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One of our newer members, Ernest Grand, placed a large amount of information on the Doom family forum on Genealogy.com. I am copying it here for all of our descendants of Jacob and Abigail Clark Doom (my paternal grandmother, Virgie Charlotte Dooms is from this line) to see.
Hi Rillene,
Thank you for contacting me. I’m a descendant of Jacob Doom through his son Jesse >Adam>Robert Bruce>Eugene>Emma, my mother. Robert Bruce settled in Tahiti circa 1860 and founded a family here. I was born and live in Tahiti.
These are the informations I have :
1 – Petition to Continental Congress
Searching for Jacob Doom in the Library of Congress, you can find two petitions signed by Jacob in 1780 in the Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 :
a – American subjects of Kentucke to Continental Congress
May 1780 3 pp. - Microfilm : M247 r62 i48 p 247
b – Inhabitants of Kentucke and the Illinois County to Continental Congress
15 May 1780 9 pp. Microfilm : M247 r62 i48 p 237
This is a transcription of the petition « a » read by Continental Congress on AUG 23, 1780 sent to me by Bernita McElroy :
« TO THE HONORABLE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
The Petition of a number of the true and loyal subjects of the United States of America at large most humbly sheweth:
That your Petitioners, having heretofore been inhabiters of the different states of America, since the commencement of the contest with Great Britain, for the common cause of liberty, have rendered their lives in a wild uncultivated part of the continent, on the Western Waters, called by general name of Kentuckey, where they have made improvements on what they allowed was Kings Unapropriated Lands before the Commencement of the said contest and that in the face of a Savage Enemy with the extremist hardships and in daily jeopardy of being inhumanly murdered. Your Petitioners further allowed that the Honorable Congress would allow _____a Reasonable Retaliation in Lands for the services your Petitioners did in defending and settling on their own expense the country aforesaid to the weakening of the Enemy and the strengthening of the United States whenever the common contest with Britain should be desided in favour of America. In the full of assurance of which your Petitioners sold all their livings in the settled parts of the Continent and have removed with their wives and families and all their effects to the country aforesaid in order to take possession of their improvements aforesaid.----- But when they came, found almost all their Improvements granted away by a _____ ______ which acted to act under the late Act of Virginia, which act also allows large grants without any _______ settling and improving the same. ______ which means almost the whole of lands in the country aforesaid are ______ and into the hands of a few Interested men the greater part of which as it were in the interval _____ of Virginia while your Petitioners are here with their wives and children daily exposed to the murders of the Savages to whom assundry of their acquaintances have fell a sacrifice as their arrival _____ throughout you last a short time. Again the late Act of Virginia require your Petitioners to take _____ of Allegiance to the State renouncing all other Kings, Princes, and States, and be true to the state of Virginia only, and the prospect of Military Government looking _____ shortly in this _____ give your Petitioners the greatest apprehension of the most severe usage unjustly comply with their mandates.
Your Petitioners, considering all these grievances would gladly return to the settled lands of the Continent again, but having come seven hundred miles down the River Ohio with the Expense of the greater part of their fortunes, find it unpracticable to return against the Stream with their wives and children sure they to suffer the most cruel death.
Your Petitioners being drove to the ______ aforesaid have but three things to chance. One is to carry on in this place, take the Oath of Allegiance to Virginia, and be true to that state only and also become slaves to those _____ of Lands and the court of Virginia. The other is to remove down the River Ohio and land on some part of Mexico and become subjects to the King of Spain. And the third to remove themselves over the River Ohio, with their wives, children, and Effects remaining which is now in possession of the Savage Enemy to whom they are daily exposed to murders. The two former appearing to your Petitioners to have a tendency to weaken the United States and as it were banish the common cause of the Liberty. Humbly pray the Honorable Continental Congress to grant them liberty of taking the latter choice and removing with their wives, families, and effects to the Indian side of the Ohio and take possession for the same in the name of the United States of America at large where your Petitioners suppose to support themselves in an Enemy Country on their own Risque and Expense which they humbly conceive will have a tendency to weaken the power of the Enemy, Strengthen the United States at large and advance the Common Cause of Liberty. Your Petitioners further pray the Honourable Congress will know liberty of making such regulations amongst themselves as they shall find necessary to govern themselves by, being subject to the United States at large and no other state or power whatsoever. Your Petitioners humbly pray the Honourable Continental Congress to consider this case _____ _____ in the true light and grant from such as they shall see ____. »
(Signatures of many, with the following near Jacob's signature)
Jacob Doom, Thomas Phillips, Jesse Clark, John Unsel
Lewis Hickman, Ludowick Greenwalt, Benjamin Caselman, Sam Kelly
James Hamilton, Joseph Brown, Joseph Brown, George Clark
John Grundy, Joseph Grundy, George Grundy, Aaron Rowlings
John White, Charles Crump, John Peck?, Petter Young
William Chenoweth, Joseph Greenwalt, Ezekial Hickman, John Felty
Benjamin Lin, John Green, William Lin, Daniel Louty
Isen Hook, Samuel Mason, Phillip Mason, John Triggs
Henry Rheam, John Liston, Edward Liston, Jacob Cassalman
Joseph Liston, Charles Young, Charles Black, John Hamilton
Andrew Corn, Robert Brown, Charles Mason, James Burk
John Keith, George Gilmore, John Light, Daniel James
William, John, & Harmin Greathouse, and others
This petition is of particular interest for it gives the background of the situation at the time arrived in Kentucky, then a county of Virginia. This explains why did Jacob sell his land to Christian Booger in 1779 in Pennsylvania. Many of the signers were from Somerset and Bedford area, PA. Another important fact is that if Henry, Jacob’s son was born in 1780, there is a very small possibility (albeit always possible) that he was « born at sea », as reported in the Lyon County Times on October 26, 1906. I would rather say that he was born « on the Ohio ».
2 – About Abigail Clark.
The first time I heard about Abigail’s family was from your posts and others on the K-Nelson mailing list. There is no doubt in my mind that Jacob Doom, Robert Peake and Thomas Elliott were brothers-in-law and that Abigail, Elizabeth and Hannah Clark were sisters.
When Abigail arrived in Kentucky, there is a possibility that she had not yet married Jacob at that time. In Early Kentucky Settlers – Records of Jefferson County – the Court held for Jefferson on the 5th March 1782 ordered that the County Surveyor lay off, the following persons, four hundred acres of land each : Abigail Clark, Jesse Clark, ………………………
This would mean that Abigail had not yet married Jacob in March 1782 as she was always wearing her maiden name. I don’t know if I’m right. There is probably a link between Abigail and Jesse Clark, the reason Abigail named his son, my ancestor, Jesse C. Doom, perhaps Jesse Clark Doom. So there are always many things to check.
I don’t really study the Elliott family. I’ll search my CDs and books.
These are the things I wanted to tell you.
Keep in touch.
Ernest Grand
Egmagnum@yahoo.fr
Tahiti – French Polynesia
I will be adding this information to the Lowe family tree ASAP. Also, in the following posting he mentions 7 additions to the Doom branch:
Hi To all!
Abigail Clark who married Jacob Doom had siblings in Nelson Co. Hannah Clark m. Thomas Elliot, Elizabeth Clark m. Robert Peak. David Clark m.Barbe SOLVEAU is probably their brother. Sarah, David's daughter was under the guard of Hannah and Thomas Elliot.
Thank you.
Ernest
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