a story that began with two brothers, James and Colin Duncan, who left Scotland to come to America and the John Martin Touby family, who left France for Germany because of religious persecution, then set off for America to avoid military inscription.
Colin's great granddaughter, Jane Duncan Colville,
married Martin's son, John Peter Touby.
James and Colin Duncan were brothers born and reared to manhood in Scotland. James and his family came to America and settled in Virginia. After living there several years he acquired title to about 500 acres of land in Scott County, Kentucky, where he and his family then moved. James wrote to his brother Colin, still in Scotland, offering him title to 150 of those acres.
In 1792, Colin and Keturah Duncan and their five children Jane (age 8), Margaret, John, James and William set sail for America. After a month at sea they arrived and eventually migrated to Kentucky. The two brothers were neighbors on adjoining farms where they remained until their deaths.
Jane Duncan (1784-1869) married John Dinwiddie (1784-1828) on May 9, 1805 in Shelby County, Kentucky. They had nine children: Keturah Duncan, Elizabeth Jane, Harvey Duncan, Susannah Ann, Mary Elizabeth, Margaret, Martha Asenith, Nancy Ware and Lomira. Lomira, the youngest, died at just one and a half, and less than a year later, John Dinwiddie died leaving Keturah a widow with seven daughters and one son, ranging in ages from 22 to 5 years. Keturah, the oldest, had been married four years (Samuel Colville) and had had two of her three children before her father died. After her husband's untimely death in 1828, Jane Duncan Dinwiddie remained in Kentucky with her aged parents until after their deaths in 1832 and 1833.
Jane Duncan Dinwiddie, having lost her baby daughter in 1827, her husband in 1828, her father in 1832, and her mother in 1833, took her remaining family of five girls, and along with her one son, Harvey (age 25) and his bride, moved to Rush County, Indiana in 1834. Jane Dinwiddie settled near the present town of Lewisville, Indiana in Rush County, and lived there for 40 years.
Excerpts: R. DeVerter, Our Pioneer Ancestors, Vol. IV, The Duncan and Dinwiddie Families with Allied Lines, Baytown, TX, 1969
John and Jane Duncan Dinwiddie's eldest daughter, Keturah Duncan Dinwiddie (1806-1834) married Samuel Colville. They had two sons and four daughters. Their daughter Jane Duncan Colville (1826-1904) married John Peter Touby (son of John Martin Touby (1795-1872) and Anna Marie Slout (1802-1877).
The Touby name has been traced back as far back as 1682 when the Toubys, Remys, and Straters left France because of religious persecution by French Catholics. They all settled in the Dukedom of Nassau, Germany, in an area just across the Rhine River and about ten miles inland from the border of France and Germany.
Hearing of opportunities for religious and political freedom in America, John Martin Touby and his wife Anna decided to travel there with their nine children, whose ages ranged from two to early twenties. They left their home in Germany on April 20, 1844 and began a seventy day journey. The family spent forty-four days on board a ship and landed in New York City on June 30, 1844. From there they traveled to Ohio where there was a German settlement in Richland County near Mansfield. They settled on a forty acre tract of land in Washington Township. They became active members of Saint Peter's Evangelical Church that had been established by German settlers in 1830. John Martin and Anna remained in Richland County for the rest of their lives.
John Peter Touby (1824-1888) was born in Nassau, Germany, and emigrated to America with his father (John Martin Touby) in 1844, locating in Richland County, Ohio, where his father subsequently died.
John Peter came to Fayette County in 1850 and continued his wagon making trade in Bentonville. It was there that he married Jane Colville, a tailoress and native of Kentucky.
John Martin Touby and Anna Marie Slout
Hearing of opportunities for religious and political freedom in America, John Martin Touby and his wife Anna decided to travel there with their nine children, whose ages ranged from two to early twenties. They left their home in Germany on April 20, 1844 and began a seventy day journey. The family spent forty-four days on board a ship and landed in New York City on June 30, 1844. From there they traveled to Ohio where there was a German settlement in Richland County near Mansfield. They settled on a forty acre tract of land in Washington Township. They became active members of Saint Peter's Evangelical Church that had been established by German settlers in 1830. John Martin and Anna remained in Richland County for the rest of their lives.
John Peter Touby (1824-1888) was born in Nassau, Germany, and emigrated to America with his father (John Martin Touby) in 1844, locating in Richland County, Ohio, where his father subsequently died.
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| John Martin Touby and Anna Marie Slout |
John Peter Touby and Jane Duncan Colville
John Peter came to Fayette County in 1850 and continued his wagon making trade in Bentonville. It was there that he married Jane Colville, a tailoress and native of Kentucky.
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| John Peter Touby and Jane Duncan Colville Touby with daughter Mary |
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| Albert, born in Fayette County, and Leora, born in Howard County, IN |
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| John Peter and Jane Touby's home in Bentonville, Fayette County, IN |
In 1853 Jane, Peter and little Albert came to Howard County purchased land, then sold it to purchase another tract upon which was a small log house. Peter eventually made improvements, built substantial buildings, quit his trade of wagon making and devoted his attention to agriculture.
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