Joseph Earp

Family/Spouse: Ruth Yates. Ruth was born in 1690 in Baltimore, Maryland; died in 1727. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Something. Elizabeth was born in 1735; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage license data: Baltimore Co., Maryland Court (Marriage Licenses) 1778-1851, MSA CM174-1

Notes for JOSHUA EARP :

Joshua took the Oath of Fidelity in 1778. (Wayne Ward) Joshua Earp, Sr. a planter was born about 1760, exact date unknown, and lived much of his life in the general vicinity of Ellicott City, now a suburb of Baltimore , Maryland. His great grandfather was Thomas Earp, the orginal immigrant, who came to the same area in the 1690's, and his grandfather and father were both named Joseph. In 1794, he sold the family property known as "Gosnell's Chance" near Ellicott City, and moved northwest to what was then part of Frederick County, Maryland where he purchased property near Westminster called "Ellory". In the early 1800s he returned to Anne Arundel County, Maryland and repurchased a formerly held family property known as "Yates Contrivance." Joshua Earp took the Oath of Fidelity during the Revolutionary War but, as far as is known, did not serve in the military. When Eleanor McKenzie Earp sold "Yates Contrivance" in 1835, her sons Joshua Jr. and William had already migrated West. They were the only two of her ten children who did not sign the land deed. Sometime therafter five of the other children also went to Ohio, apparently together, but did not join William's family. They were Eleanor, Elizabeth, Mary, Joseph and Daniel, who was still in Anne Arundel county in 1830. The Federal census of 1850 for Ohio shows them living together in Smith Township, Mahoning County, Ohio. No further record was found of the family group in the subsequent Federal Census records of Ohio, so they may have moved to another state. The Carroll County, Ohio Earp's heads of family were born in England, and were not related to the Maryland Earps ("The Joshua Earp Family of Maryland, Kentucky and Ohio" by Charles Albert Earp and Irmalee Earp Williams, 1990 6 p.) (Sharon Wick). From Don Kagle's Ancestry web site.

Joshua married Eleanor McKenzie on 21 Apr 1785 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Eleanor (daughter of Daniel MacKenzie and Mary (Molly) Porter) was born about 1765 in Maryland; died after 1835 in Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

Mary married Aaron McKenzie on 11 Mar 1789 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Aaron (son of Daniel MacKenzie and Mary (Molly) Porter) was born about 1769 in Maryland; died on 23 May 1831 in Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Opha married Joshua Young on 15 Feb 1783. Joshua died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann Read. Ann was born in 1800 in Maryland; died in 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ruth Wood on 20 Sep 1820. Ruth was born in 1800 in Maryland; died in 1882 in Wyandot County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua married Elizabeth Alexander on 28 Oct 1819 in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky. Elizabeth died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Something Grice. Something died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On 26 Mar 1831, a Caleb is listed as a member of St. Luke's Catholic Church, Danville, Knox Co. Ohio. He died about 1833-34 and was buried in St. Luke Cemetery, Know County, Ohio.

But, 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

Marriage Information: Family Search.org

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00929-2 , System Origin: Maryland-EASy , GS Film number: 13693 , Reference ID: p 181 l 80

Caleb married Elizabeth Pierce on 10 Jun 1820 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Elizabeth was born in 1803 in Maryland; died after 1850 in Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

Mary married Joseph Pierce on 22 Jul 1822. Joseph was born in 1801 in Maryland; died before 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David MacKenzie of Howard Co., Maryland Will dated 06 Jan 1881 (T.B.H. folio 563, MSA film CR 32993). After the death of my beloved wife I bequeath to my children and grand children namely David, Geroge W., Ruth, Catherine, Ellen, Julia Ann, Susan R., and Martha Ellen Tucker 98 acres of land part of three tracts called part of Hobsons Choice, part of Addition to Hobsons Choice, and part of MacKenzies Discovery to be equally divided.

This is the same land handed down by John Mackenzie (b. 1687) via his Will dated 1758 to his son Daniel (b. 1716/1717) then to his son Aaron (b. 1769) then to his son David (b. 1798) and then to be split amonst David's descendants as outlined above. What a wonderful record to track 5 generations of Eastern Maryland MacKenzies.

