Name: Solomon KESSINGER

Birth: 3 FEB 1744/1745 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Death: 1836 in Millerstown, Grayson, Ky
Burial: On His Farm, Bacon Creek, Hart, Ky

Christening: 24 MAR 1744/1745 Warrick Congreg, Warwick Twp, Lancaster, Pa


Father: Andreas KESSINGER b: 1703 in Mannheim, Germany
Mother: Susanna FISCHERIN b: 1710 in Germany

Marriage 1 Mary Betsy GREENYWALT b: 1738 in Baltimore, Maryland
Children
1. Mary Elizabeth KESSINGER b: 1791 in Warwick Township Pa
2. Miss KESSINGER b: 1793
3. Andrew KESSINGER b: 1769 in Germany
4. Joseph KESSINGER b: 1770 in Pa
5. Susan KESSINGER b: 1772 in Pa
6. Solomon KESSINGER b: 1773 in Hart Co. Ky
7. Jacob KESSINGER b: 1776 in Pa
8. John KESSINGER b: 1781 in Hart Co. Ky
9. Isaac KESSINGER b: 1783 in Hart Co. Ky
10. William KESSINGER b: 1785 in Hart Co. Ky
11. Peter KESSINGER b: 1788 in Hart Co. Ky
12. Miss KESSINGER b: abt. 1793 in Hart Co. Ky
13. Nancy KESSINGER b: 1795 in Hardin Co. Ky


source:
Kiley Johnson


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Note: Revolutionary War Patriot


Solomon was educated as a Catholic Priest. Was excommunicated when he eloped with his future wife Elizabeth Greenwald. Built his first log cabin house in Millerstown, KY.

SOLOMON KESSINGER played an important part in the conquest of the Northwest Territory under General George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War. In the spring of 1778, General Clark, along with Solomon, his family, and other families including the Logsdons and Greenwalts, floated down the Ohio River in flat boats to the Falls of the Ohio where they erected the first structure on the present site of Louisville. They had to build a fort for protection against the Indians and the British. Originally located on Corn Island, in the Ohio River, the settlement moved to it s present site in 1779. The conquest of General Clark and his men allowed the U.S. to claim the region after the Revolutionary War and develop it into the Northwest Territory in 1787. Louisville was named in 1780 for Louis XVI of France in gratitude for French assistance in the American Revolution. General Clark acting on authority of the Legislature of Virginia descended the Ohio with a detachment of 300 men, a military force destined to the reduction of Kaskia, Cahokia and Vincennes, the then British possessions. In order to deceive the enemy the general landed his troops at Corn Island. For about twenty years during and after this time Solomon and his family lived in the forts "Beargrass", "Acres Valley", and "Kettle Creek". In the month of May, 1778, George Rogers Clark set out from Redstone, Pennsylvania on the Monongahela River, with one hundred and fifty raw militia for the conquest of British posts in Illinois Country. In the boats that bore his soldiers, against his will, some twenty families had assembled at the place of embarkation for the immigration to the new lands of Kentucky. Among them were Solomon and Elizabeth Greenwalt Kessinger. Their son Jacob, our ancestor, was five years old when his family made the perilous journey. The conquest of General Clark and his men allowed the United States to claim the region after the Revolutionary War and develop it into the Northwest Territory in 1787. The following details the adventures of Solomon's family and other settlers as they raised their families and endured harsh conditions against almost insurrmountable odds.


Source:
Gabor


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Name: Solomon (Sr.) KESSINGER
Given Name: Solomon (Sr.)

