Birth date shown is his Bpt. date, Church register of the Parish of Wallisellen.
Faust, Albert, lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, 1920, Zurich Archives List 88, parish Wallissellen, pg. 93. Date of Bpt. and states Hans Conrad was son of deceased Ulrich Naff.
8-93, Pfister letters, "emigrated 5 Oct 1734 from Wallisellen to America with the Pastor Goetschi group.
Strassburger & Hinke, "Pennsylvania German Pioneers", Vol. 1, PA German Soc. Norristown, PA, 1934, page 146-149, Ship MERCURY; Qualified 29 May 1735; Conrad Näf age 22.
Member of the "Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge"; see PENNSYLVANIA: THE GERMAN INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT; Pennsylvania-German Society Chapter III, Pgs. 96-111, Part XXIX. Marriage reference Hinke, Goshenhoppen, pg. 101.
Folge, ZURICH TASCHENBUCH 1986, p. 95; Gives date of Bpt, Marriage to Katharina Isler von Haller at Neuwied, Germany, 28 Oct. 1734. This is incorrect. Hinke reference actually says. "When they reached Neuwied four couples were married by a Reformed minister: Hans Conrad Wirtz and Anna Goetschy; Conrad Naff of Walliselen and Anna N._; Jacob Rathgeb and Barbara Haller, both of Walliselen, and Conrad Geweiller, a gardener. Marriage cross-reference is Hinke, Goshenhoppen, p. 101;
See Neff News, Sept. 1994 page 15 for complete discussion on Marriage to Anna Neff [P31].
THE FINCASTLE COUNTY BATTALION; "Son Conrad Nave [G514]" A list of Captain Evan Shelby's Company of Volunteers from the Watagua Valley, in the Fincastle County Battalion. Lists 49 names including Conrad Nave. (Source ~ Thwaites and (K)Dellogg's "Documentary History of Lord Dumnore's War", p. 412.) Original in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconson. also: Index to The Soldiery of West Virginia by Virgil A. Lewis, Charleston, WV, 1911, second printing by Genealogical Publication, Tomball TX., 1976;
Oct 2011: Research and comments provided by: Genealogist Harriet Imray, Chicago, IL
I know that a man named Hans Conrade Nave was attested in NC by 1762, per deed mentioning his improvements (i.e., a house and some land-clearing) on a tract granted to somebody else. The location--Cedar Creek of Alamance Creek--was in Orange Co, rather than in Rowan Co. Also, a Conrad Nave was tithable in Rowan Co in 1767-68 (or so I've read).
The exact wording of the tax list is critical in figuring out whether that was the Sr. or the Jr. Conrad. I think that the various reports are based on the Jo White Linn annotated collection of the Rowan tax lists. I also know that Linn made some incorrect assumptions about the age standards and tax laws. One report says that Conrad Nave was taxable in the household of his son Teter /Jeter). It didn't work that way. If there was a taxable Conrad in the Teter Nave household in 1767, that was his younger brother Conrad, then aged 16
I saw a website on Shenandoah Valley history which stated that Dr. Hans Conrad Nave and Dr. Samuel Eckerlin were kept busy at Strasburg VA by patients coming from all over. I don't know if this is from Wayland's "History of Shenandoah Co." or elsewhere, but there are some problems with the statement. Strasburg was founded as a market town in 1762 (called that, rather than Stovertown, from 1761). A doctor who practiced "in Strasburg" could not simultaneously be clearing land in Orange Co NC--a very long and difficult distance away. And Samuel Eckerlin wasn't even there, except for a brief stint in prison at Winchester--he was suspected of aiding & abetting the Shawnees during the French & Indian War. His second frontier settlement, from 1751, was way out at the end of Frederick Co VA, in the part that is now Monongalia Co WV, near Morgantown and the PA border. Eckerlin, like the other founders of sectarian settlements, had to be very careful about respecting the rights of their Indian neighbors--that would look pretty suspicious in frontier VA in the 1750's.
Three of the Frederick Co VA voting lists for the House of Burgesses were included in Murtie June Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986):
pp. 328-332. Poll for Frederick Co. Dec 11, 1755, List of Voters
p. 328 (list of all voters): John Naffe
p. 330 (voters for Mr. Hugh West): John Noff
pp. 513-19. Poll taken in Frederick County. Jul 24, 1758
No Naff/Nave (etc.) voter
pp. 546-55. Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County.
