David's sister Margaret was married to Clark Tucker. Clark grew up with the Parkhurst brothers in Henry County, Kentucky. David was in Johnson County, IN, by 1825, when he received his first land grant. He received six more up to the year 1835. Before 1825, David resided in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
From Prichard Family History, 1915:
"[Cassandra Prichard] daughter of James and Elizabeth Hughes Prichard, b. 1788 in Jefferson county, Ky., was married to David Forsyth, son of Margaret McGivins Forsyth of Virginia, about 1815. This family remained in Kentucky until 1827 when they located in Nineveh township, Johnson county, Ind., where David Forsyth had the previous year acquired a large tract of land. Robert Forsyth, his brother, Prettyman Burton, and others who had already located in Johnson county, erected upon this farm a hewed log house, eight by twenty feet, before the arrival of David and his family. The journey, like all journeys of those days, was made in a wagon and on horseback -- a team of four horses drawing a wagon containing the household goods, prvisions and children. " |
