Notes – Kinard / Kinnard

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A Probable History of the Golden Family
of Newberry, South Carolina Since 1761
Updated 2023.08.07

 

The individuals below may appear in your DNA matches. 

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William and Nellie Golden descendants are DNA matches with the Kinnard family of Newberry, South Carolina. There is no known intermarriage between our families.

Two brothers from the Baden-Wurttemberg, German Keinat (Kinard) family arrived in South Carolina at the very end of 1744, on December 31st. ^[1]Ship: St. Andrew, Captain: Robert Brown Master, Arrival: Charleston SC, Dec 31, 1744 The St. Andrew was destined for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but ship captain Robert Brown believed that French privateers was pursuing his ship so he ported at Charles Town (Charleston, SC) where the immigrants were welcomed. ^[2]Per Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), on page 274: “The papers in … Continue reading The St. Andrew would continue on to Philadephia in January 1745, with advertisements for its continued journey advertised in the The South Carolina Gazette.^[3]https://ieterna.org/1744-voyage-of-st-andrew/

Per DNA: Newberry area Kinard families are 5-8th generation cousins with the Newberry Thomas Golden family that settled the area by 1761. As of early August 2023, our Goldens have DNA matches with four sons and one daughter of the original Kinard immigrant to Newberry: … Michael Kinard, 1754–1839 … Johannes ‘John’ Kinard, 1754–1800 … Martin Kinard, 1756–1846 … and Daniel Kinard, 1765–1820.

Our Golden and Kinnard families lived closely together in the Dutch Fork area of Newberry, South Carolina during the 1770s.

Seeking Land Grants

The land grant petitions of Johannes and Matthäus Keinat (Kinard) both indicate that they came to South Carolina in 1744 on Capt. Brown’s ship, the St. Andrew. Johannes Martin Keinat had 50 acre bounty grants on Crims Creek, and Matthäus Keinat had a 50 acre bounty grant on Cannons Creek. Crims Creek runs south of Pomaria, South Carolina, and Cannons Creek runs north of Pomaria and continues westward into the center of Newberry, South Carolina.

MISC NOTES FIX AND BLEND being evaluated

It is believed that the adopted anglicized name for Johannes Friedrich Kienat / Keynot / Kinard, born 6 July 1726 at Baden-Württemberg, Germany was John Kinard. It is claimed that he arrived at Charles Town (Charleston), South Carolina in 1766 or 1767 ^[4]From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761, as indentifed by Janie Revill in her A Compilation of the Original Lists of … Continue reading

 

These ships and their voyages can be found at https://www.sciway3.net/proctor/ships/SC_ships2.html{[(|fnote_end|)]}

His son was John Kinnard supposedly born Dec 1764 in County Antrim, Ireland, then later drafted into the Revolutionary militia in December 1779 at age 15 to serve under Capt. William Taylor and Colonel Hammond.

Disagreement also exists as to whom John Kinnard Sr was married to: Maria Sophia Le Grome (Lagrone?) or Mary Martin.

>> There is some possibility that our Goldens have a relationship with the Lagrone family. William Moody Golden married Elizabeth Lagrone born at Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina about 1799. Our kinship with William Moody Golden is unknown but DNA matches exist with his descendants.

The first three generations of Kinnards through 1820 are tracked in the William and Nellie Golden Ancestry.com genealogy.

Lee Muller on the Facebook South Carolina Genealogy Families page notes that ‘Of the Keinaths who did make it to Philadelphia, some later migrated to what is now Waynesboro, Virginia. They changed their names to Kiner, Coiner, and Coyner. … The Kinards of Newberry and Chapin are still there, with some descendants in Columbia.‘

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