May 18, 1761
p. 549: (voters for Colonel Geo. Washington) Henry Knave
p. 553: (voters for Colonel Geo. Mercer) Henry Knave
These manage to say something about who was where and when. The 1755 vote of John Naffe/Noff seems off-base. The man who was present in 1755 was properly a Conrad, not a John. Even if Conrad and Anna Näf had produced a child as quickly as biologically-possible after their 1734 wedding, they still would not have a son past his 21st birthday by 11 Dec 1755. Only a very few of the German-speaking immigrants adopted the English name-usage, and answered to their first name (saint's-name) rather than their second name (rufnom = "call-name"). The few who did that were people whose business included dealing almost exclusively with
English-speakers. But the English clerks got that mixed up pretty frequently. The voting procedure itself could have turned a (Hans) Conrad into a John. Eligible voters (free white male property-owners aged 21+) lined up in front of the table of their preferred candidate(s) and loudly announced their name as a voter for that one. Then the
candidate shook his hand and gave him a cup of punch or a shot of whiskey. No secret ballots for these folks!
Election day was one big county party-time. A clerk wrote down the names of his own candidate's voters as quickly as possible (between drinks of the candidate's liquor), and was certainly capable of employing his own shorthand by dropping the second-and-important name of the German-speaking voters.
None of the Frederick Co., VA Colonial Voting Lists included a double name for even one voter. Probably Dr. Nave should merely have said "Conrad" when he announced his vote, but he got too formal. At any rate, I'm fairly certain that Conrad (of Ulrich) was the man who voted in Frederick Co., VA in 1755. So where was he in 1758? Maybe he just didn't vote that year, but he could have headed for NC. Other Frederick Co., VA people were doing that at the time--in fact, Abraham Vanderpool (father of Teter's wife) turned up in Orange Co NC land records in 1757, in the section of the county where the Quakers and Moravians had just settled.
This location was much safer during the French & Indian War, so it's at least possible that the whole family headed for NC. Or, rather, everybody except Henry. Henry Knave/Nave is identified only tentatively as a son of Conrad and Anna, but the location and timing seem to imply a father/son relationship. Henry was born no later than 1740 (since he voted in 1761), and may have possibly been the oldest child. He was already married-and-settled by 1760, and probably before the rest of the family moved.
If Conrad Nave (Sr.) [G51] had died in Frederick Co VA, there would probably have been some record of an estate--although not necessarily. A death in, say, Orange Co., NC, and prior to a land grant, would be more likely
to go unrecorded. The other boys had scattered by 1767--John to Mecklenburgh Co NC, Teter and (probably) Conrad Jr. in Rowan Co NC, then all 3 to Watauga (although Conrad Jr. did not sign the 1776 petition, as John and Teter did). Unless the 1767 Rowan Co., NC tax list says something different from what I've heard that it says, I have no strong reason to "place" Conrad Nave Sr. anywhere after 1756 in Frederick Co., VA.
"Early Tennessee Taxpayers," by Pollyanna Creekmore, Southern Historical Press, Easley, S.C., 1980, states:
--Washington County 1778
,Henry Nave Poll Tax, 100 acres (estate), £1, 6 pence (sum to pay)
,John Nave 559 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £5. 14 shillings (sum to pay)
,Teter Nave 439 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £4. 10 shillings 14 pence (sum to pay)
--Carter County Tax Lists 1796
Teter Nave 200 acres
John Nave 100 acres
Abraham Nave 50 acres
NOTE: DR. CONRAD NEFF [G51] SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH HIS
SON CONRAD NAVE [G155]
Search for records for Hans Conrad Neff aka Nave.
http://www.n2genealogy.com/westvirginia/wv-county-hardy.html
When the French and Indian War was over, England's King George III feared that more tension between Native Americans and settlers was inevitable. In an attempt to avert further bloodshed, he issued the Proclamation of 1763, prohibiting settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Proclamation was, for the most part, ignored.
During the summer of 1763, Ottawa Chief Pontiac led raids on key British forts in the Great Lakes region. Shawnee Chief Keigh-tugh-qua, also known as Cornstalk, led similar raids on western Virginia settlements. The uprisings ended on August 6, 1763 when British forces, under the command of Colonel Henry Bouquet, defeated Delaware and Shawnee forces at Bushy Run in western Pennsylvania.
In April 1774, the Yellow Creek Massacre took place near Wheeling. Among the dead were Mingo Chief Logan's brother and pregnant sister. Violence then escalated into Lord Dunmore's War. On 10 October 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis and approximately 800 men defeated 1,200 Indian warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant, ending Lord Dunmore's War. No foundation that Hans Conrad Neff was part of this engagement as a medical man who provided his services and was killed.
"Some of the early doctors have been mentioned in previous chapters. John Henry Neff [A2 line, Mennonite], who settled in Shenandoah Co. in 1750, is regarded as the founder of a veritable dynasty of medical men. One of them, (incorrect, not A2 line) was Conrad Neff, much consulted between 1770 and 1800, and was no doubt the "Dutch doctor Neaves" whose reputation reached across the mountain where ailing Francis Taylor of Orange County sent for his advise in August 1787. WUST, Klaust, "The Virginia Germans", The University Press of Virginia, 1969, page 183. Note: May not be accurate.
