Person:David Kelsay (5)

Information on David Kelsay

From Genforum.com post:

7. DAVID2 KELSAY (JOHN1) was born 1754 in York County, Pennsylvania, and died in Rives, Missouri. He married JANE KINKADE August 12, 1791 in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, daughter of ANDREW KINKADE and JEAN. She was born Abt. 1773.

Notes for DAVID KELSAY: David Kelsay, born 1750-60 in York Co., Pennsylvania. David moved to Botetourt County, Virginia, where he raised and sold hemp. In 1779 he moved to Kentucky, settling in Lincoln County. In 1782-83 David served in the War of Independence in aiding to repel the invasion of enemy Indians and in helping to build a fort at the Falls of the Ohio. David later returned to Rockbridge County, Virginia, where he married in August of 1791 to Jean Kinkade, daughter of Andrew and Jean Kinkade. They later moved to Washington County, Tennessee, where the only evidence of his residence there is when his name appeared on a jury list. On September 28, 1807, David purchased 90 acres in Barren County, Kentucky. David moved by the 1830's (if not earlier) to Rives County, Missouri, where he is residing in 1840 as a man of between 80 and 90 years. He died by 1850. It is believed he had at least three sons, namely Andrew, Samuel and David. The latter, father of Ben, Andrew and Sam Kelsey for whom Kelseyville, Lake County, California was named, took part in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, and later crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843.

Children of DAVID KELSAY and JANE KINKADE are:

      i.       ANDREW3 KELSAY.
      ii.       SAMUEL KELSAY.

19. iii. DAVID KELSAY, b. Abt. 1792.

1.   Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of California. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah).

   Bancroft's Bear Flagger List
   In what he claimed was the first listing of the 32 or 33 men who took Sonoma on 6/14/1846, Hubert H. Bancroft lists the following names:
   
   “Ezekiel Merritt, Wm B. Ide, John Grigsby, Robert Semple, H. L. Ford, Wm Todd, Wm Fallon, Wm Knight, Wm Hargave, Sam. Kelsey, G. P. Swift, Sam. Gibson, W. W. Scott, Benj. Dewell, Thos Cowie, Wm B. Elliott, Thos Knight, Horace Sanders, Henry Booker, Dav. Hudson, John Sears, and most of the following: J. H. Kelly, C. C. Griffith, Harvey Porterfield, John Scott, Ira Stebbins, Marion Wise, Ferguson, Peter Storm, Pat. McChristian, Bartlett Vines, Fowler, John Gibbs, Andrew Kelsey, and Benj. Kelsey."