Anne Nancy Linton

LINTON & BIRD Chronicles Volume XVII, Issue 4, Winter © 2022, ISSN 1941-3521
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Captain John Hancock LINTON (1750–1836) was the son of Moses Barton LINTON (1705–1752) & Susanna HANCOCK (1729–?) of Northumberland County, Virginia. Moses was the son of Ship Captain John LINTON (1670–1726) & Ann BARTON (1690–1734) of North Farnham Plantation, Copley Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia the 6th great-grandparents of Annie Lucretia CRONK Linton (1888-1956).

John was born on October 1, 1750, in Prince William County, Virginia, on the shores of the Occoquan Bay, on land that had been in his family for almost one hundred years. John died on December 4, 1836 in Springfield, and was buried in the Redemption Point Church of God Cemetery, Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky.

John married Anne Nancy MASON (1750–1832) in 1771 in Loudoun County, Virginia. [i] Anne was the daughter of Benjamin MASON (1724–1794) & Elizabeth Ann BERKLEY (1724–1772) of Aquia Creek, Stafford County, Virginia. Nancy was the great-granddaughter George MASON I (1629–1686). The American progenitor of the prominent American landholding and political Mason family. Mason was the great-grandfather of George Mason IV, a Founding Father of the United States. Anne died on November 14, 1832, in Springfield and is buried in the Redemption Point Church of God Cemetery, Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky. [ii]

John & Anne had seventeen known children:

Susannah LINTON (1739–1822); Catherine LINTON (1763–1815); Mary LINTON (1771–1830); Moses LINTON (1772–1854); John Hancock LINTON Jr., (1774–1838); William Henry LINTON (1776–1873); Reverent Benjamin Franklin LINTON (1777–1861); Nancy LINTON (1778–1861); Britton LINTON (1780–1860); Susan LINTON (1782–?); James LINTON (1784–?); Isham LINTON (1788–1859); Lewis LINTON (1790–1854); Martha LINTON (1793–1836); Jehue LINTON (1798–1850); Elizabeth Rebecca LINTON (1799–1836); William LINTON (1800–1873).

According to Phyllis Brown of Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research, Captain John Linton and his wife, Ann Nancy Mason, had a total of ten children – all of which were given legacies in his will.

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They are listed as follows with their spouses:

1. Elizabeth Rebecca Linton married Richard Keene (Elizabeth was named for her maternal grandmother Elizabeth Berkeley Mason)
2. Moses Linton married Ann Nancy Pead (Moses was named for his paternal grandfather Moses Linton)
3. Ann Nancy Linton married Edward Barber Edwards (Nancy was named for her mother)
4. Benjamin Linton married Lucy Crewdson (Benjamin was named for his maternal grandfather Benjamin Mason)
5. Susan Linton married William Moran (Susan is named for her paternal grandmother Susannah Hancock Linton)
6. Martha Linton married first Captain Charles E. Powell, and second, Horatio Mudd
7. Catherine Linton married Henry Taylor (Catherine was named for her father’s sister, Catherine Jennings Linton, who married Joseph Lewis)
8. William Linton married Eliza Lyon Moran (William was named for his great-grandfather William Berkeley)
9. Lewis Linton married Sarah Janes (Lewis was probably named for the Lewis family his Aunt Catherine married into)
10. John Hancock Linton married Julia Green (He was named for his father)

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References

1. https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?ac...
2. https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/category/research-for-you/
3. http://linton-research-fund-inc.com/John_Hancock_LINTON_1750_1836.html