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THE DESCENDANTS OF [WILLEM?] KLINCKENBERG

Generation No. 5


12. WILLIAM5 FUSSELL (SUSANNAH4 CONEY, BARBARA3 VAN CLINKENBURGH, WILLEM2 KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]1) was born 1 June 1728 in Phenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania84, and died 2 February 1804 in Pikeland, ( in present-day Pike County?), Pennsylvania84. He married SARAH LONGSTRETH 10 October 1751 in Agington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. She was born 8 January 1728/2984, and died Unknown.

Notes for WILLIAM FUSSELL:
William was baptised on 14 June 1730 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. At least two of William and Sarah's children, Bartholomew and Solomon, were born in Philadelphia.
     
Children of WILLIAM FUSSELL and SARAH LONGSTRETH are:
  i.   SUSANNAH6 FUSSELL, b. 29 March 1753; d. Unknown.
  ii.   BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL, b. 28 November 1754; d. Unknown.
  iii.   SOLOMON FUSSELL, b. 20 February 1755; d. Unknown.
  iv.   ANN FUSSELL, b. about 1756; d. Unknown.


13. ELIZABETH5 FUSSELL (SUSANNAH4 CONEY, BARBARA3 VAN CLINKENBURGH, WILLEM2 KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]1) was born about 1727, and died 8 September 1792 in Smyrna, Delaware County, Pennsylvania85,86. She married (1) BENJAMIN DAWSON, son of JOHN DAWSON and DOROTHY (DAWSON). He was born about 1718 in London, England87,88, and died 5 December 1793 in Smyrna, Delaware County, Pennsylvania89,90. She married (2) BENJAMIN DAWSON 19 July 1744 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania91,92, son of JOHN DAWSON and DOROTHY (DAWSON). He was born about 1718 in London, England93,94, and died 5 December 1793 in Smyrna, Delaware County, Pennsylvania95,96.
     
Children of ELIZABETH FUSSELL and BENJAMIN DAWSON are:
  i.   JOHN6 DAWSON, b. 3 June 1745, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. 10 October 1767.
20. ii.   SUSANNAH DAWSON, b. 2 September 1746, Smyrna, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; d. 29 November 1834, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
  iii.   DOROTHY DAWSON, b. 1 March 1747/48, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. Aft. 1788.
  iv.   SOLOMON DAWSON, b. 13 April 1749, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. Aft. 1788.
  v.   SARAH DAWSON, b. 5 April 1751, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. 8 December 1766.
  vi.   BENJAMIN DAWSON, b. 13 January 1753, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. Aft. 1788.
21. vii.   WILLIAM DAWSON, b. 15 March 1756, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania; d. 1806, Pennsylvania.
  viii.   ELIZABETH DAWSON, b. 24 November 1760, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. 8 September 1763.
  ix.   ISAAC DAWSON, b. 18 July 1763, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. about 1825, Queen Anne Co., Maryland.
  x.   JACOB DAWSON, b. 8 December 1765, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. Unknown.
  xi.   JAMES DAWSON, b. 23 April 1767, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. 4 June 1823, Chestertown, <Chester Co.>, Pennsylvania.
  xii.   ELIZABETH DAWSON, b. 5 March 1769, Smyrna, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania96; d. 15 August 1778.


14. JOHN5 CLINKENBEARD, SR (WILLIAM4, JOHN3, WILLEM2 KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]1) was born 9 July 1755 in Conolloway Creek, Cumberland (now Fulton) County, Pennsylvania97,98, and died 26 February 1837 in Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky99,100,101,102. He married MARY LUCAS 1779 in Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia)103, daughter of EDWARD LUCAS and ELIZABETH EDWARDS. She was born 6 February 1763 in Shepherdstown, Frederick County, Virginia, at "Elmwood"104,105, and died 1829 in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky106.

