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- "A Colonial History of Rowan County, NC - 1917
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncrowan/rowanhis.txt; USGENWEB ARCHIVES
Submitted by: William N. Greer greerswest@aol.com
Excerpt: CHAPTER II
THE SETTLEMENTS AND BOUNDARIES OF ROWAN COUNTY
The exact date of the appearance of settlers in Rowan County cannot be
determined. We have already seen that long before the cabin of a
permanent settler was erected traders from Virginia frequented theregion
in order to barter with the Indians. The chief contributors to thepopulation
were the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from the north of Ireland, the
Germans, usually known as Pennsylvania Dutch, who adhered to thetenets of
the Lutheran and German Reformed Churches, and the Moravians, orUnited
Brethren, from Moravia and Bohemia. From time to time men belongingto no
one of these groups came to the frontier, but such settlers formed a
small part of the total number of inhabitants. The Scotch-Irish werethe
most active and probably the most numerous part of the population.These
people were Scotch in blood, being descendants of the Scotch whom the
English rulers had placed on the confiscated lands of Irish rebels inthe
Province of Ulster, in north Ireland, during the seventeenth century.To
distinguish them from the natives of Scotland they have received thename
of Scotch-Irish.l Some forty years prior to the outbreak of the
Revolutionary War they began to flock to America. Foote, in his
"Sketches of North Carolina," assigns their migration to three causes,
namely: religion, politics, and property.2 Disabilities were imposedupon
them because they were not members of the established church ofIreland;
they desired more political liberty than they enjoyed in the oldworld; and the ease with which land
could he obtained in America was a third powerful incentive to their
coming hither.3 Some came to Charleston and pushed into the frontier
country from that place, but most of them landed in Pennsylvania and,
after making some settlements in that. province, turned southward, andby
1739 located in the Valley of Virginia.
The Scotch-Irish were soon followed by another stream of immigrantsthe
Germans who had previously located in Pennsylvania. The route whichthe
German and Scotch-Irish settlers took in making the overland journeyfrom
Pennsylvania to western North Carolina is described by ColonelSaunders as
follows:
On Jeffrey's map, a copy of which is in the Congressional Library at
Washington City, there is plainly laid down a road called "the GreatRoad
from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia, distant 435
miles." It ran from Philadelphia through Lancaster and York to
Winchester, thence up the Shenandoah Valley, crossing the FluvannaRiver
to Looney's Ferry, thence to Staunton River, and down the riverthrough
the Blue Ridge, thence southward, crossing Dan River below the mouthof
Mayo River, thence still southward near the Moravian settlement to the
Yadkin River, just above the mouth of Linville Creek and about tenmiles
above the mouth of Reedy Creek.9
The Germans did not extend their settlements quite so far west as the
Scotch-Irish did. They were industrious and economical in theirhabits
and formed a valuable part of the population. As the laws werewritten
and expounded in English and all public business was transacted inthat
language, the Germans were incapable, in most instances, ofparticipating
in public affairs.l0 The process whereby they were naturalized wasthe
taking of several oaths prescribed by law and the repeating and
subscribing of the test. The test, as entered on the court records of
the county, was in this form:
I, do believe in my conscience that there is not any
transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper or in the
elements of bread and wine at or after the consecration thereof by any
person whatsoever.
Other settlers from Virginia and the north came by a route furthereast
that passed through the section now embraced by Caswell County.12
Immigrants poured into the western country very rapidly. etc..."
[Transcribed 01 June 2007, SLJuhl, compiler]
"Title: Thompson, Throckmorton, Meade, Willis, and More
ID: I05621;http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geep99&id=I05621
Name: Johann Christian KIKER 1 2
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1728 in Germany
Death: ABT 1800 in Rowan County, North Carolina
Marriage 1 Elizabeth LINEBERGER b: 1728 in Germany
Married: 12 MAR 1751/52 in Rowan County, North Carolina
Children
George Adam KIKER b: 1754 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
John KIKER b: ABT 1756 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Conrad KIKER b: ABT 1758 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Mary KIHER b: 6 MAY 1759 in Pennsylvania
Nancy KIKER b: 1768 in North Carolina
Catherine KIKER b: 1777 in North Carolina
Sources:
Title: LDS
Text: Individual Record FamilySearch? Ancestral File v4.19, AFN:1GLF-073
Title: World Family Tree
Text: Volume 11, Tree 3807
Title: LDS
Text: Individual Record FamilySearch? Pedigree Resource File, CompactDisc #19, Pin #303715; Submitter: Brynjulf E. Hulleberg (BRIAN), 524South 900 East Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102-2917, Submission Search:170344-0826100091224
2007-01-18 03:03:13 UTC (Thu)
Gary; GThompson5@satx.rr.com" [Transcribed 01 June 2007, SLJuhl,compiler]
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Abt 1728 - Abt 1800 (72 years)