Kentucky was originally a Virginia county and included the lands west of the Appalachians. In 1780, it was divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties. Kentucky officially became a state on June 1, 1792.
She married Ninian Claggett. He was the son of Thomas Claggett.
Ninian Claggett appeared in the Maryland census of Frederick County in 1776 in the Lower Potomack Hundred township.
In 1776 parts of Frederick County became Montgomery County. Montgomery County is just north of Washington, D. C.
Ninian Claggett took the Fidelity Oath in 1778 in Montgomery County, Maryland
Euphon and Ninian's children included:
Thomas Wilson Claggett (1780),
Samuel Magruder Claggett (1782),
Mary Euphon Claggett Prather (1787, married Thomas W. Prather), James Wilson Claggett (1790, married Miriam McKee), and
Ruth Claggett (1792),
Nancy Claggett (1794),
Elizabeth Claggett Abernathy (1796),
John Douglas Claggett (1798).
In 1783 Ninian Clagett had 100 acres in Montgomery County called Flint's Grove. It was in the Sugarland and Upper Potomac Hundred. According to the Inventory Form for State Historic Site Survey, Flint's Grove was originally surveyed for John Flint in 1722.
At the time of the 1790 census the Ninian Claggett household was in Montgomery County, Maryland. The household consisted of 2 boys under 16, a man over 16 and 3 females.
Ninian Claggett was listed on the 1793 tax roll of Montgomery County.
Ninian died in October, 1805 in Fayette, Fayette County, Kentucky. He was buried in the Prather family cemetery in Fayette County.
x
Kentucky Gazette
To all whom it my Concern.
TAKE NOTICE,
That I shall attend on the tract of land whereon the widow Clagett now lives, on the 4th day of January next with the county surveyor and precessioner, in order to establish and fix corners, if there should be any missing, and continue from day to day, uutil it is finished- the said tract of land was patented in the name of William Hays,
Given under my hand this 21st day of November, 1815.
AARON PRATHOR, Ex'or.
for Ninian Clagett, dec.
Euphon wrote her will on February 10, 1842 and died in 1843 in Henry, Kentucky.
Prince George's County, Maryland was created in 1696 from portions of Charles, and Calvert Counties. It was divided into six districts called hundreds: Mattapany, Patuxant, Collington, Mount Calvert, Piscattoway, and New Scotland. A part the county became Frederick County in 1748.
About 1715 English, Scottish and German settlers found their way to the Montgomery County, Maryland area. It was officially established from Charles, Prince George's, and Frederick counties in 1776.
