According to the Whittle and Judah Flanagan Bible, Charles was born January 1779. The day of the month is written as well, but is difficult to read, the Bible pages microfilmed in negative, available at Library of Virginia, Richmond, and online.
Charles married Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of David Saunders. This is evidenced by a deed in Breckenridge Co KY, where Elizabeth Flanagan established a power of attorney to her husband 17 Nov 1821, wherein she declares she is the daughter of David Saunders, deceased, of Louisa County VA.1
Timeline
More deed and court records to come – Virginia and Kentucky
1810 – Albemarle Co VA – Charles is enumerated next door to his brother-in-law Laurence Fergason. In Charles’s household are 1 male under ten, 3 females under 10, 2 males age 26-44, one female 16-25.2
14 Dec 1812 – Louisa Co VA – Charles Flanagan and his wife Elizabeth of Albemarle County VA sold to Thomas Bibb of Orange County VA, 60 acres of land in Louisa County on the waters of the Southanna River, bordering John Davidson and the heirs of Jeremiah Pate.3 This land was purchased from John Ragland and Ludlow and Sarah Bramham on 12 Jun 1811.
1817 – Madison Co KY – Charles is first seen in Madison County KY on the 1817 tax list. He is the only Flanagan. He owns 62 acres of Class 3 land in Madison County, on the Kentucky River.4
29 May 1817 – Madison Co KY – Charles Flanagan secures a loan of $500 from Benjamin Hays, same county, by assigning to Hays two female slaves, Lucy and Melinda. The next month, Charles’s brother James marries Elizabeth Newman at Madison County.5
He does not appear on the 1818 tax list.
1819 – Madison Co KY Tax List, no longer owns land6
1820 – Charles is enumerated on the Breckinridge Co KY census, Stephensport. In the household are 1 male 10-15, 1 male 26-44, 1 male 45+, 1 female 1-9, 2 females 10-15, one female 45+.7
1820 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – owns 550 acres on Clover Creek.8
1821 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List, 550 acres, but the watercourse is now noted as Tarr Fork.9
1822 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – 550 acres, Clover Creek.10
1823 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – 550 acres, Clover Creek.11
1824 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – 550 acres, Clover Creek and 300 acres on Panther Creek.12
1825 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – 550 acres, Clover Creek and 300 acres on Panther Creek.13
On 20 Mar 1826, at Breckinridge Co KY, Charles and Elizabeth Flanagan sold to James Flanagan (abt.1792-aft.1830) of Perry County, Indiana, for $1,950, land on the waters of Clover Creek and Panther Creek, a total of 850 acres that Charles acquired by three separate deeds:14
- The first parcel he purchased from Robert Rose out of James Madison’s 200 acre tract and part of Madison’s 500 acre tract on Clover Creek and the tar fork of P Creek.
- The second parcel was 250 acres he purchased from Thomas Mason from James Madison’s 500 acre survey, which adjoined the first 300-acre survey.
- The third deed for 300 acres, Charles purchased from John Shelton out of Philip Taylor’s 1,000 acre survey on the head waters of Panther Creek.
These three original deeds are being tracked down.
1826 – Not on the tax list for Breckinridge Co.
1827 – Breckenridge Co KY Tax List – 77 3/4 acres, no watercourse named.15 His son James W is also taxed, same page, for 2 lots in Joesville (later named Cloverport).
1828 – Breckinridge Co KY tax List – 77 acres on the Ohio River. He also pays the taxes on Whittle Flanagan’s 550 acres and Reuben Flanagan’s 300 acres.16
1829 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – 500 acres in Breckinridge Co, 600 acres in Oldham Co, and 78 acres in Breckenridge Co. He again pays the taxes for Whittle and Reuben.17
1830 – No tax list for Breckinridge County.
1830 – Charles is enumerated on the census at Breckinridge Co KY. Household includes: 1 male 15-19, 2 males 20-29, 1 male 50-59, 1 female 15-19, 2 females 20-29, 1 female 40-49.18
1831 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – 77 3/4 acres in Breckenridge Co, 500 acres in Ohio Co on Rough Creek, 600 acres on Adams Fork in Ohio Co, and 150 acres on the Ohio River in Breckenridge Co. Again he pays the taxes for Whittle and Reuben.19 This time the land that Reuben owns is noted as being in Hancock County.
Note that the 600 acres in 1831 is listed as Ohio County, whereas in 1829 it was Oldham County. These two counties are not anywhere near each other; the land was probably in Ohio County, as it is again stated in 1833.
1832 – No tax list for Breckinridge County.
1833 – Breckinridge Co KY Tax List – 77 3/4 acres in Breckenridge Co, 500 acres in Ohio Co, 600 acres on Adams Fork in Ohio Co, and 150 acres on the Ohio River in Breckinridge Co. Again he pays the taxes for Reuben and “the heirs of Whittle Flanagan.”20
Death
Breckenridge Co KY County Court Minute Book, November 1834, Page 272: On Motion of James Burnett letters of administration on the estate of Charles Flanagan decd is granted them and then [illeg] he under took the oaths required by law & with James W Flanagan his security entered into bond in the penalty of of [sic] $500 conditioned agreeably to law. Ordered that Jos B Oglesby Wm Cooper Obadiah Newman & Robt Brown or any three of them being first duly sworn do appraise in current money the slaves if any & personal estate of Charles Flanagan decd.21
James Burnett is Charles’s son-in-law. James married Louisa Ann Flanagan.
No record of settlement of Charles’s estate or division of land in any of the counties mentioned in the tax records have been found.