robertmackayclan

Posted: **2:10 PM - Jan 02, 2010**

Frederick Co. VA Book 53,495, dated 15 Feb 1828, probated 3 Mar 1828 Daniel Sowers indebted to John Kerfoot for $382.37 used as collateral his slaves: Charles, David (boy) & Lucy (girl).

I believe this Daniel was Daniel Alfred Sowers, son of the said James & Elizabeth (Kerfoot) Sowers.

Listed on 1860 Slave Schedule on Frances Sowers

50 years female black
35 years mulatto female
35 years female black
90 years male black
25 years female black
25 years male black
13 years mulatto female
5 years black female

Said Frances E. Sowers (widow of George K. Sowers) used three slaves as collateral named as: Harmon, Peter & Charity, date 23 Feb 1860

Posted: **4:31 PM - Jan 24, 2010**

Copied down the following census information.

John D. Ferguson--1 male 10-15,1 male 15-20,1 male 70-80, 1 female 15-20, 1 female 50-60

John D. Ferguson Jr.--1 male under 5, 2 males 20-30,1 female 20-30

John J. Johnson--2 males 5-10,1 male 40-50, 1 female under 5, 1 female 10-15,1 female 15-20,1 female 40-50

F.J. Kerfoot--1 male 5-10,1 male 20-30,1 female 5-10,1 female 20-30

George L. Kerfoot--1 male 5-10,1 male 40-50,3 females under 5, 1 female 5-10,1 female 10-15, 1 female 20-30

John Kerfoot--1 male 20-30,1 male 70-80,1 female 10-15, 1 female 15-20,2 females 20-30,1 female 40-50,1 female 60-70.

Wm. C. Kerfoot--1 male under 5, 1 male 5-10,1 male 30-40,1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10,1 female 20-30

D.W. Sowers--1 male under 5, 1 male 20-30,2 females under 5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 20-30.

Daniel A. Sowers--1 male 30-40, 1 female 5-10,1 female 15-20, 1 female 20-30

Fielding L. Sowers--1 male 20-30, 1 male 50-60,2 females 15-20,1 female 40-50

George K. Sowers--2 males 5-10,1 male 10-15,1 male 40-50, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10,1 female 20-30

J.A. Sowers--1 male 10-15,2 males 20-30--no females listed

James Sowers--1 male 60-70,1 female 20-30,1 female 60-70

James H. Sowers--1 male 15-20,1 male 40-50,1 female 15-20,1 female 30-40

Elizabeth Strother--1 male 5-10,2 males 30-40,1 female 5-10, 1 female 70-80

Enoch Strother--1 male under 5, 3 males 5-10,1 male 10-15,1 male 40-50,1 female 5-10,1 female 30-40,1 female 60-70

John Strother--2 males under 5, 2 males 30-40,1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10,1 female 20-30, 1 female 30-40

All of the above household also had slaves given if they existed in the households, but I did not copy that information.

On Friday I am going to look at the listing of slaveowners as of 1860, I am interested in the ones possessed by my ancestor Thomas B. McKay.

David McKay's slave listed on the 1850 Page Co. VA Slave Schedule: 25 year old black female

Used as collateral to secure debts in Page Co. VA in 1859 David McKay's three slaves named as Pegy (woman), Febel (woman) & Gill (man)

We have from family information recorded on page 65 of my McKay Book that David McKay had a driver but no name given. Could be said Gill.

For 1860 Slave Schedule none listed.

As I go through Shenandoah Co. VA land deeds I will be looking for various McKay family purchase or gifting of slaves.

Posted: **4:20 PM - Jun 25, 2010**

Eli Lehew's children: Jonathan Branson, Ann Elizabeth (would marry T.B. McKay), Charles Edwin & Francis Wesley guardian report found in Warren Co. VA Will Book B, his slaves: Newton, Sarah & child (not named) & Maria & child (not named) hired out and monies used to support the above orphans.

