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ALEXANDER SAMUEL MCKINSTRY
I have been adding to the McKinstry documentation over the past several months and have come up with at least six who were in the Revolutionary War: Alexander of 1733, James Ross, George Stuysevant and his son Tobias, John Jackson and perhaps his father James, Alexander and his father Thomas and perhaps more.
One link that I have that is a little weak is through Harriet Stivenson. She was the daughter of William S and Margaret Lynch. She wed Aaron Eakman in 1858 and he died in a Civil War battle in 1862 leaving her with a son, Luster. Harriet wed Alexander Samuel McK in 1864. The two of them had eight children. Alexander died after the 1900 census and by 1910 the rest of the entire family had moved to Texas.
My missing link is a piece of paper that would convincingly link the 1850 census in which Harriet is with her family to the 1870 census where Harriet is with Alexander. A will from William S ro a pair of marriage records would do. Does anyone know if such a paper exists?
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Permalink Reply by Dora Smith on
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Fred, are you talking about the Bucks County McKinstry's? There is a guy who's been doing alot of research on them; I can pass on your query. But your query is short on detail. Names sound like the Bucks County McKinstry's, but Ross is a common name and the other names tend to be shared by all McKinstry's. Where did these people live? Besides Texas?
Yours,
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Permalink Reply by Fred Close on
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The folks I listed were all of Alexander and started in Bucks and then moved on to Cumberland, Mifflin, Armstrong and Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Only the family of Harriet went to Texas. Others spread into Ohio, Iowa and I suspect several other mid-west states.
There was a second Bucks County line of Nathan, Samuel and Eleanor and that line pretty much stayed in the Bucks County area. This is a line that you should talk into joining your project as they also seem to have come from CarrickFergus.
The third line is your New England group.
There may be a fourth line that started out in North Carolina about 1700. I have only picked up a few hints and have no direct information.
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