Michael Whitener was the son of Adam Weidner of Oley Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. The first record of Adam Weidner in Pennsylvania was a 1719 warrant for land in Philadelphia County, PA for 250 acres in Oley Twp. The second record was dated 1725 and lists Adam Weidner as a member of the Brethren. He was a potter of great skill, making unglazed earthenware of which several examples survive. The oldest unglazed piece of pottery in Pennsylvania is an unglazed cake mold with hearts and simple floral motifs. Adam also made many roof tiles in the European manner which may be found at the Ephrata Cloister and some Oley structures in PA.
Michael married a Miss Beck (given name unknown) c 1748 in PA. He, his wife, and children came to NC prior to 1761. In 1762 he bought 133 acres of land and the water rights from Henry Whitener. Michael obtained a land grant for 260 acres of land joining the water rights sold to him by Henry Whitener.
On Feb. 25, 1780, at a meeting at Henry Whitener's, Michael Whitener provided 950 lbs. of beef, one mutton, and 45 bushels of oats to provision the army under General Joseph McDowell. In October 2010 he and his son, Philip, were honored as Revolutionary War Patriots with a grave marking ceremony by the John Hoyle Chapter NSDAR. of Hickory, NC. The Michael Weidner Cemetery is located in Catawba Co., NC.
We don't have the date of his first wife's death, but after her death he married Maria Elizabeth Papst (Pope) Fry May 22, 1787 in Lincoln Co., NC. She was the widow of Nicholas Fry. Michael made his will May 5, 1789, which was probated in July 1796. In the will he mentions his well beloved wife Elizabeth, his two sons, Philip and Benjamin, and his son-in-law Frederick Summey. Frederick was married to Michael's daughter Blandena. His son, Philip Whitener, Joseph Steel, Esquire, together with his wife Elizabeth were the executors of the will.
This inscription is in a German Bible printed in Germantown, PA in 1743: "Michael Whitener lived about 75 years and departed from this world on the 17th day of May 1796, being blind for 18 months". The name, George Adam Weidner, was listed above the inscription, and the death date of Susanna Whitener, Michael's daughter-in-law was below the inscription. Eva Whitener Shumann of Hickory, NC owned the Bible many years and gave it to a relative before her death in 2005. The Bible was sold to someone unknown to me, and I don't know its exact location now.
Sources: Warrant 5:39 in Philadelphia, PA; "Brethren in Colonial America" by D. F. Durnbaugh; "Early Arts and Crafts" by Prof. John Joseph Stroudt; Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 1:463-466; NC Land Grant #227, entered March 8, 1763 in Book 17:124, and issued Nov. 16, 1764; Revolutionary War Pay Voucher on file at NC Archives in Raleigh, NC; Lincoln Co., NC Marriage Bond; Michael Whitener Last Will and Testament and the German Bible.
**Info provided by Gracie Seitz Cook
Michael married a Miss Beck (given name unknown) c 1748 in PA. He, his wife, and children came to NC prior to 1761. In 1762 he bought 133 acres of land and the water rights from Henry Whitener. Michael obtained a land grant for 260 acres of land joining the water rights sold to him by Henry Whitener.
On Feb. 25, 1780, at a meeting at Henry Whitener's, Michael Whitener provided 950 lbs. of beef, one mutton, and 45 bushels of oats to provision the army under General Joseph McDowell. In October 2010 he and his son, Philip, were honored as Revolutionary War Patriots with a grave marking ceremony by the John Hoyle Chapter NSDAR. of Hickory, NC. The Michael Weidner Cemetery is located in Catawba Co., NC.
We don't have the date of his first wife's death, but after her death he married Maria Elizabeth Papst (Pope) Fry May 22, 1787 in Lincoln Co., NC. She was the widow of Nicholas Fry. Michael made his will May 5, 1789, which was probated in July 1796. In the will he mentions his well beloved wife Elizabeth, his two sons, Philip and Benjamin, and his son-in-law Frederick Summey. Frederick was married to Michael's daughter Blandena. His son, Philip Whitener, Joseph Steel, Esquire, together with his wife Elizabeth were the executors of the will.
This inscription is in a German Bible printed in Germantown, PA in 1743: "Michael Whitener lived about 75 years and departed from this world on the 17th day of May 1796, being blind for 18 months". The name, George Adam Weidner, was listed above the inscription, and the death date of Susanna Whitener, Michael's daughter-in-law was below the inscription. Eva Whitener Shumann of Hickory, NC owned the Bible many years and gave it to a relative before her death in 2005. The Bible was sold to someone unknown to me, and I don't know its exact location now.
Sources: Warrant 5:39 in Philadelphia, PA; "Brethren in Colonial America" by D. F. Durnbaugh; "Early Arts and Crafts" by Prof. John Joseph Stroudt; Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 1:463-466; NC Land Grant #227, entered March 8, 1763 in Book 17:124, and issued Nov. 16, 1764; Revolutionary War Pay Voucher on file at NC Archives in Raleigh, NC; Lincoln Co., NC Marriage Bond; Michael Whitener Last Will and Testament and the German Bible.
