Family:Thomas Rankin and Isabella Clendenin (1)

Genealogy Report and Notes for Thomas Rankin and Isabella Clendenin:

Descendants of Thomas Rankin

Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS4 RANKIN (JOHN3, WILLIAM2, ALEXANDER1)1,2 was born Abt. 1724 in Derry County, Ireland3,4, and died 1812 in Jefferson County, Tennessee5,6. He married ISABELLA CLENDENIN7,8 Bef. 1754 in Pennsylvania9, daughter of JOHN CLENDENIN and JANET HOUSTON. She was born Abt. 1725 in Pennsylvania10,11, and died 1810 in Tennessee12,13.

Notes for THOMAS RANKIN: From World Family Tree, Cd#14, Tree #2498:

   Thomas Rankin, the son of John Rankin, was born in Ireland in 1724.  At the age of three years he accompanied his father to America, landing at Philadelphia.  Thomas was reared near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, before the Revolutionary War.  He married Isabella Clendenin, who was also a Scotch Presbyterian, daughter of John and Janet (Huston) Clendenin.  The date of their marriage was sometime prior to 1754.  They were the parents of six sons and six daughters.  In 1750 Thomas, his brother Richard Rankin, and his brother-in-law John Clendenin were collectors for East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  In 1762 Thomas and his brother Richard were on the list of taxables for Allen Township, which is close to Carlisle and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  Thomas Rankin and his wife Isabella (Clendenin) Rankin were still residents of Allen Township in 1771.  Two deeds that they gave in 1775 and 1779 show that they were living in Fermanagh, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania then.  Being intensely patriotic, he served in the Revolution and later sold his farm for worthless Continental money, a circumstance which left him in poverty.  After this misfortune, he emigrated to the Southwest and settled in eastern Tennessee in 1784.  He made a home there in what was later called Jefferson County.  He had six sons, the four older of whom had served with him in the Revolution.  The five older, moreover, became elders in the Presbyterian Church.  The reference to Thomas Rankin's service in the American Revolution is found in Pennsylvania Archives - Fifth Series - Vol. 4, page 494.  He served as a private in the Pennsylvania Lines.

The children of Thomas and Isabella (Clendenin) Rankin: 1. John Rankin Born 1754 Married Jennie Waugh, daughter of John Waugh Died 1825 2. RICHARD RANKIN Born 1756 Married JANE "Jenny" STEELE Died 1827 3. Samuel Rankin Born 1758 Married Jane Isabelle Petty Died 1828 4. William Rankin Born 1-27-1759 Married Sarah Moore Died 12-13-1838

 	5.  Thomas Rankin
        		Born 1762
         		Married Jennet Bradshaw
         		Died 11-12-1821
    	6.  James Rankin
         		Born 1770
         		Married Margaret Massie
         		Died January 1839
    	7.  Jane Rankin
         		Married William Gillespie
    	8.  Margaret Rankin
         		Married Samuel Harris
    	9.  Ann Rankin
         		Married Elliott Lacey
         		Died 1837
    	10. Isabel Rankin
         		Married Robert McQuiston
    	11. Nancy Rankin
         		Married Samuel White
    	12. Mary Rankin
         		Married James Bradshaw

Children of THOMAS RANKIN and ISABELLA CLENDENIN are: i. JANE5 RANKIN14,15, b. Aft. 1750; d. WFT Est. 1745-183816,17; m. WILLIAM GILLESPIE; b. WFT Est. 1735-1755. ii. NANCY RANKIN18,19, b. Aft. 1750; d. WFT Est. 1745-183820,21; m. SAMUEL WHITE. iii. JOHN RANKIN22,23, b. 175424; d. 1825; m. JENNIE WAUGH.

Notes for JOHN RANKIN: possibly another John Rankin:

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia Volume I AUGUSTA COUNTY COURT RECORDS. ORDER BOOK No. XXI MAY 21, 1790. (268) John Rankin's death abates suit

2. iv. RICHARD RANKIN, b. 04 Nov 1756, Pennsylvania; d. 05 May 1827, Jefferson County, Tennessee. 3. v. SAMUEL RANKIN, b. 1758; d. 1828. vi. WILLIAM RANKIN25,26, b. 27 Jan 175927,28,29; d. 13 Dec 183830; m. SARAH MOORE.

Notes for WILLIAM RANKIN: From World Family Tree, Cd#14, Tree#2498:

 William Rankin, son of Thomas and Isabella (Clendenin) Rankin, was born 1-27-1759.  He married Sarah Moore (b. 1764).  William Rankin was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.  He made a very hazardous trip with Mr. Bradshaw, a brother-in-law, among hostile Indians, to Alabama, to procure corn which prevented a famine in East Tennessee.  William died 12-13-1838.

vii. THOMAS RANKIN,JR31,32, b. 176233; d. 12 Nov 182133; m. JENNET BRADSHAW.

