Mary Jane Clinkenbeard

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He married (1) [JANE?] LINN 1754 in Pennsylvania, probably at Conolloway Creek, Cumberland (now Fulton) County64,65, daughter of WILLIAM LINN and JANE ADDIS. She was born about 1735 in (Northampton Township, Bucks [now Northampton] County?), Pennsylvania66, and died 1763 in Ayr Township, Cumberland [now Fulton] County, Pennsylvania67,68. He married (2) HESTER VAN METRE 1764 in (probably) Shepherdstown, Frederick County, Virginia69. She was born about 1745, and died about 1815 in Clarke County, or Bourbon County, Kentucky70,71.

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Jane?) Linn, the daughter of William and Jane (Addis) Linn, was born during the reign of King GEORGE II in about 1735, probably in Northampton, Bucks (now Northampton) County, Pennsylvania, where her maternal grandparents, John and Mary (Walton) Addis had settled in 1719 after moving from England. That Miss Linn's Christian name may have been "Jane" is conjecture arising from the fact that both her mother and her father's sister bore that name. It was probably at Connolloway Creek, Cumberland (now Fulton) County that (Jane?) married in 1754 William Clinkenbeard, born in 1725, died in 1824, the son of John and Anne(?) Clinkenbeard. Following their marriage, the couple set up housekeeping on the plantation of Mrs Clinkenbeard's father at Connolloway Creek. There, on 9 July 1755, the couple's first child, John, was born. With the beginning of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), in which the Indians were allied with the French against the British, Indian attacks on the British frontier settlements became frequent. On Thursday, 26 February 1756, less than a year after John's birth, the Indians perpetrated a savage attack on the Linns and Clinkenbeards and other British families who had sought refuge in Fort Combes (pr. cooms), four miles south of the town and William Linn's plantation. Mrs Clinkenbeard's brother, John Linn, aged thirteen, was killed, and another brother, Thomas Linn, was scalped and left for dead. Permanently blinded, he was subject to seizures for the rest of his life. Yet another brother, Isaac Linn, aged seventeen, was kidnapped and kept captive by the Indians until he escaped 11 years later.[a] (Please see the full account of the attack in "Indian Attack on Fort Stoddert" in Chapter 20: The LINN Family of Scotland and Ulster.) Mrs Clinkenbeard, probably without adequate apparel when the attack came in the dead of winter, apparently fled into the forest with her seven-month-old son, John. According to her son Isaac Clinkenbeard, the tragedy contributed to her death seven years later following the birth of her fourth child: "At the time of this attack, my mother had just had a child [John]. The necessity of flight caused an excitement, which ultimated, tho' (perhaps) not for several years, in her death. Caught cold, & never got over it till she died."[b] Mrs Clinkenbeard's youngest son, William, later reported: "I was the youngest child but one, and it died. Can't remember my mother at all. Perhaps I was not more than two years old when she died."

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