Neff Family Historical Soc., Inc. [G-line]
y-DNA at FamilyTreeDNA.com NEFF-NAVE-NAFF Project
Updated 23 July 2021
Faust, Albert, lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, 1920, Zurich Archives List 88, parish Wallissellen, pg. 93. Date of Bpt. and states Hans Conrad was son of deceased Ulrich Naff.
8-93, Pfister letters, "emigrated 5 Oct 1734 from Wallisellen to America with the Pastor Goetschi group.
Strassburger & Hinke, "Pennsylvania German Pioneers", Vol. 1, PA German Soc. Norristown, PA, 1934, page 146-149, Ship MERCURY; Qualified 29 May 1735; Conrad Näf age 22.
Member of the "Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge"; see PENNSYLVANIA: THE GERMAN INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT; Pennsylvania-German Society Chapter III, Pgs. 96-111, Part XXIX. Marriage reference Hinke, Goshenhoppen, pg. 101.
Folge, ZURICH TASCHENBUCH 1986, p. 95; Gives date of Bpt, Marriage to Katharina Isler von Haller at Neuwied, Germany, 28 Oct. 1734. This is incorrect. Hinke reference actually says. "When they reached Neuwied four couples were married by a Reformed minister: Hans Conrad Wirtz and Anna Goetschy; Conrad Naff of Walliselen and Anna N._; Jacob Rathgeb and Barbara Haller, both of Walliselen, and Conrad Geweiller, a gardener. Marriage cross-reference is Hinke, Goshenhoppen, p. 101;
See Neff News, Sept. 1994 page 15 for complete discussion on Marriage to Anna Neff [P31].
THE FINCASTLE COUNTY BATTALION; "Son Conrad Nave [G514]" A list of Captain Evan Shelby's Company of Volunteers from the Watagua Valley, in the Fincastle County Battalion. Lists 49 names including Conrad Nave. (Source ~ Thwaites and (K)Dellogg's "Documentary History of Lord Dumnore's War", p. 412.) Original in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconson. also: Index to The Soldiery of West Virginia by Virgil A. Lewis, Charleston, WV, 1911, second printing by Genealogical Publication, Tomball TX., 1976;
Oct 2011: Research and comments provided by: Genealogist Harriet Imray, Chicago, IL
I know that a man named Hans Conrade Nave was attested in NC by 1762, per deed mentioning his improvements (i.e., a house and some land-clearing) on a tract granted to somebody else. The location--Cedar Creek of Alamance Creek--was in Orange Co, rather than in Rowan Co. Also, a Conrad Nave was tithable in Rowan Co in 1767-68 (or so I've read).
The exact wording of the tax list is critical in figuring out whether that was the Sr. or the Jr. Conrad. I think that the various reports are based on the Jo White Linn annotated collection of the Rowan tax lists. I also know that Linn made some incorrect assumptions about the age standards and tax laws. One report says that Conrad Nave was taxable in the household of his son Teter /Jeter). It didn't work that way. If there was a taxable Conrad in the Teter Nave household in 1767, that was his younger brother Conrad, then aged 16
I saw a website on Shenandoah Valley history which stated that Dr. Hans Conrad Nave and Dr. Samuel Eckerlin were kept busy at Strasburg VA by patients coming from all over. I don't know if this is from Wayland's "History of Shenandoah Co." or elsewhere, but there are some problems with the statement. Strasburg was founded as a market town in 1762 (called that, rather than Stovertown, from 1761). A doctor who practiced "in Strasburg" could not simultaneously be clearing land in Orange Co NC--a very long and difficult distance away. And Samuel Eckerlin wasn't even there, except for a brief stint in prison at Winchester--he was suspected of aiding & abetting the Shawnees during the French & Indian War. His second frontier settlement, from 1751, was way out at the end of Frederick Co VA, in the part that is now Monongalia Co WV, near Morgantown and the PA border. Eckerlin, like the other founders of sectarian settlements, had to be very careful about respecting the rights of their Indian neighbors--that would look pretty suspicious in frontier VA in the 1750's.
Three of the Frederick Co VA voting lists for the House of Burgesses were included in Murtie June Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986):
pp. 328-332. Poll for Frederick Co. Dec 11, 1755, List of Voters
p. 328 (list of all voters): John Naffe
p. 330 (voters for Mr. Hugh West): John Noff
pp. 513-19. Poll taken in Frederick County. Jul 24, 1758
No Naff/Nave (etc.) voter
pp. 546-55. Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County.
