Around the time of the Revolution, Ezekiel moved his family westward to an area whose ownership was in dispute. It was claimed and taxed by Virginia and Pennsylvania, which resulted in a serious bar to obtaining good land titles. In 1780, Ezekiel signed a petition asking Congress to admit the area in question as a separate state. Ezekiel probably tired of waiting for the land disputes to be settled, because he moved to Kentucky by 1785. However, there was still the problem of land titles. The new federal government reserved Kentucky as bounty land for its veterans, even though some pioneers were already living there. Ezekiel paid taxes on land (in what became Henry Co. when it was created in 1799) until 1800, but when he died in 1801, he left his personal estate to his wife, Abiel, and bitterly wrote that he had no real estate to bequeath.
Ezekiel Parkhurst served in the American Revolution from Pennsylvania, Third Battalion, Washington Co. Militia, Company C, under Capt. Abner Howell, between 1783 and 1784. |
