----- Original Message ----- > Phillippina's parents are: > Heinrich Agner - 1721 - 1792 > Maria Catherine Schuck - abt 1722 Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but...........There are researchers who believe that Phillipina and sister Christina are the daughters of Jacob Iegnor. This speculation comes partly because Jacob Iegnor and Peter Little Sr. were naturalized together. I believe--no proof--that this Jacob is the eldest son of Johan Mathias Egner of Berks/Lehigh County PA. He last known in PA in 1750 and a Jacob Iegnor/Igner first appears in Rowan in 1753. Also the name Mathias later shows up in connection with NC and SC. So it is quite possible we have two separate lines (Egner and Aegender/Agner) in Rowan at the same time and both officials and researchers have mixed the two families or assumed them to be one for the past 250 years. There just seems to be no proof to sort these lines out. :o( Jacob's story is interesting and I hope one day we find the proof need to sort these two lines out. A petition was filed in Rowan County in 1784 on behalf of the wife and children of Jacob Eagner by the citizens of Rowan and Mecklenberg Counties and in the same year a deed recites the fact that Jacob Eagner "has gone to join our late enemy and therefore his property has been ordered" sold by the Court. One Little researcher states that "Jacob removed from Rowan County to Mecklenberg County and at the end of the Revolutionary War when the Tories were banished, he left the state, and I have been unable to determine where he went." Supposedly Peter Little's wife has a brother who was a Col. in the Tory Army. He supposedly commanded a Tory regiment and died with smallpox in Charleston SC. The National Archives Pension Papers for Mathias Egner, filed in Lincoln County NC in 1840, says that Mathias was born in 1763 or 1764 in Lincoln County, but that these records have beenlost. He further states that his Father (unnamed) went with the British Amry and took him along when he was 14. He escaped from his father in Charleston and went to Burkey County where he enlisted with the Americans. The final papers of Mathias state that he died 2 Feb 1844 in Newberry District SC and mention Sarah Graham, wife of Jesse Graham and daughter of Mathias; Polly Hamilton and Betsy Chapman, heirs. Also mentioned in unnamed wife who died about 1807. Just wanted to let everyone know of another possiblity. Isn't genealogy fun!?!? ---Celia :o)