Notes for JOHN CLINKENBEARD, SR:
[The compiler's fourth great-grandfather.]
Revolutionary War Soldier.
Born a British subject on 9 July 1755 in the 28th year of the reign of King GEORGE II, John Clinkenbeard fought in the War of Independence and died an American citizen during the Presidency of ANDREW JACKSON. John (he signed his name "Clinkinbaird" in an 1834 document)[a] was born to William Clinkenbeard and (Jane?) Linn on 9 July 1755 in "Linn's Valley," the frontier plantation on Connolloway Creek, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, of his maternal grandparents, William Linn and Jane Addis. John died on 26 February 1837 at Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky.
John married, probably in 1779 in Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Virginia, Mary Lucas, daughter of Edward Lucas and Elizabeth Edwards. Mary was born 6 February 1763 at "Elmwood," the Lucases' ancestral plantation near Shepherdstown in Frederick County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia], and died in 1829 near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.
During the French and Indian War (1754-1763) between Great Britain and France, the Indians, fighting on the side of the French, greatly increased their attacks on the British settlers at the frontier. When John was nine months old, on 24 February 1756, the Indians delivered a savage attack upon the Linn and Clinkenbeard families and other British settlers who had taken refuge in nearby Fort Combes (pr. cooms), located between Big Connolloway and Little Connolloway Creeks in Cumberland (now Fulton) County, just inside the Pennsylvania border and about two miles north of what is now Hancock, Maryland, on the Potomac River.[b; o] John's Uncle John Linn, aged 23, was killed by the Indians, his Uncle Isaac Linn, aged 17, was taken prisoner and held captive for eleven years, and his Uncle Thomas Linn was scalped and sustained a depressed skull fracture of such severity that his brains could be seen pulsing and he was left blind and subject to lifelong seizures.[c; d; e; f] During the attack, John's mother fled with him into the winter's cold and, according to John's brother Isaac, she "Caught cold, & never got over it till she died,"[e] her death coming in 1763 when John was eight years old. Following Mrs Clinkenbeard's death, John and his younger brothers Isaac and William Jr went to live with their grandparents, William and Jane (Addis) Linn on the "Linn's Valley" plantation at Connolloway Creek. (See a full account of the 1756 Indian massacre in "Indian Attack on Fort Stoddert" in Chapter 20: The LINN Family of Scotland and Ulster.)
By 5 August 1766, John's father, William Sr, had moved to Shepherdstown, Frederick (Berkeley after 1772) County, Virginia, and purchased property in German (now Main) Street.[g] In about 1768, he married his second wife, Hester Van Metre. John's brother William Jr (and presumably Isaac) then rejoined their father, William Jr later saying, "My father married again, and I left my grandmother, and went to live with him at Shepherdstown." John, however, may have remained with his now-widowed grandmother, for William said "My brother lived there until he got to himself,"[d] On the other hand, John's pension affidavit of 1834 suggests that eventually John, too, went to live with his father and stepmother in Shepherdstown:

"When a boy, affiant's father removed to Berkeley County & state of Virginia. From thence affiant went to Lucas's Station on Watauga waters [Lake] on Holston [River] where he remained about 4 years & then returned to Berkeley County."[a]

Thus, in 1773, at the age of eighteen, John left Virginia and went to Lucas's Station[a] (established by Captain Robert Lucas, John's future wife's uncle) on the frontier of North Carolina (now northeastern Tennessee) where he joined other British settlers who, in the hope of becoming a separate British colony, had formed what they named the Watauga Association. Three years later, in 1776 after the Revolution began, the Wataugans petitioned successfully for annexation to North Carolina, and amongst the signatories were John, Robert Lucas, and John Carter, who the writer believes was a relative, perhaps an uncle, of John's future daughter-in-law, Mary Carter. The Wataugan Association's policy was to distribute the land first amongst themselves and then to newcomers.[h8] But John's brother William later said,

"My brother John was at Watauga, in Tennessee, a soldier, and was to get land for his services; but never did."[d]

