Some Descendants of Mercy Nickerson (William, William, William, William, William) and Heman Kenney of Barrington

  1. Heman Kenney was born on 27 Jun 1753. [YNSG, p. 738] He died on 4 Feb 1796 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738] He married Ruth Doane 23 Nov 1773. [YNSG, p. 738] Ruth, the daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (Osborn) Doane, was born on 7 Apr 1756 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts and died on 27 Sep1835 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738]
    Heman and Ruth lived in Doctor's Cove in Barrington Passage. [YNSG, p. 738]
    1. Abigail Kenney was born on 21 Jun 1775. [YNSG, p. 738] She married Aram Smith. [YNSG, p. 740] Aram, the son of David Smith and Thankful Godfrey, was born on 6 Aug 1770. [YNSG, p. 740]
    2. William Kenney was born on 28 Mar 1777 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 740] He died on 9 Sep 1835 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 740] He married Elizabeth Kendrick on 7 Dec 1797. [YNSG, p. 740] Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Kendrick, was born on 28 Jul 1776 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 740]
    3. Prince Doane Kenney was born on 13 Jan 1780 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 741] He died on 27 Nov 1863 in Argyle. [YNSG, p. 741] He married Susanna Doane on 17 Dec 1801. [YNSG, p. 741] Susannah, the daughter of Israel Doane and Desire Nickerson, was born on 5 May 1782 in Little River. [YNSG, p. 741]
    4. Betsey Kenney was born on 19 Dec 1781 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 741] She married John Kendrick on 9 Dec 1800. [YNSG, p. 741] John, the son of Joseph and Hannah Kendrick, was born on 29 Jul 1778 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 741] He married second Lydia (Covel) Kenney, the widow of Isaac Kenney (Isaac, William). [YNSG, p. 741]
    5. Heman Kenney was born on 1 Jan 1784 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 741] He married Lois Knowles on 18 Dec 1806. [YNSG, p. 741] Lois was born on 24 Oct 1788. [YNSG, p. 741]
    6. Mercy Kenney was born on 4 Feb 1786 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 741] She married John Crowell. [YNSG, p. 741] John died on 17 Apr 1835. [YNSG, p. 741]
    7. Daniel Kenney was born on 3 May 1788 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738] He drowned off of Cape LaHave in Oct 1807. [YNSG, p. 738]
    8. Ruth Kenney was born on 25 Jul 1790 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 742] She married John Crowell. [YNSG, p. 742] John, the son of Eleazer and Mary Crowell, was born on 20 Mar 1784. [YNSG, p. 742]
    9. Susannah Kenney was born on 2 Jun 1792 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 7428] She died on 26 Aug 1821 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 742] She married Solomon Lewis on 26 Sep 1811. [YNSG, p. 742] Solomon, the son of John Lewis and Rebecca Crowell, was born on 13 Mar 1791 and died on 20 Mar 1873 in Port Matoun. [YNSG, p. 742]
    10. Isaac Kenney was born on 23 Apr 1794 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738] He died on 27 Jan 1796. [YNSG, p. 738]
    11. Jedidah Kenney was born on 4 Apr 1796 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738] She died on 6 Oct 1798. [YNSG, p. 738]
  2. Isaac Kenney was born about 1755. [YNSG, p. 738] He died on 2 Feb 1829 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738] He married first Sarah Godfrey of Liverpool on 10 Jul 1775. [YNSG, p. 738] She died on 5 Sep 1815 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738] He married second Mary (Perry) Duncan, the widow of David Duncan of Hillsdale, Columbia, New York and the daughter of Capt. Edward Perry of Port LaTour. [YNSG, p. 738]
    Isaac lived in North East Point on Cape Sable Island. [YNSG, p. 739] He was a merchant and vessel owner. [YNSG, p. 739]
    1. Heman Kenney was born on 10 Jul 1776. [YNSG, p. 739] He drowned in boyhood. [YNSG, p. 739]
    2. Mehitable Kenney was born on 26 Jun 1778 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 743] She died on 8 May 1847 in Little River, Argyle. [YNSG, p. 743] She married Israel Doane on 30 Mar 1797. [YNSG, p. 743] Israel, the son of Israel Doane and Desire Nickerson, was born on 7 Jun 1775 in Barrington and died on 20 Jun 1866 in Little River. [YNSG, p. 743]
