Elias Newkirk

married and located near Louisville, Kentucky. Descendants of, in Ohio and Kentucky.

   Elias, was baptised Oct 21, 1722 at the Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, Ulster County, New York. His parents were listed as Barent Nieuw-kerk and Rebekka Van Buntschooten. Witnesses & Sponsors were: Elias Van Buntshooten and Catrina Keyser.[1] [2] Numerous spelling variations are found for the surname which reflect its Dutch origin, however Elias and his descendants used the Newkirk spelling.

Marriage
Lacking accurate documentation for the births of Elias' children the names of only two wives are known Sara Lounsbury and Mrs. Susannah Johnson. Some researchers have speculated there might have been others but recent DNA test results show a descendant of Elias' daughter Mary Newkirk (born 1775) shares significant matches with Lounsbury descendants. (see DNA Sources below)
He married first Sara Lounsberri (sic Lounsberry), 1746 Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York [3]
He married his second wife about 1789 in Kentucky. She was Mrs. Susannah Johnson, the widow of Jacob Johnson or Johnston. [4][5]
This deed from Montgomery County, Kentucky in 1833 shows proof of the possible marriage between Elias Newkirk and Mrs. Susannah Johnson. Susanna Newkirk was selling the 160 acres of land in Crawford Co. Ill. that she inherited from her son, John Johnson, deceased. John had died interstate of Cholera the year before. Susanna sold the land for $1.00 for love and affection to her son Jacob. Susanna's signature was her mark (X) and was witnessed by Johnathan Masterson and Thomas Johnson. At the time Susannah Newkirk resided in Montgomery County, Kentucky near Grassy Lick on land adjoining her son David Johnson and Uriah Wilson whose wife, Mary Newkirk was the daughter of Elias Newkirk. [6] That Elias was also in the Grassy Lick area is shown in 1808, when Elias Newkirk and Richard Newkirk witnessed a deed for a land sale on Grassy Lick Creek on the boundary between Montgomery and Bourbon County, Kentucky. [7]
Another indication there was a marriage between Elias and Susannah was the marriage record for Rachel Johnson, daughter of Susanna Newkirk, who married 1795 in Clark Co. Ky to Abraham Conrad. Elias Newkirk was the bondsman.
Residence, Tax Lists and Census
Elias' name appears on the List of Tax-Payers of the original town of Fishkill, Dutchess County, NY: Newkerk, Elias, 1754-1761. [8]
He was living in Yohogania County, Virginia by 1773 on Lick Run a branch of Big Redstone Creek. This property was mentioned as a boundary in a court case (Walter Briscoe vs Edward Todd) [9]
The area of Yohogania County that Elias was living in in 1773 eventually became North Union Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania about 1783. One of the earliest land records in 1768 was for Walter Briscoe for a tract on Big Redstone Creek. Eventually on 15 June 1773, Hugh Crawford purchased a plantation of 200 acres on Lick Run, a branch of Big Redstone Creek. At that time listed as owning land adjacent to Crawford were John Allen and Elias Newkirk. [10][11]
Another History of Washington County, Pennsylvania mentions several members of the Newkirk family settled large tracts of land amounting to nearly nine hundred acres located along Pigeon Creek and north of the present village of Bentleyville near what became the boundary between Fallowfield and Somerset Townships. [12]
Elias received 400 acres of land, Jefferson Co., KY 1781 awarded to the earliest settlers of KY by the Virginia Assembly as compensation for the losses they suffered in the fighting the British and Indians during the Revolutionary War. [13] [14]
Some of the Newkirks were living in Kentucky by 1790 at Jacob Mooney's Station on Floyd's Fork of Salt River. It was there that Tobias Newkirk was shot by Indians. [15]
1790 tax list Jefferson Co., KY Elias Newkirk. [16]
Elias Newkirk is on the first tax roll for Clark Co KY in 1792 and continues on the lists through 1799. Both Uriah Wilson (Elias' son-in-law) and Elias Newkirk appear on the tax roles of Clark Co in 1795. They were probably in the western part of Clark (originally part of Bourbon) that was split off to form Montgomery Co in 1797.
Elias Newkirk (1 white male over 21;1 white male 16-21; 4 horses) is found on the tax list in 1800 Montgomery County, Kentucky. [17]
Elias Newkirk was on the Montgomery County, Kentucky tax list 23 August 1808 with 1 white male over 21; 1 white male 16-21; 4 horses.
In the 1810 census for Montgomery County Kentucky Elias Newkirk (age 45 & upwards) is head of a household on page 380.[18]
He was almost 100 years old when he was listed as head of household on the 1820 US Census for Montgomery County, Kentucky. There were two males in his household age 45 and over. This was the last record found for him. [19]
Military
During Lord Dunmore's War in 1774 Elias Newkirk served 176 days as a Sergeant in Capt Henry Hougeland's Company on the frontier of Virginia and Pennsylvania.[20]
On 3 October 1775 in West Augusta, Augusta, Virginia he hired a horse to use for his military service and later put in a public service claim for it. Also with him on the same day and putting in claims were: Henry Hougland for horse hire; Jas. Houghland for horse hire; and Wm. Houghland for horse hire. Two of Elias' sisters (Jemima and Jane) had married Houghlands. [21]
He served another tour of duty during the Revolutionary War in Capt Henry Graham's Militia Company, Elias Newkirk, Pvt, 4th Class 29 September 1781 Washington, Pennsylvania. [22]
Elias Newkirk along with James Hoagland, Caleb Wallace, and Carney Havery are mentioned as among the men who served with George Rogers Clark in his Northwestern Indian campaigns. [23]
Church Records
In Washington County, Pennsylvania, 14 February 1782 in an area that today includes North Fayette Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania residents banded together to sign a religious agreement. Among the 114 signers was Elias Newkirk. This seems to indicate he was part of the "Low Dutch Colony" that was being organized in Jefferson County, Kentucky under the leadership of some of the Dutch families from Conewago in York County, Pennsylvania and Berkeley County, Virginia. [24]
In 1804, Elias Newkirk was chosen as a representative of the North Cane Creek Baptist Church (location uncertain but probably Montgomery County, Kentucky) to attend the annual meeting of the North District Association held at Providence Meeting House [4][5] in Clark County, Kentucky. [25]
Sources

