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Examination of multiple county land and tax records, township tax records, local churches and

their membership and marriage records, volumes of the published Pennsylvania Archives, and

all available colonial, state and federal sources in these counties show that there are no other

‘Daniel (Mc/Mac)(An/In/N)in(ch/sh)’ candidates anywhere in colonial Pennsylvania [Note 6].

Early Counties in Colonial Pennsylvania

(1681) Pennsylvania Colony (Province of Pennsylvania),was founded in English North America

by William Penn on March 4, 168, by royal charter granted by King Charles II. The Penn’s held

the proprietary charter until the American Revolution, when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

was created, one of the original thirteen states. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Pennsylvania

(1685) Three original counties, Bucks, Chester, and Philadelphia, were defined [Note 7, p.224]

(1729) Lancaster County, created 10 May 1729, from Chester Co. (inc. Bedford area) [7, p.135]

(1749) York County, created 19 Apr. 1749, from Lancaster (including Adams area) [7, p.270]

(1750) Cumberland County was created 27 Jan. 1750, from Lancaster and Non-County (frontier)

areas, and stretched from the Susquehanna River on the east, to the Forks of the Ohio on the west,

and Maryland on the south. It is often referred to as “Mother Cumberland” because of the twenty

counties later created from it: Bedford, Franklin, Somerset, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland,

Cambria, Blair, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, and Centre coutnies, and parts of Allegheny, Beaver,

Armstrong, Indiana, Clearfield, Clinton, Union and Snyder counties [Notes 7, 8, 9], and

(1760s-1770s) Daniel McAninch (b.Ireland), and any other early McA/I/Ninch’s, would have

come into Penn’s Colony through Philadelphia (at that time, both Ireland and Pennsylvania were

British crown colonies, so, only ‘head count’ records, no passenger lists with names) [Note 4].

(1770) Cumberland County had 28 townships: Hopewell (1735), Antrim (1741), East Pennsboro

and West Pennsboro (1745), Middleton (1750), Guilford, Hamilton, Lurgan, and Peters (1751),

Ayr, Fannett, Fermanagh, Lack, and Tyrone (1754), Letterkenny (1761), Toboyne (1763),

Allen and Rye (1766), Barree, Bedford Twp., Colerain, Cumberland Valley Twp., Derry, Dublin,

Greenwood, Newton, and Penn Twp. (1767), Milford (1768), and Armagh (1770) [Note 8].

(1770-1814) Cumberland County Tax Lists (each year, they made at least two copies of the list,

not all copies can be found today): Daniel in 1770, 1779, 1785, 1786, see below [Notes 10, 11].

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McAninch Family History Newsletter v.XXVII n.1 June 2019 p.2019-04