**Info provided by Gracie Seitz Cook
Michael Whitener was the son of Adam Weidner of Oley Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. The first record of Adam Weidner in Pennsylvania was a 1719 warrant for land in Philadelphia County, PA for 250 acres in Oley Twp. The second record was dated 1725 and lists Adam Weidner as a member of the Brethren. He was a potter of great skill, making unglazed earthenware of which several examples survive. The oldest unglazed piece of pottery in Pennsylvania is an unglazed cake mold with hearts and simple floral motifs. Adam also made many roof tiles in the European manner which may be found at the Ephrata Cloister and some Oley structures in PA.
Michael married a Miss Beck (given name unknown) c 1748 in PA. He, his wife, and children came to NC prior to 1761. In 1762 he bought 133 acres of land and the water rights from Henry Whitener. Michael obtained a land grant for 260 acres of land joining the water rights sold to him by Henry Whitener.
On Feb. 25, 1780, at a meeting at Henry Whitener's, Michael Whitener provided 950 lbs. of beef, one mutton, and 45 bushels of oats to provision the army under General Joseph McDowell. In October 2010 he and his son, Philip, were honored as Revolutionary War Patriots with a grave marking ceremony by the John Hoyle Chapter NSDAR. of Hickory, NC. The Michael Weidner Cemetery is located in Catawba Co., NC.
We don't have the date of his first wife's death, but after her death he married Maria Elizabeth Papst (Pope) Fry May 22, 1787 in Lincoln Co., NC. She was the widow of Nicholas Fry. Michael made his will May 5, 1789, which was probated in July 1796. In the will he mentions his well beloved wife Elizabeth, his two sons, Philip and Benjamin, and his son-in-law Frederick Summey. Frederick was married to Michael's daughter Blandena. His son, Philip Whitener, Joseph Steel, Esquire, together with his wife Elizabeth were the executors of the will.
This inscription is in a German Bible printed in Germantown, PA in 1743: "Michael Whitener lived about 75 years and departed from this world on the 17th day of May 1796, being blind for 18 months". The name, George Adam Weidner, was listed above the inscription, and the death date of Susanna Whitener, Michael's daughter-in-law was below the inscription. Eva Whitener Shumann of Hickory, NC owned the Bible many years and gave it to a relative before her death in 2005. The Bible was sold to someone unknown to me, and I don't know its exact location now.
Sources: Warrant 5:39 in Philadelphia, PA; "Brethren in Colonial America" by D. F. Durnbaugh; "Early Arts and Crafts" by Prof. John Joseph Stroudt; Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 1:463-466; NC Land Grant #227, entered March 8, 1763 in Book 17:124, and issued Nov. 16, 1764; Revolutionary War Pay Voucher on file at NC Archives in Raleigh, NC; Lincoln Co., NC Marriage Bond; Michael Whitener Last Will and Testament and the German Bible.
**Info provided by Gracie Seitz Cook
Michael married a Miss Beck (given name unknown) c 1748 in PA. He, his wife, and children came to NC prior to 1761. In 1762 he bought 133 acres of land and the water rights from Henry Whitener. Michael obtained a land grant for 260 acres of land joining the water rights sold to him by Henry Whitener.
On Feb. 25, 1780, at a meeting at Henry Whitener's, Michael Whitener provided 950 lbs. of beef, one mutton, and 45 bushels of oats to provision the army under General Joseph McDowell. In October 2010 he and his son, Philip, were honored as Revolutionary War Patriots with a grave marking ceremony by the John Hoyle Chapter NSDAR. of Hickory, NC. The Michael Weidner Cemetery is located in Catawba Co., NC.
We don't have the date of his first wife's death, but after her death he married Maria Elizabeth Papst (Pope) Fry May 22, 1787 in Lincoln Co., NC. She was the widow of Nicholas Fry. Michael made his will May 5, 1789, which was probated in July 1796. In the will he mentions his well beloved wife Elizabeth, his two sons, Philip and Benjamin, and his son-in-law Frederick Summey. Frederick was married to Michael's daughter Blandena. His son, Philip Whitener, Joseph Steel, Esquire, together with his wife Elizabeth were the executors of the will.
This inscription is in a German Bible printed in Germantown, PA in 1743: "Michael Whitener lived about 75 years and departed from this world on the 17th day of May 1796, being blind for 18 months". The name, George Adam Weidner, was listed above the inscription, and the death date of Susanna Whitener, Michael's daughter-in-law was below the inscription. Eva Whitener Shumann of Hickory, NC owned the Bible many years and gave it to a relative before her death in 2005. The Bible was sold to someone unknown to me, and I don't know its exact location now.
Sources: Warrant 5:39 in Philadelphia, PA; "Brethren in Colonial America" by D. F. Durnbaugh; "Early Arts and Crafts" by Prof. John Joseph Stroudt; Mecklenburg Co., NC Deed Book 1:463-466; NC Land Grant #227, entered March 8, 1763 in Book 17:124, and issued Nov. 16, 1764; Revolutionary War Pay Voucher on file at NC Archives in Raleigh, NC; Lincoln Co., NC Marriage Bond; Michael Whitener Last Will and Testament and the German Bible.
**Info provided by Gracie Seitz Cook
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