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THE DESCENDANTS OF [WILLEM?] KLINCKENBERG


15. WILLIAM5 CLINKENBEARD (WILLIAM4, JOHN3, WILLEM2 KLINCKENBERG, [WILLEM?]1) was born 11 October 1761 in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia116,117,118, and died 13 October 1844 in Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky119. He married MARY MOONEY 1781 in Boonesborough, Madison County, Kentucky120,121, daughter of PATRICK MOONEY and JANE BEARD. She was born 10 May 1756 in (Virginia?)122,123, and died 15 March 1840 in Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky124.

Notes for WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD:
Revolutionary War Soldier.
According to one source, William was born "probably in Air Township, Cumberland County [now Bethel Township, Fulton County], Pennsylvania."[a] However, Maude Clinkenbeard Spencer, one of William's descendants, places his birth ". . in Spotsylvania county, Va., 'about a block away from the court house' as my Father heard it from his Father. My grandfather knew my great-great grandfather [William, b. 1761] well."[b] The records of the Daughters of the American Revolution state: "Wm Clinkenbeard born 1725 went to Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. Left there 1761."[c] It thus appears likely that Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was the place of William's birth on 11 October 1761.
The family apparently returned later that same year to "Linn's Valley," the plantation of William's grandfather, William Linn, at Connolloway (now Tonoloway) Creek, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. At nearby Fort Stoddart in Frederick County, Maryland, William's mother [Jane?] (Linn) Clinkenbeard died in 1763, apparently at the birth of her fourth child, an infant that did not survive.[a]
After his mother's death, William's father, in about 1764, moved with his two older sons, John and Isaac, down the Potomac River to Shepherdstown, Frederick County (Berkeley after 1772), [W.] Virginia. Apparently, it was there that the elder William remarried, to Hester Van Metre, sometime around 1765-1770. William, then about three years old, stayed behind and lived for awhile with his widowed grandmother, Jane (Addis) Linn, on the family plantation, "Linn's Valley."[d]
William related that: "My grandmother lived in Pennsylvania. Line did not run far from her house. I recollect when they were cutting the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. [The Mason and Dixon Line, run 1763-1767.] They looked through spyglasses. Lifted me up to look in. Cut the line, I think it was thirty feet wide, everything [cut] down, and put up mile stones."[d]
William, at age 15, left his grandmother Linn's and rejoined his father and brothers in Shepherdstown in 1776 before the start of the Revolutionary War. William and his two brothers, John and Isaac, served in the Revolutionary War.[w] In 1778 when William was 17, he served with John and Isaac in General Lachlan McIntosh's Campaign in Ohio. William said of that experience:
"I was in the light infantry. Travelling so far, so young, and with so heavy a gun, I was overcome. (Carried his blanket and pack on his shoulders too.) My brothers applied to the Captain for a horse for me to ride---one of the pack horses---but he wouldn't let me have one. When we turned back
before the army, one morning my brothers heard an open bell and went out and caught a Continental [Army] horse and fixed it up. I rode it for two or three days till the army came up. It snowed and blowed very cold. It was Christmas Eve about midnight when I got to my grandmother's on Conolloway."[e]
In addition to his Revolutionary War service, William also fought later "in the War of 1812 along with his sons."[b] William served as a Private soldier in the 5th Mounted Regiment (South's), of the Kentucky Volunteers.[b] Serving with William in that War were his son Jonathan, and an Edward Clinkenbeard (presumably William's nephew, the son of his brother John).[f]
In the fall of 1779, William left his home in Shepherdstown, Virginia, and migrated with his brother Isaac to Boonesborough, Kentucky County, Virginia (now Madison County, Kentucky), arriving there in December 1779, not long before Christmas. By 1781, they had moved to Strode's Station, Fayette (now Clarke) County, Kentucky, where Captain John Strode gave the two as much land as they wanted to clear, rent-free till the close of the Revolutionary War. William stated in Shane's interview that:
"Strode had been out [to Kentucky] in 1776, and gotten a pre-emption of a 1,000 acres, by building a cabin on it then; they that raised corn in 1779 were entitled to 400 [additional acres]. We didn't come over [to Strode's Station] because there were so many at Boonesborough, but because Strode gave us all a chance to clear what we pleased and we were to have it rent free till the close of the war. Strode had come out that same fall [1779], just a little before us, and had gotten his cabin up as high as the joise. When we came that was the only one that was started. We were there some time before Christmas."[d]
William referred to that first winter of 1779/80 in Kentucky as the "Hard Winter," characterized by deep snow and followed by the loss of a large number of Americans loyal to the King who had come to Strode's Station but who decided to move on to other places in the spring. "Our station [Strode's] never was strong after the first winter; heap of Tories settled there then, but after that they went off."[g]
On more than one occasion, William and his fellow pioneers at Strode's Station were involved in deadly encounters with the Indians. At the time of one notable Indian attack in June 1780, two of the settlers, John Judy and Jacob Spahr were in the garden outside the stockade. William later related that:
"Judy was over the creek, on the east side; got wounded in the side; didn't bury the bullet quite in it, just scalped it; [and] got in [the fort]. Spahr was on the west side; had driven the cattle into [the garden], and perhaps might have been within steps of getting through the garden [to the stockade],
after they had done the milking. . . The Indians were laying on the 'outside of the gap' that led into the corn field, which Spahr must have come so near to, and there . . they fired and killed him. . . Indians were outside of the outside garden fence; Spahr might have gotten within ten steps of them. We saw also where they [Indians] had stuck in leaves into the fence to hide the cracks in the fence, from behind which the Indians hid and shot Donnalson. Found part of that Indian's wadding, or wipings of his gun, that had shot Donnalson . . .