John volunteered as a Private Soldier in the Watauga Association's "Company of fine riflemen" that had been raised to counter the general uprising of Indians along the frontier. In March 1774, John volunteered as a spy and was sent by Captain Robert Lucas on an espionage mission. Disguised as a trader, he proceeded to an Indian village, but the Indians correctly concluded that he was in fact a British soldier and took him prisoner. On 4 April 1774, while the Indians were engaged in a war dance over the scalp of another unfortunate British settler whom the Indians had killed, an old squaw came to John and warned that he, too, was to be killed. She thereupon helped him to escape. The Indians pursued him to the French Broad River where, under a hail of Indian bullets, he abandoned his horse, stripped off his clothes, jumped into the river, and swam across with a few of his remaining clothes on his head. Then, naked except for his hat, shirt, and hunting shirt, he walked sixty miles through the wilderness back to his Station.[a]
In the year 1775, Daniel Boone began his exploration and settlement of Kentucky's Cumberland Gap, and Patrick Henry, in a speech against British tyranny, exclaimed "Give me liberty or give me death". It was also in that year of 1775 that John served under Colonel John Sevier and Captain Nathaniel Evans in a campaign in which three Indian villages on the Tennessee and Coosa Rivers were burnt, and twenty-eight Indians were taken prisoner and later exchanged for forty British prisoners.[a] With the commencement that year of the Revolutionary War (which more accurately was a civil war, the second within the English nation), John became a Rebel soldier and fought against his Tory relatives, neighbours, and friends, and against his King and the lawful Government of his nation. In short, he became, technically, a traitor, but in the end a patriot whose contribution helped to found a great new nation.
John served, in 1776, under Colonel William Christian in a campaign on the Holston River against the Cherokee Indians, who had entered the conflict on the side of the Crown. Thirty-two Indians were killed.[a] In proceeding to that engagement, Colonel Christian led his forces across Bryant Island in the French Broad River in Washington County (Greene after 1783, Sevier after 1792). In speaking of this event, one author wrote:

"Prior to Christian's campaign, the settlers had fought off the Indians when they attacked. But this was the first time they actually marched to their towns and destroyed them. For many of the settlers this was the first glimpse they had of the area, and they later returned to settle it."[i]

One of those returning settlers was to be John.
In the fall of 1776, by order of Colonel John Sevier, John was drafted for a three-month tour of duty under Captain John Williams for the purpose of guarding Black's Station, a frontier fort. John did not serve militarily during the following year of 1777. By 1778, John, aged 23, had returned to his family in Shepherdstown, Virginia, and from there John and his brothers Isaac and William were drafted in the fall of 1778 to serve under Captain Josiah Sweringen on General McIntosh's fort-building campaign on the Ohio River. Finally, on a cold and snowy Christmas Eve, 1778, the three returned, via their grandmother Linn's plantation at Connolloway Creek, to the family home in German Street, Shepherdstown.[a]
In 1780, John was again drafted, this time for extended duty for a year and a half in the Virginia Militia (Minutemen), serving under Captain Sweringen. The following year, in 1781, John marched under General Daniel Morgan (the celebrated Revolutionary War hero known as "The Old Waggoner") in a campaign to thwart a plan of the Government troops, under the Tory General Claypole, to sack and burn Hagers Town, Maryland. Colonel Broke, second in command of the Tories, was killed and the Tories were defeated.[a]
John's marriage to Mary Lucas is believed to have taken place after his return to Shepherdstown from Tennessee in 1777/8. It was probably in 1780 that their first child (William?) was born. In about 1781, John and Mary left their extended families in Shepherdstown and settled in Washington County, North Carolina (now Sevier County, Tennessee), about seven miles east of Knoxville on land on the south bank of the French Broad River, adjacent to Bryant's Island, that John had seen when crossing the Island with Colonel Christian in 1776. From there in 1782 John served under Major Hugh Baird and Captain Nathaniel Evans in a campaign, John's last, to relieve a fort on the French Creek (i.e., the French Broad River), near present-day Knoxville, that was under siege by Indians.[a]
On 8 May 1792, about ten years after settling on the French Broad River, John purchased from Andrew Evans (brother of the above Captain Nathaniel Evans?) an additional 37 acres of land for £74, which increased his plantation to 307 acres. The land was described as

". . beg[ining] at upper end of island that Col WM CHRISTIAN marched through in the night when he went to the Cherokee Nation in the year 1776, tr[ansaction] being 37 acres as described."[j]

