Hi Janelle, hope your Thanksgiving was great. I went through my Kirkpatrick notebook to find my sources and this is what I found: Books on Kirkpatricks in the libraries in Dallas and McKinney, TX. In one, is a picture of a tree with branches and names written on them. Gen. E. W. Kirkpatrick employed a firm of genealogists to aid his investigation. Will of Hugh Kirkpatrick dated 15 Feb 1810 lists wife: Ruth; children: John, Janey(?), Ruth, Matildah, Amy, Polly, and Betsy. It was in his handwriting and hard to read. Tombstone Inscriptions of Bent Creek Cemetery in Whitesburg, TN DAR record: John Kirkpatrick b: May 1741 Scotland, d: Mar 1812 Hamblen Co., TN m: Jane Wilkins Jacob Kirkpatrick b: 01 Nov 1771, d: 04 Jul 1844 m: Isabella White m: 1798 Goodspeed's TN pages 1275-1276 LDS Ancestral File, descendancy for Jacob Kirkpatrick (B89H-NB) Census records I would be interested in your sources too. Thanks. Pennie ---------- > From: Janelle Richardson <[email protected]> > To: Pennie Easley <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Reply to Greene County > Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 7:17 PM > > > Pennie, thanks for your reply. In reading some of the records of Jefferson > County, TN, I have read some of the history of Bent Creek Baptist Church > with Wilkins and Sarah Kirkpatrick as members. I have also studied the land > records and if I remember, Jacob and Wilkins occupied the original > Kirkpatrick land along Bent Creek. > > I would be interested in any sources that you have for your information. > Everyone seems to have the names and dates for the children of John H. > Kirkpatrick, but nobody knows the sources except secondary books, etc. > > I've received messages from several descendants of John H. Kirkpatrick. > I'll get back to you after the holidays. We might consider an informal > mailing list for this branch of the family. I am especially interested in > the service record(s) for John for the Revolutionary War. Despite claims > that he fought at Kings Mountain, etc., the only records I can get for him > are from the North Carolina State Archives stating he provided supplies and > was paid. Certainly this would make him a patriot and I am in the process > of exploring some of the DAR applicants for him. The one I have in my > possession strikes out the service at Kings Mountain and puts down his > providing supplies which agrees with what I have been able to find out. > > It may be that McCullough, Judge Samuel Kirkpatrick and some of the other > early Kirkpatrick family researchers who did their work before 1938 made > some errors. Perhaps with more resources available today, we can document > the family history. > Janelle > > >