SOME DESCENDANTS of MORDECAI McKINNEY Edited by Gerald McKinney Petty and Eulah McKinney Ridgway 19 5 3 This edition consists of 200 copies, of which this is copy number INTRODUCTION About 1930 Ada McKinney Petty, Eulah McK1nney Ridgway, and Gerald McKinney Petty gathered and recorded a fairly complete list of the descendants of Ebenezer McKinney and his wife Susannah Rutherford McKinney. Since most of the descendants lived in a small area in the northeast part of Randolph County, Missouri, the task was not difficult. In 1951 Eulah Ridgway and Gerald Petty decided to publish this genealogy. In addition, the record was extended back another three generations to Mordecai McKinney and his wife Mary Sebring McKinney. Any descendant of this couple whose record was made available to us was included. No attempt bas been made to achieve a complete list of their descendants. The major correspondents concerned with this part of the text include Walter McKinney, Mrs. Clara Niven, Martin Greely, Mrs. H. W. Davis, Mrs. Mary Barley, Mrs. Earl· G. Wyatt, Mrs. Mary Craig, Miss Willa Griffin, and Wm. R. Laalona:n. Their help and advice are gratefully acknowledged. Most of them were not allowed sufficient time to obtain complete infor­ mation. In addition to the editors, Mrs. Wyatt, Mrs. Barley, and Miss Griffin have proofread the entire text one or more times. More than one hundred persons have had an oppor­ tuni·ty to proofread portions of particular concern to them, and perhaps three-fourths of them did so. We consider this a grattlying response. We are aware that it is impossible to publish a book of this sort which is free from errors, and will appreciate being informed of errors when they are found. We are aware that there are conflicting and irrecon­ cilable statements in the text, and that there are too many loose ends. Where there were conflicting state­ ments, and no obvious choice between them, we have usually inserted both statements. It would be much more satisfactory i:f' we could make final and irrevoca­ ble statements about our remote ancestors, but we have had to build this account of them from badly scattered scraps of evidence. Actually we have discarded as unreliable or irrelevant at least as much evidence as we have used (some of these notes are in Appendix C). This book asks more questions than it answerst Photographs were furnished by so many persons that it is impossible to give credit where it is due. Most pictures of living persons were furnished by ii INTRODUCTION themselves. Several persons lent very valuable old pictures. Persons whose names are in this book, or whose names should. be in this book, are particularly requested to write to one or both of the editors ·during the years 1960, 1970, and 1980, bringing their part of the record up to date. Supplements to books such as this one are often promised, but rarely produced. Without this information, a second edition would be nearly impossible. A complete biography includes (1) a number which has been arbitrarily assigned to each descendant of Mordecai McKinney and Mary Sebring McKinney, (2) after the second generation, a number in parentheses, which refers to his or her parents, (3) the date and place of birth, and, where appropriate, the date and place of marriage, of death, and place of burial, (4) for the husband or wife, the same, plus the names of his or her parents, with the years {only) of their birth and death, (5) names of children, (6) second or later marriages, followed by the names of children which resulted therefrom, (7) other data, including particu­ larly occupation, school, church, ~~d political records, military records, organizations, with addi­ tional items of particular interest to the individuals concerned. It is hoped that, in addition to current i.~terest, these brief biographies, with the inclusion of references to other records, both printed and legal, will make it possible for interested persons, perhaps a century hence, to learn more about the people described here. If we could have had this sort of information about the earlier members of this family, our task would have been mu.ch easier. In the first four or five generations only, all available ancestral data have been included. An estimate of the total number of descendants of Mordecai McKinney and Mary Sebring McKinney has been made. They had seven children: through three of them they had at least 50 great-grandchildren. One of these 50 was Archibald (46): we have the names of 228 of his descendants, and indications that there were many more. Another of these 50 was Ebenezer ( 65): we have the names of 171 of his descendants, and this group may be complete. Using these numbers, we calculate: 228 171 x SO x ( ) = about 23,000 descendants. We *., 2 consider this a reasonable minimum estimate. This book contains, therefore, not more than three to four per cent of the descendants of this couple. INTRODUCTION iii We appreciate the orders for this book which were received before publication. The persons ··who sent these orders have made it possible for us to publish this book. Scotch Plains, New Jersey Cairo, Missouri March 30, 1953. ABBREVIATIONS b. born cem. cemetery d. died dau. daughter (of) Lin.Co.