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THE DESCENDANTS OF [WILLEM?] KLINCKENBERG

Generation No. 4

9. SUSANNAH⁴ CONEY (BARBARA³ VAN CLINKENBURGH, WILLEM² KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]¹) was born about 1708, and died Unknown. She married SOLOMON FUSSELL 16 April 1725 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania ⁵⁸, son of WILLIAM FUSSELL and ELIZABETH [----?----]. He was born 1704 in Yorkshire, England ^59,⁶⁰, and died 28 March 1762 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania⁶⁰.

Notes for SOLOMON FUSSELL:
Solomon was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1704, and emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he settled in about 1721 and was employed as a merchant.

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Wills, 1682-1819:
Name: Fussell, Solomon
Residence: Philadelphia, PA
Description: Decedent
Date: 24 2 1762
Prove Date: 3 4 1762
Title: Merchant
BookPage: M:265
Remarks: Solomon Fussell. City of Philadelphia. Merchant. Feb. 24, 1762. April 3, 1762. M.265. Wife: Mary. Children: Elizabeth, William, Barbara, Jacob, Susannah and Sarah. Mother-in-Law: Barbara Cony. Exec: Joshua Fisher and Stephen Collins of Philadelphia, merchants, and John Burrough, Junr., of N.J. Codicil: Feb. 26, 1762. Wherein step-daughter Elizabeth Wilson is made a legatee.
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Name: Fussell, Sol.
Description: Witness
Date: 10 1 1748
Prove Date: 20 1 1748
BookPage: J:46
Remarks: Wilson, George. City of Philadelphia. Joyner. Jan. 10, 1748/9. Jan. 20, 1748. Wife: Mary. Children: James, Mary, Ann, William, Joseph, Hannah and George. Exec: Mary Wilson, Edward Catherel, Jonathan Zane.
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--- Lineages, Inc., comp. PHILADELPHIA COUNTY WILLS, 1682-1819. [database online] (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000); taken from PHILADELPHIA COUNTY WILLS, 1682-1819 published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1900; Ancestry.com Website, Copyright © 1998-2003, MyFamily.com Inc.

Children of SUSANNAH CONEY and SOLOMON FUSSELL are:

	i.	SOLOMON⁵ FUSSELL, b. about 1726; d. Unknown.
12.	ii.	WILLIAM FUSSELL, b. 1 June 1728, Phenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; d. 2 February 1804, Pikeland, ( in present-day Pike County?), Pennsylvania.
	iii.	BARBARA FUSSELL, b. 1 July 1729; d. Unknown.
	iv.	JACOB FUSSELL, b. about 1731; d. Unknown.
	v.	SUSANNA FUSSELL, b. about 1733; d. Unknown.
13.	vi.	ELIZABETH FUSSELL, b. about 1727; d. 8 September 1792, Smyrna, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

10. JOHANNA⁴ BRADHURST (ALSE/ELSYE³ VAN CLINKENBURGH, WILLEM² KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]¹)⁶¹ was born about 1711, and died Unknown. She married ISAAC FRESTONE⁶¹. He was born about 1706, and died Unknown.

Child of JOHANNA BRADHURST and ISAAC FRESTONE is:

ELSIE⁵ FRESTONE, b. 1742⁶¹; d. Unknown.

Notes for ELSIE FRESTONE:
Elsie, shown as the daughter of Isaac Frestone and Johanna Broades (Bradhurst), was baptised on 29 August 1742 in the North- and Southampton Reformed (Neshaming) Church, Churchville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The sponsors (godparents) were Williem Klinkenbergh and Elsie Broades. [Donna R. Irish, comp., PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN MARRIAGES (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982), page 45; cited in the Clinkenbeard family group records from Polly Sutherland, Wauconda, Illinois, 24 August 1996.]

11. WILLIAM⁴ CLINKENBEARD (JOHN³, WILLEM² KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]¹) was born 1725 in Bucks [now Northampton] County, Pennsylvania, probably in Northampton ⁶², and died April 1823 in Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky ⁶³. He married (1) [JANE?] LINN 1754 in Pennsylvania, probably at Conolloway Creek, Cumberland (now Fulton) County ^64,⁶⁵, daughter of WILLIAM LINN and JANE ADDIS. She was born about 1735 in (Northampton Township, Bucks [now Northampton] County?), Pennsylvania ⁶⁶, and died 1763 in Ayr Township, Cumberland [now Fulton] County, Pennsylvania ^67,⁶⁸. He married (2) HESTER VAN METRE 1764 in (probably) Shepherdstown, Frederick County, Virginia ⁶⁹. She was born about 1745, and died about 1815 in Clarke County, or Bourbon County, Kentucky ^70,⁷¹.

