James Moses McKenzie

Notes:

Per the research of Col. Gabriel T. MacKenzie James Moses McKenzie and Margaret Agnes Porter McKenzie's tombstones had no lettering on them as they were red soft ferrous rectangular stones and time had obliterated all marking on them when he saw them in 1953 in the old Moses McKenzie Cemetary in Cresaptown, Maryland. A Mr. Sanford Robinette, 114 Winchester Road, Cresaptown showed Col. MacKenzie the above mentioned tombstones. Mr. Robinette is the husband of Lena Grant Robinette, daughter of Joseph F. Grant, deceased 1931, a grandson of James Moses and Margaret.

The (James) Moses McKenzie cemetery is located off McKenzie Tower Road, south of Cresaptown, Maryland. Take the Winchester Road Extension, turn left on McKenzie Tower Road. Go about .8 mile and the cemetery is on the right.

Moses McKenzie was listed in the 1860 Allegany County, Maryland Census as living in Disr=trict 6, page 193. His age was listed as being 65 years old. His wife, Margaret, was still alive and her age was listed as being 55.

They had the following children residing with them: Richard, age 22, Emily, age 19, Elizabeth, age 17, Ann, age 13, Charles, age 10 and Marian, age 3.

From the archives of Col. G.T. Mackenzie (Ret.) comes the following:

"there is a family record filed with the estate and will of the above Moses (James Moses) MacKenzie in the Allegany COunty Courthouse in Cumberland, Maryland where, I. Col. Gabriel T. MacKenzie, U.S. Army, retired, great grandson of the said Moses filed said family record with Moses' will but mistakenly said Daniel, father of Moses, was the son of Daniel instead of correctly stating that (James) Moses was the son of Daniel, son of Gabriel, son of John and Katherine."

Last Will & Testament of Moses McKinzie decd filed Jany 21st 1873
Test Elijah Fuller Regr.
Sworn to as to Custody by Daniel R. McKinzie the Executor therein named and also by John C. Brady John A. Smith & John B. Hudson the subscribing witnesses thereto and admitted to probate & record this 28th day of January 1873
Test Elijah Fuller Regr
Recorded

I Moses McKenzie of Allegany County in the State of Maryland do make this my last will and testament in maner[sic] following that is to say
I give and devise to my son Charles M. McKenzie the mare Moll and colt also the cow that he now claims. I give and devise to my three daughters Elisabeth McKenzie Ann McKenzie and Emily McKenzie one horse and one cow each.
I give and devise to my son Daniel R. McKenzie three hundred dollars to be paid to him as soon after the death of my wife Margaret McKenzie, as condition of my Estate will permit. The said amt being for sevices[sic] rendered after he became twenty one years of age.
All my Real Estate and all my Personal Property not herein before devised I give and devise to my dear wife Margaret McKenzie during her natural life and at her death I direct my Executor herein after named or the survivor of them to sell at such times upon such terms as they or the survivor of them may deem most benificial[sic] and advantagous to my Estate and they or the survivor of them are hereby authorized and empowered to make all nessessary[sic] conveyances of Title to the purchasors[sic] thereof and the proceeds of sales of my Real Estate and of my personal property I hereby will and direct to be equally divided in equal Portion share and share alike amongst my children vis Josiah P. McKenzie, Gabriel T. McKenzie, Daniel R. McKenzie, Charles M. McKenzie, Rebecca Laferty, Mary Ann Grant, Eliza J. Miller, Emily McKenzie, Elisabeth McKenzie and Ann McKenzie
and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my wife Margaret McKenzie and my son Daniel R. McKenzie Executors of this my last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will and testament
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twentieth day of March in the year Eighteen Hundred and Seventy on

Moses (his X mark) McKenzie (seal)

Signed sealed published declared by Moses McKenzie the above named testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto

John C. Brady
John A. Smith
John B. Hudson

~Genie
Posted May 11, 2013

Moses Mckenzie
United States Census, 1870
Name:Moses Mckenzie
Event Type:Census
Event Year:1870
Event Place:Maryland, United States
Gender:Male
Age:75
Race:White
Race (Original):W
Birth Year (Estimated):1794-1795
Birthplace:Maryland
Page Number:96
HouseholdRoleGenderAgeBirthplace
Moses MckenzieM75Maryland
Margaret MckenzieF66Maryland
Daniel MckenzieM30Maryland
Emily MckenzieF27Maryland
Elizabeth MckenzieF23Maryland
Ann MckenzieF20Maryland
Charles MckenzieM17Maryland
William MckenzieM18Maryland
John MckenzieM18Maryland
Joseph MckenzieM15Maryland
Household ID: 690 , Line Number: 34 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: M593 , GS Film number: 000552065 , Digital Folder Number: 004269448 , Image Number: 00484

Moses Mckenzie
United States Census, 1850
Name:Moses Mckenzie
Event Type:Census
Event Year:1850
Event Place:Allegany county, part of, Allegany, Maryland, United States
Gender:Male
Age:54
Race:White
Birth Year (Estimated):1796
Birthplace:Maryland
House Number:2073
HouseholdRoleGenderAgeBirthplace
Moses MckenzieM54Maryland
Margaret MckenzieF44Maryland
Thornton MckenzieM19Maryland
Eliza MckenzieF18Maryland
Daniel MckenzieM13Maryland
Emily MckenzieF10Maryland
Elizabeth MckenzieF8Maryland
Ann MckenzieF4Maryland
Chas MckenzieMMaryland
Household ID: 2103 , Line Number: 35 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: M432 , Affiliate Film Number: 277 , GS Film Number: 13194 , Digital Folder Number: 004193973 , Image Number: 00307

James married Margaret Agnes Porter on 6 May 1823 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. Margaret (daughter of Gabriel McKenzie Porter and Rebecca Frost) was born on 10 Jan 1804 in Allegany County, Maryland; died on 31 Oct 1890 in Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The marriage license was issued in Allegany County, Maryland on May 3, 1823. Research of Ray Leidinger. According to the research of J. Albert Smith, they were married in the Catholic Church in Frostburg, Maryland.

1. Rebecca Ann McKenzie was born on 4 Feb 1824 in Allegany County, Maryland; died on 9 May 1902 in Cumberland, Allegany County, maryland.
2. Mary Anna McKenzie was born on 1 Mar 1826 in Allegany County, Maryland; died in May 1861.
3. Josiah Price Sr. McKenzie was born on 9 Apr 1828 in Allegany County, Maryland; died on 17 Jan 1896 in Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland.
4. Gabriel Thornton McKenzie was born on 14 Jul 1829 in Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 13 Jan 1892 in Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland.
5. Eliza Jane McKenzie was born in 1834 in Allegany County, Maryland; died in UNKNOWN.
6. Daniel Richard McKenzie was born in 1836 in Allegany County, Maryland; died on 7 Jan 1899 in Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland.
7. Margaret Emelia McKenzie was born on 1 Apr 1840 in Allegany County, Maryland; died before 1902.
8. Emily Ann McKenzie was born on 8 Aug 1843 in Allegany County, Maryland; died in UNKNOWN.
9. Elizabeth Ann McKenzie was born in 1844 in Allegany County, Maryland; died in UNKNOWN.
10. Anna Mary McKenzie was born on 24 Feb 1848 in Allegany County, Maryland; died on 8 Dec 1882 in Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland.
11. Charles Moses McKenzie was born on 15 Mar 1853 in Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 10 Jul 1922 in Center Township, Colerain County, Pennsylvania.

Notes:

Daniel McKenzie

Daniel McKenzie (1) was born in Frederick County, Maryland about 1752. He married Mary Ann Chapman 2 DEC 1779 in Washington County, Maryland. Together they had seven children:

1.William McKenzie (2)
Born 1782
Had children George, Edward, Taylor, Perry, Walter and John

2.Richard McKenzie
Born 1784
Married Elizabeth Spealman 16 JUN 1810
Had children William, Dennis and Levi

3.Samuel McKenzie
Born 1785
Married Rachel Durbin
Had children Henry, Grant, Aaron and Albert

4.Mary Ann McKenzie
Born 1787
Married William Myers

5.Daniel McKenzie
Born 1790
Married Elizabeth Hackrette

6.Aaron (Aron) (3) McKenzie
Born 1792
Married Hannah Johnson 10 MAR 1819
Had children Daniel, Silas, Aaron W., John Ephriam and Samuel (4)

7.James Moses McKenzie
Born 1795
Married Margaret Agnes Porter 3 May 1823
Had children Mary Ann, Josiah, Gabriel Thornton, Eliza Jane, Daniel Richard, Margaret Amelia, Elizabeth, Anna Mary and Charles Moses
Died 10 JAN 1873

Daniel McKenzie and Mary Ann Chapman moved to Allegany County before 1792 and settled on land south of Cumberland. Daniel received a Patent for the land from the State of Maryland (5) in 1795. According to information contained in the Patent, he was able to purchase the land from the State at that time because he had originally settled on it. Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly, he was given a preference to purchase the land before it was offered for sale to anyone else. Ultimately, he purchased Lots No. 3552, 3554 and 3569. Michael McKenzie of Mt. Savage, Maryland provided the author with more information concerning Daniel’s patent in November, 2010. There is a compilation of Military Lot Patents on record in the Maryland State Archives. (5.1) Daniel’s patents are set forth on pages 0348 and 0349. There also is a map that reflects all of the Military Lots, Tracts and Escheats that were awarded or sold to individuals in the late 1700’s and which contains Daniel’s patented lots 3552, 3554 and 3569. located south of Cresaptown. Daniel sold some of his land (50 acres) to William Shaw (6) in 1797.(7) On January 26, 1805, John Logsdon and Daniel McKinsy sold portions of lots 3568 and 3569 to Emanual Custer. (8) Then, in 1810, Daniel McKinzie reacquired from William Shaw the same parcel of land Daniel had sold to him in 1797 (50 acres). (9)

The Cumberland area was sparsely populated at the time Daniel McKenzie moved there. There were settlements in an area called Old Town as well as in Cumberland. (10) Daniel McKenzie along with Gabriel McKenzie, Josiah McKenzie, Moses McKenzie and Samuel McKenzie were listed as being some of the settlers living on land lying West of Fort Cumberland. (11)

Per information supplied to the author by Michael McKenzie of Mt. Savage, Maryland in November, 2010, Daniel McKenzie was quite active in the years immediately after his relocation to the area west of Cumberland. According to a 1974 issue of the Heritage Press newsletter, the following was the bond contract for replacing a bridge in the Cumberland area: ?”Pursuant to an order of the Levy Court the following bond as recorded this 2nd August 1796: Know all men by these presents that we, William Logsdon, John Logsdon, Ralph Logsdon and Daniel McKinzy are bound unto David Huffman, John Graham and Patrick Murdock for 747 pounds current money of the State. The condition: William Logsdon shall do and will and truly build and finish on or before 1st September, next, a good and sufficient wagon bridge over Wills Creektown of Cumberland at the place where the bridge lately stood, the said Bridge to be at least five feet higher than the late bridge, 16 feet wide with railing three feet high; he also to keep the same in good and sufficient repair for term of seven years and to rebuilt the same if carried away or destroyed, at his own cost except he not to replace, if the water rises over the bridge.” The Daniel McKinzy referenced was the son of Gabriel McKenzie (b. abt. 1715) . Gabriel lived in the Bald Knob area near Mount Savage, Maryland, where Earl Lepley’s property/residence currently is located as of November, 2010. Per the various maps referenced earlier, the Leplays currently live on the same 50 acres which Gabriel McKenzie owned in the 1790’s.

