In the last note, we were naming people who came to the Robinson River community in the interval of about 1740 to 1750, or slightly later. I continue with more people:
There are many instances where a name appears only once in the records. All that we know about Conrad Kepler is that he was paid from the estate of Joseph Kelly as recorded in 1757 in the Culpeper Co. Will Book A, on page 32. The name Kepler almost suggests Kabler which is a recognized family in the Mt. Pony area but the Kabler family history does not suggest there was a Conrad. Conrad Kepler could have been an individual who was just passing through Virginia or who lived in a more remote region of Virginia. Incomplete stories or histories leave us with a feeling of uneasiness. Some similar events for other men have had happy outcomes. The name is recognized in other contexts and the story is made more complete.
Matthias Kerchler proved his importation in Orange Co. in 1736 and Peter Weaver used his headright in obtaining his 1736 patent. Sometimes the transfer of a headright was within the family but, in other cases, it was simply a cash transaction. Again, we know little about Kerchler.
George Samuel Klug was the associate pastor hired in Europe on the fund raising trip. After the death of John Caspar Stöver, he became the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran (Hebron) Church. He married Susannah Castler of the community.
John Kyner was in the Orange Co. tithables in 1739 with three tithables. B.C. Holtzclaw, in his writings, confused him with the name Reiner, which was a separate family.
Jacob Miller lived in the Mt. Pony, area adjoining Adam Yäger. He paid for his land with his own headright, but named no other individuals, so presumably he came as a bachelor. He was naturalized 24 Feb 1742/3, so he is probably a German. In later deeds he appears with a wife Rebecca.
Though the name Perry occurs in the Hebron Church Register, it is believed to be a mistake for Berry. This is a typical interchange of letters at a German-English interface.
The name Preiss is in the Hebron Church Register. Probably this is the German spelling of the English name Price.
The Reiner name has been confused with other families. The first Reiner to come to Virginia was Mary Barbara Reiner who had married Michael Koch (Cook) in Germany. They came in 1717. Thirty-three years later, her brother, Hans Dieterich Reiner, with his family, came to Virginia. They landed in Philadelphia from the ship "Fane" and they went immediately to Virginia where they quickly became involved in the community. The youngest son, Eberhardt, purchased 530 acres of land on Dark Run. The daughter, Mary Sarah, married George Cook, her first cousin and they had their first child baptized within a couple of years. The Reiner family is an excellent case of how communication was maintained between Virginia and Germany. It is obvious that the Reiner family was responding to information from Germany. The Reiners have a known history back to about 1600 in Schwaigern, the home of several Germanna families.
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