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354. BARTLEY S. KINNEY,⁴ (Catherine Read³, Aaron Read², Joseph Read¹) was born 30 April 1838 in New Jersey (LDS Batch# 8514203; Newberry c1934) and died 22 September 1907 in Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Reuther n.d.). Scott-Fritzen (1998) gives 2 September 1908 as his death date. Bartley was the second son and third child of the thirteen children of Catherine Read and Isaac Snover Kinney. He appears to have been named after his uncle Bartley LaRue, the husband of Rachel Kinney. Rachel was a younger sister of Isaac Snover Kinney. In 1850, Bartley lived with his parents and his maternal grandparents. The farm where he lived belonged to his grandfather Aaron Read and was located in Blairstown Township, Warren County. Bartley was 12 years old at the time of the census and was attending school (1850 United States Federal Census, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 455). Bartley's family lived with his grandparents for several years. His grandmother Peggy Cooke Read was very ill and needed to be cared for. Between 1850 and 1855, the Kinneys moved off the Read farm and unto a farm of their own. The new farm was located in Blairstown Township. Bartley's parents and several of his siblings lived on the farm in 1860. Bartley did not live with his parents in 1860. He boarded on the farm of his uncle and aunt, Bartley and Rachel (Kinney) LaRue. Bartley Kinney was 22 years old and worked as a wage earning farm laborer on his uncle's farm in Pahaquarry Township, Warren County (DiPetro 1998a).

In 1870, Bartley and Sarah lived on a farm in Blairstown Township. The couple had one child, their three year old daughter Martha (also known as "Mattie"). The farm belonged to Sarah Caroline's widowed father, 69 year old Dennis Rice. Sarah's sister Elizabeth Rice (age 36) also lived in the household. According to the census, she was "keeping house." The census gave Dennis and Bartley's occupations as "farmer." The Rice farm was valued at $3,600. Dennis Rice owned a personal estate valued at $500. There was no real estate value associated with Bartley Kinney in the census, so he probably did not own any land in 1870. He did own a personal estate valued at $200 (1870 United States Federal Census, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 51, Columbia Post Office). By 1874, Bartley and Sarah had purchased a farm in school district 72 in Warren County. This district was centered around the Union Brick area. Dennis Rice's farm was located in school district 70 south of Walnut Valley and the Paulinskill (Beers 1874:16). A portion of the 1874 Beers County Atlas of Warren County New Jersey, which shows the location of Bartley and Sarah Caroline's farm is included at the end of the essay.

The 1887 Warren County History and Directory (Weaver and Kern 1887) lists Bartley as a farmer residing in Blairstown Township, Post Office Blairstown. He and Sarah Caroline resided in Blairstown Township in 1900. They owned a farm in the township. According to the census, the couple were the parents of one chile (Mattie) who was still living in 1900 (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 189, Hope Township, Warren County, New Jersey, sheet 10B, 21 June 1900). Bartley and Sarah Caroline resided in Warren County until their deaths. Bartley's parents migrated to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania in 1867 (Newberry c.1934). Several of Bartley's brothers and sisters followed his parents. These siblings included David, Aaron, Frederick, Samuel and Isaac Johnson Kinney, and Rachel Williams, Jane Giles and Almeda Saunders. Bartley and Sarah Caroline stayed in Warren County. As did Bartley's sisters: Margaret Vanscoten, Maria Messler and Sarah Linaberry. Bartley died in Warren County in 1907. Sarah Caroline lived until 1919. They are buried in Cedar Ridge Cemetery, Jacksonburg, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Reuther n.d.).

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886. (i.) MARTHA MARY "MATTIE" KINNEY⁵, was born 11 February 1867, in Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey (LDS Batch #C509751–she is listed as an unnamed daughter of Bartltey L. and Caroline Kinney in the township records) and died unknown. LDS Batch #C509811 gives her name as Mattie Mary, the 1870 census gives it as Martha, and the 1880 census gives it as Mattie. LDS Batch #C509811 also gives her date of birth as 4 February 1867, her place of birth as Hope Township and her parents as Bartley and Sarah C. Kinney. In 1870, Mattie lived with her parents on her grandfather Rice's farm in Blairstown Township. Her Aunt Elizabeth Rice also lived with the family (1870 United States Federal Census, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 5, Columbia Post Office). By 1880, Mattie's parents lived on their own farm in Blairstown Township. Mattie lived with there with her parents and her cousin Rueben Kinney (1880 United States Federal Census, Blairstown, Warren County, New Jersey, page 290D). According to the 1900 census, Mattie was still living, although she did not live with her parents (1900 United States Federal Census, Enumeration District 189, Hope Township, Warren County, New Jersey, sheet 10B, 21 June 1900).

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