Notes for WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD:
[The compiler's fifth great grandfather.]
Based upon the preponderance of evidence, most researchers have concluded that William was the son of John Clinkenbeard (born c.1692, died before 1733/4), and that William was born in 1725, the eleventh year of the reign of King GEORGE I, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, presumably in the town of Northampton. He died in April 1823 near Winchester in Clarke County, Kentucky. William married first, in 1754, probably in either Northampton, Bucks County, or Connolloway Creek, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, (Jane?) Linn, born c.1735 probably in Northampton, died in 1763, the daughter of William Linn and Jane Addis. William married second, in about 1766, probably in Shepherdstown, Frederick County, Virginia, Hester Van Metre.
On 9 July 1755 when their first child, John, was born, William and his wife were living on the plantation of William's father-in-law, William Linn, at Conolloway Creek in Cumberland (now Fulton) County on the Pennsylvania frontier adjacent to the Maryland border. William Linn, in March 1755, had been issued a land patent warrant for 100 acres of land on Connolloway Creek, a small portion of which extended over the border into Maryland.
William Clinkenbeard and his father-in-law, William Linn, were two of the signers of a petition dated 29 September 1755 that was sent to His Excellency, The Honourable Robert Hunter Morris, Esquire, the Royal Governor of Pennsylvania. The Petition related to a dispute as to the location of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Sheriff of Frederick County, Maryland, had warned the settlers, who believed their land to be in Pennsylvania, that he would "take all ye land . . our goods, chatels, horses, or anything yt he can find for ye levies or taxis" that he claimed were due Maryland.[a]
The British settlers at Connolloway Creek were subject to deadly Indian raids during the "French and Indian War" of 1754 to 1763 in which the Indians were allied with France against Great Britain. On Thursday, 26 February 1756, during one such Indian attack, the Linn and Clinkenbeard families sought safety in nearby Fort Combes (pr. cooms), located just inside the Pennsylvania border about two miles north of Hancock, Maryland, between four miles south of the town at the convergence of (Little) Conolloway Creek and the Potomac River in Frederick Co., Maryland.[b] William's brother-in-law, John Linn, was killed, John's brother, Thomas Linn, was scalped, blinded, and maimed for life, and yet another brother, Isaac Linn, was taken captive by the Indians and kept for eleven years. (A detailed contemporary report by an eye-witness, Isaac Baker, appeared in the 11 March 1756 issue of THE MARYLAND GAZETTE.)[c]
William's wife, [Jane?] Linn, Mrs Clinkenbeard, with her seven-month-old first child, John, fled into the forest, according to her son Isaac Clinkenbeard, and exposure to the winter cold perhaps contributed to her death seven years later following the birth of her fourth child in 1763.[b, d]
There is evidence that William, after the disastrous Indian attack, moved his wife and two-year-old son John to Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and that at least one son, William Jr, was born there on 11 October 1761. The late Maude Clinkenbeard Spencer recalled that her great-great-grandfather, William Jr, was

". . born Oct. 11, 1761, in Spotsylvania County, Va., 'about a block away from the court house' as my Father heard it from his Father. . My g.f. [Isaac, b. 1824] knew my g.g.g.f. Wm: well."[e]

Thus, William and his family most probably were living in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, from about 1757/8 to 1761. In 1762 William was taxed at Connolloway Creek on 100 acres of "unwarranted " land, and in 1763 on 50 acres in Ayr Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. No deeds were recorded in William's name, indicating that patents had not yet been granted.[f, p.3] William does not appear on the tax lists of Cumberland County before or after these years.[g] It would appear, then, that by 1762 the family had returned to Connolloway Creek, and it was presumably there that Mrs Linn Clinkenbeard died in 1763, likely in childbirth with her fourth child. After Mrs Clinkenbeard's death, William's now-widowed mother-in-law, Jane (Addis) Linn, took her grandsons, John and William (and presumably Isaac) Clinkenbeard to live with her on the Linn plantation, "Linn's Valley," at Connolloway Creek.
About this time, probably in 1764, William moved some thirty miles down the Potomac River to Shepherdstown (called Mecklenburg until 1797) in Frederick County, Virginia (Berkeley County after 1772, and Jefferson County, [West] Virginia, since 1801).[d] There, William purchased on 29 September 1765 from Thomas and Elizabeth Shepherd for £5, Lot 18, a half acre, on the south side of German Street between Church and King Streets (Deed Book 10, p. 461), and on 5 August 1766 purchased from the Shepherds the adjacent Lot 19, also a half acre, for £4 (Deed Book 11, p. 144). On 29 June 1767, William purchased from the Shepherds for £8 another tract of land consisting of 5-5/8 acres (Deed Book 11, p. 471). These 5-5/8 acres reportedly were "located adjoining to the Town of Mechlenburgh or Sheperdstown," thus indicating that they were not the Lots numbered 4 and 5 at German and Church Streets within the town.[f, pp.15-16]
On 21 November 1775, William sold the latter two lots to Martin Woolford for £50, and on 15 May 1780 sold Lot 19 to Henry Staylong for £2,000---that large amount indicating that William had built a house there. The deeds for the original purchase of the lots provided for a sale price of £5 with an annual ground rent of five shillings and required that the purchaser

"build or erect or cause to be built or erected on the said lot one good dwelling house 20 feet long and 17 feet wide with a stone or brick chimney to the same."[h]

