Meshech Sexton - my Dad’s middle name was Sexton and this was his g-g grandfather-was "com", whatever that means, on 1785, 5, 6 at Crooked Run Quaker Meeting. Anyway, Moses McKay and Abigail Shinn, another of my g-g-g grandparents, were married at Crooked Run in 1793.
(This was two years after McKay’s and three other families received 3,000 pounds in settlement of the 50-year law suit with Lord Fairfax’s heirs over who owned the land in the Northern Neck of Virginia that Hite, McKay, Dillon, and Duff had received 20,000, and 40,000 acre grants from the Virginia Colony.)
Barbara and I have visited the Crooked Run cemetery, behind a now Presbyterian Church.
Why? Andrew McKay, my g-g-g-g grandfather, was buried there, about 1804. At that time, Quakers buried persons in a row, when they died. Because they thought it was too worldly to write on a tombstone, a McKay man showed us his likely headstone, a limestone field stone.
Howard
(This was two years after McKay’s and three other families received 3,000 pounds in settlement of the 50-year law suit with Lord Fairfax’s heirs over who owned the land in the Northern Neck of Virginia that Hite, McKay, Dillon, and Duff had received 20,000, and 40,000 acre grants from the Virginia Colony.)
Barbara and I have visited the Crooked Run cemetery, behind a now Presbyterian Church.
Why? Andrew McKay, my g-g-g-g grandfather, was buried there, about 1804. At that time, Quakers buried persons in a row, when they died. Because they thought it was too worldly to write on a tombstone, a McKay man showed us his likely headstone, a limestone field stone.
Howard
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