May 18, 1761
p. 549: (voters for Colonel Geo. Washington) Henry Knave
p. 553: (voters for Colonel Geo. Mercer) Henry Knave
These manage to say something about who was where and when. The 1755 vote of John Naffe/Noff seems off-base. The man who was present in 1755 was properly a Conrad, not a John. Even if Conrad and Anna Näf had produced a child as quickly as biologically-possible after their 1734 wedding, they still would not have a son past his 21st birthday by 11 Dec 1755. Only a very few of the German-speaking immigrants adopted the English name-usage, and answered to their first name (saint's-name) rather than their second name (rufnom = "call-name"). The few who did that were people whose business included dealing almost exclusively with
English-speakers. But the English clerks got that mixed up pretty frequently. The voting procedure itself could have turned a (Hans) Conrad into a John. Eligible voters (free white male property-owners aged 21+) lined up in front of the table of their preferred candidate(s) and loudly announced their name as a voter for that one. Then the
candidate shook his hand and gave him a cup of punch or a shot of whiskey. No secret ballots for these folks!
Election day was one big county party-time. A clerk wrote down the names of his own candidate's voters as quickly as possible (between drinks of the candidate's liquor), and was certainly capable of employing his own shorthand by dropping the second-and-important name of the German-speaking voters.
None of the Frederick Co., VA Colonial Voting Lists included a double name for even one voter. Probably Dr. Nave should merely have said "Conrad" when he announced his vote, but he got too formal. At any rate, I'm fairly certain that Conrad (of Ulrich) was the man who voted in Frederick Co., VA in 1755. So where was he in 1758? Maybe he just didn't vote that year, but he could have headed for NC. Other Frederick Co., VA people were doing that at the time--in fact, Abraham Vanderpool (father of Teter's wife) turned up in Orange Co NC land records in 1757, in the section of the county where the Quakers and Moravians had just settled.
This location was much safer during the French & Indian War, so it's at least possible that the whole family headed for NC. Or, rather, everybody except Henry. Henry Knave/Nave is identified only tentatively as a son of Conrad and Anna, but the location and timing seem to imply a father/son relationship. Henry was born no later than 1740 (since he voted in 1761), and may have possibly been the oldest child. He was already married-and-settled by 1760, and probably before the rest of the family moved.
If Conrad Nave (Sr.) [G51] had died in Frederick Co VA, there would probably have been some record of an estate--although not necessarily. A death in, say, Orange Co., NC, and prior to a land grant, would be more likely
to go unrecorded. The other boys had scattered by 1767--John to Mecklenburgh Co NC, Teter and (probably) Conrad Jr. in Rowan Co NC, then all 3 to Watauga (although Conrad Jr. did not sign the 1776 petition, as John and Teter did). Unless the 1767 Rowan Co., NC tax list says something different from what I've heard that it says, I have no strong reason to "place" Conrad Nave Sr. anywhere after 1756 in Frederick Co., VA.
"Early Tennessee Taxpayers," by Pollyanna Creekmore, Southern Historical Press, Easley, S.C., 1980, states:
--Washington County 1778
,Henry Nave Poll Tax, 100 acres (estate), £1, 6 pence (sum to pay)
,John Nave 559 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £5. 14 shillings (sum to pay)
,Teter Nave 439 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £4. 10 shillings 14 pence (sum to pay)
--Carter County Tax Lists 1796
Teter Nave 200 acres
John Nave 100 acres
Abraham Nave 50 acres
NOTE: DR. CONRAD NEFF [G51] SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH HIS
SON CONRAD NAVE [G155]
Search for records for Hans Conrad Neff aka Nave.
http://www.n2genealogy.com/westvirginia/wv-county-hardy.html
When the French and Indian War was over, England's King George III feared that more tension between Native Americans and settlers was inevitable. In an attempt to avert further bloodshed, he issued the Proclamation of 1763, prohibiting settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Proclamation was, for the most part, ignored.
During the summer of 1763, Ottawa Chief Pontiac led raids on key British forts in the Great Lakes region. Shawnee Chief Keigh-tugh-qua, also known as Cornstalk, led similar raids on western Virginia settlements. The uprisings ended on August 6, 1763 when British forces, under the command of Colonel Henry Bouquet, defeated Delaware and Shawnee forces at Bushy Run in western Pennsylvania.
In April 1774, the Yellow Creek Massacre took place near Wheeling. Among the dead were Mingo Chief Logan's brother and pregnant sister. Violence then escalated into Lord Dunmore's War. On 10 October 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis and approximately 800 men defeated 1,200 Indian warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant, ending Lord Dunmore's War. No foundation that Hans Conrad Neff was part of this engagement as a medical man who provided his services and was killed.
"Some of the early doctors have been mentioned in previous chapters. John Henry Neff [A2 line, Mennonite], who settled in Shenandoah Co. in 1750, is regarded as the founder of a veritable dynasty of medical men. One of them, (incorrect, not A2 line) was Conrad Neff, much consulted between 1770 and 1800, and was no doubt the "Dutch doctor Neaves" whose reputation reached across the mountain where ailing Francis Taylor of Orange County sent for his advise in August 1787. WUST, Klaust, "The Virginia Germans", The University Press of Virginia, 1969, page 183. Note: May not be accurate.
Neff Family Historical Soc., Inc. [G-line]
y-DNA at FamilyTreeDNA.com NEFF-NAVE-NAFF Project
Updated 23 July 2021
Birth date shown is his Bpt. date, Church register of the Parish of Wallisellen.
