Country Houses

Abstract

John and Ann Rogers Clark, along with their youngest children, joined their second son, George Rogers, in Louisville early in 1785. The Clark’s eldest son and daughter remained in Virginia with their spouses, and two sons had not survived the Revolution.Settled in a massive log house, the Clarks soon hosted the marriages of two daughters: Elizabeth, to Colonel Richard Clough Anderson, and Lucy, to Major William Croghan. Youngest daughter, Fannie, followed with the first of her three weddings, but youngest son, William, would postpone marriage until his return from Mr. Jefferson’s expedition. George Rogersnever married. William spent much of his young manhood mediating his brother’s financial and legal entanglements, often spending his own income to resolve the differences. As a consequence, he sold the home he had inherited from his parents and moved with George Rogers across the Ohio, to the Indiana Territory land Virginia had provided its general as payment for the American Revolution.