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Descendants of David Rankin, Sr.

Generation No. 1

1. DAVID¹ RANKIN, SR. was born 1691 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and died August 1768 in Winchester, Frederick County, Virgnia. He married MILDRED JENNET MCCORMICK 1718 in Raphoe Parish, County Antrim, N. Ireland, daughter of JAMES MCCORMICK and SARAH WELSH. She was born 1690 in Ulster, Ballintoy or Antrim, N. Ireland, and died Bet. 1770 - 1771 in Frederick County, Virginia.

Notes for DAVID RANKIN, SR.:
SOURCE: Ohio Valley Genealogies, Relating Chiefly to Families in Harrison, Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio and Washington, Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pennsylvania, Charles A. Hanna, GPC, 1968, (From Jane Topoly of Ft. Washington, Maryland)

104-5 David Rankin emigrated from the north of Ireland and settled in Frederick County, Virginia about 1738-1750, died near Winchester, Virginia 1768 leaving a widow Jennet and children, David, William, Hugh and Barbara.

Of these, William Rankin, born about 1720, died 1793, married in Virginia, Abigail Tassia, removed to Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1774, and purchased 1600 acres of land on Racoon Creek.

SOURCE: Kenneth Dice Email 1/1/97

Died at Turkey Spring Plantation.

SOURCE: "Blackburns, Today and Yesterday", by Frances Blackburn Hilliard.

David Rankin, I,(the first), had come into Frederick County at an early date, 1740-1750 and settled on the drains of the Opeckon, a small stream with varied spellings. The area where he settled was Smithfield, later changed to Middleway, Va. The small drain that ran through their land was called Turkey Run. Almost all the grants in the Northern Neck of Virginia were from Lord Fairfax. I have copies of these grants made to the Rankins, the Provinces, the McCormicks and the Samuel Blackburns.

SOURCE: Carol (Lewis) Townsend, Rt. 1 Box 4, Clay Center, Nebraska 68933-9703

Will is in Frederick County, VA, will book #3, pg. 443 made November 5, 1757, proved August 2, 1768. (Lists wife and children).

SOURCE: "NOTES ON RANKIN, RAWLINGS, PROVINCE, CATTERTON, BLACKBURN AND KIRKWOOD FAMILIES", by Dr. Tom Kirkwood, Sr., 1975, p. 6

David Rankin, Sr. and his wife Jennett, came to this country from Ireland probably between 1710 and 1720 and eventually settled in the Shenandoah Valley 1738 to 1740. The farm consisting of 775 acres was left to his wife and sons, William and David by his will which is dated 1757 and which was proved and recorded by a court hel in Winchester, VA, on August 2, 1768, which was probably soon after the date of his death.

Mike,
The data were beautiful! Thanks so much. I see that you have the Rankin-McCormick marriage placed in County Antrim. The material I'm sending says it was in County Donegal. Raphoe is a village in Donegal about 50 miles southwpasswordest of Ballintoy, County Antrim where Dr. John McCormick evidently was born. Raphoe was a Roman Catholic see and later a Protestant diocese. I suspect the McCormicks and Rankins were Presbyterians who emigrated at the time of the Ulster religious persecutions by the Church of Ireland (Protestant).
Thanks again,
Ken McCormick, Ph. D. "Cioraod@aol.com"

SOURCE: WFT Vol. 7 #4256.
Descendant of an old Scotch-Irish family; emigrated in 1732, settled in Apequon. Colony in Virginia 1738-50. Left will in Winchester, Frederick Co. VA filed1757 .See: Ohio Valley Geneologies, Charles A. Hanna, printed privately in NY 1900.

SOURCE:MORGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY SOCIETY, unpublished manuscript, given to Mike Smoke by Bonnie L. Keyser of Huntington, West Virginia.

David Rankin, married Jennet McCorrnick of Ulster, N. Ireland, settled in Northern Neck, Virginia - Frederick County, Virginia , 1738. Finally settled in area later named the village of Smithfield, or Middleway ("Wizard's Clip"). The phenomenon called Turkey Spring was on his plantation, which gave it the name "Turkey Spring Plantation." (Turkey Spring is a perfectly round large spring on height of land. It is quitc probably a "fault" in the limestone; from it a little stream flows through Middleway and empties into Opeckon Creek.) David, Sr., made his will in 1757, died 1768.

Children of DAVID RANKIN and MILDRED MCCORMICK are:

2.	i.	WILLIAM² RANKIN, SR., b. 1720, Ulster, Ireland; d. October 1793, Mt. Pleasant Township, Washington County, PA.
3.	ii.	DAVID RANKIN, JR., b. 1726, Ulster, Ireland; d. October 1795, Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky.
4.	iii.	HUGH RANKIN, b. Abt. 1728, Frederick County, Virginia; d. WFT Est. 1744-1829, Ohio.
	iv.	BARBARA RANKIN, b. 1730, Frederick County, Virginia; d. Virginia; m. JOHN SMITH; b. WFT Est. 1720-1735.

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