Faust, Albert, lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, 1920, Zurich Archives List 88, parish Wallissellen, pg. 93. Date of Bpt. and states Hans Conrad was son of deceased Ulrich Naff.
8-93, Pfister letters, "emigrated 5 Oct 1734 from Wallisellen to America with the Pastor Goetschi group.
Strassburger & Hinke, "Pennsylvania German Pioneers", Vol. 1, PA German Soc. Norristown, PA, 1934, page 146-149, Ship MERCURY; Qualified 29 May 1735; Conrad Näf age 22.
Member of the "Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge"; see PENNSYLVANIA: THE GERMAN INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT; Pennsylvania-German Society Chapter III, Pgs. 96-111, Part XXIX. Marriage reference Hinke, Goshenhoppen, pg. 101.
Folge, ZURICH TASCHENBUCH 1986, p. 95; Gives date of Bpt, Marriage to Katharina Isler von Haller at Neuwied, Germany, 28 Oct. 1734. This is incorrect. Hinke reference actually says. "When they reached Neuwied four couples were married by a Reformed minister: Hans Conrad Wirtz and Anna Goetschy; Conrad Naff of Walliselen and Anna N._; Jacob Rathgeb and Barbara Haller, both of Walliselen, and Conrad Geweiller, a gardener. Marriage cross-reference is Hinke, Goshenhoppen, p. 101;
See Neff News, Sept. 1994 page 15 for complete discussion on Marriage to Anna Neff [P31].
THE FINCASTLE COUNTY BATTALION; "Son Conrad Nave [G514]" A list of Captain Evan Shelby's Company of Volunteers from the Watagua Valley, in the Fincastle County Battalion. Lists 49 names including Conrad Nave. (Source ~ Thwaites and (K)Dellogg's "Documentary History of Lord Dumnore's War", p. 412.) Original in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconson. also: Index to The Soldiery of West Virginia by Virgil A. Lewis, Charleston, WV, 1911, second printing by Genealogical Publication, Tomball TX., 1976;
Oct 2011: Research and comments provided by: Genealogist Harriet Imray, Chicago, IL
I know that a man named Hans Conrade Nave was attested in NC by 1762, per deed mentioning his improvements (i.e., a house and some land-clearing) on a tract granted to somebody else. The location--Cedar Creek of Alamance Creek--was in Orange Co, rather than in Rowan Co. Also, a Conrad Nave was tithable in Rowan Co in 1767-68 (or so I've read).
The exact wording of the tax list is critical in figuring out whether that was the Sr. or the Jr. Conrad. I think that the various reports are based on the Jo White Linn annotated collection of the Rowan tax lists. I also know that Linn made some incorrect assumptions about the age standards and tax laws. One report says that Conrad Nave was taxable in the household of his son Teter /Jeter). It didn't work that way. If there was a taxable Conrad in the Teter Nave household in 1767, that was his younger brother Conrad, then aged 16
I saw a website on Shenandoah Valley history which stated that Dr. Hans Conrad Nave and Dr. Samuel Eckerlin were kept busy at Strasburg VA by patients coming from all over. I don't know if this is from Wayland's "History of Shenandoah Co." or elsewhere, but there are some problems with the statement. Strasburg was founded as a market town in 1762 (called that, rather than Stovertown, from 1761). A doctor who practiced "in Strasburg" could not simultaneously be clearing land in Orange Co NC--a very long and difficult distance away. And Samuel Eckerlin wasn't even there, except for a brief stint in prison at Winchester--he was suspected of aiding & abetting the Shawnees during the French & Indian War. His second frontier settlement, from 1751, was way out at the end of Frederick Co VA, in the part that is now Monongalia Co WV, near Morgantown and the PA border. Eckerlin, like the other founders of sectarian settlements, had to be very careful about respecting the rights of their Indian neighbors--that would look pretty suspicious in frontier VA in the 1750's.
Three of the Frederick Co VA voting lists for the House of Burgesses were included in Murtie June Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986):
pp. 328-332. Poll for Frederick Co. Dec 11, 1755, List of Voters
p. 328 (list of all voters): John Naffe
p. 330 (voters for Mr. Hugh West): John Noff
pp. 513-19. Poll taken in Frederick County. Jul 24, 1758
No Naff/Nave (etc.) voter
pp. 546-55. Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County.
