Douglass Little
Judge and Grandson of Captain George Little
Born in the 1730s Scotland as written by his great grandson L. P. Little and many other historians, George and his Scottish wife, Mary had ten children in Union County, South Carolina. She may have died soon after having the tenth child.
Her son Jonas born 1780 is my connection.
He may have been named after the Jonas Little who also served in the American Revolution, probably the brother of George. There might have been several brothers in this family who migrated from Scotland, into Union County, South Carolina, as George named many of his sons after those men.
Several books include a few pages of our Little family and their significant others who migrated into Kentucky.
Douglass Little, son of Betsy Douglass and Jonas Little, and the
grandson of
Douglass Little
made plows and built
wagons in Rumsey from 1844 to 1851. His shop was in its day the
largest in the county. His
plows and wagons were hand-made, and had the reputation of being the best
ever sold in Muhlenberg. He
was a Whig as long as that party was in existence. The opposition to the
Constitution of 1850 came mostly from the
Whig party; nevertheless, he voted for the new constitution. He removed to
Calhoun (then in Daviess County) in 1851, and
was there elected justice of the peace. When McLean County was cut off from Daviess in 1854, he was again elected a
justice. At the election in 1858 he was chosen county judge, and re?lected in 1862. In 1874, after an intermission of
two terms, he was elected to the same office
for the third time, and was serving at the time of his death, which occurred at
Calhoun in April, 1877
From a letter written to me by Judge Lucius P. Little,
of Owensboro, the highest authority on the history of the Green River country, I quote:
"When Henry Rhoads came to this part of the Green River
country he stopped at Barnett's Fort, on Rough River,
above Hartford. He first located his claim for land at the site of the present
town of Calhoun, and laid out a
town in 1784 and called it Rhoadsville. When Rhoads was defeated by
Captain John Hanley, agent
for the Dorseys, of Maryland, the name of the town was changed
to Vienna
Douglass Little was the father of Judge
Lucius P. Little, of Owensboro, who served
as circuit judge from 1880 to 1893 in the Fourth District, and who has for many years been one of the
prominent lawyers of Western Kentucky and who has long been regarded as one of the highest authorities on the State's
history. He is the author of "Ben Hardin His Times and Contemporaries,"
and has in preparation "Old Stories of Green
River and Its People."
Douglass Little's brother
Wesley murdered:
E, "Riding the Circuit" By Lucies P. Little.
No man
in Western Kentucky stands higher as a citizen, lawyer, or student of literature
and history than does Judge Lucius P. Little. In "Ben Hardin, His Times
and Contemporaries," published in 1887,
he wrote one of the best contributions ever printed bearing on the history of
Kentucky from 1784 to 1852. He now has in course of preparation "Old
Stories of Green River and Its People," which
will appear during 1914. I have read the manuscript, and am confident that this
book will take rank as one of the best written and most valuable
histories of any of those concerning any section of the
State. Judge
Little was born in Calhoun February 15, 1838. He was graduated from the Law
Department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1857, and in
1868 moved to Owensboro, where he has since resided and where he has long
stood at the head of his fellow lawyers. From 1880 to 1893 he served as circuit judge. He is a member of
the Investigators' Club (Owensboro's literary and historical club) and the Kentucky State
Historical Society.
History of Daviess
County
The Little families migrated into several Kentucky Counties :
Barren, Muhlenburg, McLean, Calhoun, Daviees, Bullitt.. and I have uploaded a few documents to some of them for others to study.
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