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Descendants of George Bernhardt Mann

Generation No. 2

2. John Jacob² Mann , Sr. (George Bernhardt¹) was born December 03, 1724 in Kraichgau,WurttembergBaden,West Germany, and died Aft. 1810 in ,Greenbrier,West Virginia. He married Barbara Miller 1750.

More About John Jacob Mann , Sr.:
Occupation: Private Scout in a Virginia Unit

Children of John Mann and Barbara Miller are:

+	12	i.	John Jacob³ Mann , Jr, born 1745 in ,Greenbriar,VA; died May 16, 1815 in ,Monroe,VA.
+	13	ii.	Adam Mann , Sr, born Bet. 1746 - 1750 in ,,Virginia.
+	14	iii.	Elizabeth Mann, born 1760 in ,,Virginia; died Aft. May 18, 1809 in ,Loudon,Tennessee.
	15	iv.	Mary Mann, born Bef. 1768. She married James Stephens December 16, 1784 in ,,Virginia.

6. George Adam² Mann (George Bernhardt¹) was born March 16, 1734 in West Earl Township,Lancaster,Pennslyvania, and died May 24, 1821 in ,Green,Ohio. He married (1) Elizabeth Palmer. He married (2) Maria Elizabeth Hermann December 07, 1762 in Peaked Mountain,Augusta,Virginia.

Notes for George Adam Mann:
Served as a private in Capt. Bradley's 9th Battalion of Lancaster County, PA. Militia during the Revolution. In the early 1790's he purchased 500 acres of land in Bourbon County (now Nicholas County). On December 15, 1978 he deeded 200 acres of this land to his son-in-law, Adam Shillinger, for the sum of 56 pounds, the current money of Kentucky. This deed is one of the earliest recorded in the Bourbon County Courthouse.

THE FOLLOWING TEXT WAS COPIED FROM AN OLD BOOK:

THE HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO
Published by W. H. Beers & Co. :Chicago :1882
PAGE 645-647

James Jenkins was a native of Redstone, Fayette County, Penn., and was during the
Revolutionary War a most bitter and compromising Tory. He left Pennsylvania soon after peace
was declared, for the reason probably that peace to the country was but the beginning of war to
him---in other words the return of his neighbors to their homes after months of privation and
suffering (battling for their country) surrounded him with anything but a social and friendly
atmosphere. His destination was Tennessee, which he reached and where he died.

Twelve years after Gallatin entered Survey 371, or in the year 1799, Aaron, a son of James
Jenkins, came from Tennessee and purchased the entire tract of land. He was accompanied by his
wife and a part of his family. He erected thereon a hewed-log house, of the double pattern so
common in those days. His family consisted of five children, three sons and two daughters,
namely, Aaron, James, Baldwin, Lydia and ----. He died in 1807.To his sons Baldwin and James,
he gave all of the survey, excepting fifty acres off the southeast corner which he gave to his
daughter Lydia. To his son Aaron he gave lands he had purchased near where the village of Port
William is today. No record is given of his last child. The survey was situated partly in Greene and
partly in Clinton, and while the settlement of this man then as now wholly without the province of
Clinton County. The children arriving at manhood and womanhood, with one exception, became
settlers in Chester Township.

Charles Scott was a Brigadier General, and, under Warrant 815, entered 11,666 &2/3 acres of
land in the "Territory Northwest of the Ohio River." On the 5th day of September, 1800, he
entered Survey No. 3,916, consisting of 800 acres, and adjoining Gallatin on the east. The patent
followed July 18, 1801, in the name of Nathaniel Massio, and was signed by Thomas Jefferson as
President of the United States.

George A. Mann and his wife Elizabeth were of German descent, though natives of Pennsylvania,
the former born in 1727, the latter in 1746. In 17--, they emigrated to Rockingham County, Va.,
where they remained some years, and from there they went to Nicholas County, Ky. They had
eight children-John, Peter, Jacob, Henry, George, Elizabeth, Charles and David. While yet in
Kentucky, George Mann purchased of his son-in-law, Adam Shillinger, 200 acres of a 400 acre
tract of land he owned in 3,916, situated on the waters of the South Fork (now Anderson's Fork).
The consideration was $4 per acre and the purchase was made for his youngest two children,
Charles and David. The others had married and settled in Kentucky.

