Eigener - Ignor - Agender - Agner - Many ways to spell 1761 - another neighbor of Henry's was Jacob Wirbel whose son had married Henry's sister Dorothea in Penn. So we might assume that these families came south together, and settled in the German settlement along Crane Creek.(east of the south fork) In the 1761 list of taxables made by Constable Michael Brown we see the names of Henry Agender and Philip Warbl (Wervill), proving their residency in that district. In 1764 the Inferior Quarter Session Court of Rowan passed an act to let the citizens kill the overabundance of wildlife. Some who took part were Frederick Fisher, Daniel Boone, Jonathan Boone, Morgan Bryan, etc. 1786-Within this period of time those holding property adjacent to the plantation of Henry Agender included the father-in-law of his daughter Dorothea. Jacob Wevil, Frederick Fisher, Conrod Brea, John Williams, Anthony Salt, Jacob Frailey and the Dutch Meeting house (Pine Church) where Phillipina Eigenern and Daniel Little (Luttel) had taken their first communion. 1790-On 20 January 1790 Henry Agender wrote out his will, which was probated in 1792. As pointed out on page 1757 in the Fall 1994 issue of the Little Bit, Henry names certain children in his will, but includes all of my children to share in his estate. This indicates that there were others that those named and we present the probability that Philippina and possibly George Agenor for whom Daniel Little Jr. had served as "true and Lawful attorney" in the disposal of his property in Rowan Co, NC when he moved to District 96 in South Carolina in December 1784, were also his children. 1792-Dr. Schlenker provides us with the information that "The diary of Pastor Carl August Gottlieb Storch notes that he buried "Old Eiginer" on 17 December 1792." Henry's children:7 (5 documented) as on the ship's list 1-Maria Magdalena Eigenern 2-George Agender (?) 3-Heinrich Eigener Jr. 4-Phillipina Eigenern (?) 5-David Eigener 6-Johannes Eigener 7-Anthony Eigener We do not have written proof that Phillipina was the daughter of Henry Agender who lived close to Phillipina and Daniel Little on the east side of the South Fork of the Crane Creek, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that this is the case. We have been provided with much information about the family of Heinrich (Henry) Eigener (Agender) by Johannes Schlenker of Pennington, New Jersey and offer for consideration. Think they went to the Lutheran Union Church What was happening in the 1750s/'60s to cause so many Pennsylvania and Maryland settlers to move to NC? This is the time period from 1754-1763 of the French and Indian War, the name for colonial wars between France and England. The European phase of the war began two years later in 1756 and in the history books is called the Seven Years War. Indian tribes along the American frontier were armed by the French who were fighting the English . The Indians burned and pillaged villages along the Appalachian foothills. The result was a mass movement down into the Carolinas where there was still frontier land and where the Indians, especially the Catawbas, remained friendly to the English. Maryland was not particularly effected by the frontier action, however. It may be that it just happens that you have a higher percentage of Maryland immigrants in your family genealogy than was typical of the whole. And, one can say that most American pioneers were restless and tended to move about in search of better land. The Carolina Piedmont not only had some good land but the first settlers came to western N. C. and S. C. in the 1740s and increased in numbers in the 1750s when for the first time they could get title to what they called "western" land. From Louise Pettus by way of Tom. We do not find records showing that Johannes took up land but Henry did. Henry settled on 320 acres in Tract #9 of the McCulloh Land Grant on the east side of the South Fork of Crane Creek. This deed was signed on 28 December 1761and his closest neighbor was Henry Grub, with a grist-mill and dam on Crane Creek to the east of Henry's land. - ------------------------------------------------ Rowan Co. Abstract of Wills - Vol 1 1753-1805 - books A-F Willi of Henry Agender January 1790 <c=60> [have no idea what that means] pribated in 1792. Lists two sons: David Agender - Hery Agender, Jr - mentions two granddaughters: Catherine Agender and Mary Agender [their father was John Agender <dec> [?].