*Charles Polke's life was featured in a Maryland publication (below is an excerpt about his son, Edmund):
Hannah Polk, daughter of Edmund and Mary (Fultz) Polk (1765-1842), who died in Nelson County, Kentucky, was married to General Adam Guthrie.
(Major) Edmund Polke (b. 1740)...by 1765 was living near Fort Pitt, where he was married to Mary Fultz. By 1776, before the frontier was open, he and his brother Thomas already were staking claims in Kentucky. They traveled by flatboat down the Ohio River to the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville), settling near Bardstown in what later became Nelson County, Kentucky.
My ancestress, Mrs. Arabella Anderson (who was widowed when she married John Ash), was a party with Adam Guthrie on Nelson County deeds (see below):
Adam Guthree (Guthrie) was granted 218 acres on September 10, 1788, per Nelson County, Kentucky, Deed# 2-28, from John and Arabella Ash (his wife), Grantors, on the ...waters of Ash's Creek a branch of of Salt River...including the place where David Evans Jn formerly lived...bank of the run John Ash lives on... . [Source]
The Ashes also granted Adam Guthrie 45 acres in Nelson County, Kentucky, (Deed 5-596 on October 7, 1799), also on Ashe's Creek.. . Witnesses were James Cox, Edmund Polke, and Charles Polke.
Note: President James Knox Polk was *Charles Polke's great-grandnephew.
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