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• Name: Levi TODD
• Sex: M
• Birth: 4 Oct 1756 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 1807 in Fayette Co, Kentucky ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• David TODD Birth: 3 Apr 1723 in Co Armagh, Ireland Death: 8 Feb 1785 in Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky
Mother:

• Hannah OWEN Birth: 25 Oct 1725 Death: May 1805 in Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky

Family:
Marriage:

• (Unk) HOLMES on 2 .^m1
  
• (Unk) HOLMES

Children:

1. James Clark TODD Death: Jun 1849

Marriage:

• Jane BRIGGS on 25 Feb 1779 at St Asaph, Lincoln, Kentucky .^m2
  
• Jane BRIGGS Birth: Jun 1761 in Lincoln Co, Kentucky Death: Jul 1800 in Lexington, Kentucky

Children:

1. Nancy TODD
2. Margaret TODD Death: 1865
3. Roger North TODD
4. Ann Maria TODD Death: 1884
5. Hannah TODD Birth: 1780 in Logan's Fort, Kentucky Death: 1832
6. Elizabeth TODD Birth: 1782 in Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky Death: Oct 1865
7. David TODD Birth: 29 Mar 1786 in Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky Death: 1859 in Columbia, Missouri
8. John TODD Birth: 27 Apr 1787 in Lexington, Kentucky Death: 1865 in Springfield, Illinois
9. Mary Logan TODD Birth: Oct 1788 in Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky Death: 1884
10. Robert Smith TODD Birth: 25 Feb 1791 in Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky Death: 16 Jul 1849 in Lexington, Kentucky
11. Samuel Briggs TODD Birth: 15 May 1793 in Lexington, Kentucky Death: 3 Sep 1876 in Columbia, Missouri
12. Jane Briggs TODD Birth: 1796 Death: 30 May 1856
13. Roger North TODD Birth: 5 Sep 1797 in Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky Death: 11 Apr 1846

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Helm TODD p88, Johnson TODD]

1756 [Ref: Chamberlain TODD p35]

1757 [Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148],

place:

[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148, Johnson TODD],

parents:

[Ref: Chamberlain TODD p35, Hart PresidentWives p148, Helm TODD p88, Johnson TODD]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148, Helm TODD p88],

place:

[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148]

Sources with Information about marriage to (Unk) HOLMES

date:

second marriage [Ref: Helm TODD p89, Johnson TODD],

names:

Levi TODD & ___ HOLMES [Ref: Helm TODD p89, Johnson TODD],

child:

[Ref: Helm TODD p89]

Sources with Information about marriage to Jane BRIGGS

date:

[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148, Helm TODD p89, Johnson TODD],

place:

[Ref: Johnson TODD],

names:

[Ref: Chamberlain TODD p35],

child:

[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148, Helm TODD p257, Helm TODD p258, Helm TODD p259, Helm TODD p261, Helm TODD p262, Helm TODD p264, Helm TODD p89, Johnson TODD]

Research Notes:
Received a classical education in Virginia, with his brothers John and Robert, and with his brother John studied law in the office of Gen. Andrew Lewis. He went to Kentucky in 1776. He became a lieutenant under Gen. George Rogers Clarke, in the expedition for the conquest of Illinois, in 1778, and was at the capture of Kaskaskia. The next day after the capture Todd was sent to ascertain the disposition of the Spanish garrison at St. Genevieve, and he succeeded in promoting a friendly feeling towards the Americans. Lieutenant Todd was specially deputed to secure the papers of M. Rocheblave, the Creole commandant at Kaskaskia, but failed to secure all of them because Madame Rocheblave had artfully concealed the most compromising documents touching the commandant's relations with the British about her person. He was also deputed to make Rocheblave a prisoner when the commandant responded to Clarke's invitation to dinner in insulting terms, and Lieutenant Todd was in command of the detachment that conducted M. Rocheblave to Williamsburg, Va. M. Rocheblave subsequently violated his parole and made his escape. After his return to Kentucky Lieutenant Todd was active in defending the settlers from attacks of the Indians, and commanded the centre at the battle of Blue Licks, under his brother Col. John Todd, who was killed. His report of the action is the most trustworthy account of that disastrous affair. "He that could remount a horse was well off," Todd wrote, "he that could not had no time for delay." Todd succeeded Daniel Boone as a colonel, and was promoted to be brigadier general and major-general.
When Mr. Todd first went to Kentucky he lived at Harrodsburg and at Logan's Fort at St. Asaphs. In 1779 he occupied Todd's station, in Jessamine county, about ten miles south-west of Lexington. He was one of the first lot owners at Lexington, where John and Levi Todd became purchasers, Dec 26, 1782. He was appointed clerk of the District Court of Kentucky under Virginia authority, and in 1780, when the counties were organized, he became clerk of the Circuit Court of Fayette Co. The latter office he held until his death. General Todd's permanent residence, as well as that of his two brothers, was on the Boonesboro road, three miles east of Lexington, where they owned large tracts of land. [Ref: Helm TODD p88-89]



Pedigree of Levi TODD
                            /-----John Or James TODD
                   /-----John TODD
                  |         \-----Isabelle PARKER
          /-----Robert TODD
         |         \-----Isabelle BODLEY
 /-----David TODD
|         \-----Ann SMITH
Levi TODD
 \-----Hannah OWEN



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