May 18, 1761
p. 549: (voters for Colonel Geo. Washington) Henry Knave
p. 553: (voters for Colonel Geo. Mercer) Henry Knave
These manage to say something about who was where and when. The 1755 vote of John Naffe/Noff seems off-base. The man who was present in 1755 was properly a Conrad, not a John. Even if Conrad and Anna Näf had produced a child as quickly as biologically-possible after their 1734 wedding, they still would not have a son past his 21st birthday by 11 Dec 1755. Only a very few of the German-speaking immigrants adopted the English name-usage, and answered to their first name (saint's-name) rather than their second name (rufnom = "call-name"). The few who did that were people whose business included dealing almost exclusively with
English-speakers. But the English clerks got that mixed up pretty frequently. The voting procedure itself could have turned a (Hans) Conrad into a John. Eligible voters (free white male property-owners aged 21+) lined up in front of the table of their preferred candidate(s) and loudly announced their name as a voter for that one. Then the
candidate shook his hand and gave him a cup of punch or a shot of whiskey. No secret ballots for these folks!
Election day was one big county party-time. A clerk wrote down the names of his own candidate's voters as quickly as possible (between drinks of the candidate's liquor), and was certainly capable of employing his own shorthand by dropping the second-and-important name of the German-speaking voters.
None of the Frederick Co., VA Colonial Voting Lists included a double name for even one voter. Probably Dr. Nave should merely have said "Conrad" when he announced his vote, but he got too formal. At any rate, I'm fairly certain that Conrad (of Ulrich) was the man who voted in Frederick Co., VA in 1755. So where was he in 1758? Maybe he just didn't vote that year, but he could have headed for NC. Other Frederick Co., VA people were doing that at the time--in fact, Abraham Vanderpool (father of Teter's wife) turned up in Orange Co NC land records in 1757, in the section of the county where the Quakers and Moravians had just settled.
This location was much safer during the French & Indian War, so it's at least possible that the whole family headed for NC. Or, rather, everybody except Henry. Henry Knave/Nave is identified only tentatively as a son of Conrad and Anna, but the location and timing seem to imply a father/son relationship. Henry was born no later than 1740 (since he voted in 1761), and may have possibly been the oldest child. He was already married-and-settled by 1760, and probably before the rest of the family moved.
If Conrad Nave (Sr.) [G51] had died in Frederick Co VA, there would probably have been some record of an estate--although not necessarily. A death in, say, Orange Co., NC, and prior to a land grant, would be more likely
to go unrecorded. The other boys had scattered by 1767--John to Mecklenburgh Co NC, Teter and (probably) Conrad Jr. in Rowan Co NC, then all 3 to Watauga (although Conrad Jr. did not sign the 1776 petition, as John and Teter did). Unless the 1767 Rowan Co., NC tax list says something different from what I've heard that it says, I have no strong reason to "place" Conrad Nave Sr. anywhere after 1756 in Frederick Co., VA.
"Early Tennessee Taxpayers," by Pollyanna Creekmore, Southern Historical Press, Easley, S.C., 1980, states:
--Washington County 1778
,Henry Nave Poll Tax, 100 acres (estate), £1, 6 pence (sum to pay)
,John Nave 559 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £5. 14 shillings (sum to pay)
,Teter Nave 439 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £4. 10 shillings 14 pence (sum to pay)
--Carter County Tax Lists 1796
Teter Nave 200 acres
John Nave 100 acres
Abraham Nave 50 acres
NOTE: DR. CONRAD NEFF [G51] SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH HIS
SON CONRAD NAVE [G155]
Search for records for Hans Conrad Neff aka Nave.
http://www.n2genealogy.com/westvirginia/wv-county-hardy.html
When the French and Indian War was over, England's King George III feared that more tension between Native Americans and settlers was inevitable. In an attempt to avert further bloodshed, he issued the Proclamation of 1763, prohibiting settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Proclamation was, for the most part, ignored.
During the summer of 1763, Ottawa Chief Pontiac led raids on key British forts in the Great Lakes region. Shawnee Chief Keigh-tugh-qua, also known as Cornstalk, led similar raids on western Virginia settlements. The uprisings ended on August 6, 1763 when British forces, under the command of Colonel Henry Bouquet, defeated Delaware and Shawnee forces at Bushy Run in western Pennsylvania.
In April 1774, the Yellow Creek Massacre took place near Wheeling. Among the dead were Mingo Chief Logan's brother and pregnant sister. Violence then escalated into Lord Dunmore's War. On 10 October 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis and approximately 800 men defeated 1,200 Indian warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant, ending Lord Dunmore's War. No foundation that Hans Conrad Neff was part of this engagement as a medical man who provided his services and was killed.
"Some of the early doctors have been mentioned in previous chapters. John Henry Neff [A2 line, Mennonite], who settled in Shenandoah Co. in 1750, is regarded as the founder of a veritable dynasty of medical men. One of them, (incorrect, not A2 line) was Conrad Neff, much consulted between 1770 and 1800, and was no doubt the "Dutch doctor Neaves" whose reputation reached across the mountain where ailing Francis Taylor of Orange County sent for his advise in August 1787. WUST, Klaust, "The Virginia Germans", The University Press of Virginia, 1969, page 183. Note: May not be accurate.
