1. Alternate place of birth for Abraham: Minisink Valley, Deerpark, Suffolk, Orange County, New York, but since he was christioned at Kingston it is more likely he was born at Kingston too.
2. Revolutionary Service of Abraham Kuykendall has been accepted by the D.A.R. as Civil Service rather than Military Service. As a civil servant, Abraham was a member of the Safety Committe ofr Tyron County, formed 26 Jul 1775 (See Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. 10, Page 120; also see Vol 22, page 820. Shortly after the Revolutionary Ward began, Abraham was appointed as a Commissioner of Tryon County to build a Court House, Prison, Stocks, and to establish a boundary line betweenTyron and Mecklenburg Counties by authority of Laws of North Carolina, Vo. 20, Cap. 12, Page 964. He also served as Justice of The Peace, Tryon County 17 Dec 1778. The History of Old Tryon and Rutherford Counties by, C. W. Griffin on page 10 says that he was a Captain of the Militia for Tryon County, and pges 31, 32, & 33 of this History shows Captain Kuykendall on duty as a Captain on and after July 1776.
3. On an undated list of Petitioners published in the Bulletin Genealogical Society of Old Tryon Co., NC Vol. XXIV November 1996 Number 4 Titled "We are all Become One People Again" from N C General Assembly Session Records, November-December 1796. The Petition is a number of inhabitants of Rutherford County for the purpose of repealing a British Law which was in existance prior to the Revolution, as a means of peace and harmony in the County. It includes a number of Old Abraham Kuykendall's sons and son-in-law and grandsons. Listed as such known by me ar the following: Jacob Kuykendall, Abraham McMinn, Robert McMinn, Abraham Kuykendall, James Kuykendall, JNO Kuykendall, Capt. Peter Kuykendall, and others known by me to be related to the Kuykendall families are Samuel Young (wife Elizabeth Kuykendall) son-in-law of Abraham Kuykendall's brother Peter Kuykendall, Isaac Vinzan, brother-in-law of Abraham Kuykendall, Jr. {Posted by Betty Kuykendall Price}
3. Alternate place of death: Buncombe County, North Carolina, and buried in the Mud Creek Cemetery...per Wanda H. Arnold, 3409 58th, Lubbock, TX 79413, Family Group Sheet dated 1994.
4. In the 1803 Census Abraham was listed living alone (widower) with (7-8) slaves.
5. Since Abraham & Elizabeth married in 1843 some seven years prior to the first known child, it is now speculated that there were other children that may have been born and died from any number of things such as Indian raids & etc.
1. The surname is unproven....It could be Burleson, Jones, or Van Zandt....lots of research needed.
1. No proof except family tradition.
1. No proof except family tradition.
1. Not proven....just family lore.
1. Jacob Shipman, Sr. was in Tryon County, North Carolina in Oct 1772, where he received payment for wolf scalps.
2. He enlisted as a Private in Quinn's Company of the North Carolina Milita 10th Regiment NC INF Rev War, commanded by Col. Abraham Sheppard. 20 Jul 1778.
3. He was in Tryon County, North Carolina in 1782 and received payment for wolf scalps again.
4. He was in the Sandy Run Baptist Church in 1782.
5. He was in the Tax Polls in 1785 in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
6. He was found in the 1790 Census in Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Listed between Robert McMinn and Daniel Shipman, Jr. on the census]
7. Other Sources: Beverly Lancaster....
Red Anthony reports that one file gives wife of Jacob as Sarah Jane McMinn, while another shows the name of Sarah J. Gage. [Maybe these Sara(h)'s are the same person]8. The Abraham Kuykendall D.A.R. Chapter of Henderson County, North Carolina placed a plaque on Jacob Shipman's tombstone at Ebenezer Baptist Church 23 Aug 2003. The tall tombstone is a Memorial Marker for his service, but, no one knows exactly where he is buried. There was no church there in 1794.
9. Noma Lee McMinn Taylor sent this copy of Arbutus Hughes writings of his opinions, research, and arguments on the wives of Jacob, of which, I will try to type it verbatum:
Jacob Shipman's Wife
The wife of Revolutionary soldier, Jacob Shipman was Sarah Kuykendall, a daughter of Abraham Kuykendall and his first wife Elizxabeth.