Notes for THOMAS RANKIN,JR: From World Family Tree, Cd#14, Tree #2498:

Thomas Rankin, son of Thomas and Isabella (Clendenin) Rankin, married Jennet Bradshaw.  Thomas lived in the Mt. Horeb Community, about two miles from the county seat, Dandridge, Tennessee.  He died on November 12, 1821.

viii. MARGARET RANKIN34,35, b. 176936,37; d. WFT Est. 1770-186338,39; m. SAMUEL HARRIS; b. WFT Est. 1759-1775. ix. JAMES RANKIN40,41, b. 177042,43,44; d. Jan 183945; m. MARGARET MASSIE; b. Bet. 1765 - 1780.

Notes for JAMES RANKIN: From World Family Tree, Cd#14, Tree #2498:

James Rankin, son of Thomas and Isabella (Clendenin) Rankin, married Margaret Massie, daughter of Edmund Massie and Mary Dabney Winston-Massie.  James died January 1839.

x. ANN RANKIN46,47, b. Jul 177048,49; d. WFT Est. 1771-186450,51; m. LIONEL LACEY.

Notes for ANN RANKIN: From World Family Tree, Cd#14, Tree #2498

Ann Rankin, daughter of Thomas and Isabella (Clendenin) Rankin, married Lionel Lacey, the son of Elliott Lacey of Virginia, about 1789-90.  Ann and Lionel Lacey lived near Nashville, Tennessee in 1791; Red River, Tennessee in 1798; Holston Settlements, Tennessee in 1800-1802; Livingston County, Kentucky in 1804; and moved to St. Clair County, Illinois in 1807.  Ann died in 1837.

xi. ISABELLA RANKIN52,53, b. 177254,55; d. WFT Est. 1773-186656,57; m. ROBERT MCQUISTON. xii. MARY RANKIN58,59, b. Abt. 177560,61; d. WFT Est. 1776-186962,63; m. JAMES BRADSHAW.

Generation No. 2

2. RICHARD5 RANKIN (THOMAS4, JOHN3, WILLIAM2, ALEXANDER1)64,65,66 was born 04 Nov 1756 in Pennsylvania67, and died 05 May 1827 in Jefferson County, Tennessee67. He married JANE 'JEAN' STEELE67 1783 in Rockbridge County, Virginia67, daughter of SAMUEL STEELE and MARGARET CAMPBELL. She was born 04 Apr 1764 in Pennsylvania67, and died 17 Jan 1846 in Jefferson County, Tennessee67.

Notes for RICHARD RANKIN: WV State Archives Ms79-83 Virginia Court of Appeals, Lewisburg, records, 1776-1921

Box/Folder/Case 18-002 0016 Richard Rankin vs. John McCorkle Augusta Co. 1814 OVERSIZED DOCUMENT

19-003 0124 Richard Rankin's Executors vs. James Rankin's Administrators Augusta 1832 OVERSIZED DOCUMENT

19-009 0197 Richard Rankin vs. John McCorkle 1834 OVERSIZED DOCUMENT

Children of RICHARD RANKIN and JANE STEELE are: i. SAMUEL STEELE6 RANKIN67, b. 06 Jun 1784, Augusta County, Virginia; d. 26 Sep 1859, Illinois67; m. (1) MARY WHITE67, 01 Dec 1804, Roane County, Tennessee67; b. WFT Est. 1767-179167; d. WFT Est. 1809-188067; m. (2) # 2 ETHELINE BALCH67, 18 May 1812, Logan County, Kentucky67; b. WFT Est. 1774-179567; d. WFT Est. 1817-188467.

Notes for SAMUEL STEELE RANKIN: http://www.gillean.com/Roots/db/dat28.htm

Rankin, Samuel Steele Birth : 6 JUN 1784 Augusta Co., Virginia, U.S.A. Death : 26 SEP 1858/59 Illinois, U.S.A. Gender: Male Parents: Father: Rankin, Richard Mother: Steele, Jane\Jean

Family: Spouse: White, Mary Gender: Female

Children: Rankin, Jane Birth : 1805 Death : 1891 Gender: Female Rankin, William Birth : 1807 Gender: Male

Family: Marriage: 9 MAY 1812 Spouse: Balch, Ethelinda Birth : 10 JAN 1792 Tennessee, U.S.A. Death : 29 JUL 1838 Illinois, U.S.A. Gender: Female

