CHRISTAIN BORN 1725 GERMANY DIED 1788 ROWAN CO,NC
CHARITY BORN 1735
CHILDREN NEW JERESY
JOHN BORN APR 4,1752-1820
MARRIED CATHERINE TRUCKS
PETER 1757-1831
MARRIED 1ST WIFE ???DAVIS 2ND WIFE ANGES SPURGEON
WILLIAM BORN OCT 20,1759 -1834
MARRIED CATHERINE SHIRES
ANN 1761
MARRIED ANDREW MANERING
CHRISTIAN BORN JUN 20,1763-1840
MARRIED ELIZABETH SWAIM
CHARITY BORN MAR 10,1767 -1830
MARRIED ISAAC ODELL
JACOB BORN SEP 24,1770-1854
1ST WIFE ELIZABETH SPURGEON
2ND WIFE NANCY DANIEL CROUCH
DAVID 1774-1857
MARRIED ELIZABETH TEAGUE
CHRISTAIN IMMIGRATED FROM GERMANY TO AMERICA IN 1749, ON THE SHIP NAMED TWO BROTHERS FROM ROTTERDAM AND COWES, ENGLAND. SETTLED IN 1774 IN ABBOTTS CREK, ROWAN CO, NC, MOST OF THIS FAMILY BURIED IN ABBOTTS CREEK PRIMITIVE CHURCH CEMETERY
CHRISTAIN WAS A PATROIT WHO FURNISHED SUPPLIES TO THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. THEY HID MANY SONS OF NEIGHBORS FORN THE TORIES.
A STORY GOES THAT PETER CAME HOME FROM THE ARMY TOVISIT AND 3 TORIES FOLLOWED HIM. GABBING HIM IN THE DOOR WAY. PETER HELD ON TO THE DOOR FRAME WHILE HIS MOTHER CHARITY, A SMALL WOMAN YELLED, RISE BOYS RISE THE TORIES ARE HERE/ SHE WAS CALLING HER OTHER SONS, BUT THE TORIES RAN THINKING THEY WERE SURROUNDED.
CHRISTAIN WAS AN OVERSEER OF THE DAN RIVER ROAD. HE SERVED ON JURY DUTY OFTEN AND WAS APPOINTED ASSESSOR IN THE HOPEWELL DISTRICT.
CHRITAIN AND CHARITY'S HOME WAS OF LOGS AND PUNCHEON FLOOR, CABIN ROF, AND STICK AND CLAY CHIMMEY, A FIREPLACE.,
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