Person:William McKennan (1)

William McKennan was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Land Records

• The heirs of John Robinson sold slightly more than 125 acres in New Castle County, Delaware to the Reverend William McKennan on August 2, 1765. This property was originally granted by William Penn in 1684 to Samuel Land. [Source: http://mosesrawlings.freeservers.com/hedges.html].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Page 236. - Mathew Wilson, administrator to the legatees of Col. John Wilson, deceased, estate Dr. - A statement of the whole; 1773, paid 18th April, to Patrick Crawford, legatee; 1773, paid, 14th December, to James Ewing, legatee; 1774, paid 20th April, to Wm. McKennan, legatee. (Note: Col. John Wilson was the father-in-law of William McKennan).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.

   Rev. William McKennan, born in Scotland in 1715, died in Wilmington, Delaware in 1809; married ______ Wilson, born in Winchester, Virginia, died in Wilmington, Delaware.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find A Grave.

   William C McKennan
   Birth: 1719
   Death: May 5, 1809
   
   
   Inscription:
   REVOLUTIONARY WAR
   
   
   Burial:
   Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery
   Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
   
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=mckennan&GSfn=william&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1809&GSdyrel=in&GSst=10&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=9124196&df=all&

3.   Bateman, Thomas H; Wilfred Jordan; and John W. (John Woolf) Jordan. Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania: genealogical and personal memoirs. (New York, New York: Lewis Pub. Co., c1911-1965).

   Rev. William McKennan, the ancestor of the McKennan family, of Washington, Pennsylvania, came to America about 1750. He was born of Scotch lineage in the north of Ireland, in 1719. He was licensed by the Newcastle Presbytery before May, 1752, and was sent by the Synod of Philadelphia to supply North and South Mountains, Timber Grove, North River and Cook's Creek, and at John Hinson's in Virginia. He spent seven or eight months in the south. Before May, 1756, he was settled at Wilmington and Red Clay. He resigned the charge of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington in 1794, but continued at Red Clay until his death. He was venerated for his years and his piety. He died at Red Clay, Pennsylvania, in 1809, and is buried in the Red Clay Creek burying ground. He married --- Wilson, of Winchester, Virginia.