Georg Fredric Moser (1722 - 1800)

Born 3 Mar 1722 in Breitenau, Feuchtwangen, Ansbach, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Barbara (Lieser) Moser — married about 22 Apr 1750 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 21 Feb 1800 at age 77 in Orange, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Occupation: 1759 Tax Collector, Greenwich Twsp., Berks Co PA

Migration: 1762 PA to Orange Co NC

Will: May 1800 Orange Co NC

Research Notes

Discrepancy in where Johann Frederick MOSSER was born — Strassburg in Alsace, or in Weißenkirchberg, near Leutershausen, Ansbach, Mittelfranken, Germany? He was born at neither. He was baptized 3 Mar 1722 at Breitenau, Ansbach, now in Bayern, Germany. This is the village in which his parents were married.

He is not on any list of emigrants at Philadelphia. He came with his father Johan Martin MOSER and family.

1752 signed his mark on petition to make [Lynn] Tp in then Northampton Co, now Lehigh Co, PA.

On 1759 tax list Lynn Tp Lehigh Co PA; also 1 Sept 1761, assessed on £7 value.

Signed his name Frederig MOSER.

Mott's printout gives names of 13 children.

Book 975.6 v2d Census 1790 Lists heads of families in third company: Fred Mouser, 1 male 16+ 3 males -16 and 4 females

Went to North Carolina in 1762/63. Taxed in Orange Co., NC in 1790. Sources of Frederick's will of 20 April 1796 ^[1]

The Moser family is mentioned among the early settlers of the area: Three distinct groups led the movement and established colonies in the area which became Alamance County. To the Cane Creek section, near the present village of Snow Camp, came a group of Pennsylvania Quakers; east and north of the Haw River settled Scotch-Irish Presbyterians; and along the western boundary of the Alamance Creek a large number of Lutheran and Reformed set-tlers found new homes. Most of them were agriculturists, and few villages were built. Along the Alamance were the Albrights, Holts, Shoffners, Mosers, Isleys, Kimes, Staleys, Halls, Trollingers, Whitsetts, Hornadays, Reitzels, and other Germanic folk.^[2]

Frederick Moser is credited with Malachi Isley as being a founder of St. Paul Lutheran Church in 1763 or 1773.

Frederick Moser was among the farmers who were required by Governor Tryon to swear an oath of allegiance to the British crown following the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771, ending the War of the Regulation. Frederick's sons were not old enough to be in the battle, consequently the oath was not administered to them. When the American Revolution broke out, the boys sided with the patriots, but Frederick kept his oath. Someone reported to the authorities that he was aiding and abetting the American cause. Soldiers were sent to arrest him. When he saw them, he ran into his house and escaped out the back side into a thicket. The soldiers not knowing this, when they could not find him, fired the house to be sure of this death. After they left, he came from his hiding place, said that politically he was dead, and assisted the American cause thereafter.

In 1780, Frederick's property was valued at 690 pounds and included 240 acres, four hourses and ten cows.

Frederick made his will on April 17, 1796, leaving his property to his wife and children: Of sound mind & memory, advanced in years and knowing that by reason of my age I cannot live long, I Frederic Mosier sen. of Orange County in North Carolina do make this my last will & testament. I devise, will & bequeath to my sons John Mosier, and Frederic Mosier, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns forever all my lands and tenements subject to & charged with the payment of the sums following at or before the times limited & expressed hereinafter, to the persons herein-after to be mentioned, that is to say to each of my sons Jacob, Michael, Abraham, Phillip and Nicholas, severally, thirty five silver dollars making in the whole one hundred seventy five dollars which when paid to my sons as aforesaid shall be a discharge in full of their several legacies, to each of my daughters Caty Kimbro, Barbary Huffman, Mary Kek, Lizy Sharp, Eve Sharp, Magdelane Butcher, severally, twelve and a half silver dollars, making altogether seventy five silver dollars in full of the legacies to my daughters. The first payment shall be made to my son Jacob in four years after my death, the second to my daughter Caty in five years, the third to my son Abraham in six years, the fourth to Barbary in Generation 1 (con't) daughter Caty in five years, the third to my son Abraham in six years, the fourth to Barbary in seven years, the fifth to Michael in eight years, the sixth to Mary in nine years, the seventh to Phillip in ten years, the eighth to Lizy in eleven years, the eighth to Nicholas in twelve years, the tenth to Eve in thirteen years, the eleventh to Magdalane in fourteen years after my death, which sums on one hundred seventy five dollars and seventy five dollars when paid to my sons and daughters severally to my sons thirty five dollars, and severally to my daughters twelve and a half dollars at or before the time & periods after my death as ex-pressed, shall discharge to my sons John & Frederic of any demises or legacies due in consequence of the land & tenement hereby given to them. It is my will & desire that my personal estate may be sold in the customary manner, & that so much of the money as may be necessary for the discharge of my just debts shall be appropriated to the purpose & the residue shall be divided share & share alike among all my sons & daughters, or their representatives, but if my wife Barbary survives me, she shall retain and keep possession of so much of my personal chattel as she may think necessary for her support & maintenance, during her natural life, to be disposed of after her death & paid over to my sons & daughters as above directed. My wife Barbary shall during her natural life occupy & posses so much of my land & tenement & such as she would have been entitled to in & as if I died intestate. I constitute & appoint my son Phillip and my son-in-law Peter Sharp executors of this my last will and testament. Witness my had this twelth day of April seven-teen hundred ninety six. Witness present R Cochran Frederick Mosier Phillip Mosier qualified as Exr. Barbara died in 1796. On February 21, 1800, Frederick gave his 225 acre farm to his youngest son, Frederick Jr. He died shortly af-terwards, and his estate was probated in May 1800.

Barbara's surname has also been seen as Luser, Loscher, Loeser, Leeser and Lesser. It was recorded on her marriage record as "Luser." The name is shown as "Lieser" on the passenger list of the Robert & Alice, 1739. Benedict "Leeser" is recorded in the 1739 census for Philadelphia County.

Stinking Quarter Creek is a lengthy tributary of the Alamance Creek of the Haw River, running westerly across what is now central Alamance County and into Guilford County. The western reaches of the creek were in Guilford County when it was created in 1770, and the eastern part fell into Alamance County at its creation in 1849. The Alamance Creek and Stinking Quarter Creek area of old Orange County, near the present town of Burlington, was settled almost exclusively by German Lutheran and Reformed families beginning in the 1750's.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Joseph Moser and Isabelle Duncan: Their Ancestors and descendants in America, By M. D. Coffey, 1990 (DAR Library)
2. ↑ Centennial History of Alamance County 1849-1949 by Walter Whitaker [Charlotte NC: Dowd Press, Inc; pg 14-15]
3. ↑ Rev. D.I. Offman, Moser Family Records, Burlington, N.C.: Alamance County Historical Association, 1974.

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• "Abstracts of wills recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1752-1800"

Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of Shortened files.ged on 30 December 2010.