Finally, William sold Lot 18 on 17 October 1780 to James Roberts for £300.[i; f pp.14-20]
In 1764, the same year that he moved to Shepherdstown, William married his second wife, Hester Van Metre, who was born c.1745 and who died about 1815 (William was alone at the 1820 U.S. Census). In 1766, William's son, William Jr, was still living with his grandmother, Jane (Addis) Linn, at Conolloway Creek when the Mason-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland was run there in the summer or fall of 1766.[d; f, p.14] But it was probably soon after 1766 that William Jr (and Isaac?) left his grandmother's and rejoined his father and new stepmother at the house in German Street, Shepherdstown.[d] William Jr later indicated that John continued to live with his grandmother, Jane (Addis) Linn, when he said, "My brother lived there until he got to himself."[d, p.96] In any event, it was to the Shepherdstown house that the three boys---John, Isaac, and William---returned at Christmastide, 1778, at the end of one of their tours of duty as Rebel soldiers during the Revolutionary War.[j]
Hester bore William at least two children---Eleanor, born in 1769 in Virginia (in Hampshire County, according to one record, but more probably in Shepherdstown in adjacent Frederick County), and Job, born in 1773 in Virginia, again probably in Shepherdstown. Three, perhaps four, additional sons APPARENTLY were born to them but confirming documentation has not yet been found: Joel, born in about 1771, John (or David John according to some records), born in 1778, and Joseph, born about 1784. Morgan family researcher, Frank Noble Morgan, has confirmed that "John [David John] was the son of William Clinkenbeard."[k] And the evidence shows that that William would have to have been William of Shepherdstown (1725-1823) since he was the only "William" old enough to have been John's father.
The 1820 Census shows a Joal (Joel? or Jos? or Joseph?) Clinkenbeard, born before 1775, living in Scott County, Indiana, with his wife(?), also born before 1775, and five children. As shown above, Joel almost has to have been a son of William and Hester, since his birth before 1775, together with a process of elimination, allow him to be placed nowhere else.
As to a fourth son of William and Hester, one Cornelius Clinkenbeard was shown in the 1820 Census to be living in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia. It would SEEM that Cornelius would HAVE to have been one of their sons. (The Census schedule has yet to be examined to determine his age range.)
If Eleanor's birth in 1769 did, in fact, take place in adjacent Hampshire County, Virginia, then William and Hester may have lived for a time in that County. There is mention by some researchers of their also having lived in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, for a time. So it appears that they may not have lived continuously on their German Street properties in Shepherdstown (or Mecklenburg), at least in the early years of their residency there.
In 1773, William's eldest son, John, at age 18, went to Tennessee where he volunteered as a British soldier during Lord Dunmore's War.[j] After the start of the Revolutionary War, William's three sons---John, Isaac, and William---served as Rebel soldiers. In 1779, William's sons, Isaac (aged 21) and William Jr (aged 18), migrated to the Kentucky frontier, followed in 1782 by William Sr and his new family---Hester and the children she had borne him. William's son Isaac stated that he and his brother William:

"Came from Berkley County, Virginia, fall 1779. We came out, (thro' the wilderness) without caring about being guarded. . . It [i.e., the column of people migrating to Kentucky] was strung from Cumberland Mountain to Boonsborough. 100s [hundreds] of people came out that fall, more than did for 7 or 8 yrs after that."[b]

William and Hester and their children (except for Cornelius?) and seven horses left Berkeley County in the summer of 1782, when William was about 57, and arrived by fall at Strode's Station in Fayette County, Virginia (later Clarke County, Kentucky). According to William Jr:

"My father did not come out [to Kentucky] till the fall of 1782, while I was on Clark's [Revolutionary War] campaigns. When I came back I found him at the [Strode's] station."[d]

William's son Isaac recounted the many deadly encounters with savage Indians that the settlers experienced at Strode's Station, a pioneer fort built in 1779 by Captain John Strode, grandfather of William's granddaughter-in-law, Sally Strode.[b] The fort was located about 2-1/2 miles from Winchester in the Lexington Road, at the northeast corner of the present juncture of Lexington Road and Clintonville Road. In 1926 excavations showed that the chimney rocks were still there, covered by the sod. William's son, William, recalled that:

"When father came out [from Shepherdstown to Strode's Station] he brought five head of horses; one mare was with foal, and foaled after he got her here. The colt he kept, but the Indians got all the others. For the last one the Indians got, he had been offered 100 acres of land, but the Indians got it for nothing. . . Women's washday in the fort; hung it all out, and the Indians got it all. My old step-mother [Hester] had washed a red coak of hers, too, and hung it out, which she lost."[d, pp. 118, 119]

After staying awhile at Strode's Station, William and Hester moved on to Bourbon County (perhaps at the time Isaac went there to settle) where they established their own farm. In 1787 William was taxed in Bourbon County for two horses and thirteen cattle.[l, p. 3]
At the 1810 Federal Census, William Sr, now about 85, was still living in Bourbon County, Kentucky, with his wife Hester. No other occupants were listed, and no slaves were enumerated. By the 1820 Census, Hester apparently had died, and William, aged about 95, had moved back to Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky, where he was living with his son William Jr and family, and four male and three female slaves aged 26 years or less. William of Shepherdstown died at Winchester in 1823, probably in March or April, at the age of 98, two years short of his one hundredth birthday, and six years short of his grandfather's 104 years.[m]
William's Will has not been found, and he appears to have died intestate before 1 June 1823 when the Estate was inventoried. John Strode Sr, Elias Gardner Jr, and Daniel Sphar were appointed at the Clarke County Court's May 1823 term to appraise William's property, which was to be shown them by the Administrator, John Clinkenbeard, almost certainly William's son John (1755-1837) by [Jane?] Linn Clinkenbeard. William's personal property was valued at $46.31-1/4c., with notes for outstanding loans totalling $2,834.50, or $3,221.39-1/4c. with interest. The final estate settlement on 1 September 1824 was $3,221.39-1/4c. less settlement costs of $210, for a total estate of $3,010.72-1/4c.[m]
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a. John H. Nelson, "Frontier Forts of Fulton County, Pennsylvania" in FULTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL (Vol. 14, 1992) p. 27, Pennsylvania Archives; quoted in Phyllis J. Bauer, ed., LYNN/LINN LINEAGE QUARTERLY, vol. VIII, no. 4, (Winter 1994), p. 102.
b. Interview of Isaac Clinkenbeard (1785-1846) by The Rev'd John D. Shane, DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, Series CC, Kentucky Papers, 11:1, Wisconsin State Historical Society.
c. Phyllis J. Bauer, ed., LYNN/LINN LINEAGE QUARTERLY, Vol. I, no. 1, (Spring 1987), p. 11; and Vol. V, no. 2, (Summer 1991), pp. 40-43.
d. "Reverend John D. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard" in THE HISTORY QUARTERLY OF THE FILSON CLUB HISTORICAL SOCIETY, vol. 2, no. 3 [April 1928] p. 96; The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.
e. Letter of Maude Clinkenbeard Spencer, Sulphur, Okla., to Norman Porter dated 18 April 1965.
f. Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY AND ALLIED FAMILIES [Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of August 1995) Chapter ______: "The William Clinkenbeard Family"; copy supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of the author.
g. Clinkenbeard research records of Lawrence Knarr, Cincinatti, Ohio, p. 72.
h. G. Glenn Clift, KENTUCKY IN RETROSPECT: NOTEWORTHY PERSONAGES AND EVENTS IN KENTUCKY HISTORY, 1792-1967 (Frankfort, Ky.: The Kentucky Historical Society, 1967) pages 206-7.
i. TWO HUNDRED YEARS' HISTORY OF SHEPHERDSTOWN [publication data not available], pages 10-11.
j. Revolutionary War Pension Records of John Clinckenbeard, file S30,930, National Archives pub. no. M804, roll 580.
k. Letter of Frank Noble Morgan, Greensburg, Indiana, to J.E. Stockman dated 29 June 1995.
l. Clinkenbeard Genealogy dated 24 January 1989; from The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
m. Inventory, Sales, and Settlement documents of Estate of William Clinkenbeard dated 1 June 1823 to 1 September 1824, Will Book 5, page 382, Clerk of the Court, Clark County, Kentucky.

