Michael KEINATH

Jean Cothran schrieb am 11.10.2002 in www. gencircles.com/messages/read/users/3141785/1/12.html: "As far as I know, Michael had only 13 children. Whois Peggy Coyner? She is not mentioned in his will, dated July 16, 1796, or in the book, "A Historical Sketch of Michael Keinadt and Margaret Diller.""

"Michael Keinodt" is listed as passenger on the ship Restauration, 9 Oct1747, according to P

A German Pioneers, Strassurger, volume I, page 366:Ship Restauration, Captn. James Hall, from Rotterdam and last from Leith, Inhabitants of the Palatinate and Places adjacent, did this day take the foregoing Oaths to the Government, 9th October 1747: List 114C Michael KEINODT

I HAVE JUST RECENTLY DOWNLOADED THE WILL OF MICHAEL COINER, WHO IS

OF COURSE MICHAEL KEINADT, OUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR. THIS IS A VERY

IMPORTANT OBJECT TO HAVE, EVEN THOUGH THE COYNER BOOK IS AVAILABLE

AND ACCURATE, THIS IS NICE TO HAVE.

HE MADE HIS WILL, JULY 15, 1796

IN THE WILL, HE IDENTIFIES EACH AND EVERY ONE OF HIS CHILDREN AND NAMES

HIS WIFE MARGARET.

I HAVE RECENTLY NOTICED THAT THERE ARE COYNER, KOINER, KYNERS ON THE

INTERNET SEEKING THEIR ANCESTORS. THIS IS STRANGE TO ME, AS I HAVE ALWAYS

POSSESSED A BOOK WITH ALL OF THE ANCESTORS BACK TO THE 1600'S AND UP

THROUGH 1893, AND THEN WITH A SUPPLEMENT PUBLISHED IN 1941. THERE ARE

HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF THESE BOOKS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN

THE HANDS OF OLDER RELATIVES. I DO NOT KNOW,WHERE A BOOK CAN BE FOUND

TODAY, OTHER THAN IN THE FAMILIES.

A LARGE PART OF THIS GENEALOGY WAS TAKEN FROM THAT BOOK.

THE TITLE IS " A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MICHAEL KEINADT AND MARGARET DILLER,

HIS WIFE"

THE HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THEIR NUMEROUS POSTERITY IN THE AMERICAN

STATES, UP TO THE YEAR 1893. SUPPLEMENT, 1941

KOINER - KYNER - COINER- COYNER

PREPARED BY A COMMITTEE APPOINTED FOR THAT PURPOSE BY THE

"MICHAEL KOINER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION"

ORGANIZED MARCH 28TH, 1892, AT STAUNTON, VA.

STAUNTON, VA.

STONEBURNE & PRUFER, PUBLISHERS,

1893

REPRINTED BY CAMPBELL PRINTING COMPANY

STAUNTON, VA. 1941

NO COYNER DESCENDENT SHOULD BE WITHOUT THIS BOOK.

MICHAEL KEINADT IS LISTED IN THE INDEX OF THE ROLLS OF HONOR (ANCESTOR'S INDEX)

FAMILY HISTORY" LINEAGES OF HEREDITARY SOCIETY MEMBERS, 1600S, 1900S LINEAGE

BOOKS OF THE N.S.D.A.R. VOL. 1V, ANCESTOR'S INDEX, PAGE 211.

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MICHEL KEINADT WHO MARRIED MARGARET DILLER, WAS A SHIP

OWNER. THIS IS INTERESTING, BUT I REALLY SHOULD HAVE REALIZED IT BEFORE. THE

MICHAEL KEINADT BOOK REFERS TO HIS NUMBER OF TRIPS BACK AND FORTH TO THE

COLONIES FROM GERMANY. IT EVEN MENTIONS THAT HIS SISTER, A WONDERFUL

SINGER, FELL OVERBOARD ON HIS LAST TRIP. THIS REFERENCE TO BEING A SHIPOWNER

IS IN FAMILY HISTORY: LINEAGES OF HEREDITARY SOCIATY MEMBERS, 1600'S-1900'S

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY COLONIAL ANCESTORS, ADDENDUM, PAGE 307.

THE KEINADT BOOK DOES NOT STATE THAT, BUT DOES STATE THAT, ABOUT YEAR 1740

HIS FATHER PROBABLY GAVE HIM AS MUCH OF HIS PATRIMONY AS COULD BE SPARED

AND A GOD'S BLESSING. HE EVENTUALLY SAILED FOR PHILADELPHIA. TRADITION IS

SILENT AS TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS, OTHER THAN

TO INFORM US THAT HE WAS ENGAGED IN 5 TRADING VOYAGES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

WHEN HE RETURNED TO WINTERLINGEN, SO MUCH IMPROVED IN DRESS, APPEARANCE,

AND INFORMATION, THAT HE ATTRACTED MUCH ATTENTION FROM HIS COUNTRYMEN.

MICHAEL PURSUADED HIS SISTER TO ACCOMPANY HIM TO AMERICA. SHE WAS A

CELEBRATED SINGER, AND WOULD HAVE MADE HER MARK IN THE AMERICAN CITIES;

BUT ALAS! ON THAT ILLFATED VOYAGE, THERE AROSE A GREAT STORM, BY WHICH

HIS DEAR SISTER WAS SWEPT OVERBOARD AND DROWNED, WHICH SO DEEPLY DIS-

TRESSED MICHAEL, THAT HE NEVER AGAIN CROSSED THE OCEAN. HIS GOOD, PART OF

WHICH WERE ARMS (SHORT HUNTING PIECES, CALLED JAGER) WERE ALL THROWN

OVERBOARD TO THE SAVE THE SHIP.

THE RECORD OF HIS MARRIAGE TO MARGARET DILLER, DAUGHTER OF CASPER DILLER,

IS FOUND IN THE OLD REGISTER OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH AT NEW HOLLAND,

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. DATED 21ST FEBRUARY 1749.

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