    3. Nancy (Ann) Kenney was born on 14 Oct 1781 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 739] She died on 6 Aug 1864 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 743] She married Nehemiah Doane on 10 Jan 1799. [YNSG, p. 738] Nehemiah, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Doane, was born on 24 Mar 1776 in Barrington and died on 22 Feb 1851 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 738]
      1. Irene Doane was born on 17 Jul 1818 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 744] She died on 16 May 1915 in Barrington. [TSAC] She married Joseph Atwood Kendrick on 11 Jul 1819. [YNSG, p. 744]
    4. Joseph Kenney was born on 8 Jun 1783 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 744] He died on 24 Sep 1815. [YNSG, p. 744] He married Mary Smith on 16 Dec 1806. [YNSG, p. 744] She died on 30 Oct 1815. [YNSG, p. 744]
      1. Mary Smith was born in Nov 1811 in Barrington and died in 1901 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 747] She married Eaton Crowell Kenney (Nehemiah, Heman) on on 31 Dec 1828. [YNSG, p. 747] She married second Reuben Smith. [YNSG, p. 747]
    5. Isaac Kenney was born on 21 Sep 1785. [YNSG, p. 739] He died in infancy. [YNSG, p. 739]
    6. Isaac Kenney (twin) was born on 23 Sep 1787 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 744] He married Lydia Covel in Dec 1809 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 744] Lydia, the daughter of Jonathan Covel and Parnel Gardner, was born on 1 Nov 1792 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 741] She married second John Kendrick. [YNSG, p. 741]
    7. James Kenney (twin) was born on 23 Sep 1787 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 739] He married Elizabeth McLearn on 16 Nov 1810. [YNSG, p. 744] Elizabeth, the daughter of James McLearn of Port Matoun, died on 2 Nov 1882. [YNSG, p. 744]
    8. Sarah Kenney [YNSG, p. 739]
    9. Polly Kenney was born in 1792. [YNSG, p. 739] She died in 1815. [YNSG, p. 739]
    10. Heman Kenney was born on 3 Nov 1796. [YNSG, p. 739]
    11. Mercy Kenney was born on 1 Jan 1798. [YNSG, p. 739] She died unmarried. [YNSG, p. 739]
    12. John Kenney was born on 19 Jan 1800. [YNSG, p. 739] He married Mary Unknown. [YNSG, p. 739]
      John and Mary lived and died in Ohio, USA. [YNSG, p. 739]
    13. Joanna Kenney was born on 16 Jul 1819. [YNSG, p. 739] She married James Creighton. [YNSG, p. 739]
    14. David Kenney was born on 4 Feb 1821. [YNSG, p. 739]
  3. Gamaliel Kenney was born about 1760. [YNSG, p. 738] He married Mary Hopkins on 25 Nov 1780. [YNSG, p. 739]
    1. John Kenney was born on 15 May 1781. [YNSG, p. 739]
    2. James Kenney was born on 1 May 1783. He died on 10 Sep 1785. [YNSG, p. 739]
    3. Isaac Kenney was born on 12 May 1785. [YNSG, p. 739]
    4. Sarah Kenney [YNSG, p. 739]
    5. Gamaliel Kenney [YNSG, p. 739]
    6. Esther Kenney married Robert Colin McKinnon on 29 Jun 1818. [YNSG, p. 739] Robert, the son of John McKinnon and Letitia Piggott, was born in 1792 in Shelburne. [YNSG, p. 739]
    7. Elizabeth Kenney married Daniel Goodwin of Argyle on 13 Jan 1824. [YNSG, p. 739]
    8. James Kenney was born on 5 Oct 1797. [YNSG, p. 739]
  4. Mercy Kenney died on 31 Mar 1818 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 739] She married Eleazer Crowell [VRBA] on 15 Nov 1781. [YNSG, p. 739]
    1. John Sheat Crowell was born on 20 Mar 1784. [YNSG, p. 739] He married Mary Kenney
      1. Charlotte Crowell was born on 1 Mar 1811 in Barrington. [TSAC] She married Joseph Atwood on 27 Dec 1832 in Barrington. [TSAC]
    2. Daniel Crowell was born on 17 Sep 1788 [YNSG, p. 739] in Barrington. [VRBA] He died on 30 Nov 1876 in Atwood's Brook in Barrington. [TSAC] He married Temperance Atwood on 14 Jan 1813 [HBT, p. 435, only gives the year] in Barrington. [VRBA] Temperance and Daniel are buried in the old Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [TSAC]
  5. Betsey Kenney was born on 20 Oct 1763. [YNSG, p. 738] She married Bartlett Gardner in 1779. [YNSG, p. 739] Bartlett, the son of Simeon Gardner and Sarah Long of Nantucket, was born on 18 Dec 1758 and died on 7 Jun 1838. [YNSG, p. 739]
    Bartlett and Betsey moved from Barrington to Chebogue in 1797. [YNSG, p. 739]