After becoming a state, Tennessee made land grants to the settlers, and John received Grant No. 1650 which made official his ownership of his 307-acre plantation.[k]
On 11 December 1813, John was received by "experience", and his son-in-law Samuel Elder "by letter", into the Dumplin Baptist Church on Dumplin Creek across the French Broad River opposite John's property. However, in 1814 John was excommunicated, and Samuel and his wife Phebe (John's daughter) were "dismissed" from membership, for reasons now unknown.[g]
By one report, John had up to thirty-two slaves, but he may have had only a few.[l] In any event, in 1816, after selling his plantation and slaves, John removed with his wife and younger children to Bourbon County, Kentucky,[a] where he purchased 103 acres of land on Stoner Creek, adjacent to his son Jonathan Clinkenbeard's land, near Paris, the County Seat.[g] Mary died there in 1829, and the 1830 U.S. Census shows "John C. Clinkingbeard", aged seventy to eighty, living there with two females aged fifteen to twenty years, and only two slaves, both curiously under age ten.[m] Living near John was his son "Lucas Clinkingbeard", aged twenty to thirty years, with two females, one aged fifteen to twenty and the other under five.[m]
On 25 August 1834, now aged 79 and physically debilitated, John gave an affidavit in support of his Revolutionary War pension claim, which was granted.[a] John sold his Bourbon County property on 6 July 1835 to a Mr James M. Cogswell for $4,635[g, p.35] and moved to Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky,[a] to live with or near his brother William. There on 26 February 1837 John died.
John's Will, written on 21 February 1837, was witnessed by his son John Jr, and named his son-in-law Jonathan Clinkenbeard and his son Isaac as executors. The Will, probated on 24 April 1837 in Clarke County, bequeathed one tenth of the $4,635 land sale funds to each of ten children, $33 to each of his deceased son Jonathan's children, and $10 to his son John Jr, who may previously have received his inheritance from the earlier sale of other lands. The text of the Will follows:[n]

"I John Clinkenbeard Sr of the County of Clarke and State of Kentucky, knowing the uncertainty of life and being anxious to Settle and arange all my earthly business do Ordain this my last Will & testament and do hereby direct my executors hereafter named to dispose of my property by sale and divide all my money as follows amounghst my heirs &C. first I do Will and direct that my body be decently buried and my Lawfull debts paid ---Secondly I Will and bequeath that all the money arising from the Sale of the land I sold to James M Cogswell amounting to four thousand Six hundred and thirty five dollars be equally divided amounghst my Children and grand Children as follows
"That is, to my son William, if he returns Within 2 or 3 years after my decese, is to have one half of one tenth of said $4635 dollars, and his four children, Polly, Elizabeth, Jane, and Pheby, is to have the other half of said tenth part of said money; and in Case he does not return in the time Specified, his four daughters named above is to have the part alotted to him. My son Edward is to have one half of one tenth part of said 4635 dollars and his four children, John Lewis, William, & Polly is to have the other half of said tenth part of said money. my daughters Elizabeth, Massie, and Pheby, and Polly is to have each one an equil tenth part of said 4635 dollars. my sons Robert, Isaac, and Joseph, is to have each one equal tenth part of said 4635 dollars.
"I also will and bequeath to my son Lucus's three Children one equal tenth part of said 4635 dollars. I further direct my executors hereafter named to pay my son John Clinkenbeard or his heirs ten dollars. I further direct my executors to pay unto my Son Jonathan Clinkenbeard's Children thirty three dollars and after the bequeaths herein named are made the balance of my property or money be equally divided among my ten Children as before directed. My Son John Clinkenbeard and my Son Jonathan Clinkenbeard's heirs is to have no more than is bequeathed to them in this my last Will & testament.
"I further direct that all the money or property I have advanced or may hereafter advance to any of my heirs herein named Shall be deducted out of each of their respective parts that may be due them before a final ballance is made. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my Soninlaw Jonathan Clinkenbeard & my son Isaac Clinkenbeard my true and Lawfull executors to this my last Will and testament to Carry the Same into effect, & I further direct that they are to enter into their duties under this will by given any Security in the Court. Given under my hand and Seal this 21st day of February 1837.
his
attest John Clinkenbeard jr John X Clinkenbeard Sr. (SEAL)
Jac. Wilson mark

