Mary Ann Hyatt

Notes:

(listed in 1850 Census as 11 years old; in a letter to William Hyatt, husband of Martha Hyatt, the children of John Hyatt and Catherine McKinsie are listed as William T., Mary, Martha, John, Joseph, Sarah, Anna B. and Henry A. It is possible that Elizabeth A. and Anna B. are the same person).

John + Catherine McKenzie. Catherine (daughter of Aaron McKenzie and Mary Rachel Earp) was born on 20 Oct 1800 in Maryland; died on 5 Aug 1855 in Knox County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried in (MV) = Mound View Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., OH.

In an email from Dick MacKenzie dated 9 Sep 2013, he wrote:

Now, on to the other Aaron d. 1831, who was the youngest son of Daniel2. His offspring never went to Allegany Co. or anywhere else in Western MD as far as I can tell. Jesse b. 1807 is not of this Aaron. Aaron’s children were born about as follows:

Caleb b. @1791 (Don’s ancestor, who married Elizabeth Pierce and stayed in the Ellicott City area)
Jesse @ 1792 (who is believed to have also stayed in Ellicott City)
Mary L. @ 1795 (Married Joseph Pierce, stayed local, and their daughter Rachel Elizabeth married Joseph McKenzie, brother of Israel Jr.)
David (my ancestor) b. 1798
Catherine b. 1800 (married John Hancock Hyatt and moved to Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH in the late 1820’s)
Rachel b.@ 1803 (married Enoch Pearce and moved to Steubenville, Jefferson Co., OH by 1842. He had a different wife by 1860)
Aaron b.@ 1810 (lived on the family property in Ellicott City w/older brother David, apparently never married)

John Hancock died in Zanesville, and Catherine and the children moved to Knox Co., OH by 1840, when son John is shown as head of household. Why Knox Co? Maybe because she had cousins there? I don’t know if this untangles anything – maybe just makes the mess messier!?

Dick

Notes:

Marriage license data: Baltimore Co., Maryland Court (Marriage Licenses) 1778-1851, MSA CM 174-1

Will of Aaron McKenzie (b. 1769)

Anne Arundel Co., MD Will Book 40, p.106

The will of Aaron McKenzie, dated 13 Mar 1828 and probated 23 May 1831, states the following: First: giving my part of land in Anne Arundel Co., called "Hopkins Choice" to my two sons, David and Aaron. Then, I give to my two sons David and Aaron, another tract of land known as "Addition to Hopkins Choice." Second I desire that a tract "McKenzie's Pleasure," lying between "Maidens Bower" and "Carters Whim" be sold and the money applied to payment of my debts. I desire that six acres of land belonging to me lying between "Carters Whim" and "Carters Addition," be sold with the money going to my estate, and the remining part of "McKenzies Pleasure" I give to my two sons David and Aaron. I give to my wife Rachel McKenzie one cow of her choice. I give to my oldest son Caleb McKenzie*, my son Jesse McKenzie, my daughter Catherine Hyatt, my daughter Mary Pierce*, and my daughter Rachel Pearce* the sum of one dollar each, and all the balance of my estate to my two sons David and Aaron McKenzie.

I have underlined "my part" to suggest the possibility that Aaron shared a larger tract of the same name with his brother or brothers.

*Please note that Mary and Rachel married a Pierce/Pearce and that my 3rd. great grandfather Caleb married Elizabeth Pierce. I would suggest that this Caleb is the correct son of Aaron and is not the Caleb who married Margaret Magers and settled in Ohio as other researchers have stated.

Aaron married Mary Rachel Earp on 11 Mar 1789 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Mary (daughter of Joseph II Earp and Elizabeth Something) was born about 1764 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage license data: Baltimore Co., Maryland Court (Marriage Licenses) 1778-1851, MSA CM 174-1

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 1783, Anne Arundel Co., MD

Notes:

In 1785, Daniel Mckenzie lived in Anne Arundel County and owned "Molly's Fancy".

The following email was compiled by Dick MacKenzie in July, 2014 in his continuing attempt to try to determine the parental connection, if possible, for Isreal McKenzie and Hiram McKenzie, two names which appear in the late 1700's and early 1800's in the Baltimore, Maryland area. The Daniel, Jr. listed below is the son of Daniel MacKenzie (b. 1717).

I’ll try to lay this all out and maybe someone can connect dots, although I fear that the lack of good, solid record information may preclude anything definite.

We know that Daniel Jr. was in Anne Arundel Co. in January 1790, when the children of Daniel Sr. were involved in the court case in Frederick Co., Jr. and wife Ann having disposed of their land holdings in Frederick Co. prior to that date. However, Jr. never appears in a census there. In fact, the only person who does in 1790 is John “McKinsey” with 2 males under 16, 2 over 16, and 3 females. Of course, the bottom left portion of the AA Co. census pages are either missing or illegible, so there might have been other McKinseys shown that we can’t see. We also know, from the patent on “MacKinzie’s Angle” in September 1807 that Mary “Molly” MacKinzie, widow of Daniel Sr. was still alive at that point and apparently living in AA Co. On 27 Nov 1811 in AA Co., John McKinsey of Daniel has surveyed “McKinsey’s Manor” for 2 roods, 16 perches of land adjoining “Batchelors’ Choice” and “Carter’s Addition” (meaning that it was in the exact same area as the original MacKenzie family land holdings), and, although a warrant was granted to John of Daniel on 12 Feb 1812, just a month later, on 18 Mar 1812, John B. Dorsey has the same land resurveyed as “McKinsey’s Manor Neglected” and has it patented on 15 Dec 1813. Does that mean that John was a son of Daniel Jr.? I suspect so, but may never be able to prove it. In any event, it appears this John had up to 5 children, and would have been born in the 1760’s or 1770’s.

Move forward to 1800, and we have 4 McKinsey families shown in AA Co.:

Michael – I male under 10, four 16-25, one 45+; 1 female under 10, one 16-25, one 45+ (pg. 589)
William – 2 males under 10, one 26-45; 1 female under 10, one 45+ (pg. 588)
Daniel – 1 male 26-45; 2 females under 10, one 16-25 (pg. 588)
William – 1 male under 10, one 10-15, one 45+; 1 female under 10, two 10-15, one 45+ (pg. 587)

Then in 1810 as Mackinsey (indexed in Ancestry as Mackinney):

Michael – one male 16-25, one 45+; 1 female 45+
Aaron – 3 males under 10, two 10-15, one 45+; 2 females under 10, one 10-15, one 45+

These two families are next door to each other, and we know for sure that Aaron is Daniel Sr.’s youngest son, now living on Daniel’s portion (96 acres) inherited from his father John (and his mother apparently deceased), and it is equally assured that Michael is living on the other inherited land there (98 acres), with the only question being whether this is Michael of John (b. @ 1730) or a son by the same name. Then 16 lines later, the two following Mackinsey families:

Daniel –2 males under 10, one 17-26, one 45+; 1 female 17-26, one 17-45.
Orphelia – 1 male under 10, one 10-15; 2 females under 10, one 26-44.

The ages of Daniel’s children don’t match the 1800 Census ages. I do think Orphelia is the Orpha who appears again in 1830 -1860, and no I can’t locate her in 1820, but I have no idea who she might have been married to (if anyone?) and how she kept accumulating children. Orpha was also the name of one of Daniel Sr.’s daughters, so there was a penchant for the name in the family. Maybe she never married,

Daniel married Mary (Molly) Porter in 1738. Mary was born about 1721 in Carrollton County, Maryland; died after Sep 1807 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph + Elizabeth Something. Elizabeth was born in 1735; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]