Notes for [JANE?] LINN:
[The compiler's fifth great grandmother.]
(Jane?) Linn, the daughter of William and Jane (Addis) Linn, was born during the reign of King GEORGE II in about 1735, probably in Northampton, Bucks (now Northampton) County, Pennsylvania, where her maternal grandparents, John and Mary (Walton) Addis had settled in 1719 after moving from England. That Miss Linn's Christian name may have been "Jane" is conjecture arising from the fact that both her mother and her father's sister bore that name. It was probably at Connolloway Creek, Cumberland (now Fulton) County that (Jane?) married in 1754 William Clinkenbeard, born in 1725, died in 1824, the son of John and Anne(?) Clinkenbeard. Following their marriage, the couple set up housekeeping on the plantation of Mrs Clinkenbeard's father at Connolloway Creek. There, on 9 July 1755, the couple's first child, John, was born.
With the beginning of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), in which the Indians were allied with the French against the British, Indian attacks on the British frontier settlements became frequent. On Thursday, 26 February 1756, less than a year after John's birth, the Indians perpetrated a savage attack on the Linns and Clinkenbeards and other British families who had sought refuge in Fort Combes (pr. cooms), four miles south of the town and William Linn's plantation. Mrs Clinkenbeard's brother, John Linn, aged thirteen, was killed, and another brother, Thomas Linn, was scalped and left for dead. Permanently blinded, he was subject to seizures for the rest of his life. Yet another brother, Isaac Linn, aged seventeen, was kidnapped and kept captive by the Indians until he escaped 11 years later.[a] (Please see the full account of the attack in "Indian Attack on Fort Stoddert" in Chapter 20: The LINN Family of Scotland and Ulster.)
Mrs Clinkenbeard, probably without adequate apparel when the attack came in the dead of winter, apparently fled into the forest with her seven-month-old son, John. According to her son Isaac Clinkenbeard, the tragedy contributed to her death seven years later following the birth of her fourth child: "At the time of this attack, my mother had just had a child [John]. The necessity of flight caused an excitement, which ultimated, tho' (perhaps) not for several years, in her death. Caught cold, & never got over it till she died."[b] Mrs Clinkenbeard's youngest son, William, later reported: "I was the youngest child but one, and it died. Can't remember my mother at all. Perhaps I was not more than two years old when she died."[c]
The evidence indicates that sometime after the 1756 Indian attack, William, with his wife and two-year-old son John, moved to Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. On 20 November 1758, their second son, Isaac, was probably born there, and their third child, William, was born there according to the late Maude Clinkenbeard Spencer, who said that her great-great-grandfather, William Jr, was ". . born Oct. 11, 1761, in Spotsylvania County, Va., 'about a block away from the court house' as my Father heard it from his Father. . . My g.f. [Isaac, b. 1824] knew my g.g.g.f. Wm: well."[d]
By 1762, when William was taxed on 100 acres at Connolloway Creek, the family had moved back to that location, and it was very likely there that Mrs Clinkenbeard died in 1763, probably at the time of the birth of her fourth child.
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a. A detailed contemporary report by an eye-witness, Isaac Baker, appeared in the 11 March 1756 issue of THE MARYLAND GAZETTE, and is quoted in Bauer, LYNN/LINN LINEAGE QUARTERLY, Vol. I, no. 1, (Spring 1987), p. 11; and Vol. V, no. 2, (Summer 1991), pp. 40-43.
b. Interview of Isaac Clinkenbeard (1785-1846) by The Rev'd John D. Shane, DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, Series CC, Kentucky Papers, 11:1, Wisconsin State Historical Society.
c. "Reverend John D. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard" in THE HISTORY QUARTERLY OF THE FILSON CLUB HISTORICAL SOCIETY, vol. 2, no. 3 [April 1928] pp. 96; The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.
d. Letter of Maude Clinkenbeard Spencer, Sulphur, Okla., to Norman Porter dated 18 April 1965.

