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Descendants Of Peter Kinzey

And Sarah Gilleland, Part III

By Cathy Wood Osborn

The following compilation is based on information gained from: 1) “Colorado County Chronicles,” Volume 1 and 2, compiled by the Colorado County Historical Commission in 1986; 2) “The Tree and the Vine,” by Patricia Gilleland Young and L. Richard Scoggins (Caldwell, Texas: The Gilleland Endowment, 1993); 3) “The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association,” Vol. 7, No. 1, July 1903, p. 29; 4) census records; and 5) web sites:

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ (keywords “Gilleland,” “Kuykendall,” and “Williams”)

http://www.bchm.org/Gene/d0000/g0004491.html

http://www.tennkin.com/d0/i0003079.htm ([email protected])

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/l/Billy-F-Polk/FILE/0017page.html http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history/footnote/notes%20part%201.htm http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v001/n2/001002108.html.

http://tonefamily.com/books/HistoryToneFamilyHTML/History%20of%20the%20Tone%20Family%20%28HTML%29.htm#_Toc21071775

http://www.dsloan.com/Auctions/A6/Lots_21-30.html

This article updates previously published articles in Kinsey / Coskrey Update (See Vol. X, No. 1, March 2000, p. 470-473 and Vol. X, No. 3, September 2000, p. 494-495

Our group of researchers continues working toward identification of all Kinseys who were early residents in Texas. The subject of this update, Peter Kinzey, is one of those settlers. In the process of placing these people accurately within families, it is hoped that the siblings and ancestry of our own Thomas Kinsey, Sr. will be discovered, thereby adding to our information base. Peter Kinzey has not been connected to another Kinsey family at this time, but more information has been gathered about him and the persons with whom he associated in Matagorda, Milam, Bell and Williamson Counties, Texas, so an update is justified.

According to “1830 Citizens of Texas,” by Gifford White, Peter Kinzey was aged 35 when he arrived in Texas, so he was born about 1795. His daughter’s census record (1900 Wilson County, Texas) indicates that he was born in South Carolina. His surname is spelled variously as is that of our Thomas Kinsey, Sr.

Peter’s migration dates and routes from South Carolina are not yet known, but his path probably resembles that of our Thomas Kinsey, Sr., i.e. South Carolina, to Georgia, to Tennessee and Alabama, to Mississippi, to Arkansas, to Texas. Because the given name of “Peter” is very common in the Kinsey families of South Carolina and Georgia in the 1790s and early 1800s, it is reasonable to be suspicious that this Peter is related closely to Peter Kinsey Sr. who is found in Pendleton District, South Carolina as early as 8 Nov 1790 where his name was drawn for a petit jury. Our Thomas is certainly connected to this Peter Kinsey, Sr., if not a direct descendant, so it is a fair conclusion that the subject of this sketch is very likely related to our Thomas Kinsey Sr.

Peter arrived in Texas in 1830, and he is shown with the occupation of a carpenter. The Handbook of Texas considers Peter Kinzie as one of Austin’s Old Three Hundred colonists, stating that he had land on the Colorado River. Other sources do not afford him this distinction.

Having an early land grant on the Colorado River does not qualify him as one of Austin’s Old Three Hundred. Strictly speaking, anyone arriving after the summer of 1824 is not considered to be of the Old Three Hundred. He later received First Class Headright Certificate #58 for one league and one labor of land (the allotment for

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