Explantation:
1794-95 - Jacob Shipman died in Rutherford County, N.C., about the time the county lines were re-drawn, placing his newly acquired tract of 300 acres of land in Buncombe County in the section which later became Henderson County. (See land grant)
1795. Jacob's widow, Sarah, sells the 300 acre tract to Jacob's brother, Edwrd Shipmand (Buncombe County deed book 3, page 13). The deed was witnessed by Abraham Kuykendall and Joseph Hardin.
1796 Edward Shipman inters a grant for 150 acres of land "a little below where Abraham Kuykendall lives, including some logs that James Burleson had cut for a cabin" James Burleson was husband of Jacob and Sarah Shipman's only daughter, Elizabeth.
1801 Another grant to Edward Shipman is described as adjacent ot his own land. Cite of these tracts of land, including the 300 acre tract of Jacob Shipman, and Abraham Kuykendall's land are described as "on the waters of Mud Creek - one says "near the fork of Little Mud Creek".
Jacob Shipman was undoubtably living on his 300 acre tract when his will was made 9 Nov. 1794 and proved Jan. 1795. He had use of the land from the time of the entry date, 1791.
1814 Franklin County, Tenn and Buncombe County, N.C., Buncombe County Deed Book H - pg. 354/7 (deed was proved and recorded in Buncombe Co., stating that grantars were residents of Franklin County, Tenn)
Identified in the deed as legatees of Abraham Kuykendall, Dec'd, and selling land in Buncombe County to Samuel King, are James, John, Simon Kuykendall, and George Saellin (Saillin, Sayllin--all three spellings are used in the deed). The only way George Saillen could be a legatee of Abraham Kuykendall was through his wife's inheritances as a daughter of Abraham. Jacob Shipman's widow, Sarah, had married George Saling in Kentucky a few yers after Jacob's death. So Jacob Shipman's wife was Sarah Kuykendall, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth, who, as Jacob's widow had married George Saling (various spellings of the name)
At that time, women's property rights were severely restricted by law. Husbands became owners of a wife' property at marriage, and handled sale of such property, received and handled sales of any estate legacies, etc. Even when bequests were made specifically to a daughter in a will, estate records usually mentioned the husband as receiver of the bequest. Sometimes the daughter's name was included, sometimes not. George Saillin (Saling) was acting for his wife, Sarah Kuykendall Shipman Saling in the sale of this land.
Note on the deed: The middle page of my copy of this deed is missing. It would have described the tract of land, and could possibly contain more family information. A small note on the right hand morgin of the first page of the deed states that page 354 is continued on page 357. That missing page can probably be obtained from Buncombe County Register of Deeds or State Archives.
Incidentally, Samuel King, grantee of the above deed was administrator, as one of the administrators of Abraham's estate.
In the past, George Saling's name on this deed has been misinterpreted because of porblems with the handwriting. It has been read as Luellin, Luevallin, or some other way, when, in fact, the first letter of the name in the deed is an "S" instead of an "L". The name is spelled three different ways in the deed--Saellin, Saillin, and Sayllin. Of the pronunciation there can be no doubt. George Saling's name was spelled phonetically, a usual practice back then. Handwriting and spelling by legal and court clerks, typicall, at the time, left a lot to be dsesired. The name's ending in "n" instead of "g" is also typical of the times. The spoken language then, and even today in the South, more often than not would drop the final "g" in a word ending with "ing", such as somethin', nothin' or goin'. I still do so myself. Even when people were litterate enough to spell the name correctly, in speaking it, would drop the "g". This was probably the case when George Saling pronounced his name to the clerk.
If this seems long-winded, please excuse it, as the only way my reading of this deed can be explained.
At the time this deed was made, proved, and recorded, 1814-15-17, the old book by Daniel Shipman, Frontier Life, places the Saling family in Franklin County, Tenn. Traveling with Daniel Shipman and his family group were "Old Aunt Sarah Saling, her husband, and sons Daniel and Abraham Shipman by her first husband.
When the deed was proved in court, the signatures of the Kuykendall brothes were verified by the two witnesses. George Saling's was verified by his wife (no name given).