Neff Family Historical Soc., Inc. [G-line]
y-DNA at FamilyTreeDNA.com NEFF-NAVE-NAFF Project
Updated 23 July 2021
Faust, Albert, lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, 1920, Zurich Archives List 88, parish Wallissellen, pg. 93. Date of Bpt. and states Hans Conrad was son of deceased Ulrich Naff.
8-93, Pfister letters, "emigrated 5 Oct 1734 from Wallisellen to America with the Pastor Goetschi group.
Strassburger & Hinke, "Pennsylvania German Pioneers", Vol. 1, PA German Soc. Norristown, PA, 1934, page 146-149, Ship MERCURY; Qualified 29 May 1735; Conrad Näf age 22.
Member of the "Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge"; see PENNSYLVANIA: THE GERMAN INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT; Pennsylvania-German Society Chapter III, Pgs. 96-111, Part XXIX. Marriage reference Hinke, Goshenhoppen, pg. 101.
Folge, ZURICH TASCHENBUCH 1986, p. 95; Gives date of Bpt, Marriage to Katharina Isler von Haller at Neuwied, Germany, 28 Oct. 1734. This is incorrect. Hinke reference actually says. "When they reached Neuwied four couples were married by a Reformed minister: Hans Conrad Wirtz and Anna Goetschy; Conrad Naff of Walliselen and Anna N._; Jacob Rathgeb and Barbara Haller, both of Walliselen, and Conrad Geweiller, a gardener. Marriage cross-reference is Hinke, Goshenhoppen, p. 101;
See Neff News, Sept. 1994 page 15 for complete discussion on Marriage to Anna Neff [P31].
THE FINCASTLE COUNTY BATTALION; "Son Conrad Nave [G514]" A list of Captain Evan Shelby's Company of Volunteers from the Watagua Valley, in the Fincastle County Battalion. Lists 49 names including Conrad Nave. (Source ~ Thwaites and (K)Dellogg's "Documentary History of Lord Dumnore's War", p. 412.) Original in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconson. also: Index to The Soldiery of West Virginia by Virgil A. Lewis, Charleston, WV, 1911, second printing by Genealogical Publication, Tomball TX., 1976;
Oct 2011: Research and comments provided by: Genealogist Harriet Imray, Chicago, IL
I know that a man named Hans Conrade Nave was attested in NC by 1762, per deed mentioning his improvements (i.e., a house and some land-clearing) on a tract granted to somebody else. The location--Cedar Creek of Alamance Creek--was in Orange Co, rather than in Rowan Co. Also, a Conrad Nave was tithable in Rowan Co in 1767-68 (or so I've read).
The exact wording of the tax list is critical in figuring out whether that was the Sr. or the Jr. Conrad. I think that the various reports are based on the Jo White Linn annotated collection of the Rowan tax lists. I also know that Linn made some incorrect assumptions about the age standards and tax laws. One report says that Conrad Nave was taxable in the household of his son Teter /Jeter). It didn't work that way. If there was a taxable Conrad in the Teter Nave household in 1767, that was his younger brother Conrad, then aged 16
I saw a website on Shenandoah Valley history which stated that Dr. Hans Conrad Nave and Dr. Samuel Eckerlin were kept busy at Strasburg VA by patients coming from all over. I don't know if this is from Wayland's "History of Shenandoah Co." or elsewhere, but there are some problems with the statement. Strasburg was founded as a market town in 1762 (called that, rather than Stovertown, from 1761). A doctor who practiced "in Strasburg" could not simultaneously be clearing land in Orange Co NC--a very long and difficult distance away. And Samuel Eckerlin wasn't even there, except for a brief stint in prison at Winchester--he was suspected of aiding & abetting the Shawnees during the French & Indian War. His second frontier settlement, from 1751, was way out at the end of Frederick Co VA, in the part that is now Monongalia Co WV, near Morgantown and the PA border. Eckerlin, like the other founders of sectarian settlements, had to be very careful about respecting the rights of their Indian neighbors--that would look pretty suspicious in frontier VA in the 1750's.
Three of the Frederick Co VA voting lists for the House of Burgesses were included in Murtie June Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986):
pp. 328-332. Poll for Frederick Co. Dec 11, 1755, List of Voters
p. 328 (list of all voters): John Naffe
p. 330 (voters for Mr. Hugh West): John Noff
pp. 513-19. Poll taken in Frederick County. Jul 24, 1758
No Naff/Nave (etc.) voter
pp. 546-55. Poll taken at the Election of Burgesses, Frederick County.