Birth: 3 Feb 1745 in Warrick Twp, Lancaster Co., PA
Death: Abt 1837 in In or near Millerstown, Kentucky

Note:
From The Family of Solomon "Monie" Kessinger By Harry H. and Mary Ellen Kessinger Lincoln: According to Mrs. Flora Jean (Kessinger Buckalew, Fleetwood, PA): "in the recofds of the Warrick Congregation, Warrick Township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, now, Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Brickersville, Elizabeth Township, Lancaster Co., PA, the following baptisms occur on page 12: Father: Andreas Kessinger. b. Feb 3, 1745, a son, Solomon, bap. Mar. 24, 1745. Sponsors:
Conrad Braun and wife; also, Ursula Fischerin."
According the the Kessinger Ancestry of Hazel A. Spraker, Ludewick Kessinger was the father of Solomon Kessinger. This was known only through tradition. She also said Solomon Sr. was born about 1737 in Wertemberg, Germany.
No Ludwich has shown up in research so far. Interestingly, in the 1800 Kentucky census, there were only 3 Greenwalts--all in Hardin Co.--named David, Jacob, and Ludwick.
Also, according to Kessinger Ancestry of Hazel A. Spraker, there was a Solomon Casinger of Hardin Co., and Thomas Logsdon, who on 23 Oct., 1795, bought 545 acres on Bacon Creek in Hardin Co; and together they deeded 50 acres on Bacon Crk., branch
of Nolin River, to William Logsdon, 11 Oct., 1801 (Bk 2, Hardin) Also, q.v KY Register, Vol 22 (1924), p 37 for 1783 refrnc. Solomon Kessinger deed to Thomas Atterberry 35 acres on Bacon Crk., 8 Aug., 1804 (B-485). By County Court Orders, 9 Nov.
1812, Solomon Kessinger was exempted from work on roads. In Nelson Co, KY, 10 Aug. 1812, Solomon Kessinger bought land on Barren Creek, from Walter Strong, (Ct. of Appeals deeds, Frankfort, KY, -B. No. 1, p. 511). In Hart Co. statistics it is
found that Solomon Kessinger, Sr. and Solomon Kessinger, Jr., togher with William Joseph, Peter and Issac Kessinger were taxpayers in Hart Co., 1819--the first year of formation of this county, this part taken from Hardin.
Kentucky State Historical Register, Vol. 53, p. 43 names one Solomon Kessinger in a list of people who were entitledto 400 acres of land, each by Act of Dec. 3, 1781, of the Jefferson Co., Virginia, Sessions. (Virginia owned it then.)
According to the Atterbury and Kessinger Notes, Solomon Kessinger (no date), James, Thomas, and William Logsdon--before 1783 were in the list of early settlers in the Nolynn settlement, Hardin Co., KY.
G.P.O. list of Kentucky Taxpayers in 1800:
Hardin Co: Andrew Kessinger, Joseph Kessinger, Solomon Kessinger, James Logsdon, William Logsdon, Thomas Logsdon, Sr.
Barren Co: John Logsdon, Thomas Logsdon, Sr., Thomas Logsdon
Solomon Kessinger (Gesinger) and Thomas Logsdon deed, April 21, 1800, to Wm. Logsdon, land in Hardin Co. on Beakon Creek, waters of Green River, 140 acres, being part of 545 acres bought in partnership with said paties, etc..(Quarter Sessions
Court, Bk. A, pg 373.)
Solomon Kessinger of Hardin Co. and Thomas Logsdon of Logan Co., on Oct. 23, 1795, get by deed from Jacob Bremer, 545 acres on Bacon Creek, Hardin Co. (Cornelius Westfall and Mary Bremer, witnesses. (A-446).
Solomon Kessinger and Thomas Logsdon deed to Wm. Logsdon, land on Bacon Creek. (B-2). This was 50 acres on Bacon, a branch of Nolin, and the date was Oct. 11, 1801. (B-2)
Solomon Kessinger and Thomas Logsdon, August 8, 1804, deed to Solomon Kessinger, Jr., for five shillings, 33 acres on Beacon Creek (part of land called for in a bond given by Thomas Logsdon to said Solomon Kessinger, Jr., bond bearing date of Apr.
18, 1803. The deed her, was date Oct. 11, 1804. (B-435)
Tax Hart Co. (KY) List for 1819: Bacon Creek--Solomon Kessinger, 140 acres; William Kessinger, 120 acres; Solomon Kessinger, 200 acres; Joseph Kessinger, 113 acres. There were grants for Peter and Isaac Kessinger, likewise.
Extracts from SEVERNS VALLEY CHURCH RECORDS (Hardin Co., Ky) The original records are stored in the archives of the Library of the Southern Baptist Theological Semminary, Louisville, Kentucky:
Inside cover page, first volume: Solaman Ces