The 1800 census lists (12) Daniel McKinzie living in the Upper Old Town, (13) Georges Creek section of the county. His age was recorded as being in excess of 45 years as was his wife. There were three males at home under the age of ten, two males between ten and sixteen, one female between ten and sixteen and another female between the age of sixteen and twenty-six. (14)

The 1810 census lists Daniel McKinsey still living in the Upper Old Town, Georges Creek area. His age once again is listed as being in excess of 45. His wife was still alive. There was one male under the age of ten living with him, two males between ten and sixteen and one male between sixteen and twenty-six. There was one female between the age of sixteen and twenty-six residing in his household. (15)

The 1820 census lists Daniel McKinsey and his wife and two males, ages between sixteen and twenty-six residing in the Election District Number 6. (16) There is no record of Daniel in the 1830 census, which coincides with the fact he died in 1825. There also is no mention of his wife, Mary, as being a head of household at the time that census was taken. (17)

On June 9, 1812 Thomas Pollard conveyed 45 acres of property to Daniel McKenzie, which was referenced on plats at the time as “Allegany Republican”. That property later became the subject of an Equity Case in Allegany County after Daniel died without leaving a will. (18) The property was later sold by order of the Court sitting in Equity and was acquired by (James) Moses McKenzie, Daniel’s youngest son. (19) It remained in the (James) Moses McKenzie branch of the family until approximately 1900 when it was sold to Daniel Annan and later became a dairy. Unfortunately, on approximately December 8, 1935 a fire destroyed the log cabin situated on the property that was constructed by Daniel McKenzie in the early 1800's. An article about the fire and the history surrounding the cabin appeared in the Cumberland Times on December 15, 1935. (20)

In 1819, Daniel McKenzie and his wife, Ann McKenzie, were the sponsors at the Baptism of William McKenzie, born February 15, 1818 to parents, Samuel McKenzie and Rachel Durbin. The Baptism was held at St. Ignatius, the Roman Catholic Church in the Mt. Savage area, West of Cumberland, Maryland. (21) According to material compiled by Col. Gabriel T. McKenzie, the first McKenzies to emigrate to America were Catholic and came from Scotland. Maryland was a perfect choice for their new home since following the passage of the Act of Toleration in 1649, Maryland eventually became known as being a safe haven for Catholics.

Daniel McKenzie died without a will in 1825. His estate was submitted for administration shortly thereafter. The administrator was his eldest son, William. The Inventory of the personal property of Daniel McKinzie was filed on 13 SEPT 1825. (22) The First Account reflects the names of the individuals who were owed money by Daniel at the time of his death. (23) The Second and Final Account reflects that the following individuals received money from the estate after the personal property was sold: Ann McKinsey, her one third (24) share totalling $29.17, and dividends of $8.33 were paid to Richard McKinsey, Samuel McKinsey, Daniel McKinsey, Aaron McKinsey, Moses McKinsey, William McKinsey and Mary Myers, wife of William Myers. (25) Interestingly, the shares were not precisely divisable. One share for $8.34 (one cent more) was given to the eldest son, William, who was serving as the administrator. Seven children were listed as having received dividends.

Daniel McKenzie died before 7 SEPT 1825. Both he and Mary Ann Chapman were buried in the cemetery of St. Michael’s Church. (26)

Endnotes

1. In the handwritten notes of Col. Gabriel T. McKenzie, U.S. Army, Retired, he states on a page relating to James Moses McKenzie “There is a family record filed with the estate and will of the above, James Moses McKenzie, in the Allegheny Courthouse in Cumberland, Maryland. Col. Gabriel T. McKenzie U.S. Army retired, great grandson of Moses filed said family record with Moses’ will but mistakenly said Daniel, father of Moses, was son of Daniel, instead of correctly stating Moses was son of Daniel, son of Gabriel, son of John of AA County.” (Ed. Note: This passage appears on page 221 of the notes of Gabriel T. McKenzie, U.S. Army Retired in Volume 3 of the author, Michael A. McKenzie’s genealogical source documents). (Ed. Note: James Moses was one of Daniel McKenzie’s sons, see supra).

2. The children of Daniel from this point through the end of the list were referenced in Equity Case #292, Allegany County Chancery Court records.

3. In the 1820 census Aaron McKenzie was listed as "Aron McKinsey". It's quite possible the census taker did not know how to spell.

4. In the Col. Gabriel T. MacKenzie genealogical research, a letter was written by J. F. Grant to Col. MacKenzie on December 13, 1929. In that letter J.F. Grant (who was born in 1854) recounts for Col. MacKenzie the names of the various sons of Daniel McKenzie (b. 1752). He starts by stating that the sons of Daniel (Ed. Note, b. 1752) were Aaron, Samuel, Richard, William, Moses (Ed.Note, actually James Moses) and Daniel, Jr.. He then lists the sons of each of the aforementioned individuals, as follows: “Aaron’s (our Aaron McKenzie b. 1792) sons were: Daniel, (Ed.Note This Daniel is in our family’s line. This Daniel is referred to as Daniel IV in Col. MacKenzie’s notes so as to distinguish him from other Daniels born during the preceding and succeeding generations) William, Silas (sic), Samuel and John Ephriam. Samuel’s sons were Henry, Grant, Aaron and Albert. Richard’s sons were William, Dennis and Levi. William’s sons were George, Edward, Taylor, Perry, Walter and John. Moses’ sons were Josiah, Thornton, Richard and Charles. Daniel, Jr. only had one son that I know of and his name was Henry.” The census records reflect that Aaron had two daughters. The author has not yet been able to determine their identity.

In addition to the foregoing letter, J.F. Grant wrote another letter to Col. McKenzie on October 7, 1929, wherein he states: (James) Moses McKenzie, your great-grandfather, was not the son of Moses the revolutionary soldier but was a son of Daniel McKenzie.”


5. Patent from the State of Maryland to Daniel McKinsey dated November 14, 1792. Maryland State Archives. Volume IC #L, page 72. A partial transcription of the patent follows:

Daniel McKinsey, his patent)The State of Maryland know ye that
Lots No. 3552, 3554 & 3569)Whereas there were laid out and
Each containing 50 acres)surveyed amongst the lots in Allegany

County to the westward of Fort Cumberland pursuant to a resolution of the General Assembly passed at April session in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven, the following lying contiguous to each other Lots No. 3552, 3554 & 3569 each containing fifty acres. And Whereas the said lots were by the Commissioners appointed in virtue of an Act passed at November session seventeen hundred and eighty eight "to dispose of the referenced lands westward of Fort Cumberland allotted and awarded to Daniel McKinsey as settler on and having a preference in the purchase of same and it appearing by the account of the transferor of the western acres that the purchase money hath been fully paid, the State of Maryland doth hereby grant unto him the said Daniel McKinsey the said lots No. 3552, 3554 & 3569 lying in Allegany County aforesaid
. . .
(legal descriptions follow)
. . .

according to the record ______to, and now remaining in the land office: together with all rights, profits, benefits and privileges thereunto belonging. To have and to hold the same unto him the said Daniel McKinsey, his heirs and assigns forever. Given under the Great Seal of the State of Maryland this fourteenth day of November seventeen hundred and ninety two.

Witness the Honorable Alexander Hanson, Esquire, Chancellor

I.T.G. StoneGreatA.C. Hanson
SealChancellor

5.1. Maryland State Archives, MSA SE1-1, Images 020745-0001 to 020745-0409.

5.2 Map of 1874 Military Lots, Tracts and Escheats, see Land Patent Location Daniel McKenzie (b. 1752) in the “Media” section of the www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com web site.

6 The Reverend William Shaw was a Methodist minister who settled on the site of Barton, Maryland in 1794. He amassed an estate of 1200 acres before he died. Allegany County, A History, Stegmaier, Dean, Kershaw and Wiseman, McClain Printing Company (1976)

7. Deed from Daniel McKinsey to William Shaw dated March 16, 1797 recorded in Deed Book "B", page 300, Allegany County records.

8. Deed from Daniel McKinsy and John Logsdon to Emanual Custer dated January 26, 1805 recorded in Deed Book "D", page 285, Allegany County records.

9. Deed from William Shaw to Daniel McKinzie dated July 17, 1810 recorded in Deed Book "F", page 129, Allegany County records.

10. Daniel McKenzie was taxed on his property in the early 1800's after the legislature passed the enabling legislation for the tax to be levied.
The legislature . . . passed an act appointing Andrew Bruce, Even Gywnn and Joseph Cresap a board of commissioners for Allegany County, and directed the commissioners of Washington County to transmit to them a list of all the real and personal properties in the new county. (1789).
The distance to Cumberland, the only voting place provided for in the Act constituting Allegany County, from Sideling Hill Creek on the east, and the Fairfax Stone on the west, was too great for the convenience of the people residing in those remote sections, and in 1799 the General Assembly passed an Act for laying Allegany County off into districts. The commissioners appointed were John B. Baell, David Hoffman, Thomas Stewart, William Shaw, George Robinette and Jesse Tomlinson, and the county was divided into six election districts, known as Glades, Selbyport, Westernport, Musselanes, Cumberland and Old Town.
The levy court was composed of the justices of the peace of the county. Those who signed the first levy made for Allegany County, 1791, were Daniel Cresap, Jr., Thomas Beall of Samuel, James Prather, Samuel Barritt and John Bayard, . . . the total amount of the levy was 286 pounds, 7 shillings, 7 pence. The rate of taxation was fixed at 7 shillings, 3 pence on every 100 pounds of property in the county . . . In 1804 the levy was 22 s. 11 pence per hundred pounds of property . . . It is also worthy of note that this was the last instance in which the old English money designation was used in the levy court of Allegany County. From that time on the new order of dollars and cents was followed. Thomas and Williams, History of Allegany County, V.1, page 3-8.

11. History of Allegany County, Maryland by Thomas & Wilson page 3; Scharf’s History of Western Maryland, Volume 2, page 1343.

12. The author wishes to acknowledge and thank Joy Rowe, 5386 Glenda Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33417-1072 for the immense amount of work she performed in gathering the census information on the branch of the McKenzies currently being discussed.

13. Upper Old Town was located thirteen miles south of Cumberland on the Potomac River.

14. 1800 Federal Census, LDS film number 0,193,662, page 33, Maryland, Allegany County, Upper Old Town, Georges Creek.

15. 1810 Federal Census, LDS film number 0,193,667, page 38, Maryland, Allegany County, Georges Creek.

16. 1820 Federal Census, LDS film number 0,193,702, page 39, Maryland, Allegany County, Election District 6.

17. Census research of Joy Rowe, 5386 Glenda Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33417-1072.

18. Equity Case # 292, Allegany Court Records.

19. Deed from Thomas Perry, Trustee, to (James) Moses McKinsie dated December 4, 1851 recorded in Deed Book 6, page 580, Allegany County records. The property included land located in lot 3552, 3554 and 3569 in Allegany County. These lots "being the same lots described and mentioned in a Patent to Daniel McKinsey bearing date on the 14th day of November, 1795". It also included that tract or parcel of land known as Allegany Republican containing 45 acres described in a deed from Thomas Pollard to Daniel McKinsey.dated June 9, 1812.

20. The article read as follows:
Settler Log Home Prey to Flames
The above is a picture of the McKenzie log house on Winchester Road, near Annan Knolls, destroyed a week ago by fire. It is known that the building was erected before 1800 by Daniel McKenzie, a pioneer settler. The county land records show that the large tract now comprises the former Daniel Annan Farm was patented to McKenzie in 1795 by the State of Maryland.
McKenzie, it is thought, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and received military lots, as large tracts in the county were shown on the rough surveys. The farm was earlier known as the Moses McKenzie farm and comprised 435 acres from Cresaptown to the present Winchester railroad bridge. Moses McKenzie was a noted fox hunter and maintained a large pack of hunting dogs.
The land records show one part of the acreage termed as “Allegany Republican”, and two others, “Contest” and “Timberland”. Great stands of white pine and oak covered it. Josiah P. McKenzie, a grandson of Moses McKenzie, held title to the property until 1900 when the late Daniel Annan purchased it and improved the property and established a dairy. It was later laid out as a realty development.

21. Davidson, Phyllis and Koch, Richard, St. Ignatius (now St. Patrick), Mt. Savage, MD, St. Mary, Cumberland, Maryland Parishioners, Marriages, Baptisms, and Deaths 1819-1844, (apparently self-published) at page 16. St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church (now St. Patrick’s) was the original Catholic Church in the Mt. Savage area, west of Cumberland, Maryland. The records of St. Ignatius were compiled by Phyllis Davidson and Richard T. Koch. Their task was made easier since the records were maintained in English and not Latin, as were the records of St. Luke’s. Mr. Gary E. Hindes of Wilmington, Delaware had hired a professional genealogist, Ms. Jane W. McWilliams (Annapolis, MD) to do research on his Logsdon ancestors. Material from the Maryland State Archives (MSA) that she sent Hindes identified the source as MSA M3461-St. Patrick Church, 201 North Centre Street, Cumberland, Maryland, but included only pages with Logsdon entries. Gary shared those pages with other Logsdon researchers, including Mr. Jim Logsdon of Columbus, Ohio who forwarded copies to Davidson and Koch. Subsequently, additional pages were obtained from the MSA to complete the first 50 pages, and some selected additional pages. The compilers advise in the forward that they have not exhausted the material at the MSA. They hoped that someday this particular manuscript would be expanded through 1863, when the cornerstone for the current church was laid and St. Ignatius was renamed St. Patrick (of Mt. Savage, MD).

