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Daniel McGinnis, the man behind the myth

1/27/2016

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Every good treasure mystery starts out with a legend. In the case of Oak Island it's the tale of the 1795 discovery of the "Money Pit' by a trio of colonials named McGinnis, Smith  and Vaughan. And as legends tend to do, this story has evolved and changed through the re-telling and addition of embellishments, to a point where it's increasingly hard to separate the fact from fiction. In fact, today it is very difficult for researchers and enthusiasts to tell how much of what I call, "The Discovery Legend" is true because so many people have told the story differently over the past 220 years. 
   The Discovery Legend in it's most basic and elemental form, generally includes these main motifs:
  • three men explore Oak Island and find a circular depression in the ground near Oak trees
  • they discover an old ship's block hanging from an oak branch above the depression
  • they suspect that treasure is buried there and begin to dig
​The object of this article isn't to analyse the legend itself, but it is meant to show that much of what we think we know- what we've been told- about the three discoverers is pure myth. Today, in particular we will deal with one of the individuals, my ancestor, "Daniel McGinnis". (the reader will soon see why I put quotes around his name)
  Today we're going to talk about the real Daniel McGinnis, historically and biographically. But in order to do that we must first address one very important aspect of the Discovery Legend that effects the entire story as we know it today in its most popular form; the "three boys" motif. 
  The most common versions of the Oak island tale most always mention specifically that the trio were, boys, lads, or teenagers at the time of discovery. But historical and genealogical records tell us that this is just not true. Even today's hit TV show, The Curse of Oak Island, produced by The History Channel, continues to proliferate this popular romanticized version of the story. But, in fact, both Smith and McGinnis were grown men in 1795 and Vaughan was likely in his later teens. And, interestingly enough, they actually lived and worked on the island.
   So now that we've addressed that issue let's talk about "McGinnis". The surname itself is one of many spelling variations of the Scots, MacInnes. And the given name, Daniel, seems to be an Anglicization of the Scots Gaelic name, Domhnall ; which is also Anglicized as, Donald.
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 "Daniel McGinnis" was actually a man named Donald MacInnes and from historical documents and family records we have learned that he was born in 1758/59 on the Isle of Skye. We also know that in 1773 he emigrated to North Carolina with his parents when he was around 14 years of age. That would make him 37 years old in 1795, at the time of discovery.

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extract from a 1785 document attesting to Donald's service in the North Carolina Loyalist Forces during the American Revolution and revealing information about his age and place of origin 
   From primary source documents, such as the one pictured above, and family records we are able to piece together the story of a young man who picked a side during the American war for independence and in doing so, lost everything he had.
When the American's won their freedom, Donald arrived in Nova Scotia among the thousands of Loyalist refugees that came to make a new home here.
 And that's where I'll sign off for today readers. I'll bring you more on Donald MacInnes in two more installments. 
So drop by the Blockhouse tomorrow for Part 2 when we'll discuss Donald's arrival in Nova Scotia and, his life up to the time of the 1795 beginning of The Legend of Oak Island.
   So until then friends, good afternoon from the Blockhouse!
35 Comments
Gina Torresso
1/27/2016 10:37:14 am

Great Information Kel, thank you for sharing this information. Most, of us did not know this information.

Thank you

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KelHancock
1/27/2016 11:27:15 am

Thank you Gina and Karen. We appreciate your kind words and your interest in the history of the Oak Island Mystery.

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Zac link
1/17/2017 07:43:42 pm

Read Samuel Ball's will regarding Daniel McInnis land in Lunnenburg.

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Karen Kant
1/27/2016 10:51:26 am

Very much enjoying all your posts. Thank you for your honesty and quest to clarify much that has become so muddled through the years, and more so in recent years. Great job Blockhouse team, very thorough and articulate. The entire presentation is civil and informative. If you choose not to post this comment, please extend my gratitude to the team for the apparent dedication and loyalty to present all the facts in such a refreshing manner. Looking forward to future posts, thanks again....Karen

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Randal Taylor
1/27/2016 11:11:07 am

Damn your interesting investigations and research done properly, with things called 'truth' and 'reality'

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Jerry Vano
1/27/2016 07:46:40 pm

The knowing of truth will make us free. The riming of the past history goes way back to Enki Enlil and Marduk. Searching for gold. The names are the key The depression in the ground collision of Tiamat?

