Dennis Kennedy b. 1770 d. 1842

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1770 birth: MD, -1780

child birth: ♀ Maria Kennedy [Kennedy]

2 March 1799 marriage: Frederick Co., MD, ♀ Eleanor Richards? [Richards?] b. 1780

1819 other: bought property in Clermont County

about 1819 child birth: MD, ♂ William W. Kennedy [Kennedy] b. about 1819

about 1822 child birth: OH, ♂ Samuel Kennedy [Kennedy] b. about 1822

1826 other: paid real and personal property tax, Tate Twp., Clermont Co., OH

1826 other: held real estate in Felicity, Clermont County, Ohio

1842 death: Clermont Co., OH

Notes

No. 3551, property originally of C. Anderson

Possible other children (unlisted daughters?): one born between 1800-1810 and another born between 1810-1815.

On 19 June 1819 Dennis Kennedy paid Thomas & Margaret Early $480.00 for 40 acres starting at the waters of Indian Creek in line of Thomas Owens survey S 46 degrees W 52 poles next to line of Robert Kar & Robert Wells.

[not sure if these are related or fit in somehow: 12 February 1801 Joseph & Sarah Clark sold land to Alexander Kennedy, all of Clermont Co., territory of the United States, for $40.00. 23 July 1814 Alexander Kennady [sic] & Margaret his wife of Clermont County sold 20 acres to John Clark for $250.00.]

1830 US Census lists a Mary Cobbert born ca 1772 in Maryland living with them.

Will dated 4 Apr 1842 left everything to wife Ellenor and sons Wm. W. Kennedy and Samuel Kennedy: Verbal will & testament of Dennis Kennedy late of Clermont Co. witnesses Joseph Dougherty & Robert Wells To "wife Ellonor Kennedy, the plantation on which we now reside situated on the waters of Indian Creek and in the county aforsaid containing about 40 acres, during her natural life count two cows, two horses, and one-third of the sheep & hogs by me now owned and kept there in. Also all the household furniture and other items not particularly named and otherwise not disposed of in this will." To "two sons Wm. W. Kennedy & Samuel Kennedy" 11 Jan 1842 oing tot he deffuss of the said Dennis Kennedy; wife Elenor Kennedy 5 Jan 1842 Dennis Kennedy (over age 50 years, very deaf) very sick, communicated will.

[The History of Frederick County, Maryland includes the following references to Kennedys: p. 67 44th Regiment included a Kennedy (17 Jun 1755 Camp at Little Meadows); p. 82 Moses Kennedy of Tom's Creek, Frederick Co., favored religious and political liberty, 28 Aug 1770; p. 90 Moses Kennedy, 2nd Company, Wm. Shields, Captain (Fred. Co., assembled 18 Jul 1775); p. 134 Henry Kennedy was in Balitmore June 1812; p. 149 Thomas Kennedy represented Wash. Co. 1823-6 at canal convention; p. 221 James H Kennedy of Hagerstown in 1854 went to Carlisle, PA, killed by mob when seeking fugitive slave [common condition that slaved sold could not be carried out of the state]; p. 240 Rep. Kennedy of Baltimore to Congress; p. 348 Dr. R. F. Kennedy's farm in Maryland Heights three miles from Harper's Ferry on Antietam Rd was used as a base for an anti-slavery insurrection [Brown's?}; p. 560 J. Harry Kennedy in Company "A" 1st MD National Guard by Col. Charles D. Gaither 20 Jun 1905; The following are listed in the first census in 1790 (pp. 58-73): p. 632 Henry Kennedy, 1 FWM 16+, 2 FWF; p. 635 Ann Kennedy, 1 FWM 16+, 2 FWF; and p. 642 Mary Kennedy, 2 FWM >16, 6 FWF.]

[Hugh Kennedy m. Susanna Fisher 26 Oct 1779, Anne Arundel Co, MD (MD marriages 1778-1800)]

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