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The Kincaid Family

The Kincaid (Kinkead) family is of the Socttish Clan.  David Kincaid, brother of the then Laird, took part in the unsuccessful Stuart Rebellion in 1715, and was in consequence forced to leave Scotland.  He came to Spotsylvania County, Virginia, where he took up land with George Robinson; later moved to Albemarle County, thence to Augusta County; and finally died in Bath County.  He arrived in America shortly after 1715, and was an early settler in Orange County, Virginia and reared a large family.  He built the first Augusta County jail. among his children were Jean (Jane) Kincaid who married Robert Gwin, and Isabella Kincaid who married James Lockridge.

Four nephews of David Kincaid, sons of his brother, Alexander Kincaid, came to America in 1746 and first settled in Augusta County, Virginia.  They were Samuel Kincaid, died ca 1780; George Kincaid, killed by the Indians in 1756; Robert Kincaid; and James Kincaid, who came from Ireland to pennsylvania and then to Augusta County, Virginia.  The other family was that of John Kincaid.  All of these Kincaids left a large number of descendants.

The Kincaid Family is very difficult to trace due to the similarity of givennames and the fact that the families often intermarried.  (source: Dr. Herbert Clarke Kincaid, member of the National Genealogical Society, Washington, DC).

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