The source of the belief that Edmund or Samuel McGuffee (most say Edmund) was the husband of Sarah Kuykendall I have not been able to pin down. There is contradicting and vague information that would serve no purpose here.) Good luck to McGuffee descendants and researchers!
This is a summary of what I think places Abraham Kuykendall's daughter Sarah as wife of Jacob Shipman. Everyone is entitled to conclusions of their own.
Arbutus HughesOne additional note:
The children of Jacob and Sarah Kuykendall Shipman were given Shipman and Kuykendall names:
(1) Elizabeth, their only daughter, name-sake of Sarah's mother, Abraham's first wife.
(2) John
(3) Edward
(4) Abraham
(5) Daniel
(6) Isaac
(7) Jacob
(8) Simon
(9) James
(10) MatthewOne theory about Jacob's wife which has been passed on to me states that he married first a Gage, who died one month after the marriage, that then he married Sarah McMinn. There is no proof or even evidence of those two as his wives, only
"somebody said it".
1. Sarah moved to Kentucky after Jacob's death.
2. She was named in the 1814 deed with John, James, and Simon Kuykendall as legatees of Abraham.
3. She and her husband George went to Franklin County, Tennessee, by 1814.
4. Proof: Book "H" pages 354-57 Buncombe County, North Carolina, estate settlement of Abraham Kuykendall, where her husband George Saling is acting in her behalf.
5. References from Beverly Lancaster Shipman.
6. Roy Aaron Shipman reports that the parents of all these children are Abraham McMinn, born 1719 in New York, died around 1778 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the mother was Elizabeth Van Zandt....Where is he proof?
1. There is no known record of George & Sarah ever having children.
1. Alternate possible Surname: Lueller.
2. George Sallen, brother-in-law, of James Kuykendall, John Kuykendall, and Simon Kuykendall, all of Franklin County, Tennessee, legatees of Abraham Kuykendall, deceased conveys unto Samuel King of Buncombe Co., NC 500 acres on Mud Creek, 400 on the North side and 100 on the South side. Witnesses Bazel B. Edmundson and Jeremiah Taylor (husband of Elizabeth King, da/o Samuel and Elizabeth (underwood-Davenport) King.)
1. Sarah moved to Kentucky after Jacob's death.
2. She was named in the 1814 deed with John, James, and Simon Kuykendall as legatees of Abraham.
3. She and her husband George went to Franklin County, Tennessee, by 1814.
4. Proof: Book "H" pages 354-57 Buncombe County, North Carolina, estate settlement of Abraham Kuykendall, where her husband George Saling is acting in her behalf.
5. References from Beverly Lancaster Shipman.
6. Roy Aaron Shipman reports that the parents of all these children are Abraham McMinn, born 1719 in New York, died around 1778 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and the mother was Elizabeth Van Zandt....Where is he proof?
1. Jacob Shipman, Sr. was in Tryon County, North Carolina in Oct 1772, where he received payment for wolf scalps.
2. He enlisted as a Private in Quinn's Company of the North Carolina Milita 10th Regiment NC INF Rev War, commanded by Col. Abraham Sheppard. 20 Jul 1778.
3. He was in Tryon County, North Carolina in 1782 and received payment for wolf scalps again.
4. He was in the Sandy Run Baptist Church in 1782.
5. He was in the Tax Polls in 1785 in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
6. He was found in the 1790 Census in Rutherford County, North Carolina. [Listed between Robert McMinn and Daniel Shipman, Jr. on the census]
7. Other Sources: Beverly Lancaster....
Red Anthony reports that one file gives wife of Jacob as Sarah Jane McMinn, while another shows the name of Sarah J. Gage. [Maybe these Sara(h)'s are the same person]8. The Abraham Kuykendall D.A.R. Chapter of Henderson County, North Carolina placed a plaque on Jacob Shipman's tombstone at Ebenezer Baptist Church 23 Aug 2003. The tall tombstone is a Memorial Marker for his service, but, no one knows exactly where he is buried. There was no church there in 1794.
9. Noma Lee McMinn Taylor sent this copy of Arbutus Hughes writings of his opinions, research, and arguments on the wives of Jacob, of which, I will try to type it verbatum:
Jacob Shipman's Wife
The wife of Revolutionary soldier, Jacob Shipman was Sarah Kuykendall, a daughter of Abraham Kuykendall and his first wife Elizxabeth.
