Combining the male names (e.g. Daniel, William) with the acreage, tax rate ('2r' 2nd‑rate,

'3r' 3rd‑rate, or '?r' unknown), name of the watercourse, and county name annotations like

"Daniel (200a 3r, Fishing Cr, Lincoln)" and "William (286a ?r, Rock Lick Cr, Pulaski)"

makes it easier to follow multiple land parcels connected with the different McAninch men,

and to follow the different events (Land Grant or Purchase, Entered, Surveyed, Patented,

Recorded Deeds, Sale or transfer, etc.) for each parcel of land during these early years.

Daniel McAninch and his sons John and Samuel had multiple parcels of land during the

first 10 years in the 1797-1807 records, all in Lincoln County:

Daniel (200a 3r, Fishing Cr, Lincoln)  1799, 1802, 1803, 1805, 1806           (1802?) [EKL]

Daniel (140a 3r, Fishing Cr, Lincoln)  1801 (Casey Co. 1808, Survey 1812, Grant 1814)

Daniel (400a 3r, Fishing Cr, Lincoln)  1802, 1803        (Sold 1813, Recorded 1817) [D400]

John (200a 2r, Rock Lick Fork of Fishing Creek, Lincoln) (2nd‑rate)  1801, 1803, 1804

John (100a 3r, Fishing Creek, Lincoln)  1804

Samuel (135a ?r, Rock Lick Fork of Fishing Cr., Lincoln)  1801 (Survey 1813, Grant 1836)

William McAninch also had multiple parcels of land in the 1797-1807 records, in both

Lincoln County and Pulaski County (and recorded with a wide range of acreage values):

William (100a 2r, Fishing Creek, Pulaski) (2nd‑rate)  1799, 1800     (Survey 108a?) [Brck]

William (250a 3r, Fishing Creek, Pulaski)  1802

William (286a ?r, Rock Lick Creek, Pulaski)  1802 (Survey 1807, Grant 1840, Sales 1841)

William (352-1/2 acres 3r, "Lincoln + Pulaski" (sic)) (Lincoln County Tax List)  1802

William (375a 3r, Fishing Creek, Lincoln)  1803

William (200a 3r, Fishing Creek, Lincoln)  1804

William (323a 3r, Fishing Creek, Lincoln)  1805

William (143a 3r, Fishing Creek, Lincoln)  1806

McAninch in Kentucky, 1797-1807

June

June 12, 1797: William McAninch and his family arrived in Lincoln County in 1797.

1797

William’s entry in the 1797 Tax List recorded 1 White male over 21 (William himself),

1 White Male over 16 but under 21 (probably his son James, big for his age?, and possibly

qualified for the county militia?), no Blacks, and no land acreage (William had not made

any land claim yet). Commissioner James Berry also recorded that William had paid no

Lincoln County taxes for any of the previous five years, confirming that 1797 was

William's first year in Lincoln County. [LCT] [CBL.a] [1797 William]

Oct.

Late in the fall of 1797, a year after William McAninch had taken his family to Kentucky,

1797

Daniel McAninch sold his 100 acres in Greene County, eastern Tennessee, on October 21,

1797, and, traveling during the winter of 1797-1798, when the roads were passable,

Daniel and his family also went through the Cumberland Gap and down the wagon-wide

Wilderness Road to Lincoln County, Kentucky. [Note GrnT]

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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.2026-04

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