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About Lieutenant John Ian Mishnish Mackinnon
Lieut. John MacKinnon
Born about 1720 in Mull, Argyll, Scotland [uncertain]
Son of Iain na Mishnish MacKinnon and Anne (MacDonald) MacKinnon
Brother of Ranald MacKinnon
Husband of Jean (Paterson) MacKinnon — married 22 Aug 1739 in South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
Husband of Sarah (Unknown) MacKinnon — married 1763 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Died 7 Jan 1774 at about age 54 in Tusket, Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Biography (wikitree)
John MacKinnon was born circa 1720 (based on the date of his marriage). He was the eldest son of Iain (John) MacKinnon of Mishnish, Mull, Scotland, and Anne MacDonald, the daughter of Donald 14th Chief of the Macdonalds of Clanaranald by his second wife Margaret daughter of John MacKenzie of Kildun.
John MacKinnon was likely born in Erray House, Mishnish, Isle of Mull. Boswell and Johnson stayed at Erray House (still extant) in 1773, Johnson described it as ‘a strange confused house built by Mackinnon the proprietor about sixty years ago’.
On 22 August 1739, John MacKinnon married Jean Paterson in Scotland and had children, including:
1. John, Jr, born May 13, 1740, who married Margaret Afflex (widow of Major Afflex) in 1782. John Jr joined the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment and served as Captain throughout the American Revolutionary War and died a Major. (Note the Major John MacKinnon noted in the Yarmouth genealogies refers to Lt. John MacKinnon's nephew, rather than his son.
2. Margaret Elphinstone, born Greenock, Renfrewshire, 1 Sept 1745; d. Glasgow, 30 Nov 1789.
3. Martin, born 25 Jan 1749, who married Sarah Stevens of Cheggogin, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Martin joined the Black Watch and was a Sergeant when he died at Manchester about 1815, leaving a son Cyrus Martin.
4. Jean, born Greenock, Renfrewshire, 5 Aug 1750, who married 1769 Alexander Jack.
5. Norman, born circa 1756, who visited Yarmouth in 1784 but returned to England where he married and had children
6. James, who probably died young.
7. Vaughan, a daughter. And possibly other daughters.
Jean (Patterson) MacKinnon died on 28 April 1759, in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland.
John Mackinnon remarried Sarah Perry of Argyle, and had children, including:
1. Robert born in 1764 who married Mary Trefy and died in Jamaica on 11th November 1803.
2. William born in 1766 who died at Chegoggin in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 22nd October 1849.
John joined the Black Watch and then transferred to the Montgomery Highlanders on 16th September 1758, and was rewarded for his service with a large grant of land in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1767, when the lands of the township were granted, he received five shares (4,690 acres); and his four sons, John Jr, Martin, Norman and James, received one share each, in the aggregate 3,588 acres. John settled at Rockville, on Chebogue Point.
The histories note that John and his wife Sarah raised an orphan, Alexander Bain, who may (or may not) have been the son of a fellow soldier of the MacKinnon brothers.
In 1767 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and the township records show he participated in the decision-making, including 'assisting in the grant of township'. Specifically, when the township grant was delayed, John travelled to Halifax and brought the grant back with him.
On January 7, 1774, John and his wife were drowned in the Tusket Island Sluice while he and his wife were on their way to visit his brother Ranald at Argyle. He was buried in the Chebogue Cemetery. At the time, there were few roads in Yarmouth and all travel was by road. According to Campbell, this accident helped to spur on the construction of a safer transportation system. The news of John MacKinnon's death was noted in his diary by Simeon Perkins in Liverpool, Nova Scotia on Friday March 11, 1774.
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Lieutenant John Ian Mishnish Mackinnon's Timeline
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1720
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Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, UK
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| 1740 |
May 13, 1740
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Erray House Mishnish Estate , Mull Scotland
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September 1, 1745
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Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
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January 25, 1749
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Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland
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August 5, 1750
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Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
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January 1, 1753
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Scotland, United Kingdom
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1756
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Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
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1757
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Inverness-shire, Scotland
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1761
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