Cyrus Kinne Sr. Esq. (1746 - 1808)

Born 12 Aug 1746 in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Comfort (Palmer) Kinne — married 10 Apr 1770 in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 8 Aug 1808 at age 61 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York, United States

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Biography

Soldier Cyrus Kinne Sr. Esq. served with 6th Regiment, Albany County Militia, New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Cyrus Kinne Sr. Esq. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A065262.

Name

Cyrus Kinne, Sr., Esq.

Military

Cyrus Kinney, born 8-11-1746 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, died 8 Aug 1808 in Manlius, Onondaga County, New York, and his wife Comfort Palmer, born 20 - Jul - 1751 at Voluntown CT, are honored for service during the American Revolution:1) 6TH REGT, ALBANY CO MILITIA^[1]

Their son Moses Kinney/Kinne born on 12 - Jun - 1780 at Stonington CT married Betsy Williams, born 30 - May - 1782 at Windham CT^[2]

Burial

De Witt Cemetery, Onondaga, New York

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 16 Sep 2022), "Record of Cyrus Kinney", Ancestor # A065262.
2. ↑ Reference DAR Record of Cyrus Kinney

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed June 23, 2018), "Record of Cyrus Kinney", Ancestor # A065262.
• https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4274168A/Emerson_Kinne
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Voluntown, Page 70.

Notes

Old cemetery, Fayetteville. The wife's tombstone is erect but much worn. The pioneer's is prostrate and broken. The date on the stone is Aug. 1, but the family history makes it Aug. 8. In this abandoned cemetery others of the family are buried. Past and Present of Onondaga Co. says: "Cyrus Kinne, the great grandfather of D. E. Olin Kinne, served with the American army throughout the Revolutionary war." He was born, it is added, in Voluntown, Ct., Aug. 11, 1746, came to Fayetteville in 1792, and died Aug.

The son of Moses & Abigail (Reed) Kinne, he married Comfort Palmer in 1768 in Voluntown, New London,Conn. The family resided in Voluntown until 1779 when they removed to Petersburgh township, Rensselaer Co., NY on the Van Rensselaer estate.

In 1791, he sucessfully bid on public land in Onondaga Co., several of the lots being situated in the place that is now Manlius. He sold his land in Rensselaer Co. and in March, 1792, he with his four sons, Ezra, Zahariah, Prentiss & Ethel began the treck to their new home in Onondaga Co. through unsettled country. When they arrived, they built a log cabin, cleared the land and planted and returned to bring the rest of the family to their new home. A grist mill was soon built. Cyrus Kinne was a mechanic and the first blacksmith of Manlius. At the first town meetingp;[o, he was chosen chairman. He was one of the organizers of the Baptist Church at Fayetteville and the first Justice of the Peace in the county, marrying the first couple to be married there.

He died August 8, 1808 at the age of 62. His children included: Ezra, Zachariah, Prentiss, Ethel, Zebulon & Moses (twins), Joshua, Cyrus, Jophet, Palmer, Rachel (m. William Williams), & Comfort (m. Jerry Springsted).

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One hundred and seventy eight years ago this month Fayetteville's pioneer resident, Cyrus "Kinne, pushed through the wilderness with his four oldest sons, cleared a plot and built a log house near what is now the corner of Manlius and Genesee Sts. There were no roads when the Kinnes came west from Rensselaer County to inspect the land that Cyrus had purchased sight unseen. After one look, the prospects for settlement and cultivation seemed so promising that he Immediately bought up' more acreage, and the Kinne name was soon spread across Onondaga County, with a concentration in the eastern towns of Manlius DeWitt and Cicero. TODAY!S MEMBERS of the Kinne family still recall their ancestors with pride. Elbridge K. Kinne, 7152 W. Genesee St., Fayetteville, sent this newspaper a copy of a 1930 news article which described the early experiences of his family. -Last summer, his brother, Gordon Kinne of Rochester, visited the cemetery near the corner of Manlius and Genesee Sts., where so many Kinne ancestors were buried. Cyrus Kinne,-who gave the land for the burnt ground

and the village's first school nearby, died in 1808 and his body remained in the little cemetery until 1917 when it was moved to the DeWitt Cemetery on Thompson Rd. where many of his children were buried.

IN A DAY of high infant mortality, it is something of a record that 12 Kinne children lived to be married and have 84 children. By the 1880's, it was necessary to hold family reunions at the county fairgrounds to accommodate the crowd. Many of the details of early family life are in a remarkable document, A Historical .Narrative Concerning the Ktfine Family, which was compiled by Elbridge Kinne, grandson of the original settler, and grandfather of today's Elbridge Kinne. . THE FIRST Kinne home at what was to become Fayetteville Four Corners was a one-room log house. A lean-to storeroom and one bedroom completed the home which the family used for 10 years until they built the village's first frame house. Like the rest of the community, the father and his 10 sons worked every day except Sunday. Cyrus was one of the founders of the Fayetteville Baptist Church. The year's major holidays came on Fourth of July and the day set aside for military training. IT WAS AT one of these training days in 1795 at Eagle Village that Cyrus Kinne performed the first marriage in the Town of Manlius. Mr, Kinne served as chairman of the first meeting of voters in the town which elected the first supervisor and town clerk, lie was appointed justice of the peace and used part of his home as an office, handling a wide range of civil and criminal matters. A blacksmith by trade, Cyrus Kinne held an important place in the pioneer community where his skills were indispensable. THE FOUR OLDEST boys, all over 17-when they made the wilderness trip, each received .100 acres of farmland from their father when they married. Ezra, Zachariah and Ethel settled near Fayetteville. Prentiss settled on Thompson/ Rd. in DeWitt, then part or the Town of Manlius, arid his farm is now part of the LeMoyne College campus. As each of the other children married they, too, received land for a homestead. ZEBULON'S HOME, part of which was built in 1819, still stands on the corner of Kinne and Manlius Sts. In East Syracuse. The house, no longer owned by the Kinne family, once faced formal gardens across Manlius St. where the railroad yards are now. Its large orchard on the east has been filled with stores and houses. Zebulon followed his father's practice and gave the land for his community's first school and his son, Rufus, opened Kinne St. through his farm as the village grew. Cyrus's other children were Moses, Zebulon's twin; Joshua, Cyrus Jr., Jophet, Palmer, Rachel" and the youngest, Comfort, who was named for her mother, Comfort Palmer.