While doing some research on the Peter Schmidt/Smith family I came across a marriage record in the Marriage Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever who was a German Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania. Anna Margaretha SCHMIDT and Leonardt KERN who were married on 27 Apr. 1746 at Swatara Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania. It was Rev. John Casper Stoever who married my John ADAMS and Eve SCHMIDT, daughter of Peter and Barbara SCHMIDT, at Muddy Creek Lutheran Church in Lancaster County, PA. Peter and Barbara SCHMIDT had a daughter named Margaret (Margaretha) SCHMIDT and they lived in Lancaster County, PA from 1733 until 1755 when they removed to Rowan County, NC. There was a Leonard KERN who lived in Rowan County, NC from about 1755 until the time of his death in 1804, as per his will abstract found on a Family Tree at Ancestry.com. Leonard Kern, Sr., "yeoman", left a will dated 8 Mar 1790 that was proved in 1804. (Note: Early Rowan Co. wills don't give the exact date of probate.) Leonard gives his son Leonard Kern money and 200 acres on the e. side of a branch of Pounders Fork adj. Michael and Jacob Young. He gives his son Peter 100 acres on the e. side of a branch of Pounders Fork plus 53 1/2 acres of the land on which Leonard lives. He gives his son Phillip 153 1/2 acres, after son Peter has his 53 1/2 acres, being part of the 207-acre tract whereon Leonard lives on the e. side of the Pounders Fork. He gives his moveable property, notes, bonds, money, etc., to be equally divided between his daughters, Mary Lane, Margaret Lovelace, and Catherine Kern. Friend David Smith, Sr., and son Leonard to be executors. Wits: Robert Mackie and Casper Smith. [Rowan County Will Book C, p. 231.] There is also a marriage record in Rev. Stoever's records for a John Casper SCHMIDT to Christian KAUFMAN on 25 Nov. 1739 at Lancaster, PA. This could be the same Casper SMITH who witnessed Leonard Kern's will dated 8 Mar. 1790 in Rowan County, NC. There is also a marriage record in Rev. Stoever's records for a John Casper SCHMIDT to Christian KAUFMAN on 25 Nov. 1739 at Lancaster, PA. This could be the same Casper SMITH who witnessed Leonard Kern's will dated 8 Mar. 1790 in Rowan County, NC. You can search the Pennsylvania marriage records of Rev. John Casper Stoever at the following link:? http://www.chm.davidson.edu/pagenweb/records/StoeverMarriages.txt Linda Monticelli ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com