* Photo & info is from www.ancestry.com JanetLloyd56 originally submitted this to KIZER Family Tree on 7 Apr 2011

Charles immigrated, Sept. 19, 1749 and landed in Philadelphia, Pa on 9-19-1749, aboard the ship "Patience". He took the Oath of Allegiance to Pennsylvania on the same day. He bought property in Frederick Co., Va. 4-6-1765. By deed of 6 April 1765, recorded in Frederick Co., Va., Deed Book No. 10, page 248. Lewis Rhinehart and Mathias Rhinehart of Frederick Co., Va., conveyed unto Charles Keyser, of the same place, a parcel of land on the South Fork of the Shenandoah, being the lower end of two tracts of land granted to Mathias Rhinehart by deed of 8 Feb., 1764, from the Proprietor's Office of the Northern neck of Virginia.

Charles's will was probated in Shenandoah Co., Va., Will book A-179, 28 August 1778. Inventory 509 pounds, 15 shillings) 10 children, 50 pounds, 19 shillings, 6 pence each.

Charles died 1778 in Shenandoah Co., Virginia and his body was interred 1778 in Shenandoah Co., Va. on his farm.

Several books have been written on "Kisers", "Hursts in Shenandoah county virginia", author Mrs. June Hurst Childers, 949 Mason Headley, Lexington, Ky., 40504, cost $50 in 1998; "Forerunners" by Strickler; "Mead Relations" by A.M. Prichard, published by The McClure CO., Printers, Staunton, Va. in 1933; Kiser Family Descendants by Charles S. Kiser. The most information was provided by E. J. Sutherland, Judge in Dickenson County, Va., in his book,"Some descendants of John Counts of Glade Hollow(Southwest Virginia) 1722-1977" (E.J. was a great-great-grandson of Abednego Kiser).
Charles "Karl" Keyser came from Germany. He was in Lancaster Co. PA for awhile. Here he married a Miss Shelly(may have been a doctor's daughter). He later moved to Luray, Page Co. VA. He died there and is buried in Keyser Cem. in Luray. He was born in Wurtenburg, Germany, near Stuttgart in 1702. His son Joseph married Susannah Stacy . They moved to Russell Co. VA, Joseph died around 1816. Their daughter, Mary "Polly" married James H. Artrip.
Karl came to America in 1750 aboard the ship "Patience" along with his wife Elizabeth. Listed on The Patience 1749 at courthouse Philadelphis Sun. 9-19-1749 Listed as Carl Kayser-Patience 1749
The ancient Kaiser family descends from Charlemagne, Karl the Great Kaiser in Germany. This Kiser family has traced its roots to Baron Joseph Augustus Kiser, who built the Kiser Castel in 1519 in Heidelburg, Germany. He and his family were converted to Protestantism by the teachings of Luther and Calvin. He had started a Baptist movement in Europe long before Roger Williams established his Baptist sect in America in 1636.

The Kiser family first arrived in America in 1704 and settled in Lancaster Co., PA. After 1751, Charles Kiser moved to Page Co., VA. Charles was with Washington at Braddock's defeat in 1755.

Source: Materials provided by Lois Sutherland Wark, 12/1/1997. "It is said that Charles Keyser drove a supply wagon in the expedition of British Gen. Edward Braddock in 1755, when Braddock tried to push the French out of Fort Duquesne on the Ohio River. Fifty miles from the fort, the convoy was ambushed by French soldiers and whoooping Indians, Braddock was killed, and chaos overtook the supply train. It fell to a junior American officer, Col. Goerge Washington, to get the remnant back to Winchester."

He bult the big Kiser house, of native stone, on his farm at the mouth of the Hawksbill Creek, Frederick Co., VA in 1765 and lived there until his death in 1778.

Source: Vivian Bales, Marion, IN, writes (10/96): "Charles Keyser married Elizabeth Groseclose, not a Shelley. E.J. Sutherland proved he did not marry and could not have married Shelley.... Charles and his wife were both born in Germany. Charles Jr. said he was born in Germany. They moved over from Lancaster Co., PA into the Shenandoah Valley. The son Charles and Andrew served in the Revolutionary War. Charles Jr. and another German signed th papers and were adm. of the estate. Shows there were 10 heirs. Charles and this Comer signed the document in German."

Keyser Cemetery Shenandoah River, North Side, near mouth of Hawksbill Creek, 4 miles North West of Luray, Page County, Virginia

General location of the Charles Keyser farm. Currently, called Page County, it was prior Dunsmore, Frederick, Shenandoah. Located along the Shenandoah River, near the mouth of the Hawksbill Creek, where neighbor, John Counts & wife, Mary, lived.

Close up of crude sign for Keyser Cemetery

The beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

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Elizabeth Grossgloss wife of Charles Keyser. Born in 1710 in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Died in 06 JAN 1773inHawksbill Creek, Shenandoah, Page Co, Virginia, USA.

*photo from ancestry.com