Rev. Thomas John, son of  Ann Bayne Owsley daughter of Thomas III and Mary Middleton, and  George Chilton.  

• Birth: 10 MAY 1764/65 in , Loudoun, Virginia
• Death: 10 SEP 1840 in Garrettsburg, Christian, Kentucky

Thomas married Margaret Bledsoe, the daughter of Joseph Bledsoe Sr. and his wife, Elizabeth Miller, in Lincoln County, Virginia (now Garrard County, Kentucky), on December 21, 1786. 

Margaret Bledsoe

• birth 18 March 1766

• death 14 May 1831

Notes for Thomas John Chilton:

On 18 Dec 1786 Joseph Bledsoe gave his consent to his daughter Peggy Bledsoe to marry Thomas Chilton. William Bledsoe and John Reed were witnesses. (Lincoln Co. Marriage Consents and Bonds.)

  On 13 May 1790 he sold, to Jacob Reed, his interest in the 321 acres of Goose Creek in Loudoun County, left to him by his father. (Loudoun Co. Deeds, A-2: 173)

  He professed religion and united with Gilbert's Creek church of Separate Baptists, during a great revival which prevailed in that region, under the ministry of Joseph and William Bledsoe, in 1789. He began to exercise in public, soon after he joined the church, and was ordained to the ministry by Joseph Bledsoe, Moses Bledsoe and John Rice, in 1791. He was one of the committee that signed the articles, commonly known as the "Terms of General Union," upon which the Regular and Separate Baptists united, in 1801, and claims to be the author of that document. When South District Association split, in 1803, Mr. Chilton was one of the leaders of the party which formed the present South Kentucky Association of Separate Baptists. He continued to preach in Garrard and the surrounding counties, till about the year 1822, when, having lost his property, in an abortive attempt to establish salt works, he moved to what is now Larue county, and settled on Middle creek. Here he took charge of a church, which he and William Summers had constituted, under the style of the Separate Baptist church on Middle creek, in 1816. The name of this church was afterwards changed to Republican, and is now called Big Spring. To this church he ministered till 1836, when he resigned on account of declining age. In 1835, he published a small volume which he titled 'A History of the Baptists." It bears the marks of having been written carelessly, and in haste, and is of little value. Mr. Chilton was a strong preacher, but appears to have been a plausible, rather than a logical controversialist. He died from the effects of a fall from his buggy, into a stream of water that he was crossing, about 1839.

The foregoing was published in "A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches," by J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two           - Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished Lafayette, TN: Church History Research & Archives, 1976, Vol. 2, p 87-88 [Garrard County]. 

William Henry Perrin in "County of Christian, Kentucky," (F.A. Battey Pub. Co.: Chicago, 1884, p. 386-387) adds that Thomas Chilton died when he was thrown from his buggy and drowned in a branch he and his wife were crossing. He was in Christian County on a visit to his son and was buried on a nearby hill. 

In addition, Thomas Chilton lived for a time in Adair County where the first five pages in the county's marriage register were filled with marriages he had performed. On 6 Jan 1806, he sold his share of a 1,000 acre tract of land on Russell Creek, in Adair County, to his brother-in-law, Thomas Graves. Because his wife, Margaret, did not sign her release, it is believed she had already died by that time.

Children:

Thomas John III  b: 30 July 1798 in Garrard Co., d. 15 Aug 1854 in Montgomery Co., Texas.  Married Frances Tribble Stoner 9 AUG 1815 in , Wayne, Kentucky. 

Jane Baylor, b. 1791, married Rev. Charles Metcalfe at Mill Springs in Wayne County, Kentucky, on April 6, 1817.  They had a son George Chilton Metcalfe.

Lysus/Lissius b. 1814 , d. 1860

Mynor b: 1794 d: 1838 in Trenton, Todd, Kentucky

William Parrish

Betsy

Lee Chilton, the daughter of Thomas John Chilton and his wife, Margaret Bledsoe.  Married John C. Williams, the son of  Walter Williams and his wife, Elly Owsley,  in Hardin County, Kentucky, on October 21, 1822.

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