Ulrich Keener I (1710 - 1784)

Born 1710 in Baldenheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Ann (Ehrehard) Keener — married 1739 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 13 Sep 1784 at about age 74 in German, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

William & Ann arrived in America on 27 Sep 1727, on the Ship "James Goodwill", David Crocket Master. The ship sailed from Rotterdam to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Traveling with them were ( two brothers named Adam and Hans.

He remained there until his death, while some of his descendants were among "among the oldest settlers" of Taylor County, West Virginia, and "one of the most noted in the early history of this section of Western Virginia."

'Jackson Co, NC Heritage book, pg 311 gives a summary of the Keener family. 'On 28 July 1741 by land warrant Ulrick was issued 50 acres in Lancaster Co, PA, his occupation is listed as stonemason. Ulrick was in Augusta Co, VA with land grant #G-463 for 300 acres on 20 Oct 1750 on NR Shenandoah adjacent to George Byrne and Hugh Devinie, by the Great Waggon Road. This part of Augusta Co. became Shenandoah Co. in 1778. In August 1756 Ulrick served with the Augusta Co. militia, Capt. John Denton's Company of Foot, in the Colonial Forces... Elizabeth 'Mary' Keener of Shenandoah Co, VA found in the 1785 census as a widow, was last found in the 1790 VA census.'

Ulrich Keener applied for 50 acres of land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania "Situate in Warwick Township Adjoining Adam Keener's land." The application was dated 28 July 1741. This was also about the time that his son Ulrich was born in Lancaster.

Sources

• Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s", Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1727; Page Number: 51, Ancestry Record 7486 #3190120 (accessed 29 October 2022)
  Name: Ulrich Kiener; Arrival Year: 1727; Arrival Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Primary Immigrant: Kiener, Ulrich; Source Publication Code: 7820; Annotation: An index by Marvin V. Koger, Index to the Names of 30,000 Immigrants...Supplementing the Rupp, Ship Load Volume, 1935, 232p. is inferior to Wecken's index in the third edition (above). Page 449 contains "Names of the First Palatines in North Carolina, as; Source Bibliography: RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia, Chronologically Arranged, Together with the Necessary Historical and Other Notes, also, an Appendix Containing Lists of More Than One Thousand German and French Names in New York prior to 1712. Leipzig [Germany]:;
  Household Members (Name):
  Ulrich Kiener.

• PA-Roots site.

• Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952, Ancestry.com - https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2350/images/33019_b078876-00106?pId=112740.

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LB2H-465.

• Ulrich Keener's will on this page: https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~azgeno/genealogy/keener%202012/2012keener.htm.