John Henry HOLBROOK Sr.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 1774, Wilkes County, NC. We know that one of the family held as many as fifty slaves, and the Rev .William Hammon himself was in possession of twenty. All this was also true of the Holbrook and Hargis families, the latter having come early from Bristol to Maryland and on to Virginia.

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The Holbrook, Hargis and other families joined in the journey which put them in Wilkes Co., NC late in 1774. They settled on the Roaring River, a branch of the Yadkin, several miles from the farm of Daniel Boone.

In the majority of instances, this two stage movement of Baptists from V A to KY was the rule. The Baptist groups first moved from V A to the frontiers, where a new church was formed. The older members in general stayed with the frontier churches while the younger members advanced on into KY after a few years had passed. Many of the first stage exodus churches are still in existence on what was then the frontier along the Blue Ridge Mountains.

THE BAPTIST EXODUS FROM VIRGINIA, THRU NORTH CAROLINA TO KENTUCKY By Stratton Owen Hammon, 3750 Wilmington Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky 42007

• Alt. Death, 1805, Wilkes County, NC.

• See also. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dmohn&id=I5591

John married Unknown.

John next married Mary HARGIS, daughter of Thomas HARGIS Sr. and Mary (???) STEP, in 1763 in Goochland County, VA. (Mary HARGIS was born in 1730 in Goochland County, VA.)