Josiah Kenney

1706 - 1737  (30 years)

• Name	Josiah Kenney  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	12 Feb 1706	Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Jan 1737	Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts   [6]
  Person ID	I33744	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John Kenney,   b. 15 Aug 1689, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
  Mother	Mary,   b. 1676   d. Aft 1736 (Age > 61 years)
  Family ID	F19890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deborah Towne,   b. 16 Aug 1707, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts d. 16 Oct 1732, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 25 years)
  Marriage	1 May 1729	Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts   [6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Kenney,   b. 15 Dec 1729, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts d. 15 Feb 1816, Jaffrey, Cheshire, New Hampshire (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F19885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Josiah Kenney appears in the Topsfield town records as born 12 Feb 1706, a son of "John jr. and Mary". From this we can reasonably conclude that his father was a John Kenney/Kinney/Kinne/Kene (etc.), his mother a Mary, and his paternal grandfather another John Kinney/Kenney/Kinne/Kene. From this, various people have come to a wide variety of conclusions. Wikitree makes Josiah's father the John Kennee who is recorded in Salem town records as born 15 Aug 1689, son of John. The elder John, his father, is said by Wikitree to have been the John Kenne who appears in Salem records as "s. Henry" and who married Elizabeth Looke on 17 Jun 1675. It is further asserted that the husband of Elizabeth Looke was the John Keny who appears in Salem records born 1651 as son of Henry and Ann.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4161] Some Ancestral Lines: Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and His Wife Martha Pamelia Meyers by Raymon Meyers Tingley. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1935. [S5381] The Descendants of William Towne, Who Came to America on or about 1630 and Settled in Salem, Mass. by Edwin Eugene Towne. Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1901., "J. Kinney". [S5389] Find a Grave page for Mary Kenney Mower. [S5393] Richard Mower of Lynn and Some of His Descendants by Edward Leodore Smith. East Jaffrey, New Hampshire: The Monadnock Press, 1904. [S7423] Marion A. MacDonald, "The Richard Mower Family of Lynn." The Essex Genealogist 16:195, 1996; 17:40, 1997. [S3421] Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903. [S5381] The Descendants of William Towne, Who Came to America on or about 1630 and Settled in Salem, Mass. by Edwin Eugene Towne. Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1901., date only.