John Hugh Kirkpatrick (1741 - 1812)

Born May 1741 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Jean Jane (Wilkins) Kirkpatrick — married [date unknown] in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died Mar 1812 at age 70 in Bulls Gap, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States

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NOTE

in my 40+ years of researching this family NEVER have I EVER seen an "Official Period Document" (from the assumed time of his birth through his death in 1812) showing that John Kirkpatrick had the middle name of Hugh. The only hint that he had a middle name is on the chalked-in writing on his original grave marker with the 3 initials "JHK" ^[1] plus the application for his government headstone filed in 1937. ^[2] All other references begin after the research done by E. Spears McCollough (culminating in the 1930s)

Any person wishing to see more of my documents OR anyone having a copy of ANY document showing John Kirkpatrick (ca 1841-1812) was known officially as John HUGH Kirkpatrick PLEASE contact me at tcaulleysgenmail(at)Yahoo(dot)com.

Biography

John married Jane Wilkins of Donegal TWP, Lancaster Co, PA, who was daughter of Capt. John Wilkins ^[3] of the Revolution. They settled in Virginia in Augusta Co (later Botetourt and Rockingham) where eight of their children were supposedly born: David, 1760; Marriah, 1762; Hugh, 1763; Rachel, 1765; John, 1766; Jacob, 1771; James, 1773; and Wilkins, 1775. They pioneered in 1778 to Watauga District of NC, later East TN, and settled near Bull's Gap where their ninth child, Hannah, was born in 1779.

(No documentation of these birth dates has been found. E. Spears McCollough cited papers found in a safe belonging to the deceased father of Sam. S Kirkpatrick as the source of the names and dates used in his research. ^[4] )

He died near Bull's Gap in Mar 1812 and is buried with his wife in Bent Creek Cemetery, near Whitesburg, now Hawkins Co, TN. The graves are marked with a War Dept. Government Monument, which was consolidated with the old limestone monument erected in 1812, into a a large memorial which was dedicated in Sep 1938 by the Samuel Doak Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Morristown, TN. It was unveiled by John's oldest known living descendant at the time, Mrs. Cassandra Kirkpatrick McCollough (great granddaughter) of 1612 Forest Avenue, Knoxville,TN, on 18 Sep 1938. The service was attended by several hundred people and a number of descendants came from the states of California, Missouri, Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina The records of John's Revolutionary War Service were located by E. Spears McCollough, her son, by research in North Carolina records at Raleigh, NC. The monument is rectangular with a triangular portion at the top on which is the representation of an American Flag with the Words:

"Hero-Revolutionary War." On the lower portion on the east side:

John

Kirkpatrick

Pvt. N. C. Troops

Rev. War

May 1741

March 1812

wife

Jane Wilkins

On the back, or west side, on the triangular part at the top:

John Kirkpatrick pioneered from Rockingham County,

Virginia, cut "Wilderness Road" to Watauga District

of North Carolina and settled near Bull's Gap, Tenn.,

in 1778 bringing first wagon to this section, and

built first Presbyterian Church "Salem" same year.

(NOTE: John's Revolutionary War service is currently in question by the DAR since there were several John Kirkpatricks who served in NC and since there is no documentation of John having been in E. TN prior to 1789 A John Kirkpatrick appears as the grantee on a deed from James Roddy. ALSO, he does NOT appear on 1787 Petition to establish a new state indicating he wasn't yet in what became TN.)

There is no inscription on the lower portion of the one on the west side. These new stones enclose the old limestone monument erected in 1812, or some time soon after his death. The War Department by letter of 13 Sep 1937 turned down the request of E. Spears McCollough that the grave be marked John Hugh Kirkpatrick but rather chose John Kirkpatrick as that was how he served. The Knoxville News-Sentinel of Thurs, 15 Sep 1938 previewed the dedication to take place the following Sun, the 18th.

Other descendants expected to attend were 6 year old Sallie Wilson (great-great-great-great granddaughter, who resides with her grandfather, J.B.M. Kirkpatrick of Kirkwood Street in Burlington); Roger William Kirkpatrick, Jonesboro Attorney, to speak; Mrs. Mary E. Reed of Huntington Beach, CA; Mrs. Josephine A. Fleming, Lexington, KY; Miss Mattie Kirkpatrick, Asheville; and Frank Kirkpatrick, St. Louis.