Notes for HESTER VAN METRE:
Circumstantial evidence indicates Hester descended from Jan Joosten Van Meteren of Thielerwardt, a fortified town in Gelderland Province, The Netherlands, through his son Joost (John) Jansen Van Meteren. Jan was born in 1625 in The Netherlands; died in 1706, before 13 June, in Burlington County, New Jersey; married in 1646 at Meppelen, Drenthe Province, The Netherlands, to Maeyken Hendricksen. On 12 April 1662 Jan arrived with his wife and children aboard the "Fox" at New Amsterdam, in New Netherland. Joost was born 1656 in Gelderland Province, The Netherlands; died in 1728 in Salem County, New Jersey; married on 12 December 1682 at Kingston, New York, Sarah du Bois, who was baptised on 14 September 1662 at the First Dutch Church, Kingston, New York; died in 1726 in Salem County, New Jersey, daughter of Louis du Bois (1626-1696) and his wife Catherine Blanchan (c.1629-1713).[a]
The diaries of Moravian missionaries in Virginia contain the following passage:

"We passed no house for twelve miles. We stayed over night with a man named Henry Brumeter. [10] These people related their wonderful escape from a recent flood. The wife had climbed alone upon the barn which was carried away by the river."
"[10] This was doubtless Henry Van Meter, son of Isaac Van Meter and Hannah Wynkoop, his wife. The Van Meters removed from Ulster County, New York, to Salem, New Jersey, and then, subsequent to 1741, to the South Branch of the Potomac. John and Isaac Van Meter were the grantees, in 1730, of forty thousand acres of land within the present counties of Frederick and Jefferson, which they conveyed in 1732 to Joist Hite. For an extended notice of the Van Meters, see January number, 1903, Of the WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, pp. 45-55. "[b]

This was surely Hester's family, and either John or Isaac Van Metre may have been her father.
It is probable that William met Hester after buying his property in German Street, Mecklenburg (Shepherdstown), Frederick County, Virginia, in 1766. It is also likely, considering the birthdates of her children, that she was perhaps 20 years younger than William.
The 1810 U.S. Census shows William and Hester living alone in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and shows both to have been born before 1765.[c] At the 1820 Census, Hester's stepson, William Clinkenbeard, and his wife, Mary Mooney, were living in Clark County, Kentucky, and living with them was a male born before 1775 who must certainly have been William's father, William of Shepherdstown, indicating that Hester had died sometime between 1810 and 1820 and William Sr was now a widower.[d]
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a. Family group records (Van Metre) from Polly Sutherland, Wauconda, Illinois, to J.E.Stockman with letter of 19 May 1997.
b. MORAVIAN DIARIES OF TRAVELS THROUGH VIRGINIA; <http://incolor.inebraska.com/gwbrownx/Moravian.shtml>; excerpt from the diaries of Moravian missionaries in early Virginia (1747-1749).
c. 1810 U.S. Census (Kentucky); Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M252, Roll 5, p. 119.
d. 1820 U.S. Census (Kentucky); Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M33, Roll 19, p. 99.

Children of WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD and [JANE?] LINN are:

14.	i.		JOHN⁵ CLINKENBEARD, SR, b. 9 July 1755, Conolloway Creek, Cumberland (now Fulton) County, Pennsylvania; d. 26 February 1837, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky.
	ii.		ISAAC CLINKENBEARD, b. 20 November 1758, Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia ^72,^73,^74,⁷⁵; d. 28 February 1846, North Middletown, Bourbon County, Kentucky ^76,⁷⁷; m. SINAH PULLEN, 21 October 1788, Bourbon County, Kentucky ^78,^79,^80,^81,⁸²; b. about 1761; d. 11 February 1841, Bourbon County, Kentucky.

