Oct.

William McAninch (b.bef.1765, age at least 30-31) married "Doshia Dosey" (Laodieca?

1796

Ladosha? Ladisha?) (Dawson? Lawson? Rawson? Rosson? Rowson?), on 7 Oct, 1796, in

Greene County, eastern Tennessee. Shortly after the marriage, William McAninch, his oldest

known son James (probable age 10-11 in 1796), and his new wife went through the

Cumberland Gap and down the Wilderness Road to Lincoln County, Kentucky, leaving in

the fall and traveling through the winter, when the roads were passable. Notes [GrnT] [Jms]

1797

We do not know why William McAninch chose to settle in the "Fishing Creek" area of

Lincoln County in 1797, south-west of Stanford, but we do know that Daniel McAninch

and his family followed them down the Wilderness Road and also settled in the same area.

Early Lincoln County Records

The Commissioners’ Books, land records (surveys, deeds, court records) and tax records,

are the best sources for tracing early McAninch activities here in the 1797-1807 period.

Each of the three districts in Lincoln County had a Commissioner responsible for his district,

possibly a militia captain, a minister, or another local leader appointed by the county court.

The Commissioner rode his district and recorded men available for the militia, land acreage

and tax rates, location in a watercourse / watershed area, and other information. These early

Commissioners' Books are the most valuable source of specific information for this time.

The "McAninch in the Lincoln County Kentucky, Tax Books 1787-1805" extraction from

the early Lincoln County Commissioners' Books was published in early 1994. [LCT]

The 1765-1846 "Time Line, McAninch Events, Early Lincoln / Pulaski / Casey Counties,

Kentucky" (including 1797-1807) was published later that same year, August 1994. [TLin]

Early Kentucky land records and tax records are described in multiple sources. [KLR]

The Early Kentucky Landholders, 1787-1811 book indexes these tax records, with 20

McAninch entries (Daniel, John, and William) on two pages [EKL] [EKL p212] [EKLp213]

Three McAninch land survey records have been indexed in "Grants South of Green River"

section in the Kentucky Land Grants book, by Willard Rouse Jillson - [GSG]

William (286a Rock Lick Cr), Survey 6-29-1807, Pulaski Co. Bk.29 p.92 (J. book p.374)

Daniel (140a Fishing Cr), Survey 8-8-1812, Casey Co. Bk.14 p.406 (Jillson book p.370)

Samuel (135a Rock Lick Cr), Survey 8-15-1813, Casey Co. Bk.28 p.449, (J. book p.370)

(1st‑rate, 2nd‑rate, and 3rd‑rate land) Kentucky General Assembly legislation (1793) . . .

taxpayers were to list the acreage and county for each tract they owned. Additionally, the

legislature divided the lands into three classes by "quality" i.e. first, second, and third-rate.

First-rate land was taxed at three shillings, second-rate land was taxed at one shilling and

six pence, and third-rate land at nine pence per one hundred acres. [KLR]

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McAninch in Kentucky, 1797-1807, The First 10 Years

McAninch Family History Newsletter, v.XXXIV (34) n.1  / August 2026  /  p.2026-03

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