William Calk, 1740-1823.

William Calk was born in Prince William County, Virginia on March 7, 1740. When older, he managed his father's plantation. He married Sarah Catlett about 1763. She was born in 1755 and died on November 20, 1826. In 1765, he went to South Carolina and purchased land on the Dan River. He returned to his family in 1767. William Calk, starting on March 13, 1775, journeyed from Prince William, County, Virginia to Boonesborough, Kentucky. He traveled with Abraham Hanks, Philip Drake, Enoch Smith, and Robert Whitledge. William Calk lived at Boonesbough for several years. While having a residence at Boonesborough, he explored more of Kentucky and established a hunting lodge in what is now Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky. Later this land became the site of the Calk family home. Calk's occupations were surveying and farming, but he also was a speculator. In 1804, soon after the United States purchased the Louisiana Territories, Calk took a flatboat loaded with corn, tobacco, bacon, and lard to the port of New Orleans. He returned to Kentucky by the way of Natchez Trace. He spent the remaining years of his life in Montgomery County, Kentucky. William Calk died on October 18, 1823.

From the description of Calk Family Collection, 1744-1978 (Bulk 1775-1920). (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 62933578