Explantation:
1794-95 - Jacob Shipman died in Rutherford County, N.C., about the time the county lines were re-drawn, placing his newly acquired tract of 300 acres of land in Buncombe County in the section which later became Henderson County. (See land grant)
1795. Jacob's widow, Sarah, sells the 300 acre tract to Jacob's brother, Edwrd Shipmand (Buncombe County deed book 3, page 13). The deed was witnessed by Abraham Kuykendall and Joseph Hardin.
1796 Edward Shipman inters a grant for 150 acres of land "a little below where Abraham Kuykendall lives, including some logs that James Burleson had cut for a cabin" James Burleson was husband of Jacob and Sarah Shipman's only daughter, Elizabeth.
1801 Another grant to Edward Shipman is described as adjacent ot his own land. Cite of these tracts of land, including the 300 acre tract of Jacob Shipman, and Abraham Kuykendall's land are described as "on the waters of Mud Creek - one says "near the fork of Little Mud Creek".
Jacob Shipman was undoubtably living on his 300 acre tract when his will was made 9 Nov. 1794 and proved Jan. 1795. He had use of the land from the time of the entry date, 1791.
1814 Franklin County, Tenn and Buncombe County, N.C., Buncombe County Deed Book H - pg. 354/7 (deed was proved and recorded in Buncombe Co., stating that grantars were residents of Franklin County, Tenn)
Identified in the deed as legatees of Abraham Kuykendall, Dec'd, and selling land in Buncombe County to Samuel King, are James, John, Simon Kuykendall, and George Saellin (Saillin, Sayllin--all three spellings are used in the deed). The only way George Saillen could be a legatee of Abraham Kuykendall was through his wife's inheritances as a daughter of Abraham. Jacob Shipman's widow, Sarah, had married George Saling in Kentucky a few yers after Jacob's death. So Jacob Shipman's wife was Sarah Kuykendall, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth, who, as Jacob's widow had married George Saling (various spellings of the name)
At that time, women's property rights were severely restricted by law. Husbands became owners of a wife' property at marriage, and handled sale of such property, received and handled sales of any estate legacies, etc. Even when bequests were made specifically to a daughter in a will, estate records usually mentioned the husband as receiver of the bequest. Sometimes the daughter's name was included, sometimes not. George Saillin (Saling) was acting for his wife, Sarah Kuykendall Shipman Saling in the sale of this land.
Note on the deed: The middle page of my copy of this deed is missing. It would have described the tract of land, and could possibly contain more family information. A small note on the right hand morgin of the first page of the deed states that page 354 is continued on page 357. That missing page can probably be obtained from Buncombe County Register of Deeds or State Archives.
Incidentally, Samuel King, grantee of the above deed was administrator, as one of the administrators of Abraham's estate.
In the past, George Saling's name on this deed has been misinterpreted because of porblems with the handwriting. It has been read as Luellin, Luevallin, or some other way, when, in fact, the first letter of the name in the deed is an "S" instead of an "L". The name is spelled three different ways in the deed--Saellin, Saillin, and Sayllin. Of the pronunciation there can be no doubt. George Saling's name was spelled phonetically, a usual practice back then. Handwriting and spelling by legal and court clerks, typicall, at the time, left a lot to be dsesired. The name's ending in "n" instead of "g" is also typical of the times. The spoken language then, and even today in the South, more often than not would drop the final "g" in a word ending with "ing", such as somethin', nothin' or goin'. I still do so myself. Even when people were litterate enough to spell the name correctly, in speaking it, would drop the "g". This was probably the case when George Saling pronounced his name to the clerk.
If this seems long-winded, please excuse it, as the only way my reading of this deed can be explained.
At the time this deed was made, proved, and recorded, 1814-15-17, the old book by Daniel Shipman, Frontier Life, places the Saling family in Franklin County, Tenn. Traveling with Daniel Shipman and his family group were "Old Aunt Sarah Saling, her husband, and sons Daniel and Abraham Shipman by her first husband.
When the deed was proved in court, the signatures of the Kuykendall brothes were verified by the two witnesses. George Saling's was verified by his wife (no name given).
