A LIST OF THE HEADS OF FAMILIES WHO WERE MEMBERS OF

THE MIGRATION PARTY OF CAPTAIN HENRY RHOADS

FROM BROTHERSVALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA,

TO THE GREEN RIVER COUNTRY OF KENTUCKY IN 1785.

[From "Two Centuries of Brothersvalley" by H. Austin Cooper, pages 200-204]

 

--Captain Henry Roth, Jr., and wife, Elizabeth Stoner, of Pipe Creek,

Maryland, daughter of Elder John Stoner.

--Solomon Rhoth (Rhoads) brother of Henry, later to become a famous Elder

of the Church.

--Elder George Boone, brother of Daniel, elected to the Eldership in Stony Creek

Church in Pennsylvania, 1770; also became an active Elder in Kentucky and

Ohio.

--Daniel Arnold, ordained, Brothersvalley, 1780; moved to Beaver Run, West

Virginia.

--David Martin, son of Elder George Adam Martin, became an elder in

Kentucky, after 1785.

--Jacob Miller, elected to ministry Stony Creek Church, 1764, went to Beaver

Dam, Maryland, 1771; to Virginia, 1785.

--Jacob Maugen.

--John Huber, elected to ministry, 1774, Stony Creek Church, ordained, 1784;

settled in Logan Co., Ohio, first resident Elder of Stony Creek Church, Ohio.

--Jacob Landis, brother of Elder John Landis, of Brothersvalley, settled in

Rockingham Co., Va.

--Daniel Leatherman, Jr., became an elder in Kentucky.

--George Stoy, settled in southwest Kentucky, near Louisville.

--John Garver (Garber), ordained, Stony Creek Church, 1771, went to Beaver

Dam, Maryland, 1771, went to Virginia, 1785, son of John, Sr.

--John Frazer (Frazier), settled in Muhlenberg County, Ky., which was then

Logan.

--Henry Moore (Mohr), settled in Logan Co., Ky., thence to Logan, Ohio.

--George Stauffer, settled in Kentucky, near Greenville.

--John Zigler (Ziegler), went on to Southern Ohio.

--George Lehman, settled in Lower Miami, Ohio, country.

--George Noffsinger, went to Tennessee and on to settle near Greenville, Kentucky.

--George Henry Long, from near Meyersdale, Pa., to Logan Co., Ky.

--Jacob Engle and wife, Catherine, from Pipe Creek, Maryland, settled in Logan Co., Ky.

--John Bowman (see Henry Winterberger Fort enlistees) ordained minister, Stony Creek

Church, Pa.; led a group to Kentucky, 1780; went with this group, 1785.

--John Meyers, settled at Flat Rock section, Va.

--Jacob Hertzler (Hartzler), settled in Logan Co., Ky.

--George Cassel, from Eastern Pennsylvania, settled in Ky., thence to Southern Ohio.

--William Knepper, settled in western Logan Co., now Muhlenberg Co.

--George Berkley (Barclay), settled in Southwestern Kentucky.

--George Newmoyer (Newmeyer), claimed military land in S. W. Kentucky.

--Philip Aswald (Oswald), these two were of the "Original Seventeen Members,"

claimed military land in Kentucky. Oswald went on to Indiana after 1800.

--Jacob Kimmel, became an Elder after 1785, in Kentucky, went to S. Ohio. Lived in

Tennessee before going to Ohio, about 1805.

--Henry Winterberger, one of the "Original Seventeen," and wife, Mary, settled

near Greenville, Kentucky; fought in the Revolution.

--Samuel Harshberger, settled in Logan Co., Ohio; sons became Mennonites.

--Jacob Newmiller and wife, _____, settled in S. W. Kentucky.

--David Gebel (became Cable in Kentucky).

--David Berkley (Barclay), settled near Blood River, on Tennessee-Kentucky line.

--Henry Berkley (tradition in Pennsylvania says that Berkley Creek was named for him).

--William Bueghley (Beeghley), settled in Logan Co., Ky., went to Southern Ohio.

--George Leatherman, son of Elder Daniel Leatherman, became an elder in S. Ohio.

--Peter Baker (Becker), settled in Logan Co., later called Muhlenberg Co.

--Peter Shaver, father of the famous Judge Benjamin J. Shaver, Muhlenberg Co.

Peter had been an Indian Trader in Brothers Valley, Pa.; settled near Bremen,

Ky.

--Daniel Stoner (Stover), from Pipe Creek, Maryland, settled in Logan Co., Ky.

--Jacob and Barbara Stoner, from Pipe Creek, Maryland, brother of Daniel.

--Peter Shull (Schoel), known in early Logan Co., Ky., as "squire," for his penmanship.

--John Vaught and wife, Elizabeth Will Book 1, 1813, Muhlenberg Co.; from

Lancaster, Pa. Children Margaret, Smith, Jacob, b. 1759 (Lancaster Co., Pa.),

his wife, Catherine Hoffman. Their children (Born in Muhlenberg Co., Ky.) Anna,

John, Jacob, Barbara, George, Catherine, Mary, Margaret (called Sally), Abraham.

Children of Jacob Anna, born, 1780, became wife of Elder George Wolfe, Union Co.,

Ill. (second wife). Catherine, married Daniel Kimmel, of Logan County, Kentucky;

(Elizabeth Vaught was the daughter of Elder Francis Stump, Logan County, Kentucky).

--Gilbert Vaught, and wife, Mary.

--Elizabeth Vaught.

--Tobias Penrod, from Brothers Valley Township, Pennsylvania, near Berlin, north line;

moved to Kentucky, 1785-d. 1800.

--James Martin, son of Elder George Adam Martin. Became an elder in

Kentucky about 1800; was a soldier in the Revolution, secured military land in

Ky.