Notes for ISAAC CLINKENBEARD:
Revolutionary War Soldier.
Following the disastrous Delaware Indian massacre on 26 February 1756 at Combes's Fort, at Connolloway Creek, Frederick (now Washington) County, Maryland, in which Isaac's Uncle John Linn was killed, his Uncle Thomas Linn was blinded and maimed, and his Uncle Isaac was taken captive by the Indians, Isaac's father, William Clinkenbeard Sr, appears to have moved his family to Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. DAR records state: "Wm Clinkenbeard born 1725 went to Spottsylvania Co., Va. Left there 1761." William's youngest son, William Jr, was born there in 1761, and according to one source, that is where Isaac also was born in 1758. It would be logical for William Sr to have moved his family there soon after the 1756 Indian attack that inflicted a triple tragedy upon his wife and her family. In 1761, after the birth of William in October, the family moved back to Connolloway Creek, staying there until moving later to Shepherdstown, Frederick (Berkeley after 1772, Jefferson after 1801) County, Virginia.
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Isaac enlisted from Berkeley County, [W.] Virginia, in the Revolutionary Army in 1776 at Hancock, Maryland (where Conolloway [now Tonoloway] Creek enters the Potomac River). Isaac served as a private soldier in "The Flying Campa" troop. The troop was about to cross a river to Fort Washington one night when General GEORGE WASHINGTON met them and told them no more troops were to cross over. The next day the British troops captured the Fort. Isaac also served in military campaigns in 1777 and 1778. In the fall of 1779 he removed to Kentucky along with his brother William, settling in Strode's Station in what is now Clarke County.[a] From there he served in 1780 and 1782 in campaigns under General George Rodgers Clark. Isaac's next and last Revolutionary War service was in a campaign in 1784. Isaac made applications in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1833 and 1834 for a Revolutionary War Pension, which he was granted.[b]
Regarding life at Strode's Station, Mercy Clinkenbeard, the daughter of Isaac's brother, John, said the following in an interview on 18 October 1866 at the home of her son Robert Clinkenbeard in Fleming County, Ky: "Isaac Clinkinbeard said he & others pursued Indians who [had] stolen horses from Strode's region---pursued them to the mouth of Licking [Creek] (this, of course, before Fort Washington was established---say 1787 or '88), where the Indians were engaged in making rafts; the whites managed to re-take & slip back with their horses."[c]
In 1783 Isaac had 500 acres surveyed on Storers Fork, Fayette (now Clark) County, Kentucky, and by 1791 he was listed in the Bourbon County tax list of March of that year.[d] The 1810 Bourbon County, Kentucky, Federal Census shows a male aged 16 to 26 living with Isaac and Sarah,[e] presumably a nephew, according to one researcher.[f]
On 21 October 1788, Isaac married Sinah Pullen, born about 1761, died 11 February 1841, the daughter of Jedidiah Pullen and Elizabeth Grigsby. The bondsman was Richard Smart, the husband of Isaac's sister-in-law, Betsy Pullen. Jedidiah Pullen gave consent for his daughter's marriage, and the witnesses were William Clinkenbeard and Richard Smart.[g]
In the official records of Bourbon County, Kentucky, Isaac was listed as one of the four witnesses to the Will, probated in January 1809, of John Forman (perhaps the father of Harriett For(e)man, the wife of Isaac's nephew Lucas Clinkenbeard?).[h] The Bourbon County, Kentucky, Court records include the following entries:
----Sept. 1799: "Deposition of Isaac Clinkenbeard, age about 41 years, to establish entries of William Clinkenbeard."
----Oct. 1804: "Deposition of Isaac Clinkenbeard states Plum Lick was a station of notoriety to hunters from Strode's [Station]; he knew it in 1780, trace led from Station to Plum Lick."[i]
At the 1830 U.S. Census, "Isaac Clinkingbeard", aged seventy to eighty, was enumerated in Bourbon County, Kentucky, together with a female aged seventy to eighty (Sarah). Isaac was shown as owning sixteen slaves: Males -- two under ten; three aged ten to twenty-four; two aged thirty-six to fifty-five; and Females -- four under ten; two aged ten to twenty-four; one aged twenty-four to thirty-six; and two aged thirty-six to fifty-five.[n]
In 1834, Isaac, then aged 75, was placed on the Kentucky Pension Roll, the entry reading as follows: Isaac Clinkenbeard, Private, [annual allowance] $36.66, [sums received] $109.98, [served in] Virginia line [troops], [placed on the Roll on] Mar.4,1834, [pension to commence on] Mar.4,1831.[j] Also listed in the Pension Roll was William Pullen, aged 75, who served as a Virginia line soldier, and who was perhaps a brother or uncle of Isaac's wife Sinah.
The 1810 U.S. Census for Kentucky discloses that Isaac owned seven slaves, and by the 1830 Census he owned 16 slaves. "The Adjutant General's Report on Kentucky's Union Troops" shows in the Colored Troops section two former slaves (runaway or freed) who had taken the surname Clinkenbeard: Daniel Clinkinbird,[k] and Noah Clinkenbeard.[l] Since there was only one Clinkenbeard family in Kentucky (and apparently in all of the United States until after the Civil War), these two former slaves clearly had belonged to either Isaac or his brother William. In his Will, written in 1845, Isaac dealt very generously with his slaves, naming them first, and granting them their full freedom, thereby indicating the respect and caring concern he had for them. To three elderly slaves he gave housing and furniture, and commited them to the care of his heirs, making provision that their lifetime needs be fully met. To the rest he granted full freedom upon his death, as well as land, houses, furniture, horses, equipment, livestock, and provisions for one year.[m]
On 17 May 1845, Isaac wrote his Will (see full text below), which was proved on 2 March 1846. In his Will, Isaac "set free from bondage all my negro slaves and their increase . . . to commence at my death." To all his slaves, "excepting my three old slaves bng. [being] Edmund, Ephraim and Fanny," he bequeathed 140 acres of land "on Stoner [Creek] in said County [Bourdon], and "all the kitchen furniture and property in my negro houses," property over which he had allowed them to exercise ownership, "four of my valuablest work horses or mares, four full set of the best gearing, two of the best two horse plows, and four of the best one horse plows . . all my hoes and axes, four best cows and calves, four best porks and their sucking pigs, twenty head first choice sheep and yoke of oxen, one ox cart, ox Poke, and lag chain, a sufficiency of Bacon or Pork for them one year, and all the crops of every kind that may be on hand, all of which . . I give to my negroes jointly and equally forever. The said Edmund, Ephraim and Fanny shall retain all their house or kitchen furniture and such other property as they may have claimed and exersised ownership over. Also I devise to the said Edmund, Ephraim and Fanny provision of meat and bread stuff for one year." Isaac stipulated that these three be cared for "in a humane manner during their natural lives the said old negroes rendering their reasonable services as they may feel disposed to do in aid of their support," that his negroes set free "shall not become chargeable to any County in the Commonwealth."[m]
Believed to have had no children of his own, Isaac bequeathed the following: ". . to William and Isaac Clinkingbeard sons of my nephew John Clinkingbeard who is the son of my brother William Clinkingbeard" the 208 acres of land on which he then lived with its appurtenances, providing William and Isaac paid to [his sister-in-law?) Nancy (Pullin) Cloud $500; $500 in trust for the "three daughters of my nephew Lucas Clinkingbeard deceased who is a son of my brother John Clinkingbeard, deceased," Mary Ann, Elizabeth, and Lucinda; fifty acres of land to Polly Jacob (Mrs Isaac) Wilson, and Eliza Jane (Mrs Tarlton) Wilson, children of his brother William's daughter Druzilla Smith; seventy acres of land to his brother William's daughters Polly (Mrs Frederick) Stip and Jane (Mrs John) Smith; all the rest of his estate he bequeathed to his brother William's son Jonathan Clinkingbeard and to William's grandson Isaac Stip.[m]
It is probable that Nancy (Pullen) Cloud was the daughter of one of Sinah (Pullen) Clinkenbeard's brothers (John, James, or Thomas) and thus another of the nieces whom the childless Isaac doted upon, as evidenced in his Will.
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a. "Reverend John D. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard" in THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTER, vol. 2, no. 3 (April 1928) pp. 95-128; The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky; the interview took place perhaps in the early 1840s.
b. Revolutionary War Pension Records of Isaac Clinkenbeard, File S15,380, National Archives pub. no. M804, roll 580.
c. Interview of Mercy Clinkinbeard, DRAPER MSS, No. 21S; from Cherel Henderson, Associate Director of East Tennessee Historical Soc., Knoxville, Tenn.
d. GEDCOM diskette of Jim Houpt, Port Orange, Florida.
e. 1810 U.S. Census, Nat'l Archives Pub. No. M252, Roll 5, p. 78.
f. E-mail message of Carolyn Kent (Krazymix@aol.com).
g. See Vol 2, No. 1, p. 23, Jan-Mar 1960 issue of the KENTUCKY GENEALOGIST, vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 1960) p. 23. Also Joanne Eustice, comp., "Constant Newsletter," vol 11, Note 49.
h. "Bourbon Co., Ky, Will Book C, pg 468" in Mrs William Breckenridge Ardery, KENTUCKY COURT AND OTHER RECORDS (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1972) p. 14; cited in letter of Evelyn Scyphers Jackson, Ashland, Ky, of Eastern Kentucky Genealogical Soc., to J.E. Stockman, 13 May 1995.
i. Bourbon County Court Order Books; cited in letter of Evelyn Scyphers Jackson, Ashland, Ky, of Eastern Kentucky Genealogical Soc., to J.E. Stockman, 13 May 1995.
j. KENTUCKY PENSION ROLL OF 1835 (Baltimore: Clearfield Co., Inc., 1994) p. 74.
k. THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT ON KENTUCKY'S UNION TROOPS: COLORED TROOPS SECTION (Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Publications, reprinted 1991), p. 5; cited in Brian Harney, "Kentucky Super Index" (tentative title), in an internet computer printout of 28 June 1994; Kentucky Genealogical Society, Frankfort, Ky.
l. Ibid., p. 82.
m. Will of Isaac Clinkingbeard (1758-1846) dated 17 May 1845; Bourbon Co. [Ky] Will Book M, p. 414; Bourbon Co. Clerk, Paris, Kentucky.
n. 1830 U.S. Census; National Archives pub. no. M19, roll 33, p. 348.
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Text of Isaac's Will:

