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A John Newby signed a petition from the inhabitants of Boonesborough, Ky., to the Virginia legislature in October, 1779. Has anyone identified this John Newby?
One candidate is John Newby from Chesterfield Co., Va., who served 3 years in the Virginia Line during the American Revolution. Two companies of soldiers from Virginia were at Boonesborough that year. This John Newby received a land warrant for his service and settled on Pittman Creek in Pulaski County, Ky.
Another is John Newby from Granville Co., N.C., which was also the home of Richard Henderson and other organizers of the Transylvania Company which hired Daniel Boone to establish Boonesborough. In 1784, in Wake Co., N.C., this John Newby married Susannah Embry, whose brother Talton has been identified as having been at Boonesborough in 1780. John Newby, Susannah and Talton Embry (among others) left North Carolina and settled in Madison Co., Ky., a few miles from Boonesborough between 1784 and 1789.
Does anyone know for sure who the Boonesborough John Newby is? Any help or reasoned speculation would be greatly appreciated.
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