The source of the belief that Edmund or Samuel McGuffee (most say Edmund) was the husband of Sarah Kuykendall I have not been able to pin down. There is contradicting and vague information that would serve no purpose here.) Good luck to McGuffee descendants and researchers!
This is a summary of what I think places Abraham Kuykendall's daughter Sarah as wife of Jacob Shipman. Everyone is entitled to conclusions of their own.
Arbutus HughesOne additional note:
The children of Jacob and Sarah Kuykendall Shipman were given Shipman and Kuykendall names:
(1) Elizabeth, their only daughter, name-sake of Sarah's mother, Abraham's first wife.
(2) John
(3) Edward
(4) Abraham
(5) Daniel
(6) Isaac
(7) Jacob
(8) Simon
(9) James
(10) MatthewOne theory about Jacob's wife which has been passed on to me states that he married first a Gage, who died one month after the marriage, that then he married Sarah McMinn. There is no proof or even evidence of those two as his wives, only
"somebody said it".
1. Sara only lived one month after her marriage to Jacob.
1. Daniel & his half brother David moved to Bladen County, North Carolina. On 27 Apr 1767 a 200 acre land grant was issued to Daniel Shipman and was recorded in Mecklinburg County, North Carolina.
2. In 1770 Daniel was in Rutherford County, North Carolia, where he was appointed Lieutenant of the Malitia and purchased land.
3. Daniel Shipman is listed on the rolls of Sandy Run Baptist Church in 1782. This church is located in the little town of Mooresboro now in Cleveland County, North Carolina.
4. Public Records show sale of 200 acres to Daniel Shipman on both sides of Sandy Run and North side of the Broad River. File 2036, Book 23, Page 40.
5. He owned Land Grant on 9 Apr 1770 in Tryon County, North Carolina.
6. Public Records show Daniel Shipman bought 100 acres on both sides of the middle fork of Sandy Run of Broad River, File 255, Book 20, Page 562.
7. Daniel witnessed a deed where the buyer was Abraham Kuykendall, and this is where the Kuykendall family became neighbors to the Shipman's.
8. He is found on Tax Listing in 1785 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Listed with sons, Daniel Jr. and Edward Shpman.
9. He appeared on the Census in 1790 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. It shows Daniel with a wife, a boy under 16 years of age and 2 slaves in his household. It is thought that they were living on Phoeby's 100 acres that she bought back in 1788.
10. He signed Marriage Bond in 1797 in Warren County, Kentucky, for his daughter Hannah to John Reed.
11. WARREN COUNTY KENTUCKY Deed BOOK 1, p. 53-55. Be it remembered that on the eighth day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Eight that Daniel SHIPMAN, Senior Dec'd as he lay sick on his bed though in his perfect mind and memory not having an oportunity of a written will made and apointed this his perfect will in the Distribution of his Property, Viz: One negro man named Dick and one negro woman named Beck with two gildings called Dick and ______ with twenty pounds due to the above named Daniel SHIPMAN from one of his Daughters which said twenty pounds to be and remain in his hands until a Division of the above mention is brought to an Equal Division between his oldest children, to wit, Sarah HARRINGTON, Edward SHIPMAN, the heir of Jacob SHIPMAN, Anner Lee, Daniel SHIPMAN, Lucrecy GAGE who owes the above twenty pounds, Feby CRAWFORD, Rebecca SISCOE and Mary JOHNSON. About 1735.
12. Daniel Shipman, his brother Joseph and their half brother David Gage came to America together. Joseph and David lived for a while in New Jersey near the New York state border. However, Daniel seems to have moved to Pennsylvania where so many other Germans had moved. Daniel is believed to have moved from Pennsylvania and joined his half-brother in Lunenberg County, Virginia about 1739.
13. Daniel left a will proven 13 Nov 1798 in Warren County, Kentucky.
1. A descendant of this Margaret in 1975 stated she thought this Margaret was a sister to Elizabeth and that the Shipman's came through Virginia to North Carolina. {No actual proof as to who the parents of Margaret or Elizabeth are} Note from Noma Lee McMinn Taylor....
1. Presumed in the Loyal Militia Georgia.
1. This wife [name unknown] probably died while Thomas was in the Revolutionary War.