Their step-mother Ann Van Nort lived in Front Royal on Chester Street, where said Ann E. Lehew married Thomas Buck McKay. According to the 1850 slave schedule she owned two slaves: female 23 years of age & a male two years of age. I would assume these were her dower slaves and not included in the two sets of mother & child slaves.

I do not know if any of these slaves became part of the McKay slaves or not. If researchers are interested in slaves owned by the Lehew family. Some of the above slaves could have lived in Hampshire, Shenandoah/Page & Warren counties of VA.

Shenandoah Co. VA Land Deed Book CC, 440, dated 20 Dec 1823,22 Dec 1823--Spencer Lehew used slaves: Molley, Mary Ann, Sampson, Daniel, Alfred & Harriet as collateral to secure his debt due to Farmer Bank of VA for $129.

Further information about him found on my Lehew Book page 53, he started to sell all his property by 1823 and removed to Hamilton Co. OH. I have not found a record of him selling the above slaves, but perhaps some thing will turn up later.

He was the brother of Moses Lehew (father of Eli, father my ancestor Ann Elizabeth who married T.B. McKay), said Moses & Spencer the sons of Spencer Lehew Sr.

Spencer Jr.'s wife was a member of the Catlett family of the area and some of the above slaves could have come from her family.

I do not think they would be related to the slaves held by Moses to Eli Lehew.

My end game is to figure out how my ancestor Thomas Buck McKay came by the slaves he held in 1850 & 1860.

Posted: **3:18 PM - Apr 19, 2014**

Found Land Deed Book 36,301, dated 4 Jul 1814, probated 3 Aug 1814, John Humston of Frederick Co. VA sells his slave named Harry for $500 to Jacob MCKAY JR.

I will be watching later land deed in the hope I can tie this slave Harry with our known Jacob McKay Jr. (who married Elizabeth Antrim) or was this Jacob McKay (son of Jacob McKay Sr. who removed to OH).

I do not remember when Quakers were told to free their slaves or leave the Society of Friends.

Shenandoah Co. VA Will Book Q, page 209 estate sale of George Kniseley dated 30 Dec 1830, buyer of the sale a
Jacob McKay who purchased one pan for 69 cents.

The question is was this Jacob McKay (huband to Elizabeth Wright) or his son Jacob McKay (husband to Elizabeth Antrim).

Posted: **4:20 PM - May 30, 2015**

Eli Lehew's children: Jonathan Branson, Ann Elizabeth (would marry T.B. McKay), Charles Edwin & Francis Wesley guardian report found in Warren Co. VA Will Book B, his slaves: Newton, Sarah & child (not named) & Maria & child (not named) hired out and monies used to support the above orphans.

Their step-mother Ann Van Nort lived in Front Royal on Chester Street, where said Ann E. Lehew married Thomas Buck McKay. According to the 1850 slave schedule she owned two slaves: female 23 years of age & a male two years of age. I would assume these were her dower slaves and not included in the two sets of mother & child slaves.

I do not know if any of these slaves became part of the McKay slaves or not. If researchers are interested in slaves owned by the Lehew family. Some of the above slaves could have lived in Hampshire, Shenandoah/Page & Warren counties of VA.

As of 5/30/15 I have collected 12 Family Finder Kits who descend from Peter Lehew and Frances Allen. By line: Winifred Lehew (3 kits), Wm. (1 kit), Francis (4), Spencer (mine line, Michael and one other)and John (1 kit).

In the 1980's I exchange "letters" something which researchers no longer do, but a Mr. Lehew of OH I am sure would have done a Y marker test. I have lost touch with him. I had three or four very good researchers from the line of Winifred Lehew who married into Owen family.

I wish we had been doing DNA then, but that chance is gone.

The closest Lehew male linked to my line of Lehew: Ann Elizabeth Lehew who married T.B. McKay, had four brothers all buried Prospect Hill Cemetery of Front Royal, Warren Co. VA. One brother had no issue and the other had only a daughter. So I am looking to reach out to any male descends of Charles Edwin Lehew who married Annice Buck (daughter of John Gill and Eliza (McKay) Buck. So also a distant McKay cousin.

robertmackayclan

Clarke Co. VA 1840 Census