       ↑ Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Special No. The Van Nieukirk, Nieukirk, Newkirk Family, Philadelphia, Pa., 1934-- "Some Descendants of Gerrett Cornelisse & Mattheus Cornelisse Van Nieukirk" p 27

       ↑ Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston, New York, and Roswell Randall Hoes. Baptismal and marriage registers of the old Dutch church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York: (formerly named Wiltwyck, and often familiarly called Esopus or 'Sopus), for one hundred and fifty years from their commencement in 1660. New York: Printed for the editor by the De Vinne Press. 1891. p 143 #3052.

       ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly), 1942, selected extracts Publisher:New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. New York, NY. Page: 228

       ↑ Ohio County, West Virginia Will Abstracts, Jacob Johnston, 29 Nov 1786

       ↑ Bell, Raymond Martin. Estate records, 1781-96, and deed records, 1782-85, in Washington County, Pennsylvania Washington, Pa.: unknown, 1967.

       ↑ Montgomery County Kentucky Deed Book 16, p. 390, July 15, 1833 Susanna Newkirk to Jacob Johnson

       ↑ Francis Smith of Virginia to Joshua Smalley of Bourbon County, KY Deed Book 5, pp. 14-16 June 19, 1809

       ↑ "Eighteenth Century Records of the portion of Dutchess County, New York that was included in the Rombout Precinct and the original Town of Fishkill," collected by William Willis Reese, President of the Dutchess County Historical Society and edited by Helen Wilkerson Reynolds, from Collections of the Dutchess County Historical Society, Volume 6, 1938. Published by the Society. [1]

       ↑ Minutes of Court of Yohogania County, Page 152

       ↑ Ellis, Franklin. History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. 1882. p 671

       ↑ Fayette County, Pennsylvania Deed Book A, p 20, 51; Book C, p 52

       ↑ Crumrine, Boyd, Franklin Ellis, and Austin N. Hungerford. History of Washington County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. Philadelphia: H.L. Everts & Co. 1882. p792, 932

       ↑ Early Kentucky Settlers, The Records of Jefferson County, Kentucky From the Filson Club History Quarterly, Gene. Publishing Co, 1988.