The compliers drew partially drew from A Century of Growth, Volume 1, the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Maryland, a book by Rev. Thomas J. Stanton. A copy of this book allegedly is available in the Frostburg Branch of the Allegany County, MD library. The Family History Center (LDS) in Salt Lake City also has a copy of the book. According to the compilers, because St. Mary’s Church in Cumberland was served co-jointly with St. Ignatius in Mt. Savage, they could not separate the history of the two churches. A quote from the Stanton’s book appears in the introduction of the compilation, as follows: “St. Mary’s Church of Cumberland may truthfully be called the mother of all Churches of Allegany County. It is historically certain that Catholicity had an existence in Cumberland, although very shadowy at the beginning, as far back as the French and Indian War. . . . As far back as 1770, Joseph [Josiah] Frost must be added to the pioneer Catholics; and ten years later the Arnolds, the Porters and the Logsdons were dwelling at what became Arnold’s Settlement (later called Mt. Savage). . . . It was not until 1819 that the first resident pastor, Rev. James Redmond, was appointed to Cumberland. “ Various other pastors followed thereafter. Their initials appear next to many of the entries.

22. Inventories, Allegany County Probate Records, filed 13 SEPT 1825. The total value of his personal property came to $185.14. The appraisers were Joseph P. Hillsay and George Seass. The appraisal was conducted on 7 SEPT 1825. Items mentioned in the Inventory include: one auld (old) wagon, $25.00, one bee hive, $1.25, one brown mare, $12.00, 5 hoggs (sic), $11.00, 5 shoates, $5.00, one 2 year auld steer, $4.50, wheat in the straw supposed to be 25 bushels, $15.62, rye in the stack, $3.00, one acre of buckwheat, $1.00, one stack of hay, $4.50, one feather bead, beadsted and furniture, $10.00, one shot gunn and shot pouch, $6.00, etc.

23. Inventories, Estate Book No. 1, page 335, November 14, 1826, Allegany County, Maryland.

24. It was the law of the State of Maryland at the time of this distribution that the surviving wife receive one third of the estate.

25. Second and Final Return, Estate Book No. 1, page 343, Allegany County, Maryland, filed 13 MAR 1827.

26. In a letter from Col. Gabriel MacKenzie to Mrs. Richard M. White dated August 28, 1961 (contained on Col. MacKenzie microfilm), Col. MacKenzie states: "Joseph P. Grant, deceased 1931, said in 1929 when I started the family research that Daniel was buried in the old Catholic Church cemetery in Frostburg, in walking distance of Mt. Savage. I went to Frostburg in 1957 and was told by the priest that the old church with all records had been destroyed or lost; a new church had been erected and the old graveyard had been cleared away for a playground for the church parochial school children. I could learn nothing relative to Daniel’s grave.

Additional information from Allegany County Probate Records:

McKINSEY, Daniel (distribution)

Amount due estate $106.79 3/4
Debts paid $ 19.52
_________
Balance $ 87.52 3/4
To Mary McKinsey her third $ 29.17
To: Richard, Samuel Daniel, Aaron, Moses, WilliamMcKinsey, & Mary Myer wife of Wm. Myer (each) $8.33

March 10th 1827
Test: C. Heck Reg.

Daniel married Mary Ann Chapman on 2 Dec 1779 in Washington County, Maryland. Mary was born on 16 Feb 1754; died in UNKNOWN in Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Per research of Don Kagle in October 2013, he located a document (linked to Mary Ann Chapman on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site) that reflects the birthdates of Mary Ann Chapman and her siblings. The information gleaned from Ancestry by Don stated "William [Chapman] added this record of his sibling's births to a page in the book "Heavens Opened" of 1665.

Notes:

Thoughts from Scott Williams to the author. August 14, 2018:

I will share with you the reader's digest version of one of my avenues of research. There are no original source records that positively link the Porters with the McKenzies before settlement in Western Maryland. If you believe tradition and family lore, they must have been in close proximity to each other in the generation of Daniel, Gabriel, and Daniel McKenzie down in the Patapsco/Baltimore Co/Frederick County area. We have reported intermarriage between Henry Porter and a Durbin as well as the reported Porter/McKenzie intermarriages. Yet no one (including the Colonel) has found proof in the traditional resources like deeds, patents, etc. We have a few other MD Porters thereabouts, but we have all but eliminated them as suspects. There are a ton of Porters along the PA/MD border, and they are not so easily eliminated, but they all seem to be Scots-Irish Protestants - again, not fully disqualifying, but not too promising either.

This I do know (or propose as a thesis). The first positive connection in the record appears in Bedford County, PA. Sam and John McKenzie appear there in 1773, Gabriel and Sam in 1774 and again in 1775. John Porter appears on the next page from them in 1775 as a "renter". In 1776 Gabriel McKenzie and John Porter appear - and Sam appears as an "inmate" (uh-oh :)). The PA records appear to be non-existent for a few years then pick up again in 1779, when all I have is John Porter and no McKenzies. Do note, however that Gabriel, Aaron, Sam, and Daniel McKenzie take the loyalty oath over in Washington (now Allegany) County in 1778.

So my thesis is that Gabriel and sons moved westward to Bedford County PA beginning in 1772 and that this move appears to coincide with the sale of three properties in Frederick County. Gabriel and sons stay on the Bedford side of the line until 1777 or 78 when they move across the line into Maryland. John Porter appears adjacent to them in the record from 1775 to 1778 when they move - he stays in PA until around 1784 and eventually resettles in Maryland. John Porter is reported to have lived near Wellersburg PA with is 'just across the line' from the Mount Savage area - and if you have been there, you will know that it is pretty much "all the same place".

So, this puts John Porter in proximity to the McKenzies, but I need more in the way of kinship ties, etc. In the attached loyalty oath you will see all of our Catholic tribe in one place by 1778, including Henry Porter (brother of John and Moses Porter) who reportedly married a Durbin.

Here is a link to the source file for Bedford PA stuff:

https://archive.org/stream/3rdpennsylvaniaarch22harruoft#page/18/mode/2up/search/gabriel

Pages of interest:

1773: pg 19 and 20
1774: pg 60
1775: pg 92 and 93
1776: pg 125 and 127
1779: pg 161
1783: pg 211 and 264
1784: pg 278

1778 Loyalty Oath attached.

Feedback always welcome!!
Scott


Excerpt from author's book The McKenzies of early Maryland:

Gabriel McKenzie

Gabriel McKenzie (1) was born in Hopson’s Choice, Baltimore County, Maryland about 1715. He married Sarah Durbin in 1742 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore County, Maryland. (1.1) Together they had seven children:

1.Anne McKenzie

2.Michael McKenzie

3.Samuel McKenzie (2)
Born 1750
Married Abt. 1790 to Ellen _______
Had children Samuel F., John M., Gabriel, Sara Ann, Eleanor, Polly, Jane, Catherine, Elizabeth, Moses
Died 1837 in Allegany County, Maryland per Death Register for St. Patrick’s Church.

4.Daniel McKenzie
Born Abt. 1755
Married Mary Ann Chapman 2 DEC 1779 in Washington County, Maryland
Had children William, Richard, Samuel, Mary Ann, Daniel, Aaron and James Moses
Died 1825, Allegany County, Maryland

5.John McKenzie
Born 1765
Married Lindy (Melinda) Porter
Had children Aaron, John, Daniel, Henry, Gabriel, Samuel E., Sarah,
Mary, Marjery, and Margaret
Died 1852, Madison Co, KY

6.Aaron McKenzie
Born 1768

7.Joshua McKenzie
Born 1768

On 5 NOV 1743, Gabriel McKenzie had a survey recorded for “Gabriel’s Choice”. (4) This tract lay southwest of Westminster MD, on the west side of Mt. Airy Road, between the tracts of James and Thomas Wells. The operative words of the document stated that the land was located in Baltimore County, which given the date is consistent with the fact that Frederick County (where the land is situated today) was formed from Baltimore County and Prince George’s County in 1748. It further states that Gabriel MacKenzie (actual spelling) had received a common warrant for 100 acres of land from “His Lordship’s Land Office dated the 17 Day of March, 1742 and that Gabriel was a resident of Ann Arundell County (actual spelling). (5) The land patent itself was formally issued on the “1st Day of December 1743 by Thomas Bladen, Your Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of our said Province of Maryland, Chancellor & Keeper of the Great Seal thereof.” (6)

Per Thomas Scharf, Frederick County was not a safe place for Colonial settlers at the time Gabriel purchased and owned the property. (7) “In the French and Indian War which ensued after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749, between England and France, Maryland became involved mainly in self-defense, and though she was to share none of its spoils, her people were destined to suffer from many of the dangers and hardships it brought in its train. Even before Braddock’s defeat bands of Indians were making forays into Frederick County burning houses and slaughtering the inhabitants, but after his disastrous overthrow on the 9th of July, 1755, and the retreat of Col. Dunbar with the remainder of the British Army to Philadelphia, the whole northern and western frontier of the province was thrown open to the Indians. Measures of defense were almost immediately adopted, but even had they sufficed for the complete protection of the wide territory to be guarded, they would scarcely have allayed the terror which had taken possession of the frontier settlers. The alarm inspired by Braddock’s defeat and by the advance of the French and Indians was so great that many inhabitants of the western settlements fled to Baltimore, and preparations were even made by the people of that town to place the women and children on board the vessels in the harbor and send them to Virginia”.

In June 1750 Gabriel sued John White for cutting down the oak trees which marked the beginning of “Gabriel’s Choice.” (8)

On 18 JUN 1754, Gabriel purchased 50 acres “Small Addition” from James (a later deed for the same property refers to the seller as John White) and Margaret White of Frederick County (Frederick County having been formed six years earlier in 1748) (9). The land was located in Frederick County and per the legal description was situated near the head of the Little Pipe Creek. The reference to “Little Pipe Creek” in both the patent for Gabriel’s Choice and in the deed for “Small Addition” suggests that the parcels may have been contiguous.

On 14 JUL 1755, Gabriel McKenzie, planter of Frederick County, and his wife Sarah deeded to Nicholas Rodgers 200 acres, part of a “Resurvey of Gabriel’s Choice”.(10).

On October 6, 1764, Gabriel MacKenzie of Frederick County secured a patent for 19 acres of land in Frederick County called Addition to Gabriel’s Choice. The recitations at the beginning of the deed/patent state as follows: “By virtue of a Warrant granted out of his Lordship’s Land Office of the Province to Daniel MacKenzie and John Logsdon of Ann Arundel County for seventy five acres of land bearing date 17th of January, 1764, which said warrant is assigned to Gabriel MacKenzie of Frederick County, etc.” Since Daniel McKenzie is not known to have had a child by the name of Gabriel, the only conclusion that can be drawn from the assignment of this patent is that Daniel McKenzie and John Logsdon were assigning a portion of their seventy five acres to Daniel’s brother, Gabriel. (10.5) The Logsdon connection is an interesting fact in view of the information set forth below that Gabriel’s wife also had a Durbin connection, since she was the daughter of Samuel Durbin and Anne (Logsdon) Durbin.

On 28 Jun 1769, Gabriel McKinsey of Frederick County sold to William Buchanan 80 acres more or less of the property known as the “Resurvey of Gabriel’s Choice”. (11) The sale price was 66 Pounds. The deed reflects that the property consisted of a portion of the “Resurvey of Gabriel’s Choice” which was patented to Gabriel on the twenty third day of July, 1755. The deed further reflected that Sarah McKinsey, wife of Gabriel, had released her dower rights after having been examined out of the presence of her husband and did so “freely and voluntarily not being induced or compelled thereto by any threats of or ill usage from her said husband or fear of his displeasure.”

Sarah McKenzie apparently was the first child of Samuel and Ann (Logsdon) Durbin. She was born September 19, 1724 in a log cabin near Westminister, Maryland. (12)

On 7 APR 1772, Gabriel McKenzie sold three parcels of land in Frederick County totaling 147 acres to George Devilbess for the sum of 310 Pounds. (13) The three tracts included: (1) part of the original tract of “Gabriel’s Choice” and part of the “Resurvey of Gabriel’s Choice” (78 acres), (2) the “Small Addition” originally conveyed by John (sic) White to Gabriel in 1754 (50 acres) and which contains the reference to the “head of Little Pipe Creek” as referenced above and (3) a final tract entitled “Addition to Gabriel’s Choice”. Gabriel was listed as being a farmer residing in Frederick County, which coincides with the time line established by the Oath of Fidelity that Gabriel took in Washington County in 1778.

