Peter
"Grancer"
Looney
II
aka Luna
Born in Augusta County, Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Peter Grancer Looney
and Margaret (Lauderdale) McKain
Husband of
Mary Elizabeth (Pitman) Looney
— married
1786 in TN
Descendants 
Father of
Elisha Looney, James (Looney) Luna, Peggy Margaret (Luna) Hogan, Peter Grancer Luna III, Jenny Amy (Luna) Hogan, Mary (Luna) Bryant, Sampson B Looney and John Smith Luna
Died
at age 91
in Talley Station, Marshall County, Tennessee
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Dec 2011
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Biography
Peter Looney II is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A071518.
Peter Grancer Looney was born in 1759. He is the son of Peter Grancer Looney and Margaret Lauderdale. He passed away in 1851. He was young when his father, Peter Grancer Looney died, and was raised by his mother and stepfather, a McKain.
As with many other surnames Looney has been written with variations in spelling, most often spelled as Luna or Loony. The correct spelling is Looney.
This Peter Looney, rather than being a Jr. would have been the third by the given name of Peter.
Peter wrote his will on March 25, 1848 in Marshall County, Tennessee.[1]
Research Notes
"Peter Sr. had one infant\ child when he died, he had been captured by Indians held for 3 years, then died soon after his release per book from descendants Ida Campbell and M Hamilton Oh Strange New World"[2]
Location: Edited birth location given in the datafield - was "Augusta now Bolecourt County" (removed "now Bolecourt"). Probably Botetourt County, Virginia was meant.
Sources
- ↑ Transcribed will of Peter Luna. http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/marshall/wills/luna02.txt
- ↑ Note added by Jeannie (Lee) Whited on Nov. 12, 2016
- Find A Grave: Memorial #6976626
- The link leads to two major books on the Looney/Luna family. The authors have done exhaustive research on this huge Southern family. http://www.robertlooneybook.com/home.html
- Definitive book on Peter Luna, "The Descendants of Peter Luna," by Jane C. Luna and Leslie R. Waltman https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4364358W/The_descendants_of_Peter_Luna_(1759-1851)
- Book by descendents, Ida Campbell and M. Hamilton " Oh strange new world".
Includes will of Robert Sr. and court case: AUGUST, 1764 (B). Looney vs. Looney. "In 1759 Peter Looney and David Looney bought land from their father, Robert Looney. Peter Looney is dead (1763), leaving Peter Looney, an infant, his son and heir, but Robert made a deed to the land to John Bowyer. Robert answers that at time of making the contract he was drunk. (The infant Peter in this story is Peter Grancer Looney Jr.)
- Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 2, 2019), "Record of LOONEY, PETER", Ancestor # A071518.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Peter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Peter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Greg Looney
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #542805
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~3.12%
Beverly (Looney) Moore :
23andMe
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~1.56%
Marie (Cooke) Beckman :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A718647 [compare], Ancestry member MarieClassof86
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
+
MyHeritage DNA
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~1.17%
Tam (Fleetwood) Moody :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member tamfleetmdy
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~0.78%
ZZ (Jeffres) Joffrey :
23andMe, GEDmatch M10230 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Crystal Campbell :
23andMe, GEDmatch A329877 [compare]
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Leon Teeter :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ltpta1
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~0.78%
Melissa Farris :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member melfarris45503
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~0.78%
Vickie (Lamb) Adams :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member VickieAdams101203
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~0.78%
Judy (Barrett) Woods :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JudyBarrettWoods
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~0.78%
Jennifer Medley :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Larry Wingert :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Aubrey Teeter :
23andMe, GEDmatch M156615 [compare]
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~0.39%
Amanda Smith :
23andMe, GEDmatch M136024 [compare]
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~0.39%
Sherry (Blackburn) Grimm :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Janice Robertson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A360957 [compare], yourDNAportal JAN841ddef7, Ancestry member janicekh1
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~0.39%
Stephen Russell :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member stephendrussell1
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~0.39%
Erin (McDole) Witten :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SS2006058 [compare]
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~0.39%
Christine (Carkin) Giles :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T387772 [compare], yourDNAportal PAT66594261, FTDNA kit #855018
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~0.39%
Jean Atkins :
Autosomal DNA Test
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~0.39%
Rhonda Bartlett :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H805147 [compare]
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~0.39%
Von Isaac :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch EY8881701 [compare]
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edit - or not. Both of their DAR records include Cumberland Settlement residence.
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
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