John buchanan biography

John Buchanan

Submitted by Robert W. Scott

John Buchanan ca May , farmer and merchant, was one of the earliest land purchasers in Ripley and Switzerland Cos.

The son of Revolutionary War Soldier George Buchanan, John was probably born in central Pennsylvania; moved with his family to Westmoreland Co., Pa., after the revolution and then to the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky about John's first record comes in when he and three brothers lived on Benson Creek in Franklin Co., Ky.

The four brothers probably moved to Indiana in John Buchanan of Dearborn Co., Ind., along with partner William Phillips, purchased several hundred acres in September near modern Florence, Switzerland Co., Ind. John and wife, Rachel, then living in Jefferson Co., sold this tract in

John is listed in the Indiana territorial census in Dearborn Co., and voted in an Dearborn Co.

election. Next, John purchased two quarter sections in what is now Brown Township, Ripley Co. on the Jefferson Co. border on