"Didn't never understand where the Indian was that shot Spahr. Donnalson went to look to see what it [the sound] was. Put his foot on the log on one house and then the other foot on the log of the other, and so raised himself up [& was shot in the head]. Had no gun that ever I heard of. Couldn't have shot very well from such a place. The brains worked all out at the hole; the skin, or texture of the brain, was broken.
"Women ran bullits for them [the men]. Heard my wife, that afterwards was, say she ran out at the back door outside of the Station and got a log of wood (it was outside the Station) and took it in, and sett it against the door, and when she had done that she just sat down and couldn't do anything more."[h]
In 1781, William and seven other young men, one a married man, were ordered to Boone's Station as guards to protect the Tories (Loyalists) living there from expected savage Indian attacks. The eight men were the only guards there and William said, "They [the Tories] were afraid, and we were as afraid as they." Later, on 1 March 1781, William and his fellows returned home to Strode's Station to find that the Station had come under attack by Indians. Without William and the seven other men, Strode's had been left with but 16 or 18 men to protect the fort. William said:
"The morning we got home the Indians had been at the Station and killed all the sheep (one only left); cattle--drove them in groups at some distance out of shot from the fort into the field where they in the fort could see them kill them [the cattle]; and then called to the men in the Station to come and get their cattle. The Indians would kill them all. And when they shot one that kicked up, or cut any capers, they would ha! ha! ha! as loud as to be heard all through the fort. Some of them [the cattle] they scared off, so that they run wild and never got back. . . When we got in there [back to Strode's Station] we saw what we didn't want to see. Never knew a breath of it till after we got in."[d]
In 1781, William married in Boonesborough, Lincoln County, Virginia (now Madison County, Kentucky), Mary Mooney, the daughter of Patrick Mooney (born 1681 in northern Ireland, died in Kentucky on 14 December 1799 at age 118), and his wife Jane Beard (born 1706 in Ireland, died 1806 in Kentucky). William and Mary continued to live at Strode's Station until 1784. By 1787, William reportedly was living near his father in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The Bourbon County Court Order Book later documented William's presence in that County as well as the length of time he had lived at Strode's Station:
"Jan. 1805: WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD, age 43, deposeth that he was well acquainted with the salt spring trace leading from Boonesborough to the lower Blue Licks. States that he lived at Strode's Station from 1781 to 1784."[i]
In approximately 1786, William purchased 25 acres of land on Wolf Creek near Clintonville, Bourbon County, and four years later he and Mary returned to the 342-acre tract in Clarke County that he had been given by Captain John Strode in 1779. In his interview with The Reverend Mr Shane, William said that he "Had owned this first. A war path [Indian] ran right through this place. I had tried to improve this first. The Indians stole our horses and we were afraid to work here."[j]
In the late 1790s, with the Revolution behind him, William built a house on that property, which is located on Hood's Creek, just west of the Paris and Winchester Turnpike (now the Old Paris Pike), and about four miles north of Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky. The house on Hood's Creek was a fine two-and-a-half-storey brick house with an exceptional hall-parlour plan, an enclosed staircase, excellent Federal woodwork detailing, fireplaces upstairs and downstairs at each end of the house and in the kitchen wing, with a cellar underlying part of the house. There William spent the rest of his life with his family and his slaves, who numbered eighteen or more. He was taxed there in the year 1800.[a] The house is still standing and is structurally sound, although it is now vacant and appears to be in somewhat ramshackle condition.[k]