  6. Sarah Kenney was born on 8 Sep 1865. [YNSG, p. 738] She died unmarried. [YNSG, p. 738] She was insane. [YNSG, p. 738]
  7. Susanna Kenney was born on 28 Jun 1767. [YNSG, p. 738] She married Moses Nickerson on 28 Jun 1767. [YNSG, p. 739] Moses, the son of Richard and Sarah Nickerson of Chatham and Barrington, was born on 20 Jul 16[7?]69 in Barrington and died on 6 Jul 1817 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 739]
    1. William Nickerson was born on 17 Apr 1789. [YNSG, p. 739] He married Sarah Kenney. [YNSG, p. 739]
      1. Sarah Godfrey Nickerson was born on 11 Nov 1816 in Barrington. She died on 24 Sep 1887 in Doctor's Cove. She married first her first cousin Richard Armstrong Hopkins on 17 Jan 1838 in Barrington. [TSAC] She married second as his second wife James Atwood on on 13 Feb 1875 in Port La Tour. [TSAC]
    2. Polly Nickerson was born on 12 Apr 1794 [YNSG, p. 739] in Barrington. [TSAC] She died in Shag Harbour. [TSAC] She married Edward Hopkins on 27 Dec 1814 in Barrington. [TSAC]
      1. Richard Armstrong Hopkins was born on 5 Jun 1816 in Barrington. He died on 12 Mar 1868 in Wood's Harbour. He married his first cousin Sarah Godfrey Nickerson on 17 Jan 1838 in Barrington. [TSAC]
  8. Nehemiah Kenney was born on 20 May 1769 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 740] He married Ruth Crowell on 22 Jan 1792. [YNSG, p. 740] Ruth, the daughter of Ansel Crowell and Jedidah Doane, was born on 19 Jan 1775. [YNSG, p. 740]
    1. Mary Kenney was born on 7 Nov 1793. [YNSG, p. 740]
    2. Tabitha Kenney was born on 20 Sep 1795. [YNSG, p. 740] She died young. [YNSG, p. 740]
    3. Jedidah Kenney was born on 11 Mar 1798. [YNSG, p. 740] She married Nehemiah Nickerson on 27 Mar 1828. [YNSG, p. 740]
    4. Sarah Morton Kenney was born on 5 Aug 1801. [YNSG, p. 740]
    5. Eliza Kenney was born on 14 Aug 1803. [YNSG, p. 740] She married Simeon Nickerson on 16 Dec 1824. [YNSG, p. 740]
    6. Eaton Crowell Kenney was born on 10 Jan 1806 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 747] He married Mary Jane Kenney (Isaac, Heman) on 31 Dec 1828. [YNSG, p. 747]
      1. William Kenney was born on 4 Nov 1838 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 747] He died on 25 Aug 1904 in Barrington. [YNSG, p. 747] He married Hattie Ann Atwood. [YNSG, p. 747] (Presumably Hattie is a nickname for Mehitable.)
      2. Delina Kenney was born on 6 Oct 1843 in Barrington. [TSAC] She died on 26 Jun 1925 in Barrington. [TSAC] She married Alvin N. Atwood. [TSAC] [YNSG, p. 747]
    7. Jerusha Kenney was born on 7 Jan 1809. [YNSG, p. 740] She died unmarried. [YNSG, p. 740]
    8. Susanna Kenney was born on 2 May 1811. [YNSG, p. 740] She married Joseph Nickerson on 24 Jul 1823. [YNSG, p. 740]
    9. Leonard Kenney was born on 4 Mar 1813. [YNSG, p. 740] He married Priscilla Nickerson on 8 Jan 1835. [YNSG, p. 740]
    10. William Kenney was born on 10 Jul 1815. [YNSG, p. 740] He died in Quincy, Massachusetts. [YNSG, p. 740] He married Catherine Manning of county Cork, Ireland. [YNSG, p. 740]
  9. Daniel Kenney was born on 23 Dec 1771. [YNSG, p. 738] He married Esther Goodwin. [YNSG, p. 738]
    Daniel lived in Argyle. [YNSG, p. 738]
  10. Elizabeth Kenney was born on 15 Dec 1773. [YNSG, p. 738] She married Elias Banks. [TSAC] [YNSG, p. 740] Elias died in 1837. [YNSG, p. 740]
    1. Hannah Banks was born on 17 May 1796 [YNSG, p. 740] in Barrington. She died before 1828 in Argyle. [TSAC] She married James Spinney on 31 Dec 1823 [YNSG, p. 740] in Barrington. [TSAC]
  11. Mary Kenney was born on 14 Aug 1775. [YNSG, p. 738] She died on 15 Apr 1869. [YNSG, p. 738] She married Aaron Spinney on 21 Mar 1792. [YNSG, p. 738] Aaron, the son of John Spinney and Joanna Roberts of Kittery, Maine and Argyle, was born on 8 Jan 1878 and died on 21 Jan 1836. [YNSG, p. 738]

References

YNSG Brown, George S., Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genealogies, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.
HBT Crowell, Edwin, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, 1604-1870, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, unknown.
VRBA No Author, Barrington & Argyle, Nova Scotia Vital Records, Online Database, AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.
TSAC Smith, Tom, Public member story posted by tomsmith140 on ancestry.com.