Children: Rankin, Isabelle "Ibbie" Gender: Female Rankin, Samuel Hamilton M Rankin, Sarah "Sally" Rankin, Theophilus Gender: Male Rankin, Elizabeth "Betsy"

ii. THOMAS RANKIN67, b. 09 Feb 178767; d. WFT Est. 1820-1878, Louisville, Kentucky67; m. JANE COLE67, 21 Sep 1815, Augusta Co., Virginia67; b. WFT Est. 1777-179867; d. WFT Est. 1820-188767. iii. ISABELLA RANKIN67, b. 07 Jan 1789, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. WFT Est. 1818-188367; m. ALEXANDER BIGGS67, 19 Feb 1812, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; b. WFT Est. 1766-179267; d. WFT Est. 1817-187967. iv. DAVID RANKIN67, b. 04 Feb 1791, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. 27 Mar 1814, Battle of Horseshoe Bend, War of 1812, Tallapoosa River67. v. JOHN RANKIN, REV.67, b. 04 Feb 1793, Dandridge, Dumplin Creek, Jefferson County,Tennessee67; d. 18 Mar 1886, Ironton, Lawrence, Ohio67; m. JANE GILFILLEN LOWRY67, 01 Jan 1816, Washington County, Tennessee67; b. 01 Dec 1795, Washington County, Tennessee67; d. 28 Dec 1878, Lyndon, Kansas67.

Notes for JOHN RANKIN, REV.: From "Early American Presbyterians" (http://sdsspc1.physics.lsa.umich.edu/amckay/presbior.htm#Rev. John Rankin2)

Rev. John Rankin (1793-1886) He was one of the most important early abolitionists. He was born in near Dandridge, Jefferson county, East Tennessee, February 4, 1793, the son of Jane Steele Rankin. He was educated at Washington College, studied theology under Samuel Doak, and licensed by the Abingdon Presbytery. Although he had determined to settle in a free state, upon the urging of Dr. James Blythe and John Lyle, he was for a time pastor of Caneridge and Concord (near Carlisle) churches in Nicholas and Bourbon counties, Kentucky. When the panic of 1819 hit Kentucky, many families in his congregation migrated to free states, eroding both his financial support and eliminating antislavery members of his flock. He came to Ohio in the spring of 1822 and was surrounded by ministers with strong anti-slavery sentiments, including James Gilliland, Robert G. Wilson,James H. Dickey, William Dickey, Dyer Burgess Samuel D. Hoge, Samuel Crothers and William Williamson. He was received from by Presbytery of Ebenezer, Kentucky, in 1822 by the Presbytery of Chillicothe and installed at the churches at Ripley and Straight Creek. In 1824 he began to publish a series of public letters to his slaveholding brother, attempting to convince him of the error of his ways. These letters were published in book form in 1826. William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, obtained a copy of the book and republished it in 1833. Ten editions of this work were eventually printed.

In the Old School/New School Schism in 1837 he began to urge his colleagues to join the New School in hopes that they could convince the other members to establish a church in which slaveholders were excluded from membership. In 1838 he hosted the meeting in Ripley, Ohio which resulted in the organization of the Presbytery of Ripley, a part of the New School Synod of Cincinnati. He was joined by James Gilliland, Dyer Burgess, Jesse Lockhart, James Gass and William Rogers -- about one-third of the old Presbytery of Chillicothe.Unfortunately, the New School was just as equivocal about slavery as the Old School had been.

In 1843, angered at the New School's failure to even affirm the General Assembly's resolution of 1818 on slavery being inconsistent with the laws of God he began to contact some Old School abolitionists about creating a new anti-slavery Presbyterian Church. Eventually, in 1847, he was the founder of what was called the Free Presbyterian Church of America, which excluded slaveholders from membership. There were at least seventy-two Free Church congregations scattered through southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania and ranging from New York to Iowa. Ten were located within the boundaries of the Old School Presbytery of Chillicothe. At its peak, the church probably numbered some 1,500 to 2,000 communicants. Although the church continued to attract Presbyterian congregations, the primary arena of anti-slavery effort became the evangelical alliance of the Christian Anti-Slavery Convention which met in Cincinnati in 1850 and in Chicago in 1851. These conventions produced lots of heat and angry rhetoric, but little action. The last Convention was sparsely attended in 1855.

