George Keller (abt. 1712 - aft. 1783)

Born about 1712 in Schwarzenacker, Homburg, Homburg, Zweibrücken, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Anna (Hottel) Keller — married Jun 1733 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Colony of Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died after 28 Mar 1783 after about age 71 in Toms Brook, Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States

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Biography

George Keller performed Patriotic Service in Virginia in the American Revolution.

George Keller is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A064269.

Cleanup Research Notes

Cleanup started on 04 January 2022. There are many things that need to be verified by sources:

• Birth date and location
• Parentage
• Children

Sources are somewhat cleaned up, but needs more work. The best source to use for cleaning up this profile will be the book, History of the Descendants of John Hottel. Find A Grave has data with very little sources to prove where it came from. - Eric Weddington

Burial

Burial:

Place: Mount Olive (Shenandoah County), Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA^[1]

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1764

Place: Frederick County, VA^[2]

Immigration

Immigration ship: Pleasant, Captain: James Morris from Palatines departed from Rotterdam, Holland and Deal Landed one month before his father in law John Hottel. 11 October 1732 Rotterdam to Philadelphia, PA. ^[3]

Marriage

Marriage:

Date: 1737

Place: Pennsylvania, USA^[4][5]

1737

Pennsylvania, USA^[6]

in 1793 The executors of the estate('Adam Shireman and Joseph Snapp) sued the heirs of Alexander' Staatzliger ETC in Shenandoah Chancery Court. This is a 93 page document that primarily deals with a 1769 deed with Mathis Funk; however, many people are mentioned and the deed is included in the file. ^[7] [1]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S251
2. ↑ Source: #S169
3. ↑ Huddle: Page 820.
4. ↑ Source: #S132 Page: Source number: 23858.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 3
5. ↑ Source: #S132 Page: Source number: 23858.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 3
6. ↑ Source: #S59 Page: Source number: 23858.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 3; Submitter Code: .
7. ↑ EXRS OF DR George Keller ETC HEIR(S) OF Alexander Staatzliger ETC. File # 1793-001. Chancery Court, Shenandoah County of Virginia. Library of Virginia Chancery Court Records.

• Huddle, William David. History of the Descendants of John Hottel (Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg, Va., 1930).

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of George Keller Sr.", Ancestor # A064269.

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #22124579
  • No primary sources to prove data.

• Source: S150 Author: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Title: Virginia Census, 1607-1890 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.Orig; Repository: #R1

• Source: S30 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls; Repository: #R1

• Source: S59 Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived; Repository: #R1

• Source: S60 Author: Gale Research Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenge; Repository: #R1

• Pennsylvania Church records 1729-1881 US & International Marriage Records 1560-1900

• http://www.hottelkeller.org

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shardon/keller/D1.html#c22923

Research Notes

Martin Keller (1735-1816) has been added to findagrave as a son of George & Barbara. I question this as I have never seen a record stating that they had a son Martin.

