Person:Leonard Holsteiner (1)

Land Record

• 1767, a transfer of land titles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; between Peter Shitz and Eva Barbara (Holtsteiner) of Hydelberg in the county of Lancaster.....land belonging to her father Leonard Holtsteiner; signed by Peter Shitz, Eva Barbara Shitz, Benjamin Spyker, Philip Marsteller at lower left and John Phillip de Haas.

Notes

From "The Boone family: a genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone, who came to America in 1717", by Jesse Procter Crump, pg. 550:

THE STONER FAMILY (Compiled by Miss Bess Hawthorne, LaPlace, Illinois)

Originally the name was Holsteiner, but later was abbreviated.

Peter and John Leonhardt Holsteiner were born at or near Zweibrucken, in what is now Rheinish Bavaria, in Germany. They belonged to a large body of Palatinates, who emigrated to England, and early in 1710, again emigrated to the Province of New York. Here, after hewing out homes in the wilderness, they were robbed of all their lands, by the governor and others, under pretext of unsound title.

They emigrated from Schoharie, N. Y., to the Tulpehocken, Pa., in 1728. In the membership list of the Tulpehocken Lutheran Church from 1743-1745, appear the names of Peter and John Leonhardt Holsteiner. Of Peter, nothing has been found since the mention of his name in the church record. There are some vague traditions that he settled in southwestern Virginia, and that Holston River was named after him.

In March, 1752, John Leonhardt Holsteiner obtained a tract of 300 acres of land in Heidleburg Township, near Millback, now in Lebanon County, from Peter Weiser and others, part of this land being held today, by members of the family bearing the name of Holstein. In this instrument, he appears as Leonard Holsteiner, having dropped the first name, and the "H" out of the second. His wife's name was Barbara. Nothing is known of her, or of the death of either of them, except that they died sometime previous to 1758.

I. Leonard1 Holsteiner had a number of daughters and two sons— George and George Michael. The county records show, that in 1758, George Holsteiner made application to have the real-estate appraised to him, as his father had died intestate, and he wished to take the land. On 5 June, 1759, George Holsteiner received a deed from Laurence Bausam and his wife, Philipina, the latter being the only one of George's sisters, who appeared to be of age at that time.

After this transaction, the name appears to be changed to Holstein in all other papers.

II. George8 Michael Holstein, who later took the name Stoner by which he was ever after known, is of rather more than usual interest to us, because he and Daniel Boone were such good friends and companions. Some writers speak of them as being kinsmen, but so far their relationship, if any existed, has not been traced.

George2 Michael Stoner, or as he was more familiarly known, Michael Stoner, was the second son of Leonard1 and Barbara Holstein. He was born in 1748 (6), on the Schuylkill River, near what is now Philadelphia, and was only four or five years old when his parents died.

As a youth, he was apprenticed to a saddler in Hickory-town (now Lancaster) but was not of a disposition to spend his life sitting at a saddler's bench. When about sixteen, following a quarrel with his master, he left his home in Berks County (now Mill Creek, Lebanon County) and went to New River, Va., where he became acquainted with Daniel Boone at a public gathering. This was the beginning of a friendship and companionship that lasted throughout their lives.

These two planned an expedition into the then unknown wilds of Kentucky, and, getting a small party together, arrived at Cumberland Gap without any special adventures, but while passing through the Gap were fired on by Indians in ambush, and several of the party killed. All except Boone and Stoner turned back, but they pushed on, until they came to a section of country which abounded in game. Here they made their first headquarters at a place which later became known as Crab Orchard, so named from the grove of wild crab apple trees found growing there.

It seems that Boone and Stoner separated here, each going his own way. Stoner went on to Louisville (The Falls of the Ohio), where he made a short stay, and then pushed on to the Cumberland River. Down this river he went as far as Nashville, where he met Boone and they went back to Virginia together.

In 1774, Governor Dunmore of Virginia commissioned Boone and Stoner to warn a surveying party in Kentucky of the Indian outbreaks. They made the trip from the Clinch River in Virginia to the Falls of the Ohio, a journey of 800 miles, in sixty-two days.

In the spring of 1775, Stoner joined Boone in marking and cutting out the road to Fort Boonesborough, which he helped build and defend. At the siege of Boonesborough he was wounded, but his uncle, Colonel William (Billy) Bush, held the Indians off so that he finally gained the fort. The Indians wished to take him prisoner instead of killing him, so did not fire on him and Bush.

In 1780, he went on a visit to North Carolina, and took part in the Battle of King's Mountain.

At the Battle of Blue Licks, Stoner was wounded and fell from his horse. He hid in the bushes until next day, when he was rescued by General Logan's forces. He was present at the taking of Vincennes by General Clark, and may have been with him in all his campaigns. He went on a campaign with Hardin, and was out with Logan in 1786. It is thought he went out under his uncle, Colonel William Bush, on Harmer's campaign also.

About 1786, he was married to Frances Tribble, a daughter of Reverend Andrew Tribble and his wife, Sarah Ann Burris. (See the BurrisTribble Family Sketch.) She was born 3 Nov. 1769; d. 11 May, 1852.

After their marriage, Stoner and his wife settled in Clarke Co., five miles southeast of Winchester, where their oldest child George Washington Stoner, Sr., was born. In 1797 they moved to the Cumberland River in Pulaski County, and eventually to Wayne County, near Monticello.

The Holtsteiners have a history as well... The original family name was Holsteiner. Two brothers, Peter and John Leonhardt Holsteiner left their home at Zweibruecken in what was then the Rhenish, or Lower Palatinate (near Saarbruecken now in the German province of Saarland). Along with about three thousand other Palatine refugees from the War of the League of Augsburg and the War of Spanish Succession (known in North America as Queen Anne's War), the brothers migrated down the Rhein and across the Channel to England. From England they went to the province of New York in 1710 along with Robert Hunter, the new governor of the Colony.

Upon arrival, the Palatines were expected to pay for their transport by working as laborers for the British producing naval stores; tar and pitch and the like. After this scheme fell apart, the British encouraged the Palatines to migrate up the Mohawk and Schoharie valleys to settle in the wilderness, and also, incidentally, to act as a buffer between British and the French and Indians to the north.. Then, after going out into the wilderness and establishing homes for themselves, many of the Palatines, including the Holsteiner brothers, were robbed of their lands by people with the knowledge and power to do so using the pretext of unsound land title as justification for their actions.

In 1728, the brothers left Schoharie, N.Y. and moved to Tulpehocken, Pa. Both their names appear in the membership list of the Tulpehocken Lutheran Church from 1743-45. Peter's name disappears from the records after this date. Further record of him consists of only a vague family accounting of him settling somew in southwestern Virginia and that the Holsten River was named after him.

In March of 1752, John Leonhardt Holsteiner obtained a tract of 300 acres from Peter Weiser and others in Heidleburg Township, near Millback, now in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Part of this land is still held today by members of the family bearing the name Holstein. On the deed, John appears as Leonard Holsteiner. He dropped his first name and the "h" and the "t" out of his second name. His wife's name was Barbara. Nothing is known of her, or of their deaths, except that both died some time before 1758.

Source: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1767-vellum-land-transfer-pennsylvania-p-marsteller

1. ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).