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KelHancock
1/27/2016 08:32:37 pm

Hi Jerry! Thanks for checking out our site.

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Clinton McInnes
1/29/2016 12:58:03 am

"Daniel McGinnis" was actually a man named Donald MacInnes and from historical documents and family records we have learned that he was born in 1758/59 on the Isle of Skye. We also know that in 1773 he emigrated to North Carolina with his parents when he was around 14 years of age. That would make him 37 years old in 1795, at the time of discovery.

Can u advise what family records you refer to that he emigrated with his family in 1773 from the Isle of Skye..? I am really interested in getting to the bottom of who this Donald McInnes was.... I also am having difficulty with Daniel McGinnis being Donald McInnes from Skye when Daniel was never used as a christian name on Skye by any McInnes family and that saying that the Gaelic for Donald can be derived as Daniel is very shaky I suspect. The other alternative was that locals called him Daniel but I strongly suspect it would not be something any Skye Donald McInnes ever did... Just my thoughts and very interested in the family records you refer to... Thanks Clinton McInnes

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Clinton McInnes
7/25/2017 12:10:58 am

Daniel McGinnis was not Captain Donald McInnes from Isle of Skye but rather a Private Donald McGinnis listed in Charleston registers at the end of the War of Independence who shipped out for Nova Scotia. Captain Donald McInnes went south and with a son Miles (not Lieutenant Miles) started a plantation on Cat Island in the Bahamas. There are records of his marriage etc etc...so please look into Private Donald McGinnis and don't promote Captain Donald McInnes as the Oak Island chap along with his Memorial etc...

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KelHancock
1/29/2016 09:41:20 am

Clinton,
In reference to the "Daniel" Anglicization I was advised by the Clan MacInnes itself. The family records I refer to is genealogical information shared with me by the late, Clinton MacInnes of Wolfville, NS. Clinton, myself and Paul Wroclawski all came independently to the conclusion that this is the Oak Island Donald MacInnes. If you would like to discuss this further I'll have my brother forward you my email address.
sincerely,
Kel Hancock

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KelHancock
1/29/2016 10:25:05 am

Clinton.
Further to my last, I'm sitting here right now looking at a copy of the 1827 Last Will and Testament for "Daniel McGinnis" and it clearly states, as I quote:
" I, Donald McInnis, of the township of Chester and the county of Lunenburg, yeoman...."
His mark "X" is placed next to his name, also written as Donald McInnis and is witnessed by two residents of Oak Island, John Smith and Samuel Ball.
sincerely,
Kel Hancock

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Clinton McInnes (New Zealand)
1/29/2016 10:06:21 pm

Kel.. I hope the following helps.

With Donald McInnis being referred to in his Last Will and Testament (as you mention above) it could highly likely be the the same man with the following background...

Donald's parents were Donald and ? McInnes from Leitir Fura Sleat, Isle of Skye. (Younger Donald seems to be the first boy and named after his father as was the custom.)

Donald McInnes (senior) from Skye was in the 77th Regiment and had settled out of Cross Creek NC by 1772. He either went back to Skye to get his wife and first son Donald (b circa 1758 and who he never got to see before being shipped to Halifax in 1758), or 14 year old Donald came out to North Carolina in 1771 with his mother to meet up with Donald senior. Suspect, however, that Donald (senior) went back to Skye in 1763 and the family came out to Nth Carolina in 1771, as most who stayed and did not come home, after the disbanding of the 77th, were bequeathed land in New York area… not Sth or Nth Carolina.

Donald (jnr), aged 14 years in 1771,was captured at Moores Creek Bridge, aged 17 years, being part of the 84th Foot Highland Emigrants Regiment; along with his cousin Miles McInnes`who had arrived in North Carolina in 1773 with Flora MacDonald and family.

Donald’s mother was living with him prior to 1781, suggesting Donald McInnes (snr) may have died, been killed, or was incarcerated.

Donald (jnr’s) property (acquired in late 1770’s / 1780 was also plundered and home destroyed prior to 1781 when mother had to retire some miles to a neighbour. Roof of house was removed and burnt so nobody could live in it.

Both Donald (jnr) and cousin Miles were then captured in the Chewars region NC and thrown in Cross Creek jail from where they were rescued by Nth Carolina Loyalist forces. Miles certainly was, along with being tortured, and it now appears Donald was incarcerated there also.

