Johann Sebastian Klein (1712 - abt. 1791)

Born 17 Jun 1712 in Postroff, Moselle, France

Ancestors

Husband of Susan Christina Elizabeth (Beiber) Cline — married 1740 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died about 27 Dec 1791 at about age 79 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Sebastian Cline was born 16 June 1712 in Postorf, Alsace, France and christened there 17 June 1716. Sebastian immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British America, 3 September 1737.^[1]

Sebastian married Susan Beaver (Bieber) in 1740 in Pennsylvania.^[2]

Sebastian was a tanner by trade and became a constable on Feb 7 1772. Sebastian was naturalized 16 July 1775 at county court sessions of Rowan County, North Carolina.^[3]

Sebastian died 27 Dec 1791 in Lincoln County, North Carolina and is buried at Old Saint Paul Lutheran Church Cemetery, in present-day Newton, Catawba, North Carolina, United States. Date of birth, date of death are on tombstone.^[4]

Will

Sebastian Klein executed his will on 27 December 1791 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He signed in German script as Bastian Klein; Boston Cline in English script is written below the signature. Witnesses were John Dietz and Samuel Killian. Klein's estate entered probate at the April 1792 sessions of Lincoln County Court.
Summary:
Wife Elisabeth all furniture, husbandry goods, still and furniture thereto, one mare, all cash and outstanding debts. At her death any remains to be "equel shared amongst all my children" [unnamed]
Son Christopher Cline the sum of twenty shillings within three months after my decease
Deceased daughter Utilly Hefner/Mrs. George Hefner - her share to her children Henry Hefner and Catherine Huyard [Huit]
Wife Elisabeth appointed executrix and son Michael Cline appointed executor^[5]

Boston Cline's estate papers were received by the State Archives from an unofficial source in 1992. A voucher records payment of £1.10.0 for brandy. A Return of Sales, listing all who made purchases, indicates a vendue was conducted September 1794. The estate settlement is dated April 1797.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Derick S. Hartshorn III, database online, NCGenWeb, Hans Georg Cline of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and Monroe County, Ohio (http://www.ncgenweb.us/catawba/Cline/index.htm), and Descendants of Sebastian Cline of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and North Carolina (http://www.ncgenweb.us/catawba/family/Cline.TXT). Mr. Hartshorn's database is compiled primarily from two sources: 1) Ciscero Cline, "Klein Family History, Biography, and Records about The Ancestors and Descendants of Sebastian and other Kleins (Clines) Pioneers who were born about the years 1700 to 1750 with many notes and records about Allied Families Began April the 10th by Ciscero Cline A Great-Grandson and Tabulated by John McDowell Ballard in 1936” (manuscript donated to the Catawba County Public Library, Newton, North Carolina); and 2) George B. Cline Jr., The Cline Families of North Carolina 1750-1860 And Their European Ancestry, 1580-1750 (Los Altos, California, Feb 2003).
2. ↑ Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Marriages, database, Ancestry. The Family Data Collection - Marriages database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.
3. ↑ Hartshorn, database, Ancestors and Descendants of Sebastian Cline of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and North Carolina and Hans Georg Cline of Postorff, Alsace, Germany and Monroe County, Ohio.
4. ↑ Find A Grave memorial for Johann Sebastian “Bostian” Klein/Cline (17 Jun 1712–27 Dec 1791) created 11 Dec 2020 by Glenn Ellis; citing Old St Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery in present-day Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina.
5. ↑ Lincoln County Original Wills, Boston Cline (1792); North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh; contributed by Kathy Gunter Sullivan.
6. ↑ Lincoln County Miscellaneous Papers, Bostian Cline (1794), box no. CR.060928.9, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.

• Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s", Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1749; Page Number: 297, Ancestry Record 7486 #3132051 (accessed 3 December 2022)
  Name: Moritz Klein; Arrival Year: 1749; Arrival Place: Pennsylvania; Primary Immigrant: Klein, Moritz; Source Publication Code: 1031.10; Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Name of ship, village of origin, and reference to original record may also be provided. Spouse and children, mentioned prior to emigration, were assumed by indexers to have accompanied emigrant. Much genealogical data is also provided.; Source Bibliography: BURGERT, ANNETTE K. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992. 690p.;
  Household Members (Name):
  Moritz Klein
  Anna Catharina Klein
  Johannes Klein
  Hans Michael Klein
  Joh. Sebastian Klein
  Joh. Theobald Klein.