Source:
M. Carrell


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Name: Solomon I KESSINGER
Sex: M
Birth: 3 FEB 1745 in Lancaster Co,PA
Death: 1836 in Millerstown,Hart Co,KY
Burial: On His Farm,Bacon Creek,Hart Co,KY
Note:
Research of Deloris Kasinger Chestnut and F. Daniel Chestnut:
Solomon Kessinger (referred to, from this point on, as Solomon I or “Old Sol”) was the 6th. child of the German emigrants --Andreas Kessinger and his wife, Susannah (Fisherin) Kessinger.
He was born in Warrick Township, Lancaster County, in the Colony of Pennsylvania, on Feb. 3, 1745.
Little is known of Solomon’s early life. He grew up in the German dominated area of SE Pennsylvania; and during his childhood he lived with his parents. They lived near several members of the Weyl, Klein, Braun and Greenwalt (or Grunewald) families. It seems logical to believe that Solomon and his future wife, Elizabeth Greenwalt, probably spent their childhood in the same vicinity.
In June of 1760, Solomon I’s. father, Andreas Kessinger, died in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at an age of about 57. Solomon I was 15 years old at the time.
Solomon I’s older brother, Mathias Kissinger (Kessinger), was named the Administrator of the “Estate of Andrew (Andreas) Kissinger (Kessinger)” on July 2, 1760. It is believed that Mathias may have been named as the guardian of Solomon I.
“Family Tradition” maintains that Mathias I, and his wife Judith, cared for Solomon I from June of 1760 – until Solomon I reached an age of about 18 in 1763. It is possible that some of this time was spent in Maryland.
Also, according to “tradition”, Solomon I married Elizabeth Greenwalt about 1765. And their first son, Andrew, was born about 1769.
By 1772, Solomon I had moved to Bedford County, Pennsylvania; and he had obtained both land and livestock; as we can see from the following items which are listed in the: "History of Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton Counties" (Waterman, Watkins Co., Chicago, 1884, pp. 69-70).
1772 - Brothers Valley Township, Bedford County, Taxables:
Joseph Greenwalt - 100 acres, 7 improved, 2 horses, 2 cows.
Solomon Kessinger - 100 acres, 4 improved, 2 horses, 1 cow.
Lodowick Greenwalt - (presumed to be a Freeman).
In 1773, 1774 and 1776 we find Solomon I still in Bedford County, PA.
In the "Pennsylvania Archives", (Third Series; Vol. 22,) are listed the following names, under the title-Transcript of Taxables for Bedford Co., Pennsylvania:
1773 - Brothers Valley Twp. -Kessinger, Solomon.
1773 - Brothers Valley Twp. -Greenwalt, Joseph and Lodowick.
1774 - Brothers Valley Twp. -Greenwall, Joseph and Lodowick.
1774 - Turkeyfoot Township -Kissonger, Solomon.
1776 - Turkeyfoot Township -Keisner, Solomon.
1776 - Brothers Valley Twp. -Greenwalt, Joseph.
The next tax list to be found in the "Pennsylvania Archives", is for the year 1779.
No Solomon Kessinger, Joseph Greenwalt, Lodowick Greenwalt, Thomas Logsdon, or William Logsdon, appeared on any tax-list, for Bedford County, in 1779, -- which appears to indicate that they have all moved elsewhere.
Solomon Kessinger I, and his neighbors, were living in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland Colony line, in 1776.
In early May of 1778, the families embarked on their journey to Ft. Pitt; and the Ohio River. Solomon Kessinger I and his neighbors may have had a great deal of anxiety about their fate on their journey down the Ohio River and into the wilderness.
But, they couldn’t have had any idea that their destination, and their lives, was about to come under the influence and direction of a stranger. Or that they would soon become participants in, what was perhaps, the greatest achievement, in American Military history – the conquest of the Northwest Territory, under Colonel George Rogers Clark.
