Person:John McKinney (5)

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John McKinney
b.1735 Virginia
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Name John McKinney
Gender Male
Birth? 1735 Virginia
Marriage to Elizabeth McDowell
Other? 1802 Jessamine County, KYMoved
Death? 1810 Jessamine County, Kentucky

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South Carolina Land Grants:


  • John McKinney - 150 acres on Fishing Creek on 10 May 1768
  • John McKinney - 300 acres on Tinker’s Creek a fork of Fisher’s creek in Craven County on 11 Aug 1774. [1]


Some records of this John McKinney are contained in the Revolutionary War Pension File of John McKinney, who appears to be the son of this John McKinney, as follows:
query letter in file in 1939 from Mrs. William J. Johnson of Campobello, South Carolina, states a John McKinney (born abt. 1735 in Virginia) married Elizabeth McDowell, & their daughter Jane was born 9/11/1779 in Chester County (area then Craven County), South Carolina, & they moved to Jessamine County, Kentucky, before 1802, where John died abt. 1811, their two sons-in-law Ray Moss & John G. Brown.