Person:John Beard (16)

[Snapp.FBK,fbc.FTW]

John Lewis Beard
http://www.genfiles.com/baird/originofbard.htm

A very intriguing coincidence surrounds Zacharias Bard’s adjoining landowners, the Snapps. Lawrence Snapp, who owned the next-door mill, was the son of John Snapp, who had been in Frederick County as early as 1749 when he patented land “where he now lives”. John Snapp’s will names a daughter, Christiana Beard, who was the wife of a John Lewis Beard. John Lewis Beard was earlier known as Johann Ludwig Barth. The Johann Ludwig Barth who arrived on the ship Patience in September 1749 may be this same person. He generally called himself John Henry Beard in later years. He must have married Christiana Snapp in Frederick County, for that is where her father lived at the time. By 1756 John Lewis and Christiana Baird were among a group of German Lutherans who were living in Rowan County, North Carolina. He was quite active in the Lutheran Church and appears frequently in the Rowan County records. He was deceased by 1794, and had a son (John Lewis Beard Jr.) born in 1754, so he was of the same generation as our Zacharias. Although it’s tempting to speculate, I don’t know of any evidence connecting him to our Zacharias other than the fact that he married the sister of Lawrence Snapp, who was later Zacharias’s next door neighbor

(Johan Ludwig Barth)

1. ↑ Snapp.Family Tree Maker files.

   Date of Import: 12 Apr 2005

2. ↑ Snapp.Family Tree Maker files.

   Date of Import: 12 Apr 2005

3. ↑ Snapp.Family Tree Maker files.

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4. ↑ Snapp.Family Tree Maker files.

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5. ↑ Snapp.Family Tree Maker files.

   Date of Import: 12 Apr 2005