Joseph (Kinne) Kinney Jr. (1717 - 1793)

Born 17 Feb 1717 in Preston, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Blunt) Kinne — married 1740 in Connecticut Colony

Husband of Jemima (Newcomb) Kinney — married 12 Jun 1755 in Preston, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 15 Oct 1793 at age 76 in Orange, Orange, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Joseph, son of Joseph Kinne and Keziah Peabody, was born at Preston, Connecticut, baptized there May 4, 1718, died in Vermont. He married (first) at Preston, now Griswold, Sarah Blunt, who died in 1754. He married (second) 1755, at Norwich, Jemima (Newcomb) Lamb, born in 1730. at Lebanon, Connecticut, died in Vermont, daughter of Hezekiah and Jerusha (Bradford) Newcomb, and widow of Jonathan Lamb, of Norwich. She was a descendant of Governor William Bradford, who came in the "Mayflower."^[1]

On May 30, 1756, he and his second wife were admitted to Preston Church, coming from East Norwich Church; the family was dismissed later when they removed to Vermont. He was Captain of the Preston Training Band.

In 1761 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Company, Eighth Regiment Connecticut Militia in the French and Indian War. In 1763, he represented Preston in the General Assembly.

In 1781, Joseph deeded land at Cardigan, Vermont (now Orange, Grafton County, New Hampshire).

Sources

1. ↑ "New England Families", by William Richard Cutter, https://archive.org/details/newenglandfamili01cutt/page/47/mode/1up?view=theater

• Find A Grave: Memorial #60850844
• Ives, James E., Samuel Blunt of Andover, Mass., Plainfield, Conn., and Oxford, Mass., and His Children, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1943) Vol. 97, Page 55
• Joseph and Jemima Newcomb Lamb Kinnie (Kinne[y]) - copy from published book by Florance Keeney Robertson, M.A.Robertson, Florance Keeney The Genealogy of Henry and Ann Kinne, Pioneers of Salem, Massachusetts (Robertson, Los Angeles, California,1947) page 31