"Clark County April Court 1837
"This last Will and testament of John Clinkenbeard Sr dec'd Was produced in Court & proven according to Law by the oaths of Jno Clinkenbeard jr & Jacob Wilson, witnesses thereto subscribed, & ord. to be recorded and on the motion of Jonathan Clinkenbeard & Isaac Clinkenbeard, the executors therein named who made oath thereto as the Law directs, Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form giving Security wherenfrom they, together with Jno Clinkenbeard jr, entered into and ackd. their bond in penalty of $10.000 Conditioned as the Law directs.
end. [entered] Att. James P. Bullock, C.C.C."
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a. Revolutionary War Pension Records of John Clinckenbeard, file S30,930, National Archives Publication No. M804, Roll 580.
b. Phyllis J. Bauer, trans., LYNN/LINNS IN THE DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS (McHenry, Ill.: Phyllis J. Bauer, 1994) p. 12.
c. George William Beattie and Helen Pruitt Beattie, "Pioneer Linns of Kentucky" in GENEALOGIES OF KENTUCKY FAMILIES: FROM THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981); pp. 675-749.
d. "Reverend John D. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard," THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, vol. 2, no. 3 (April 1928) pp. 96, 98.
e. "Interview of Isaac Clinkenbeard" by The Rev'd John D. Shane in DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, Series CC, Kentucky Papers, 11:1, Wisconsin State Historical Society.
f. Harry Stuart Holman, HISTORY OF TONOLOWAY BAPTIST CHURCH (Chambersburg, Pa.: The Printaway (printers), 1980) pp. 90-93.
g. Norman Cooper Emerick, A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE COOPER (KIEFER) FAMILY AND ALLIED FAMILIES, Chapter ___: "The William Clinkenbeard Family," with Bibliography (Baltimore: N.C. Emerick, pre-publication draft as of August 1995) pp. 15,34A, 35; photocopy of copyrighted MS. supplied to J.E. Stockman courtesy of author.
h. Max Dixon, THE WATAUGANS (probable publisher: Conshohocken, Pa.: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, n.d.)
i. Historical report with map of John Clinkenbeard's plantation in Sevier Co., Tenn., from Cherel Henderson, East Tennessee Historical Society, 15 April 1997.
j. GREENE CO. [Tenn.] DEEDS BOOK 1, PAGE 166, p. 11; photocopy from Sharie F. Chesser, Roswell, New Mexico.
k. Grant Book 2-1/1774, recorded in 1806/7 and 2/689, recorded in 1810, entry 566.
l. Letter of Mary Elizabeth (Lindsay) Brosveen, D.A.R., Albuquerque, New Mexico, to J.E. Stockman, 14 April 1996.
m. 1830 U.S. Census, National Archives pub. no. M19, roll 33, p. 334.
n. Will of John Clinkenbeard, Clark County [Ky] Wills, 9:81; Clerk of the Court, Clark Co., Kentucky.
o. William H. Ansel, Jr., FRONTIER FORTS ALONG THE POTOMAC AND ITS TRIBUTARIES (1984; reprint Romney, W.Va.: Fort Pearsall Press, Inc., 1995) p. 43.

