Notes: Endnotes and Sources [10] to [19]:

 

[10].

1850 census, Samuel McAninch household, Franklin Township., Hendricks County;

 

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm M432 Roll 150 pg.19(A).

[11].

Samuel McAninch’s birth place: state “Pennsylvania” written in full, 1850 census [Note 10].

[12].

Samuel McAninch’s date of birth: Samuel “Died 30 July 1859, Aged 70 yrs 5 mo & 25 ds”

 

(cemetery records, this report) [1] [2] [photo, 4a5] [letter, 4b]; so, “born ca. 5 July 1789”.

[12a]

All sources report the same date, “30 July 1859”, and the same age (70 years, 5 months,

 

and 25 days) from the marker stone [1] [2] [3a1] [3b] [photo, 4a5] [letter, 4b], and,

 

the digits “70” can be read in the photograph [photo, 4a5] (clearly “70”, not “76”).

[12b]

Multiple date-of-birth calculations are possible: Samuel died in July; 1859; there are

 

31 days in July, so, ‘minus 25 days’ could be 5 or 6 Feb. 1789, or, with only 28 days

 

in Feb. 1789, could be as early as 3 Feb.?

[12c]

Samuel is age 60 in the 1850 census [10], which corroborates the “ca. 1789” calculation.

[12d]

There is an incorrect date-of-birth “(born 2-5-1783)” typed on both the

 

‘Phillips Estate’ list [1] and on Mrs. Ennis Johnson’s list [2].

[12e]

However, working backwards from “Died 30 July 1859” and “Aged 70 yrs 5 mo & 25 ds”,

 

this “(born 2-5-1783)” calculation is wrong [1] [2]; instead, correct subtraction math would

 

indicate “born 2-5-1789” (1789, not 1783).

[12f]

The incorrect year (1783) appears to be the result of a math error, the subtraction of

 

76 years, instead of 70 years. This must have been a 20th-century calculation error,

 

since the date of birth is not written on the actual stone marker in the cemetery [photo, 4a5].

 

It is not known whether the mistake was first made on the ‘Phillips Estate’ list [1], and then

 

copied onto Mrs. Johnson’s list [2], or vice versa.

[13].

1790 Census, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; “McAninch, Daniel  3 1 4 0 0”; in the.

 

book Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States taken in the Year 1790,

 

Pennsylvania, pub. 1908, re-print 1970, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore; p.268.

[14].

1830 Census, Casey County, Kentucky; National Archives, M19 Roll 34, p. 297, line 19.

[15].

1832, Tract Book, Hendricks County, Samuel McAninch, pg. 61, Tristram Pike, pg. 70;

 

Danville Public Library, Danville, Indiana.

[16].

1834, Land Records, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Land Office, folio case 17231 Vol.121 p.433,

 

and 17232 Vol.121 pg.434, both Sept. 3, 1834 (S.9, T.14, R.2W; LDS film 1,501,588).

[17].

1839, 80 acres, Silas Bryant, Oct. 10, 1839, Hendricks Co. Deeds, Grantee Book 7, pg. 329.

[18].

1841, Tax List, Hendricks County, Indiana, by Twp and Range (LDS film 488,432, item 7).

[19].

1844, Tax List, Hendricks Co., Indiana; Franklin Township, pg. 7 (LDS 488,432, item 7).

 

 

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