John MACKENNAN

Abt 1670 -

• Birth

  Abt 1670  [1]

  The "lawful son and heir" of James Kennan was one John of that name. He was born, we must assume, somewhere around 1670. He, too, seems to have had a prominent place in the Dumfries community, occupying at some point the position of bailie. And he seems to have had a number of sons, the first of whom, another James, dutifully named after his grandfather, was born in 1693, the remaining births stringing along until 1709. Is it permissible to suspect that this second James was the father of a third one who, born somewhere around the years 1715-1720, emigrated to New England and became the first of the American Kennans?"

  
  

  Father	James KENNAN,   b. 1647, Dumfries, SCOTLAND d. 1691, Dumfries, SCOTLAND (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F6947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. James MCKENNAN,   b. Abt 1693
  Family ID	F6946	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S818] George F., Kennan, An American Family, (W. W. Norton & Co., New York, New York, 2000), 818.