LENOIR/JONES COUNTY, NC - Misc. - Sketch of Kinsey Family, 1912. ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dee Bennett June 1999 ========================================================================== Lenoir Community College Learning Center, Box 188, Kinston, N.C. 28501. - Genealogy Vertical File, Kinsey #11560-3 We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their file to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. Donated to Lenoir Community College by Mrs. Roger N. (Caroline) Sutton, 6- 5-81 SKETCH OF KINSEY FAMILY by Joseph Kinsey September 1912 In my boyhood I was much in the habit of asking old people about their ancestors, especially my grandfather, Joseph Kinsey, who was born in 1777 and died just before the Civil War, at the age of 81. I made a note of many of the dates and names and after I attained my majority I began to put the date thus obtained in shape for preservation, but none reached back beyond his father, Joseph Kinsey, my great-grandfather. In the law office of N.J. Rouse, my old pupil, I had access to the Book of Wills and found that Joseph Kinsey's will dated April 9, 1752, was probated in the May court, 1752. His wife Mary, executrix, and John Grenade, executor. This will showed the following sons: John, Joseph, Abasalom, Christian, Samuel, and one daughter, Esther. I asked an old lady, Miss Sallie King, why Uncle John Isler Kinsey has the Isler in his name. Why she said his grandmother was Mary Isler, the daughter of Christian Isler, who was private secretary to de Graffenreid. In the '70's I was called on to make a survey of lands in Jones county, belonging to the Islers. The deed for this land called for lines of the Ogden Patent, granted by King George. I went to Raleigh and found the patent granted in 1735 and curiosity led me to look through the K's and I found that Joseph Kinsey, my great-grandfather, entered 80's on Joshua's Creek, a tributary of Trent River. John Kinsey entered 80 acres on Joshua's branch, a tributary of Tuchahoe River, which flows into the Trent. In a booklet on North Carolina History, I learned the colony of de Graffenreid settled at the juncture of the Trent and Neuse Rivers in 1710 and that the town of New Berne or settlement was called Berne, the capital of Switzerland. These settlers were Swiss and Palatines, and about 12,000 Palatines from the "Palatine on the Rhine" fleeing the persecution of the Catholics went to England, being invited by Queen Anne (1708)" who cared for them with a genuine Christian magnanimity." About this time, Christopher de Garnered and Louis Mitchell were preparing to emigrate to America with a large Swiss population, their own countrymen. Negotiations were entered into between them and the Queen's Commissioners by which it was arranged for them - about six hundred of the Palatines to be settled in Carolina upon 10,000 acres of land in the body, between the Neuse and Cape Fear Rivers. It is interesting to note the changes in the spelling of the names of these people then and now. Our Creom was then Grum; Isler was Ealer; Moore was then Mehr; Wallace was then Wallis; and Kernegay was spelled Kernegee. The Kinseys settled in upper Jones County and their names appear to have undergone no change with one exception, which appeared Kensey. From very old people I learned that great-grandfather Joseph Kinsey married Mary Williams, the sister of William (Billy) Williams and the names of their children were Jesse, John, Joseph ( my grandfather), Betsey Celia, and Mary (Polly). Mary married Richard Nobels, the son of John Nobles. Grandfather carried me there once on a visit when I was 10 or 12 years old. I recollect seeing her as she sat on a low chair and she was blind.; as she had me led up close to her she could feel my head "to see" how high I was (she said.) This John Nobles, - my-grandfather Nobles, the father of Richard Nobels, was killed in the Revolutionary War and great grandfather, after the death of his Williams wife, married Penny Nobles, the widow of John Nobles, and this Penny Nobles was Phillips Miller's sister. Also grandmother Brown's mother and grandfather Brown's Dean wife's mother were sisters of Penny Nobels and Phillip Miller. Grandfather Joseph Kinsey married Vicy Blackshire, who died leaving no children. He then married Sarah Brock, the sister of Martin Breck, and Joseph Brock married Mary Isler. Grandfather's children by Sarah Brock were Mary, Percy, Joseph Brock (my father), John Isler Kinsey, James Henderson Kinsey, and Issac Williams Kinsey. Gandmother Kinsey (Sarah Brock) then died and grandfather Kinsey married Susan Rhem. By her were born Jane, Joel, Jasper, Justus, Jonas, Jacob, Sallie, Jackson, Job, Jonathan, Jay and Susan. (Note this peculiarity, that the names of the boys begin with J.) Grandmother Nancy Brown, was the daughter of Evan Griffin (some say Griffith) and Evan Griffin's wife, Catherine, was the sister of Phillip Miller. Grandmother Brown first married John Lee. After John Lee's death she married Jessse Taylor, who soon dies and then she married grandfather Issac Brown, by whom she had Nancy, my mother, and Issac.. Joseph Brock Kinsey, my father, married Nancy Brown in February, 1841. She was born in April 26, 1826. Grandfather Brown's father was named Benjamin Brown and Benjamin's father was Howell Brown. Grandfather Issac Brown's grandmother was Martha Yates. She married a Langston and had Ruth, David, and John. Ruth Langston was Grandfather Brown's mother. She married Benjamin Brown who was born in Virginia and married his wife Ruth, in Virginia and came to North Carolina. Benjamin Brown and Ruth Brown had the following children: Issac (my grandfather,) Asa, Benjamin, Zachen, and Priscilla. (Pricilla) Great- grandfather Benjamin Brown then died and his widow Ruth married Walter Dortch. By him she had six children: David, John, Rebecca, Betsey, Martha, and Ruth. They moved to Georgia and left Grandfather Brown in possession of the property, he being the old law heir to the estate. Grandfather Issac Brown's first wife was a Dean, who had the following children: William, Zachens, Vicy, Mary, (Aunt Polly Nobles) and Pricilla, Susanna, and Orpha. After his Dean wife died, Grandfather Issac Brown married Lucy Small, who had two children, Cyrus and Leah. Cyrus Brown married, and died leaving no children. (Typist note: at the bottom of the page of the original manuscript is a hand written note that has an arrow drawn to indicate the notation should be inserted here and reads as follows........) Susan C. Brock 1st wife 1831 - 1856 - sister of Daniel Shines Brock and dau. of Hannah Frank & Martin. She is buried in grave yard at "Eagle Ne... (unable to make out next letters) Farm" in Jones County Leah married Frank Thompson, the father of Dr. Cyrus Thompson, Frank et al.. After the death of Lucy Small, Grandfather Brown married Grandmother Brown, the widow of Jesse Taylor and they had two children, Issac Brown, son of Benjamin Brown and Ruth Brown, his wife, was born Sept. 25, 1773, and died August 4, 1840. Mary Dean, daughter of William Dean and Susanna, his wife, was born March 22, 1780, and died Nov. 8, 1919. Issac Brown and Mary Dean were married Sept. 21, 1885. Susanna Brown was born April 21, 1805. Zachen Brown was born Jan. 9, 1808. Died March 1973. Orpah Brown was born Dec. 12, 1810. Uncle Nacy Brock married Susanna and Orpah. Issac Brown and Lucy Small were married May 31, 1820. Nancy Brown Kinsey was born April 26, 1826. Joseph Kinsey La Grange, N.C.