Re: Robert Innes, Quartermaster General, Charles I
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Re: Robert Innes, Quartermaster General, Charles I
Jame Price 1/08/10
Actually I apologize as I did misread your previous message and see that you did not confound the two Col. James Innes.
All I know is what is on the internet.
Col. James Innes of the French and Indian War was the James Innes (m. Jean, probably Miller) of Cape Fear, North Carolina who left a will there written 1754, proved 1759 that begins, "IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, James Innes, of Cape Fear, in North Carolina in America, Coll. of the Regement of sd. Province, (Raised for His Majestys imediate Service and Commanded in Chief of this Expedition to the Ohio, Against the French & there Indeans..."
http://www.ncgenweb.us/newhanover/jinnes.htmlhttp://www.ncgenweb.us/newhanover/jinnes.html
He leaves money to "the Parish Church of Cannesby, in Caithness" [Scotland].It is written in "Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanae" for Moray/Aberdeen (church biographies) that his father was the Rev. James Innes (married Jean Munro) was a minister in Caithness: "JAMES INNES, born 1638, descended 1Q&7 of the family of Blackhills in Moray ; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (llth June 1666) ; entered 22nd Dec. 1667; did not conform to Presbyterianism in 1690, but was allowed to remain in the charge till his death on 24th Dec. 1704. He marr. Jean Munro, who died before 1725, and had issue Theodore, merchant, Edinburgh ; James, settled in South Carolina, who left 80 to the poor of the parish ; Barbara, marr. (cont. 19th Aug. 1732) John Sutherland, merchant, Thurso. [Caithness Sas., i., 441 ; Services of Heirs ; Macfarlane s Geog. Coll., i,, 155 ; TomlstJ]"
http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=196&p=surnames.inneshttp://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=196&p=surnames.innes
If true, then this James Innes is a very distant cousin, not a brother of Robert and Hugh Innes of Virginia.It would be very interesting to know how the Encyclopedias you cite name him Iams instead of Innes.
JQ