       ↑ Jefferson County, Kentucky County Court Minute Book A (1781 - 1783) Pages 14, 15, and 16."

       ↑ State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Lyman Copeland Draper, and Mabel Clare Weaks. Calendar of the Kentucky papers of the Draper collection of manuscripts. Madison: The Society. 1925. John D. Shane interview with Silas J. Slaughter, Illinois. n.d. 15 CC 232. Jacob Mooney's Station on Floyd's Fork of Salt River; the Newkirks; A. Hoagland and Tobias Newkirk shot by Indians.

       ↑ Heinemann, Charles B. First census of Kentucky, 1790 (1940; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Pub., 1965) [FHL Book 976.9 X2ph 1790; Film 1440537 Item 17

       ↑ Clift, Garrett Glenn , Second Census of Kentucky : a privately compiled and published enumeration of tax payers appearing in the 79 manuscript volumes extant of tax lists of the 42 counties of Kentucky in existence in 1800 (1954; reprint, Baltimore, Genealogical Pub., 1966) [FHL Book 976.9 X2p 1800; Film 390838

       ↑ "United States Census, 1810 Montgomery County, Kentucky", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2P-JF3 : 1 December 2015), Elias Newkirk, p 380.

       ↑ 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Montgomery, Kentucky; Page: 275; NARA Roll: M33_25; Image: 155.

       ↑ Page 50 of the Pittsburgh Payrolls from 1775. A copy of the original roll can be found in the Library of Virginia [2]

       ↑ Library of Virginia---PUBLIC SERVICE CLAIMS - WEST AUGUSTA 1775 Page 41. http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/Microfilm/DW/001/00167.tif

       ↑ PA Archives 6th Series Vol II, 1906, Muster Rolls Relating to the Associators and Militia of the County of Washington (PA) Fourth Battalion Washington County Militia.Page 134 4th Class: Elias Newkirk. Also listed on this same page are Jeremia Willson, Uriah Willson and Jacob Johnston.

       ↑ Clark, George Rogers, and James Alton James. George Rogers Clark papers: 1771-1781. Springfield, Ill: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library. 1912. Letters August 1783, Frames 109-125. 18 397-11-735-736- May 17, 1783: Second document Faded names: James Hoagland, [Caleb] Wallace, Elias Newkirk?, Carney Havery.

       ↑ Creigh, Alfred. History of Washington County from its first settlement to the present time first under Virginia as Yohogania, Ohio, or Augusta County until 1781, and subsequently under Pennsylvania, with sketches of all the townships, boroughs, and villages, etc. ; and to which is added a full account of thhe celebrated Mason and Dixon's Line, the Whiskey Insurrection, Indian warfare, traditional and local historical events. Harrisburg, Pa: B. Singerly, Printer.1871. p 48, 49.

       ↑ Allen, Martin O. John Allen Family, Slate Creek, Montgomery County, Kentucky. Bloomington, IN. 2015, p 79 Minutes of the North District Association of Baptists Saturday, October 6th 1804 Held at Providence Meeting House in Clarke County List of Messengers to the annual North District Association meeting chosen by each member church: North? Cane Creek Elias Newkirk, Robert Scott, Wingate Jackson. [3]

See also:
Newkirk, Adamson. The van Nieuwkirk, Nieukirk, Newkirk Family. Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA., 1934. p 27. [6]

   U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989

   Kentucky, Tax Lists, 1799-1801

   1810 United States Federal Census

Elias Newkirk Biography

1722 - 1782

New York - Kentucky