1760-1763, Lancaster Co, PA, Orphan's Court, 1 Feb 1763, p. 222, Petition of John Kirkpatrick, intermarried with Jane Wilkins, daughter of John Wilkins, decd, asked the court to divide equally the tract of 300 acres in Donegal TWP, DB C-321 of 19 Dec 1751. John Wilson and Andrew Mays of Lancaster Co, guardian over, Mary, Rachel, John, and Jennet Wilkins, minors of John Wilkins, decd, for 125 pounds paid by Gordon Howard and wife, Rachel, administrator of John Wilkins, decd, acknowledged being settled as whole of respective shares of said four children of late father, John Wilkins, including appraisement of improvements on west side of Susquehanna River which said Rachel before her marriage to Gordon took a patent and sold, record 3 Mar 1752.

VITALS: Kirkpatrick Family Tree;1700-1938;By Samuel Kirkpatrick, 1938, Jonesboro, TN; Article by E. Spears McCollough, Knoxville, TN, Jan 1939 (Copy held by compiler). One version has John being born in Ireland and another in Scotland with a far reaching pedigree. McCollough issued a correction on 27 Jun 1959 in order that there may not be any misunderstanding concerning the ancestral line of John Kirkpatrick of East Tennessee as outlined and brought into being by Gen. Elbert Kirkpatrick, of McKinney, TX, who employed reputable genealogists in Washington, D.C.; John L. Sawyer of Bellefontaine, OH, Kirkpatrick genealogist and publisher of the American Register for a number of years; Supreme Court Judge Samuel Kirkpatrick of Jonesboro, TN, and his son, Samuel Kirkpatrick, Attorney, of the same address, and it has been developed by subsequent research during the past eight months that the data, etc., used by the aforementioned parties was not correct in every respect and has been proven so by the information published in Dr. Wm. Henry Egle's NOTES AND QUERIES, Annual Volume 1899, p. 60. ^[5] His version of the ancestry is as listed in this compilation which in turn is being questioned as some think their John died young in PA and is buried in the same plot as father, William. (John A. McDonald, 4506 Edgewood Street, Wichita Falls, TX, on 21 Apr 1964, based on info from Prentiss Price and E. Spears McCollough from Kirkpatrick Bible Records.) The compiler knows of no one who has seen these Bible records. Some have stated that it is strange that no marriage or death records are given for the children. This doesn't bother me as much as not having the marriage of the parents.

MIL: John resided in Botetourt Co, Va, and Watauga District, NC, during the Revolutionary War according to DAR paper. DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition, Part II; Rev. War ;DAR ;1697; #294419. Revolutionary Army Accounts; 1783; Vol I, Page 37, Folio 2, State of North Carolina State Archives; John Kirkpatrick was paid 19 pounds, 12, shillings, 6 pence on October 27, 1783. John Kirkpatrick listed as born in Scotland 1741, died 1812 in TN, wife Jane Wilkins. Listed as private NC. The birth place is in question but may be correct since McCullough's version is now in jeopardy.

1789 DEED: Greene Co, NC, Vol 4, p. 30, 28 Apr. James Roddy to John Kirkpatrick 220 acres for sixty pounds on Bent Creek at junction of White Horn; wit., Aquilla Low, Bartholemew Smith; May Term 1789, registered 5 Jun 1789. ^[6]

1796 GRANT: Jefferson Co, TN, 17 Nov. Vol A, Grant #875. State of NC to Hugh Kirkpatrick 100 acres for 10 pounds in our county of Green on Bowman's Branch a fork of Bent Creek adj. John Kirkpatrick. Registered 17 Nov 1796. ^[7]

1797 DEED: Jefferson Co, TN, 5 Nov, Vol E pg 24 #216. John Kirkpatrick to Jacob, James, and Wilkins Kirkpatrick ( ) acres on Bent Creek at the Junksion or Emtying of White Horn adj. James Roddy as by a deed form James Roddy to said John Kirkpatrick; test., John Howard, Sr., Abraham Howard. Registered 9 Jul 1800. ^[8]

1802 DEED: Jefferson Co, TN, 18 Nov, Vol F. Page 149-151. James, Benjamin , and Joseph Brittain, Heirs of Daniel Brittain, decd, to John Day 50 acres for $300 adj. John Day, James Brittain; test., John Kirkpatrick, Stephen Day. Registered 27 Sep 1803.^[9]

