>From The Heritage of Rowan County - NC, Book: The Agners lived on a 300 - acre track of land on the northwestern frontier in what is now Lehigh Co, PA for more than 15 years. We know that Johannes Agner was there because of his sponsoring a baptism in Egypt Reformed Church; because of his name on a land warrant for 300 acres in present-day Lehigh County; because of the listing of his children on Jordan Lutheran Church records in Lehigh County; his advertisement in a newspaper to sell his land; and his naturalization as a British citizen in Pennsylvania in 1747. (Henry Agner's property-go down Bringle Ferry Road to High Rock lake. The property is situated between Union Creek and the creek now known as Church Creek) It is not known what caused them to leave beautiful Switzerland, but probably religious freedom and econmoics. Once situated on the beautiful 300 care tract in Pennsylvania, why did they leave and go to North Carolina? There was a land speculator named Henry McCulloh who had received a grant for 1,200,000 acres of land in Piedmont North Carolina providing he would settle 6000 foreign Protestants on that land in a ten-year period of time. It was choice land and it was not as threatened by hostile Indians as in Lehigh County, PA. The word got to Pennsylvania, Germany and Switzerland of this opportunity and the resulting migration was referred to as the "Carolina Fever."Johnannes son, Henry (Henriks), and with him probably two of his sisters and their husbands, went to Rowan County and settled on McCulloh's tract number one. The Agner family has been associated with Union Lutheran Church since its beginning, when it was known as the Dutch Pine Meeting House, which dates to the 1770s and possibly earlier. Many are buried in the Union Church Cemetery. Souces:In the Edith M. Clark History Room of the Rowan Public Library were the maps of David Rendleman and the following book: Colonial Records of North Carolina, edited by William L. Saunders; Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Ralph Beaver Strassburger; Rowan County, North Carolina, Will Abstracrts 1753-1805 by Jo White Linn. Christoph von Graffenreid's Account of the Founding of New Bern. The public records of Lehigh Co, Penn., church records, and maps located in Lehigh County Public library and in the Historical Society Library in Allentown, PA