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Heman Kenney Esq. (abt. 1732 - 1775)

Mr. Heman Kenney Esq.
Born about in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusettsmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 25 Aug 1752 in Chatham, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 42 in Barrington, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canadamap
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Biography

Heman Kenney was born to Nathan Kenney and Mercy Smith abt 1732; [1] [2] He was a Justice of the Peace and lived at Barrington Head, Nova Scotia, Canada. [3]

Heman Kenney married Mercy Nickerson, born May 7, 1732, daughter of William and Sarah Nickerson in Chatham, Mass., on Aug. 25, 1752. [4] [5]

They moved to Barrington, Nova Scotia as a grantee and together they had the following children:

  • Heman b. 27 Jun 1753 [6]
  • Isaac b. c 1755 [7]
  • Nehemiah b. May 1760, d. Jun 1761 b.1757, d. Jun 1761 at the age of 4. [8] [9]
  • Gamaliel b. c 1760 [10]
  • Mercy b. 1761

Heman Kenney died on Feb. 4, 1775, aged 43 years in Barrington, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [25] [26]

Excerpt from "The Kenney genealogy", Alfred A. Doane

"Heman Kenney and Nathan Kenney, brothers, went to Harrington, with the first settlers, from Chatham or Harwich, Massachusetts, about 1761. Probably they were sons of Nathan and Mercy (Smith) Kenney, of Chatham. They had two sisters, Sarah Kenney, who married March 10, 1759, Thomas Crowell, and Miriam Kenney, who married 1st, Thomas Hamilton and 2d, Edmund Doane 2d, son of Edmund 1st.

At the age of 19 Nathan enlisted from Harwich in Capt. Thomas West's Company on an expedition against the French in Nova Scotia. From Barrington he removed his family to Little River, Argyle township, where in March, 1787, Nathan Kinney, Daniel Nickerson, Israel Doane, John Heater and Joshua Trefry purchased 1250 acres of Crown lands, " situated on the eastern side of Little River."

September ye 24, 1728 29 then Nathan Kinie and Marcy Smith, both of Chatham, was maried by Mr. Lord, minister at Chatham.— Chatham Vital Records, Vol. 1, p. 56.

Feb. 4, 1754, widow Thankful Kenney was appointed administratix on estate of Nathan Kenney, of Harwich.

John Kenny and Elizabath Nickerson both of Chatham, was married Each to ye other Novber ye 16th 1752 by the Reverand mr. Stephn Emery as apears by scartifycat from the said mr. Stephn Emery to me Paul Sears, Town Clerk.— Chatham Vital Records, Vol. 2, p. 55.

Elizabeth Kenney was appointed administratix on estate of John Kinney, of Chatham. Dec. 16, 1757, and Nehemiah Nickerson, of Chatham was appointed guardian of the minor son, John Kenney, Sep . 17, 1761.

Janury 31, 1754, Isac Phiny of Harwich and Elisabeth Kiney of Chatham.— Chatham Vital Records, Vol. 2, p. 56.

Nathan Kinney on Muster Roll, Dated Boston, Feb. 10, 1761, of a Company in His Majesty's Service under the command of Captain Thomas West; quality Centinel; residence Eastham; entered service March 18, 1760 and served until Dec. 6, 1760; reported servant. — Mass. Archives, Vol. 98, p. 305.

Nathan Kinney on Return of Men enlisted for the total Reduction of Canada, 1760. Enlisted by Capt. Thomas West, Feb. 26, age 19; birthplace Harwich; res. Harwich; certificate on Reverse, dated Harwich, Mar. 18, 1760, signed by Thomas Winslow, Commisary of Muster and Justice of Peace, stating that said Kinney and others were attested and delivered to Thomas West, a recruiting officer. Reported servant.— Mass. Archives, Vol. 97, p. 425.

Heman Kenney and mercy Nickerson, both of Chatham was marred Each to ye other august ye 25th 1752 by the Reverand mr. Stephn Emery as apears by sartificat from the said mr. Stephen Emery to me Paul Sears Town Clerk.— Chatham Vital Records, Vol. 2, p. 55." [27]

Sources

  1. Freeman, Ruth Hayden. 1975. The story of my branch of the descendants of Ralph Smith of Hingham and Eastham, Massachusetts: a genealogy with a brief history of Barrington and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Middlebury, Vt: R.H. Freeman
  2. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  3. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  4. Brown, George S. 1993. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, genealogies: transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co.
  5. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  6. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  7. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  8. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  9. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  10. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  11. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  12. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  13. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  14. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  15. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  16. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  17. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  18. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  19. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  20. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  21. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  22. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  23. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.
  24. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  25. Brown, George S. 1993. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, genealogies: transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co.
  26. Patricia A. Terry (transcriber), compiler, Barrington Township Records - Early Records of Marriages, Births and Deaths in Barrington, Nova Scotia from the year 1761 (Box 1710 RR1 Yarmouth NS B5A 4A5: Stoneycroft Publishing, 1994).
  27. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.

Secondary Sources

Barrington & Argyle, Nova Scotia Vital Records (subscription) Page 9.

Notes

Mercy Nickerson Kenney survived Heman Kenney and married, as second wife, Joshua Atwood, a native of Cape Cod and one of the first settlers of Barrington. Doane, Alfred A. 1909. The Kenney genealogy. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19213966.html.

Acknowledgments

The Nickerson Family Association maintained by Nancy Corey, last modified 11/9/2013; http://nickersonassoc.com/TNG; viewed 1/23/2016 by Wilbur-403 18:35, 23 January 2016 (EST)





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