On a deed (Howard Co., Court Vol. 1 p.8, Liber J.L.M. folio 8 & 9) dated 12 Mar 1840, from Aaron MacKenzie to David MacKenzie of the lands so described "devised to Michael MacKenzie by his father John MacKenzie, by his last will and testament bearing date the seventeenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and fifth eight." It goes on the lay out the location, as beginning at the bounded trees of the Addition to Hopsons Choice, to intersect the outlines of MacKenzie's Discovery Enlarged, containing ninety eight acres.

In consideration of the sum of $5.00 to David MacKenzie and wife Sarah D. of Howard County, Aaron L. MacKenzie obtains the deed to 6 1/4 acres being in a tract of land called Additon to Hobsons Choice. Dated 09 Oct 1868, Howard Co., Maryland Circuit Court, Liber W.W.W. 28 f.448.

By the will of David MacKenzie (MSA film CR32993, T.B.H. f.563) 06 Jan 1881, John W. is left the following: 12 1/4 acres called Hobsons Choice, and 37 acres of Addition to Hobsons Choice adjoining Aaron MacKenzie's lot.

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

Death date per the research of Shirley Miller. 1-15-14

The following os located in Find-a-Grave:

Cemetery notes and/or description:

On the east side of MacKenzie Lane, north of the intersection of St John's Lane & Old Frederick Road (Rte 99) in the Ellicott (2nd) District of Howard Co, Md., is the remnant of a family burying ground, moved to the present site from its original location on the farm of John W MacKenzie (whose wife was Susannah Keyes). Called 'MacKenzie's Neglect' the property was the site of a blacksmith shop and overnight 'stop-over' for travelers on the road from Hollofield to Frederick. The original house burned, but still standing is an old ban bearing the date 1863. Present owners of the property, now called 'Windy Hill; are Mr and Mrs Norman Otto and Mr and Mrs Phillip hammon who furnished this information.

Tombstone Inscriptions
From A Few
Cemeteries in Howard County, Maryland
Recorded by
Colonel Thomas Dorsey Chapter
DAR
Ellicott City, Maryland
1958-1960

David married Sarah Jones on 13 Jan 1831 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Sarah (daughter of Amos Jones and Elizabeth Davis) was born in 1811 in Maryland; died on 10 Apr 1894 in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland. [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

Family/Spouse: John Hancock Hyatt. John was born on 4 Feb 1800 in Maryland; died in 1839 in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE: The Pearce family settled in Steubenville, Jefferson Co., OH upon relocation from Maryland between 1836 and 1842. As of the 1860 Census, Enoch Sr. was married to Mary b. 1809 Ireland, thus the assumption that Rachel had died by then. Enoch Pearce Jr. was an Allopathic Physician, and, according to the “Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929”
was born in Westminster, MD [now Carroll Co., but at that time still on the boundary of Baltimore and Frederick Counties] and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 1854, after which he began his practice in Steubenville, Ohio.

Little is known of the children of Enoch Jr., although there is no indication that any of them ever married, with several residing together in Steubenville until the early 1900’s. Frank S. is shown as a Physician in the 1900 and 1910 Census, the earlier in Steubenville, and the latter while a lodger at a boarding house near Locust & Broad Sts. in Philadelphia [near Jefferson Medical College coincidentally]. He cannot be located after that time. Enoch Stanton Pearce is shown as a Lawyer in the 1900 Census.

John N. Pearce was shown as a Dentist in Steubenville, but nothing else was located about him or the remainder of his family. Dick MacKenzie, September 27, 2012.

In another 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

Rachel married Enoch Pearce on 20 Dec 1823 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Enoch was born about 1803 in Maryland; died after 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

The Aaron’s

Not to be outdone, Dick MacKenzie has pieced together additional data surrounding other descendants who were involved with the McKenzie Homestead and the barn referenced above.

“This all started when I reached the chapter, “The Original McKenzie Property”, and tried to get my arms around who the A(aron) was who is cited in Hopkins’ Atlas. It sent me back to land records, census records and tree branches, and led me to the following conclusions:
There were 4 Aaron’s who lived on the John McKenzie property (b. 1687) at some point in time:

1)Aaron b. 1769, son of Daniel 1717, who executed his will in March 1828 and had died by May 1831, leaving his land (Daniel’s (b. 1717) originally) to sons David and Aaron.