Note N153Kraichgau is an area south of Heidelberg & the Neckar Valley and between the Odenwald & Schwarzwald and east of Heilbronn. Hans George Keller came over on the Ship Pleasant, James Morris, Master, from Rotterdam arrived in Philadelphia 11 Oct 1732. After Bastian Keller died (date unknown), his widow, Elisabetha Hildebrands Keller and Anna Elisabetha Keller came over with either Hans George in 1732 or with Joseph Keller in 1737. Hans George belonged to the First Reformed KB, Lancaster, PA and went to Virginia before 1750. Conrad Hulvey and his wife Anna Elisabetha (sister of Hans George) probably went down to Shenandoah County, Virginia near the same time around 1750. A Johannes Keller also came over with Hans George on the same ship (do not know his relationship). He was age 32 in 1737. Note: other Kellers immigrating to Pa from Schaffhausen were: Hans Jacob 1774 Hallau, Hans Jacob 1748 Hallau, Ursala 1748 Hallau, Germany (per DonYoder "Pa German Immigrants 1709-1786"). Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania Census 1772-1890 1750 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia County 1755 -
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County 1774 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia County
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possible will Ancestry.com Shenandoah County, Virginia Wills, 1771-91 OSPage: 487 Name: George Keller My oldest son, George My son in law, Henry Frevill My son, John My daughters: Barbary, Elizabeth, and Mary My son in law, Matthias Wilkin My sons: John, Jacob, and Henry My sons, George and Jacob, Exe. Written: 13 July 1799 Probated: 28 March 1783
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http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/pal_pleasant1732.shtml Pleasant 1732 Rotterdam to PA Contributor: Paula Liby at www.angelfire.com/oh2/paulal/libyweb/shiplog.html Date of Contribution: 4 April 2001 Forty two Palatines, who with their families, were imported in the Ship Pleasant, James Morris, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Deal, as by Clearance thence. From the Minutes of the Provincial Council, printed in Colonial Records, Vol. III, p. 465. SHIP: Pleasant CAPTAIN: James Morris DEPARTURE: Rotterdam DESTINATION: Philadelphia, PA ARRIVAL: October 11, 1732 Men's Names and Ages Johannes Keller, 32; Georg Keller, 20;
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http://www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu/Keller.html "HISTORY OF SHENANDOAH COUNTY VIRGINIA" by John W. Wayland There were three different Keller families living this part of Virginia. The third Keller, George Keller, settled on Tom's Brook, 1750, and married Barbara Anna ( Hottell). The had George Keller of Augusta County, VA; Anna, married Henry Fravel of near Woodstock; John; Elizabeth; Margaret, married Mathias Wilkin; Mary; Jacob; Henry; and Barbara. FROM THE RHINE TO THE SHENANDOAH by Daniel Bly Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc. 1993 Page 104 George Keller of near Mt. Olive was the earliest of these, having settled along Little North Mountain as early as 1737. Mrs. Cleta W. Smith of Silver Spring, Md. has recently proven that this George Keller was born at Weiler in the Kraichgau region of Baden in May, 1711, son of Bastian Keller and his wife, Elisabetha Hildebrandt and that he came to America in 1732 with his mother and other relatives (also see Annette K. Bergert, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EMIGRANTS, vol.II The Northern Kraichgau, 1983, pp. 193-3).
HANS GEORGE KELLER: George Keller according to Prof. I.D. Rupp's "30,000 Immigrants" came from the Palatines on the ship "Pleasant," J. Morris, Captain. Points of departure were Rotterdam, Holland and Deal. They arrived at Philadelphia, PA., in Oct. 11, 1732 other 150 passengers. He landed just one month later than John Hottel, his father-in-law. It seems almost certain that these immigrants had much in common in Europe and came to America because of association in the old country, as well as for opportunities which the New World afforded. It is probable that on his arrival George Keller was associated with his brother, Joseph in Northampton Co., Pa.( more on Joseph look below), and perhaps with the Hottel family during their eighteen-year sojourn in Bucks County of the same state, and emigrated with them to Shenandoah Co., VA, in 1750. He settled permanently on the headwaters of Toms Brook in Stonewall District near the original Hottel homestead not far from Mt.Olive. The same year the Hottel family emigrated to the Shenandoah Valley, George Keller purchased from Lord Thomas Fairfax 400 acres of land lying on the South Shenandoah River. By inheritance through his wife, Barbara Anna, he came into possession of a part of the original Hottel homestead where they lived for the remainder of their lives...He died late in 1782 or in the early part of 1783, leaving a will in which he provided for the comfort of his widow and left much land to his children. He was an outstanding citizen in the early history of Shenandoah County, having been one of the justices of the first court. He was also a prominent churchman. In one instance where reference is made to a land deal, George Keller mentions John Hottel as his father-in-law. In another when referring to his wife he calls her Barbara, while the immigrants register has the name Anna. Her full name therefore must have been Barbara Anna Hottel. The children of George and Anna (Hottel) Keller were born in the seventeen-forties and fifties. The Keller family record could not be found. The names given below were copied from George Keller's will and may not be in rotation of births.
