Surnames: Zinn, Alaway, Parker
I am trying to identify the forebears of a Hannah Zinn, who was born on
2 Jan 1793 in Pennsylvania, married Haynes Parker, and died on 27 Dec
1876 in Cass Co, MI.
I have tentative information that Hannah may have been a descendant of
the Jacob and Catherina Zinn of Cocalico Twp mentioned in your message,
through their son, George Zinn who, I am led to believe, had married
Martha Alaway in 1773.
Do you -- or do others on this list -- have information that might be
helpful in confirming or refuting this possible relationship? I would
be very grateful for any information.
Stan Heginbotham
On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:23 PM, mblowe(a)morganco.net wrote:
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Surnames: Zinn, Linck, Link
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
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Message Board Post:
Patricia
It is my own quite personal hunch that your Jacob Zinn (b. ca 1723
and buried in Lancaster Co PA) and my ggg grandfather John Zinn are
somehow related. According to his application for a Revolutionary War
veteran’s pension, my ancestor John Zinn was born in Berks Co PA in
1763 and was taken by an uncle John Link at age 12 first to .Augusta
Co VA and then to Ruddle’s Station Kentucky, where in March 1780
enlisted in the militia. In June the Indians under British leadership
captured the Fort, and the inhabitants including John Zinn and his
uncle John Link and family were taken by the Indians to Detroit, and
in the case of the Link family to Canada. We have no other information
as to his Zinn family. He stated that he had not seen his father since
leaving PA. There is no mention of a mother, so that I wonder if he
was not partially an orphan.
We do have information however on his Uncle John Linck, and also
connections between this Uncle John Linck and Jacob and Catharine Zinn
of Cocalico Twp of Lancaster Co PA.
The British kept records of non-captive displaced families such as a
family they list as John and Margaret Linck, and children which
include a son John who would have been born in 1769. All this
information matches a baptismal record of Rev. John Waldschmidt at
Epler German Reformed Church of the baptism on 25 March 1770 of John a
son of John and Margaret Linck.
Rev. John Waldschmidt recorded two entries in regard to Jacob and
Catherarine Zinn. First, in 1756 he baptized their son John Jacob in
Cocalico Twp of Lancaster Co. And in Berks Co in 1770 (the same year
that he baptized my John Zinn’s first cousin John Linck Jr. he records
Jacob and Catherine Zinn in the same church at Epler’s in Berks Co as
being sponsers at the baptism of a John Jacob Hauser.)
We also have evidence of a connection between another uncle of my ggg
grandfather John Zinn, Martin Linck, and Jacob Zinn of Cocalico Twp.
My John Zinn’s Uncle John Linck settled after the war in Virginia.
Thus in Pendleton Co WV Deed Book Records 1788-1815 Estate
Settlements one finds the following: On 7 March 1796 his widow
Margaret as the “widow and relict of John Link, deceased et al convey
to “Jacob Link, power of attorney to execute to Jacob Zinn, Lancaster
Co. Martin Link, a brother of John, has conveyed one share of the
land, but no title has yet been made for John’s part.”
The 1790 US Census for Lancaster Co PA shows a listing for a Martin
Link and a Jacob Zinn, Jr. to be on adjacent lines. (Separated by a
single other surname on the same cencus page are George Zinn and
another Jacob Zinn.)
If John and Catharine Zinn of Cocalico Twp had a son John baptized in
1756, on the face of it they could hardly be the parents of a John
Zinn born in 1963. It seems probable to me that they were related in
some other way.
That the same families belonged to the same church in Berks Co, and
transacted property to one another as neighbors in Lancaster Co. may
be coincidental. My hunch however is that there is one extended
family.
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