Person:Thomas Rankin (4)

Land Record in Tennessee

Deed in Jefferson Co, TN, 1794: From Thomas Rankin to Hugh Frazier this fourteenth day of January 1794 between Thomas Rankin of the territory of the United States of America South of the River Ohio and Jefferson County of the one part and Hugh Frazier of the County aforesaid.... a certain piece or tract of Land for and in consideration of the sum of forth pounds virginia money to me the said Rankin in hand paid by the said Frazier... of a tract of land of four hundred acres granted to me said Rankins by the state of North Carolina having Date April the 14th 1793, and number 1048 being the number from the office for the patents for Green County & lying on the Waters of Dumplin Creek Jefferson County...

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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

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Brøderbund Software, Inc. World Family Tree Vol. 17, Ed. 1. (Release date: December 11, 1997)
   Tree #1700.

   Date of Import: Jan 26, 1999

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} wft17-1700.FTW.

   Date of Import: Jan 26, 1999

3. ↑ World Family Tree, Cd.