1802 DEED; Jefferson Co, TN, 18 Nov, Vol F. 163-165, #481. William, Benjamin, and Joseph Brittain, Heirs of Daniel Brittain, decd, to James Brittain 100 acres for $600 on south side of Bowman's Branch adj. John Day, James Brittain; test., Stephen Day, John Kirkpatrick. Registered 6 Oct 1803.^[10]

1812 DEATH: "Fighter Who Brought First Wagon Into State To Be Honored at Memorial Dedication Sunday"; 1933; Knoxville News-Sentinel (compiler has copy). Hawkins County TN Cemeteries Vol 2; 1800-?; Hawkins County Genealogy Society 1986, p. 375. John Kirkpatrick was buried in Bent Creek Cemetery near Whitesburg, Hamblen, TN. The NSSAR Revolutionary War Graves Register has the same burial site, birth in 1741, death in 1812. His wife was listed as Margaret Jane Wilkins. His service was in the NC militia as a Private.^{[11] [12] [13]}

Research Notes

Y-DNA test results for 2 descendants of Hugh Kirkpatrick (descendants of Hugh Kirkpatrick II – Kit 292014 and John Hugh Kirkpatrick – kit 255559) show Hugh Kirkpatrick I had a haplogroup of E-V13 while descendants of Alexander and Andrew Kirkpatrick and of James Kirkpatrick 4th Baronet, all descendants of the infamos Closeburn Kirkpatricks, - Kits 314969 & IN25615 - have a haplogroup of R-M269 making their blood-relationship a scientific impossibility. ^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/717914141/media/cca7d64d-a9ae-4f69-b3fa-569901128e1b?_phsrc=iIw31416&usePUBJs=true&sort=-created Image of original headstone
2. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/717914141/media/f0ec730a-d63c-4860-a1a9-3cc7a72176d9?_phsrc=iIw31415&usePUBJs=true&sort=-created Application form for his government headstone
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/52429471/person/13353348842/media/8db773f8-2023-4771-9eb0-79e7c1c79f59?_phsrc=iIw31420&usePUBJs=true&sort=-created Proof of John Kirkpatrick & Jane Wilkins' Marriage
4. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/102003187516/media/a5420919-2a16-4576-b85e-5f8d787a3c81?_phsrc=iIw31417&usePUBJs=true&sort=-created Transcript of an article that appeared in the Morristown Gazette and Mail, Morristown, TN 19 Sept., 1938
5. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/717914141/media/e98c0782-38c2-47fb-b0c0-aa58dc9e76c8?_phsrc=iIw31408&usePUBJs=true&sort=-created&sort=-created A 5-page PDF article concerning the myth of John Hugh's Parentage
6. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4Y-Q6CW?cat=95096 Greene Co., TN Deeds V-4 Pg 30
7. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/717914849/media/00c23e61-e595-472f-87f7-36465c10c6ef?_phsrc=iIw31402&usePUBJs=true 1796 Grant to Hugh Kirkpatrick on Bent Creek
8. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-JH4J-2?i=17&cat=202318 Jefferson Co., TN Deed Book E pg 24
9. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-JH7Q-Q?i=213&cat=202318 Jefferson Co., TN Deeds Vol F page 151
10. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-JHWQ-1?i=220&cat=202318 Jefferson Co, TN Deeds Vol F pg 165
11. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/717914141/media/e399a430-8d58-4ea5-be8c-9bfbd8701291?_phsrc=iIw31404&usePUBJs=true Knoxville Journal Sept 3, 1939
12. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/717914141/media/bc06af7c-873c-4d48-ac49-c27f41da4be0?sort=-created Article from THE LOOKOUT, Chattanooga, TN Dec 26, 1938
13. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/18822332/person/717914141/media/a10c7896-7d22-4830-a1ae-27409c8963fe?_phsrc=2o6-873448&usePUBJs=true&sort=-created THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL Sept. 15, 1938
14. ↑ https://www.familytreedna.com/public/kirkpatrick?iframe=yresults Kirkpatrick-Kilpatrick Group's Y-DNA results

• McFarland, Thomas S. Genealogy of the Joseph and William McFarland Branches of the McFarland Family, 1675 to 1910.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17871671/john-hugh-kirkpatrick : accessed 12 March 2022), memorial page for John Hugh Kirkpatrick (May 1741–Mar 1812), Find a Grave Memorial ID 17871671, citing Bent Creek Cemetery, Whitesburg, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Clara & Terry L. Luster, Sr. (contributor 46485785) .