ANNA BARBARA HOTTEL, b. 05 December 1713, Alsheim, Rhine-Pfalz,Germany1; m. HANS GEORGE KELLER, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; b. 17 May 1711, Schwarzenacker, Zweibrucken, Bavaria; d. 1782.
SHENANDOAH COUNTY COURT MINUTES The viewers appointed to view a way for a road petitioned for by Frederick Stoner, from the said Stoner's Mill to Strasburg, and from the said Mill upward to Woodstock having returned their report in these words to wit: We the subscribers conformable to an order of the August Court, have viewed the ground leading from Strasburg to Frederick Stoner's Mill, from said mill to the great road, and find that a convenient road can be made without injuring any person, being first sworn for that purpose before Jonathan Langdon, Gent. February 19, 1773. Alexander Macher, George Keller, George Huddle, ordered that the said way be opened according to report, and Jacob Funkhouser is appointed overseer thereof and all the hands 2 miles on each side of the same, serve thereon under the said Funkhouser, to clean and keep the same in lawful repair.
ORDER BOOK SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1781-1784 Gilreath, Amelia C. 28 March 1783 The last Will & Testament of George Keller, Dec'd. was proven by oaths of George Huddle & Augustine Windle...sworn to by George Keller an Executor therein named...& ordered to be recorded...Henry Fravel & David Keaner his securitys...
Ordered that George Huddle, Jacob Huddle, Jacob Bowman & Augustine Windle... do appraise Personal estate of George Keller, Dec'd. & make return to this Court...( Jacob Bowman was the father of Mary Bowman who married George and Barbara Hottel Keller son John).
FEDERAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR CLAIMS George Keller 325# beef L2-10-2 WILL BOOK A PAGE 487 SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VIRGINIA
GEORGE KELLER, Shenandoah County in Virginia. Wife Barbary. Sons: George Keller; Isaac Keller; Jacob Keller; Henry Keller. Daus: Elizabeth; Mary; Barbary. Mentions: son-in-law, Henry Fravel and son-in-law, Mathias Wilkin. Mentions: Ann Keller. Exors: Sons, George and Jacob Keller Wit: George Huddle and Augustine Wendle Dated: 13 July 1779 Proved: 28 March 1783
From Bruce's History of Virginia.
Anna, a daughter of John and Margaret Hottel, became the wife of George Keller, representing another first family in this region and the owner of several grants of land made by Lord Fairfax to George Keller, one of which lies about one and one-half miles southeast of Woodstock and is part owned now by M.H. Hottel, a direct descendant. Some of this land lies within a mile and one-half of Woodstock on the Shenandoah River. One daughter of George and Anna Keller married Henry Fravel, and their descendants are very numerous in Shenandoah County and are found through Ohio and many states in the west. A careful record compiled some years ago shows that twenty-four states of the Union contain descendants of Henry Fravel and wife. Another daughter of George Keller became the wife of Capt. Jacob Rinker, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and a prominent citizen of Shenandoah County, and their descendants have also been widely scattered over the United States.
History of the Descendants of John Hottel.
Barbara Anna Hottel, (only daughter of Johannes (John) and Margaret Hottel) was born in Europe about 1730. After her arrival in the United States she married George Keller. According to Dr. Eli Keller, ""Joseph Keller"", a younger brother of George was born in Schwarzenacker, near the city of Zweibrucken, Bavaria, (Rhein-Pfalz) on March 15, 1719. This gives an approximate idea regarding the place and date of birth of George Keller. The above historian gives a word-picture of the country from which the Kellers came, especially around Zweibrucken which is exceedingly beautiful...By tradition we have the following: His mother was first the wife of Mr. Guth, and had a son whom, when grown, emigrated to America. When widowed she married a Mr. Keller and had two more sons. Mr. Guth was a member of the Roman Catholic Church but dying when his children were young; they were instructed and confirmed in the Reformed Church to which their mother belonged. The older of the two brothers also immigrated to America and settled in Virginia. Their names were George and Joseph."
Northern Neck Land Grants M-294: George Keller of Frederick Co. 126 A. in said Co. Surv. Mr. Robert Rutherford. Adj. George Huddle, John Huddle, Mary Little, said Keller, foot of N. Mt. 4 Sept. 1764
KIRCHENBUCH ALSHEIM BEI GRONAU REFORMED The German language versions below were provided by Herr Roland Paul, associate director of the "Institute fur Pfalziche Geschichte und Volkskunde" in Kaiserslautern, Germany. They came from the original church records of the Reformed Church in Alsheim bei Gronau in the Palatinate of Germany. Herr Paul translated the German to English, and his translation appear below Parenthetical expressions are either Herr Paul's, in the case of question marks (which indicate his uncertainty on the exact spelling of some of the words) Tom Speelman (to indicate locations or clarification of a profession that the translation refers to).
1713 geboren den Sten xbris den 10ten xbris war getaufft Eine Junge Tochter nahmens Anna Barbara, der Vatter war Johannes Hodel, die Mutter Elisabetha, Tauffzeugen waren Andreas Hodel und Anna Barbara Schmuckerin von Fridelsheim.
Translation: 1713 born on 5th December on the 10th of December was baptized a young daughter named Anna Barbara, the father was Johannes Hodel, the mother Elisabetha, Godparents were Andreas Hodel and Anna Barbara Schmuckerin from Fridelsheim.