After his death in 1844, William's heirs sold the property to James Price of Clark County, Kentucky, whose family before the Civil War became involved in a feud with the Gay family, who also lived off the Paris Road. The feud culminated in about 1863 with the shooting death of two members of the Price family and the wounding of one of the Gay clan. The house is presently owned by Maurice W. Miller Jr of nearby "Deerlawn" estate in the Paris Road. (The current address of the Clinkenbeard house is Paris Pike, Route 2, Winchester, Kentucky, KY 40391.[k]
The 1810 Federal Census in Clark County, Kentucky, enumerated William (b. bef 1765) as head of his household, which included the following persons: Three males aged 16-26 (b. 1784/94--- Isaac, Jonathan, Col. Wm: John); one female aged 45 and over (b. before 1765---Mary Mooney); and one female aged 16-26 (b. 1784/94---Jane).[l]
The Clinkenbeard family had a rather large slave ownership, and, as a mitigating factor, appear to have treated their slaves humanely and generously. The 1810 Census schedule shows William as owning one slave[l] who, perhaps, was the runaway slave, "Bill," for whose return William advertised in THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE edition of Tuesday, 19 March 1811.[m] By 1820, the Federal Census listed William as owning seven slaves: Two males aged 14 to 26; one male under age 14; two females aged 14 to 26; and two females under age 14.[n] The number of slaves owned by William increased to eleven by the 1830 Census, and in that year, the extended Clinkenbeard family in Kentucky owned, all together, 36 slaves.[o] The number of William's slaves increased to 18 by the 1840 Census: Five males under age 10; two males aged 10 to 23; one male aged 36 to 54; one male aged 55 to 99; five females under age 10; one female aged 10 to 23; one female aged 24 to 35; and two females aged 36 to 54.[p] In his Will of 29 October 1840, William named thirteen slaves in his possession, and valued them at a total of $4,690.25 (see below).
During the Civil War, two former Clinkenbeard slaves who had taken the "Clinkenbeard" family name, served in the Union Army: "Daniel Clinkenbird" and "Noah Clinkenbeard."[q] Also of interest are 1870 Federal Census schedules that list former Clinkenbeard slaves in Bourbon County communities:

Middletown, in the household of Stephens Clark, farmer:[r]
---Lulas (Lucas?) Clinkenbeard, male, aged 34, farm laborer, born in Kentucky;
---George Clinkenbeard, male, aged 18, farm laborer, born in Kentucky;
North Middletown, in the household of J.B. Stivers:[s]
---Jon Clinkinbeard, male, aged 10, domestic servant, born in Kentucky;
Paris, in the household of George Johnson:[t]
---Martha Clinkenbeard, female, aged 18, domestic servant, born in Kentucky;
---Will Clinkenbeard, male, aged 25, farm laborer, born in Kentucky.

The 1880 Federal Census enumerated an ex-slave, John Clinkenbeard, living with his family in District #3 Blue Ball, Clarke County, Kentucky:
CLINKENBEARD, John, 38 [1842], b. Kentucky.
---Allice, wife, 29 [1851], b. Kentucky.
---Lisa, dau, 5 [1875], b. Kentucky.
---Ben, son, 3 [1877], b. Kentucky.
---Wesly, bro, 40 [1840], b. Kentucky.
Also living in the household were two boarders.
At Mary's death on 15 March 1840, William was left a widower. Mary was buried on the estate in the family burying ground, which measured four square poles (i.e., 22 square yards). William died four years later, on 13 October 1844, and was buried next to his wife. Later, the remains of both were transferred to Section E of the Winchester Cemetery.
On 29 October 1840 William made his Will in Clark County, appointing as Executors his sons Jonathan and Colonel John Clinkenbeard. The Will, witnessed by L.B. Yeates and Peter Bean, was proved on 28 October 1844. William made bequests to each of his children equally as follows:[u]
---To sons Jonathan and Colonel John: Wm:'s entire landed estate; the excess of an equal share for each was to be paid equally to the rest of his children.
---To each of his children: An equal share of the monies realised from the sale of his slaves.
Further in regard to his slaves, who numbered 13 at the time of his death, William provided as follows: "Item 4th. I make this provision about the Sale of my Slaves namely that, if the negroes are willing to Serve my Children and they my Children can make Satisfactory division of them then, in that event they are not to be sold, at least not Sold out of the family."
