The Reverend John Dabney Shane interviewed John Slaughter's son Silas J.
Slaughter in Illinois, and Silas, who was born in 1787, gave a brief account
of his family's settlement in Pennsylvania and migration to Kentucky:[Note 31]

My father came to Kentucky in 1786 - settled in Jacob Mooney's Station, on
Floyd's Fork of Salt River. Mooney's Station was southwest by south of now
Middletown - Jefferson County - The Station was not picketed in. There were
only a few horses, near round a neighborhood. Mooney came from Pennsylvania
two years before we did. It was forty miles from where they lived to Bedford,
Pa. John Smith, my uncle (my mother was a Smith) married Jacob Mooney's only
child. - My father came to Mongahala, & raised a crop there, before coming on
to Kentucky.

I was born in 1787. There was a Linn's Station in that section.

There was a Newkirk lived on the adjoining farm (100 acres) to my father's
100 acre farm. Tob(ias) Junis, Peter, Ben, Wm, were sons of his.

A. Hoagland & this Tobias Newkirk were about two miles off on Floyd's Fork,
fishing. The Indians shot them there fishing. The Indians were pursued, but
they got over the Ohio river before they could be overtaken.

from Bios: Family History of Adam Smith, c 1745 - c 1813: Bedford Co, PA > KY

Copyright © 1989 by William G Scroggins.
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Jefferson County, Kentucky

County Court Minute Book A (1781 - 1783) Pages 14, 15, and 16

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Peter Newkirk- 5th Generation Newkirk. He was raised near birthplace, near North Mtn., helping his father farm and operate the Mill, or in the carpenter work. Deed book shows 1771-conveyed 106 acres of land, devised to him by his father.In 1773, Bedford, Co., Penn. signified the westward movement by the Newkirks towards the Forks of the Ohio. Peter Newkirk was there early in the history of the Louisville area, for an entry dated 3 Dec 1781 in Minute Book "A" of
Jefferson Co,Kentucky lists among those entitled to 400 acres of land by act of Assembly, the following: Peter Newkirk, Jemima Hoagland, Elias Newkirk and Tobias Newkirk". (Jemima was Peters sister, Elias his brother, and Tobias was Peter's son, the one that was killed by the Indians along with a man by the name of Hoagland. They were killed on the Floyd Forks while fishing. As early as 1779, there was a "Hoagland Station". This was about the time Peter came to Kentucky.