Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 6 Dec 1756, Rutland, Worcester, MA
• Military Note: 28 Nov 1776, Dorchester Heights, Boston, Suffolk, MA
• Land: 29 Mar 1781
• Census: 1790, Charlemont, Hampshire, MA
• Census: 1800, Stowe, Chittenden, VT
• Census: 1810, Newfane, Windham, VT
• Note: 1835
• Census: 1840, Plattsburgh, Clinton, NY
• Probate: 28 May 1845, Clinton Co., NY

Notes:

Land:
Isaac Kennan, Yeoman, in consideration of 50 Pounds Sterling, conveys to George Kennan of Charlemont, gentleman, 50 acres of land on the bank of Deerfield River.

Military Note:
McKennen, Isaac, Charlemont. Private, Capt. Samuel Taylor's co., Col. Nicholas Dike's rett.; pay abstract for travel allowance, etc., from place of discharge home, dated Dorchester Heights, Nov. 28, 1776; said McKennen credited with allowance for 6 days (125 miles) travel.

Land:
Received a deed from his brother John of a piece of land.

Census:
Until 1850 the Federal Census lists only the head of household and after that the number of inhabitants by age and sex. There is no way of knowing whether the family is blended or if the household members are employees or not.

1790 census at Charlemont, Hampshire, MA shows:
Isaac Kennan
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 3 (James, Erastus and David)
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1 (Isaac)
Free White Persons - Females: 2 (Ruth and Clarissa)
Number of Household Members: 6

Census:
Until 1850 the Federal Census lists only the head of household and after that the number of inhabitants by age and sex. There is no way of knowing whether the family is blended or if the household members are employees or not.

1800 census at Stowe, VT shows: Isaac Kennan

Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2 (Rhuel, Isaac and John are in this age range)
Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 1 (David)
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2 (James and Erastus)
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 (Isaac)

Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1 (Unknown)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1 (Unknown)
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over:1 (Ruth)

Clarissa appears to be missing, she does not marry until 1807 so I may have her year of birth wrong.

Number of Household Members Under 16: 5
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 9

Census:
Until 1850 the Federal Census lists only the head of household and after that the number of inhabitants by age and sex. There is no way of knowing whether the family is blended or if the household members are employees or not.

If this record is for "our" Isaac it seems to be missing several children and seems to not record the age of Ruth or Isaac correctly.

Free White Male 0 to 9 : 2 (Unknown)
Free White Male 16 to 25: 1 (James or Erastus)
Free White Male 26 to 45: 1 (Isaac?)

Free White Female 10 to 15: 1 (unknown)
Free White Female 26 to 45: 1 (Ruth?)

Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members 6

Note:
New York Pensioners of 1835 County: Clinton Co. Name: Isaac Kennan Rank: Private & sergeant Annual Allowance: 41 66 Sums Received: -Description of service: Massachusetts mil. When placed on the pension roll: October 24, 1832 Commencement of pension: March 4, 1831 Age: 75 Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks.:

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution(17 Vols.)Volume 10 page 519 Mckennan, Isaac, Charlemont. Private, Capt. Sylvanus Rice's co.of militia, which marched April 22, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 6½ days; reported returned home April 25, 1775; also, Capt. Samuel Taylor's co., Col. Nicholas Dike's regt.; pay abstract for mileage, dated Roxbury,Sept. 17, 1776; mileage (125 miles) allowed said McKennan; also, Capt. Nahum Ward's co., Col. David Wells's (HampshireCo.) regt.; enlisted Sept. 22, 1777; discharged Oct. 18, 1777;service, 1 mo., at the time of taking Gen. Burgoyne, including travel (80 miles) home; company marched from Charlemont Sept. 22, 1777.2

Nov 1999 AT Source: NARA Order for Copies of Veteran's Records for Isaac Kennon NARA reported back that they had no Isaac Kennon in their records. Sent a request asking for Isaac McKennan 3 Nov 1999.6 Dec 1999 - NARA reported no military records for Isaac McKennan.Source: Bowman, FQ, 10,000 Vital Records of E. NY, p. 1414847.

Kennan, ____, 10 weeks, child of Isaac, d 2/3/23 inPlattsburgh (7-2/8)

Census:
1840 census at Plattsburg, Clinton, NY shows: David Kennon; 2 males 5-10; 1 male 15-20; 1 male 50-60; 1 male 80-90; 1 female 5-10; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 20-30. Isaac Kennon, age 84 is included as a Revolutionary War pensioner.

