Person:William Clinkenbeard (1)

About William Clinkenbeard

From FemilyTreeMaker:

Based upon the preponderance of evidence, most researchers have concluded that William was the son of John Clinkenbeard (born c.1692, died before 1733/4), and that William was born in 1725, the eleventh year of the reign of King GEORGE I, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, presumably in the town of Northampton. He died in April 1823 near Winchester in Clarke County, Kentucky. William married first, in 1754, probably in either Northampton, Bucks County, or Connolloway Creek, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, (Jane?) Linn, born c.1735 probably in Northampton, died in 1763, the daughter of William Linn and Jane Addis. William married second, in about 1766, probably in Shepherdstown, Frederick County, Virginia, Hester Van Metre.

On 9 July 1755 when their first child, John, was born, William and his wife were living on the plantation of William's father-in-law, William Linn, at Conolloway Creek in Cumberland (now Fulton) County on the Pennsylvania frontier adjacent to the Maryland border. William Linn, in March 1755, had been issued a land patent warrant for 100 acres of land on Connolloway Creek, a small portion of which extended over the border into Maryland. William Clinkenbeard and his father-in-law, William Linn, were two of the signers of a petition dated 29 September 1755 that was sent to His Excellency, The Honourable Robert Hunter Morris, Esquire, the Royal Governor of Pennsylvania. The Petition related to a dispute as to the location of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Sheriff of Frederick County, Maryland, had warned the settlers, who believed their land to be in Pennsylvania, that he would "take all ye land . . our goods, chatels, horses, or anything yt he can find for ye levies or taxis" that he claimed were due Maryland.[a]

The British settlers at Connolloway Creek were subject to deadly Indian raids during the "French and Indian War" of 1754 to 1763 in which the Indians were allied with France against Great Britain. On Thursday, 26 February 1756, during one such Indian attack, the Linn and Clinkenbeard families sought safety in nearby Fort Combes (pr. cooms), located just inside the Pennsylvania border about two miles north of Hancock, Maryland, between four miles south of the town at the convergence of (Little) Conolloway Creek and the Potomac River in Frederick Co., Maryland.[b] William's brother-in-law, John Linn, was killed, John's brother, Thomas Linn, was scalped, blinded, and maimed for life, and yet another brother, Isaac Linn, was taken captive by the Indians and kept for eleven years. (A detailed contemporary report by an eye-witness, Isaac Baker, appeared in the 11 March 1756 issue of THE MARYLAND GAZETTE.)[c]

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http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/o/John-E-Stockman/GENE16-0004.html