It was told that four brothers immigrated to America during the Revolutionary War from Germany in service to Great Britain. Once on American soil they left and sought new lives for themselves in the new world.
Note: My mother recounted that the Kesner name was once preceded by Von... and that our family was of Scotch, Irish, Dutch, Dane and American Indian, either Cherokee or Sioux (has not been proven).
Casner Year: 1750 Place: Pennsylvania Source Publication Code: 1031.9 Primary Immigrant: Casner Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of naturalization. Span indicates period between last mention of emigrant in country of origin and first mention of his residence in the New World. "Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname. Source Bibliography: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate. 1985. 405p. Page: 190 Note: No Christian name is given in the above record. [1] JOHN CASNER ( Born abt 1729 probably Germany - Death abt 1817 Pendleton Co. WV ) + ?
Children of John Casner + (1) ? Adam 1747 aka? John Adam (not proven, could be brothers?)
Elizabeth 1762 + Thomas Lincoln (this Elizabeth may be the daughter of Philip Peter Casner who immigrated in 1863, Thomas was a great uncle to Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln family moved from the Northern Neck of VA Colony to Kentucky) Jacob In my quest to find possible siblings to John, I have found the following records that possibly give him a marriage after he immigrated from Germany to settle in then Augusta County, VA... counties and states were being born so records can be found under multiple headings. There is a female in 1810 Census.
CHRONICLES OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA; Vol 2, pp 320-329 by Lyman Chalkley Page 167.--25th September, 1775. Jacob Gillaspy to John Casner, on Briery Branch, patented to Jacob Gillaspey, deceased, and by his decease vested in said Jacob Gillaspey (grantor) as eldest son and heir Page 4.--28th September, 1786. Philip (X) Olinger's will, farmer--To son, Jacob, 186 acres, home place; to wife, Juliana; to son, Stophel; to daughter. Barbara, and her son, John Palmer, infant; to daughter, Katharine; to grandson, Jacob Casner, infant, to be taught both Dutch and English, and to cypher, and a trade; to son, Philip, deed to be made for 148 acres he now lives on. Executors, Jacob Gabord and Augustine Argenbright. Teste: Jacob Maxwell, Wat. Cunningham, Frederick Hanger. Proved, April, 1787, by Cunningham and Hanger. Argenbright qualifies John Philip Olinger, b. ca. 1721 in Germany; d. ca. 1786/1787 in, Augusta County, VA; m. 2 Feb 1744, Lebanon County, PA to Juliana Umberger, daughter of Hans Heinrich & Juliana (Steeger) Umberger, b. p. 8 Jan 1719, Reyhen, Germany. John Philip & Juliana (Umberger) Olinger had (5) five children, they were listed in Philip's will probated 12 Apr 1787: I. Jacob Jacob Casner b. 1786 1781 Brake/Claypool Rebellion: The Tory Uprising or the Brake/Claypool Rebellion took place over a period of several months. Jacob Fisher in his pension application states: "On April 1781 marched against the Tories in the western part of Hampshire Co. which tour ended July 1781. Engaged in skirmish with Tories, near Brakes in Hampshire, now Hardy Co." [1] The following is a letter from Col. Van Meter of Hampshire Co. to Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of Virginia, dated 11 April 1781. " I am sorry to inform your Excellency that a dangerous insurrection has lately arisen in this County, occasioned by the execution of the late Acts of Assembly for recruiting this state's quota of troops to serve in the Continental Army, and the Act for supplying the Army with clothes, provisions and wagons, in consequence of which the collector of the tax under the former Act has been opposed in the execution of his duty and has been obliged to desist from any further proceeding therein, and although every measure that prudence could suggest has been taken to suppress the rioters, yet it has proved ineffectual by reason of their having a superior force. I therefore thought it my duty to lay the matter before your Excellency, and hope such measures will be taken in consequence of the late Act of Assembly for giving your Excellency further powers and as shall be thought requisite. This day our draft was completed and in a few day shall send your Excellency a full account thereof and every other necessary information requisite. Garrett VanMeter, Colonel " (Garrett VanMeter research shows was a great uncle to Catherine Van Meter who married Bladen Ashby a descendant of our Thomas Ashby) "PETITION OF JACOB BRAKE AND OTHERS," for pardon for having through ignorance, and the persuasion of others, joined in the late "Conspiracy against the State the object of which was to refuse payment of Taxes, and to oppose the Act of Oct: 1780 for raising Troops for the Service" - Setting forth the same reasons given in John Claypole's application, why they should enjoy Executive clemency, and adding, that they "have been instrumental in detecting and bringing in some of the Principal Conspirators to Justice &c" - . Signed by - Jacob Brake, Adam Rodebaugh, John Mace, Michael Algrie, Isaac Brake, John Mitchell, Saml: Lourie, Lenoard Hier, Jacob Hier, George Peck, Jr, John Casner, Jacob Yeazle, Thos: Nutler, Thos: Stacy, John Rodebaugh, Henry Rodebaugh, Jacob House, Jeremiah Ozburn, Jacob Crites, Anthony Reager, Josiah Ozburn, George Lites, Charles Borrer, Jacob Pickle, John Wease, Adam Wease, & Adam Wease Jur: * STATE OF VIRGINIA ENUMERATIONS HAMPSHIRE COUNTY - 1784
Casner, John 6 [ list of Abraham Johnson] 1 [ list of John Wilson] * "List of Land Tax for the County of Pendleton for the Year 1789" {Later known as the Lower Surname FactsLower District which is the northern portion of Pendleton County] * 1797---June 8, Henry Miller and John Kesner, surety. Henry Miller and Elizabeth Weaver, daughter of John Peter Weaver (consent), Teste: Wm. Sterritt, Thos. Douthat. Henry is son of Martin Moller (consent). Teste: Luke Collins, John Kisner * 1810 Census Pendleton Co. VA (Record shows 1 male 45+ 1 female 26-44) Casner, John 0 0 0 0 1 0 / 0 0 0 1 0 0 0/9 10/15 16/25 26/44 45+ Kesner, John M 0 0 0 0 1 F 0 0 0 1 0 |