NEUNI

The Johann Casper Neun family

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the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Name: Johann Casper Neun Year: 1737 Place: Philadelphia

Source Publication Code: 9041

Primary Immigrant: Neun, Johann Casper

Annotation: Contains 29,800 names, with annotations written by Krebs (see no. 4203). Various references to the names in Strassburger will be found in other listings, mostly where authors have attempted to line up their information with that in Strassburger. This work (often referred to as Strassburger and Hinke) is much superior to no. 7820, Rupp, and no. 1804, Egle. It forms a revision with additions to Rupp and Egle, and was prepared and edited with great accuracy. Vol. 1 contains captains' lists, 1727-1775; vol. 2 has facsimiles of all signatures of signers of oaths of allegiance and oaths of abjuration, and was not included in the G.P.C. reprint; vol. 3 has captains' lists from 1785-1808, and indexes to captains, ships, ports of departure, and surnames in all volumes. The set was originally vols. 42-44 of the Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings.

Source Bibliography: STRASSBURGER, RALPH BEAVER. Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Edited by William John Hinke. Norristown [PA]: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1964. Repr. 1983. Vol. 1. 1727-1775. 776p. Page: 187

Name: Johan Casper Neun Year: 1737 Place: Philadelphia

Source Publication Code: 9041

Primary Immigrant: Neun, Johan Casper

Name: Johann Caspar Neun Year: 1748 Place: Pennsylvania

Source Publication Code: 3570.5

Primary Immigrant: Neun, Johann Caspar

Annotation: Date of arrival with port or place of settlement, a few are date and place of first mention of residence in New World. Listings of mostly Mennonite German immigrants, the majority were from Baden-Durlach in the Palatinate.

Source Bibliography: JOHNSON, MRS. ARTA F., editor. "Immigrant Ancestors." In The Palatine Immigrant. Vol. 9:1 (Summer 1983), pp. 28-33; vol. 9:2 (Autumn 1983), pp. 90-95; vol. 9:3 (Winter 1984), pp. 137-142; vol. 9:4 (Spring 1984), pp. 169-174. Page: 95

Name: Johannes Neun Year: 1748 Place: Philadelphia

Source Publication Code: 9041

Primary Immigrant: Neun, Johannes

Name: Johannes Neun Year: 1748 Place: Philadelphia

Source Publication Code: 9041

Primary Immigrant: Neun, Johannes

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A Johann Casper Neun arrived in the port of Philadelphia on the bilander Townsend October 5,1737 from Amsterdam. This is recorded in the passenger lists printed by Straussburger and Hinke. There is no record of women and children with this particular Iist. There is also a record of a Johann Casper arriving on the galley Adventure through the port of Philadelphia October 2, 1727. We now know that Casper�s first son Sylvester was born in 1739. As of DOW we only have our imagination for elaborating on the sequence of events and why Casper made that trip back to Germany. Perhaps there were two different Caspers. Perhaps our logo should have the first date of 1727 instead of 1737.

In the book Annals of the Oley Valley by Rev. P. C. Croll D.D., 1926, there is a description of the pio�neers of the Oley Valley in 174L Casper Nein and his wife are included in this description. Consequently, Casper was married by 1741.

Pennsylvania Archives, Series 3, Volume 24, page 151 lists Casper Nine in the warranties of land in Bucks County for 150 acres, September 23, 1738.(Is it possi�ble that Casper married Barbara in Bucks County, PA?)

WARRANTEES OF LAND: County of Bucks-1733-1789;

Nine, Casper; 150 acres;Sept 23,1738

In 1741, Casper applied for land warrants from Philadelpbia Co: Casper Nuyn, 100 acres January 14, 1741, this being for Allemangle, later Albany Town- ship, Berks County; Casper Nine, 70 acres, March 30, 1741; Casper Nein, 30 acres, November 8, 1741; the last two being in Oley Township, Berks County. This is where he and his family settled permanently. In 1764, Casper sold his land in Albany Township. The land had buildings but all were burned by the Indians. In 1780, Casper was taxed in Exeter Township on land without settlement.

The Oley Valley was first settled in 1712 and was established as a township of Berks County, PA in 1740. Before this time the area was considered Philadelphia County. Evidently, it was still necessary to register the land as Philadelphia County in 1741. The land warrants of Philadelphia County include: Casper Nuyn, 100 acres, January 14, 1741; Casper Nine, 70 acres, March 30, 1741; Casper Nein, 30 acres, November 1741.

Probably the 70 acres and the 30 acres was a record of action taken on part of the 100 acres and the 110 acres in the 1719 record includes the land Casper bought from his son, Sylvester.

The tax lists of Berks Couny indude Johann Casper Nein in the following: Oley Township:

1779 - & son, 110 acres, 2 horses, 4 cows (Page 253); 1780 - 110 acres, 2 borses (Page 386); 1784 - 110 acres, 2 COWS, 2 sheep (Page 644); Exeter Township: (tax on land without settlement); 1779 - .20 on 20 acres (Page 221); 1780 - 2 on 20 acres (Page 480); 1781 - 5 on 20 acres (Page 480); 1784 - (spelled New) no tax on 20 acres (Page 607); 1785 - 2 on 20 acres (Page 742);

In a document dated March 9, 1770 Casper of Oley bought land from Sylvester and wife Elizabeth for 54 pounds. In a document dated April 20, 1785 in Oley, Casper and Barbara sold land to Daniel for 280 pounds for 3 different tracts adjoining in Oley. (It appears the first tract containing 88 acres was Casper�s original property,-the second containing 7 acres seems to have been bought from Moses Heyman and wife Rebecca and the third tract of 12 aaes seems to be what Casper bought from Sylvester who bought it from Lee.)

Casper�s name also appears on the County Miscellaneous Court Records, May 23, 1949. The action was initiated by James and Grace Robertson and Paul L. and Anna Gebris to quiet title of land in Low�er Alsace Township (along then Route 73, but now at 1823 Friedensburg Road) owned by Casper. In Mortgage Book BA�, Page 1.24, dated May 17, 1768, Casper acquired this land from Michael Hoffman. Casper never lived on this land, and probably used it for woodland. Gehris sold his land to Robertson. Robertson broke up this land into three lots in 1955. The half toward Oley was divided into two parts and in 1955 sold to Edwin Charles Satter and Charles P. Troxel. The half toward Reading was bought by Richard E. Gerhart in 1956.

The original homestead still stands on the farm presently owned by Mr. Fayerman. When Mr. Fayer�man purchased the farm in 1985 he had the house completely remodeled, the barn enlarged and both the barn and the house repointed. A sketch of the home was made by Tom Nein and appears on the cover of the book. The home can be seen from the Oley Turnpike Road. Mr. Fayerman�s land begins at Mine Ore Road. The farm lays in the shadow of the reclaimed mountain of waste left by the quarry which is located on part of the original Nein farm. A family graveyard, surrounded by a beautifully restored stone wall, is located on a knoll in the middle of the cornfield. There is no tombstone for Casper and his wife, Barbara. Casper�s second son. Daniel and his second wife, Maria (Weidner), and three of Daniel�s children are buried there with stones. The �9� Family Association finances the care of the cemetery.

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