May 18, 1761
p. 549: (voters for Colonel Geo. Washington) Henry Knave
p. 553: (voters for Colonel Geo. Mercer) Henry Knave
These manage to say something about who was where and when. The 1755 vote of John Naffe/Noff seems off-base. The man who was present in 1755 was properly a Conrad, not a John. Even if Conrad and Anna Näf had produced a child as quickly as biologically-possible after their 1734 wedding, they still would not have a son past his 21st birthday by 11 Dec 1755. Only a very few of the German-speaking immigrants adopted the English name-usage, and answered to their first name (saint's-name) rather than their second name (rufnom = "call-name"). The few who did that were people whose business included dealing almost exclusively with
English-speakers. But the English clerks got that mixed up pretty frequently. The voting procedure itself could have turned a (Hans) Conrad into a John. Eligible voters (free white male property-owners aged 21+) lined up in front of the table of their preferred candidate(s) and loudly announced their name as a voter for that one. Then the
candidate shook his hand and gave him a cup of punch or a shot of whiskey. No secret ballots for these folks!
Election day was one big county party-time. A clerk wrote down the names of his own candidate's voters as quickly as possible (between drinks of the candidate's liquor), and was certainly capable of employing his own shorthand by dropping the second-and-important name of the German-speaking voters.
None of the Frederick Co., VA Colonial Voting Lists included a double name for even one voter. Probably Dr. Nave should merely have said "Conrad" when he announced his vote, but he got too formal. At any rate, I'm fairly certain that Conrad (of Ulrich) was the man who voted in Frederick Co., VA in 1755. So where was he in 1758? Maybe he just didn't vote that year, but he could have headed for NC. Other Frederick Co., VA people were doing that at the time--in fact, Abraham Vanderpool (father of Teter's wife) turned up in Orange Co NC land records in 1757, in the section of the county where the Quakers and Moravians had just settled.
This location was much safer during the French & Indian War, so it's at least possible that the whole family headed for NC. Or, rather, everybody except Henry. Henry Knave/Nave is identified only tentatively as a son of Conrad and Anna, but the location and timing seem to imply a father/son relationship. Henry was born no later than 1740 (since he voted in 1761), and may have possibly been the oldest child. He was already married-and-settled by 1760, and probably before the rest of the family moved.
If Conrad Nave (Sr.) [G51] had died in Frederick Co VA, there would probably have been some record of an estate--although not necessarily. A death in, say, Orange Co., NC, and prior to a land grant, would be more likely
to go unrecorded. The other boys had scattered by 1767--John to Mecklenburgh Co NC, Teter and (probably) Conrad Jr. in Rowan Co NC, then all 3 to Watauga (although Conrad Jr. did not sign the 1776 petition, as John and Teter did). Unless the 1767 Rowan Co., NC tax list says something different from what I've heard that it says, I have no strong reason to "place" Conrad Nave Sr. anywhere after 1756 in Frederick Co., VA.
"Early Tennessee Taxpayers," by Pollyanna Creekmore, Southern Historical Press, Easley, S.C., 1980, states:
--Washington County 1778
,Henry Nave Poll Tax, 100 acres (estate), £1, 6 pence (sum to pay)
,John Nave 559 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £5. 14 shillings (sum to pay)
,Teter Nave 439 acres 8 perches 4 rods (estate), £4. 10 shillings 14 pence (sum to pay)
--Carter County Tax Lists 1796
Teter Nave 200 acres
John Nave 100 acres
Abraham Nave 50 acres
NOTE: DR. CONRAD NEFF [G51] SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH HIS
SON CONRAD NAVE [G155]
Search for records for Hans Conrad Neff aka Nave.
http://www.n2genealogy.com/westvirginia/wv-county-hardy.html
When the French and Indian War was over, England's King George III feared that more tension between Native Americans and settlers was inevitable. In an attempt to avert further bloodshed, he issued the Proclamation of 1763, prohibiting settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Proclamation was, for the most part, ignored.
During the summer of 1763, Ottawa Chief Pontiac led raids on key British forts in the Great Lakes region. Shawnee Chief Keigh-tugh-qua, also known as Cornstalk, led similar raids on western Virginia settlements. The uprisings ended on August 6, 1763 when British forces, under the command of Colonel Henry Bouquet, defeated Delaware and Shawnee forces at Bushy Run in western Pennsylvania.
In April 1774, the Yellow Creek Massacre took place near Wheeling. Among the dead were Mingo Chief Logan's brother and pregnant sister. Violence then escalated into Lord Dunmore's War. On 10 October 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis and approximately 800 men defeated 1,200 Indian warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant, ending Lord Dunmore's War. No foundation that Hans Conrad Neff was part of this engagement as a medical man who provided his services and was killed.
"Some of the early doctors have been mentioned in previous chapters. John Henry Neff [A2 line, Mennonite], who settled in Shenandoah Co. in 1750, is regarded as the founder of a veritable dynasty of medical men. One of them, (incorrect, not A2 line) was Conrad Neff, much consulted between 1770 and 1800, and was no doubt the "Dutch doctor Neaves" whose reputation reached across the mountain where ailing Francis Taylor of Orange County sent for his advise in August 1787. WUST, Klaust, "The Virginia Germans", The University Press of Virginia, 1969, page 183. Note: May not be accurate.
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