--Peter and John Hahn (Hon or Han); John died, 1838, Muhlenberg Co.,

Kentucky

--Daniel Roth (brother of Captain Henry), First wife, Eva Faust, died in Nelson

Co., Ky. Second wife was, Elizabeth Newman, married, March 10, 1794,

daughter of Thomas and Mary Newman.

--Jacob Studebaker, moved to Miami River Valley, Ohio; from Lancaster, Pa.

--John Studebaker, became an elder in Brothers Valley, Pa., 1770, moved to Miami Valley,

Ohio, about 1805, died 1833.

--Henry Harshberger, presumably son of Samuel Harshberger, moved to Donnel's Creek, 0.

--Bishop Francis Stump and wife Rachel Martin, daughter of Elder George

Adam Martin. Elder Stump had been in Augusta Co., Va., as early as 1764,

when Elder Martin paid a visit to Augusta Co. Elder Stump was in Kentucky as

early as 1770. Presumably he moved back to Virginia, and finally resettled in Kentucky, 1785.

--Solomon Roth (Rhoads), and wife, Rachel, daughter of Elder "Squire" Boone.

--Andrew Shaver, brother of Peter Shaver, of Somerset County, Pa.

 

At Roanoke Settlement, Virginia, the known pioneers joined the party

 

--John Dennis, of Yadkin Valley, North Carolina.

--Thomas Irvin, a stone cutter from Virginia.

--Jesse McPherson, near Rocky Mount, Va. (Dunkard Bottom).

--John Hunt and family, also from near Rocky Mount, Va.

--James Wood, moved to Mud River section.

--James Inman, from near North Carolina line, to Pond Station or Calhoun, Ky.

--Captain John Hanley, friend of Captain Roth (Rhoads), from Virginia.

--Henry Keith

--Mathew Adams

--Benjamin Tolbert

--James Weir, brother of the famous Indian Interpreter.

--David Rhoads, brother of the famous "Captain Henry"; David married Elizabeth Vaught,

December 2, 1798.

--Daniel Kimmel and wife Catherine Hunsaker.

--Abraham Vaught, married Eliza Bell, 1808, daughter of William Bell, of Virginia.

--Simon Vaught, married Elizabeth Zimmerman, 1799.

--John Vaught, Jr., wife, Eleanor. Children Polly, married Adam Hunsaker,

Francis, Simon, became a minister, Martin, Christopher, Samuel F.

--Hartman Hunsaker, from Lancaster Co., Pa., and wife Anna. Children John

Hunsaker, wife, Magdalena Berg (Birg). She was the daughter of Nicholas and

Barbara Birg of North Carolina. Children John, Jr., Barbara, Nicholas, Hartman,

Jacob, Joseph, Abraham, George, Catherine, Magdalena, Andrew, Samuel (All

of these joined the company from North Carolina). Andrew, married Mary

Rhoads whose full name was Mary Catherine Rhoads. Samuel, married

Hannah Rhoads, children of Joseph Rhoads, Will recorded, 1799, Mublenberg

Co., Ky., daughters of John Hunsaker married Huber (Hoover), of Virginia,

Snyder, of Stony Creek, Ohio, Mosire (Mozier), Huffman, of Muhlenberg.

Others

 

--The following moved from Brothers Valley, Pa., to Shenandoah Co., Va., 1783,

and to Kentucky, 1785, with the company Abraham, Simon, Christian Vaught.

--Philip Myers (Mires), and wife, Mary, from Pipe Creek, Maryland.

--Peter Myers (Mires), and wife, Elizabeth, from Pipe Creek, Maryland.

*-Thomas Grubb, from near Hagerstown, Washington Co., Maryland, to near Staunton,

Va., 1783, to Kentucky, 1785; believed to have been a brother of John Grubb, printer

of the Hagerstown Almanac.

--Thomas Newman and Mary, and daughter Elizabeth, who married Daniel

Rhoads (second wife).

--George Funk, had lived near Strausburg, Virginia; formerly from Brothers

Valley, about 1763, Elder George Adam Martin attempted to organize an

Ephrata Cloister at Funk's home as early as 1764. Funk settled in Logan Co.

(that part later Muhlenberg Co.)

--Henry Penrod Family Jonathan, Peter, Solomon, Henry Ann, Allen, Samuel,

Jane, married Jacob Kimmel, July 10, 1798, Tobias. Allen, married Patty

Kimmel, February 31, 1802; John, married Martha Johnson, September 1, 1806;

John, married Jenny Biggs (lately from Pipe Creek, Maryland), September 1,

1806; Ann, married John Gilbert, October 20, 1808.

--Benjamin Biggs, (from Pipe Creek, Maryland), went to Brothers Valley, Pa.,

1770, and led a group of some twenty families into that settlement.

 

*Thomas Grubb, born in Hanover County, Virginia, December 11, 1768; moved to

near Hagerstown, Maryland, when a small boy. Moved to near Waynesboro, Virginia,

about 1780. Moved into Kentucky, 1785. His family had formerly lived in the Germantown,

Pa., community among the first Brethren of that area of the New World.

 

It seems evident that this company must have numbered well over one hundred in number.

The reader can see that for the most part only family heads are listed. This list has come

about through research across twelve years and we have listed only names from many

sources where it has been gleaned that these people came along with Captain Henry Roth

to Kentucky. However, it must be said that the first forty-eight names were given this author

by Mrs. W. H. Newmeyer, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 23, 1952, the day before the

celebration at Brotherton, Pa., of the one hundred and ninetieth anniversary of the founding of

the congregation. Mrs. Newmeyer had researched in this area for some forty years and her

work has not been questioned by competent researchers in this area of history.