Will indicates 5 daughters, naming Levicey; sons,James,John,William,Daniel & Charles, wife Elizabeth

Draftee Rev War 1778 4th VA Regiment (Col. John Breen; ? 3Sep1811(per T.J.) General Index Card 1321(3rd VA Reg Corporal Private Revolutionary War) (McKinney, James or as James McKenzie, srv as Pvt. in 4th VA Regt)Index to Revolutionary War Service Records, Vol III: L-R Virgil D. White

Affidavit by James McKinney for Anjer Price states: James McKinney of the said county also appeared in court & made oath as follows-- That he was a draft from Virginia he believes in the year 1778 and recollects perfectly to have seen Anjer Price the person mentioned in the foregoing affidavit in the 4th Virginia Regiment & to which Regiment he believes the said Anjer Price then belongs; they being encamped near Middlebrook. Sworn to in Court Sept. 3rd 1811 Teste Henry Dickinson, Clerk

Listed as: James or as James McKenzie, srv as Pvt in 4th VA Regt

Revolutionary War Records VIRGINIA
SECTION III
(21) Virginia Military Land Warrants
3869   McKinney, James   Soldier   3 years

261 - February 7, 1798 - John Fugate, Jr. - 34 ac - part 2 Treasury Warrants: 14 ac by 10922 dated February 12, 1782 & 20 ac by 14585 dated September 1, 1782 - crossing a survey of William Bowling & James McKinney - on the south side of Lick Branch( RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA SURVEYORS BOOK 1 1786-1799)


January the 25, 1812
Church meeting held on Stony Creek. The church met and found in love. The laid over till next meeting. Then came forward Brother James McKinney and his wife and joined by letter. The church rec'd them.(Stony Creek Baptist Church Minutes)

Cowan 235 to McKinney 18Nov1788: indenture between James McKinney of Russell County and John Cowen of Green County, North Carolina..£66..(note: Cowen sells to McKinney) 235 acres by survey bearing date 25Mar1783..in Russell County on both sides of MCKINNEYS Run__also with branch of Clinch River and Bounded..foot of Copper Creek ridge corner to William Cowen’s Land..p43 Sig: John Cowen Wit. none Acknowledgement/Recorded: 18Nov1788

James McKinney and David Cox(David C. Cocke) were signers of the Petition to Virginia House of Delegates requesting formation of Russell County Virginia from Washington County

January the 25, 1812 Church meeting held on Stony Creek. The church met and found in love. The
laid over till next meeting. Then came forward Brother James McKinney and his
wife and joined by letter. The church rec'd them.

Law Order Book 6, Page 46
Jun 02, 1818
The following affidavit taken before a justice of the peace for the county to corroborate the proof offered at the last Court by Michael Sword an old Revolutionary Soldier, was produced in Court, and ordered to be certified, and is in the following words, to wit: Russell County, to wit: This day personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace for Russell County aforesaid, James McKinney, a person to me well known and made oath of the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that this affiant was drafted and served as a soldier in the Northern Army under General Washington, and while in Winter Quarters at Middlebrook in the Jerseys where Major William Crohon commanded he knew and was acquainted with Michael Sword whom he understood to be a private enlisted soldier in the regular service of the United States, this acquaintance continued from the 27th of December, 1778, till the 16th of Feb. 1779, when this affiant was discharged.
James McKinney
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 22nd day of May, 1818.
James Dickenson

P125 - Deed of Bargain & sale from John Cowan to James Mckinney, recorded(RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA LAW ORDER BOOK 1 (1786 - 1791)Abstracted By Rhonda Robertson )

Tax List - Russell Co - 1787 lists James McKinney, 4 horses, 16 cattle.