Notes for MARY LUCAS:
[The compiler's fourth great-grandmother.]
Mary Lucas, the daughter of Edward Lucas and Elizabeth Edwards, was born on 6 February 1763 at her father's "Elmwood" plantation at Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Virginia, in the third year of the reign of King GEORGE III. She died in 1829 near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. She married, probably in 1779 at Shepherdstown, John Clinkenbeard, son of William Clinkenbeard and (Jane?) Linn, born 9 July 1755 at Connolloway Creek, Cumberland (now Fulton) County, Pennsylvania, died 26 February 1837 at Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky.
Our Lucases are a proud family whose genealogy has been traced back to the villages of Veny Sutton and Longbridge Deverill in County Wiltshire, England, in the 1540s, and to County Northamptonshire, England, in about 1485.[a] Reportedly, the family hearkens back to a man named Lucas who was living in Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk County, England, in A.D. 1180. Some of the sparkling ornaments on Mary's family tree, and therefore on ours as well, were notable historical figures---such as her third cousin, Benjamin Rush, M.D., the signer for Pennsylvania of the Declaration of Independence and doctor to Dolly Madison at the White House; his son, The Honourable Richard Rush, Attorney-General of the United States under President James Madison; and Mary's first cousin, His Excellency, The Honourable Robert Lucas, Governor of Ohio, and later Governor of the Territory of Iowa.
One Clinkenbeard researcher, has raised the real possibility that our Mary Lucas was not the one born in 1763 to Edward and Elizabeth (Edwards) Lucas, but rather that she was Mary's aunt, Mary Lucas, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Corn) Lucas, who was born in 1754. The reasons given are that Mary (b. 1754) fits much better with John and Mary's probable date of marriage, and with the estimated date of the birth of their first child (about 1780). Further, this researcher states that Mary Lucas (b. 1754) was still unmarried when her father's Will was written and proved in 1777; that unmarried daughters often married soon after a father's death; and that 1777/78 is about the time John and Mary are thought to have married. (Actually, the marriage could have occurred as late as 1780/81.)[b]
In analyzing the question of Mary's identity, it is to be noted that Mary's last child, Lucas, was born no earlier than 1803. At that birth Mary (b. 1754) would have been 49 years of age, and Mary (b. 1763) would have been aged 40. In regard to the beginning and ending ages for human egg production, ovulation occurs "from about 12 to 48 years of age . ."[c] However, the ability to conceive a child ends earlier, for gynecologists state that the chances of becoming pregnant above the age of 40 are very low.[d] Thus, although the older Mary possibly could have conceived Lucas in 1803 when she was 49, it would appear very unlikely. Further, it is found that the ages of nine of Mary's contemporaries at the birth of their last child range from 30 to 44, the average being 38.9 years.[e] This would suggest that the cessation of childbirth in the mid-18th century occurred as it does now, at about the age of 40. It is the writer's belief that the "Mary Lucas" who married John Clinkenbeard was, almost certainly, the one born in 1763.
Because their first child was born in about 1780, it was probably in 1779 that Mary married John Clinkenbeard, the son of William Clinkenbeard and (Jane?) Linn. According to one source, the marriage probably took place in Tennessee,[f] while another source claims Berkeley Co., Virginia, as the probable site.[g] The latter would seem almost certain tobe correct, for JOHN had returned to Shepherdstown in 1778 after several years in Tennessee, and from there served in short Revolutionary War campaigns in 1780 and 1781.
Following their marriage, and perhaps after the birth of William, their first child, Mary and John left Virginia in about 1781 and settled on 307 acres of land on the south bank of the French Broad River, Washington County, North Carolina (later Greene, and now Sevier, County, Tennessee). The rest of their twelve children were born and raised there on the plantation that John cultivated with the help of his slaves and, later, his sons. In 1816, John and Mary sold their land and moved to land that they purchased in the vicinity of Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, near John's brother Isaac and other relatives.
Some researchers report that Mary died in 1816 in Tennessee, ostensibly prompting John's move to Kentucky. However, the majority of researchers accept that Mary died in Kentucky in 1829 at the age of 66. Where Mary was buried has not been discovered.
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a. Peter Allan Steveson, FAMILY FOUNDATIONS: HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES (Greenville, S.C.: P.A. Steveson, [1987?]).
b. Letter of Sharie Chesser, Roswell, N.M., to J.E.Stockman, 1 June 1997.
c. ENCYCLOPĘDIA BRITANNICA (Chicago, London, Toronto: Encyclopędia Britannica, Inc., 1966) vol. 9, p. 206.
d. Robin Ryan, "Whole New Career," THE SEATTLE TIMES (16 Dec 1997), p. F1.
e. Each mother's age as of the birth of her last child: Mary Lucas (b.1763), aged 40; Ivea Allen, aged 38; Nancy Mildred Stone, aged 38; Elizabeth Edwards, aged 40; Hannah Lowrance, aged 43; Hannah Reed, aged 44; Dianah Rimmer, aged 42; Sarah Smart, aged 35; Sarah Ann Elder, aged 30.
f. LDS International Genealogical Index as of March 1992.
g. Clinkenbeard Genealogy, 24 January 1989; from the archives of The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
     
Children of JOHN CLINKENBEARD and MARY LUCAS are:
22. i.   WILLIAM6 CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1780, (Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Virginia?); d. 1 July 1849.
  ii.   ELIZABETH CLINKENBEARD, b. 1783, Greene County, North Carolina (now Sevier County, Tennessee)107,108; d. Aft. 1860, (probably) Putnam County, Indiana, where she was living in 1860108.
  Notes for ELIZABETH CLINKENBEARD:
At the 1860 U.S. Census, Elizabeth was enumerated in Putnam County, Indiana, as follows: "Clinkenbeard, Elizabeth, Age: 77 [1783]; Birthplace: TN; County: 67 [Putnam Co.]; Township: 0; Page 397." [Indiana U.S. Census Index,1860; p. 2,005 Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Indiana.]

23. iii.   EDWARD CLINKENBEARD, b. 1784, Greene County, North Carolina (now Sevier County, Tennessee); d. 6 January 1865, Gentry County, Missouri.
  iv.   MARY "POLLY" CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1786, Greene County, Territory South of the River Ohio (now Sevier County, Tennessee); d. Unknown.
  Notes for MARY "POLLY" CLINKENBEARD:
It has not been discovered whether or not Mary ever married.