Donald was an Ensign at this point, and on his release he was made up to Captain in Nth Carolina Militia, , along with Miles appointed as a Lieutenant in the 84th in 1780.

Movements and details of the two are then at Willmington, Charleston, and then onto Florida

Cousin Lieutenant Miles ships out for Nova Scotia (from Florida) in 1784.

Donald goes onto New Providence in the Bahamas, with his younger brother Miles, and acquires property their; or on Cat Island; or already has property in Florida before they left. No record of Donald’s younger brother Miles surfaces until he is in the Bahamas (Cat Island).

Donald then appears to have got ill and left the Bahamas.

This is where the trail goes dead…

What is true, I suspect, is that if Donald was to go anywhere, other than back to Skye, he would have gone to be close to his cousin Miles who was at Musqodoboit NS up until circa1790. He may, however, have simply gone back to Florida, or even to Nth Carolina age in 1788 and still young, and if a Daniel McGinnis turned up in as a long shot, or even back to Skye. Where ever he went though is a mystery to me… until you mention his name as actually Donald McInnis on his LW&T. He was still only 30 years of NS around 1788 to 1793 it could well be him…and more than likely is from what you advise

What we do know is that about 1790 Miles McInnes had moved from his blueberry plantation near Musquodoboit Harbour to what is now the village of Lower Meagher‘s Grant.

If you believe that Donald is your man then it could be so based on Donald shifting north to be closer to his cousin Miles who would have been more his age; with his younger brother staying on Cat Island to develop his own small plantation.

Your quest on the Oak Island Treasure starts I understand based on ....One summer day in 1795 Daniel McGinnis (now known as Donald McInnis) was wandering about Oak Island, Nova Scotia when he came across a curious circular depression in the ground.

Donald would have been 37 years old in 1795.

The thing that really nagged at me though was the name ‘Daniel' (not the McGinnis bit as this is easily explained) as no Skye Highlander McInnes would intentionally call himself Daniel I highly suspect - unless

1) A custom official recorded his name incorrectly, which is highly likely (which would have been the same with the McGinnis for McInnes)….. and he just left it as that was on his papers, remembering that English was his second language.

2) He wanted to change his name for some reason…. not likely

or

2) The local community named him Daniel instead of Donald, and it stuck...more than likely from his papers as English was a second language to him

( A word of caution without wanting to take a pitch at any US Clan McInnes Society - Contrary to what any US McInnes Clan Society member says you need to be aware that they are certainly far from being experts on Scottish history and Gaelic naming I am afraid. They are certainly not Clan MacInnes by default, just a number of US enthusiasts, like us all, r

Chris Racine
4/27/2017 07:10:17 am

Hey Kel is that the same "Sam Ball" who allegedly became suddenly wealthy?

Greg Mc Innis link
12/11/2018 10:56:38 pm

I'm happy to hear my ancestor found this place, on oak island and I would like to see them find the treasure!!! Good luck 🍀.....

Kel Hancock
1/29/2016 10:34:58 pm

Clinton
Thanks for the great info. I agree with everything you've said. Hopefully we can piece together more of the story on these particular MacInnes as they seem to have had many experiences and travels in the North American colonies during fascinating times.
The clansman who advised me was the late Donald MacInnes (go figure) of Scotland who I found through a message board anout 12 years ago.
Best regards
Kel

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Cappy
1/31/2016 11:03:03 am

Thank you so much for publishing these stories Kel. I have been interested in Oak Island over 45 years and will now, and forever on, refer to Daniel McGinnis as Donald MacInnes and correct anyone along the way.

Keep up the great research and sharing of your knowledge.

Again Many thanks

Cappy

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John
5/27/2016 11:55:06 am

Hi Kel, your Clinton (my Dad) and my brother came to a conclusion like this at some time after you last spoke to him. Interesting to follow this over the past 20 or 30 years of looking and discussing. One more generation in the line with the name Donald/Daniel?

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John Wonnacott
2/2/2016 06:16:13 am

I have been involved in Oak Island research for the past 16 or 17 years, including some original research on Oak Island and supporting scientific testing of artifacts etc. I am interested in joining some of the discussions, and I would like to know who the people are, who write this blog and who reply - so I may know who I am corresponding with.

