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 | Family Bible of John Huffman, father of Elizabeth Huffman Back and Margaret Huffman Back. Ealizabeth's date of birth in her father's Bible is identical to the date of birth in the Old English Catechism archived at the library in Breathitt County Kentucky The disposition of the Huffman Bible was given in detail in John Huffman's will. |
 | Title: A Course of Lectures Upon the Church Catechism: In Four Volumes, Volume 1
Author: Thomas Bray (Anglican/Church of England)
Publisher: Leonard Litchfield, printer to the University, 1696
Length 343 pages
This copy is archived at the Breathitt County Library, Jackson, KY and has been in the Back Family for more than two centuries. |
 | Comparison of the date of birth of Elizabeth Huffman, daughter of John Huffman who died in Madison County Virginia and Elizabeth Back's entry in the English catechism book which served as the Back family Bible for recording births and deaths. |
 | Deed 1809 Madison Co VA Boox 4 page 500, Elizabeth signed, meaning she did not have a living husband |
 | 1809 Deed page 2 Second page of 1809 deed |
 | 1811 Knox County Kentucky John Back on the 175 acres on the Poor Fork he bought from his brother-in-law Thomas Robinson. His brother "Luwis"Back 100 acres on the Poor Fork land granted to Andrew Cope that Elizabeth later settled on, bought from Cope, and sold to son Lewis before her death. Both Thomas Robinson and Andrew Cope had moved from Knox Co KY to White Co TN the year before. Henry Back was on a different page in this tax year. Elizabeth may have been on the 100 acres she later occupied but the tax assessor chose to record a man's name. |
 | 1815 Knox County Kentucky Tax List Elizabeth and her three sons Henry, John, and Lewis listed together. Elizabeth's 100 acre tract was on the Poor Fork, entered by Andrew Cope. Cope did not give her a deed until 1825 indicating she probably bought it as a contract for deed. Elizabeth may have been there earlier but several tax lists are missing or unreadable. |
 | 1823 Harlan county Kentucky Deed 9 Aug 1823, Harlan County Kentucky Deed Book A, pg 100-101, Andrew Cope to Elizabeth Back for 100 acres on the Poor Fork "tract of land on which above Elizabeth Back now lives." See 1815 tax list for Knox Co KY. Elizabeth Back had been paying taxes on that land since at least 1815. Son Lewis Back was on that 100 acres on the 1811 tax list, next to his brother John Back. The 1812 tax list is unreadable, 1813 & 1814 are not extant. Witnesses to the deed were Elizabeth's son John Back and Catharine Robinson Back. |
 | 1831 Harlan County Kentucky Deed 1831 Harlan County Kentucky Deed Book A page 356, Elizabeth Back to Lewis Back. Witnesses were Elizabeth's son Henry Back and his wife Susannah. |
 | COUSINS, NOT BROTHERS 06 Feb 1785 is Henry Back Junior's date of birth, recorded in the catechism book that served as his family’s Bible for recording births and deaths, currently in the archives of the Breathitt County Library, Jackson, Kentucky.
18 June 1785 is Aaron’s date of birth, recorded on his tombstone.
Aaron was born just a little over four months after Henry and therefore cannot share the same mother. Henry is the son of Henry Back and Elizabeth Huffman Back. Aaron is the son of John Back and Margaret Huffman Back. They were double first cousins, not brothers. Aaron is not listed with his sisters on the deed disposing of his mother’s land because he was just 17 years old at the time. |