2)Aaron b. 1810 (based on the 1840 Census showing him as 40 and living with his brother David’s family), who split the inherited land with his brother David via indentures dated 10 May 1833 (AA Co. L.R. WSG-18, pages 54-58), with Aaron getting 4 ¾ acres of McKenzie’s Hills, 35 ½ acres of Addition to Hopson’s Choice, and 12 ¼ acres of Hopson’s Choice, while David took 3+ acres of McKenzie’s Hills and 44 ½ acres of Hobson’s Choice. Aaron sold McKenzie’s Hills to John W. Dorsey 25 Oct 1833 (AA WSG-18, pg. 228) and the remaining two plots (35 ½ Addition and 12 ¼ Hopson’s Choice) to his brother David 19 Aug 1851 (Howard County Deed Book 11 page 53) with the proviso that Aaron have a home on the premises for life + timber rights. He does not appear again after the 1850 Census, and I believe he died prior to 1860. Died rather than moved away, as every indication is that he did not marry and was always dependent on his brother.

3)Aaron b. abt. 1780, (probably) the grandson of Michael, son of John, who by indenture dated 12 Mar 1840 sells to David (above) Michael’s 98 acres that Michael inherited from his father John, with the proviso that he have the privilege of building a dwelling house on ½ acre which he would possess and be entitled to crop reimbursement. This Aaron appears in the 1850 Census as 69 year old Aaron McKinsey, living in the household of Thomas and Ann Davis and family, Ann being the sister of David’s wife Sarah. While in the same general vicinity as David’s residence, it probably was not on the McKenzie family property. This Aaron also does not appear again after the 1850 Census, and I believe he also died prior to 1860.

4)Aaron L. MacKinzie, son of David, who, by indenture dated 9 Oct 1868 (Howard County Deed Book 28 page 448) was conveyed 6 ¼ acres of Addition to Hopson’s Choice by his parents David and Sarah D. for him to use and to own at David’s death.

The only Aaron believed to be alive anywhere near the 1878 timeframe would have been Aaron L., who is also believed to have been the author of the inscription “Built by Aaron MacKenzie February 1860” on the inside of the MacKenzie barn that now rests in Rockburn Branch County Park near Elkridge.

I believe that Aaron 1810 was actually born earlier than that year. When I go back and look at census records before 1850 (and it’s always easy to find these two families – Michael’s and Daniel/Aaron/David’s – as they’re always next door to each other), in the 1820 Census Aaron’s males are one 16-18 and three 16-26, which would indicate that son Aaron was at least 16 years old, born by 1804. Since the next oldest child, daughter Rachel, is believed to have been born 1802-3, it would make perfect sense for Aaron to have been born in 1804 rather than 6 years later. The following Census, 1830 is less conclusive, as Aaron Jr. is obviously the 20 to 30 year old shown but doesn’t help pinpoint an exact age. Further, in Aaron’s will of 1828, he does not refer to his son Aaron as a minor, which he could have been had he been born in 1810. Based on this, I’d recommend that we change this Aaron’s DOB in the databases to 1804.

Reviewing the Census records mentioned above also reveals additional information about Michael’s family. In the 1800 Census, Michl McKinsey household was 1 male under 10, 4 males 16-25, one male 45+, one female under 10, one 16-25, one 45+. Best guess scenario here, Michael had 4 sons, one of whom was married with children, or had 3 sons and a married daughter with children. Was this John’s son Michael or grandson? Michael b. 1727 having sons born 1775-1784? More likely a grandson. In 1810 Census, Michael Mackinsey household consists of one male 16-25, one male 45+, one female 45+. In 1820 Census, next to Aaron McKinzie is Catherine McKinzie, 45+ plus, 3 males 26-45 and one male 45+. Catherine must be the widow of Michael shown in 1810, and there are again 4 males in the household. By the 1830 Census, the occupant is Aaron McKinsey Jr., males 50-60 and 90 to 100. By 1840, only David McKinsey appears in AA Co., no next door neighbor by that name. Does that mean that one of Michael Jr.’s sons was Aaron @1780?
Who were the others? How was Aaron 1780 entitled to sell Michael’s land? Not a lot of answers here, but maybe ammunition to help with additional research.”

Notes:

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

Jesse married Ann Rebecca Green on 10 Jan 1815. Ann was born about 1817; died after 1877 in Baltimore, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]