Probate:
On May 28, 1845, David Kennon, a son of Isaac, was assigned as the administrator of his father's estate. Isaac died intestate.

Buried:
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Isaac married Ruth BURNHAM about 1778. Ruth (daughter of David BURNHAM) was christened on 13 Aug 1758 in East Hartford, CT; died on 10 Jul 1824; was buried in East Calais, Washington, VT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Clarissa KENNAN was born about 1780; died before 1860.
2. James KENNAN was born about 1781 in MA.
3. Erastus KENNAN was born about 1782 in Burlington, Chittenden, VT.
4. David KENNON was born about 1786 in MA; died after 1870 in Beekmantown, Clinton, NY.
5. Rhuel Burnham KENNON was born about 1791 in Charlemont, Franklin, MA.
6. Isaac KENNON, Jr. was born on 13 Sep 1796 in Waterbury, Washington, VT.
7. John KENNAN was born about 1798 in Burlington, Chittenden, VT.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigratn: Abt 1743
• Residence: 3 Sep 1767, Paxton, Worcester, MA
• Note: Abt 1771, Charlemont, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Immigratn:
"James MacKennan appears to have been the American ancestor of the Northern branch of the Kennan family. Little is known of him, except that he married at Rutland, Mass., May 25, 1744, Margaret Smith, of the town of Holden. The Kennans were all of Scotch descent, and were Protestants, and some of them, or perhaps most of them, were driven out of Scotland with thousands of others by religious persecution, and fled into the North of Ireland where many Scotch refugees located, mostly in the province of Ulster. This class of Scotch emigrants filled up that province after it had been emptied of its half barbarous native inhabitants. They there founded Londonderry, which soon became famous as the home of Scotch Presbyterians. A century later more than three thousand of the decendants of those refugees emigrated to America. The first boat landed at Boston on the 4th of August, 1718. Many of them located in Worcester County.."

Residence:
The town of Paxton was set off from Rutland on this date.

Note:
The James Kennon family moved to Charlemont, MA where they owned a farm of 51 acres, the southern border being formed by the Deerfield River.

James married Margaret SMITH on 31 May 1744 in Holden, Worcester, MA. Margaret (daughter of James SMITH and Margaret UNKNOWN) was born about 1717 in SCOTLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Land: 13 Apr 1781, Charlemont, Franklin, MA
• Land: 5 Apr 1785

Notes:

Land:
Margaret Kennan (widow) and Andrew Kennan, yeoman, convey, in consideration of 400 Pounds Sterling to George Kennan, Gentleman, 158 acres of land on the bank of Deerfield River, Charlemot.

Land:
George Kennan, of Charlemont, Gentleman, in consideration of 100 Pounds Sterling, conveys to Margaret Kennan, of Charlemont, certain lands therein described and the deed recites that "said Margaret takes this for her third in a certain farm formerly owned by James Kennan, "my honored father" and Warren Booth.

Notes:

Married:
Apr. 13, 1744, James McKennan of Rutland entered his intention of marriage with Margaret Smith of Holden.

May 25th 1744, Then gave certificate that J. McKennan and Margaret Smith have been published in order to marriage as the law directs.

May 31, 1744 Arrangements had to be made for a 2nd preacher as the 1st was killed by Nipmuc Indians

Note: Thomas Lathrop Kennan in his book "Genealogy of the Kennan Family" states that James and Margaret had 4 sons and 4 daughters, all of whom eventually married and yet lists nine children (6 sons and 3 daughters).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigratn: Abt 1718, Ulster, IRELAND

James married Margaret UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigratn: Abt 1718, Ulster, IRELAND

Notes:

Birth:
The "lawful son and heir" of James Kennan was one John of that name. He was born, we must assume, somewhere around 1670. He, too, seems to have had a prominent place in the Dumfries community, occupying at some point the position of bailie. And he seems to have had a number of sons, the first of whom, another James, dutifully named after his grandfather, was born in 1693, the remaining births stringing along until 1709. Is it permissible to suspect that this second James was the father of a third one who, born somewhere around the years 1715-1720, emigrated to New England and became the first of the American Kennans?"