Source Notes:

[1] “Matthew McNinch” letter …  the handwritten pages are a copy of the original letter. The typewritten pages are copied from the family history that my father, Robert McNinch, compiled in 1993. The first paragraph of the typewritten pages is the introduction written by my father … He transcribed the handwritten copy; it's as close as possible, with the exception of a few typos.

[2] Copies of the ‘Matthew McNinch letter’ (transcribed, and xerox of original hand-written letter) were received from Meredith (McNinch) Chilson, 5680 County Road 2B, Belmont, New York 14813, Email <ny2b@infoblvd.net>. Meredith wrote “The ‘Matthew McNinch letter’ was in papers that my father [Robert McNinch] received from his father-[Harry Thomas McNinch], it has been passed through the generations in this way.” --

[3] Matthew McNinch (b. 3 Mar 1784, d. 18 Mar 1867), married 1815, Sarah Coller (b. 23 Jan 1792, d. 1 May 1863), lived near Conesus, Ontario / Livingston Co., New York, and had four children: Maria(h), b. 28 Nov 1817, d. 13 Aug 1902; James, b. 30 Nov 1819, d. 11 Mar 1891; Thomas C., b 17 Apr 1822,d. 5 Nov 1836; and John, b. 11 Nov 1827, d. 11 Mar 1911.

[4] John McNinch, the youngest son (b. 1827), mar. Clarissa Cruger (b 20 Oct 1830, d 14 Nov 1899); and they had nine children: Matthew Eugene, Ella, Lewis, Maline Louise, Sarah “Lizzie”, Alonzo Cruger (b 7 Feb 1860, d 8 Jan 1937), George Washington, James Harrison, and Susan.

[5] Alonzo Cruger McNinch (b. 1860), married Ida Thomas ( b 9 May 1859, d 23 Aug 1936), and had two children: Harry Thomas (b 18 Nov 1885, d 25 Sept. 1962), and Gates Eugene McNinch.

[6] Harry Thomas McNinch (b. 1885), married Florence Hall (b 15 July 1891, d 15 Sept. 1976); had seven children: Mary Ida, James Thomas, Robert Hall, John Gates, Louise Ann, Louis Arthur, and Harry Thomas II. This family continued to live in the same area, upstate, western New York.

[7] Robert Hall McAninch, Meredith’s father, still has the original ‘Matthew McNinch letter’.

 

McAninch Family History NL, VIII-4  October 2000  Copyright Frank McAninch   page 2000-32

 

 

 

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