On 6 AUG 1785 Gabriel MacKinzie of Washington County (13.1) sold to Henry Hoover a parcel of property located in Frederick County called “Mount Pleasant” containing 47 acres. (14) The legal description reflected that the beginning of metes and bounds description began at the end of the “fifteenth line of Gabriel’s Choice” and ran from that location. The deed reflected that Sarah once again relinquished her dower rights. One of the Justices of the Peace who acknowledged the deed was Andrew Bruce, who during the Revolutionary War, administered the Oath of Fidelity (15) (16) to Gabriel MacKenzie. The oath was administered on 2 MAR 1778 in Washington County, Maryland.

On 25 April 1792, Gabriel McKinsey provided Leigh Master of Frederick County with a Release of Dower in connection with the previously discussed land transaction in June, 1769 between Gabriel and William Buchanan. Apparently, Sarah’s dower rights were not properly released at the time of the original transaction and the new owner wanted to obtain a clear title. The Release Deed reflected that Gabriel and Sarah were residents of Alleghany County, which is consistent with the fact that Alleghany County was carved from Washington County in 1789. The deed proves that both Gabriel and Sarah McKenzie were still alive as of April, 1792 and living in Alleghany County.

One of the last known land transactions involving Gabriel McKenzie occurred in connection with a patent he received for land west of Fort Cumberland on which he had settled. In November 2010, Michael McKenzie of Mt. Savage, Maryland provided the author with a copy of the patent issued by the State of Maryland to Gabriel McKenzie. According to Michael, the patent was difficult to locate because the property actually was patented to Peter Mayors (Majors) on May 23, 1803, although the patent itself reflects that the property was surveyed for Gabriel McKinsey..(18) Per the documents, Gabriel appeared before the Honorable Andrew Bruce, one of the Justices of the Peace of Allegany County, Maryland on May 16, 1792 and conveyed the fifty acres of land comprising lot number 3365 to Peter Mayors (Majors). The lot was described as being in the “reserved land west of Fort Cumberland”. Then on May 17, 1803, another document signed by Thomas Harwood, Jr. acknowledged and swore that “Gabriel Mckinsey, a settler westward of Fort Cumberland paid the purchase money for lot 3365”. Yet another unsigned document associated with this entire group of documents states that “Gabriel McKinney settler on Lot 3365 assigned to Peter Mayors (Majors) Patent to Peter Majors the 23rd May 1803”. This last document is a little confusing in that it could be interpreted that Gabriel was still alive in 1803 and was once again acknowledging that he was assigning lot 3365 to Majors so that he could obtain his patent. Since it is assumed by researchers that Gabriel was born abt. 1715, he would have been 88 years old in 1803 if he was still alive and capable of assigning the property to Peter Majors.

The same Michael McKenzie of Mt. Savage, Maryland has pinpointed the location of the Gabriel McKenzie land patent property. In these days of Google Maps, he did a fantastic job of locating the precise piece of property. The link to the Google Maps location for the property can be found at: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=15501+bear+camp+lane+mt+savage+md&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=27.423305,56.162109&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=15501+Bear+Camp+Ln+NW,+Mt+Savage,+Allegany,+Maryland+21545&ll=39.716595,-78.87424&spn=0.012973,0.027423&t=h&z=15

Paste that link into your browser and it will take you to the property. Michael also provided the author with a copy of the 1874 Map of Military Lots, Tracts, Escheats, etc. in Garrett County and Allegany County, Maryland. That map is located in the Media Section of the McKenzies of Early Maryland website. (19) If you locate that map and look directly under the "i & n " in PENNSYLVANIA at the top of the page, you will see a triangular lot # 3365 just above “Bear Camp”. That is the 50 acres of land that comprised the Gabriel McKenzie land patent. If you compare the 1874 map with the current Google map, the same triangular piece of property appears. Michael McKenzie of Mt. Savage, Maryland wrote to the author in November, 2010 and advised: “the lot is still the same shape and is still 50 acres owned by a nice couple, Earl Lepley and his wife, who by the way is a descendant of Gabriel. She was blown away when I told her she is living on her Grandpappys property.”

The author assumes Gabriel McKenzie died in Allegany County, Maryland after 1793 even though no will has ever been discovered, no any letters of administration, gravestone or church record.

Endnotes

1. From this point forward, the author has drawn partially upon the research of Col. Gabriel Thornton MacKenzie, Ret. Colonel MacKenzie researched the McKenzie Family from the late 1920’s until his death in the early 1960’s. He compiled over 1800 pages of handwritten notes from his research and travels. His descendant Joseph Edward McKenzie, P.O. Box 1671, Dunedin, Florida 34697 reduced all of Colonel McKenzie’s notes to microfilm obtainable from Dataplex Corporation 1502-A Joh Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21227. Col. MacKenzie began corresponding with McKenzie relatives in 1929. Those early letters from elderly relatives (several of whom were born in the mid-1800’s) contain a great deal of information on the early generations of McKenzies from Western Maryland.

1.1 This information was gleaned from previous “research” of other McKenzie researchers. To date the author has not been able to find any documentation to substantiate it.

2. The information pertaining to Samuel McKenzie was provided by Debbie Harper. It has not been verified by the author. Although he was listed as being a settler on the lands west of Fort Cumberland, Samuel never bothered to obtain a proper patent on the land. On 10 SEP 1814, he sold part of lot 3369 to William Logsdon, Sr.. Samuel McKenzie, Sr. died intestate in March, 1837. As part of the procedure for settling the estate, Samuel's sons, Samuel F.(Jr.), Gabriel and John applied for and received a patent for the two lots Samuel, Sr. was living on (lots 3369 and 3370). The patents can be located on the Maryland State Archives at MSA SE 1-1 Image 020745-0329 and also on the www.mckenziesofearlymaryland web site in the Media section. The document is cross-referenced with Samuel McKenzie (b. abt. 1751). The sons immediately sold these lots. The settlement papers for his estate list all of his children except for Catherine and Elizabeth, who died before him without issue. Nowhere in the estate papers is a living widow of Samuel, Sr. mentioned. Yet, she must have been living, for in 1839, she executed a "make good" deed conveying her interest in the lots to her son, Samuel. (In fact, the boys selling the lots without her signature was illegal. She had to issue a retroactive deed to her son, Samuel, in order to clear the title on the property.) The deed in part reads: "Then came Ellen McKenzie . . . who sells to her son, Samuel McKenzie . . . for the sum of $1.00 and the natural affection of a mother toward her son . . . lots 3369 and 3370". This clearly shows that Samuel F. McKenzie (Jr's) mother was Ellen ____( and not Rachel Durbin as claimed by some researchers). The "make good" deed from "Ellen McKinzey" to "Samuel McKinzey" is recorded at Deed Book "W", page 535, Allegany County records.

3. (blank)

4. Liber LG 3E, folio 163; Liber E1 E0 #6, folio 634; Frederick County (Land Records) WR 6, pp. 209-210 Gabriel MacKenzie [MSA C-814-36] 1/38/6/35;

5. The legal description reads: “ I, Thomas White, Deputy Surveyor of Baltimore County have laid out for the said Gabriel MacKinzie (actual spelling) a Tract of Land lying in Baltimore County Beginning at the bounded white oaks standing on a plain near the Indian Road near a branch of the Little Pipe Creek . . . [followed by the degrees and perches] and laid out for 100 hundred acres more or less to be ___ of the Mannor of Baltimore by the name of Gabriel’s Choice.”

6. Land Office (Patent Record) E16, pp. 634-635 Gabriel McKenzie [MSA S11-71] 1/23/2/24;

7. J. Thomas Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County, p. 37, Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia 1881 (reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc., by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore Maryland, 1997.

8. Baltimore County Court Proceedings. Found in Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Mar 1923

9.. Frederick County (Land Records) E pp.452-453, Gabriel McKinzee [MSA C814-2] 1/38/6/1. The name reflected in the records is Gabriel MacKinzee, who was reflected as also being from Frederick County. He paid 14 Pounds Current Money for the property. The legal description begins: Beginning at two bounded red oaks near the head of the Little Pipe Creek . . . and laid out for 50 acres more or less.

10. Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol XV, p. 357

10.5.Maryland State Archives, MSA S1197-172, pages 1 to 3 From SL 21,569. A copy of the document is located at www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com in the Media section and is linked to Gabriel McKenzie.

11. Frederick County (Land Records) M, pp. 437-438, Gabriel McKinsey, [MSA C814-16] 1/38/6/16;

12. Durbin/Logsdon Genealogy p. 61;

13. Frederick County (Land Records) P, pp. 32-33 Gabriel McKenzie [MSA C814-21] 1/38/6/21;

13.1. Washington County at the time comprised all of Western Maryland. Alleghany County was carved out of Washington County in 1789 and Garrett County was carved out in 1872.

14. Frederick County (Land Records) WR 6, pp. 209-210 Gabriel McKinzie [MSA C814-36] 1/38/6/35;

15. The Oath of Fidelity came into being during the Revolutionary War and was taken by those who swore their allegiance to the new republic. It read as follows:

OATH OF FIDELITY AND SUPPORT
I do swear I do not hold myself bound to yield any Allegience or obedience to the King of Great Britain his heirs or Successors and that I will be true and faithful to the State of Maryland and will to the utmost of my power, Support, maintain and defend the freedom and Independence thereof and the Government as now established against all open enemies and secret and traterous Consperaces and will use my utmost endeavours to disclose and make known to the Governor or some one of the judges or Justices thereof all Treasons or Traterous Consperaces, attempts or Combinations against this State or the Government thereof which may come to my Knowledge so help me God.

16. C.M. Brumbaugh and Margaret Robert Hodges, Revolutionary Records of Maryland, page 15. The actual record reads as follows:

The Worshipful Andrew Bruce Returns:

MacKenzie, Gabriel
MacKenzie, Aaron
MacKenzie, Samuel
MacKenzie, Daniel

Washington County, 2nd March, 1778. I certify to the Honorable the Governor and Council, that the within persons gave their affirmation to and subscribed the Oath of Fidelity to the State of Maryland according to the Act of Assembly and that this is a true Copy of the Book kept by me for that purpose and delivered to the Clerk of this County as ordered.

Andw. Bruce

Ed. Note: Given the similarity of names, the individuals who took the Oath of Fidelity to the State of Maryland most likely were Gabriel McKenzie and his sons, Samuel, Daniel and Aaron. Although the author does not have written proof that the individuals listed were father and sons, given the ages of Gabriel's children, the Oath of Fidelity information is consistent with Gabriel and his sons having migrated west to Washington County in the years preceding and/or during the Revolutionary War.

17.Maryland State Archives MSA #1188-1536, pages 1-5 From SL 40,162.

18.Maryland State Archives MSA #1188-1536, pages 1-5 From SL 40,162.

19.www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com

Gabriel married Sarah Durbin in 1742 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Baltimore County, Md.. Sarah (daughter of Samuel Sr. Durbin and Anne Logsdon) was born on 19 Sep 1725 in Westminister, Baltimore County (now Carroll County) Md.; died about 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Per the notes of Philip J. Dietz, Jr.

Sarah and Gabriel were married in St. Paul's Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland

Notes:

The following information has been supplanted by a book entitled "The McKenzies/MacKenzies of Maryland" which will soon be available on line. Ed. Note by Michael A. McKenzie November 15, 2013

McKenzies of Early Maryland-The First Generation

Ed. Note: John's name was spelled "MacKinzie" in his Will dated 1758. For ease of access to this portion of the web site, I have used the Spelling"McKenzie". Michael A. McKenzie, November, 2012.

By: Bobbie McKenzie, Dick MacKenzie, Michael McKenzie and Ann McKenzie Stansbarger (1) – the numbers in parentheses in this document coincide with the endnotes.

This document currently is a “work in progress”. It contains the known historical data with respect to John and Katherine MacKinzie. The authors goal was to separate fact from lore. The authors currently are reviewing all available historical information to make certain that the data presented is accurate. If you are aware of data that conflicts with any of the current citations, please bring it to the attention of Michael A. McKenzie, macmck@bellsouth.net.

