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Good work Shirley! Thanks for sharing this with us.
Let's see what we can figure out from this information:
Overton County Census for George Peterman. It is as follows:
1820 shows George Peterman with 1 male 0-5, 1 male 10-15, 2 males 15-20, 2 or 3 males 30-40, 1 male 50-60, 1 male 60-70.
So this tells us George was born ca. 1750. (It's an observable fact that old people made themselves older than they were in census figures, so when George ages 20 years by the next census, we can probably guess that this one is more accurate.) There are two families shown here -- or at least two older men, plus 3 adult males 30-40. Can you make out anything in the female categories? Looks like we could be seeing a recently arrived extended family, with lots of relatives in one household.
1830 shows George Peterman with 1 male 0-5, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 20-30, 1 male 80-90, 2 females 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 30-40. There is also Jacob and William.
This is the most helpful, as it shows a wife and children. We're seeing 5 children possibly born of this marriage. Two are 10-15 so let's figure this couple married ca. 1815-20. The wife, who is now 30-40, would have been 15-25 at the time of the marriage, and was born 1790-1800.
This still fits my two Sarahs. Sarah dtr. of James Doss Sr. and his wife Ann Thurman was b. ca. 1795-96. Sarah dtr. of Ambrose Doss and his wife, Sarah Thurman, is previously unknown to us but her parents married in 1790. So we can't prove which one she is by this, but it doesn't rule out either possibility either.
1840 Jacob, William, and Elizabeth Peterman. She has 1 male 5-10, 1 male 10-15, 1 female 40-50.
Here's the $64 question: Who is Elizabeth?
Does anyone know if tax records exist for Overton Co. in this period? Does anyone have access to the published Cumberland Co. Ky. or Wayne Co. Ky. records to see if George was there?
I agree that Ambrose Doss was probably the source of Ambrose Peterman's name, but he was probably also the leader of the extended Doss-Thurman household in Kentucky. Ann Doss was both his step-mother and his sister-in-law, and she was a widow. We know that Ambrose moved to Ky. before 1800, and that Ann and her children moved to the same county between 1810-1817. So Ambrose may have been the dominant male in that family, the only father-figure Ann's daughter Sarah ever knew (her father died just after her birth) and she very well may have named her child for him.
We know that Ambrose's probable daughter Ann married Solomon W. Armstrong. Does that name show up in anything any of you have?
Libbie
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