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Facts and Events
Immigration to America
The following passengers are listed on the ship listed on the ship "Robert and Alice", which arrived September 1743 to Pennsylvania.
- 35. Conrat Osterlen
- 37. Hans Jerg Osterlen - [this is George Osterlen, brother of Conrad].
- 38. Christoff (X) Oesterlin - [relationship unknown]
- "(List 102 C) The names of those in the Robt and Allice, Martly Cussack, Commandr. (Qualified Septr 30, 1743)"
- [Source: Pennsylvania German Pioneers Original Lists of Arrivals to Phila 1727-1808, Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Ed. Wm. John Hinke, 2nd Printing, 1980, Genealogical Publ. Co., Inc. 1980]
Estate Administration
- 1749, 32, Esterle, Conrad, Adm., Book F, pg. 287
- 1754, 28, Esterle, George, Adm. Book F., pg. 544
- [Index to wills and administration records, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1682-1850; v. 1, pg. 58]
- 25 Oct 1749 Conrad Easterly Estate probated Philadelphia County, PA; administrators. Catherina Easterly, his widow, and George Easterly, his brother. [1]
Records in Pennsylvania
- Will of Anna Johanna Everly passenger on Board the Ship Robert and Alice for Phila., now Lying in the Bay of Delaware, being sick, & c.
- To Martley Cusack and Casper Geyger all my goods on Board the ship they paying my passage which is fifty six guilders, fourteen stivers Holland's Currency, and to Hannis Uruck Easterly one quarter Caroline.
- To Conrad Easterly ditto, and to Crede Barbara Gonsin my Bed, &c., and to Thomas Mier one Caroline.
- Witnesses, Philip Elliott and Thomas Moyer.
- Signed Sep. 23, 1743. Proved Nov. 16, 1743. P. 18
- Administration to Martley Cusack of Phila., Mariner, and Casper Geyger of Phila., Mariner, Creditors of Estate late of Anna Johanna Everly, Nov. 22, 1743. P. 17.
- [Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, v. 3, pg. 186]
References
- Geneanet Community Trees Index.
Name: Conrad Easterly
Gender: M (Male)
Birth Date: 1718
Birth Place: Baden-Wurttemberg (Baden), Baden Wurttemberg (Baden-Württemberg), Allemagne (Germany)
Death Date: sept. 1749 (Sep 1749)
Death Place: Berks, PA, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: Herr Oesterle
Spouse: Catherine Zirkle
Child[ren]:
Anna Maria Easterly [Note: there was no such person per Easterly Family Researchers]
George Easterly
Maria Magdalena Easterly
- Germany. Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898: index. (FamilySearch MyHeritage).
Name: Hans Conrad Oesterlen
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 3. Sep 1718 (3 Sep 1718)
Baptism Place: Kürnbach, Baden, Germany
Residence Place: Kürnbach, Baden, Germany
Father: Conrad Oesterlen
Mother: Anna Margareth
FHL Film Number: 1272389
- Vagenweb.org.
Conrad Easterly received a 400 acre land grant in about 1746-47. Specific date unknown.
His son, George Easterly (b.1749) received title to the land as a result of a court action in 1777. George owned other properties in the Shenandoah County area until he disposed of all holdings and moved to Greene County, Tennessee in Oct of 1796.
Some of his family members also moved to the same general area of TN at about the same time, while other family members remained in the general area of Forestville and some near Timberville and New Market. The remaining family members were the Earliest Zirkle and Branner families.
https://www.vagenweb.org/shenandoah/from-whence.html
- Easterly Family Pioneers.
To begin, Conrad Easterly arrived in Pennsylvania September 30, 1743 with his brother, George. Though possible, it is unlikely that Conrad set off immediately to the new lands in the Shenandoah River valley. Accordingly, the most reasonable departure time would have been the spring of 1744. Being an industrious soul he packed his few possessions and headed southwest into the yet to be developed lands of the Shenandoah River valley. He would have started clearing and building a home for himself. Indeed, his brother George may well have been a part of this pioneering adventure. By the summer of 1745 Conrad is well on his way to establishing himself as an able pioneer and landowner. A neighbor just a few miles north of his homestead site receives the first recorded land title in the area. In another year or two Conrad will have met the basic criteria for completing his own land patent.
We believe Catherine Zirkle and her first husband, Conrad Easterly, were the first of the Zirkle family to pioneer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Additionally, they preceded the first Branner in the valley by five years, when she, along with her second husband, Caper Branner, returned to the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 1752.
Summer 1749: Conrad Easterly - Died in Pennsylvania
25 Oct 1749, Conrad Easterly - Estate probated Philadelphia County, PA; Administrators: Catherina Easterly, his widow, and George Easterly, his brother.
Progress is evident so that after crops are harvested in 1746 Conrad decides to make a trip north to visit the German community outside of Philadelphia. He is seeking a wife. His trip was successful. He marries Catherine, at age 13 the eldest daughter of Ludwig Zirkle of Telford, PA. By springtime the newly weds are on the road traveling to Conrad’s clearing/settlement near Holman’s Creek in the Shenandoah Valley.
When news of Catherine’s pregnancy reaches Telford a family friend and midwife Maria Magdalena Zeller and Catherine’s older brother George Heinrich are dispatched from Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley. In November 1747 a daughter, Maria Magdalena is born. By the fall of 1748 two planting seasons would have passed since Conrad arrived in Virginia and he is coming close to completing the “three acres in three years” requirement.
The spring of 1749 is when his son is born and also is his third year of planting crops. He remains there through the summer, through the harvest of his crops, but then returns to Pennsylvania in late September where he subsequently dies. The situation of Catherine remaining in the Telford, Pa area until re-marriage is the same under each parable. It is discussed as part of the second parable.
We know that Conrad and Catherine’s eldest child was born 2 November 1747. Similarly, we also know that Conrad and Catherine’s second child, son Johann George was born 5 May 1749. What we cannot prove conclusively is where either child was born. There are indicators that they were born in Forestville VA and there are indicators that they were born in Telford PA.
EasterlyFamilyPages.net [Screen capture from 2004]
- The Palatine Immigrant, in Conrad Easterly and Catherine Zirkle Easterly
Volume XXVI, Number 3 , June 2001.
Conrad Easterly and Catherine Zirkle Easterly
Early Pioneers in the Shenandoah Valley
By E.M. Easterly & W. F. Easterly
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