The Estate Inventory (evaluated at $7,022.88) and the Bill of Sale (totalling $7,045.93) show the following slaves, their ages, their buyers, and the amount each fetched:
1. David, male, aged 55, and
2. Caty, female, aged 46, sold to Drusilla Smith, daughter, for $304.
3. Adam, male, aged 34, sold to Frederick Stip, son-in-law, for $600.
4. Elisa, female, aged 31, and
5. Elisa's child, aged 1, sold to Drusilla Smith, daughter, for $545.
6. Wilson, male, aged 25, sold to John Clinkenbeard, son, for $600.
7. George, male, aged 23, sold to Frederick Stip, son-in-law, for $600.
8. David, male, aged 16, sold to John Smith, son-in-law, for $ 500.
9. Martha Ann, female, aged 15, sold to Jonathan Clinkenbeard, son, for $300.
10. Thomas, male, aged 12, sold to John Smith, son-in-law, for $365.
11. Bledso, male, aged 8, sold to Drusilla Smith, daughter, for $276.25.
12. Nancy, female, aged 6, sold to Jonathan Clinkenbeard, son, for      $250.
13. Cathens, female, aged 2, sold to John Clinkenbeard, son, for $150.
Total sale: $4,690.25.
At least two of William's slaves later were to serve with the Union forces during the Civil War. George Cliinkenbeard (aged 23 at the time of William's death in 1844 and sold to William's son-in-law, Frederick Stipp) served with the 5th Regiment, United States Colored Cavalry; and Wilson Clinkenbeard,
(aged 25 in 1844 and sold to William's son, John Clinkenbeard) served with the 124th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry.
In addition to having the distinction of being one of the prominent founding pioneers of Kentucky, William came to be considered one of the leading citizens of Clarke County. It was said of him that "he was one of the county's most respected citizens and is represented in the Bluegrass region by many worthy descendants."[v]     
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a. Clinkenbeard Genealogy of 24 January 1989, The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
b. Letter of Maude Clinkenbeard Spencer, Sulphur, Oklahoma, to Norman John Porter, 18 April 1965. Also see War of 1812 Service Records, Roll Box 41, Roll Exct. 602.
c. DAR: Kentucky Society, GENEALOGICAL RECORDS COMMITTEE REPORT 1973.
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. Ibid., pp. 97-98.
f. SOLDIERS IN WAR OF 1812, KENTUCKY: ADJUTANT GENERAL's REPORT, reprinted 1992, Southern Historical Press, 275 W. Broad St., Greenville, South Carolina, 29602, pp. 245, 248; cited in "Kentucky Super Index (tentative title)" of Brian Harney, Kentucky Genealogical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky.
g. "Reverend John D. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard," pp. 98-99.
h. Ibid., 100-103.
i. Letter of Evelyn Jackson, Kentucky Genealogical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky, to J.E. Stockman, 13 May 1995; quote from Bourbon County Court Order Book.
j. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard, p. 108.
k. Len Cobb, "Family Feud Research Led To Discovery Of Pioneer Home" with photo in THE WINCHESTER SUN, Winchester, Kentucky, [January 1975] p. ?.
l. 1810 U.S. Census (Kentucky); National Archives Publication No. M252, roll 9, p. 126.
m. THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE, vol. 25, no. 1327 (Tuesday, 19 March 1811) p. 7; cited in Karen Mauer Green, THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE, 1801-1820[:] GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS (Baltimore: The Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.(?), 1985), p. 150.
n. 1820 U.S. Census (Clark Co., Kentucky), National Archives Pub. no. M33, roll 19, p. 99.
o. 1830 U.S. Census (Clarke Co., Kentucky), National Archives Pub. no. M19, roll 35, p. 61.
p. 1840 U.S. Census (Clark Co., Kentucky), National Archives Pub. no. M704, roll 108, p. 291.
q. THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT ON KENTUCKY'S UNION TROOPS, COLORED SECTION (Utica, Ky.: McDowell Publications, reprinted 1991) pp. 5, 82.
r. 1870 U.S. Census (Bourbon Co., Kentucky), National Archives Publication no. M593, roll 453, p. 315, line 24.
s. Ibid., p. 343, line 25.
t. Ibid., p. 394, line 9.
u. Will, Inventory, and Settlement, Estate of William Clinkenbeard, CLARKE CO. [KY] WILL BOOK, 10:388, Clerk of the Court, Clark County, Kentucky.
v. Shane's Interview With Pioneer William Clinkenbeard, p. 96.
w. John H. Gwathmey, ed., HISTORICAL REGISTER OF VIRGINIANS IN THE REVOLUTION, SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES, 1775-1783 (Richmond, Virginia: 1938) vol. 13, p. 159.

