James Kinnear and Nancy Atchison

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Husband James Kinnear ¹

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         Father: William Kinnear (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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       Marriage:  - Ireland

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Wife Nancy Atchison ¹

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - James Kinnear

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In his youth he became a faithful and zealous member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, so much so that in order to redeem time to go to meeting, he worked by moonlight on the farm. In consequence of his religious views he suffered much persecution; even his father was sorry to see him pursue this course and expostulated with him from time to time, but all in vain, and finally told him to leave the Methodist Church or his house.
On leaving his father's house he went to the north of Ireland, and was married there to Nancy Atchison. Soon afterward, to escape persecution, they came to America and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was before the Revolutionary War.
He became a merchant in Philadelphia and did well financially; he was in business about forty years. He and is wife had several children but only a son, William, lived to a mature age. This son was very proficient at school; his penmanship was scarcely inferior to copper plate. The officers of the Bank of North America, in Philadelphia, were so much pleased with him that they persuaded his father to take him from school and they employed him as a clerk in the bank where he continued for eight or ten years. This sedentary avocation, however, brought on consumption, of which he died in Philadelphia. After his death Mr. and Mrs. Kinnear moved to Centre County, Pennsylvania, where he died in peace at his home. About fifteen years later his widow departed this life at the home of Thomas McClelland. They had long been faithful members of the Methodist Church. This branch of the Kinnear family was then extinct.
He had no correspondence with his relatives in Ireland until after the Revolutionary War, when he wrote to them and presented motives for them to come to America, and many of them as did.

1 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 233.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 284.

3 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 625.