Abraham Becraft and Abigail Rachel Shipley
Husband Abraham Becraft [87]
Born: Cir 1750 - Frederick, Maryland, United States Christened: Died: 1811 - Bath, Kentucky, United States Cause of Death: Murdered by James Anderson Buried: FamilySearch ID: 2734-SSJ Find A Grave ID: 75660790
Father: George Becraft Sr [10] (1713-1808) Mother: Elizabeth [81] ( -After 1772)
Marriage: 25 Feb 1777 - Middletown Evangelical Luthern Church 1Events
• He was involved in a court case about stealing hogs on 18 Mar 1763 in Frederick, Maryland, United States. Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 233
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the following Petition of Abraham Becraft of Frederick County.
To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The Humble Petition of Abraham Becraft of Frederick County most humbly sheweth, That your Petitioner was at a County Court held for Frederick County in the Month of March last, Indicted, tried, and found Guilty of a Felony in Stealing some Hogs, the property of a certain Conrad Dutterer, That your Petitioner was so unhappy as to be found Guilty by the Jury, yet your Petitioner begs leave to assure your Excellency, that he was found Guilty of a Felony on very weak and doubtful Testimony, that he was wholly innocent of Theft, or the least Intention to Steal the Hogs of the said Conrad Dutterer. Your Petitioner begs leave further to State to Your Excellency the Fact which happened in the following manner Viz. That Your Petitioners Father, George Becraft having lost some Hogs for a Considerable time, and being informed by a certain Joseph Gorling that he had seen them in the Woods, went with your Petitioner into the Woods, and having found some Hogs, which your Petitioner, and his Father, then thought was the Property of your Petitioners Father, drove them into the Inclosures of the said George Becraft, That your Petitioner never claimed any of the said Hogs as his Property, nor in any manner whatsoever Acted otherwise than is above set forth, That the said Conrad Dutterer brought a Suit against Your Petitioners Father for the taking of the said Hogs, and was satisfied by him for the same, That your Petitioner humbly apprehends that any Act done by him, and proved to the Jury, could only amount to a Trespass. He also humbly apprehends that the Jury, from an Error in Judgment only, Mistook the Trespass af d for Felony. Your Petitioner therefore prays your Excellency to grant him a Pardon. And your Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray &c.
March 18th 1768. Abraham Becraft.
Lib. C. B.
No. 20
We the Subscribers recommend the within named Abraham Becraft as a Person worthy of Your Excellency's Favour.
Signed by Sixty eight of his Neighbours.
On Consideration of the Premisses, It is Ordered by his Excellency the Governor, with the Advice of this Board, that a Pardon issue to the said Abraham Becraft, which issued accordingly.
p. 18.• Event: 1791, Morgan's Station, Kentucky, United States. Moved to Morgan's Station.
• Event: Grand Jury, 1811-1812, Bath, Kentucky, United States. Briefs from History of Bath Co.., KY 1876 by William M. Talley
First grand Jury, Sennett Young (foreman) Robert Hopkins, Thomas Welch, Isaac Butcher,John McILhenny, John Cushow, Wm. Hamilton, John Boyd, Rowland Burbridge,David Bratton, Moses Hendrix, Mourning Vice, James Hopkins, Benonie Cushow, John Colglazure, Richard Stone, Daniel Young, Thos. Sinclair, and Wm. Grimes.
They returned an indictment against James Anderson for the murder of Abraham Becraft.
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Wife Abigail Rachel Shipley [234]
Born: 25 Feb 1757 2 Christened: Died: 1 Apr 1793 - Morgan's Station, Kentucky, United States Cause of Death: Killed in indian raid on Morgan's Station, KY Buried: - Slate Creek, No Markers, With Kids. FamilySearch ID: L6B7-4W6 Find A Grave ID: 75564043Events
• Event: 2 Apr 1793. Sometimes the clues of wildfires come from the most tragic
accounts of the early Kentucky pioneers. The rescue party
searching for the victims of the 1793 Easter Sunday attack
on Morgan’s Station for example, noted that two of the
victims had been forced to march through a recently burned
section of the woods. James Wade recounts that on April 2nd
“…just above the head of Little Slate we found Mrs. Becraft
and her suckling child ‘six or eight months old’ lying
tomahawked. It was a very plain case. They had marched
her that far in her shift, as was visible from the scratches and
marks on it from a burnt wood they had passed through. And
there she had given out” (Hogan 1991:24-25). This location
is very near a large rockshelter known as Newt Cash Shelter,
which would later provide the first archaeological evidence of
prehistoric anthropogenic use of fire.