24. v.   JONATHAN CLINKENBEARD, b. September 1788, Knoxville, Greene County, State of Franklin (now Tennessee); d. 28 August 1836, Pope County, Arkansas.
25. vi.   ROBERT CLINKINGBEARD, b. Bet. 1788 and 1790, Greene County, North Carolina (now Sevier County, Tennessee); d. 1 July 1849, LaClede (Wright?) County, Missouri.
26. vii.   JOHN CLINKENBEARD, JR, b. 1792, Greene County, Territory South of River Ohio (now Sevier County, Tennessee); d. 9 April 1865, Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky.
  viii.   JOSEPH CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1794, Sevier County, Tennessee109,110; d. Aft. 1837111,112; m. FANNY REBECCA GILBREATH, 30 November 1821, Scott County, Indiana113,114,115; b. 1801; d. Unknown.
  Notes for JOSEPH CLINKENBEARD:
      Joseph was born on his father's plantation on the banks of the French Broad River in what is now northwestern Sevier County, Tennessee. He appears to have gone to Indiana with his brothers John, Edward, and William, and various sources locate Joseph in Indiana around the year 1820. One source lists the marriage of Joseph Clinkenbeard and Fanny Gilbreath on 30 November 1821 in Scott County, Indiana.[a] All factors fit, and there is known no other eligible Joseph, so it is being assumed tentatively that that Joseph is this Joseph.
      A research report also locates Joseph in Scott County, Indiana, and names the source: "HOOSIER JOURNAL OF ANCESTRY XI-1, p. 64, SCOTT CO. [Ind.] ORDER BOOK B-2: p. 5 of Order Book B-2 --- Joseph Clinkenbeard vs. Aaron Jennings (cont.) next term."[d] Lastly, the U.S. Census returns enumerated Joseph in Indiana in 1820, and document his migrations to Illinois and Iowa (see the chart below).
      According to one source, "A Joseph and Fanny Clinkenbeard bought 160 acres of land in Warren County, IL 1832. Then sold it in 1835. I think he may have moved to Hancock County IL at that time. Later, 1838 or so he was in Jefferson County Iowa."[g]
      A researcher wrote: "I find a Jos./Joel Clinkenbeard listed in the will of Jonathan Clark in 1839."[b] Regarding this reference, another researcher wrote: "On 11/12/1839, P[robate?] B[ook?] [pp.] 104-110, Samuel A. Keith as commissioner appointed by court for estate of deceased [i.e., Clark], deeds and conveys to Hugh H. Rodman the land on north side of 'Muscatitack' river in Jennings Co. [Indiana]. This deed yields up all claims of Rebecca Ann Clark, Susan Clark and Enos Williams Clark, heirs at law of Jonathan Clark, dec'd, in said land. Witt: J.S. Smith and Jos. Clinkinbeard."[c]
      The Will of Joseph's father, John Clinkenbeard, shows Joseph as still living at the time John wrote his Will in 1837: ". . . my sons Robert, Isaac, and Joseph, is to have each one equal tenth part of said 4635 dollars."[e] One source gives 1852 as the definite date of death for Joseph (the same year is given for his wife) but no documentation is given to support this date.[f]
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CENSUS RETURNS
The following Census returns have been found for "Joseph Clinkenbeard":
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| 1810 (2) | 1820 (1) | 1830 (3) | 1840 (3)
| --- | Lexington, | --- | ---
| Montgomery Co., | Scott Co., | Edgar Co., | Jefferson Co.,
| Kentucky | Indiana | Illinois | Iowa
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JOSEPH: b.| 1784-1794 | 1775-1794 | 1790-1800 | 1790-1800
| (Age 16-26) |(Age 26-45) |(Age 30-40) |(Age 40-50)
Wife: b. | 1784-1794 | 1775-1794 | 1790-1800 | ---
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Son: b. | 1800-1810 | | |
Son: b. | 1800-1810 | | |
Son: b. | 1800-1810 | | |
