This information was very, very helpful. Thank you so much!!
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Subject: [CAVIN] Re: Cavin reference books
I don't have a copy of the book with me. I had typed that limited
info in
my
database but didn't make a copy of the page :(
I found this book/author info on the
Amazon.com webpage.
Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee (Kennedy, Billy. Scots-Irish
Chronicles.)
Paperback: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 8.25 x 5.53
Publisher: Causeway/Voxcorp Inc; (December 1, 1995)
ISBN: 1898787468
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I also have this info: Source: "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County,
Ind.
with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co.,
Indianapolis, IN,
1908.
The ancestors of Samuel R. Cavins were Scotch, and emigrated to Ireland,
settling in that part of Ireland known as Cavan county. About the year of
1745
three brothers emigrated from Ireland to the United States, and
settled in
New
Jersey. One of these brothers moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, and later
to
Loudoun
county, that state, and settled near Waterford. He raised a large
family,
among whom was Jesse Cavins, who with one of his brothers, was a soldier
in the
Revolutionary war. Jesse Cavins also raised a large family, and two
sons,
Samuel and John, were soldiers under General Wayne, in the Indian war.
Samuel was
killed at the battle of Fallen Timbers. John Cavins was at that
battle,
and
also at River Raisin, and received a land grant near Lexington,
Kentucky.
He
raised a large family, among whom was the subject of this sketch.