The below John Henry Kinkade is not the John Henry Kinkade, Governor of Nevada. John Henry Kinkade Marysville, Union County, OH. (son of James Kinkade & Hannah Cassil, son of John Kinkade & Isabella Adams, son of James Kinkade & Nancy Taylor) to John Thompson Kinkade of Auburn, Placer County, CA, Nov. 16, 1901. 1750 John Kinkade brought his wife and two children to America.  He was from Belfast and his wife, Jane, from County Down.  He settled in Philadelphia.  When quite old moved to Brooke County, VA, near Holiday’s Cove.  John Kinkade had 13 children of whom the following lived to adulthood: James, John, Nancy, Elizabeth, Margaret, Hannah (need the rest).  He settled and left descendants in Kentucky.  He moved to Fleminger, Mason County, Kentucky and settled on Cabin Creek.  He then went to Illinois where he and his wife died.  Hannah married Daniel Johnson. Elizabeth Kinkade married David Davis. James Kinkade the eldest son of John Kinkade may have been born in Ireland or Pennsylvania about 1761.  He married Nancy Taylor.  The first three children were born near Philadelphia: Ruhamah (Kinkade) McCarrell lived in Eldersville, Jefferson Township, Washington County, PA, cousin to James Kinkade father of John Henry Kinkade.  She stated that the first Kinkade was designated as Lord Kinkade.  He lived in a castle in the north of Ireland.  He had an only son (John Kinkade) who came to Philadelphia about 1750, his son James was arranging to go back to Ireland to claim the estate and title, but he took sick and died (1812)  Holiday’s Cove, Virginia (WV).  His grandson, John Milton Kinkade afterwards did go to Scotland and made inquiries of gentlemen from the north of Ireland.  The estate and title had lapsed back to the crown. John Thompson Kinkade of Auburn, Placer County, CA (born January 25, 1826)(son of John Kinkade & Isabella Adams, both died of typhoid fever in 1826, son of James Kinkade & Nancy Taylor) wrote to John Henry Kinkade (son of James Kinkade & Hannah Cassil, son of John Kinkade & Isabella Adams, son of James Kinkade & Nancy Taylor) of Marysville, Union County , OH on Dec. 6, 1901. First, the Kentucky Kinkades were not in our line of genealogy. They came from Scotland direct. Second, Ruhamah McCarrell’s account of the death of Lord John Kinkade whose estate was near Belfast, in County Down, Ireland is correct.  The estate had been pending in Chancery for about 30 years.  At the close of the Revolutionary War your great grandfather Kinkade returned to Belfast to revive proceedings in Chancery but found it had lapsed to the crown.  He returned home and employed a distinguished lawyer Jeremiah Black of Pittsburgh.  Black went to Ireland to revive the proceedings in Chancery if possible.  Failing in that move, the estate matter ended. Third, the senior Kinkade, originally settled in Pennsylvania, near the city of Carlisle where he and his wife are buried. Fourth, the remains of your great grandfather, James Kinkade were buried in the Cross Creek Cemetery.  The David Kinkade who witnessed the deed was a nephew of your grandfather John Kinkade.  He married a Miss Thompson of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Further comments by John Henry Kinkade First, the Kinkades referred to in this letter are the Lexington, Kentucky Kinkades and is probably correct as to this branch.  Our branch of the family settled near Maysville, Mason County, KY. Second, it is doubtful that great grandfather Kinkade went to Belfast to revive proceedings in Chancery, but probably true as to his employing attorneys. Third, the burial place of the Senior Kinkade and wife is probably correct. Fourth, the tombstones in Cross Creek cemetery have been replaced and are in good condition. These two letters are interesting.  Ben Dixon based his material on information discussed by John Thompson Kinkade and John Henry Kinkade.  Their discussion takes place 30 years before Ben Dixon compiled his work.  I have to say that I have great respect for Ben Dixon’s work.  He did not extrapolate beyond his data and raised questions where he did not have information.  The interesting point that is repeated by three people: John Thompson Kinkade, John Henry Kinkade and Ruhamah McCarrell, that James Kinkade’s (of Brooke County, VA) father, John Kinkade came from Ireland and that his father Lord John Kinkade had an estate near Belfast, in County Down and that the estate lapsed back to the crown.  I’m not saying that this is true.  But I find it significant that three people in the family repeat this story.  I can credit the family history going forward from Brooke County, VA at the death of James Kinkade in 1812.  But I still can’t connect this family to a known Pennsylvania Kinkead lineage.  John Thompson Kinkade and John Henry Kinkade never reference any property in Washington or Westmoreland County, PA.  They never reference any property near Philadelphia.  So the trail before 1800 is very vague.  But this notion of Lord John Kinkade’s estate in County Down could have some validity, but I am skeptical.  They also reference Carlisle, PA as the place for John Kinkade's burial, supposed father of James Kinkade who died in Brooke County, VA in 1812.  John Kinkead the Merchant is buried near Carlisle, so he cannot be the father of this line. Sincerely Norman Kincaide