Andrew (MacKay) McKay (1736 - 1804)

Born 29 Dec 1736 in Frederick, Virginia

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 Oct 1804 at age 67 in Frederick County, Virginia, USA

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Andrew (MacKay) McKay is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A132300.

Biography

• Fact: Burial Crooked Run Cemetery , Opequon, Frederick County, Virginia, USA

Will of Andrew McKay

• Dated: 13 day 9th month 1803
• Location: Crooked Run, Frederick County, Virginia
• Proved: December 3, 1804
• Executor: Goldsmith Chandlee and Robert Whitacre refused - Moses and Jacob McKay qualified
• Transcription: http://www.robertmackayclan.com/rmc/will/willm2.html

People Mentioned in Will:

• • Wife Jane
  • son Moses McKay
  • daughter Margaret wife of Oliver Funsten
  • son Jacob McKay
  • son Enos McKay
  • daughter Patience the wife of Robert Whitacre

• • brother Jacob McKay

• • my friend Goldsmith Chandlee for the trouble he will have in executing this my will

This part was very interesting:

• " Item. I give and bequeath unto Jonathan Lupton the elder, John McPherson, William Grub the elder and Jonathan Wright and the survivors or survivor of them the sum of Fifteen Pounds Virginia Currencyto be paid them by my executors herein after named twelve months after my decease upon special trust to apply the same for and toward aiding the emancipation of persons unlawfully held in bondage and also towards the emancipation of poor children in such manner as they or any of them think proper and their receipt or receipts of any one of them shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors......"

Sources

• Goode, G. Brown. Virginia Cousins (J. W. Randolph & English, Virginia, 1887) Page 91

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 24 February 2020), "Record of Andrew McKay", Ancestor # A132300.

• Andrew MacKay (1736-1804) on Find A Grave: Memorial #43607233 retrieved 25 September 2018
• Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 31 May 2017), memorial #undefined for Andrew MacKay (1736 - 1804) - Find A Grave Memorial.
• Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
• Person:Andrew McKay (3) - Genealogy, WeRelate.org (http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Andrew_McKay_%283%29 : accessed 31 May 2017)
• Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
• Book Title: The ancestors and descendants of Colonel David Funsten and his wife Susan Everard Meade
• Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.