John MacKinzie (2) was born in abt. 1687. (3) The location of his birth is not known. He married Katherine, last name unknown, in circa 1714. (4) Katherine’s birth date and the location of her birth likewise are unknown. (5) John and Katherine had six children:

1.Gabriel McKenzie (6) (7)
Born circa 1715, Hopson’s Choice, MD
Married Sarah Durbin 1742, Baltimore MD (8)
Had children Samuel, Daniel, John, Aaron, Sarah and Gabriel, Jr.(9)
Died 1793, Allegany Co, MD

2.Daniel MacKinzie
Born 7 Feb 1716/17 in Hopsons Choice, MD
Married 1738 Mary (Molly) Porter (9.5)
Had children Henry, Daniel, Eli, Honor, Mary, Eleanor, Orphay and Aaron (10)
Died 1783

3.Moses McKenzie
Born about 1720 in Hopson's Choice, MD
Married Rachel _______, who was his wife at the time of his death in 1767
Had children Nancy Ann, Moses, Jesse, Joshua, and (possibly), John (11)(12) (13);
Died circa 1767, in Unknown, MD

4.Anne McKenzie
Born circa 1725, Hopson’s Choice, MD
Married John Mattox before 1750
Had children Michael (Michael McKenzie Mattox) and John. Michael McKenzie Mattox moved to Georgia and died in Tattnall County. (14)

5.Aaron McKenzie
Born circa 1725-1730, Hopson's Choice, MD
Married Jemima Unknown.
Had children William, John, Aaron, Amelia (Millie), Nancy and Margaret (15)
Died 1797, Hancock County, Georgia

6.Michael McKenzie
Born circa 1727, Hopson’s Choice, MD
Had children Aaron, Daniel, William, Michael, Jr, and (possibly) Samuel (16)
Died circa 1810



John MacKinzie/MacKenzie was a planter/farmer in Baltimore County. The area in which his plantation was located eventually became part of Anne Arundel County. In 1840, the area became known as the Howard section of Anne Arundel County and in 1851 Howard County became an official county of Maryland.

In January, 1716, John obtained a Warrant for 100 acres of land in (then) Baltimore County. The warrant referenced that the property was called “Hopson’s Choice” and was located “on the south side of the main falls of the Patapsco River.” (17) The property was resurveyed in 1741 and reflected that it contained 172 acres of land. (18) Between 1718 and 1721, he obtained a warrant for an additional 100 acres of land also located in (then) Baltimore County known as “Addition to Hopson’s Choice”. The warrant likewise stated that the property lay “on south side of the main falls of the Patapsco River.” (19)

In March 1719, John MacKenzie and nine other inhabitants “of both sides of the Main Falls of Potapsco” petitioned the court “that . . . Christopher Randall may allow us our common and ancient road” allowing them access to the “mill and church.” (20)

He added to his property in 1726, when he acquired another 138 acres of land known as MacKinsey’s Discovery. (21) The survey of the property once again refers to land located south of the Main Falls of the Patapsco River, which is a reference point associated with all of John’s property.

During the June term of Court in 1735 in Anne Arundel County, John MacKinsie obligated himself to raise two orphan boys, Thomas Lants, age 5 and Francis Gallahors, age 3 until they reached the age of twenty-one years. In exchange for their servitude, John was charged by the Court with the responsibility of feeding and clothing the children and making certain that the boys learned how “to read write and cast up accounts.” (22)

In 1744 in Anne Arundel County a survey was conducted for John MacKenzie of “MacKinzie’s Discovery” Enlarged, 162 acres and a Patent was issued for the land. (23) Once again, it referenced that the property was located “on the south side of the main falls of Patapsco River.” (24) A map from Hopkin’s Atlas of 1878 shows property belonging to both Aaron McKenzie and David McKenzie located on the south side of the Patapsco River. (25)

John MacKinzie’s six children were born on his plantation S. of the Great Falls of the Patapsco River. (26)

John MacKinzie/MacKenzie signed his will on 17 MAR 1758. (27) He died sometime between March, 1758 and 17 JUL 1758, when his widow Katherine, and his children Daniel, Moses and Michael (and Aquila Randall) posted bond as sureties to inventory his estate. (28)(29) In his will, John Mackinzie bequeathed to his son Daniel 96 acres out of two tracts called “Hopson’s Choice” (30), and “Addition to Hopson’s Choice”, to his son Moses, 96 acres, part of a tract called “McKenzie’s Discovery”, to his grandson Michael McKenzie Mattocks, son of John Mattocks and Ann McKenzie Mattocks, his wife, 50 acres, part of a tract called “Hopson’s Choice”, to his grandson William McKenzie, son of Aaron McKenzie, 96 Acres of “McKenzie’s Discovery” with the remainder of his land, 96 acres, to his son, Michael. The will mentions by name five children only, with no reference to Gabriel. Item six, however, provides that all personal property to go to his wife Katherine during her life and then to be sold and the money divided equally between his six (31) (6) children, viz. five sons and one daughter.

On 2 APR 1776 John’s grandson, William McKenzie, son of Aaron, sold to Greenbury Randall 96 acres of “McKenzie’s Discovery”. (32) The parties agreed that 1/4 acre “at the head of the great falls on the Petapsico River where John MacKenzie and his wife are buried” will be reserved. Obviously, by 1776, Katherine MacKinzie also had died. This property is now in Howard County MD, across the river from Baltimore County. (33).



Endnotes

1.The four individuals listed have collaborated on drafting the information set forth in this “Source”. They have a combined 74 years of experience researching McKenzie genealogy, as follows as of February, 2011: Bobbie Holt McKenzie, 42 years, Dick MacKenzie, 7 years, Michael McKenzie, 13 years and Ann McKenzie Stansbarger, 12 years.

2.“MacKinzie” is the actual spelling of John’s name in his will drafted in 1758. The spelling of the family name has varied quite substantially over the course of the last three centuries. Primarily, the authors have chosen to use the spelling “McKenzie” because it currently seems to be the one most prevalently used throughout the country. The author recognizes that one branch of the McKenzies has continued to spell its name “MacKenzie”. This branch descends from John McKenzie’s son, Daniel, and remained in the vicinity of Baltimore for several hundred years. (information provided by Richard Lee “Dick” MacKenzie of Pennsylvania). Finally, yet another branch of McKenzie’s currently spell their name “McKinzie”. In order to properly reflect everyone’s heritage, the current spellings of various individual’s names are reflected on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site, www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com.

In July, 2010, one of the authors of this “Source”, Michael McKenzie, received documents from the Maryland State Archives relating to the will, bond and inventory of the Estate of John MacKinzie that showed the McKenzie name to be spelled both “MacKinzie” as well as “MacKenzie”. The “MacKenzie” iteration was clearly set forth on the sleeve that held the sheaf of papers, although in various places in the documents the spelling “MacKinzie” was used. It is clear that by the early 1800’s, at least in connection with the western Maryland McKenzies, the “a” had been dropped following the “M” and the spelling eventually became “McKenzie”.

There have been numerous iterations of the spelling of the family name. Alan MacKenzie sent the following e-mail to the Clan MacKenzie web site on March 7, 2000:

The name Mackenzie was pronounced often like McKinsey hence that spelling. I once mentioned that when researching my gggrandfather in the parish of Tarbat in Easter Ross the Parish Clerk listed all Mackenzies as McKinzie. Once that parish clerk was replaced some 20 years later the name was spelled as McKenzie. So spelling from the 18th or even 19th century could be whatever people felt like. Most of the Mackenzies were farmers of one sort or another and were mostly unable to read and write. Their name was in the hands of the parish clerk. I suspect that your McKimsey is just another mis-spelling of Mackenzie. Probably a US version! When Highlanders went to England it was not uncommon to drop the Mac so they did not appear to be Highlanders from their name. Highlanders were not popular - at least not until Queen Victoria came along, or when George IV visited Scotland in 1823 or thereabouts and had a highland parade in Edinburgh. The other factor that changed the southern view of the Highlander was the large number that joined the British Army via the kilted Highland Regiments. After that we were good guys - saving the empire and all that!!! Vast numbers also served as soldiers in India with the East India Company and some of them made a lot of money doing that. A lot died too. The fact that your ancestor fought at Culloden on the Jacobite side suggest that he was a Highlander and with one of the Clans. Other than Mackenzie the only other name that sounds remotely like MacKimsey is MacKim mie (son of Simon) a Fraser Clan name. My best guess is that it is a variation of Mackenzie. By the way, the 1841 census shows no one in Ross-shire of that name MacKimsey or any variant. Alan McKenzie, Clan MacKenzie Society, Canada.


Alan MacKenzie sent the following e-mail to the Clan MacKenzie web site on March 10, 2000:

Now look at the variations of the way Mackenzie was spelled over the years in Scottish documents: Makcainze 1570; Makcanze 1571; M'Canzeoch 1551; M'Cenzie 1560; MkEnzie 1678; M'Einzie 1549; McHinzie, McHingzie, M'Hunzie, McKinzie 1684; M'Kainzie, M'Kenzoch 1586; McKanye 1590; McKanyee 1629; M'Kanze 1544; Mackeanche, Makkanchy 1499; M'Keanzie 1662; Makeinny 1629; Makeinzie 1597; McKenyee 1642; McKenyie 1650; Makenze 1528; Makkangze, McKangzie1569; Makkanze 1573; Makkeeinzey 1649; M'Kenezie, M'Keinezie 1620; McKeinzie 1633; M'Kenich 1532; Makkeny 1663; Makkenych 1567; Makkennych 1545; Makkenze 1509; McKenzocht 1546; McKenzy 1721; M'Kinze 1530; Makkinze 1513; M'Kynich 1718. Dr George Fraser Black who compiled this massive piece of valuable research was born 1866 and died 1948. He was a historical scholar on the staff of The New York Public Library from 1896-1931 and spent half a century on the research for his book "The Surnames of Scotland – Their Origin, Meaning and History".

3.Ann McKenzie Stansbarger located a deposition in the Maryland Archives given by John MacKinney (actual spelling) in 1745 in which he stated his age as being 58. His testimony reflects that he was born in 1687, not 1694 as stated on many genealogy web sites. The document is indexed in More Maryland Deponents 1716-1799 by Henry C. Peden, Jr., as follows: “MacKinney, John, age 58 in 1745 (AA 2:233). The document has been posted on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site. You can access the document by searching for “McKenzie, John” on the home page and then scrolling through the “Johns” until you reach McKenzie/MacKenzie, John born 1687. Go to John’s home page and scroll until you locate the document.

4.The authors cannot locate any written reference that substantiates that Katherine’s maiden name was “Gabriel”, which is the last name reflected on many McKenzie genealogy web site listings. If anyone knows of a written reference for her last name, please contact Michael McKenzie at macmck@bellsouth.net so that the information can be posted on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site.

5.The authors have not been able to locate a document that reflects Katherine’s birthdate as being 1692, nor have they located any document to substantiate that she was born in Ireland, which is a “fact” that has permeated the Internet for at least the last dozen years. If you have documentation to substantiate a birth date for Katherine , please contact the Michael McKenzie at macmck@bellsouth.net.

6.IMPORTANT PIECE OF CONNECTING GENEALOGICAL EVIDENCE: Per the handwritten research notes of Gabriel T. McKenzie, U.S. Army (ret.), Gabriel McKenzie was designated as the person to make an inventory of John MacKinzie’s personal effects after John’s death in 1758. Gabriel was designated as the “nearest next-of-kin” to make the accounting. One of the authors, Michael A. McKenzie secured this document from the Maryland State Archives in July, 2010. It is the personal property inventory of John MacKinzie’s estate. At the end of it, Gabriel McKenzie is listed as the “nearest relation”. The document is located at Perogative Court (Inventories) Box 68, pp. 54-56, at p. 56, John MacKenzie, 1758 [MSA S534-69]. This document proves conclusively that Gabriel was the “sixth” and unnamed child in John MacKinzie’s will. The document has been posted on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site.

7.More detailed information pertaining to John’s six children is set forth in “Source #3” in the “Sources” section of the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site.

8.The authors have searched for the written record that reflects Gabriel’s marriage to Sarah Durbin, but have never located it. If you have a copy or know where it is located, please contact Michael McKenzie at macmck@bellsouth.net.

