Cyrus Kinney

DAR Ancestor #: A065262

Married 10 April 1770 Voluntown, CT Comfort Palmer.

sources:

1. Betty Pond Snyder, DAR, "Pioneer Pond People."

2. Walter Palmer Society Genbealogy pp. 45, 104 and elmer@walterpalmer.com

From: http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ny/onon/dewitt.htm CYRUS KINNE, the progenitor of the Kinne family of this county, was born in Voluntown, Windham County. Connecticut, on the tith of August, 1746, and grew up under the chaste Puritanic influences of a New England home, a young man of excellent habits, which clung to him through life. In the year 1779, having married Miss Comfort Palmer, he moved to Petersburg, Rensselaer County, N. Y. In the city of Troy, in 1791, at a public sale of State lands, now lying in the County of Onondaga, he bid off some of the "survey fifties." His first visit to his lands was on horseback by Indian trails west of Oneida. He was so well pleased with the general appearance of this section of the State, that he immediately bought considerable land adjoining his first purchase. In the month of March, 1792, having disposed of his property at Petersburg, he started with an ox-team, and one horse before a sled, with his four oldest boys, viz: Ezra, Zachariab, Prentice and Ethel for a permanent residence upon his lands.

He experienced great difficulties on his journey, particarly west of Oneida, where he was obliged to cut roads through the dense forests, and cross the streams on fallen trees. About the first of April, he arrived at where Fayetteville now is, and settled on some of the land which he had bought. In the following month of June, he returned to Petersburg, to bring to his wilderness home the remainder of his family. His lands were soon cleared and brought under cultivation. At that time Albany was the nearest market for his surplus products. He gave to each one of his sons, when they married, ico acres of land, lying' in Manlius and adjacent towns. Being a blacksmith as well as a farmer, he did the first blacksmithing in the town of Manlius; and as Justice of the Peace, married the first couple. Perhaps no man was more prominently identified with the early growth and development of the town of Manlius than he. Kind, generous, and humane, he proved one of the most valuable of neighbors and the staunchest of friends. His ten Sons and two daughters, viz: Ezra, Zachariab, Prentice, Ethel, Zebulon, Moses, Joshua, Cyrus, Japbet, Palmer, Rachel and Comfort, reared 84 children who arrived at mature age. He died Aug. 8, 1808, in his 62d year, beloved and respected by all who knew him.