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- IGI gives dob: Abt. 1752, Frederick Co. Virginia; another IGI source gives Abt. 1754, but also lists Fredeick, Co.
Bill Jobe gives dod as 1826. He also gives his name as "Colonel" Jeremiah McKay. Is this honorary or did he serve in the Revolutionary War? He would have been of age to do so.-LKL
December 28, 1790 Jeremiah McKay of Shenandoah County, Virginia, gave a power of attorney to his well beloved friends, David Job of Washington County and Abraham McKay of Green County, both of North Carolina, to act respecting the settlement and receiving of his wife's part of the estate of Joseph Whitson, deceased, to have, use, and take all lawful means to his power for the recovery of sums of money and acquittances. -- Jobe's Journal
"Jeremiah McKay, Shenandoah Co. Bound to the Court Aug. term 1782 for the sum of 1,000 pounds as guardian to Jeremiah Whitson, orphan of Charles Whitson, deceased.
"Jeremiah McKay, Shenandoah Co., State of Va, 30 Dec 1790 gives power of attorney to David Job... and Abraham McKay... to demand and sue for money belonging to me respecting the settlement and recovery of my wife's part of the estate of Joseph Whitson, deceased..." -- Hunter B. McKay. The McKay's and Allied Families, p. 234
Hopewell Friends History, p. 501
Jeremiah was disowned by the Hopewell friends for having "Gone out in marriage with a woman not of our society."
Myra Compton Allnutt's Notes with parenthetical additions by LKL
"Jeremiah McKay and his wife, Lidia Watson [Whitson], who were married in 1743 [not possible!], settled above Front Royal on the south branch of the Shenandoah River, across the river from or just above Overall, Page Co. or Milford as then called, in what was at that time Shenandoah County. The date of his deed from Lord Fairfax is not known.
"There is an uncertainty as to the parentage of Jeremiah, the elder, whether he was the son of Robert McKay, Sr and his wife Margaret, or son of Robert McKay, Jr., and his wife Patience Job. Circumstantial evidence seems to indicate that he was the brother of Robert McKay, Jr. and his wife Patience Job. [Ms Allnutt is writing without benefit of Hunter McKay's discovery of Jeremiah's father being Moses McKay]
"Court and military records state that Jeremiah, the elder, was a Justice of the County of Shenandoah 1800-1803, and afterwards Sheriff, and that the younger Jeremiah was a Captain of the Militia during the War of 1812.
"Items of court records from this period may be closed with the following paragraph found in an old minute book under the date of June 12, 1815: 'The magistrates of this county having been summoned and a majority - - - - failing to appear, ordered that it be certified that Jacob Rinker, Jeremiah McKay, John Overall, etc., etc., are acting magistrates.'
"In Shenandoah Co records there is a settlement of the estate of Jeremiah McKay, 1825. Jeremiah McKay and Abram McKay being the administrators.
"As to the title Colonel by which Jeremiah the elder was called, it was probably gained in Militia service prior to the War of 1812.
"This Jeremiah the elder was a friend of the Rev. James Ireland and had meetings at his home for the Quaker Hugh Judge,
In 'The Life of the Rev. James Ireland,' who for many years was the pastor of the Baptist Churches at Buck's Marsh, Waterlick and Happy Creek, in Frederick and Shenandoah Counties, we find he writes that about 1782 he moved from Waterlick 15 or 16 miles up the South branch of the Shenandoah River on to Col. Jeremiah McKay's place, and lived there until 1791."
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Taylor Family Genealogy
Abt 1754 - Abt 1827 (~ 73 years)