Person:Hans Risner (1)

{geni:about_me} I've read alot about this guy! Several different people have different dates for his birth.. but I think everybody agrees about the marriage dates.

Here is some cool info:

Sept 30, 1732 - Georg baer crossed the ocean with Michael (Hans). When they arrived in Philadelphia, Baer was too sick to take his oaths at the Philadelphia Court House, and had to stay aboard the ship "Dragon". He convened his land to Michael Reisner. The land was Greenspring, and was surveyed, which without further explanation was patented on Feb 8, 1739, to Michael.

Michael owned two sections of land, Greensprings and Smiths Lot. These were located in what was called "Upper Germans" in Frederick county, MD.

Michael Reisner and Thomas Cresap, along with others settled on the west side of the Susquehanna River, and was claiming the land as Marylanders. There was an attack on one their homes, led by the high sheriff of Lanchester County. One man was carried as a prisoner the the Susquehanna River, in route to jail in Lanchester, but were met by five men, Michael Reisner being one of them.

The exploits of Michael Reisner along with others in the border struggle between Maryland and Pennsylvania were several. Michael Reisner was one of eight men arrested for activities in 1734, in the Canadochly area, west of the Susquehannah River.

April 28, 1734 Michael Reisner and wife Catarina, appear in the Lancaster Luthern Church Book as sponsors for a child, Sebastian Eberle.

In 1736, Michael Reisner was taken off to jail in Philadelphia, along with others. Pennsylvania authorities claimed Reisner mistakenly shot and killed another member in his own group. Reisner was perhaps the least likley to be intimidated or pushed to far by the Pennsylvanians, but for all his bellicosity, he too eventually retired to the backwoods above the monarchism, where Michael and others formed the nucleus of the german settlement in the northern reaches of Frederick Co MD.

October 21, 1736 - The Governor issued a proclamation offering a reward of one hundred pounds each for several men, including Michael Reisner.

August 9, 1738 Michael Reisner had a 200 acre survey made in present day Carroll Co. near Silver Run. It was called "Cat-Tail Marsh" and was patented to him Feb 8, 1739, the same day he received the patent to Georg Baers "Green Spring".

March 13, 1742 - Michael Reisner conveyed "Cat-Tail Marsh" to Peter Youndblood and made "Green Springs" his home plantation.

1742 - The March Court fined Michael Reisner for assault on John Hussey.

1747 - Reisner was one of the signers of Paster Muhlenbergs Articles written into the Lutheran Church Book.

June 24, 1747 - Michael Reisner and Henrich H.S. Sechs signed their mark on Paster Muhlenbergs constitution for the Monocracy Luther Congregation and Evangelical Luthern of Frederick, Maryland.

1750 - Michael Reisner was presented by the grand jury for beating John Youngblood.

Between 1750 and 1758 - Michael is taken to court about 8 more times, being sued for money that he owed others. Plagued by debts, Michael Reisner petitioned the Maryland Assemble on June 20,1761 for release from debtors prison where he had languished for the past three years and four months.

1762 Reisner conveyed all his properties with value of 200 pounds to Samuel Beall Jr., who on Nov 21 1764 for 300 pounds sold Green Springs with its 200 acres, buildings, orchards, pastures, and fences to Conrod Licklighter (Lechlider).

1764 - It is doubtful that Reisners German neighbors had sufficient finances to have been of assistance to him. His final fate is therefore unknown in Frederick Co MD, and further word of him is lacking.

It is believed that some of the Risners's fled from Strasburg Germany at the time of the Revocation in 1685.

1. ↑ {geni:event_description} Hans Michael Rysner imported along with one hundred and seventy persons on the ship "Dragon". Charles Hargraved, master, from Rotterdam, but last from Plymouth, to Philadelphia, PA.
2. ↑ {geni:name} Left Germany, Moved to Philadelphia, PA