Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1743/05/01 Jane McKinley Logan, wife of John Logan, gives birth to a son, Benjamin McKinley Logan, in Augusta County, Colony of Virginia. Born
1775/06/00 Ben Logan builds a cabin, plants a crop of corn and returns to Virginia. Work Logan's Station Stanford
1776/04/00 Logan prepares to defend his fort against an Anglo Indian attack by building a covered ditch from the fort to the spring so water can be fetch and telling the women and children to bring in last year's pumpkins and to fill their vessels full of water. Work Logan's Station Stanford Pumpkin
1777/02/00 Benjamin Logan completes his cabin. Logan and John Floyd build a stockade with two blockhouses and cabins (lost) at St Asaph to provide refuge for families moving west to Kentucky County, Virginia. Work Logan's Station Stanford
1777/05/30 In the evening, Ben Logan, protecting himself with a bag of wool, dashes outside the stockade to rescue Burr Harrison, who has been laying wounded since morning. The Indians renew the attack, killing all the cattle and hogs. Life Logan's Station Stanford
1777/06/15 Ben Logan picks-up supplies at the Long Island of the Holston in Tennessee and returns to Logan's Station within three weeks. Work Long Island of the Holston Kingsport, TN
1781/02/00 It is ordered that court be adjourned from Harrodsburg to St Asaph's. Benjamin Logan offered ten acres adjacent to Buffalo Springs for a court house and other public buildings. Marker at Old Presbyterian Section of Buffalo Springs Cemetery. Benefactor Stanford Kentucky
1802/00/00 As the congregation has outgrown the original church house, Benjamin Logan conveys 3.5 acres at Buffalo Springs (near Logan's Fort) to the Presbyterian Society of Buffalo Springs. The location is now the Old Cemetery in the Buffalo Springs Cemetery. Benefactor Stanford Kentucky
1802/12/11 Benjamin McKinley Logan dies in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky. Mr Logan is buried at the Logan Family Burial Grounds in Shelbyville. Died Logan Family Burial Grounds Shelbyville
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