Nathan Kennedy

Thanks for noticing and the feedback and I'm glad what I found lines up. Most of my additions could use more sources and such; feel free to add or correct anything you wish. I enjoy working on these Appalachian families.

Another politically-active Ohioan with Owsley County roots is J.D. Vance, who has Brandenburg through his grandfather Donald C Bowman (1935-1961); J.D. is both your and Clarence's fourth cousin once removed through that line. Probably other connections too in these tight-knit communities, but that's what sticks out from what's on WikiTree.

And while I'm a northerner (despite my parents narrowly missing moving to Hazard, Kentucky before I was born), we are kinfolk in a way and share some Yankee roots, including descent from Thomas Bliss (bef.1595-bef.1651), one of the Founders of Hartford.

Nathan

https://lhrtnews.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/a-history-of-christian-publishing-in-grand-rapids.pdf

See page 14. The father I had was "Henry J Kuipershoek," born in the Netherlands, and I'm sorry I don't have immediate access to a good source for that info. If you like I can revisit this when I have time to get to it.

I am sure we are cousins many ways but I don’t have any connection between our Kennedys, yet anyway. I have done research on a lot of Scots-Irish and Scottish Kennedys especially in Appalachia but I haven’t tracked yours back very far and don’t have any connection between yours and mine yet.

If perhaps one of your male Kennedy cousins could do a Y DNA test that could be helpful to determining your Kennedy DNA roots and connections.

Have you done AncestryDNA? That could provide compelling confirmation of some of your ancestors perhaps including these. Edit: I see you have Family Finder on your profile. That’s great, but I’ve personally had more success with confirmations and breaking brick walls with AncestryDNA. More matches and usually more genealogical mileage with matches there. Also if you wanted you could share your test results for help interpreting or extending them.

And yes, I do plan to get my Ancestry DNA done at some point. I've migrated my ftDNA results to MyHeritage, and had some luck finding connections on other lines there, but no helpful Young matches yet. This line you've opened up gives me a lot more points of comparison, so again, thank you so much.

I was generally aware of the outline of most of what you've written, although I hadn't traced out all of the title history of the Teeter lands. My ancestor Charles Hagin (Matilda's father) is said to have been pressed into the army in Belfast and sent to raid Fort Oswego but instead to have defected to the American side where he lost his arm to a musket ball at Lundy's Lane (where the Americans were shooting and killing his future son-in-law's now British Canadian Teeter relations). His own father may have been killed in the Rising of 1798, making him all the less friendly toward the British who drafted him.

Not sure which home you are referring to. There's still a Teeter living toward the east end of that road. The one my great grandparents Raymond and Katherine lived in was preserved and moved down Teeter Rd.

While I am still sorting out titles I thought most of that Teeter farm did not originate in a grant to the Teeters but came through Raymond's mother Elizabeth Shergur. Portland Point was originally Koplin's Point, but came into possession of Elizabeth's grandfather Joseph Shergur and it became Shurger's Point. His son-in-law Hartson Collins developed the mineral resources at now Collin's Point that were developed into the Portland Point Cement company and sold out of the family, but the name Shurger Glen stuck with the Gulf Creek gorge, and I had thought some of our former Teeter property came from the division of Joseph's land, though I could be wrong.

Note Joseph's father Jeromia is buried at Asbury and is the first Shurger to come to Lansing. His father was killed (hatcheted, possibly scalped) in an Indian raid at the frontier settlement of Pine Bush in Orange County on September 5, 1778, and the cabin burned, when Jeromia was five years old—one of the many raids that prompted the Sullivan Expedition.

Henry Teeter served with the Pennsylvania Northampton County militia; other brothers served with that, the Continental Army (for Adam Michael) or New Jersey, and none would be eligible for NY Military Tract bounty land direct allotment for their service. I'm sure the estate of the Christian Guthrie sold their allotment; I'd have to do some more digging.

Is it true that Matilda Hagin was married to both Teeters or was that an error that crept into the tree somehow? I need to check how that was added and if there are sources. Chauncey had sold his property on Teeter Road in Lansing to my great grandfather Raymond Teeter. Cornell now owns part of that property as part of the Edwards Lake Cliffs Preserve and we still hunt there.

And if you are comparing to me for Carey matches you are much better comparing to my grandfather Francis Teeter's FTDNA kit, gedmatch ID "T428988".