9.Ann Stansbarger’s analysis of the children of Gabriel, with which the other authors agree, flows as follows: Gabriel MacKenzie (actual spelling – Ann, is this correct?) was listed along with three other McKinseys --Samuel, Daniel and Aaron -- in the 1778 Washington County Oaths of Fidelity. A man had to be 18 years of age or older to take the Oath, so this is an indication that Samuel, Daniel and Aaron were all born prior to 1760. By the time of the 1783 Maryland Tax Assessment, Gabriel McKinsey was listed in Wills Town and Sandy Creek Hundred, Washington County, with five other McKinseys: Samuel, Daniel, Aaron, plus John and Gabriel Jr. Gabriel (Sr.) and four others of the name were listed together on page 17, while Gabriel Jr., also of Wills Town and Sandy Creek Hundred, was listed separately on page 64 under the heading of “Bachelors.” Gabriel, Jr. was most likely the youngest. In 1793 Gabriel “Jr.” sold his father’s land (Military Lot 3365) to Peter Majors. Maryland State Archives [MSA S1188-1536 From SL 40,162] Allegany County. This strongly suggests that Gabriel Sr. was deceased by that time. . On 1 April 1802 "John McKinsey of Gabriel" sold to Wm Stidger Military Lot 3683 west of Fort Cumberland and a tract called Mathews Addition. (Allegany Co Deed Bk C, p 475, April 1802). On 31st of March 1802 came Linday McKensey, wife of John, to relinguish her dower right.. Gabriel Jr. and John are linked to Gabriel through contemporary land documents. Based on their close physical proximity during the above period and the fact that Gabriel was the only Generation Two McKenzie male in Western Maryland at the time, the logical inference that can be drawn from the physical evidence is that, in addition to John and Gabriel Jr., the other three McKinseys -- Samuel, Daniel, and Aaron -- were also sons of Gabriel b 1715.

Gabriel Sr. may have had a will but, but if so, it has not survived.

Identifying the female children of Gabriel McKenzie and his wife Sarah has been more difficult than identifying the male children. Sarah McKenzie married Moses McKenzie, the Revolutionary War soldier in December 1784 in Hampshire VA (now West Virginia) on the other side of the Potomac River from Allegany Co MD. Lucy M. Vicker of Allegany Co. MD aged 69 submitted an affidavit stating that she was present at the marriage of Moses McKenzie and Sarah McKenzie the latter also being named McKenzie. We know that Gabriel Sr’s brother, Aaron, son of John of Hopson’s Choice, moved to VA and later to GA, with his family. None of the other siblings of Gabriel Sr. moved their families to western Maryland. For this reason the logical inference that can be drawn from the factual record is that Sarah McKenzie was a daughter of Gabriel McKenzie and Sarah Durbin. That would have meant that Sarah was a first cousin to Moses the RW soldier at the time they married.

As Bobbie Holt McKenzie further pointed out in February, 2011, “the old Scottish naming pattern supports this: first son for husband's father; in our cases i.e. John. First daughter for wife's mother. Second son for wife's father. Second daughter for husband's mother. Doesn't always work, but it can help. Actually Moses and Sarah were married by a traveling Catholic priest Rev. Frumbaugh at the home of Jacob Slagle, who also owned property in Allegany County. Probably married there (Hampshire Co.) because he was closest priest at the time. Usually a priest would only marry if both parties were Catholic. So both Moses and Sarah must have been Catholic. If both Catholic and related i.e. first cousins (first degree of consanguinity) they would need a special dispensation to marry. That's been my only hesitation in saying Sarah is daughter of Gabriel. But "frontier" marriages may not have observed this rule. We know that they did at St. Patrick's in early 1800 McKenzie marriages.”

9.5.To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is no documentation extant that supports that Daniel married Mary (Molly) Porter in 1738. (Check this with Bobbie)

10.Bobbie Holt McKenzie wrote the following e-mail to Michael McKenzie in 1999:

There should be no confusion over the children of Daniel and his brother Gabriel. Daniel's children are detailed in his will and in subsequent land dealings selling their inherited land.

Liber BC & GS folio 215.
1783 3 Sept. Anne Arundel County Will of Daniel, aged 66 on 7 Feb 1783, divides [700?] acres of "Molly's Fancy," other land and personal property among wife Mary and eight children. Henry, Daniel, Eli, Honor [Mrs. Thomas Johnston], Mary [later Mrs. William Jones], Eleanor [later Mrs. Joshua Harp], and Orphay [Mrs. Joshua Young] receive 100 A each (of "Molly's Fancy") in Dist. #6, Frederick Co. Son Aaron is given all land owned in Anne Arundel co. upon the death of Daniel's widow Mary.

11.The authors currently have no documentation of Nancy Ann as daughter of Moses except a statement in Samuel Doak Porter's book. Per the research and analysis of Bobbie Holt McKenzie, Moses b. 1760 was probably the first-born of a second marriage. In 1783 he is listed as "Moses of Anne Arundel Co." when he sells the remainder of the property left to his father by John 1758. The right of primogeniture was still honored then, so Moses 1760 as the oldest son would inherit the right to his father's property. It also is clear from records at the National Archives that Moses, Jesse and Joshua were three brothers who served in the same battalion in the RW and all are considered to be sons of Moses b. abt. 1720..

Most probably there were other older children besides John d. 1792. At the time of Moses' death in 1767 if Rachael were responsible for children other than Moses, Jesse and Joshua, she most likely would have apprenticed any under 18 (she did apprentice her son Joshua) or had herself or someone appointed guardians.

12.A “John” died ca 1792 in Allegany Co. Moses, Daniel and Gabriel signed bond as administrators on March 12, 1792. Bond says John was very old and very poor. Inventory shows it. Adm Accounts Allegany Co.

22 March 1792 John McKinsy, estate appraisers: Daniel & Moses McKenzie, Wm Shaw, Evan Gwynne

11 Oct 1796 John McKinsy estate. Moses McKensy, adm. Accounts paid to Robert Sinclair & I King, John Willuts, Daniel McKinsey, Evan Gwynne, Ezekial Whiteman

The Moses referenced in the preceding paragraph is most probably Moses RW b. 1760, son of Moses of John. There are no other Generation 3 Moses old enough to have served in this capacity. The “Gabriel” referenced several paragraphs above is probably the Uncle of John and Moses. We know Gabriel was the oldest son of John MacKinzie based upon the records of the administration of John MacKinzie’s estate in the late 1750’s. Gabriel died 1793 so he does not appear in any subsequent records pertaining to the estate of John McKenzie, died circa 1792 in Allegheny County, Maryland. The “Daniel” referenced above is probably cousin to John and Moses, and son of their Uncle Gabriel. Gabriel’s son, Daniel, was born circa 1752 and is known to have been residing in western Maryland in the 1790’s.

This John d. 1792 is probably one of the first born children of Moses 1720. Taking into consideration the Scottish naming pattern, surely Moses would have had a son John. This John d. 1792 is considered by the county recorder as being "old." If he were born 1740-45, he would be ca 50, a healthy life span in the 1790s. According to a study done in Philadelphia in 1790, life expectancy in 1790 for the US population was 34.5 years for males and 36.5 years for females.

13.It is generally accepted that Moses McKenzie b. abt. 1720 had three sons who served in the RW. Through historical records and process of elimination, those three sons were Moses, b. 1760, Jesse, b. 1762 and Joshua, b. abt. 1764.

Moses McKenzie b. 1760 served as a drummer boy in Revolutionary War beginning at age 18. He enlisted at Frederick Town, Maryland and was discharged at Annapolis. He fought in the Battle of White Plains 1778, the Battle of Monmouth, and the Siege of Yorktown. He was a member of the Maryland Line. Moses served as a drummer in Lt. Col. Ludwig Weltner's German Battalion. Muster Rolls of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution , Baltimore Maryland Historical Society 1900 He received a Federal Land Warrant on April 8, 1793 for 100 acres of land (that being Federal Warrant Number 11,514) for his service in the Revolutionary War. Revolutionary Records, Harry Wright Newman, Genealogical Publishing Company (1993), page 72, originally published 1938. Ed. Note:
The name was spelled McKinsey at the time. In addition to Moses McKenzie's Federal Land Warrant, his brothers also applied for and received land warrants of their own. Jesse McKinsey received Federal Land Warrant 11,513 and Joshua McKinsey received Federal Land Warrant 11, 514. In view of the sequential numbering of these warrants, it appears that the brothers applied for them at the same time which suggests a family relationship between the three.

Moses McKenzie b. 1760 was a new recruit on September 5, 1778 at White Plains. Muster Rolls of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution , Baltimore Maryland Historical Society 1900. All of the Muster Rolls reflect that his brother, Joshua McKenzie was in the same battalion and also served as a drummer boy. The records further reflect that Moses and Joshua served in Lt. Col. Weltner's battalion from 1 August 1780 until 15 November 1783. During that period of time they served as Privates.

Moses’ Federal Land Warrant reads as follows:

To the GEOGRAPHER of the UNITED STATES, or to the Surveyors appointed by him to survey the Military Lands. YOU are hereby required to Survey for MOSES MCKINSEY, a soldier in the Maryland Line during the late war - - - One Hundred Acres of Land, in any of the Districts appropriated for satisfying the Bounties of Land, due to the late Army of the United States, and return this Warrant to the Board of Treasury, agreeably to the Act of Congress of the ninth Day of July, 1788.

Given at the War Office, this
Eight Day of April One
Thousand. Seven Hundred and Ninetysix.

James McHenry
Sec. of War


Registered

(on back)

For value received I hereby assign
all my right and claim to the
within warrant unto Samuel Arnold, Senr.
as Witness my hand and seal
this fourth day of November
1796
his
Moses X McKinsey
Mark (6)

By an Act of the Maryland Legislature in 1777, it was ordered that a bounty of 50 acres of land should be given to each able-bodied recruit who enlisted and served in the American Army for a period of three years. An additional Act was passed in 1781 directing that these lands should be chosen from the territory of the State of Maryland lying West of Fort Cumberland. History of Cumberland by Loudermilk.

Moses came from Pennsylvania to Maryland around 1794. He purchased Lot 3416 in Allegany County on December 13, 1795. He then sold that lot to Daniel Lawrence Speelman in 1798 Allegany County, Maryland real estate records, Deed Book “A”, page ___. and signed the deed as Moses of Bedford County, Pennsylvania with Sarah, his wife, relinquishing her dower rights. The Cumberland area was not very populated at the time Moses McKenzie moved to the area. There were settlements in an area called Old Town as well as in Cumberland. Moses McKenzie along with Gabriel McKenzie, Joshua McKenzie, Daniel McKenzie and Samuel McKenzie were listed as being some of the settlers living on land lying West of Fort Cumberland. (History of Allegany County, Maryland by Thomas & Wilson page 3; Scharf’s History of Western Maryland, Volume 2, page 13439).

In April, 1818, Moses McKenzie, a resident of Allegany County, State of Maryland, applied for a pension by right of his services during the American Revolution. Revolutionary Pension of Moses McKenzie, W 4288, National Archives, Washington, D.C. He swore before the Circuit Court of that county that he was aged 58 years, and had enlisted at Frederick Town, Maryland in the German Regiment as a drummer boy - date of enlistment not given. He was assigned to the company of Captain Baltzell, and participated in the Battles of Monmouth and Yorktown.

Moses’ pension ultimately was approved but he died on March 3, 1824.

In October, 1841, his widow, Sarah McKenzie, of Cresaptown, Maryland, aged 76 years, applied for a widow’s pension by rights of her deceased husband’s service in the Revolutionary War. She the said Sarah McKenzie swore that she married Moses McKenzie sometime in the month of December, 1784. John Durbin of Knox County, Ohio, made an affidavit that he was present at the wedding which took place at the residence of Jacob Slagle in Hampshire County, Virginia, and that the ceremony was performed by a Catholic priest. Lucy M. Vicker, of Allegany County, Maryland, aged 69, submitted an affidavit stating that she was present at the marriage of Moses McKenzie and Sarah McKenzie, the latter also being named McKenzie. The claim of the widow, Sarah McKenzie, likewise was approved by the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C. Revolutionary Pension of Moses McKenzie, W 4288, National Archives, Washington, D.C..

Moses’ pension for his service in the Revolutionary War reads as follows: “ a sum of money, annually during life, quarterly, equal to half pay of a drummer in the rev. war." Maryland Records, Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, M.S., M.D., Volume II, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1985. The pension paid to Moses’ widow, Sarah reads as follows: “during life, half yearly, half pay of a private, for her husband, Moses McKinsey's”services during the Rev. War." Id.

Moses McKenzie died on 24 MAR 1824 in Cresaptown, Maryland.

14.Based upon the research of Anna Brown of Virginia, March, 2000. (Note: I’m not sure where I got this information. Does anyone have any more information?)

15.To be completed re: the accuracy of this listing of children.

16.This Samuel is listed as a possible son of Michael because there is a 'Samuel' listed with Aaron and Daniel Mackenzie in the 1778 Anne Arundel Oath of Fidelity. By the time of the 1783 tax assessment, he no longer appears and is not listed in any subsequent census. (I’m confused by this one. I don’t see a Samuel listed in the Oath document that Don circulated last week. Am I just missing it?)

