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Charles McKinnis was born in Scotland near a town called BonaBonner betwene Edinburgh and Glasgow A.D. 1722. Was impressed into the British Army at age of 22 in England about 1744. His regiment I think was called the Granaedier's. He was in Gen. Ed. Braddack's ARMY in the FRENCH and INDIAN WAR: And was wounded in the left side and thigh. He was made a Captain, in 1755 he recined a PATENT for a track of land in Nova Scotia. Halifax is said to be setu ated on the track... when Charles McKinnis died in 1806 his papers were plac ed in the hand of a SQUIRE SKIELL and the papers were put into a pine box tha twould hold about two bushels and mice got into the box ate and destroyed th ePATENT. Pop was there in 1852 and Hiented for the PATENT but he said that atleast half of the papers that were in the box were destroyed, and he could not find anything like the PATENT... Charles McKinniss was married to Rachel Carr when he was 50 years old about 1772. Their oldest child was name WILLIAM. he was born 1773. Next was Robert, then Charles, Joseph, Geoage, and Marawet... Next was John, then a girl who died at age of 2 1/2 yrs. And last wasmy father
JAMES. My FATHER JAMES used to write his name with two ss at the end until about 1855. Then he dropped one S off. Uncle John, Charles, Ge orge,and Pop (James) were all together once, concluded to send Uncle John to see to getting the land, and something happenad so that he did not get off so that the claim state or GRANT was never settled.Charles McKinniss and Rachel Carr his wife are buried in Butler Cemetery, Bulter County, Pa. They ha ve TOMBSTONES of GRAY SANDSTONES but I don't know what is engraved on them... This record I Jennie Dot McKinniss copies from my father copies that my sister Ellen was keeping was writen by my Father Henry McKinnis. Lorraine took this copy from my Aunt Jennie Dot McKinnis Miller
Charles and Rachel 's nine children were born between 1773 and 1794.
Charles L McKinnis wrote this for the tenth annual reunion of the McKinnis family at Tecumseh's Trail, Lafayette, Indiana,13 August 1913: "There is a good deal in a NAME. The Name we want to perpetuate was brought to us across the "Briny Deep" from Scotland, where many of the name still live, by a soldier in Braddock's army of 2,000 men. It was Braddock who reached the Monongahela river in Pennsylvania on July 8th , 1755. Disregarding the advice of Washington and other frontiersman, he
pushed on, next day, to Fort Duquesne at the junction of that river and the Al egheny. In a two-hour hard fought battle with 900 French and Indians, Braddock was defeated and mortally wounded... In that battle the valiant and brave soldier, Charles McKinnis, was shot through, wounded in the left side and th igh.. This is the pivotal point on which hung the destiny of our name, the name that so many of us cherish. Thanks to that All-seeing Eye of our Heavenl y Father, the soldier survived. Had the wounds proved fatal, I would not be penning these lines,upholding a name, a house-hold word, in so many homes in nearly every state in the Union."Charles married Rachel in 1772 possibly in Butler County Pennsylvania.
Charles died 16 January 1806 in Butler County, and Rachel died 29 June 1816 in Butler County, Connoquenessing Township.1 ,3,4 They are bothburied in Butler County Cemetery.Great, Great, Great, Great, Grandfather, Charles McKinnis displayed the same pioneer spirit as hi s father: The McKinnis family is now a numerous and widely scattered clan, but only a little more than a century ago it was represented only by the members of the household of three of Jackson County's most prominent pioneers, Charles McKinnis, the grandfather of Charles W McKinnis of Coalton, was born in 1780 in Pennsylvania and in1802 emigrated to
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Alias:<ALIA> Joseph /McKinniss/
Alias:<ALIA> James /McKinniss/
From http://members.aol.com/dovelion/genealogy/mckinnis.htm March 30,2002.
Charles McKinnis was born in Scotland near a town called BonaBonner betwene Edinburgh and Glasgow A.D. 1722. Was impressed into the British Army at age of 22 in England about 1744. His regiment I think was called the Granaedier's. He was in Gen. Ed. Braddack's ARMY in the FRENCH and INDIAN WAR: And was wounded in the left side and thigh. He was made a Captain, in 1755 he recined a PATENT for a track of land in Nova Scotia. Halifax is said to be setu ated on the track... when Charles McKinnis died in 1806 his papers were plac ed in the hand of a SQUIRE SKIELL and the papers were put into a pine box tha twould hold about two bushels and mice got into the box ate and destroyed th ePATENT. Pop was there in 1852 and Hiented for the PATENT but he said that atleast half of the papers that were in the box were destroyed, and he could not find anything like the PATENT... Charles McKinniss was married to Rachel Carr when he was 50 years old about 1772. Their oldest child was name WILLIAM. he was born 1773. Next was Robert, then Charles, Joseph, Geoage, and Marawet... Next was John, then a girl who died at age of 2 1/2 yrs. And last wasmy father
JAMES. My FATHER JAMES used to write his name with two ss at the end until about 1855. Then he dropped one S off. Uncle John, Charles, Ge orge,and Pop (James) were all together once, concluded to send Uncle John to see to getting the land, and something happenad so that he did not get off so that the claim state or GRANT was never settled.Charles McKinniss and Rachel Carr his wife are buried in Butler Cemetery, Bulter County, Pa. They ha ve TOMBSTONES of GRAY SANDSTONES but I don't know what is engraved on them... This record I Jennie Dot McKinniss copies from my father copies that my sister Ellen was keeping was writen by my Father Henry McKinnis. Lorraine took this copy from my Aunt Jennie Dot McKinnis Miller
Charles and Rachel 's nine children were born between 1773 and 1794.
Charles L McKinnis wrote this for the tenth annual reunion of the McKinnis family at Tecumseh's Trail, Lafayette, Indiana,13 August 1913: "There is a good deal in a NAME. The Name we want to perpetuate was brought to us across the "Briny Deep" from Scotland, where many of the name still live, by a soldier in Braddock's army of 2,000 men. It was Braddock who reached the Monongahela river in Pennsylvania on July 8th , 1755. Disregarding the advice of Washington and other frontiersman, he
pushed on, next day, to Fort Duquesne at the junction of that river and the Al egheny. In a two-hour hard fought battle with 900 French and Indians, Braddock was defeated and mortally wounded... In that battle the valiant and brave soldier, Charles McKinnis, was shot through, wounded in the left side and th igh.. This is the pivotal point on which hung the destiny of our name, the name that so many of us cherish. Thanks to that All-seeing Eye of our Heavenl y Father, the soldier survived. Had the wounds proved fatal, I would not be penning these lines,upholding a name, a house-hold word, in so many homes in nearly every state in the Union."Charles married Rachel in 1772 possibly in Butler County Pennsylvania.
Charles died 16 January 1806 in Butler County, and Rachel died 29 June 1816 in Butler County, Connoquenessing Township.1 ,3,4 They are bothburied in Butler County Cemetery.Great, Great, Great, Great, Grandfather, Charles McKinnis displayed the same pioneer spirit as hi s father: The McKinnis family is now a numerous and widely scattered clan, but only a little more than a century ago it was represented only by the members of the household of three of Jackson County's most prominent pioneers, Charles McKinnis, the grandfather of Charles W McKinnis of Coalton, was born in 1780 in Pennsylvania and in1802 emigrated to
Cause of Death:<CAUS> In Ohio River
Alias:<ALIA> Chas /Byers/