Marx Haus, MARK HOUSE, performed Patriotic Service during the Revolution, his son, Elias House, served as a soldier, losing an arm at the battle of Charleston. There is a Bost Kline marriage, but that is a generation or so later. >From: "Mary Harkey Russell" <[email protected]> >To: "Bost list" <[email protected]> >Subject: [BOST] Notes on Johannes and wives >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:43:58 -0600 > >I do have first wife Mary Cline. From my notes :There is no proof that >Mary Klein / Cline is the first wife of Johannes Bast/Bost except there is >one note in > " The History of Grace Lutheran Church 1777 to 1899" by col. George M. >Yoder that makes a reference to " William Bost whose mother was Bostian >Cline's daughter" >That would be William Bost born Between 1738/1739 in Northampton C. PA who >married Catherine Goodhart. >Mary Cline may have died in childbirth because I have his marriage to >Susannah around 1740. >This is my notes: >He arrived in America September 1732 on the Ship Pink Pliance. With his >parents . He was about 17 years old. >------------------------------------------------------ >Johannes Bast is the pioneer ancestor of the Bast/Bost families of North >Carolina, HE migrated in 1754 from Bucks Co. PA. -- this is from his >tombstone. St John's Lutheran Cem Marker Cabarrus Co. NC >-------------------------------------------- > >In a letter from (deleted) to (deleted) she states -- Johannes Bast and >his >familly came to Pennsylvania on the Pink Plaisance in Sept 1732. He is >listed as a child on the ship's list and the only other Bast are Gerg >(Jerig) Bast age 46 and Anna Maree Bast age 44. Johannes Bast later named >one of his daughters Anna Maria and one of his sons George which is English >version of Jerig. >================================================================= >Biographical notes by Mary Pegram West said that Johannes was an educated >German, a farmer, a Lutheran. First records found to date are in the >History of Old Williams Township Congregation (Lutheran) of Bucks Co. Pa. >Now in Northampton Co. Records are found there about his wife Susanna >Catharina and 9 of his children and their activities from 1740 to late >summer 1754. > In about 1754 the family moved to North Carolina and settled near other >German families and near St. John's Lutheran Church. They are burried >there. >He signed his name JOHANNES BAST. >----------------------------------------------------- >Before the Rev. War and during , British soldiers tortured St John's first >pastor,Adolph Nussmann and he died from these wounds. Understandably this >is why the Bost family and others took an active part in the cause for >freedom. >4 of his sons William, Elias, Jacob and George served as soldiers and >Patriots. There are documents indicating that John also served. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >As for Anna Maria Bost House--- my notes :Married Marx Haus one of the >three >trustees who secured the land grant for St. John's Church He is listed as a >Rev war soldier. >She is listed as a daughter of Johannes Bast on the tombstone. Too bad no >one said the name of her mother:>( >------------- >Mary Russell > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message