Notes for RACHEL ODELL:
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ajobebrown&id=I13386
Thanks to Ann (Jobe) Brown ann@personainternet.com for the following posting to the Internet:
ID: I13386
Name: Abraham MACKAY
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1752 in Frederick Co, Virginia
Death: 7 MAY 1823 in Tennnessee
Note:
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1771 -April 11; Abraham joined the Baptists Church and was disowned from the Quakers
1775 -Nelson Co., VA - District of Henry (Today this is Page Co., VA)
1783 -Shenandoah Co. VA Census
-10 Whites, 2 Blacks
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1787 -Dec 6: Abraham and Rachel McKay were founding members of Big Pigeon Baptist Church at Kendrick's Creek on French Broad and Big Pigeon rivers (present-day Cocke Co., TN - at this time this was part of N.C) Others who signed the constitution at this time included: Wiliam Whitson, David Job, Elizabeth Whitson, Mourning Prier, Mourning Denton, Mary White and Darcus Job
1789-1822 -Abraham McKay was clerk at Big Pigeon for 36 years and was several times a delegate and wrote various letters. He resigned in 1823 due to old age and his son, Jeremiah took over the clercial duties.
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1793 -May 9; Nominated Justice of the Peace for Jefferson Co., TN where he served for several years
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Sources:
1) Cocke County, Tennessee Big Pigeon Church Minutes 1787 - 1874 <http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncocke/BPM1.htm>
2) Nova R. Massey Landrith (Nov 2000) <landrith@chickasaw.com>
3) Junior Lee McKay <junior.peggy@pdq.net>
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/u/i/Mary-k-Guinn/GENE1-0010.html