17.Maryland State Archives, Patented Certificate No. 2396, MSA S1190-2506, pages 1-3 From SL 21,637. The index to this document is a bit misleading since it references “Hopson’s Choice – Joseph MacKinsey”. If you look closely at the document it becomes obvious that the owner is John McKenzie. The document is located on the www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com web site linked to John McKenzie (b. 1687).

18.Maryland State Archives Patented Certificate 747, MSA S1189-789, From SL 21,537 pages 1-3.

19.Maryland State Archives Patented Certificate 141, MSA S1190-227, pages 1-3, From SL 21, 558. Also available at www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com in the Media section linked to John McKenzie (b. abt. 1694).

20.Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 16, page 244, Maryland Historical Society: In the proceedings of the Baltimore County Court (Liber I, No. B, 1708-1715, Folio 276-277, we find a petition of the inhabitants “of both sides of the Potapsco”, presented in March 1719, in which the petitioners set forth that they “are very much agreeved by Xpher Randall of the place aforesaid by refusing the inhabitants of the place aforesaid their common and ancient road to the mill and church and oblige the said inhabitants to goe and uncommon road through bushes and mires soe that the poor inhabitants cannot go about their lawfull occasions without indangering both horse and man”, and they request the court “that the said Christopher Randall may allow us our common and ancient road”. This petition is signed by Jos. Shewell, Joseph Harp, John Boden, Philip Sewell, James Gaskin, John Yeat, Edward Teale, John MacKinze, John Whipps and William Tucker or Tuckner.

21.Maryland State Archives Patented Certificate 3096, MSA S1190-3217, pages 1-4, From SL 21,647, storage location 01/25/02/28. Also available at www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com in the Media section linked to John McKenzie (b. 1687).

22.(MSA Judgment Court A.A. Co., Book IB 1, 1735 Jun. Court, p.238 Location: 1/1/8/28). The entire document reads as follows: “June Court 1735. The Court binds Thomas Lants aged five years old the 21st day of March last and Francis Gallahors aged three years old the sixteenth day of August next unto John MacKinsie his heirs, administrators and assignes until they arrive to the age of Twenty one years. In consideration whereof of the said John MacKinsie obliges himself to find the said Thomas and Francis sufficient meat drink washing cloathing and lodging during the term of and also to learn the said Thomas and Francis to read write and cast up accounts until the expiration of their term of servitude to give to each of them a suit of cloaths and such other necessary cloathing as is usually giv unto orphans bound out by this court. Wherefore it is considered by the Justices here this 10th day of June Anno Dom 1735 that the said Thomas and Francis Serve the Said John McKinsie the full term aforesaid accordingly.”

23.Maryland State Archives Patented Certificate 939 MSA S1189-994, From SL 21,540 pages 1-5.

24.Maryland State Archives, Patented Certificate 939, MSA S1189-994 From SL 21,540 pages 1-5. According to the land patent for MacKinzie’s Discovery Enlarged, “Improvements” [included] one tobacco house 40 foot long 22 foot wide”. Also available at www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com in the Media section linked to John McKenzie (b. abt. 1687).

25.Hopkins Atlas of 1878 located at www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com in the Media section linked to John McKenzie (b. abt. 1687).

26.Ed. Note: This footnote was originally written in 1999 after Ann Stansbarger wrote an e-mail to Michael A. McKenzie. Since the time it was composed, the authors have done additional research that refines some of the information reflected in it. For a more detailed and more accurate explanation of John MacKinzie’s original land holdings on the Patapsco River, see “Source # __” authored by Richard Lee “Dick” MacKenzie located in the “Sources” section of the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site. The following is the original e-mail:

“Ann Stansbarger located the site of John MacKinzie's plantation during a trip to Baltimore, Maryland in June, 1999. She wrote the following e-mail to fellow McKenzie researchers following her trip (Ed. Note: some of the information in this letter has been proven to be incorrect – see the

Speaking of John and Katherine Gabriel McKenzie, I had a very unexpected surprise this week. I was in Baltimore for a two-day conference. I had hoped to be able to take a day and go to Annapolis, to the Hall of Records, but my schedule didn't work out that way. Anyway, I got lost trying to get to my hotel and I found myself on the new expressway ("100") leading to Ellicott City. Ellicott City is along the Patapsco River, very close to the original plantation belonging to John and Katherine. One thing lead to another, and I ended up finding what's left of the old plantation site (which dates back to 1716 and is made up of McKenzie's Discovery, Hopson's Choice and a number of other land patents), and meeting the people who live there now. Their names were Phil and Jean and they were incredibly nice people. Fortunately they are very interested in preserving history so they have done an excellent job of preserving the property. The main house is a lovely white colonial, built by Aaron and John McKenzie in 1890 on the site of a much older home. The house is surrounded by very old "out buildings," including a log cabin smoke house and a stable/blacksmith's shop. It was very exciting and I came away with lots of good information. Jean and Philip gave me a copy of an article that was written in the Central Maryland News newspaper about their property. I'm planning to include a copy of it in the Quest notebook (which she never produced for the other McKenzie Quest researchers), but here are some of the highlights:

The home stands on land that was once part of two tracts, "Addition to Hopson's Choice" and "McKenzie's Neglect." McKenzie's Neglect was a piece of land that was incorporated into "McKenzie's Discovery." The earliest home of record on the site was a log cabin built by Aaron McKenzie in 1817. Aaron eventually erected a smokehouse in 1830, also made of logs, and an old log barn that was inscribed "Built by Aaron McKenzie February 1860." A third building, this one of stone, served as a blacksmith shop. The brick chimney and hearth as well as the huge wood and leather bellows are still there. A carriage house built in 1880 completes the group of out buildings, while the retaining wall of an old corn crib now serves as a lovely rock garden. Most of the buildings are still complete with hardware made at the forge. At the southeast corner of the original survey a small cemetery can be found. Three crude carved granite headstones mark the graves of three of the early McKenzie residents. They read: D:M -- B 1798, D 1885; S.D:M -- B 1811, D 1894; Ruth:M -- B 1838, D 1891. The main house, built in 1890, sits on the site of the original log cabin. It has eight rooms and two baths. The foundation stones were cut from the granite quarry on the property. An unusual feature of the cellar is the arched construction under the kitchen fireplace, a feature commonly found only in much older homes. Ash and chestnut beams were used in the construction. The plaster is of the old type, with cow or horse hair mixed in it to give it strength. The floors are pine. (The article goes on to describe the house in more detail.)

The property remained in McKenzie hands until 1900, when a portion of it was sold to Susannah Keyes. The remaining land was sold to Dolly Madison MacLean in 1930. It is this second portion (40 acres) that eventually found its way into the hands of the current owners.

Back to Mike McKenzie's e-mail: I was curious about the waterfall as well (John and Katherine were supposedly buried beside the "main falls of the Patapsco River"). I asked everyone I could find about it, including Jean and Phil, and the lady in the Tavern in Ellicott City. No one knew what I was talking about. They did say that the Patapsco River used to be much, much bigger and that it has since become almost completely "silted in." I did find a reference in one book to a falls at Elk Ridge Landing, which is within a few miles of the old plantation site, so I went there as well on Wednesday. The river apparently used to be navigable up to this point by ocean-going ships (hence the name Elk Ridge LANDING). This is where the plantation owners took their hogsheads of tobacco for shipment to Europe. Today the area is a park, but the river is so silted-in that there is nothing left but a shallow creek. No sign of a waterfall there either.”

Ed. Note: In J. Thomas Scharf, The History of Baltimore City and County, the author states at page 15, (referring to the Patapsco River, “It has been in former times the avenue into the heart of the country, through which large schooners passed to points nearly as far as the Relay House. This, however, is no longer possible. The great flood of July, 1868, tore away such quantities of sand, soil and other materials from the country above as to fill up the channel for about four miles, leaving only two or three feet of water in places where it was formerly ten or twelve feet deep”.

Today I talked to the director of the Howard Co. Historical Society. (The area is no longer part of Ann Arundel Co.) She said she would help me research the family and the history of the river. Hopefully I'll have more information in the future on this. Lastly, with regard to directions, I'd like to handle it "off line" for reasons of privacy. Before I left Jean and Phil's house, I mentioned our McKenzie Quest project. I asked for their permission to tell the other members of our group about them. I said that that would probably mean that they would have more visitors in the future. (Amazingly they have only had THREE McKenzies come calling since Jean's family bought the place in 1955!) At first she hesitated, but then she said "Why not. McKenzies are such nice people." (How nice of her to notice!) If anyone else would like to visit the place I would suggest that you contact me and I'll give you Jean and Phil's phone number, and directions. I talked to Phil today on the phone to thank them again for their hospitality. He said that Jean had just mailed off a package containing copies of all the information they have on the property -- for the Quest notebook. I was touched. I thought that was so sweet.

27.Will found in Anne Arundel County, Box M Folder 13, with copy in Maryland Hall of Records, Liber 30, pp. 521-522.

A transcription of the will reads as follows:

In the Name of God Amen. I John MacKinzie of Anarindale County being very sick and weak but of sound and perfect memory praised be to Almighty God for the same do make this my last will and testament in manner and form following. First I revoke all wills by me formerly made and do acknowledge this my last will and testament.

Imprimis I bequeath my soul to Almighty God that gave it and my body to be buried in decent and Christian manner and as for my temporal estate that the Lord in his great mercy hath bestowed upon me my will is that my well beloved wife Katherine MacKinzie after my just debts and legacies mentioned in the following will are paid all my personal estate to be by her possessed during her natural life.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Daniel MacKinzie ninety six acres of land out of two tracts the one called Hopson’s Choice, the other called the Addition to Hopson’s Choice as it was devised to him in my lifetime to him the said Daniel and his heirs for ever.

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Moses MacKinzie ninety six acres of land being part of a tract of land called MacKinzie’s Discovery to be laid out as it was in my lifetime to suit his plantation he now dwells on to him the said Moses and his heirs for ever.

Item I give and bequeath to my grandson Michael MacKinzie Mattocks the son of John Mattocks and Anne MacKinzie his wife 50 acres of land being part of a tract of land called Hopson’s Choice to be laid out as it was in my lifetime to him the said Michael MacKinzie and his heirs for ever.

Item I give and bequeath to my grandson William MacKinzie son of Aaron MacKinzie ninety six acres of land as it was formerly laid out in my lifetime to him the said William MacKinzie and his heirs foe ever.

Item I give and bequeath to my son Michael MacKinzie the remaining part of my land being ninety six acres of land to him the said Michael and his heirs for ever.

It is my will and desire whatever part of my estate my children have received hitherto or shall receive before my death shall not after my decease be deemed or appraised as part thereof.

Item I do hereby appoint my loving wife Katherine MacKinzie together with my son Daniel as the executors of this my last will and testament and what shall be remaining of my personal estate in my wife’s possession my will is that after her decease it be equally divided amongst my six children, viz. five sons and one daughter hereby revoking all other wills heretofore by me made. Qualifying and confirming this only as my last will and testament.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this seventeen day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight.


Signed, sealed, acknowledged his
Published and pronounced
In the presence of us John x Mackinzie

John Sellman
Aquila Naneallmark
Robert Davis
John Arnold

The last name of Aquila is usually deciphered as “Randall”, as is suspected as being John’s lawyer.

28.Anne Arundel County, Box 60, folder 9, John MacKenzie, 1758, [MSA S541-69]

29.Account of John McKenzie’s estate can be found at Anne Arundel County Liber 37, folio 185; Liber 37, p. 226 [MSA S529-55]; Liber 68, folio 54; Debt Book F, pg. 62; Liber 38, folio 279; Liber 38, folio 466; Liber 40, folio 332; Liber 40 [MSA S529-58]; Folio 340; Liber 41, pp. 27, 60, 108, 113, 140, 175, 201, 354, and 404.

30.The author has seen "Hopson's" Choice spelled both "Hopson's" and "Hobson's" in various references to the McKenzies of Early Maryland. The correct piece of property is “Hopson’s Choice”. The original Will of John McKenzie refers to it as "Hopson's" Choice. Also, the original patent from the 1718-21 era refers to it as Hopson’s Choice. There was a patent for a piece of property known as Hobson’s Choice, but it is an altogether different piece of property and has nothing to do with the McKenzies of Early Maryland.


