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Cindy,
Hey! I can not find the post we were on concerning this. So, what were the names of those towns again? I had re-read one of your posts concerning Ricketts and “finally” I saw the words “Presbyterian Church.” There were Grandpas and such that were Baptist Ministers, but when I was very little I clearly recall asking my mom what religeoun we were and she said Presbyterian. Here in Colorado we always went to a Baptist church.
Ricketts is only one of the lines we are still looking at the connections to, that go back to the Blackfoot church and Cemetery and/or from NC., VA.,PA. etc. It is all so confusing. We’re still trying to place our Evans, Reed, Miller, Hodges, Ferguson, Gentry. Gentry to Shelton, Sutton, etc. We still have such a long way to go!
In someone’s post somewhere, I saw mention of Blackford. I’ve noticed they moved along with our folks too. It is evident that Ricketts, Allen, Shelton, Sutton, Tibetts, Welty, Gentry, Ferguson, Kinder (Gunder) from PA., all moved around together. Kerry and I have been oogling that for some time now. And they went right on in to Blackfoot Cem. in Pike County, Ind., Lesley Cem. and a few others.
Kerry and I are working on this. I’m going to try contacting the Historical Society for old church records of any kind, old obits., and anything else I can get my hands on! And you know it is interesting, you bring up Greens, I have seen that name in conjunction with either Evans or Reed or both, I can’t recall exactly, but in and around NC. I think late 1700’s. I’ll have to dig around and see if I still have that here. I should never have stayed away so long!:) Love & Light, Lynella.
L,
I would be interested in results. I was just looking for a line that seemed to originate in Maryland, near Blackfoot Town (now Dagsboro, DE) and end up in Blackfoot Cemetery. I know that a line of Ricketts are married to the Cheneys in MD. They go to Hagerstown (near my Greens), proceed north to PA where they serve in the Rev. and intermarry with my Sinkeys, and then go west. I followed Cheney Ricketts line that intermarries with Reed but could not connect it with the Ricketts in Blackfoot Cemetery. Thought maybe you could.
Cindy
Techteach,
Yes, I will work on this and see what we come up with. It is all so interesting. I will let you know when I find stuff. 🙂 Love & Light, Lynella.
L,
I just found a genforum questions on a Ricketts who lived only 22 miles from Blackfoot Town in Lewes, Deleware. This is very interesting!
Brenda, Bess, Linda, and anyone else interested,
If you are reading this, we now have a Ricketts who lives where John Thomson first preached, only 22 miles from Blackfoot Town. From there, he goes to the Lancaster area and preaches, I believe, at Donegal Church. He also is documented as having preached at one or more of those frontier churches near the Swearingens, Greens, Butts, Mounts, Cavens, etc. (Bess, I also have DeMoss in my family line.) He was father-in-law of Rev Richard Sankey who also preached where my McClane came from, near Pittsburgh. From there, both went to Amelia County, VA, but Thomson also preached in Mecklenberg county, NC.
The Ricketts also live, serve with others with Blackfoot ID in the same Rev War group as my Sinkey, intermarry, and then move west to the same Licking County, OH area (I just found Chaney there, L. but I am pretty sure he does not stop there.), but some Ricketts go to Nelson County, KY.
Then, there are Ricketts in Blackfoot Cemetery.
Techteach
Here’s a listing of the Barre and Huntington County, PA class tax of 1782. You will see Chain (Chaney or Cheney) listed here. Also listed is Willson, one of my names, Ferguson (one of your names, L). I do not see a Sinkey, but Richard Sinkey is documented as having lived on land owned by the John Agnew here. And I have found him in other histories of the area.
Techteach
Techteach,
Just getting a good look at this, so bear with me. William Ricketts owned land in Halifax County, (now Easern Henry County) near Axton.
I have no clue where this is.:o
He married Mary Catherine (Unknown) and they had John Frederick Ricketts
there was an unknown sister who married Thomas Norton, all other info on them is unknown.
another unknown Ricketts married a John (SR) Harris. All else unknown.
John Frederick Ricketts’ wife is unknown. They had a son, William Ricketts, b. Abt. 1780, VA.?;d. 1832.
William Ricketts married Barsheba Nelson before 1789. Then he married again, a Nancy Davis, June 4, 1789.
This is all from page 1 of a big PDF file Kerry sent me. I think I saw and Edward Ricketts on page 8. Anyway, this is our Ricketts line. I noticed in my brief peek at it that some of these folks went to Tennessee then to Indiana and that’s about when I saw the Edward Ricketts. I’ll keep you posted if you’re still interested. 😉 Love & Light, Lynella.
L:
Yes. Several of us are looking at connections between Blackfoot Town and Blackfoot Cemetery. It is very significant to all of us if you find this. I chased a geneology of the Rickets that intersects with the Reids that I thought might be your line once. They begin near Blackfoot Town and get to Indiana, but I couldn’t connect them with the Ricketts in Blackfoot Cemetery. That Rickets line starts in eastern MD, marries into the Chaney line, moves to Hagerstown, moves to near my Sinkeys and intermarries (and here Edward fights in the Rev with my William Sinkey and marries “an Indian squaw” (pardon the political incorrectness – I am quoting)), moves to OH with my folks, but Chaney Ricketts line goes to a different location in Oh and then Indiana and intermarries with the Reids there. But I am not sure if they connect with the Pike County Ricketts. Finding that connection would be significant, don’t you think?