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ISAAC CLINKINGBEARD (1758-1846)
Transcribed by J.E. Stockman, Mill Creek, Washington

"I ISAAC CLINKINGBEARD of the County of Bourbon and State of Kentucky do hereby make and ordain this my last Will and testament in manner and form following that is to say
"First I desire that all my just debts be paid I do hereby manumit and set free forever from bondage all my negro slaves and their increase which I might have and do have the control of which manumission and freedom to commence at my death
"Next I give and devise to all my negroes (excepting my three old slaves bng. [being?] Edmund, Ephraim and Fanny) The following property, to wit. All that tract of Land and appurtanances thereunto belonging which lying and being on Stoner in said County including all the Lands which I purchased of Benjamin Forman and that purchased of Everett Palmer the whole containing one hundred and forty eight acres be the same more or less also all the kitchen furniture and property in my negro houses And such property that I may have permitted them to exercise ownership over~ I also give them four of my valuablest work horses or mares four full set of the best gearing[?] two of the best two horse plows and four of the best one horse plows with a sufficiency of duble trees singletrees or stretchers and clarises[?] for said plows All my hoes and axes four best cows and calves four best porks[?] and their sucking pigs twenty head first choice sheep and yoke of oxen one ox cart ox Poke and lag chain a sufficiency of Bacon or Pork for them one year and all the crops of every kind that may be on hand all of which property real or personal I give as above named I give to my negroes jointly and equally forever
The said Edmund. Ephraim and Fanny shall retain all their house or kitchen furniture and such other property as they may have claimed and exersised ownership over Also I devise to the said Edmund Ephraim and Fanny provision of meat and bread stuff for one year
"Next I give to William and Isaac Clinkingbeard sons of my nephew John Clinkingbeard who is the son of my brother William Clinkingbeard deceased all of my old home tract of land and appurtenances whereon I now live and reside containing two hundred and eight acres be the same more or less I give the same equally to the said William and Isaac Clinkingbeard to them and their heirs forever with the following provision. Towit.
"First. That the said William and Isaac Clinkingbeard shall within twelve months from this the date of my last Will and testament goes to record well and truly pay or cause to be paid to Nancy Cloud the wife of Prior B. Cloud late Nancy Pullin or her order the sum of five hundred dollars which I devise to her and her heirs forever
"Secondly. That in like manner the said William & Isaac Clinkingbeard shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid to James L Brown in trust the sum of five hundred dollars for the use and benefit of three daughters of my nephew Lucas Clinkingbeard deceased who is a son of my brother John Clinkingbeard deceased which last named sum of five hundred dollars the said Brown shall receive in trust fot the use and benefit of said three daughter Namely Mary Ann Elizabeth and Lucinda Clinkingbeard the three daughter of the said Lucas Clinkingbeard deceased which sum I devise in trust to said Brown to be equally divided amongst the said three daughters each to receive their respective portion as they attain to the age of twenty one years or sooner if they marry under that age.
"Provided further that the said William and Isaac Clinkingbeard take charge of my said three old negro slaves Edmund Ephraim and Fanny suipport and take care of them in a humane manner during their natural lives they the said old negroes rendering their reasonable services as they may feel disposed to do in aid of their support And furthermore provided That the said William and Isaac Clinkingbeard shall together with my Executors hereafter named enter as security as required by law that my said negroes manumitted and set free shall not become chargeable to any County in the Commonwealth
"I also give to the said Nancy Cloud late Nancy Pullin all my household furniture of what nature or kind soever it may be all of which I give to her and her heirs forever-
"Next I give fifty acres of the tract of Land I purchased of Polly Forman to Polly Jacob and Eliza Jane Wilson to be equally divided between them being the daughters of my niece Druzilla Smith the daughter of my brother William Clinkingbeard, deceased The said Polly Jacob is the wife of Isaac Wilson [sic] and the said Eliza Jane Wilson is the wife of Tarlton Wilson which fifty acres of land and appurtanances thereunto belonging I give to the said Polly Jacob and Eliza Jane Wilson to them and their heirs forever "the balance of my said Polly Forman tract of land after all heretofore disposed of is about seventy acres be the same more or less I give to my niece Polly Stip the wife of Frederick Stip and to my niece Jane Smith the wife of John Smith being the daughters of my brother William Clinkingbeard deceased Which seventy acres of land or balance be it more or less I give to be equally divided between the said Polly Stip and Jane Smith which I give to them and their heirs foever
"Next I give to my nephew Jonathan Clinkingbeard son of my brother William Clinkingbeard deceased and to Isaac Stip son of the said Frederick Stip all the residue of my Estate of what nature or kind it may be not heretofore devised or disposed of which residue I give to be equally divided between the said Jonathan Clinkingbeard and Isaac to them and their heirs forever
"And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my said nephew John Clinkingbeard and the said John Smith Executors of this my last Will and testament requiring them the said Executors to enter as security with the said William and Isaac Clinkingbeard that my negroes shall not become a charge to any County in the Commonwealth And should my negroes wish the land sold which I have herein willed to them and my Executors think it best to do so they my Executors shall sell the same and make title and reinvest the proceeds of said land in such other lands as they with the approbation of my negroes deem best and most suitable and have the land so reinvested deeded to the same negroes and their heirs under this will forever
"In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this seventeenth day of May 1845.

