Person:Nancy Chinn (3)

Research Notes

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Parents of Nancy Chinn

• Nancy's father, Christopher Chinn, is established via the newspaper notice and indenture. ^{1, 5} Christopher Chinn was married to Ann Bartlett, and since he is not known to have had any other wives, it is most likely that her mother was Ann Bartlett.

Marriage of Nancy Chinn to William Adams

• Proof of marriage needed.
• Boyd (1898)⁴ states that Nancy Chinn did marry William Adams on 14 Feb 1803 - BUT - she states that Nancy was the daughter of Benjamin Chinn, NOT Christopher Chinn.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 The Kentucky gazette. (Lexington, Kentucky).

   
   

   [Kentucky Gazette (Lexington), 3 Dec 1796, p4]
   

   NOTICE. I HAVE been appointed guardian to Benjamin and Nancy Chinn, orphans of Christopher Chinn, deceased. There will be four likely NEGROES exposed to hire for one year, before the subscriber's door, on Monday the second day of January next, three of which are fellows and one woman, said to be as valuable as any in the state. They must be returned well clothed and taxes paid. Those to whom they are at present hired must remember that if it is their contract to clothe the negroes, they must comply with the same by the time above mentioned. Also thirty barrels of CORN to be sold on twelve months credit, near Maj. Ransdell's in the neighbourhood of Lexington. Also fifteen acres of cleard LAND to be rented for one year. Any persons desirous of renting may view the premises before the day. All persons are forewarned from cutting timber on the land of said orphans. Bond and approved security will be required.
   WALKER BAYLOR.
   N.B. The above negroes are not to be hired to any person living more than five miles from Lexington. December 1, 1796.

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   [Relationship notes: Maj. John Ransdell is an uncle to Benjamin and Nancy Chinn as he is married to Elizabeth Chinn, sister of their father, Christopher Chinn.]
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   [Identifies Nancy as a daughter of Christopher Chinn, deceased, a sister of Benjamin Chinn, and a ward of Walker Baylor. Also states that her inherited land is in Fayette County, Kentucky.]

   
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Testimony of William Chinn, uncle, in Cook, Michael L. (Michael Lewis), and Bettie A. (Bettie Anne Cummings) Cook. Fayette County, Kentucky records. (Evansville, Indiana: Cook Publications, 1985-1986).

   p 146 -
   8 May 1809
   Pursuant to an Act authorizing the County Court to receive testimony concerning burned records, William CHINN came into court and made oath that his brother, Christopher CHINN, died in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the year 1786, that he read the will of deceased brother, and that he gave his wife Ann CHINN one third of his estate, real and personal, and the remaining two third to his children, which will was recorded in this County and the record thereof destroyed by the burning of the Clerk's office.

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   [Note: Original record is in Fayette County, Kentucky Order Book 2]
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   [Reference is made to Nancy Chinn's inheritance. Also proves that records were destroyed by fire.]

3.   Genforum.genealogy.com.

   per Patricia Dresselhaus (2000): "My" Nancy Chinn was b Dec 11, 1785 in Shelby County, KY and M 1804 in Bardstown, Nelson County, KY to William (Irvine) Adams. Her father was Christopher b in Fauquier VA,d 1786, and wife was Ann(e) who remarried in 1800 at Nelson County to Thomas Hall.
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   [Note: No sources provided. Verification needed.]

4. ↑ Boyd, Lucinda Joan Rodgers. The Irvines and Their Kin (1898): A History of the Irvine Family and Their Descendants. (Louisville, Kentucky: Printed for the Author, 1898)
   84.

   [James and Mary Irvine Adams]
   "... their youngest son, William Adams, married Nancy Chinn, a daughter of Benjamin Chinn, and a cousin of Judge Thomas Chinn, of Kentucky. William Adams (born December 10, 1784), and Nancy Chinn (born December 11, 1785), were married February 14, 1803, and had seven children, viz.:
   - Mary J. Adams, born January 17, 1804;
   - Christopher Adams, Jr., born October 22, 1805;
   - William Clark and Lewis Merewether Adams, twins, born June 30, 1809;
   - Benjamin Chinn Adams, born October 2, 1814;
   - Elizabeth Adams, born August 2, 1817;
   - Penelope Lynch Adams, born June 15, 1819. ..."
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   [Note of Caution: possible error - supposedly Nancy Chinn was the daughter of Christopher Chinn. More research needed.]

5. ↑ .

   Thompson/Hall/Rogers/Chinn Indenture
   
   "Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9D5-XC1H?cc=1875188&wc=37T9-ZNG%3A173385301%2C1562001302 : 27 March 2015), Fayette > Mixed records, 1789-1801, Vol. 5-6 > image 12 of 487; county courthouses, Kentucky.
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   [24 Aug 1798 Fayette KY Indenture
   500 acres in George Bryant Settlement
   From: Lawrence Thompson and Kesiah, his wife
   To:
   - Thomas Hall and Ann his wife, late Ann Chinn, widow of Christopher Chinn, deceased
   - Robert Rogers and Polly his wife, late Polly Chinn,
   - Benjamin Chinn and Ann Chinn heirs and ... of Christopher Chinn, deceased of the other part]