Techteach
Cindy,
I’m still not posetive this is what you’re looking for. It’s not much to go on. What I have is an end note. It reads like this:
8. James Madison (5) Ricketts was born 1816 in Warrick Co., Ind.[71] (Tennessee)? He married (1) Elizabeth Burden [71] Sept 03, 1883 in Warrick Co., Indiana. She was born July 15, 1820 in (Tennessee?) [71] and died May 15, 1862 in Warrick Co., Indiana [71]. He married (2) Mary Ann Coutz Gwaltney [72] Bet. 1862 – 1866 in ?Indiana? [73] She was born abt. 1828 in Indiana [74], and died unknown.
James was burried in Lynnville Cem., Warrick Co., Ind. (section 1 or A20) [75]
Property: 1848, Land Patent; Warrick Co., Ind. [76]
Elizabeth Burden was also burried in Lynnville.
There are a list of children, none of them are an Edward.
With Mary Gwaltney, there were 3 children none are an Edward.
In the endnotes which I’ve placed in [ ] above for you, there says;
#74. From Tamara Kincaid, INWARRIC-L Archives [INWARRIC] Ricketts, (3 Sept. 2000) “Electronic,” “Since you mentioned that Ricketts/ McKinzie intertwines by marriage in Warrick Co., Indiana in 1866, I found that this census in 1880 Hart Twp seems might prove helpful when you get further into Edward Ricketts parents history..since these families are neighbors in 1880.
So, all I have on this is this one end note. I wish I had more. Let me know if this is of any help. Love & Light, Lynella.
L
Several of us were trying to link family from the area of Blackfoot Town with Blackfoot Cemetery, so since I knew there were Ricketts near my Sinkeys, I wondered if you had done any research to connect this Ricketts line, that is, the PA one, with the Ricketts in Blackfoot Cemetery.
Techteach
Originally posted by techteach
L,
I just found a genforum questions on a Ricketts who lived only 22 miles from Blackfoot Town in Lewes, Deleware. This is very interesting!
Brenda, Bess, Linda, and anyone else interested,
If you are reading this, we now have a Ricketts who lives where John Thomson first preached, only 22 miles from Blackfoot Town. From there, he goes to the Lancaster area and preaches, I believe, at Donegal Church. He also is documented as having preached at one or more of those frontier churches near the Swearingens, Greens, Butts, Mounts, Cavens, etc. (Bess, I also have DeMoss in my family line.) He was father-in-law of Rev Richard Sankey who also preached where my McClane came from, near Pittsburgh. From there, both went to Amelia County, VA, but Thomson also preached in Mecklenberg county, NC.
The Ricketts also live, serve with others with Blackfoot ID in the same Rev War group as my Sinkey, intermarry, and then move west to the same Licking County, OH area (I just found Chaney there, L. but I am pretty sure he does not stop there.), but some Ricketts go to Nelson County, KY.
Then, there are Ricketts in Blackfoot Cemetery.
Techteach
Cindy,
I just found this tonight… So much to read! Sorry. I noted that I look at the Octoraro area Lancaster, PA & Cecil Co. MD as an interesting area…Well, I checked out some of the church info. in George Johnston’s HISTORY OF CECIL COUNTY MARYLAND [published in 1881] tonight and found this reference to Ricketts:
“It was owing to the preaching of this great evangelist that the first Presbyterian church was organized in Elkton, for the next year (1741) William Alexander and Araminta, his wife, deeded an acre of land, the same whereon Whitefield had preached the year before to ‘Robert Lucas, Zebulon Hollingsworth, Thomas Ricketts and Robert Evans, of Cecil County, and David Barr of New Castle County, upon which to build a meeting house ….”
Johnston discusses the New Side/Old Side issue some, then goes on to say that Rev. James Steel, Old Side pastor, emigrated to the Cumberland Valley [PA, I assume] in 1753. Toward the end of this section he notes that due to the soil wearing out, a lot of families emigrated out of Cecil County, some to VA and some to Carolinas. Among those who went to Mecklenburg County, NC abt. 1746 were some of the Alexanders, Polks, Brevards, and possibly Pattons. These emigrants founded the seven Presbyterian churches in Mecklengurg County, he says. The Presbtery of New Castle maintained a great interest in these circa 1755 NC churches and sent ministers to them on a regular basis. A few years after the emigration to NC began, another emigration to the area west of the Alleghany Mountains began, into southwestern Pa and northwestern VA, and along the Ohio River. These immigrants included, along with folks from Cecil County, folks from Chester, Lancaster, & York Counties, PA. Many of these families settled within the bounds of the old Redstone Presbytery……
Another Ricketts is noted in the book, Palmer C. Ricketts, who at the young age of 23, became editor of the CECIL WIG newspaper in 1841……
Supposedly he was a descendant of a family that had settled in the area very early on, the founder believed to have resided on Sassafrass Neck and who was a Quaker….
So, there were Ricketts in Cecil Co., too, and there is some history of the migration out of the county when following the history of the Presbyterian Church.
Brenda:
This is interesting. Yet another Presbyterian minister who has the right name and matches emmigration routes. We need to look at old Presbyterian records, I think.
I had not looked for my Blackfoot name in the DE database. There is a McLane in Kent County in the late 1700s.
Techteach
Brenda,
Thank you so much for the info. This is great stuff! 🙂
Techteach,
Keep me up to speed. I’ve missed a lot! What’s the DE database? And wow this just sounds exciting. I’m sure I’ll start catching on good as we go. By the way, I can’t find your photos on here. I’m doing something wrong and really want to look see! Where are they so I can find them? Love & Light, L.
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