A Shively researcher working on Michael Shively who lived in what is now Monongalia County, WVA is asking for additional help. It is known that Michael Shively made a claim in 1774 for 302 acres on Scotts Mill Run which is now Monongalia County, WVA. This land adjoined Abraham Harding. A survey of this land was done bearing date of 17-Aug-1786 and on 8-Jul-1788 conveyed to John Shively heir at law of Michael Shively, deceased. On 15-Mar-1792 John Shively of Nelson County and State of Virginia (now Kentucky) sold the 302 acres to Abraham Harden (Harding) of Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia).
It is a theory not yet proven with fact that this Michael Shively may have been killed by Native American Indians in KY. Also unproven with fact but believed is that John Shively, Michael Shively and Jacob Shively who are listed in the cabin of Richard Dean on the 2-Aug-1791 Nelson County, KY Tithable List are the sons of this Michael Shively. Further not proven is the wife of Michael Shively was Hannah Harding.
On 24-Aug-1832 in Green County, KY Michael Shively testified that "that during the Revolutionary War he resided in Pennsylvania near the Monongahela River and that then and there he was acquainted with Thomas Harding who now resides in Green County, KY and that from what he then heard and knew during the Revolutionary War, he believed that the said Thomas Harding was employed most of his time for several years in the service of his country as a soldier and that he knows that the said Thomas Harding was absent from his place of residence most of the time for several years, and that he understood that the said Thomas Harding was engaged in the service as a soldier during his absence from the neighborhood in which he resided"....
There is much information connecting the Shively, Harden and Harding families in an account written by Jack Hardin, Jr. entitled History Of The Hardin Family in the Early Settling of Kentucky which was published by Baptist World Publishing Company, Louisville, KY in 1915. The account tells the story of the move of fifteen families composed entirely of kindred by blood or marriage to Kentucky on two flat boats starting in March-1780. They bade farewell to their old homes and floated down the Monongahela, many of them never to see the proposed new homes. All went well until the 20-March-1780 when near the mouth of the Limestone they were furiously attacked by a large force of Indians. Having lost a number of their warriors, killed and wounded, they were infuriated to the highest degree. They killed the wife and little child of Jacob Shively." Others were also killed by for this article am focused on the Shively's.
From additional information Shively was "only related by marriage. His wife was a Harding, a cousin to my Grandmother Hardin and my mother's father, Thomas Harding".
In May-1781 this Jacob Shively was burned at stake be the Native American Indians after he was captured during an attempt by the survivors of the 1780 attack on the flat boats to find their loved ones that had been captured.
It believed that the Jacob Shively mentioned was actually the Michael Shively who had lived in Monongalia County, WVA on Scotts Mill Run.
Another document which connects the Green County-Taylor County, KY Michael and Jacob Shively back to a Michael Shively is found in Green County, KY Deed Book 4, Page 43 which says "Michael Shively and Jacob Shively heirs of Michael Shively deceased both of Green County, KY do appoint William Kelso of Breckenridge County, KY to sell a certain tract of land in Fayette County, PA." This was dated 10-Aug-1803. No additional information could be found in Fayette County.
Please e-mail any additional information you might have to amrun@aol.com
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