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town almost fifty-seven years. As to my family, my wife and I have had six children, of whom |
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three are dead, and three are living. As to publick offices, in the year 1821, I was elected for |
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Justice of Peace in the County of Ontario. Not long after that, the counties were divided, |
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Livingston being set off. I was out of office, and glad was I. I found it was more loss than profit |
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for me at that time. Being lone-handed at that time, some thought I had better take the office again, |
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but I declined. I thought I could do better without it. As for our town officers, before the County |
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was divided, it was then the town of Sparta. The chief town officers were Wm. McCartney, Esq., |
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for supervisor, and David McNair, Esq., for town clerk, for many years. |
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[1] “Matthew McNinch” letter . . . the handwritten pages are a copy of the original letter. The |
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typewritten pages are copied from the family history that my father, Robert McNinch, compiled |
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in 1993. The first paragraph of the typewritten pages is the introduction written by my father . . . |
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He transcribed the handwritten copy; it's as close as possible, with the exception of a few typos. |
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[2] Copies of the ‘Matthew McNinch letter’ (transcribed, and xerox of original hand-written letter) |
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were received from Meredith (McNinch) Chilson, 5680 County Road 2B, Belmont, New York |
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14813, email <ny2b@infoblvd.net>. Meredith wrote “The ‘Matthew McNinch letter’ was in |
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papers that my father [Robert McNinch] received from his father-[Harry Thomas McNinch], |
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it has been passed through the generations in this way.” -- |
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[3] Matthew McNinch (b. 3 Mar 1784, d. 18 Mar 1867), married 1815, Sarah Coller (b. 23 Jan. |
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1792, d. 1 May 1863), lived near Conesus, Ontario / Livingston Co., New York, and had four |
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children: Maria(h), b. 28 Nov 1817, d. 13 Aug 1902; James, b. 30 Nov 1819, d. 11 Mar 1891; |
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Thomas C., b 17 Apr 1822,d. 5 Nov 1836; and John, b. 11 Nov 1827, d. 11 Mar 1911. |
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[4] John McNinch, the youngest son (b. 1827), mar. Clarissa Cruger (b 20 Oct 1830, d 14 Nov. |
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1899); and they had nine children: Matthew Eugene, Ella, Lewis, Maline Louise, Sarah “Lizzie”, |
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Alonzo Cruger (b 7 Feb 1860, d 8 Jan 1937), George Washington, James Harrison, and Susan. |
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[5] Alonzo Cruger McNinch (b. 1860), married Ida Thomas ( b 9 May 1859, d 23 Aug 1936), and |
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had two children: Harry Thomas (b 18 Nov 1885, d 25 Sept. 1962), and Gates Eugene McNinch. |
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[6] Harry Thomas McNinch (b. 1885), married Florence Hall (b 15 July 1891, d 15 Sept. 1976); |
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had seven children: Mary Ida, James Thomas, Robert Hall, John Gates, Louise Ann, Louis Arthur, |
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and Harry Thomas II. This family continued to live in the same area, upstate, western New York. |
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[7] Robert Hall McAninch, Meredith’s father, still has the original ‘Matthew McNinch letter’. |
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[Notes 8, 9, 10 added April 2016 /Frank] |
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[8] Date ‘about 1861’: Matthew McNinch 'born 1784', 'came to Conesus at age 18', and ‘lived in |
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Conesus 57 years' dates this letter ca.1860-1861 ((b.1784)+(~18)+(57yrs)) (definitely not ~1850) |
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[9] “Pattrick”, name written with two ‘t’s, in both places in Matthew’s original handwritten letter |
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[10] original contents preserved, three pages re-formatted slightly to allow printing on 3 sheets |
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McAninch Family History NL, VIII-4 October 2000 Copyright Frank McAninch page 2000-32 |
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