James Kennedy

Contents from Chadwick's History of Shelby County, Indiana

James Kennedy, was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to this country, locating in Maryland, before the Revolutionary war.

Biographical Records of Prominent Republican Men

977.201 pages 893 & 894

James Kennedy a native of the North of Ireland, who came to America in 1743, and in connection with Lawyer Ross, of Lancaster county, Pa., bought a tract of land on the Antietam Maryland, and established Rock Forge. This land was on the Antietam where the Monocacy Creek joins it, just above its mouth.

In 1767 James Kennedy sold his business in Maryland, and being elated with the idea of a new country, removed to Pennsylvania, locating on the Susquehanna river, nine miles below Sunbury. Here he made a new purchase, which began a few miles above Thomsburg and terminated below the big island settled upon by Gov. William Dunn, before a treaty with the Indians. He remained there two years, or until the breaking out of the Indian war, when he went to New Jersey, and purchased a furnace on the Miskinicunk, where he lived several years, and then removed to Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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