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Kel Hancock
2/2/2016 10:45:55 pm

Hello John
This website is run by a team that makes up Blockhouse Investigations. We are all volunteers and are not financed in any way.
Blockhouse was formed as a partnership between myself and Doug Crowell. We are both long-time Oak Island enthusiasts from the Annapolis Valley. Our team is comprised of members here in NS and NB.
I'm a direct descendant of Daniel McGinnis (Donald McGinnis ) and this is what lead me to have such an interest in the subject.
I recognize your name. Were you involved in researching with Les McPhie at some point?
Feel free to join our forum and if you'd like to contact us directly and privately, please go to the Contact Us link above.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
sincerely
Kel Hancock

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James T. Fendley
1/31/2018 04:09:17 pm

Kel, I'm trying hard to complete many time lines. I need to know what you have found on Daniel McGinnis as of 2018

Margaret Rafuse
2/15/2016 06:21:27 pm

Hello Mr Hancock. Daniel McGinnis was my 5x gr. grandfather and needless to say I eagerly follow any and all information concerning him, his descendants and Oak Island. Thank you for posting all the wonderful information . There is of course , so much I don't know ! One thing that has myself and family members stumped is that my gr.grandmother seems to be native or at least of native descent. Her mother was Mary McInnis/McGinnis. We have no paper trail , so we really do not know how that came to be. Do you know oif any of his descendants were of Native blood ? I would appreciate any information if possible. Thank you, regards, Marg Rafuse.

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Clinton McInnes
2/15/2016 07:13:08 pm

Based on what you say if your gr gr grandmother was a Mary McInnis would it not suggest that your gr grandfather was the line with the native bloodline, if there was one?. It could of course have also been Mary's mother, but suspect not father...Kel probably has more on the family trees of Donald (Daniel) McInnis (es)...

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Kel
2/16/2016 05:45:01 am

Margaret
Thx for your comment.
If you'd like to go to our Contact Us page in the top menu and send me some of Mary McGinnis' details, I'll look into it for you.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely
Kel

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Krin Patrie
9/8/2016 09:15:46 am

Hi Margaret, Daniel McGinnis was my great+6 grandfather and my great-great grandmother was Bessie Rafuse. My email is kpatrie@balancewalking.com if you would like to connect.

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Krin Patrie
9/8/2016 09:16:24 am

Hi Margaret, Daniel McGinnis was my great+6 grandfather and my great-great grandmother was Bessie Rafuse. My email is kpatrie@balancewalking.com if you would like to connect.

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Krin Patrie
9/8/2016 09:16:50 am

Hi Margaret, Daniel McGinnis was my great+6 grandfather and my great-great grandmother was Bessie Rafuse. My email is kpatrie@balancewalking.com if you would like to connect.

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Margaret Rafuse
2/16/2016 06:44:36 am

I certainly. Will do that ! I will need tomdig out my files so that I will get my facts correct. Thank you, Marg.

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Margaret Rafuse
2/16/2016 12:02:28 pm

Hello Kel. For some odd reason I do not see a box at the top of the page saying "contact us" . Would it be because I am on a tablet?

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Margaret Rafuse
2/16/2016 02:28:14 pm

Please disregard above post as I worked it out on my regular computer !

Allen Goodwin-Hancock
4/25/2017 02:41:37 pm

Nicely done Kel! It's nice to hear the real facts.

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George McInnis
5/21/2018 06:32:12 pm

I enjoy reading about the Genealogy of the McInnis family's Thanks Cousin Kel

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Tammie Smith
8/18/2018 05:19:30 pm

Donald 'Daniel' McInnis is my 5x Great Grandfather. I have been recently contact with Kel Hancock, Marg Rafuse, and Allen Goodwin-Hancock, all the research has been wonderful this far and definitely closing some gaps in my research for my maternal family.

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Elizabeth Dennis
11/30/2018 08:32:34 pm

Daniel MacInnis was my 4xGreat Grandpa. I don't know if it's the same Daniel MacInnis, but I'd love to know anything more about the MacInnis family. On Ancestry I have found that Daniel's son was named James and his son was named James, then my great grandma's name was Artie. I know that My Grandfather came from the Isle of Skye and I'm pretty sure his father's name was Alexander and less sure that his father's name was Duncan. I Also have several land grants for NC in the 1800s. I haven't been able to find his emigration documentation.
ANY leads or information would be greatly appreciated.
My email is elizabeth.dennis1228@gmail.com

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Clinton McInnes
12/1/2018 12:42:00 pm

I am a 67 year old Isle of Skye McInnes descendant in New Zealand. My great, great grandmother (Catherine McInnes (b1806)) had two brothers who were named Alexander (Sandy) and who had a great uncle named Duncan. It is highly possible that one of her great uncles, (known to have been Angus, Black John, Donald or Duncan also had a son named Alexander. (My great, great, grandfather (Donald McInnes) was also the grandson of one of those great uncles, Donald married his 2nd cousin Catherine McInnes whose grandfather was Black John.

