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- The name appears in Kentucky records as Mannen and Manning in deeds, censuses, etc. It also appears as as Mannan, Mannon, and Mannin, though handwriting may often be the issue.
His birth and parents are obscure. If he was of age to be in the PA militia, presumably he was born about or before 1760. He would have been married by 1790. His wife apparently predeceased him since she is not named in his will. Information here begins with his will. He first appears in Mason Co. Tax records in 1796. His first chiildren might have been born in Pennsylvania.
In 1807 he made two purchases of land on Bracken Creek in the north-west of Mason Co., from Lewis & Elizabeth Craig and Aaron Frazee, totaling a bit over 100 acres (Deeds J-333 and J-335).
Property deeds indicate that he owned a mill. He was also a distiller. In the 1790s the federal government started to prosecute distillers for the debt they owed in tax. John Mannen of Mason county was fined $43.92 for unpaid taxes on 20 June 1797. He was apparently one of only two criminal prosecutions during the process. His arose because he resisted a warrant with pistols.
Court Order book, February 1814, p181-82:
Deed of Conveyance from James Hughes by John Mannen his attorney in fact, to Jhn Cumberland, for land in the Illinois Grant, was produced in court, and acknowledged by the said John Mannen, as attorney in fact aforesaid, and the same ordered to be certified to the proper office to be recorded.
Court Order book, February 1814, p182:
Ordered that the road from the Lee’s creek road near Pepper’s bars to Mannen’s Mill be opened, and John Tennis is appointed overseer therefore, and to have the following hands, to wit, Aaron Frazee and others.
On 12 Dec. 1814 Thomas Hughes of Green County state of Pennsylvania granted John Mannen power of attorney to manage his land in Washington Co., State of Kentucky and on the Rowling Fork of the Salt River [in Hardin County?] being an equal half of 1000 acres patented in the name of John May and Thomas Hughes under title of a preemption treasury warrant N1142 marking and bound . . . See the Virginia Treasury warrants for the original Pre-emption Warrant.
Court Order book, January 1816, p416:
Thomas Cushman is appointment overseer of the road from the Miami Road near David Cushman’s fence to the Lee’s Creek road near John Hieatt’s, and have the following hands, to wit: William Proctor, Urien Proctor, Thomas Stroud, Richard Harrison, Samuel Critchfiled, Samuel Stround, Samuel Hammett, John Mannen, Richard Norris, and William Butts, and all the Hands that may hereafter live where the above Hand now life to work, under him them [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
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- Abt 1822
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1771 - Bef 1822 (< 50 years)
