The family of this Agner/Agender/etc has been pretty well researched - probably because Phillipina married Daniel Little, Jr. Daniel and his brother, Peter were Revolutionary War patriots. Their descendants are able to jioin the DAR/SAR. My husband is the descendant, not I. He is not ineterested. I will put my notes etc on this list. It is long. If you don't want to read all that, just delete it. I am not a genealogist, I have relied on others. I have several books and excerpts will follow. Pat McAlister in AR Johannes Agner -They use Agner in the Rowan Co, NC Heritage book 1. Johannes* AGNER was born in 1687 in Gemeinde Boltigen, Switzerland. [I found a Gemeinde, Liege, Walloon Region, Belgium and a Boltigen, Bern, Switzerland.] He died in 1757 in Rowan Co, NC. Born in Gemeinde Boltigen in the District of Ober-Simmenthal in Kanton Bern, Switzerland. [That info came from the Little Bit - the newsletter for the Descendants of Capt. Daniel Little] M:Margaretha-(1718) had at least 6 children In 1731, when the youngest child was two years old, Johannes and his family migrated to Pennsylvania. They arrived in Philadelphia on Sept.21, 1731 on the Britannia sailing from Rotterdam, Holland by way of Cowes, England. See Little File.-and Heritage of Rowan Co Book The names of the family of Johannes Eigener as they appeared on the ship's list were: 1 - Katherina Eigenter age 12 (1719) 2 - Henricks Eigenter age 10 (1720) 3 - Dorothia Eigenter age 6 (1725) 4 - Anna Kreta Eigenter age 5 (1726) 5 - Ludwig Eigenter age 3 (1728) 6 - Magdelena Eigenter age 2 (1729) Johannes and his family settled in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and became members of the Jordan Lutheran Church. Four of the six children married at that church between the years of 1741 and 1748. The oldest sister and the youngest apparently did not marry. Children: 1 - Katharina Eigenter unmarried? b:c1719, Switzerland 2 - Heinrich Eigener m: Marta Catharina b:c1721 3 - Marta Dorothea Eigener m: Philipp Wirbel (20 Jan 1747) b:c1725 4 - Anna Marcretha E. m: Ludwig Zimmerman (15 Dec 1741) b:c1726 5 - Ludwig Eigener m: Christina Mahn (11 Oct 1748) b:1728 6 - Magdalena Eigener b: 1729 1747 - Johannes was naturalized in Burks (Berks or Bucks) County, PA, the same year that the first child of Henry and his wife Maria Catharina was baptized at the Jordan Lutheran Church in Whitehall Township, Lehigh Co, PA. Sometime within the next ten years Johannes joined his son Henry and his family and his daughter, Dorothea and members of her husband's family in a migration into Rowan Co, NC. 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. 1757 - Johannes wrote out his will (recorded-1758-Will Book A) in Rowan County on 24 January 1757 at the age of 70. The will was probated on 22 April 1758 with Conrod Michael acting as Executor. The original is in German in the Archives in Raleigh, NC. We have on record papers showing that Johannes Agender, in the prescence of unnamed children assigned Conrad Michel (a close friend of Daniel Little) to collect his paternal and maternal inheritance in Switzerland. The witnesses were Georg Brunner and Conrad Michel. (We do not know whether this mission was accomplished since Conrod Michael returned to Germany in 1763 or 64 and Johannes had apparently died before this time. Conrad also died within a few years without returning to America. Heinrich Eigener m:Maria Catharina (c.1746) b:1721---d:17 Dec 1792-Rowan Co,NC 1761 - Another neighbor of Henry's was Jacob Wirbel whose son had married Henry's sister Dorothea in Pennsylvania so we might assume that these families came south together, and settled in the German settlement along Crane Creek. 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. 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 Wervil, Frederick Fisher, Conrod Brea, John Williams, Anthony Salt, Jacob Frailey and the Dutch Meeting House (Pine Church) where Phillippina Eigernern 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. The diary of Pastor Carl August Gottlieb Storch notes that he buried "Old Eiginer" on 17 December 1792. see file for Henry's children In the Will Abstracts of North Carolina - Johannes Agender - Jan. 24, 1757 - 70 years old-in the presence of unnamed children assigns Conrod Michel to collect his maternal and paternal inheritance in Switzerland. Witnesses:Georg Brunner, Conrod Michel - Original in German At the Archives Eigener - Aegnor - Agender - Agner - Ignor - Using Agner - it's simpler