Edward
McGinnis
aka McGinnus
Born about in Buffalo Creek, Augusta, Virginia
Son of Thomas McGinnis
and Polly Ann (Patterson) McGinnis
Husband of
Nancy Agnes Gilmore (McElhaney) McGinnis
— married
1787 in Virginia, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Margaret (McGinnis) Brundige, James M McGinnis Sr, Robert (McGinnus) McGinnis, William McGinnis, John McGinnis, Mary Elizabeth (McGinnis) Wolfe, Ann McGinnis, Absolum McGinnis, Moses McGinnis and Aaron McGinnis
Died
at about age 67
in Grainger, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Nov 2011
This page has been accessed 956 times.
Contents |
Biography
Edward was born about 1750.
Private Edward McGinnis served with 3rd Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Edward McGinnis is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A211880.
He served in the American Revolution. There are two listings for Edward McGinnis/McGuiness/Miginnis serving in the 3rd Virginia Regiment.[1][2]
- McGuiness, Edward (McGinnis) 3 CL. (3rd Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line)
- Miginnis, Edward (McGinnis) 3 CL. (3rd Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line)
He married Nancy McElhaney in 1787.[3]
By 1799, Edward had moved to Grainger County, Tennessee, when he bought a 400 acre tract there.[4]
- Robert King, of Knox County, Tennessee, to Edward McGinnis, of Grainger County, Tennessee. Registered 9 October 1799
- 21 August 1799: For $333, Edward McGinnis purchases a 400 acre tract in Grainger County on the north side of Clinch Mountain “near the poplar levels including a sink hole spring about three miles above the Kentucky Trace”
He sold the property to his son Absalom in 1816,[5]
He signed his will on 6 March 1817 and died before it was proved in Grainger court's May term of 1817.
Will
This transcript is posted at the Edward McGinnis profile at FamilySearch.org, FSFTID: LCJP-KYD.
Will Written note; Grainger Co., TN loose will p. 68; McGlung Collection, Knox County Public Library [3]
Will of Edward McGinnis
In the name of God Amen.
I, Edward McGinnis, being in the low state of health but in perfect soundness of mind do constitute and ordain this my Last Will and Testament.
Item 1st I recommend my Soul to God who give it and my Body to the earth to be buried with a Christian Burial.
2nd I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret Brundage and my sons James McGinnis, Wiliam McGinnis, Robert McGinnis, John McGinnis, Aaron McGinnis, and Moses McGinnis and my daughter Mary Wolf fifty cents each to be paid by my Executors.
3rd I give and bequeath to my daughter Anny McGinnis all my house hold furniture except the articles hereafter given to my son Absolum and also one cow and heffer and one loom I give and bequeath to said daughter Anny and all the above bequeathed property. My wife Nancy McGinnis is to have joint interest in with said daughter Anny until the death of said Nancy then the interest of said property is to be inturly invested in said daughter Anny.
4th I give and bequeath to my sone Absolum McGinnis first all my farming tools, one bed, and furniture, three gallon pot hooks and pot trammel, one pair of dog irons, one pair of Spoon Moles and one pair of Steelyards.
5th I give and bequeath to my loving wife Nancy McGinnis my tow horses and all the balance of my stock of cattle with my stock of sheep and hogs for her proper use of her lifetime and to be diposed of by her at death as she thinks proper. And further I constitute and appoint Absolum McGinnis my Executor to carry this Last Will into execution and also to collect all debts due to my estate and when collected to apply said money to the joint interest of himself, my wife Nancy McGinnis and my daughter Anny McGinnis.
In testimony where of I have unto set my hand and unalterable affixed my seal of this 6th day of March in the year of our Lord 1817.
Edward McGinnis (SEAL)
Signed and seal in the presents of
C. McAnally his Coalby H. Rucker-George H. Coffee May Term 1817
Research Notes
This profile was set up with a birthplace of Botetourt County, Virginia. However, that County was not in existence when Edward was born. From Wikipedia.org: "Botetourt County was created in 1770 from part of Augusta County..."
