In a message dated 3/9/2002 4:31:26 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > > The story of James Lockridge marrying Isabella Kincaid > and Robert Gwinn marrying Jean Kincaid is ofter repeated. > What is the source or origin of these two men marrying > Kincaids? Nothing I have on hand gives evidence. > Where did this come from? > > Best wishes! > > > Peter A. Kincaid > Hampton, NB, Canada > Hello Peter-- There is no evidence as far as I can tell. In fact, I have also never seen any documentary evidence whatsoever for the existence of a Jean Kinkead, daughter of David Kinkead. This is why I always say that Jean Kinkead is the reputed wife of Robert Gwin, Sr. The written (but undocumented) references that I know of are: The History of the Gwin Family by Jesse B. Gwin (1961). This book has an appendix with genealogical tables including one for the descendants of Robert Gwin and Jean Kincaid. The cited references are History of Summers County West Virginia by J. A. Miller and The History of Highland County, Virginia by Oren F. Morton. However, these last references do not contain any mention of a Jean Kincaid and the Summers County book does not even mention Robert Gwin. Early Western Augusta Pioneers by George W. Cleek, (1957). On page 95, it states "Robert Gwin married Jean (or Jane) Kinkead, daughter of David Kincaid and Winnifred ___ of Albemarle County, Virginia." It is not clear what the source is here, but this section does reference the research of Dr. Herbert Clarke Kincaid. The articles of Dr. George W. Diehl. Another undocumented source for the marriage of Robert Gwin and Jean Kincaid is the articles published by Dr. George West Diehl in the News-Gazette, Lexington, Virginia. These articles were compiled in Rockbridge County, Virginia Notebook by A. Maxim Coppage, III (1982). The James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, has a George West Diehl genealogical collection. I have not seen this collection of material, but it is possible that it could contain source material for Dr. Diehl's articles. If anyone has an opportunity to examine this collection, please let us know. It is certainly true that there is a link between the Kinkeads and Gwins as neighbors, in court records, and in land transactions. However, I have often wondered if Jane Kinkead was a creation of erroneous assumptions. Here is one possible way that a Jane (Jean) Kinkead might have been created: On July 16, 1745, David Kinkead was a witness to the deed in which James Patton and John Lewis sold 544 acres to Robert Gwin. Also, in The Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia by Lyman Chalkley there is an abstract of a commission for the private examination of Jane, wife of Robert Gwinn, Jr. (Vol. I, p. 132). Is it possible that someone mistook Jane for the name of the wife of Robert Gwin, Sr. and then assumed that David Kinkead was her father based on deed? What might have been overlooked here is that David Kinkead was also the witness for several other land transactions that day. On July 16, 1745 he signed as witness for the transfer of land on the Calfpasture from Patton and Lewis to Robert Bratton, John Dunlap, Loftis Pulliam, John Willson, John Kinkead, John Miller, and finally Robert Gay (on July 17, 1745). To me this indicates that David Kinkead was there because of a business relationship with Patton and Lewis. Your thoughts? Best wishes! Ron Gwinn