Have I got u confused yet …?

May I ask a couple of questions please…

Question 1 - If your grandfather came from the Isle of Skye (and I'm pretty sure his father's name was Alexander and less sure that his father's name was Duncan), how do you know Daniel Mcinnes was your 4 x great grandpa….. or do you mean Alexander was your 5 x great grandpa, and Daniel was supposedly his son.

Question 2 - Do you know of any males who have a direct line of descent (male to male) from Daniel McInnis? You will need one of those (if any) to take a 111 marker DNA test as I can then check against mine as my direct male line goes back to those generations?

I have also added an email re Captain Donald McInnes vs Private Donald McGinnis, (both in Anson County Militia NC, AWI), trying to clear up a couple of points re these two individuals.


I don’t know whether this helps

Regards

Clinton McInnes (Clinton mhic Aonghais)


A piece sent o Allen Goodwin using Kel’s previous information that may help clear this up...

In several historical documents and family records we find the McInnes name for this particular family spelled in a number of different forms. Even to this day in Nova Scotia there are a number of spelling variations used by descendants of Donald McGinnis, (or Donald McInnes); such as, MacInnes, McGinnis, or McInnis.

Cousins in Wolfville spell their surname as MacInnes, while cousins in Greenfield spell it McGinnis (like my grandmother), and distant cousins, on the South Shiore, who spell it McInnis, reports Kel. In historical government documents and church records we've found members of the same family under the names as MacInnes, McInnis, MGinnis, McGennes, Magennis, McGinnas, McKinnis and even Maquinas.

The reason for these variations, Kel reports, is two-fold. Firstly, the name itself is derived from the Scots Gaelic, ‘mhic Aonghais’, which undoubtedly Donald the progenitor spoke. So all the written occurrences of the name were Anglicised from the Gaelic. This was a very common occurrence in historical records where clerks entered the name based on what they heard, or rather how they thought it sounded and should be spelled. This leads to the second reason, that of illiteracy. Most of the early family members were illiterate so they would have never actually written their name or had any idea of how to spell it, in English.

There are even church records for the Christenings of Donald's children in Chester that use different spellings.

It's because of these variations that we are still not 100% sure that all three of the ‘MacInnes’s mentioned in relation to Shelburne are the same individual but there is a very good chance that they are because we've found only one Donald McGinnis (McInnes) entering Shelburne as part of the disbanded regiments. However, like I said, regardless if they are all the same man, at least one of them is the Daniel McGinnis of Oak Island and we know his story from the Memorial on microfiche in the Nova Scotia Archives, concludes Kel.

One thing Kel may not have been aware of was the existence of a Private Donald McGinnis recorded in army pay records in Charleston in 1882. Is this not the Donald McGinnis referred to as the Royalist refugee who landed in Sheburne harbour (Port Roseway) in 1783, for in 1784, we find a Donald McGinnis purchasing a town lot in Shelburne.

In the same year, however, a Donagh McEnnis is recorded as part of the Chester Grant, and in 1785 a Donald McInnis is recorded as being granted 200 acres of land in the Port Hebert Grant. The question then arose, Were these the same person?
With these differing spellings it was felt by Nova Scotia descendants that they were dealing with the same man whose name was recorded differently, as was common at the time.
Regardless of some ambiguity, says Kel, caused by spelling and some dodgy record-keeping, which can be reasonably expected during an exodus, we are led to conclude that Donald McGinnis entered Nova Scotia through Port Roseway in 1783.

Then after purchasing a town lot in the same name, on 3rd March, 1788, Donald McGinnis purchased Lot No. 27 on Oak Island from James Sharpe for £7 5s. On the 4th May 1790 he paid £7 for Lot No. 23 from Hector McLean, an uncle of John Smith. The next May, in 1791, he bought Lot No. 27 from Alexander Pattillo, for £6. It seems clear that all the while Donald McGinnis was rec

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Samantha
1/19/2019 09:08:43 am

I love this story and hope to visit the Island myself someday.

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