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Johan Michael Christman

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Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Johan Michael Christman	1700	Susanna Catherine Zinssmeister	1704

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Elizabeth Seitz	1741	Michael Christman Jr. George Christman

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place
Birth	Abt 1740	Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Immigration	1749	Philadelphia, PA, United States
Death	25 Nov 1780	Rowan, NC, United States

Notes


In April 1765, eleven years before our country's independence, Michael Christman patented 340 acres in Mecklenburgh County, NC, on the north branch of the Dutch Buffalo Creek.(8) When he obtained this patent it indicated that he already owned land there. On December 23, 1768, he patented 125 acres in Mecklenburgh on the waters of the Dutch Buffalo that runs into Rocky River on the north side, including an improvement Christman bought of William Rymer. This area appears to be in what is today Cabarrus County, NC, not far from Concord, which today is the county seat. In 1769 he granted Rev. Suther 125 acres of his land on Dutch Buffalo Creek, and in 1786 Rev. Suther moved to Orangeburg District in SC. Michael served on juries from 1769 through 1770 in Rowan County, NC.(9) On November 25, 1780 he was hanged as a Tory in Rowan County by renegade American soldiers, and all his goods were confiscated. His wife, Elizabeth, and children were befriended by neighbors who went to court for redress that was granted. The following excerpt from Rowan County, NC State records dated November 25, 1780 was obtained from Mrs. Martha Mckee Burt: "Ordered that the following be made out and sent General Butler: Sir: Wheras Complaints have been made that Captain Hardwick and other Militia Officers of Rowan County, with their Companies, have unlawfully and feloniously plundered and robbed sundry peaceable people of this State of their property under the pretence of their being Tories and Enemies to their Country, and converted the same to their own use in open violation of the Law of this State, thereby reflecting a disgrace on themselves unworthy of the Officer as well as any Citizen of the same. And, whereas, it hath been represented that a certain Captain Starns hath committed a late barbarous and cruel Murder on the Body of a certain Michal Chrisman, under the same pretence, disgraceful to a free Country where the Laws, when duly executed, are sufficient to compel all offenders to be amenable to the same. By virtue of special powers in me vested by the Board of War, I do hereby call upon you to be aiding and assisting to the Civil Magistrates in apprehending such Offenders that further proceedings may be had against them in the Courts of Law to bring them to punishment. In the meanwhile I beg leave to recommend that you put them in arrest, and order Courts Martial to hear and determine all such charges exhibited against their Military Conduct as Officers, who upon finding the Facts true, will have it in their power to break all such, with your approbation, as unworthy of holding a Commission any longer under this State, or otherwise discharge the same....."

In April 1765, eleven years before our country's independence, Michael Christman patented 340 acres in Mecklenburgh County, NC, on the north branch of the Dutch Buffalo Creek.(8) When he obtained this patent it indicated that he already owned land there. On December 23, 1768, he patented 125 acres in Mecklenburgh on the waters of the Dutch Buffalo that runs into Rocky River on the north side, including an improvement Christman bought of William Rymer. This area appears to be in what is today Cabarrus County, NC, not far from Concord, which today is the county seat. In 1769 he granted Rev. Suther 125 acres of his land on Dutch Buffalo Creek, and in 1786 Rev. Suther moved to Orangeburg District in SC. Michael served on juries from 1769 through 1770 in Rowan County, NC.(9) On November 25, 1780 he was hanged as a Tory in Rowan County by renegade American soldiers, and all his goods were confiscated. His wife, Elizabeth, and children were befriended by neighbors who went to court for redress that was granted. The following excerpt from Rowan County, NC State records dated November 25, 1780 was obtained from Mrs. Martha Mckee Burt:

"Ordered that the following be made out and sent General Butler:
Sir:
Wheras Complaints have been made that Captain Hardwick and other Militia Officers of Rowan County, with their Companies, have unlawfully and feloniously plundered and robbed sundry peaceable people of this State of their property under the pretence of their being Tories and Enemies to their Country, and converted the same to their own use in open violation of the Law of this State, thereby reflecting a disgrace on themselves unworthy of the Officer as well as any Citizen of the same. And, whereas, it hath been represented that a certain Captain Starns hath committed a late barbarous and cruel Murder on the Body of a certain Michal Chrisman, under the same pretence, disgraceful to a free Country where the Laws, when duly executed, are sufficient to compel all offenders to be amenable to the same.
By virtue of special powers in me vested by the Board of War, I do hereby call upon you to be aiding and assisting to the Civil Magistrates in apprehending such Offenders that further proceedings may be had against them in the Courts of Law to bring them to punishment. In the meanwhile I beg leave to recommend that you put them in arrest, and order Courts Martial to hear and determine all such charges exhibited against their Military Conduct as Officers, who upon finding the Facts true, will have it in their power to break all such, with your approbation, as unworthy of holding a Commission any longer under this State, or otherwise discharge the same....."

Sources

Description
Abstracts of The Minutes of the Court Pleas and Quarter Sessions Rowan County North Carolina 1763-1774, Volume II
Colony of North Carolina 1765-1775

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