Ravaud KEARNY, Esq.

Male 1739 - 1806  (67 years)


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  • Name Ravaud KEARNY 
    Suffix Esq. 
    Born 7 Apr 1739  Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 3 Sep 1806  Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Will 1802, proved. 20 Sep 1806
    Buried Saint Peters Churchyard Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Perth Amboy. Buried with wife Ann Kearny, d 1828, aged 70? = b. 1753.
    Person ID I568  Richard Patterson NJ & ON
    Last Modified 19 May 2019 

    Father Maj. Gen. Philip KEARNY, .II
              b. Est 1718
              d. 25 Apr 1770, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Isabella HOOPER
              b. Est 1718, Trenton, Mercer Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 20 Aug 1742, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years) 
    Family ID F425  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. Ensign James Hude KEARNY, .1
              b. 27 Dec 1768, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 2 Sep 1811, Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2012 
    Family ID F682  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • . Ravaud lived the the Kearn Cottage. The old house was moved to the rear & faced to the north on Market St., & the site where the old house stood is now (1924) occupied by the First baptist Church, Perth Amboy. Ravaud Kearny as educated for a lawyer & inherited his father's library.

      . 1767 Oct 24 -Philip, son of Ravaud & Ann Kearn, Perth Amboy.
      Ref: Parish Register Christ Church, Shrewsbury, NJ.
      WILL of 11 Aug 1802. In this instrument his. Susan 31, is called Susanna. The testator also mentions grandsons, John Kearney Rogers & John Warren.

      . 1784 Jun 14. Letters remaining in the Post Offce at Trenton: Ravaud Kerney, Monmouth.
      Ref: NJ Gazette, Trenton, NJ.

      . 1793 Sep 10, Monmouth - Puruant to an order from the Judges of Court ofCommon Please, Monmouth Co, for the sale of so much of shares of Revaud Kearney, James Kinsey in trust for Susannah Stevens & Elizabeth Skinner, in attack of land situated at Manakawkin, Staford Twp., Monmouth Co., known as Peter Sonmon's Patent, as will be sufficient to pay & satisfy the proportion of the expense of surveying & diving serval shares held by co partners, joint tenants & tenants in common - Will be sold at public action 22 Oct next, on the premises of Ravuad Kennedy, ins trust. Signed, Amos & Gervas Pharo, Ben. Lawrence, Commissioners.
      . All persons are cautioned from purchasing any of the above lands, belonging to Ravaud Kearney, as he has paid his share & proportion of a ll the legal charges for the partitioning thereof.
      Ref: Guardian or New Brunswick Advertiser, NJ, pub. 1793.9.18.

      . 1800 Dec 20, St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy, paid to Rev. Mr. Cotton until Easter next:
      Ravaud Kearny, $8. paid.
      . 1802 Aug. WILL of Ravaud Kearny of Perth Amboy; proved Sept. 20, 1806.
      In this instrument his daughter, Susan, 31, is called Susanna. The testator also mentions grandsons, John Kearny Rodgers & John Warren.

      NJ Supreme Court Case Files:
      . 1785 - 1805, Hunterdon & Middlesex, Error on Trespass & Ejectment Case, Richd Stevens et al VS Cornelius Dehart, Ravaud Kearney, named trustee in Last Will & Testament of Philip Kearney, c 1770, Plantiff, Case 34812.
      . 1785, Middlesex, Habeas Corpus in Trespass, Ridhd Stevens et all Vs Gysbert Dehart, Ravaud Kearney, Plaintiff.
      . 1785, Midddlesex, Trespass, Richd. Stevens et all Vs Hendrick Hoagland, Ravand Kearney, plaintiff, Cas 35773.
      . 1787, Issac Van Dyke Vs. Rasaud Kearney, Defandant, Case 42968.
      . 1787, 1788 Middlesex, Trespass & Ejectment, RK et al VS Peter Williamson, RK, plaintiff, Case 21468.
      . 1793, Sussex, Breach of Covenant & Debt, RK FS John Schoonover et all, KR plaintiff, Case 21214.
      . 1802, Somerset Co., Trespass & Ejectment, Ravaud Kearney VS Wm. Moffat, RV, plaintiff, Case 21121.
      . 1804, Somerset, Debt case, RK VS Garret Scheneck, RK Plaintiff, Case 21222.
      [There are additional private practice cases may be found as a posed the above cases appear to involve Ravaud personally.

      . 1806 Sep 3. Ravaud Kearny's wife, Ann was the daughter of Mary Johnson, of NB, NJ & he Hon. James Hude.
      Ann Hude, died Sept 3, 1806, aged 90 = 1716 - Verify faint monument.
      Buried Saint Peters Churchyard.

      . 1823 Jul 26, Youngestown, NY, George Ridout, Esq., a Lawyer's Brief on the unlikely prospects for John Brown Lawrence Toronto, Ontario Estates mentions waiting for Ravaud Kearney's return 'from his land at the expedition to the West Indies'.

      . Ravaud Kearny assisted his sister-in-law, the widow of Capt. James Lawrence, Monteaudevert Lawrence in the name of her daughter Mary Neill Lawrence, was trying to recover land awarded In Toronto, Ontario, to her grandfather, John Brown Lawrence. Ravaud Kearney, Esq. was an uncle to Mary N Lawrence on her sept-maternal side.

      . Was Ravaud Kearney (JR?) acting as the American lawyer for the Mary Neill Lawrence, the heir of Capt. James Lawrence of Burlington, NJ?

      . For further research: GRANDSON? Ravaud Kearney Rodgers, Jr. 1796 - 1879 Presbyterian Church, NJ, a sermon preached at the opening of the Syod at Pottsville, PA. 15 Oct 1861.
      Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - [1, 2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S91] .

    2. [S29] John E Stillwell, M.D. 1903. .