Joseph Smallwood was born near Norfolk, in Princess Ann County, Virginia about 1760. He was a sea captain and must have had business dealings in England because that's where he met and married his wife, Magdalena Margaret MacRobie. Margaret, or Maggie, the names she preferred, was born about 1765 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. Margaret and Joseph were married in their early 20s about 1785, in England.
Soon after their marriage, they settled on Prince Edward Island where Joseph's occupation was listed as a farmer in 1786. John and Maggie had eight children, all born in Charlottestown, Queens, PEI, Canada:
1786 John
1788 Dorinda
1790 Eleanor Helen, our ancestor
1792 Mary
1794 James
1795 William
1797 Margaret
1802 Catherine
From 1786 to 1800, the family resided at Lot 38 in Prince Edward Island. In 1800, John purchased more property at Lot 56 in PEI.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH SMALLWOOD
BORN: abt 1760 near Norfolk, Princess Ann, VA
MARRIED: abt 1785 in , England
DIED: unknown
MAGDALENA MARGARET MACROBIE
BORN: abt 1765 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
DIED: unknown
SOURCES: Baptismal records of all of the Smallwood children via Family Search. org Citation: "Prince Edward Island Baptism Card Index, 1721-1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KCXV-TYB : 11 March 2018), Smallwood children, , Ch'Town , Prince Edward Island, Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,487,766; interviews with Mildred Stewart Shepard, descendant of this couple; "The Benoni Book" by Elda Esch re the Smallwood family of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Red Deer
The largest and most impressive land animal to be found on the Isle of Mull, Red Deer are numerous and widespread on the island. There are also two small herds of Fallow Deer which can be found at Knock and Lochbuie.
The John McKinnon family, lived on Mull Island in Argyllshire, Scotland in the 1700s. The father, John McKinnon, was born on the 13th of May in 1740. He was listed as a carpenter in the 1779 census and following censuses. He married Catherine Carswell, born in 1762. They had the following known children:
1787 Mary, our ancestor
1788 Donald
1791 John
1794 Archibald
JOHN McKINNON
BORN: 13 May 1740 , , Scotland
MARRIED: unkown date
DIED: 1806 in Masonville, Delaware, NY
SOURCES: John Mckinnon, born 13 May 1740; citing , reference 2:18S2JJD, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1067771; Occupation taylor according to written family histories. Also see Duke of Argyll census of 1779 in which he is shown as "taylor age about 50". He is apparently on the area called "Ceannabhagh" living with a family of Lachlan Mclean and his wife Katherine McInnon. This may be sister or daughter; Bibliography: "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTT9-DYC : 10 February 2018), John Mckinnon, 13 May 1740; citing , reference 2:18S2JJD, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1067771 +.
Donald and Margaret Stewart were the parents of our ancestor, John Stewart, according to John's birth records. Margaret's maiden name was also Stewart. Donald and Margaret were both born in Perthshire, Scotland and were married there in 1788. Their children were all born in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland as follows:
1790 John, our ancestor
1792 Margaret
1794 Alexander
1797 Donald
1799 Robert
1799 Jannet
1801 Donald
1805 Charles
1806 Helen
Blair Atholl is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains. The Gaelic place-name Blair, from blàr, 'field, plain', refers to this location and Atholl, which means 'new Ireland'.
DONALD H. STEWART
BORN: abt 1764 in Inverack, Blair, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
MARRIED: 03 Jun 1788 in Blair, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
DIED: Unknown
MARGARET STEWART
BORN: abt 1768 in , Perthshire, Scotland
DIED: unknown
SOURCES: IGI records of John Stewart's marriage and birth from FamilySearch.org. Pedigree charts sent to Mildred Shepard from her Stewart family in Prince Edward Island, now in the custody of Marjorie Shepard at her residence.
Greenwich, Ohio in 2018
Sarah Underhill, James Kniffen's wife, was born in Salem, Westchester, New York on the 12th of March in 1766. All of their children were born in New York as follows:
1787 James
1791 Charity
1795 Deborah
1797 Benjamin T.
1801 Amy, our ancestor
1802 Daniel
1812 Esquire W.
1814 William
no date Phoebe
After James' death in 1841, Amy lived with her son, Benjamin and his wife, Bloomy (Hobby) Kniffen in Greenwich, Huron, Ohio. Amy died in Greenwich in 1851, at age 81. She and James are both buried in the Kniffen Cemetery in Greenwich.
SARAH UNDERHILL
BORN: 12 Mar 1766 in Salem, Westchester, NY
DIED: 1851 in Greenwich, Huron, OH
BURIED: Kniffen Cemetery in Greenwich, Huron, OH
SOURCES: Marriage record in the Ancestral File at LDS in Salt Lake, Utah; 1850 Federal Census showing Sarah Kniffen, age 79, residing at the home of her son and his wife
This third great grandfather was born in Salem, Westchester, New York in 1766. His parents were Quakers and attended meetings at the Amawalk Meeting House in Westchester County as did his future wife's family. Quakers had been active in north central Westchester County since the mid-18th century. The current meeting house in Westchester was the third they built; fire destroyed both predecessors. Taking up most of the property is the meeting's cemetery, which contains many graves of its members from the earlier years. The headstones of those graves strongly reflect Quaker burial practices.
James married Sarah Underhill in 1787 in New Castle, Long Island, New York and started their family there. In the spring of 1824, James and his family left from Cayuga County, NY and headed for Greenwich, Huron, Ohio, where James had purchased 800 acres of forest land on a previous trip to the area several years before. This trip was made on a schooner on Lake Erie, a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts. You're most likely to see a schooner in an old seaport or tourist harbor, since it's an old-fashioned kind of boat with at least two masts and sails. There are still places you can ride on a schooner, but schooners were most common along the east coast of the United States in the eighteenth century. Schooners were historically used for fishing and transporting cargo, and sometimes for racing. The word schooner was probably first used in Gloucester, Massachusetts, coined from the Scottish scon, "to send over water, to skip stones." [Source: Wikipedia]
Huron County's first family surnames were Kniffin, Underhill, Brady, and Sutton. James was listed as "First Family Member #53".[Source: Robert O. Smith, researcher]. Evidently, the Kniffin family was quite happy in Greenwich and lived there for many years.
James died on the 18th of April in 1841 and was buried in the Kniffin Cemetery in Greenwich.
JAMES KNIFFIN
BORN: 12 Mar 1766 in Salem, Westchester, New York
MARRIED: 1787 in New Castle, Long Island, NY
DIED: 18 Apr 1841 in Greenwich, Huron, Ohio
BURIED: KNIFFIN CEMETERY in Greenwich, Huron, OH
SOURCES: Bibliography: Ancestral File searched 23 Oct 2001, AFN: Xtv1-31.Federal censuses of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820 and1830. Ancestry. com, Quaker Records..BIRTH: JAMES KNIFFEN Research notes from Amawalk Monthly Meeting IN Westchester County, NY [database online] BIRTH OF JAMES KNIFFEN; Information about the trip on the schooner:http://www.rootsweb.com/-ohhuron/kniffin.
