Will add my Cahill story to the mix.
My ancestors John Vaughn & Nancy Cahill are said to have married abt.
1778 in Freehold, Monmouth Co., NJ. what little I know about this couple
comes from DAR application papers on John Vaughn, John & Nancy's son
Rev. William Vaughn/Vaughan memiors by his son Thomas M. Vaughn, 1878
and some Garriott Family info.. Two of John & Nancy Vaughns daughter
married Garriotts.
Rev. William Vaughn talked about his family but the book gives no given
names other than his parents. The following is what I have been able to
arrive at by reading this book.
Rev. William Vaughn states his mothers name was Cahill and of Irish
parentage. She was until her conversion to Baptist principles, a rigid
Presbyterian belonging to that branch of the church known as "Seceders
or Associate Reformed". Her father and mother came from Irealnd, settled
New Jersey. They were members of the Presbyterian Church at Freehold, of
which the celebrated Wm. Tennent was then pastor. this must have been
Wm. Tennent, Jr. He goes on to state that John & Nancy moved to
Westmoreland Co., PA shortly after they married where he was b.
22-Feb-1785. They did not stay here very long before they went to
Pittsburg, PA where they took a flat boat descending the Ohio to
Limestone, now Maysville, KY from there they traveled to Georgetown,
Scott Co., KY in 1788. Where John Vaughn farmed and conducted a tanning
business for a few years. About 1794 they left the Johnson neighborhood
and moved to Eagle Creek a portion of Scott Co., known as Eagle Creek
Hills, here he found cheaper land and an abundance of Oak timber, the
bark of which nessessary in the tanning business. Nancy Cahill Vaughns
mother lived with her for it is said when Nancy became a Baptist, her
mother who lived with them at the time was greatly prejudiced against
the Baptist faith, left home and did not return for several years. She
must have come back to live with Nancy when John Vaughn d. Nov. 1795 for
it is said both Nancy and her mother were skilled weavers and
manufactured quite a bit of cloth and the excess they traded for Calico
in Georgetown to make the girls sunday dresses. The family consisted of
5 girls & 4 boys the eldest was 16 when the father died.
Rev. Wm. Vaughn said he did not mind being sent to Mason Co., KY to
preach since his favorite uncle lived there. It must have been Nancy
Cahill Vaughns brother, I find no Vaughns but plenty of Cahills there.
Suspect Mason Co., maybe where the mother went when she was mad at Nancy
for becoming a Baptist.
If anyone knows anything about this family I would love to hear from
them.
Mary Ellen Baker