Two possible relatives, McGinnis men born on or before 1730 and living in western Virginia c. 1748-1750:
Edward McGinnis, attended Vendue on 1 September 1748 in Augusta County, Virginia. Sale of goods of Joseph Harrison held at house of Samuel Stewart[6]
John McGinnis, witnessed Sale of Land on 20 August 1750 in Augusta County Virginia. Property = 400 acres; Peaked Mountain, Boon’s Run[7]
Sources
- ↑ Gwathmey, John H., Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 1979, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore. Database and Images at Ancestry.com, page 528Image and page 548 Image and 561
- ↑ Service Record for Edward McGinnis
- ↑ “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900.” Database at Ancestry.com Ancestry Record 7836 #810861
- 1787 Marriage in Virginia
- Edward McGinnis, b. 1745, married Nancy Mcelhaney b. 1768 Ancestry Record 7836 #808697
- ↑ Grainger County Deed Books. Available at Family Search.org. Originals held at Grainger County Courthouse. Book A, page 132, Image 139 of microfilm available at FamilySearch.org [1]
- ↑ Grainger County, Tennessee, Register of Deeds: Deed records, 1796-1905; index to deeds, 1796-1912> Deeds, v. C-E 1811-1828> Book D, page 228, image 372. Images at FamilySearch.org [2]
- 10 July 1816, Edward McGinnis sells to Absalom McGinnis for $500, 400 acres in Grainger County on the north side of Clinch mountain
- ↑ ”Virginia, U.S., Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850” Database at Ancestry.com Ancestry Record 7832 #82463, citing Chalkley, Lyman, “Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County.” Book WB1-208
- ↑ ”Virginia, U.S., Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850” Database at Ancestry.com Ancestry Record 7832 #82509, citing Chalkley, Lyman, “Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County.” Book 2-797
- Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 16 August 2023), "Record of Edward McGinnis", Ancestor # A211880.
- “Tennessee, U.S., Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895”> Grainger> 1805; image 5. Database and Images at Ancestry.com Ancestry Record 2883 #23241
- 410 –Edward McGiness; Robert McGinniss
- ”U.S., Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820”. Database at Ancestry.com Ancestry Record 2234 #16305:
- 1810: Edward McGinnis; M (male); in Grainger County, Tennessee
- Remarks: A List of Poles and Taxable property in the Bounds of Cpt GIFFORD Company for the year 1810” Land: 400; W[hite] Poles”: 0; “B[lack] Poles”: 0
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192345817. Burial at Lathim Cemetery, Grainger County, Tennessee. No photograph of stone at website.
Is Edward your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
a profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
a profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edward 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 Edward 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:
- David McGinnis
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 500 markers, haplogroup R-BY117342, FTDNA kit #749812
-
~1.56%
Janis Burklund :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jburklund58
-
~1.56%
Linda (Burklund) Knudson :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
-
~1.56%
Judy (Burklund) Reed :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
George Wolf :
23andMe
-
~0.78%
Michael Kerley :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A909001 [compare], Ancestry member 1_mikekerley
-
~0.78%
David McGinnis :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch RQ9096063 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Amber (Short) Thompson :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch H052704 [compare], FTDNA kit #B347427
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H052704 [compare]
-
~0.39%
Bobby Godfrey :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bobby1_godfrey
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured National Park champion connections: Edward is 14 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 23 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 15 degrees from George Catlin, 14 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 18 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 16 degrees from George Grinnell, 25 degrees from Anton Kröller, 17 degrees from Stephen Mather, 18 degrees from Kara McKean, 16 degrees from John Muir, 18 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 20 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
M > McGinnis > Edward McGinnis
Categories: Grainger County, Tennessee | 3rd Virginia Regiment (1777), Continental Army, American Revolution | NSDAR Patriot Ancestors
Because Edward was born in Virginia (Marriage Record), but his father Thomas apparently died in Maryland, I have been hunting to see if I can corroborate the parents of Edward McGinnis. The only source for Thomas McGinness that I have found so far is Meginness, John F., “Origin and History of the Magennis Family” Heller Brothers Printing, Williamsport, PA, 1891. Ancestry Record 61157 #1587457, Image 229. Thomas [and his] three brothers, John William, and Neal. Their father came from the North of Ireland and his name was Thomas also.” -- These 4 brothers, none of whom is Edward, later emigrated to Kentucky. Edward is not mentioned! The profile for Thomas McGinness at FamilySearch.org, FSFTID: KG7V-4M3, has sources that clearly don't belong -- a 1793 Irish will, for example, and a New Haven record for a Thomas McGennis, 1798-1847, buried in New Haven.
Also, Victorian era genealogies (Meginness published in 1891) are not always rock solid and strain to create a connection to a notable ancestors. A Magna Carta signer, or, in Meginness's book, Irish princes.
Anyhow, I am sure I'm missing something, but don't see where the certainty that Edward is the son of Thomas comes from. It also bothers me that Edward doesn't have a son named Thomas, although there might have been one who died in childhood. It seems equally plausible that Edward is the son of one of the two McGinness men, Edward and John, who were adults living in Augusta County, Virginia as of 1748-1750. I've added this info into Edward's research notes section.