31.It is generally accepted among researchers of this McKenzie line that the sixth child referenced in John MacKenzie's will is Gabriel McKenzie. The similarity of names of his offspring, when compared with his brothers and sisters suggests that he was the unnamed child in the will. Also, since he was the oldest, and based upon existing land records, he was already an established farmer with hundreds of acres of land of his own at the time his father died in 1758. As noted in his “Source” on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site, the extent of his property holdings is borne out in the deed records from various counties in Maryland. Finally, in addition to the foregoing, in July, 2010, Michael A. McKenzie, one of the authors of this “Source” located a document in the Maryland State Archives that unequivocally proves that Gabriel McKenzie was the son of John MacKenzie. In Perogative Court (Inventories) Box 68, pp. 54-56 John MacKenzie, 1759 [MSA S534-69] on page 56 following the itemization of John MacKenzie’s personal property is the notation “Gabriel MacKenzie. Nearest relation.” To the best of the author’s knowledge, there were no other Gabriel McKenzies living in Maryland from 1700-1750. Consequently, the aforementioned document is written proof that links together John and Gabriel and legitimizes earlier researchers’ “beliefs” that the two were father and son, respectively.

32.Deed Book IB 5 page 317, Anne Arundel records.

33.As of December 2010, with the assistance of Google Maps and Ann Stansbarger, the property was located north-northwest of Ellicott City, Maryland. See also the map entitled McKenzie’s Discovery Enlarged, Hopkins Atlas of 1878 Howard County, Maryland which depicts the general area where the land was located. The location on the map coincides with the references in all of the various early deeds which stated that the land was located south of the main falls of the Patapsco River. There also is a document prepared by Dr. Caleb Dorsey that Ann Stansbarger located at the Howard County Historical Society that shows how all of the various parcels of McKenzie property fit together just south of the Patapsco River. That map is located on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site, www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com.

Translation added by Don Kagle:

Nov 1737 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

John Mackensie brings into Court his servant woman named Mary Johnson & informs the Justices thereof that she has abase born child, whereupon the said Mary being demanded whether she is guilty of having abase born child or not, confesses that she is guilty thereof & submits her self to the Judgement of the court & offers the sum of thirty shillings as a fine for the offence aforesaid wherefore it is considered by the Court here that the said Mary Johnson be fined to his Lordship the sum of thirty shillings which is ordered & immediately paid to Zachariah Maccubbin Gentleman Sherriff for the use of the County aforesaid & the said Zach. Maccubbin being present acknowledges the reciept thereof & it is further considered by the Justices here that the said Mary Johnson serve John Mackensie her Master twelve months for the trouble of his house occasioned by the bastard child aforesaid thereupon she is discharged her Master being lieable for fees.

John + Katherine Unknown. Katherine was born in Unknown; died before 1776 in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Excerpt from McKenzies of Early Maryland by: Michael A. McKenzie:

On 2 APR 1776 John’s grandson, William McKenzie, son of Aaron, sold to Greenbury Randall 96 acres of “McKenzie’s Discovery”. The parties agreed that 1/4 acre “at the head of the great falls on the Petapsico (sic) River where John MacKenzie and his wife are buried” will be reserved. Obviously, by 1776, Katherine McKenzie also had died. This property is now in Howard County, Maryland, across the river from Baltimore County.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Samuel DURBIN
• Death: 19 Sep 1752, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland

Notes:

Samuel Durbin was married to Ann, daughter of William Logsdon and Honor O'Flynn, at Saint Thomas Church at Owings Mills, Maryland, July 4, 1734. This marriage is also recorded at St. Paul Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Samuel Durbin is the patriarch of most, if not all, of the Durbins of Kentucky. Some researchers list Samuel as a son of William Durbin son of Thomas Durbin.Samuel's will, dated September 19, 1752, named none of his children. It is assumed that he died soon after the September date. Ann's will dated July 8, 1770, was probated in Frederick County, Maryland, and named all thirteen of her children. Of these thirteen children, at least four were pioneer settlers of Kentucky. John came in between 1775 and 1780; Thomas, Christopher, and Edward came in circa 1788. John Durbin, according to James Virden, was the first Durbin in Kentucky, arriving with Daniel Boone in 1775, and was one of the axmen who blazed the Wilderness Trail. [Durbin-Logsdon Genealogy by Betty Jewell Durbin Carson]

Liber 28, folio 40019 Sept. 1752

DURBIN, SAMUEL, Frederick Co., planter. To son William Durbin, 100a at the lower end of Cobbs Choice in lieu of The Pleasants Green. To dau. Ann Durbin, a cow & calf. To dau. Margret Durbin, an heifer yearlin. To son John Durbin, my sorrel mares colt. My wife & extrx. [not named] is to keep all above written & the dw. plntn. if she not mar. To son Samuel Durbin, on his mother d., the dw. plntn. 50a. Witn: Edwd. Meacham, Thos. Logsdon, William Wilson. 23 Oct 1752, sworn to by all 3 witn.

Samuel Durbin, born about 1700 in colonial Maryland, is believed to be the son of Thomas and Mary Downes Durbin. It is recorded that Samuel Durbin married Ann Logsdon on 4th of July 1723 in St. Pauls Church, Baltimore, MD. Ann Logsdon was the daughter of William Logsdon and Honor O'Flynn. The children of Samuel and Ann are as follows: William, Samuel Jr., Thomas, John, Christopher, Edward, Nicholas, Benjamin, Sarah, Ann, Margaret, Mary and Honor. The last 2 girls may have been twins.

Samuel was involved in the Methodist Church of America. There are roadside signs pointing to a wonderful old home built in 1767, still standing in good condition where Samuel and Ann lived. It is likely that Samuel built the home and the nearby original log cabin where their son Christopher was born. The Durbins became interested in Methodism and the first American ordained bishop, Francis Asbury often preached in their home as well as another famous preacher, Robert Strawbridge, recognized by many as the first Methodist preacher in America. He was a near neighbor and friend. The Durbins were active in establishing Methodism in this country and belonged to the First Society of Methodism. bSam's History

/bThe family account of the Durbin family began with Samuel Durbin who came to Frederick County, Maryland at its early settlement. It was thought that Samuel came from Bristow, England. It was also expressed that the durbin homland was Ireland.

Samuel Durbin was married to Ann Logsdon of Frederick County, Maryland, 4 July 1723 at St. Pauls Parish, in Baltimore County, Maryland. Ann was the daughter of William Logsdon, an emigrant to Maryland in 1673 and Honor O'Flynn. Honor O'Flynn was mentioned in old records as an Irish girl of great piety, and it was through her that the Catholic element appeared in the Durbin line. The family lore handed down through the generations was of a beautiful Irish girl named Honor O'Flynn who was kidnapped from Ireland and brought to this country, and who was married to a Logsdon. These quotes were taken from some Catholic records pertaining to one Father Elisha Durbin, son of John D. Durbin and Patience Logsdon. This information was submitted to Mrs. Ernest F. Schuchert of Chester, Illinois from Mr. Howard steiner of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of the descendants of Durbins of this line became very staunch Catholics. However, Mr. steiner said that the wonderful home which Samuel Durbin and his sons built in 1767 was still standing in good condition, that the homestead had been made a shrine by the Methodist Church of America. There were roadside signs pointing to its location about two miles out from Westminster, Maryland. The Durbins became interested in Methodism, and the first American ordained bishop Francis Asbury often visited with the Durbins during three generations of that family. He preached in their home as well as did Robert Strawbridge, who was recognized by many as the first Methodist preacher in America. Robert Strawbridge was a near neighbor and friend. The Durbins were active in establishing Methodism in the this country and William, a son, belonged to the First Society of Methodism. Samuel Durbinn's homestead was within two miles of Westminster, Maryland. If his children were born in the log cabin which stands near the home, then their birth place could read Carroll County, Maryland instead of Frederick County, Maryland which sounds most probable. Carroll County was once a part of Baltimore County in Maryland. This information was submitted to Mrs. Ernest F. Schuchert of Chester, Illionois from Mr. Howard Steiner of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

From the New Winsor District in Carroll County, Maryland came a note that not far from Pipe Creek lived William Durbin who with his wife joined the Methodist in 1768. Their son, John Durbin, was a traveling preacher.

The following is a transcription of the Will of Samuel Durbin from the Durbin Family History web site of Gene Klein:

In the name of God Amen. The nineteenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two I, Samuel Durbin of Frederick County in the Province of Maryland Planter being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be giving unto God. And calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally. And first of all, I commend my soul into the Hands of God that gave it me: and as for my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner as it shall please my Executrix hereafter named.

Imprimis: I give to my well beloved son William Durbin an hundred acres of land, being part of a tract of land called Cobbs Choice in lieu of a tract of Land called the Pleasants Green of the said William Durbin to take the said Land at lower end and not to take any of the improvements of my dwelling plantation as I now live upon.

Item: And likewise I give to my well beloved Daughter Ann Durbin one cow and calf.

Item: I give likewise to my well beloved Daughter Margaret Durbin an heifer yearling.

Item: And to my well beloved son Thomas Durbin I give an heifer yearling.

Item: And to my well beloved Son John Durbin I give my Sorrel mares colt.

Imprimis: I leave my dear and loving wife my sole Executrix and to keep all the above written in her possession till her decease if she don't marry and the dwelling plantation she now lives upon and after her decease, I leave it to my well beloved son Samuel Durbin, it being fifty acres with all the appurtenances there unto belonging and when my debts is paid I leave the remainder of my personal estate that is left to be equally divided amongst the rest of my children.

N.B. That three must sign this will that is awarding to law.

Samuel Durbin

Test Edw. Mecliam
Tho. T Logsdon
William Wilson

October the 23d 1752 Edward Mecliam Thomas Logsdon & William Willson subscribing witnesses to the within will being duly sworn on the Holy Evangel of Alimighty God depose and say that they saw the Testator Samuel Durbin subscribe the within as his last Will & Testament & heard him piblish & declare it as such, and at the time his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound disposing mind & memory that they subscribed the within will in the presence & at the request of the Testator Samuel Durbins.

Sworn before me

John Darnale
Deputy Cmmy of Fred. Ct.

Samuel married Anne Logsdon on 4 Jul 1723 in St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, Maryland. Anne (daughter of William Logsdon and Honora O'Flynn) was born about 1703 in Owings Mill, Baltimore County, Maryland; died on 8 Jul 1770 in Frederick County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

8 Sept 1770 Frederick Co MD. will of Ann Durbin, probated 5 Oct 1770. Children: William, Daniel, Thomas, John, Nicholas, Christopher, Edward, Benj, Sarah McKinsey, Ann Stevenson, Margaret Brown, Mary Logsdon

The following is a transcription of Ann Logsdon's will. It was copied from the Durbin Family History web site of Gene Klein:

In the Name of God Amen, I Ann Durbin of Frederick County in the province of Maryland. Widow being weak in body, but of sound mind and memory blessed be God for it, do this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy, make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say, first I give and bequeath unto my six sons hereafter named viz. William Durbin, Samuel Durbin, Thomas Durbin, John Durbin, Nicholas Durbin, and Christopher Durbin the sum of one shilling sterling money to be paid unto each of them at the end of one year after my decease and no more of my estate. I also give and bequeath unto my son Edward Durbin one black mare branded thus _______ and no more of my estate. I do also give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin Durbin on feather bed and furniture and one large iron pot and no more of my estate. I also give and bequeath unto my four daughters hereafter named viz. Sarah McKensey, Ann Stevenson, Margret Brown, and Mary Logsdon, to each of them one shilling sterling silver money to be paid unto each of them at the end of one year after my decease and no more of my estate. I also give and bequeath unto my daughter Honour Durbin two cows and calves and one feather bed and furniture and all and every part and parcel thereof together with all and singular my household furniture, and every other matter of thing that I shall *** proposed of after the payment of my just debts and the above. Bequeath to her the said Honor Durbin and her heirs forever. And I also make and ordain my son Edward Durbin executor of this my last Will in trust for the intents and purposes in this my will contained. In witness whereof I the said Ann Durbin have to this my Last Will and Testament set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Ann Durbin

Signed, Sealed and delivered by the said Ann Durbin as and for her Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who were present at the signing & sealing thereof.

John Logsdon

William Logsdon

On the back of the aforegoing will was thus written viz. On the 5th day of October 1770 John Logsdon and William Logsdon the two subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing will made oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that they did see the Testator Ann Durbin sign and seal the said Will and heard her publish, pronounce, and declare the same to be her last Will and Testament and that at the time of her so doing she was to the best of their apprehension of a sound and disposing mind and memory and the they severally subscribed their names as witnesses to the said Will in the presence of the said Testator and in the presence of each other.

Sworn before Bowles