Son: b. | 1800-1810 | | |
Son: b. | | 1810-1820 | | 1810-1820
Son: b. | | 1810-1820 | | 1810-1820
Son: b. | | 1810-1820 | |
Son: b. | | 1810-1820 | |
Son: b. | | | 1820-1825 |
Son: b. | | | 1825-1830 | 1825-1830
Son: b. | | | 1825-1830 | 1825-1830
Son: b. | | | | 1830-1835
Son: b. | | | | 1830-1835
- - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Female:b. | Bef 1765 | | |
Female:b. | 1765-1784 | | |
Female:b. | 1794-1800 | | |
Dau: b. | | | | 1800-1810
Dau: b. | | 1810-1820 | |
Dau: b. | | | 1820-1825 |
Dau: b. | | | 1820-1825 |
Dau: b. | | | 1825-1830 |
Dau: b. | | | | 1830-1835
Dau: b. | | | | 1835-1840
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Possible identification of Joseph:
(1) JOSEPH, son of: (John/Mary) b. c.1794 Sevier Co., Tennessee; d. aft 1837;
m. 30 Nov 1821 Scott Co.,Indiana, FANNY GILBREATH b. 1800/1810(?).
(2) JOSEPH, son of: (Wm:/Hester) b. c.1784 (in Ky?); d.1810/13 (Nicholas Co.,Ky?)
m. 5 May 1803 Bourbon Co.,Ky., NANCY DELAY b. 1781 Shenandoah Co.,Va.
(3) JOSEPH, son of: (Job/Jane) b. c.1798 (in Bourbon Co.,Ky?); d.18 Feb 1847 in
Jefferson Co., Iowa;
m. 1st, c.1817 SARAH [----?----] b. c.1800.
m. 2nd, 17 May 1846 Jefferson Co.,Ia., MARIAH [----?----] (Mrs BLAIR) b. 1822.
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      a. Brian Harney, KENTUCKY SUPER INDEX (tentative title); Kentucky Genealogical Soc., Frankfort, Ky.; partial computer print-out of 28 Jun 1994 in poss of J.E. Stockman. This source cites INDIANA MARRIAGES, EARLY TO 1825.
      b. Letter of Jeannie Noe Carlisle, Lexington, Indiana, to J.E. Stockman, 10 February 1995.
      c. E-Mail message of Jeannie Carlisle to J.E. Stockman, 8 March 1996; summary from the records of the Estate of Jonathan Clark from The Probate Court Records of Scott County, Ind., 1820-1847, pp. 104-110.
      d. Research Report of (Mrs) Janet Cowen, Indianapolis, Ind., to J.E. Stockman, 22 March 1995.
      e. Will of John Clinkenbeard (1755-1837) dtd 21 Feb 1837; Clarke Co. Will Book, 9:81; Clerk of the Court, Clark Co., Kentucky.
      f. Letter of Leslie C. Calvert, La Porte, Ind., to J.E. Stockman, 11 May 1995, with revised list of Clinkenbeards.
      g. E-mail message of Jean Powell, 20 January 2001, transmitted by Dave Robison ("Pomegranate") to Clinkenbeard Cousins (clinkenbeard@flag.blackened.net), 22 January 2001.
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  Notes for FANNY REBECCA GILBREATH:
      "[I] received this from someone whose e-mail is no longer valid: '. . . Fanny Rebecca Galbreath married Joseph Clinkenbeard on 30 November 1821 in Scott County, IN. Fanny was a sister of Mary Ann Galbreath who married James Miller. William R. Spencer married their daughter Mary Ann Miller. William R. was a son of Calvin Spencer and Elizabeth Robison. Elizabeth was, of course, the daughter of Joseph Robison and Mathena or Matheny Wright. Its a bucket of worms. Their was a lot of intermarriage. Ira.' " [E-mail message from David Robison ("Pomegranate") to Clinkenbeard Cousins (clinkenbeard@flag.blackened.net), 19 January 2001.]

27. ix.   MERCY "MASSIE" CLINKENBEARD, b. 8 November 1796, Sevier County, Tennessee; d. 3 August 1869, Fleming County, Kentucky.
28. x.   PHEBE CLINKENBEARD, b. 26 December 1798, Sevier County, Tennessee; d. 27 December 1881, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
29. xi.   ISAAC CLINKENBEARD, b. 20 November 1801, Sevier County, Tennessee; d. 19 August 1850, Gentry County, Missouri.
30. xii.   LUCAS CLINKENBEARD, b. about 1803, Sevier County, Tennessee; d. 13 July 1833, Bourbon County, Kentucky.

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