.Marriage Events
• Marriage: 25 Feb 1777, Frederick, Maryland, United States. FHL 975.287 K2w Lutheran Marriages and Burials, Frederick Co., MD, 1743 - 1811, p. 14 - Abraham BECRAFT md. Abigail SHIPLEY 25 Feb 1777
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Children
1 F Betty Becraft [237]
Born: Dec 1777 - Frederick, Maryland, United States Christened: Died: Buried: FamilySearch ID: LZD7-S42 Find A Grave ID: 109961954Spouse: George Owings 3 [367] (Abt 1777- )
2 M Benjamin Franklin Becraft [238]
Born: 1778-1779 Christened: Died: 27 Jun 1833 - Bath, Kentucky, United States 4 Cause of Death: cholera Buried: FamilySearch ID: L7GY-TK1 Find A Grave ID: 75661539Spouse: Mary Polly Fowler [369] (Cir 1781-Cir 1890) Marr: 18 Nov 1808 - Vincennes, Knox, Indiana, United States 5
3 F Rachel Becraft [239]
Born: 1779 - Frederick, Maryland, United States Christened: Died: 9 Apr 1827 - Preble, Ohio, United States 6 Buried: FamilySearch ID: 29Q3-3DS Find A Grave ID: 108407987Spouse: Jacob John Winans [368] (1778-1836) Marr: 27 Jun 1799 - Fleming, Kentucky, United States 7
4 M Abraham Becraft Jr [235]
Born: Oct 1785 - Morgans, Clark Co, KY Christened: Died: 1 Apr 1793 - Morgan's Station, Kentucky, United States Cause of Death: Killed in indian raid on Morgan's Station, KY Buried: - Slate Creek, No Markers, With Kids. FamilySearch ID: L4QY-HG8 Find A Grave ID: 75658792Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 F Anne Becraft [19337] 8
Born: Abt 1789 - Maryland, United States 8 Christened: Died: Abt 1 Apr 1793 - Morgan's Station, Kentucky, United States 8 Cause of Death: Killed in indian raid on Morgan's Station, KY Buried: - Slate Creek, No Markers, With Kids. FamilySearch ID: 29QW-5HD
6 F Ruth Becraft [240]
Born: Oct 1792 - Morgans, Clark Co, KY Christened: Died: 1 Apr 1793 - Morgan's Station, Kentucky, United States Cause of Death: Killed in indian raid on Morgan's Station, KY Buried: - Slate Creek, No Markers, With Kids. FamilySearch ID: MT8N-FQF Find A Grave ID: 75564463Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 M Josiah Becraft [236]
Born: Oct 1792 - Frederick, Maryland, United States Christened: Died: 1 Apr 1793 - Morgan's Station, Kentucky, United States Cause of Death: Killed in indian raid on Morgan's Station, KY Buried: - Slate Creek, No Markers, With Kids. FamilySearch ID: 29QW-SRG Find A Grave ID: 75564222Spouse: Did Not Marry
Medical Notes: Husband - Abraham Becraft
Harry Enoch's "In Search of Morgan's Station":
"Abraham Becraft, the father, settled in the Bath County area and was killed in 1811. A grand jury returned an indictment for murder against one James Anderson, but he was never arrested or brought to trial".
Death Notes: Wife - Abigail Rachel Shipley
killed by indians
1 From Mildred, All Saints Parish, Maryland, Vestry Records 5 vols, Vol I-IV at.
2 Amy Rummelhart (azureami@hotmail.com), "Amy's Tree" (http://www.gencircles.com/users/daygirl/5/data/4565).
3 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 22 Nov 2025), entry for George Owings person ID LDT4-2WF.
4 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 6 Nov 2025), entry for Benjamin Franklin Becraft, person ID L7GY-TK1.
5 Ancestry.com (Dodd, Jordan. Indiana Marriages to 1850.).
6 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 8 Nov 2025), entry for Rachel Becraft, person ID 29Q3-3DS.
7 Ancestry.com (Dodd, Jordan. Kentucky Marriages to 1850.).
8
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 1 Dec 2025), entry for Abraham Becraft, person ID 2734-SSJ.
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