Notes for MARY MOONEY:
Mary Mooney, born in Virginia on 10 May 1756, was the daughter of Patrick Mooney and Jane Beard who later migrated to Kentucky from the Cowpasture River region of Virginia. Mary's siblings are believed to have been John, Jane Mooney Darke and Nancy Mooney Gray. Patrick was born in 1681 and died in 1799 at the age of 118![a] It has been written of Patrick that: "This venerable patriarch was born in 1681 and died December 14, 1799, being one hundred and eighteen years of age. He married Jane Beard of Ireland and to them were born in Virginia, United States, on March 1, 1768, Nancy Mooney. After the death of his first wife Patrick Mooney married a second time. This wedding occurred when he was one hundred years of age and his bride was eighteen years of age. They lived together eighteen years before his death. Patrick Mooney was a well-educated and prominent man. He was born in the north of Ireland but came of Scotch ancestry. One time during his life, while on a pleasure voyage[,] their ship was wrecked. He and two others were attacked by pirates and sold as slaves on the island. Later they succeeded in making their escape and came to America."[b] Regarding Patrick, Mary's husband, William Clinkenbeard, said that "Mooney, the father-in-law . . had moved down to McConnell's Station. Mooney was Irish, and had taught school seven years in one house, on the Cow Pasture [creek in Virginia]. . . he taught there [at McConnell's Station], but not long; was too old; not fit to teach. An old man; said he was 120 years old when he died."[c]
A descendant of Patrick Mooney's wrote: "A great aunt of mine, Martha Ellen Freeman nee Foster, whose mother was Martha Jane Foster nee gray, wrote a family history about 1940, which says in part: 'Nancy Mooney Gray's grandmother, Jane Beard, was born in Ireland 1706, died Kentucky 1806. Jane Beard married Patrick Mooney, who was born in Ireland. He and his brother were sent to Scotland to school in Edinburgh. One day they went to the beach for a swim. They were captured by the pirates and as history goes, you had either to "walk the plank" or join the crew. The story says he landed 3 years later on the coast of Virginia USA. In Portland Oregon in the early 1880s was a wholesale millinery firm, Mooney & Valentine. Mr Mooney of that firm told a descendant of this Patrick Mooney this same story had been handed down in his family, the story of the "Pirate." Mr Mooney believes he is a descendant of one of Patrick Mooney's brothers. Patrick Mooney was born in Ireland 1681, died Kentucky Dec 4, 1799, age 118. Jane Mooney his wife was 100 years old when she died.' The bit about Patrick's bride of 18 doesn't seem to fit, but it's an interesting tale."[d]
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a. "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; cited in the e-mail message of Richard P. Draves, Monroeville, Penn., to J.E. Stockman, 26 November 1997. Also cited, HISTORY OF CENTRAL OREGON (no pub. data), 1905) p. 790.
b. HISTORY OF CENTRAL OREGON (no pub. data), 1905) pp. 790-791; cited in the e-mail message of Richard P. Draves, Monroeville, Penn., to J.E. Stockman, 6 December 1997.
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] p. 115; The Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky.
d. E-mail message of Richard P. Draves, Monroeville, Penn., to J.E. Stockman, 6 December 1997.
     
Children of WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD and MARY MOONEY are:
  i.   LYDIA6 CLINKENBEARD, b. 29 January 1782, Strodes Station, Clark Co., Kentucky; d. 1783.
31. ii.   MARY "POLLY" CLINKENBEARD, b. 4 September 1783, Strode's Station, Clark County, Kentucky; d. 10 April 1852, (Bourbon County?), Kentucky.
32. iii.   JONATHAN A. CLINKENBEARD, b. 16 July 1785, Constant Station, Clarke County, Kentucky; d. 3 July 1862, Fleming County, Kentucky.
33. iv.   ISAAC CLINKENBEARD, b. 8 April 1787, Constant Station, Boone Co., Kentucky; d. Bef. 1844.
34. v.   DRUSILLA CLINKENBEARD, b. 12 June 1788, Constant Station, Clarke Co., Kentucky; d. 18 January 1865, Clarke Co., Kentucky.
  vi.   WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD, b. 17 April 1790, (Constant's Station?), Kentucky; d. Bef. 1844, Clarke County, Kentucky.
35. vii.   COLONEL JOHN WILLIAM CLINKENBEARD, b. 16 August 1792, Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky; d. 28 April 1870, Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky.
36. viii.   JANE M.(OR B.) CLINKENBEARD, b. 8 October 1794, Winchester, Clarke Co., Kentucky; d. 11 October 1864.
  ix.   MATILDA CLINKENBEARD, b. 5 September 1800, Winchester, Clark Co., Kentucky; d. Bef. 1844.

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