Thomas McKenzie

Notes:

Baptized 4 Oct 1801, Conewago Chapel.

From Dick MacKenzie in July, 2013:

Dennis: I finally completed the tree for Eli’s son Henry, and it’s in Ancestry as “MacKenzie-McKenzie family” if you can access. I can also send it to you in a PDF form for 6 generations (43 pages) or in GEDCOM form if you’d like to have it. Same goes for anyone else. BTW, Shelly Wilson shown as a recipient above is a descendant of that line via Henry’s son Daniel Eli.

So, next I thought I’d tackle Eli’s son Daniel m. Catherine Hartmann, who parented the “Conewago kids.” When I pulled out the records from Conewago Chapel something immediately hit me in the face. One of those listed is not Daniel’s, it’s Henry’s! Shown as “Thomas McKansy, son of Henricus and Sara McKansy, sponsors Joseph Burgoon and Maria Junson, b. 13 Aug 1801 bapt. 4 Oct 1801.” The birth date is 10 months after Henry McKenzie m. Sarah Johnson in Frederick Co. 8 Oct 1800, and helps explain another piece that I was missing. I knew from the 1820 Dearborn Co., IN Census that there were two sons shown that I knew nothing about, as they never appeared again and were not shown in Henry’s will. One was under 10 years old, the other 16-25, and I concluded that I’d never know who they were. Well now I’m certain that the 16-25 year old was Thomas, but what happened to him is still a mystery. The younger one must have died young, or was gone from the household by his teens. A side note: The Burgoon family accompanied Eli’s other son, John, to Loretto, Cambria Co., PA, and I’d bet that the other sponsor was actually Mary Johnson and probably Sarah’s sister. I’m more and more convinced that all the Conewago connection involved Eli’s family.

What’s also obvious based on places of birth for Henry’s children, is that he moved from Maryland to Cincinnati, OH @1809 and then across the river to Dearborn after 1814. That then begs the question: Who was the Henry who witnessed Eli’s purchase of land in then-Cambria Twp., Somerset Co., PA in 1802, shown as a resident of Cambria Twp? Cambria is too far away for someone to be popping back and forth from there to Frederick Co., MD and Adams Co., PA. Maybe Eli’s brother Henry? Mike, your recent communication with David Aiken, supposedly a descendant of Eli’s brother Henry, is most interesting, as he references a will that this Henry left. I’ll be contacting him about that, as I’d love to get a copy of that.

Mike, as for your question re Austin/Augustine being a son of Henry3, I believe that conclusion was from the research of the late Frederick Joe McKenzie of Oho, who descended from him. The fact that a son is not mentioned in a will is possible, as we all know. Let’s see where all that goes. I will have to ponder all this during our trip to the Baltic the last 2 weeks of July.

Regards to all,
Dick

Henry married Sarah Johnson on 8 Oct 1800 in Frederick Co., MD. Sarah was born about 1782 in Maryland; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eli + Margaret Unknown. Margaret died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Margaret unknown

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• 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]