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Zachaiah MacKay |
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Zachariah MacKay was born about 1714 in New Jersey. He was the son of Robert MacKay and Anne Browne. He migrated to Virginia with his family. He married Lydia Whitson. Deborah MacKay (1737, married Jacob Jobe) In 1739, Zachariah patented 1,200 acres in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1749, Zachariah signed a petition for a road to be opened from Caleb Jobe's plantation, on the south side of the Shenandoah, to his brother, James's plantation on the north side, with a crossing at Brush Bottom Ford. In 1752, when his father died, Zachariah recieved part of his fathe'rs original grant. He refused to act as executor of his father's will because it required making an oath. In 1754, William Whitson bought 400 acres from Zachariah and his brother, James, in Frederick County. On September 2, 1756 Jeremiah Odell, Zachariah, Moses and James MacKay, and John Ridgeway were presented as deliquent to Lord Fairfax at a court martial . From 1756 to 1760 Zachariah's name appeared on the Frederick County militia muster roll in Captain Henry Speak's Company. On June 22, 1768, Zachariah, Moses, Robert and James MacKay, of Frederick County, sold John Lincoln 250 & 600 acres on Linville Creek as part of part of 1,200 acres. In 1779, Zachariah was in Washington County, North Carolina, (now Sullivan County, Tennessee). February 8, 1790
Zachariah died about 1797 in Sullivan County, Tennessee. |
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