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Daniel McAninch and his Family Group in 1790

Daniel McAninch, pioneer in Lincoln and Casey Counties, Kentucky

Daniel McAninch was born ca.1750 (1748-1752), in (British Crown Colony) northern Ireland

(probably northern County Antrim, Ulster province, although the exact date and place of his birth

and the names of his parents are not known). [Daniel Notes] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

Daniel McAninch came across the Atlantic into colonial Pennsylvania, and married Mary Smith,

11 June 1776, at Conococheague Presbyterian Church, Cumberland County, colonial Pennsylvania

(the location is now part of Franklin County, Pennsylvania). Daniel and his family followed the

classic Ulster Scots migration pattern westward across the Appalachians, from Cumberland County

(1776-1786) [‘Mother Cumberland’, Note 13], through Bedford County, and Daniel was probably

on the Allegheny frontier in 1788 (unclaimed letter at the Pittsburgh Post Office) (Pittsburgh is in

Allegheny County). Daniel was then counted in Westmoreland County in the 1790 census.

On the 1790 census, Daniel McAninch is enumerated near the end of the Washington Township

list (the 10th name on pg.70). The nine names above Daniel McAninch on the list (pg.70) are

Richard Ferris(sp?), Samuel Hoy(Hog?), George Painter, John Reynolds, Mich'l Sharpe(sp?),

Wm Guthrie(sp?), Sam'l Beatty, Wm. Beatty, and John Beatty. The fourteen names after Daniel

at the end of the Washington Township list are James Roy, Hugh Rowlands, John Guthrie,

James Grey, Alexander Erwin(sp?), James Hill, Thomas Laughlin, Amos Owens, Wm Owens,

James (surname?), Thomas Doyle, Thomas Davis, Wm. Plath(?), and Joseph Thornell(sp?).

Some of these other people were probably friends and neighbors of Daniel McAninch, although

there is no record of the path that the Marshall rode through Washington Township for the census.

The total counts for Washington Township are on the same page at the end of the township list:

"197 184 323 1 1" in ‘1790 census’ counts (pg.70):

197 Free white males, 16 years and upward, including heads of families,

184 Free white males under 16 years (for example, a son, born 1775-1790),

323 Free white females, 1 Other free person, and 1 Slave.

In 1790, Daniel McAninch’s immediate family was probably just 4 people:

(1) Daniel himself, head of household, b.ca.1750 (1748-1752), about 40 years old;

(2) his wife (Mary Smith), age probably 30-40 years, and their first two children:

(3) John McAninch, son, b.1779-1780, prob. Pennsylvania, went to Kentucky and Tennessee [22];

(4) Samuel McAninch, son, b.ca. 5 Feb. 1789, in Pennsylvania (prob. Westmoreland Co.) [23].

So, Daniel’s immediate family would have been only "1 2 1 0 0" in ‘1790 census’ counts:

(a) 1 Male over 16 (Daniel, about 40);

(b) 2 Males 16 or under(John, age 10-11, and Samuel, age ~ 1 year), and

Daniel’s oldest (known) daughters were born after 1790, and are not on the 1790 census:

(d.1) Peggy (poss. Elizabeth?), b.1794-1798, in Tennessee or Kentucky, mar. John White in 1814;

(d.2) Rhoda, born 1794-1800, in Tennessee or Kentucky, married Peter Robinson in 1817.

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"Daniel McAninch and John McAninch in the 1790 Census", Copyright Frank McAninch

McAninch Family History Newsletter, v.XXXII (32) n.1 / June 2024 / page 2024-05