Dan Kenney Jr. was born on 19 Oct 1705 in Boxford Ma, and is also listed in Salem births for the same date. All the subsequent births of his younger siblings were recorded in Boxford as well (*except for brother Jacob), BUT all of their baptisms (including Jacob's) were listed in Salem Vital Records, except Dan Jr's was listed as a birth for some reason. At that time, the area of Boxford that they occupied became Middleton in 1728, and today the Kenney Rd. area of Middleton is essentially where they lived.

Daniel Jr. received from his father Dan Sr. 50 pounds to buy out his share of family claim, and the recorded Essex county deed reads "for his encouragement" on 6th Feb 1726. He then purchased 31 acres in Sutton from Isaac Nichols of Sutton, on the same day for 70 pounds. That deed is recorded in the Suffolk Co deeds as Worcester Co was not created until 1731. That sale was officially recorded on 21 June 1727. When Dan Jr. actually moved and began living there is not known, but he married Elizabeth Stockwell on 27 Aug 1727 in Sutton.

Based on available Early Vital Records, Daniel fathered a total of 12 children, 10 of them living to at least early adulthood. Four of his sons served in the French and Indian War, (Dan 3rd, William, Israel and Asa,) with two (William and Dan the 3rd) paying the ultimate sacrifice. Two other sons served during the American Revolution (Archelaus and Reuben) as well as seven grandsons. Two of Dan Jr.'s male offspring (Israel and Asa) also brought the Kenney (that quickly changed spelling in essentially one generation to Kinney) name and lineage to Maugerville/Burton in what was then the Colony of Nova Scotia in 1767, preceding the arrival of the Loyalist's by 16 years, and then that area became New Brunswick Canada. While Asa and his one known son didn't survive long enough to spread the Kinney name, Israel's progeny have spread throughout Canada, back into the US and the world.

There is no known citation listing the date of Daniel's death, it is not found in the Vital Records. However, we can narrow it to probably sometime during June of 1753 based on the following info. Daniel Jr.'s last purchase of a very small piece of land abutting the land he and his family currently lived on was written on 22 May 1753. His wife Elizabeth petitioned the Worcester Court on 21 June 1753 for their oldest son Daniel "Jr." (we would consider him Daniel the 3rd) to be the administrator of the estate, as Dan died intestate.

I do not know for sure where he is buried, but I strongly suspect that he is in Sutton Center. In the accounting of Dan's final expenses that his son Dan Jr. (3rd) provided back to the court, there is a line item for 3 pounds and 6 shillings for his coffin and digging the grave but no mention of to whom and where. Knowing the area and the general descriptions provided in the deeds of the lands he lived on as I do, there are really only 1-3 choices. The most plausible and probable is that he could be buried in the Sutton town center cemetery as he was one of the town's earlier settlers, and typically has the generally oldest stones/earliest deaths in town. It is remotely possible that he could be in the West Millbury cemetery that is near what was known as the North Parish of Sutton, and later became Millbury in 1813. He and Elizabeth were initial participants in the creation and then members of the Congregational church's 2nd Parish Church near there in the mid 1740's, and at that time closer to where he lived, But I have a problem with that from the dates of the 1st known interments not happening there till about 1775. Last limited possibility is just a bit further to the west side in Sutton is the Waters/Goffe cemetery, again somewhat closer to the area Dan lived in, but most stones in there are either broken at the base and are gone, or were always just chunks of granite without etching, we will probably never know. Placing him in the Town Center cemetery is probably the most logical location

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