Person:Frederick Keister (1)

Frederick Keister was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 8 - Frederick Kester, 67 acres, Branch Potomack. Adjoining his own land. April 14, 1761. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 3].

• Page 481.--29th May, 1761. Same (Mary Wood, of Frederick, and James and Moses Green, of Culpeper) to Frederick Kester, £64, on South Fork of South Branch of Potowmack, 256 acres, part of 1470 acres above. Delivered: A. J. above.

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 689.--17th August, 1764. Frederick Kister and Hannah ( ) to George Fults, £20, 35 acres at a place called the Little Walnut Bottom on the mountain between the South Fork and the South Branch of Potowmack.

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

• Page 330.--14th August, 1759. Roger Dyer's appraisement, by Daniel Harrison, Mathew Patton--To gold coin, £24, 13, 10; cash, £42, 0, 0; Christian Graft's bond; Michael Graft's bond; Herman Shout's and Nicholas Smith's bond; David Nelson's bond; Peter Horse's note; Pat. Frasure's bond, Frederick Keyster's note; William Semples' bond; Johnston Hill's bond; Michael Dicken and Wm. Correy's bond; John Salsberry's bond; Joseph Kyles' note.

• Page 28.--28th June, 1758. Peter Moser's estate settlement, by Michael Mallow, allowed 19th May, 1761--To Cathron Moser, Jno. Hopkins, Danl. Love, James McDole, Jno. Wright, Fardrick Kestor, Jacob Harper, Andrew Arewen, Powl Shaver, Eaform Love, Nickles Hofman, Edward McGary. (2nd vendue held 8th November, 1758?) To Alex. Miller, James McGill, Jno. McCoy. (3d vendue held 3d October, 1760.) Credit by Patterkole money received on Peter Moser's account. From Jno. Madison, from George Caplinger, from Henry Carr, from Captain Cartley (Keartley), Capt. Abraham Smith (patterole money), from Captain Smith, for provender; from Captain Smith, on account of Wm. Wood; from Jno. Hogleer; from Capt. Ephraim Love, for provender and paterrole (patrol) money; from Capt. Smith, patterole money. Paid Jacob Rolman, paid Daniel Smith for clorking, paid Fredk. Opp for schooling, paid Fredk. Easter for salt and store goods, paid Johnson Hill for weaving, paid John Hughes, paid Stephen Conrad, the blacksmith.

• Page 456.--29th May, 1761. Mary Wood, of Frederick, James and Moses Green, of Culpeper, to Joseph Skidmore, Jr., £50.15, on North Fork of South Branch of Potowmack, 203 acres, part of 660 acres patented to Robert Green, 25th June, 1747. Teste. Mathew Patton, Michael Prop (Propps), Frederick Easter (Hister). Delivered: Andrew Johnston, June, 1767.

• Page 465.--29th May, 1761. Same (From Mary Wood, of Frederick, James and Moses Green, of Culpeper) to Henry Penniger, £11.15.2, at same place, 168 acres, part of 370 acres, supra. Teste: Frederick Hister (as above). Delivered to same.

• Page 475.--29th May, 1761. William Green, surviving joint tenant of James Wood, William Green and William Russell (by consent of Mary Wood, devisee of James Wood and William Russell, son and heir-at-law of said William) and Ann, his wife, to Jeremiah Ozburn (Osburn), £41.16, on South Fork of South Branch of Potowmack; cor. tract surveyed for Charles Willson, 220 acres, part of tract patented to James, William and William above, 23d October, 1750. Teste: Frederick Kister (see Easter, Hister, &c., above). Delivered: Andrew Johnston, June, 1767.

• Page 479.--29th May, 1761. Same (From Mary Wood, of Frederick, and James and Moses Green, of Culpeper) to Mathew Patton, £75.4.2, on South Fork of South Branch of Potowmack; cor. in the bank of a lick; cor. to Frederick Kester (see this name as witness ubi supra, Easter, Hister), 327 acres, part of patent to Robert Green, 25th June, 1747. Delivered: Mathew Patton, March Court, 1764.

• Page 7 - George Bush, 65 acres, South Fork of Patomack. Adjoining his own land. , Frederick Keester. December 4, 1761. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 3].

Sources

http://www.caoa-gen.org/caoa-webpage/dnaproj/dna-bios/FK0-bio.htm

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Find A Grave.

   Frederick Keister, II
   Birth 1730
   Strasburg, Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
   Death 28 Nov 1815 (aged 84–85)
   Brandywine, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA
   Burial
   Keister Cemetery #3
   Brandywine, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA
   
   Frederick Keister, Jr. was born in Strasbourgh, Germany, in 1730, son of Frederick Keister, Sr. (b.1704) & Hannah (________).
   
   Frederick Keister, Jr., came from Germany as a young boy on the ship "Virginia-Grace" on Sept. 24, 1737, and first settled in Lancaster & York Counties, Pennsylvania.
   
   Frederick Keister, Jr. married Miss Hannah (Dyer) (1735-1820), daughter of Roger Dyer & Hannah (Smith), in Bath Co., Virginia, in 1755.
   
   He was an early pioneer settler on South Fork River near Brandywine, Augusta County (now Pendleton County), (W.) Virginia, where his children were born and raised.
   
   Frederick Keister, Jr. was naturalized on May 18, 1762 along with other German neighbors. (Abstracts of the Records of Augusta Co., Virginia, by Lyman Chalkley, Vol. 1, pg 97)
   
   Frederick served in the Revolutionary War from Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, and qualified as Lieutenant in the Virginia Militia on Sept. 28, 1778. (Virginia Militia in the Revolution, J. T. McAllister, pg. 230; Abstracts from the records of Augusta County, Virginia, Lyman Chalkley, Vol. II, pg. 364); He was a member of a band of Indian scouts and a 1st Lieutenant in the 46 th Regiment of the Virginia Militia in 1782; He is also listed as furnishing supplies in an account dated May 29, 1782 (A History of Rockingham County, Virginia, John W. Wayland, pg.101); & "Frederick Eister" (List of Colonial Soldiers in Virginia, by H. J. Eckenrode, pg 37)
   
   "Frederick Keister" is listed on the 1792 Pendleton Co., (W.) Virginia, tax list
   
   "Fredericke Keister Sr" (went by Sr. after his father died) is listed on the 1810 Pendleton County, (W.) Virginia, census as head of his household.
   
   Frederick Keister's WILL was written in Pendleton County, (W.) Virginia, on August 10, 1806, and witnessed by John Davis, Robert Davis, Robert Davis, and Henry Puffenberger; It was proved on December 5, 1815. He willed that "... all my just debts and funeral charges be paid...to my dearly beloved wife one negro wench named Poll, two beds and beding, two pair bedsteds, one-third of all my moveable property...to my beloved sons, Frederick Keister and George Keister, all my lands on this side of the river...to my son James Keister, all my lands on the side of the river he now lives on by paying 35 pounds...equally divided amongst all my daughters...appoint my wife, Hannah Keister, and James Keister executors..."
   
   Frederick Keister, Jr., died in Pendleton Co., (W.) Virginia, on November 28, 1815, and he is buried in the Keister Cemetery #3 near Brandywine, Pendleton Co., W. Va., next to his wife. Both his original headstone and a military headstone added in 1931 are still present at his gravesite today.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34966670/frederick-keister