Thursday, April 4, 2013

Cunninghams of Washington County, Tennessee

1780 William Cunningham (son of James Cunningham) moved from Guilford County, North Carolina to Washington County, Tennessee. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

Cunninghams of Bedford County, Tennessee

1829 William Cunningham moved from Alabama to Bedford County. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1832 William Cunningham applied for his Revolutionary War pension and stated he had been born in County Dongegal, Ireland on 2 Feb. 1748 and that he entered service in July 1776 in Guilford County, North Carolina. In about 1780 he moved to Washington County, Tennessee on the Nolichucky River. in 1817 he moved to Alabama. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1840 Mathew Cunningham died. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1852 Jan. Elizabeth Cunningham applied for pension based on the Revolutionary War service of her deceased husband, Mathew Cunningham (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

Cunninghams of Orange County, North Carolina

1762 Dec 21 James Nichols land grant adjoined land of James Cunningham and William Mateer located in Orange County in the southeast corner of now Rockingham County near the mouth of Rose Creek. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1768 William Cunningham was on the tax list listed with the John Clark household. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1793 Mathew Cunningham and Elizabeth Galbreath were married. She inherited land in Tennessee from her father, William Galbreath(Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1800 Oct 17 Mathew Cunningham inventoried the estate of William Galbreath. Later records werein Guilford County. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

Cunninghams of Rockingham County, North Carolina

1762 Dec 21 A land grant was issued to James Nichols for a tract of land in Orange County on Haw River adjoining the land of James Cunningham and William Mateer. The land was located in the southeast corner of now Rockingham County near the mouth of Rose Creek.(Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

Cunninghams of Guilford Co., North Carolina

1762 March 8 John Cunningham Sr. made a will in Rowan County, NC that was probated July 1762 in that county. His lands were later in Guilford Co., NC. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1763 July 13 the Rowan County court ordered Thomas Donnell, William Denny, Hugh Brawley and George Hamilton to lay off and value one acre of land belonging to the orphans of John Cunningham. The land was on the South Fork of Haw River, also called Reedy Fork.(Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1771 Dec 31 William Cunningham married  Martha Blair in Guilford County. He was born 2 Feb 1748 County Donegal, Ireland and died 15 April 1842 in Benton Co., Alabama. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1774 Aug. 16 Jane Cunningham, daughter of John Cunningham Sr., married William Wilson.(Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1776 July William Cunningham entered service in the Revolutionary War and was discharged Nov. 1776. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1780 James Cunningham obtained a state grant of 640 acres on the waters of Reedy Fork, adjacent land of Thomas Blair and Edward Loney. This was located near the present Forsyth County line, adjacent to Beaver Creek. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1781 Margaret Cunningham Work was widowed when John Work died. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1783 Sept. 1783 Margaret Cunningham, the widow of John Work, married Patrick McGibboney (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1785 John Cunningham Jr. sold a part of the land he had inherited from his father, John Cunningham Sr)  (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1786 Jan 24 John Cunningham and Margaret Donnell were married (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1791 Sept 24 James Cunningham made a will witnessed by Drury Peoples and Edward Loney. He mentioned children William Cunningham, Elizabeth BurneyJeremiah Cunningham, Matthew Cunningham and Isabelle Cunningham. His land was to be divided between sons Jeremiah and Mathew. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1792 Nov 29 Isabelle Cunningham married Robert McQuiston in Guilford County. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1795 Aug 24 Jeremiah Cunningham married Hannah Coots in Guilford County. He was born July 1760 in Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania and died 24 Aug. 1834 in Guilford County. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1797 March 13 John Cunningham and Mary (McMurray) Mitchell were married (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1798 Feb 29 John Cunningham son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Coots) Cunningham was born. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1798 Oct 23 Mathew and Elizabeth Cunningham sold their land to Robert Bell, 304 acres on Reedy Fork that Mathew inherited from his father, James Cunningham. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1799 Sept 16 Mathew Cunningham son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Coots) Cunningham was born. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1801 March 25 Betsy Cunningham daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah (Coots) Cunningham was born. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1801 May 20 Mathew Cunningham and Jams McMurry were appointed by the court to settle the estate of William McGahey. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1807 James C. Cunningham son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Coots) Cunningham was born.
(Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1820 John Cunningham made his will (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1821 Jan 24 John Cunningham Jr died and was buried in the Buffalo Church Cemetery. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1832 March 12 Jeremiah Cunningham wrote a will that wasn't probated. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1834 Aug 16 Jeremiah Cunningham wrote a second will that was later probated. He mentioned wife, Hannah, and children: Mathew, William, James C., Elizabeth Love and Jane Roberts and son-in-law John Roberts. He mentioned the Tennessee estate of John Cutes, his father-in-law.(Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1836 May The will of Jeremiah Cunningham was probated. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

1840 Dec Patrick McGibboney died naming John Cunningham as executor of his will. At the time of death, McGibboney was entitled to a large pension as a result of his service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Before McGibboney's estate was fully settled, Cunningham died. In his own will Cunningham named Samuel Mitchell and Irwin Donnell as his executors and they administered his estate without realizing that there was a McGibboney estate that they were also responsible for administering. When they discovered this fact some time later, they declined to handle the McGibboney estate and the court appointed David McGibboney as executor and Peter Adams to collect the Revolutionary War pension for the McGibboney estate.

1860 April Hannah (Coots) Cunningham died.(Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

Cunninghams of Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

1760 July Jeremiah Cunningham (twin)was born. He was the son of James Cunningham. In his pension record he said his family moved to North Carolina when he was very young. (Pension application cited in The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91, article by Donald Simpson)

1760 July Mathew Cunningham (twin) was born. He was the son of James Cunningham. (Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson, The Guilford Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91.)

John Cunningham Sr. of Guilford County, North Carolina

Guilford County Pioneers: The Cunningham Family by Donald R. Simpson was published in Volume 27, No. 4, Fall 2000, Issue No. 91 offers some corrections to the profiles of the John Cunningham  outlined in History of Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Her People by Rev. S.M. Rankin, published about 1934.

John Cunningham Sr. made a will on 8 March 1762 that was probated in Rowan County Court in July 1762. In it he left property to his wife Isabelle Cunningham and his daughters Margaret Cunningham and Jane Cunningham except for his clothing which he left to George Finley. He mentioned that if his wife, Isabelle, was with child and it be a son, he would inherit all lands, tenements and one-fourth of his moveable estate. If it be a daughter, she would have one-fourth of all his goods, chattels, lands and tnements. Executors were his wife, Isabelle, Thomas Donnell and William Denny. The will was witnessed by Robert Erving, Francis Tharp & Adam Beard.

The court of Rowan County, North Carolina ordered that Thomas Donnell, William Denny, Hugh Brawley and George Hamilton identify one acre belonging to the orphans on 13 July 1763. The land was located on the South Fork of the Haw River, to Boyd's Mill located on the Reedy Fork.

The documented children of John Cunningham Sr.  are

1. Jane Cunningham born about 1756, married to William Wilson bond 16 Aug. 1774, Guilford County.

2. Margaret Cunningham born about 1754-57, married first to John Work, probably about 1770-75  and married second to Patrick McGibboney, bond 16 Sept. 1783 Guilford County

3 John Cunningham Jr. born about 1762, died 24 Jan. 1821 Guilford County and married first to Margaret Donnell, bond 20 Mrach 1786, Guilford County, married second to Mary (McMurray) Mitchell, bond 13 March 1797 Guilford County and married third to Mary Finley bond 28 Dec. 1818 Guilford County.

William and Jane (Cunningham) Wilson may have moved to Pendleton Co., South Carolina