c 1775 - Some researchers have stated that Elias Mackey is said have owned his own ship which he sailed between Liverpool and New York City. This is apparently based on someone finding a ship building company in New York named, Westervelt & Mackey in the early to mid-1800's. This Mackey connection to Elias is doubtful due to his young age. If his birth date is correct he would have been in his twenties during the period he was supposed to be sailing ships as a captain, then how old would he have to be to have his name on ship building company? Could this have been his father's company?

1774 - Elias Mackey did settle in Washington County, Virginia. This is proved in this land record which also connects Thomas Potter family to the same time and place in Virginia. It is interesting that there are two different ways to spell Mackey here - McKey and McCay

Page 220 - William Colley...152 ac...Commissioners Certificate...granted to Richard Brindle, assigned to Colley...on a branch of the Middle fork of Holston River...Beginning corner to Andrew Smothers land...with John Ekys and Andrew Smothers...to John McMurrays land...November 25, 1782 - Richard Brindle, assignee of Elias McKey, assignee of Thomas Potter, assignee of Elias McCay...200 ac...joining Arthur Bowens lines, 144 ac surveyed for Thomas Potter on June 10, 1774, includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1772...August 28, 1781 - Assigned to William Colley by purchase on October 25, 1782. Signed: Richard Brindle
[Washington County, VA Survey records abstracts 1781-1797 Part 3 of 5 (pages 201-300)]

1782- Elias Mackey shows up on the land tax list for Washington Co., Virginia for the first battalion in the County of Washington 1782 No. 2.
           Elias Mackey    100     7    10    1/6

After the war he moves his family to Greene County, Tennessee where he lived on the South side of the Nolachucky River near the junction of Lick Creek.

1807 - The Knox Co., KY tax lists

June 9 Potter, Thomas
June 9 Mackey, Benjamin
July 28 Mackey, Elias
Mackey, (Firthiaswale)
Mackey, William

Elizabeth Potter Mackey Wilkerson applied for a Pension, file 402-203. Nat. Archives.

Elias Mackey (shown with wife and 1 male 10-15 ; 1 male 16-25 , and 1 female 16-25.
William Mackey (shown with wife and 2 males under 10; 4 females under 10)
Benjamin Mackey (shown with wife and 3 males under 10; 2 females under 10)
John Mackey (shown with wife and 1 female under 10; 1 female 10-15.
Matthias Mackey (no females or children)

1817, July 11 - In the DAR application of Louise Wall Miller uses the land transfer to help establish his death date whereby Elias W. Mackey deeded land on the Cumberland River "in consideration of the love and affection that the said Elias W. McKey hath towards the aforesaid Alexander McKey. Elias apparently died later in 1817. It is believed by Deven Lewis that Thomas may not have been 21 at the time of the transfer or that he didn't live in Knox Co., Kentucky at that time. [Lewis, Mackey manuscript 8/18/04, p. 10]

"In addition to a Thomas Mackey of the right age appearing in the tax records of Knox County, Kentucky's at the right time, perhaps the most compelling evidence of our Thomas Mackey's tie to the Elias Mackey family of Knox County, Kentucky is the presence of Elias Mackey's son, John Mackey, in Murphree's Valley, Alabama, at about the same time as our Thomas married Sarah Murphreee. John Mackey's daughter, Margaret " Peggy" Mackey, married Ezekiel Ellis of Murphree's Valley clan in 1821, two years before the Alabama birth of Thomas and Sarah Murphree Mackey's first child, Elizabeth." [ Lewis manuscript . p. 12]

1850 - US Census, Missouri, Dallas Co., Dist. 26, page 324.

Lewis, Deven. coorespondence and unpublished manuscript on Thomas Mackey 8/15/04, email - deven00@charter.net
Seigler, David records by email of 22 Nov 1997, seigler@soltec.net
Waldrop, Martha records., email f 6/28/99, mawaldr@ionet.net
DAR Records for dates.
Dallas Co., Mo Historical Society records for William and Ruth Potter
1850 census for William and Ruth Potter
Montgomery Co, IL Historical Quarterly, Vol 6
US Census records for Knox co., KY

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