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Peter Costner (abt. 1737 - 1780)

Peter Costner
Born about in Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reichmap
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Died at about age 43 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

Peter was born around 1737 in Rhineland, Germany to Hans ”George" Adam Costner and Maria Anna (Kraus) Costner. He was baptized on December 15, 1737 in the Evangelisch Church located in Edenkoben, Pfalz, Bavaria (Rhineland - Palatine). His parents are listed as Georg Adam Kastner and Maria Anna.[1] In 1763 he immigrated to the British Colony of Pennsylvania under the name of Philipp Peter Kastner.[2]

In March 1779 Lincoln County residents, including Peter Costner and his brother Thomas Costner, signed petitions to the General Assembly reporting their election of militia officers.[3]

According to Lorena Eaker, German Speaking People West of the Catawba River in North Carolina 1750-1800, pp. 115-118, "Peter Costner, son of Adam and Anna Maria (Kraus) Kastner, was born c1740 in German; died 20 or 21 June 1780 either during or after the Battle at Ramsour's Mill in Lincoln Co., NC. He fought for the British and his possessions came under the Confiscation Act."[4]

Peter Costner died intestate (no will). His confiscated estate is mentioned in January 1782 sessions of Lincoln County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.

Ordered by Court that Mary Costner, wife of Peter Costner deceased, be permitted to enjoy the third part [widow's one-third dower] of the land which said Costner died possessed of together with the dwelling house, barn & kitchen etc. & that the Commissioners of Confiscated Property of said County lay off the same to the quanity [quantity] & quality of said land & she to enjoy the same untill this Court shall otherwise direct. Same Court, Friday: Ordered by the Court that the Widdow of Peter Costner have the use of all her land untill the next Court in said County.[5]

In 1784, widow Mary Costner was allowed to begin probate of Peter Costner's estate.[6]

Peter Costner Jr., son of Peter and Mary, died without a surviving wife or children; therefore, his real estate was divided among his surviving siblings and the children of his deceased siblings in a series of 1839 deeds. These deeds supply the names of seven of Peter Costner Sr.'s children.[7]

Children of Peter and Mary Costner

  1. Adam Costner. Spouse: Susan Rudisill
  2. David Costner. Spouse: Mary Magdalene Derr
  3. Mary Barbara Costner. Spouse: Moses Wilson
  4. Mary Costner. Spouse: Adam Deck
  5. Peter Costner Jr. Spouse: Louisa Walters
  6. Elizabeth Costner. Spouse: John Lineberger (a.k.a. Linebarger)
  7. Catherine Costner

Sources

  1. ↑ "Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898," Ancestry.com.
  2. ↑ "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s;" Ancestry; citing P. William Filby, ed., p., 155. Ancestry Record 7486 #3191279. See also, "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s." Bernd Goelzer, "Westrich Emigrants, 1709-1799," The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 12, no. 4 (Jan. 1988): 147-162.
  3. ↑ General Assembly Session Records, 1779, petitions from inhabitants of Lincoln County for William Graham to be made Colonel, submitted at May 1779 General Assembly sessions, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
  4. ↑ Lorena Eaker cites Agnes Yount of LaVale, Maryland; Charles L. Costner of Baton Rouge, La.; Laban Miles Hoffman, Our Kin, and personal research.
  5. ↑ Kathy Gunter Sullivan, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1779-1788, Lincoln County, North Carolina (Privately printed, 2004), p. 24, January 1782 sessions, Peter Costner estate; transcribed from microfilm C.060.3001, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
  6. ↑ "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," digital images, FamilySearch, Peter Costner, 1779 [sic 1782]; FHL microfilm 2,297,096; citing North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.
  7. ↑ Lincoln County, North Carolina, Deed Book 38: 296-305, Peter Costner Jr.'s real estate; Register of Deeds, Lincolnton.
  • Laban Miles Hoffman, Our Kin being a history of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger families (Charlotte, N.C.: D.E. Ryne, L.L. Jenkins, and L.M. Hoffman, 1915), Chapter 3, p. 233, Costner; digital images, Ancestry.com.
  • Kathy Gunter Sullivan.

Acknowledgments

  • WikiTree profile Costner-9 created through the import of HAYER.GED on May 29, 2011 by Larry Hayer.
  • WikiTree profile Kastner-50 created through the import of familytree.ged on Jun 23, 2011 by David Moses.




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Kathy (Gunter) Sullivan
I deleted this part of the narrative:

According to the Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina, Peter Costner was a member of the Lincoln County 2nd Regiment [cited to Chapter IX 1812-1819 by Sherrill]. This regiment was assigned on July 8, 1777 to the North Carolina Brigade, an element of the Main Continental Army commanded directly by George Washington. [cited to American Revolutionary War Continental Regiments.

William L. Sherrill, Annals of Lincoln County, Chapter IX, 1812-1819. Sherrill (p. 79) was reporting Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, not the Continental Army. The War of 1812 roster listing is for Peter Costner Jr., not the elder Peter Costner.

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E. McCraw
Kastner-50 and Costner-9 appear to represent the same person because: same parents (merged profiles)
posted by E. McCraw

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