ROBERTSON COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Squire Boren Young ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gary D. Young Rock_Dove@Juno.com ==================================================================== SQUIRE BOREN YOUNG, born 1802, Robertson Co Tennessee, father JACOB YOUNG, mother MARY BOREN, raised in Union Co Illinois after the separation of his parents, died 1838 in Gibson Co Tennessee (Journal of Alfred D. Young, brother to Squire Young). Squire Young may have been named after Squire Boone. His grandmother, Susannah Bryan was a neice of Daniel Boone. SQUIRE YOUNG, married LUCINDA BOREN 25 Feb 1822; Alexander Co Illinois marriages; Alexander Co Clerk, 2000 Washington Ave, Cairo Illinois, 62914- 1717, (618)734-3947. SQUIRE and LUCINDA BOREN YOUNG migrated with the early settlers to Gibson Co Tennessee. Early in 1819, survey parties were sent by the U.S. government into western Tennessee and Kentucky to survey lands of ‘Jackson’s Purchase,’ formerly Chickasaw Territory. There were no roads in the newly acquired Indian land, and it was a legal requirement that a man, irregardless of social or financial status, must work on roads that were being constructed within a six mile radium of his home. It is thus possible to determine the approximate places of residence of Squire and William Young, and the names of their neighbors (Gibson Co Tennessee Court Records, 1824-1828; vol A page 30): "Ordered that Andrew Craig, David Crockett Sr, David Crockett Jr, Daniel Conlee, Squire Young, William Ferguson, John Gray and Patterson Crockett be appointed a Jury of View to run and mark a road from Trenton to the Weakly Co line in a direction to Dresden." Gibson Co Court Records, vol A, page 34, Monday 4 Sep 1826, Court held at Trenton: "Ordered that the return made by the Jury of View for the road from this place to Dyer Co Line by way of Page's mill be confirmed and an overseer be appointed. Ordered that Samuel S. Crafton be appointed overseer of the road from this place to Carroll County as far as Leopard's Creek and he allowed the following hands: E. Brite, Benjamin Moore, William Butler, Soacly Farthing, William McDaniel, John Drury, Esquire Young, William Young, Wilson Brown, Preston Conlee, Peter Marrs Conly, Matthew Leopard, John Hassell, JF Randolph, William Allen, James Graham, Meed Pearce."; On the same day it was "Ordered that B.G. Addcock be appointed overseer of the road from this place to Carroll Co line commencing at Leopard's Creek and ending at Rutherfords Fork of Obion and be allowed the following hands: James Smith, Richard Smith, Thomas Bennett, John Gray ..." James Smith was the father of Leah Smith who married William Young (Squire Young's brother) on 11 Nov 1826. Richard Smith was Leah Smith's brother. COURT RECORDS: Tuesday Morning, 4 Dec 1827; Gibson Co Tennessee, vol A, page 63: "The following were summoned to serve as Jurors of this term of court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions: Theophilus Williams, Wilson Brown, John Murphy, John W Buckner, Turner R Gibbs, William Ferguson, Overall Sanderson, Hesse L Ross, Squire Young, Daniel Conlee, Jeptha Billingsley, Samuel Patterson, Patterson Crockett, Owen Wood, Hardy Hunt, John Wilson, William T Webb, Marshal H sanders, William Mathews, Edmund Tidwell, John Parker, Thomas Brown & Isaac Jetton. James Turner & William B Howard, Constables." COURT RECORDS: Gibson County Tennessee, vol A, page 87: "Ordered that the following be a jury of view to mark a road from the highland where the Dresden & Huntingdon Road fork to the County line in a direction of Paris to wit: Elijah Billingsley Jr, Squire Young, Willis Brown (Boren), B. Baker, John Murphy, David L. Thomas, Jacob Mills, Jacob Brandbury." 1827 TAX: Gibson Co Tennessee Tax Lists 1824-29, page 33; Under an early statue of Tennessee, all white male inhabitants of the state, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, composed the militia thereof; Each militia unit was composed of not less than forty-five privates residing within the boundaries of their companies; Captains and other officers were elected by those in each company and served for five years; It was through this militia system that an occasional census was taken and taxes were levied and collected; Captain Henry H. Roberts' Militia Company taxable property, 1827, lists among others: William Young, 50 acres, 0 town lots, 1 white pole, 0 black poles, 0 stud horses; James Smith, 0 acres, 0 town lots, 1 white pole, 0 black poles, 0 stud horses. ALFRED YOUNG, brother of Squire, wrote in his autobiography (copy in possession of Gary D. Young) that Squire raised a large family before he died. 1828 TAX: Gibson Co Tennessee Tax Lists 1824-29, page 45; A List of Taxable property given in to JB Bibrell in the bounds of Capt David Crockett's old Company for the year 1828; Squire Young, 1 white pole, 0 black poles, 75 acres; William Young, 1 white pole, 0 black poles, 50 acres; also listed is John McIntosh who became Squire and William Young's brother-in-law (sister married Alfred D. Young). It is believed that after the death of Squire Young, his wife Lucinda married MATT W. FLOWERS 16 Apr 1842 (Gibson Co Tennessee marriages).