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Descendants of Nicholas (Theobold?) Leatherman

Generation No. 1

1. NICHOLAS (THEOBOLD?)² LEATHERMAN (HANS DEWALT¹ LEDERMAN) was born September 1724 in Mattstall, Alsace, Germany, and died September 1782 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married ANNA MARIA ELIZABETH. She was born in Mattstall, Alsace, Germany.

Notes for NICHOLAS (THEOBOLD?) LEATHERMAN:
Birth: ABT. 1724 in Mattstall, Alsace Palatinate Region, Germany
Death: ABT. 1782 in Rowan County, NC
Note: According to Shirley Ann Lawing and Ruth Leatherman Seabock (Leatherman family researchers in Lincoln County North Carolina, Johann Nicholas was baptized on 7 September 1724 at Dehlingen Lutheran Church. He travelled to America on the ship James Goodwill in 1727 with his father Hans Diebold, mother Anna Maria Engle, and four brothers. In 1775 the Nicholas Leatherman family moved to the Reedy Creek area of Rowan County North Carolina from a farm in Maryland owned by Nicholas which he had named "Shady Grove". It appears as though his sons John, Christian, Jonas and Daniel had arrived at Reedy Creek sometime earlier, probably early 1770's. Early Rowan County colonial records show Feb 12, 1780 "Ordered that Nicholas & Ztian (Christian) Leatherman, Dunkers in the same district, be released from a 12 fold tax and reduced to a 3 fold tax. Probably due to these men entering into some kind of service other than military, ie; prison guard, overseer of the road, river crossing guard, etc. The term "Dunkers" is a name the English called these primitive baptists who called themselves "The Brethren". Their religious beliefs were very much like German Mennonites. They were an Amish-like group that could not swear an oath, charge interest, own slaves, fight in war, or hire anyone to go for them. The brother Daniel, Nicholas and his son Christian were active ministers and elders. Additional reference to this family has been recorded in "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America" by Annette Kunselman Burgert on pages 330 and331.

Leatherman. Theobald to Nancy
Posted by: Beth Sloan Date: June 27, 1998 at 11:19:47
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The Leatherman family that I am researching starts with Theobald who was born in Alsace and died in NC. He was a weaver. His son, Nicholas was born abt 1723 in Alsace and died in 1782. He arrived with his father in Pa in 1717. He lived in Frederick, Maryland. He may have moved on to NC. Among his children were: JONAS, Daniel, Leah and maybe four more. JONAS lived in NC and TN. He married (1) Cahterine Zimmerman and had at least one daughter, NANCY but may have had a son Oliver. (2) Martha Green Reed in 1816. By 1820 JONAS is on the census of Lincoln Co, Tn and owned land in adjoing Giles Co where brother Daniel Leatherman is listed as head of household. Daughter NANCY LEATHERMAN married Boone Wilson and settled in Boonshill, Tn.
Any and all information will be appreciated.

1800 NC Census Index
Name State County Location Page Year Age Sex Age Ranges Census Type
Leatherman, Christian NC ROWAN CO. 416 1800 11001-1101100
Leatherman, Daniel NC ROWAN CO. 416 1800 20100-1001002
Leatherman, Jonas NC ROWAN CO. 416 1800 10101-0001105

Christian and Jonas, sons of Nicholas and Elizabeth Leatherman is listed in the 1778 Tax Lists in Rowan co, NC as"Poles subject to a fourfold tax". They were discrimated against because of their religious beliefs. They were Dunkers or Tunkers. They called themselves Brethren. They at one point paid a 12 fold tax. Nicholas and Christian were elders who "held the Reedy creek congregation together when the Revolutionary War came to the very edges of the settlement" Brethren in the Carolinas Vol.I,II and III by Roger Sappington.

Unfortunately, alot of records were destroyed because the courthouse was burned. This area now falls in Davidson Co, NC. Near a town called Welcome.
My records show Nancy the dau of Jonas and first wife Catherine as well. She married Boone Wilson in 1812. Her father married widow Martha Reed. They moved to TN. Maybe there was more than one Boone Wilson. There were certainly alot of Sarahs, James and Johns in te Wilson and Boone families. Anyone have any info on Christian and Barbara or Son Isaac and Mary Catherine Berrier, or Rudolph and Harriet Rayfield Leatherman?
Oh and Jonas was given a state land grant # 767 on & Nov.1784 Rowan for half share of 100 acres on the Reedy and Muddy Creeks.

Children of NICHOLAS LEATHERMAN and ANNA ELIZABETH are:

2.	i.		JOHANN CHRISTIAN³ LEATHERMAN, SR, b. August 27, 1730, Falchner Swamp, Pennsylvania; d. Abt. 1818.
	ii.		SUSANNAH LEATHERMAN, b. 1775, Rowan County, North Carolina; d. Pike County, Indiana; m. ZECHARIAH MCATEE, November 09, 1798, Rowan County, North Carolina; b. August 1761, Charles County, Maryland; d. February 14, 1839, Pike County, Indiana.

Notes for SUSANNAH LEATHERMAN:

Notes for ZECHARIAH MCATEE:
Children
Sarah MCATEE b: 23 Dec 1805 in Rowan County, North Carolina
John MCATEE b: 1799-1800 in Rowan County, North Carolina
Nancy MCATEE b: 1801-1802 in Rowan County, North Carolina
Joseph MCATEE b: 1804 in Rowan County, North Carolina
Benjamin MCATEE b: 6 Sep 1806 in Rowan County, North Carolina
William MCATEE b: 21 May 1810 in Rowan County, North Carolina
Elizabeth MCATEE b: 13 Mar 1818 in Rowan County, North Carolina

More About ZECHARIAH MCATEE and SUSANNAH LEATHERMAN:
Marriage: November 09, 1798, Rowan County, North Carolina

iii.

JONAS LEATHERMAN.

Notes for JONAS LEATHERMAN:
William & Isaac White

Posted by Ginny Keefer <rkeeferjr@mediaone.net> on Sat, 26 Feb 2000

Surname: WHITE

Isaac White of Wilkes Co NC sold land in 1801 to William White on Reedy Cr in what was Rowan Co and became Davidson Co. William White had several land purchases and sales on Reedy Creek. Most were witnessed by Jonas Leatherman. Both men ended up in Lincoln Co TN by 1820. Need info re these White's. Ginny Keefer

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