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John Luttrell from Westmoreland County, Virginia, son of "Old John" and Katherine Sanford was born around 1734. He served as a trooper in the Virginia Militia of Prince William County, Virginia on March 29, 1756. He moved from Virginia to Hillsborough, Chatham County, North Carolina. By 1770 he held the responsible position as Clerk of the Crown.
Through his marriage to Susannah Hart, the daughter of Nathaniel Hart, Colonel Luttrell became a man of great financial means and social status. He was associated with Colonel Richard Henderson and other men of "capital" who founded the Transylvania Company at Hillsboro, North Carolina on January 6, 1775.
From 1778 - 1781, Col. Luttrell served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War in the ninth North Carolina regiment. In September 1781 he was mortally wounded in a battle with the Tories at Lindley's Mill. His body was laid to rest in Gray Cemetery, Knox County, Tennessee.
Thomas Luttrell (also listed as one of the "first residients of Boonesborough), brother of Col. John, was killed by Indians in 1786 in Lincoln County, Kentucky.
from LUTTRELL - KENTUCKY ANCESTORS, by The Rev. Terril D. Littrell, Ph.D.
The Transylvania Company
Judge Richard Henderson
Nathaniel Hart
Thomas Hart
David Hart
Col. John Luttrell
John Williams
Leonard Henley Bullock
James Hogg
William Johnstone
"Luttrell's house was in the corner, to the right of the front gate. . . ."
"Boonesborough", by George Ranck, 1901
