There are two Mary Kinney’s of the eighteen-teens period (1815 and 1816) in the greater Maugerville/Burton area who married separate men, records to be found in the NB Sunbury Gen Web site among others. Both had to have been born either to one of the oldest three sons of Israel and Susannah, or perhaps to Israel and Susannah themselves.

First let us determine who is the Mary Kinney that married James Sipprell in 1816. Based on her accepted age and year of birth she clearly could not have been a child of Israel and Susannah.

We next have to eliminate Israel, Jr. and Abigail Cram from parent contention of this Mary, because they had their Mary Ann, or “Annie” as she was referred to in Bell’s book, who married James Drake, and she died young in 1827. She was Israel, Jr. and Abigail’s first born.

We then also have to eliminate Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Mills) as well, as their Mary Jane (one of their youngest) married Wlliam Scoullar, the shipbuilder.

This leaves us with only Stephen and Merab left to attribute her to. As we know James Sipprell was born in 1795, and his death date in Ontario was 10 Jan 1861. James Sipprell married Mary Kinney 29 Jan 1816 in Maugerville. He was of Wakefield (York Co. at that time) and she of Burton. According to some of her offspring's family records, she was born on 25 Oct 1798, and she died on 23 Apr 1879. She therefore has to be 100% born to Stephen and Merab, and her birth year fits in perfect birth order spacing-wise with their established children's births between their Stephen, Jr. (1795) and then Daniel (1800). Also Stephen and Merab’s son Daniel who married his Churchill cousin went to Ontario in that big move west that also included Israel and Susannah's daughter Eunice Kinney and her husband Nathaniel Churchill. This helps me solidify that the Mary Kinney who married James Sipprell was the daughter of Stephen Kinney and Merab Ives.

Information provided by Cousin Jerry Kuntz (Anonymous), a Kinney cousin descended from two sons of Israel, John and Asa.

From Edwin Wallace Bell's Israel Kenny : his children and their families. 1944. p. 103:
"In the year 1830 several families in the settlement of Wakefield, N. B., became interested in new territory being taken up in western Ontario and among them were men who had married women of the Kenney family. Nathaniel Churchill, his brother Lemuel, Daniel Kenney, son of Stephen, with his wife Elizabeth Churchill and the two eldest sons of William Sipprell, William and James Sipprell with their wives and families treked [sic] overland on sleds drawn by farm horses from Wakefield, N. B., to what at that time was called "Canada West."