Boone County, Kentucky, Encyclopedia
Archibald Huston (1775? - 1826) Sheriff of Boone County, Justice of the Peace for Boone County, 1799.We have a letter he wrote in 1825.
His will, which appears in Will Book B-235, was probated 25 Sep 1826. He was listed as being over 45 in the 1820 census, which means he was born in or before the year 1775.
m. Elizabeth Huston.Daniel C. McIntire married Agnes F. Huston in Scotland County, Missouri, September 23, 1847. She was a daughter of Archibald Huston and a native of Boone County, Kentucky.
According to the census of 1810 he owned 2 slaves, but the 1830 census shows he had none. ( Huston Arch'd 5 2 . 1 . 2 . . 1 . . 2 ; 3 2 0 2 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 )
At the First County Court Ever Held In Boone County: "A number of the citizens of Boone met at the house of Wm. Cave on the 17th day of June, 1799. John Hall, John Conner, John Brown, Archibald Huston, and Archibald Reid presented their commissions as Justices of the Peace for the county of Boone, signed by James Garrard, who was Governor of the State at that time. These gentlemen took the oath as required, and the first County Court held in this county was organized." Archibald Huston is on a List of Taxpayers for Madison County, Ky., in 1792, but it is uncertain if this is the same person, as there was another of that name in the central part of the Commonwealth.[Possibly the father of our subject: Archibald Huston, (born before 1723, N.Ireland, d. 1774 Augusta Co. Va.) m. Mary Ann Stephenson, daughter of John Stephenson and Sarah Waite. Lieutenant county militia French and Indian Wars. Children: John, Nathan, James, Stephenson, George, Abigail, Sarah, Ann, Jane, Elizabeth, Archibald.]
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