Duncan, John

Born: 1789 Cumberland County, Kentucky

Died: 1865

Flourished: Sangamon County, Illinois

While still living in Kentucky, Duncan married Sally Miller, with whom he had twelve children. They settled near present-day Salisbury in 1820. John was the brother of Marshal and Rice Duncan.

John C. Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 271; History of Sangamon County, Illinois (Chicago: Inter-State, 1881), 1011, 1020.