1795, also in Pennsylvania. Since the Fayette County, Pennsylvania, tax list is from 1785-1799, and Edward was not on it after 1795, Edward would have left the area after 1795 and before 1800. This is confirmed by the early tax records of Harrison County, Kentucky, which have Edward first listed in 1796. He was taxed for 200 acres of third rate (or Number 3) land, one horse and 2 cows. (For tax purposes, land in Kentucky was classified as first rate land (for example, bottom land), second rate land and third rate land. The land was also called number 1, 2, and 3 land.) Edward's land on Twin Creek was originally entered and surveyed for Thomas Hinkson485 and a grant issued to Thomas Hinkson. In 1806, besides one male over the age of 21 (Edward), one male over 16 and under 21 was with Edward, and this supports other documents that Edward's son Robert was born in 1790. By 1808, Edward still had the 200 acres but at that time had six horses.
    
    "Edward apparently moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky about 8 years after his brother Robert Clifford and sister Mary and her husband Joseph Whitsett and family moved to Kentucky. Robert Clifford, who died in 1791 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, probably present-day Harrison County, was taxed in Bourbon County in 1789-see under Robert Clifford (#49). Joseph and Mary (Clifford) Whitsett were in present-day Harrison County, Kentucky, by 1790 when their daughter Jane Whitsett was born there-see Mary Clifford (#50). Also, Joseph Whitsett was on the 1790 reconstructed federal census for Bourbon County, Kentucky. Probably all three Clifford siblings, Mary, Robert and Edward, lived (and died) within a 20 miles radius of Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky.
    
    "Edward continued to be taxed for his 200 acres of third rate land in the Twin Creek area of Harrison County. His son Robert first appeared in the Harrison County tax records in 1813, son James in 1816, son Charles in 1818, and son Thomas in 1827. In June 1799 Edward Clifford was a member of a grand jury in Harrison County in the case of William Lumley versus Alexander Doyle (trespass, assault and battery-defendant did not appear). Edward was on another grand jury in Harrison County in September 1800; and in July of 1800, he was appointed overseer of the road leading from 'the rocky springs to Leeslick,' and was 'to keep it in repair.'
    
    "Edward was in the Harrison County federal censuses of 1810 through 1830. In 1830, the district was given as Licking River, West Side. In 1803 and 1814, Edward Clifford's name was on the list of miscellaneous claims against Harrison County,491 and in 1811 Edward was listed on the sale bill in the name of the estate of James M. Harrison."
    Hugh Clifford