General Notes

1  NAME Robert /Gwin/


The head of the family in Woodford County was Robert Guyn who came early from Virginia and settled near Green's Mill and assisted in the building of Black's Station, or Fort, not far from Troy. Robert Guyn leaves the Calf Pasture area Augusta Co VA and goes to Kentucky in 1784. 1784 Robert Guyn arrived in Central KY via the  Daniel Boone route through Northeast Tennensse to Cumberland Gap 1784. They moved to the Clover Bottom shortly after they arrived. He shows up in the 1787 Fayette Co tax list  He first is on the tax roll in Woodford in xxxx. We know he arrived in Fayette co 1786 for three of his daughters (Mary, Jane & Elizabeth) marriages at the Walnut Hill Presbyterian church ( the first Presbyterian church in KY). In a Draper interview we learn the route of Robert from Augusta Co VA to KY.  Draper 1858  11CC216-17 (Shane, John D) Interview with Robert Gwynn Jessamine Co. KY. an associate reformed; data on Shawnee Run Indiana Trace; Came to KY from Augusta Co VA in 1784; His father came west with David Kincaid: Kincaid went up the Missouri with Boone;  other settlers in the vicinity were William Garrett, the Black Family, Ned Cathers, Tom Wilson, High Cunningham and Thomas Woods.

The Robert Black family had left in aprox 1775-1776 from Augusta Co and stopped for a few years in  Washington Co, area TN. Black's. James Black, revolutionary war soldier who came from Tennesse built a fort BLACK'S STATION established before Dec 1794; Fayette Co (now Woodford CO), on waters of Clear Creek near what is now Troy, KY at the Paul's Mill road.

The ancestral dwelling was erected around 1785 by Robert Guyn was situated upon the summit of a hill which gently slopes to the turnpike. The stone house was built on the site of the of his log cabin was two stories high, the walls feet in thickness, the fireplaces massive. The walls and ceiling of the room were exquistely paneled in wood. Handsome presses were built into the walls on either side of the big chimneys. The porch frames and pillars were constructed of cedar. A one-story  addition of two rooms was made to the  house in 1827 - the date being carved into the lintel of the front door. In 1791 Robert Guyn sends his son - in - law James Young back to Bath & Greenbrier co as his representative to act as his represetnative in securing his inheratance from Robert Gwin SR of Calfpasture



a fire in 1803 in Fayette County destroyed many records, but what pieces were left were copied into 8 volumes called the "Burnt Records".  There are words missing so it is hard to decipher sometimes.

Burnt Records Book 5 pg 214 Fayette CO Ky

All men by these presents that I Robert J. Guienn of the Fayette District of Kentucky and State of Virginia rs no good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have and do hereby ordain and appoint James Young of the aforesaid County District to be my true and lawful attorney with full power and lawful authority in my name to demand to receive all debts dues and demand that I may be due or owing to me particularly in the Countys of Augusta, bryer in the State of Virginia and further to give receipts acquitance ..ame or any other part of them and to have full and absolute authority to enter suits and prosecute the same to final Judgment and execution and recovery of any debts due to  me in any or either of the said Counties for me and in my name to administer on the Estate of my Father Robert Senr. Late of Augusta County now deceased and act in that case as my lawfull with a full authority therein as if I was personally myself present, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 8th.Domini 1791.

Robert (x) Guienn

Fayette co, KY 1787 tax list

Robert Guyn,  appears on an 1816 Tax List for Woodford Co., Kentucky - property located on Water Course of Cedar Creek - 168 acres.

Will is in the Woodford Co., Kentucky book F, page 5. Son, Robert, is executor on 1-15-1818. Probated February 1818.
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