Miscellaneous info, and Nuggets from recent letters (by States, alphabetical order) |
Kentucky: 1816,1817; John McAninch, son of Daniel, has already gone to Giles County, Tennessee |
(he’s on their 1812 Tax List), and his name is referenced on the land surveys of two new owners – |
1816-12-30 [survey, Casey Co.] “Minnich [sic], John, Assigned claim to Robert Price”, and |
1817-10-08 [survey, Casey Co.] “McImmick [sic], John, Assigned claim to Richard Shackleford”; |
page 386, in Some Original Land Grant Surveys Along Green River in Lincoln and Casey Counties, Kentucky (1781-1836), by James Franklin Sutherland, pub. Casey County Bicentennial Committee [Liberty, KY], 1975 (also names “Potts, Frederick” on both surveys) [LDS fiche 6051189, 5 of 6]. |
New Brunswick: re McIninch, McNintch, and MacNintch -- “The story has been passed down in the |
family that Asa changed the spelling to McNintch” [cf. "McIninch, Asa, boot and shoemaker, born |
circa 1831 in N.B., living in 1851 in Wakefield Parish” (N.B.) (McA.F.H.NL, August 1996, pg.3)]. |
Asa’s son, Rev. Abner Mesereau MacNintch, was a Baptist minister in New Brunswick and Nova |
Scotia. “Abner is my husband’s grandfather. My husband’s father Laurie moved to Moncton, New |
Brunswick from Nova Scotia around 1916, and his brother Robie also lived there, and they changed |
the name to Mac spelling. I have been doing research for about 25 years and never have found any |
McNinchs with a T except our immediate family. I recently received [copy of] the 50th anniversary |
invitation for Asa and Catherine with the name spelled McNintch.” [mar. 1858 (New Brunswick?)] |
letter from Joan Nugent MacNintch, 20 Pepperidge Trail, Old Saybrook, Connecticut 06475 |
Pennsylvania: 1750-1753, Cumberland Co. Tax Lists; earlier reports of “McCannish” in Hamilton |
Twp. (pg. 43, 1753 on pg. 80) and Peters Twp. (1753, pg. 86) are really “McCamish”, a common |
surname there, on microfilm “J.B.H. Roll No. 45 April 1950”, by Genealogical Society of Utah; at |
the start of the film: “The written list of Taxables was compiled from data contained in I.D. Rupp’s |
History of Cumberland and from a list published in American Volunteer [newspaper] in May 1871” |
[so, the 1950 film, and recent Cumberland County Tax List publications (e.g. Merri Lou Scribner |
Schaumann, 1972, 1988), relied on earlier transcriptions, and the original records have been lost]. |
Pennsylvania: 1798 Direct Tax. “Under Act of 14 July 1798 (1 Stat. 597), Congress created the |
first tax of its citizens . . . [Pennsylvania] lists are the most complete in existence, and are available |
on microfilm . . . [however] No records exist for Western Penna. north of the Allegheny River, |
territory which in 1798 was part of Allegheny County.” . . . |
“(Information is from: Pamphlet accompanying Microcopy 372: United States Direct Tax of 1798 |
for the State of Pennsylvania, National Archives and Records Service, 1963; and Guide to |
Genealogical Research in the National Archives, 1982)”, cited by Helen L. Harriss C.G., Pittsburg, |
in her 1986 Index Books to the 1798 Direct Tax in Pennsylvania. |
Pennsylvania: 1808, "McEnineh, Archible [sic] I 150A" ["Improved" land, 150 acres], on Tax List, |
Toby Township, Armstrong County, re-printed in Armstrong County Genealogy Club Quarterly, |
Vol. I, No. 1, pg. 12, Fall Quarterly 1995, at 300 N. McKean, Box 735, Kittanning, Pennsylvania. |
This is Archibald McAninch, born ca.1760-1770, Westmoreland County Frontier Rangers (1794), |
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County (1810 Census), and then downriver to Ohio (1820 and |
1830 Census), as reported earlier this year (McAninch F.H.NL, Vol. IV, No. 2, May 1996, pg. 4). |
Pennsylvania: est.1820-1825. Nancy McAninch mar. Hugh Gillispie, and their son Cornelius |
Gillispie was born 20 Jan. 1826. Cornelius was a merchant, mar. Jane Spencer, and, at age 27, |
died 28 May 1853, Manorville, Armstrong Co. (cause of death: "empyeme of the left side the -?- |
of plumetis"), buried "Culpst (?) Burial, 1/2 mi. from Redbank". Register of Deaths, 1853-1855, |
Armstrong County Courthouse, entry No. 36; Lankerd-Thomas Library, Armstrong County |
Historical Society, Kittanning, Pennsylvania. |
McAninch Family History Newsletter Vol. IV, No. 4, December 1996 page 1996-30 |