(This complete story is told in the book: "The Kessinger/Kasinger Family in America" by Deloris (Kasinger) Chestnut; which will be published in the Fall of 2004.)
By the end of the year of 1778, Solomon I, his family, and the other "settlers" -- had journeyed, from Pennsylvania, down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, to the Falls of the Ohio. They had erected shelter; cleared the land; raised and harvested crops on Corn Island; built a stockade and blockhouse;
moved to the mainland; stored provisions; and were, "settled in" for the winter of 1778-79. This was all accomplished with very little opposition from the Indians, or the British. However, their good fortune would not continue for long. (But that too, is another story, for another time.)
The next known official record, of Solomon Kessinger I, is found in a document called the “Minute Book A”; and was dated: December 3, 1781, in Jefferson County, Virginia, (later to become Kentucky, in June of 1792.) It named several persons that were each entitled to 400 acres of land.
This same record, also lists the familiar names of: William Logsdon, John Greenywalt, and Joseph Greenywalt, as residents of Jefferson County, Virginia.
Over the next 16 years (from 1779 to 1795), Solomon I and Elizabeth moved from Fort Beargrass, to Kettle Creek, to Acres Valley.
In 1795, Solomon Kasinger (Kessinger), of Hardin County, and Thomas Logsdon, of Logan County, made a joint purchase, of five hundred and forty-five acres of land, on Bacon Creek, a south branch of Nolin River. (As recorded in Hardin County, Kentucky, Deed Book A; 1793-1803, page 446.)
According to tradition, the first and only house, in which Solomon Kessinger lived in, in Kentucky, was built on Bacon Creek. Solomon Kessinger I died on Bacon Creek, in Hart County, Kentucky.
It will be noted, that Solomon Kessinger I and. his sons, William, Joseph, Isaac and Peter, who were on the "Hart County Tax List 1819", -- are missing from the 1836-1838 tax list, indicating that they no longer lived in Hart County -- that they had probably moved elsewhere, or they had died.
The fact, that Solomon Kessinger II, a son of Solomon Kessinger I, is now designated as Solomon Sr.; and Solomon III as Solomon Jr., appears to provide definite proof, that Solomon Kessinger I had died between 1820 and when the tax list was made, in 1836-1838.
There is no known document that pinpoints the year of Solomon I's death; but the fact that his son Andrew, and several of Solomon I's grandchildren all relocated to Illinois between 1829 and 1832, would lend support to the belief that Solomon Kessinger I might have passed away in 1830; he would have been 85 years of age.
In spite of all the hardships, Indian attacks, and neighbor hostilities, that Solomon I and Elizabeth endured, they still managed to raise to maturity a large family. Their descendents now live in almost every area of the United States.
Solomon Kessinger I, and wife Elizabeth (Greenwalt)'s; children were:
A -- Andrew Kessinger Born: about 1769 in Lancaster County, PA
B -- Joseph Kessinger Born: about 1770 in Lancaster County, PA
C -- Solomon Kessinger II Born: about 1773 in Lancaster County, PA
D -- Susanna Kessinger Born: about 1774 in Lancaster County, PA
E -- Jacob Kessinger Born: about 1776 in Lancaster County, PA
F -- John Kessinger Born: about 1781 in Jefferson County, VA
G -- Isaac Kessinger Born: about 1783 in Jefferson County, VA
H -- William Kessinger Born: about 1785 or 1765* in Jefferson County, VA
I -- Peter Kessinger Born: about 1788 in Jefferson County, VA
J -- Mary Elizabeth Kessinger Born: about 1791-1767*, Jefferson Co, VA
K -- Nancy Kessinger Born: about 1795 (or 1766*) in Kentucky.**
* (There is an unresolved question on the birth dates and places of birth, of these three children.)
**(A large part of Jefferson County, Virginia, became the state of Kentucky, in June of 1792.)
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Source:
L.Hess