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BROCKMAN.

One of the early land owners in the northeast part of the
county was Samuel Brockman. He died in 1779, leaving

two sons, Samuel and William, and probably a third named
Jason. William was apparently prosperous in his affairs.
He lived on Priddy's Creek, owned a considerable quantity
of land, and had one of the first mills erected in that section.
He died in 1809. A Baptist church, the precursor of the
present Priddy's Creek Church, was on his land, and he devised
it to the congregation using it as a place of worship.
His children were Frances, the wife of a Taylor, Elizabeth,
John, Margaret, the wife of a Henderson, Thomas, William,
Ambrose, Samuel, and Catharine, the wife of a Bell. Ambrose
married Nancy, daughter of Captain William Simms,
and became a Baptist preacher. Samuel married Ann Simms,
a sister of Ambrose's wife, and his son Samuel, who died in
1847, was the father of Richard Simms, Bluford, Tandy,
Simpson, Tazewell, and Agatha, the wife of Thomas Edwards.
Richard Simms married Martha, the daughter of Wiley Dickerson,
and removed to Amherst. Among his children were
Fontaine D., Harriet, the wife of William Jeffries, Tandy,
and Willis Allen, who removed to Atlanta, Georgia.

In the early part of the century many of this name emigrated
to Kentucky, a Tandy Brockman going to Christian
County, and Elizabeth, a widow, with a large family of children,
to Boone.