James Kenney Sr. was born in Augusta County Virginia, near Staunton. He married there in 1771 to Mary Frame or Froome, daughter of David Frame and for whom she named her first child, a son. James Kinney (1752-1814) enlisted in Virginia in Capt. Joseph Crockett's Company, 7th Virginia regiment, commanded by Lieut. Col. Holt Richeson, Also No. 110361. And also, "Captain James C. Kenney served in the Revolutionary war in Captain Joseph Crockett's Company, 7th Virginia commanded by Lt Col Holt Richeson, as a mere boy. Reinlisted in 1778, taken prisoner Oct 4, 1778 at Germantown." from DAR membership application dated 6/15/1914.
Children of JAMES KENNEY and MARY FRAME are:
1.DAVID3 KENNEY, b. January 26, 1772, Augusta, VA; d. Abt. 1804.
2.ELIZABETH KENNEY, b. October 10, 1773, Bourbon County, KY.
3.JOHN C. KENNEY, b. July 08, 1775, Virginia; d. 1847, Hannibal, Missouri.
4.MARY POLLY KENNEY, b. July 04, 1779, Virginia.
5.JAMES KENNEY, JR, b. July 24, 1782, Bourbon County, Kentucky; d. January 30, 1813, Fort Defiance, Ohio.
6.MOSES KENNEY, b. April 04, 1784, Bourbon County, Kentucky.
7.SALLIE BARNETT KENNEY, b. July 24, 1786, Bourbon County, KY
8.NANCY KENNEY, b. August 04, 1788.
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