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Much of the information we have about John Zinn is confusing. George
Zumwalt did
indeed have a grand-daughter, named Mary Ann Zinn Leasure. Some
have believed that he was married to Christine Zumwalt and that she died in
Mary’s childbirth. This however is hardly possible.
George Zumwalt in a will written 4 Sept 1815 lists five children still
living, and
a son Henry who has become deceased. Among the five living is
Christine Snider. This daughter on 7 Jan 1794 as Christine Sumwarth (sic)
married Peter Sneder (sic). George Zumwalt in his will also lists a single
granddaughter, Mary Lasure (sic). Several years earlier, on 20 May 1808,
Mary Ann Zinn married John Leasure.
My information on Mary Ann Zinn is that she was born in Bourbon Co KY 30
May 1791.
This is where I get confused. The problem is that John Zinn
testified under oath in his application for a veteran’s pension that he
moved to Pendleton Co Ky (later Grant Co) in March of 1789, whe re “he has
ever since resided and does now reside, say forty-five years.” If he had
indeed been married on May 30 1791, we might have expected his wife to live
in Pendleton Co also.
An inspection of the tax lists for Bourbon Co. KY for the years between
1788 and
1799 adds to the mystery. John Zinn testified as his pension
application that he had lived in Bourbon Co between March 1785 and March
1789. As we might expect the name of John Zin (sic) appears on the 1788 and
1789 lists. He did however (eventually as John Zinn continue to pay Bourbon
Co taxes with some regularity through the 1797 tax year
John Zinn in his will makes mention of “my daughter Mary deceased.” It is
however
hardly the grand-daughter of George Zumwalt. John Zinn’s daughter
had married Henry Harrison 5 Aug 1827 in Grant Co. In his will John Zinn
makes special provision for the education of grandson John P. Harrison who
in 1841 was still a minor. He specifies after making various provisions that
the “balance of my personal property be equally divided between my six
lawful heirs, that is to say, my daughter Rebecca Taylor, my son Joseph
Zinn [my own gg grandfather], my son Hiram Zinn, my daughter Sarah
Haselwood, my son William Zinn, and my grandson John P. Harrison.”
We know that Goorge Zumwalt had been in Bourbon Co as early as 1779, and
indeed had
helped construct the stockade at Ruddle‘s Station where John Zinn
in 1780 was taken captive. It is likely that as early inhabitants of the
same area that John Zinn and the Zumwalt family were well acquainted with
each other. We know also that John Zinn did not marry Elizabeth Kiser until
he was 32 years old. During his earlier years of young adulthood there are
few marriage records, and perhaps few opportunities even for recording
marriages.
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