In 1851, Rankin helped found an anti-slavery tract society, called the American Reform Tract and Book Society which published over 200 books and tracts through the early 1860's. Rankin himself wrote many of them. The Free Presbyterian Church launched its own newspaper, The Free Presbyterian, and founded Iberia College in 1854. Soon, however, the Church, which had never had strong growth, began to suffer from its lack of strong central organization over such a large territory. Rankin himself failed to provide the leadership the church needed to sustain itself. When the New School divided itself along sectional lines in 1857, leaving the northern churches with almost no slaveholders, he proposed and led a reunion with it against the desires of staunch abolitionist Dyer Burgess. The Old School also divided along North/South lines in 1861 and the resulting confusion led to greater fragmentation. After a prolonged and bitter struggle, Free Presbyterian Church at length united with the New School body. After the war, Mr. Rankin embraced the reunion of the Old and New Schools. Mr. Rankin died at Ironton, Ohio at the age of ninety-three, March 18, 1886.

vi. WILLIAM CLENDENNON RANKIN67, b. 01 Jun 1795, Dumplin Creek, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. 07 Mar 1889, Farmington, Iowa67; m. (1) JOANNE KELSO67, WFT Est. 1812-184567; b. WFT Est. 1791-181167; d. WFT Est. 1812-189567; m. (2) #4 JANE MC MANN67, WFT Est. 1812-184567; b. WFT Est. 1791-181167; d. WFT Est. 1812-189567; m. (3) #5 ELIZABETH C. JACKSON67, WFT Est. 1812-184567; b. WFT Est. 1791-181167; d. WFT Est. 1812-189567; m. (4) KATHERINE GAULT67, 30 Nov 181567; b. WFT Est. 1778-180267; d. WFT Est. 1820-189167; m. (5) #2 ELIZABETH BRADSHAW WHITE67, 13 May 1833, Cabarrus, North Carolina67; b. WFT Est. 1790-181667; d. WFT Est. 1838-190467. vii. JAMES GARDNER RANKIN67, b. 1797, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. WFT Est. 1825-188867; m. (1) # 2 JANE WILLOUGHBY67, WFT Est. 1814-184767; b. WFT Est. 1793-181367; d. WFT Est. 1814-189767; m. (2) SARA GAULT67, 04 Nov 1819, Blount County, Tennessee67; b. WFT Est. 1781-180567; d. WFT Est. 1824-189467. viii. RICHARD DUFFIELD RANKIN67, b. 04 Jul 1800, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. 21 Oct 1890, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; m. (1) NANCY MCCLURE67, 23 Nov 182867; b. WFT Est. 1790-181467; d. 29 Mar 183867; m. (2) MARY ANN CAROL WOODS67, 12 Jun 1838, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; b. 25 Oct 1816, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. 16 Nov 188667. ix. HERVEY RANKIN67, b. 1802, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. WFT Est. 1803-1892, Died in infancy67. x. ALEXANDER TAYLOR RANKIN, D.D.67, b. 04 Dec 1803, Dandridge,Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. 20 Apr 1885, Balltimore, Maryland67; m. MARY ANNMERRIWEATHER LOWRY67, 26 Oct 1829, Felicity, Brown County, Ohio67; b. 06 Jun 1810, Washington County, Tennessee67; d. 1910, Felicity,Ohio67. xi. ANDREW CAMPBELL RANKIN67, b. 07 Jul 1806, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. 1828, Virginia67; m. MARGARET ANDERSON67, 23 Mar 1826, Adams County, Ohio67; b. WFT Est. 1789-181367; d. WFT Est. 1831-190267. xii. ROBERT HENDERSON RANKIN67, b. 10 Jun 1810, Jefferson County, Tennessee67; d. 1840, Crawfordsville, Indiana67; m. ELIZA ROWE LOWRY67, 23 Apr 1833, Ripley, Brown County, Ohio67; b. 180867; d. 189867.

3. SAMUEL5 RANKIN (THOMAS4, JOHN3, WILLIAM2, ALEXANDER1)68,69 was born 175870, and died 182870. He married JANE ISABELLE PETTY71,72 WFT Est. 1777-180773,74. She was born 04 Apr 1764 in Pennsylvania75,76, and died 16 Jan 184677,78.

Children of SAMUEL RANKIN and JANE PETTY are: i. ISABELLE6 RANKIN79,80, b. 178581,82; d. WFT Est. 1819-188083,84; m. JAMES EATON85,86; b. WFT Est. 1766-179387,88; d. WFT Est. 1817-185889,90. ii. LUCY RANKIN91,92, b. WFT Est. 1780-180693,94; d. WFT Est. 1781-187495,96. iii. ELIZABETH "BETSY" RANKIN97,98, b. WFT Est. 1780-180699,100; d. WFT Est. 1781-1874101,102. iv. SARAH RANKIN103,104, b. WFT Est. 1780-1806105,106; d. WFT Est. 1781-1874107,108. v. MARY RANKIN109,110, b. WFT Est. 1780-1806111,112; d. WFT Est. 1781-1874113,114. vi. JOHN RANKIN115,116, b. WFT Est. 1780-1806117,118; d. WFT Est. 1781-1870119,120. vii. THOMAS RANKIN121,122, b. WFT Est. 1780-1806123,124; d. WFT Est. 1781-1870125,126.

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