~. Lincoln County, Kentucky. m. married ML Marriage License r (R} residence; lives at; lived last at; last known address Ran.Co.Mo. Randolph County, Missouri. SCHQ Somerset County, New Jersey, Historical Quarterly; 8 volumes, 1912-19. 1884 Hist. History of Randolph and Macon Counties, Missouri. St. Louis. National Historical Co. 1884. 1920 Hist. History of Randolph County, Missouri. Alexander H. Waller. Historical Publishing Co • , Topeka, Cleveland. 1920. FIRST GENERATION 1. Mordecai :McKINNEY, probably b. about 1690, probably 1n Scotland; m. probably 171;, probably in East Jersey; d. 1759 or 1760 in Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Mary SEB(E)RING, perhaps a granddaughter of Roelof (f) Sebring, probably b. near the present Raritan, New Jersey. 2. John McKINNEY. ;. William McKINNEY. 4. Daniel McKINNEY. 5. Jacob McKINNEY. 6. Ann McKINNEY; baptized January a, 1721. 7. David McKI:h"!l.EY. 8. Mordecai McKINNEY. Baptisms at the First (Dutch) Reformed Church of Rarite..:a, New Jersey, were recorded in Dutch. See SCHQ 2: Michiny, Mordecbaey and wi:fe - Jan, Jmie 3, 1714. Wit.: Roeloff Sebrege and wife . ?lachk1ni, M:orcdihay and wife - Willem, August 25, 1715. Wit.: Jacob Bodyn and wife. Ma.ghiny, Mardighaey and wife - Daniel, April ;, 1717. Wit.: Daniel Sebregh and wife. Mink:tnge, Mardacbai and Maritie - Jacob, April 5, 1719. Wit.: Jacob and Josyntie Sebring. Makingi, Mordechai and wife Marietje - A.nnetje, January a, 1721. Wit.: Banse Sebring and wile .Aeltje. A baptism at the Harlingen Reformed Dutch Church, from the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, 15, 60 (1940): May 18, 1727, Mordechaei, child of Morde­ ohaei Makinni and Marietje Sebring; wit. by Daniel Sebring and Kaetje Vroom. The time of arrival of this family in this country has been given as n1749, 1750, or 1751," "about the middle of the eighteenth century, 11 "after the birth of Daniel's ·third son," which would be about 1740. Substantial and sometimes vehement repetition of these dates unfortunately does not establish them. It seems more probable that Mordecai came to the Ra:ritan comm.unity, probably from Scotland, and married into a family which bad been established there for at least a generation. One of the early applicants for D.A.R. membership, based on the Revolutionary record of (18) 2 MORDECAI McKINNEY Daniel stated that this Daniel was b. in Scotland. Those later applicants for membership, based on the military service of this soldier, who were aware of this error have apparently found it easier to accept the error than to correct it. Of course, it is not impossible that sons or grandsons of Mordecai "returned" to Scotland to marry and to start families, but this is rather improbable. The family name McKinney occurs in New Jersey records at least as early as 1680. :From the Journals of Andrew Johnston, 1743-1754 (SCHQ 2, 121, 187): "Concerning lots in Peapack pat­ ent, Mord. MoKinne wants to buy land at the upper end of Draykes •••• and will give the same price he gives for my bro•r Johns. It lays between Drayk and .••• Tunis{?) Post. I agreed he should have it. May 6, 1745." "Went to Wm. McKinneys. April 23, 1753." Mordechai Mac Kinny and Mary Mac K1nny witnessed a baptism at Readington, July, 1742 (SCHQ 4, 300). A list of Bedminster inhabitants of about 1760 includes Mordecai and William McKinney (SCHQ 7, 51-3). The Sebring family: (a) Jacob Roelofse Sebring, of Drenthe, Netherlands; the first Sebring in New Jersey; in Raritan 1685; in Readington, 1720. (b) Lambertse Roelofse Sebring, sister of Jacob, of Drenthe; m. Jan Stryker. Flatbush, magistrate; Hemp­ stead convention 1655. {o) Willemtje Roelofse Sebring, sister of Jacob, second wife of Steven Coerte Van Voorhees. (d) Jan Roelofse Seberinge, brother of Jacob; b. 1631, Holland; to America 1660 on "De Bonte Koe" (Spotted Cow); settled Flatlands, Long Island; m. about 1660 Adrianna Polhemus, dau. of Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, pastor in Flatlands, Brooklyn, Flatbush, Gravesend. To Bergen 1683. Children: e. Johannes Sebring. f. Cornelia {or Cornelis Janse) Sebring. g. Roelof Sebring. {e) Johann~s Sebring m. Aeltje; child (h} Johannes baptized 1700, Brooklyn; at least three children were baptized at Raritan. (f) Cornelis Sebring, b. 1653 or 1662, New Nether­ land (New York); d. 1723; m. September 3, 1682 Aeltje Predericks Lubbertsen, dau. of Frederick. They lived in Brooklyn and New York. They had ten. children: (i) Adriana, b.