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Nicholas Firestone

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m. 1761

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Name	Nicholas Firestone
Alt Name	Hans Nicholas Feuerstein
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	17 Apr 1735	Berg, Alsace, Germany
Marriage	1761	Germanyto Eve Catherine Schwab
Death`^?`	Bef Nov 1808	Mill Creek, Botetourt County, Virginia

Will of Nicholas Firestone

Firestone, Nicholas - Will probate Nov. 1808. Names: wife, Eve Catherine and children John, Eve (wife, (of) John), Nicholas, Magdalene (wife (of) John Wren), susanna (wife (of) Philip Hyleman), Catherine (wife (of) Chas. Long), and Matthias. [Source: Early Marriages, Wills and some Revolutionary War Records, Botetourt County, Virginia, Compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, pg. 55].

Marriage Record - Lambert, George and Eve Firestone, dau. (of) Eve Firestone - Dec. 4, 1809. (Note: Nicholas had died the prior year).

References

Blackwell, George. The Feuerstein Family, Firestone of Missouri also Proffit or Prophet and Bingham.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/a/Scott-O-Fraser/FILE/0022page.html

Johann Nicholas FIRESTONE, (Nicholas Firestone, Jr.) was born April 17, 1735 at Berg, Alsace, France, a son of Nicholas and Catharina NUNNEMACHER Feuerstein. His age was given as 21 when the family arrived at Philadelphia in 1753. He married Eva Catharina SCHWAB in 1761. In 1763 they had a child baptized at Salem (Strayers) Church, Dover Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. In 1774 he was taxed at Dublin Township, Bedford County, where in 1779 he owned 100 acres. He owned a 150-acre farm in Peter’s Township, Cumberland, now Franklin County, in 1779-1782. In 1781 he served as a private in the Cumberland County Militia. The family moved in 1786 to Trapp, (now Jefferson), Frederick County, Maryland, where he owned a farm on Mill Creek, ten miles from Frederick City, and where in 1790 he was head of a family, with two sons under age sixteen, and four females. He sold his Maryland farm in 1796 purchased a farm near Natural Bridge, Rockbridge County, Virginia. He died in 1807 at Mill Creek, Botetourt County,Virginia. His will was filed June 20, 1804 and probated n Botetourt County, Virginia in November 1808, in which he mentions his wife and eight children.