s/"Isaac Clinkingbeard [Seal]
"Attest
ACAdams
James Scott
ILBrown

"At the March term of the County Court of Bourbon County Kentucky on the second day of March 1846
This last Will and testament of Isaac Clinkingbeard decd was ______[?] and proved in open Court by the oath of James L Brown an attesting witness thereto and being sworn to by John Clinkingbeard and John Smith the Executors was ordered to record. Witness Thomas P Smith clerk of said Court the date above
s/"Thomas P Smith clerk"
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15.	iii.		WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD, b. 11 October 1761, Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia; d. 13 October 1844, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky.
	iv.		[INFANT] CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1763, Stoddart's Fort, Frederick Co., Maryland; d. about 1763, Stoddart's Fort, Frederick Co., Maryland.

Notes for [INFANT] CLINKENBEARD:
This infant's brother, William, stated: "I was the youngest child but one, and it died. Can't remember my mother at all. Perhaps I was not more than 2 years old when she died." ["Reverend John D. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard" in THE HISTORY QUARTERLY of The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky, vol. 2, no. 3 (April 1928) pp. 95-128.]

Children of WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD and HESTER VAN METRE are:

16.	v.		ELEANOR⁵ CLINKENBEARD, b. 1769, Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Virginia; d. 4 September 1835, Mechanicsburg Township, Sangamon County, Illinois.
	vi.		JOEL CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1771, Virginia, probably in Shepherdstown, Berkeley County ⁸³; d. Bef. 1830⁸³.

Notes for JOEL CLINKENBEARD:
(NOTE: That Joel was the son of William Clinkenbeard and Hester Van Metre is almost certain because of his birthdate, but has not been proven.)
The 1820 U.S. Census shows "Joal Clinkingbeard," over 45 years of age (b. before 1775) living in Lexington, Scott County, Indiana, with the following household members: Males: 2 b. 1794/1804 (16 to 25); 1 b. 1804/10 (10 to 15); 1 b. 1810/20 (under 10); Females: 1 b. bef 1775 (wife) (over 45); 2 b. 1810/20 (under 10).[a] Since Joel is not found again in later Censuses, it is assumed that he died prior to 1830.[a] Because of his birthdate, the assumption is being made that this is another son of William Clinkenbeard (1725-1824) and Hester. There appears to be no other explanation for this man who can be found but once in the Census records. Since he is not found again in later Censuses, a further assumption is being made that he died prior to 1830.
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a. 1820 Fed. Census (Indiana); Pub. No. M33, roll 14, p. 157.

17.	vii.		JOB CLINKENBEARD, b. 1773, Berkeley County, Virginia, probably in Shepherdstown; d. December 1857, Liberty Township, Jefferson County, Illinois.
	viii.		CORNELIUS CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1775, of Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., Virginia; d. Unknown.

Notes for CORNELIUS CLINKENBEARD:
(NOTE: Although Cornelius was very probably a son of William Clinkenbeard and Hester Van Metre, the relationship has not been proven.)
The 1820 Federal Census found "Cornelius Clinkenberger" as the head of family residing in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia: MALES: 1 aged 26-45 (b.1775-1794); FEMALES: 1 aged 26-45 (b.1775-1794). 1 engaged in agriculture. No slaves.[a]
Cornelius's date of birth (1775-1794) and his residence in Shepherdstown make it almost certain that he was related filially to William Clinkenbeard, and the conclusion of this compiler is that he was William's son by his second wife, Hester Van Metre. Cornelius is not shown in Censuses prior or subsequent to 1820, so it is probable that he was taken to Kentucky by his parents when they migrated there in 1782, but came back to his birthplace temporarily in the years around 1820 to try farming there.
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a. International Surname Index, U.S.; LDS Family History Centres. Information taken from 1820 U.S. Census, Nat'l Archives, Pub. No. M33, roll 134, p. 090.

18.	ix.		DAVID JOHN CLINKENBEARD, b. 1778, Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Virginia; d. Unknown.
19.	x.		JOSEPH CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1784, (Kentucky?); d. 1811, Bourbon County, Kentucky.

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