This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kennedy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3405.1 Message Board Post: The only Kennedy in the 1830 index was William Kennedy--but the indexes are notoriously wrong. In 1830, there was a man of age 50-60 living with with two other males and three other females. The older female was 40-50. Kennedy doesn't show up on the 1836 Tax List. It is possible that William Kennedy was one of the younger males, but there is no way to tell for sure. Older individuals frequently didn't show up on the Tax List--maybe there was an age exclusion. A John Kennedy was prosecuted for debt in 1830 Hawkins County. A John Kennedy sued Judith Smith for debt in 1830. The 1830 census may have been taken as late as the last half of 1831. I believe that the office census period ran from June 1830 to June 1831. William Kennedy showed up in a deposition in 1841. John Kennedy showed up in many other court records. There for a record of a John Kennedy as a creditior in an estate settlement administered by Richard Smith in 1843.