Early in the month of March, 1801, Charles and David Mann, the former twenty and the latter
eighteen years of age, left their Father's home in Nicholas County, Ky., For the "Territory
Northwest of the Ohio", and for the further purpose of finding and settling upon the lands last
mentioned. The understanding had been between the father and sons that he, in company with the
mother, his son-in-law, Schillinger, and his family, would follow in the fall of that year, or the
spring of 1802. The boys were upon horseback, and carried with them such articles that were of
the utmost importance, and at the same time of the most convenience to carry, such as axes, a few

cooking utensils, some provisions, but above all the constant companion of the early settlers, their
guns.

At about noon of a day in the latter part of that month, they landed at their destination and
immediately set to work to prepare some kind of shelter. They felled some mulberry trees, which
they split into slabs, and with these slabs erected a crude structure somewhat similar in pattern to
an Indian Wig-wam. Into this they carried their effects, and in it they spent their first day on the
"farm". The morning must have been to them a dreary one indeed, for a snow lay deep on the
ground. Without doubt as they looked out upon it and the scene before them, they longed for the
pleasant fireside of the father and the warm meal there being prepared by the loved and loving
mother. Few boys of this day would care to care to undergo such hardships; but the day came and
went, to be followed in turn by others, until the time arrived when the crop for the coming year
must go in the ground.

The boys had labored hard: and why not? They were working for a home. The cabin was already
up, land had been partly cleared, and ground as rapidly as possible being prepared for the planting,
when a morning came to them that caused them to feel that the last straw had been applied. They
awoke to find that during the darkness of night the horses had either strayed or were stolen. A
decision was soon reached. Charles would go on the hunt for the missing animals; David would
remain behind and await his return. Hastily bidding each other farewell, they separated, the former
on the trail of the horses, the latter to his daily toil.

The days went by; a week followed, and months rolled away before the two boys again met.
David planted that season three acres of corn, going to a settler named Price, near where
Paintersville now stands, for his seed. Spring passed, summer had ended, his crop ripened and was
garnered, and yet no word from Charles, nor the loved ones at home. But he must remain where
he was. His nearest neighbors were Aaron Jenkins, Peter Price (where he got his seed corn), and a
settler where Waynesville now stands. The latter had a corn-cracker that turned by hand, which he
brought with him from Virginia the year before.

An incident occurred during the summer that I will mention here: One day, when the corn was in
fine conditioning for roasting, six Indians came down the creek (Anderson's Fork), and went into
the corn patch. Husking off an arm load of ears apiece, they carried them down to the banks of
the creek where they started a fire and had a feast. David was a spectator to the scene, and, while
he did not like to see the fruits of his labor going to fill the bellies of a half-dozen dirty, lazy
savages, he did not say so to them, but allowed them to eat and depart when they felt ready.

In the fall, David would shell a grist of corn, put it in a linen bag (brought from home), then on his
shoulder, gun in hand, would trudge through the woods to the settler with his corn-cracker and
when done, home again the same way, a distance, going and returning, of nearly twenty miles.

Charles followed the horses day after day until he reached the river opposite Maysville at which
point he learned that animals answering his description has swum the river at that place and had
gone in the direction of Nicholas County. He crossed the river and followed on until his father's
home was reached, when he there found the objects of his search. On his return home all thoughts

of waiting till spring were abandoned, and preparations were at once begun for an immediate
removal to the new home. September found them on the way and October safely landed in this
state. Here they remained : here the boys grew to manhood: here, under the sturdy stroke of these
brave men grew one of the finest farms in the settlement: and here, on the 4th day of May, 1821,
at the age of 95 years, George Mann passed to his rest, to be followed, at the age of 84, in
January 1839, by Elizabeth the wife and mother. Thus passed from earth to eternity two of those
noble souls who were so largely instrumental in preparing for succeeding generations. And now,
while, as in the case of the Jenkins family, their settlement was without the County, yet their lands
extended over, and all but one of the family became residents of Clinton.

Charles Mann married Lydia, daughter of Aaron Jenkins, and settled in the stone house on the
place now owned by Volcah Weaver. He was a member of the first jury that ever sat in a state
case in Clinton. It being the state of Ohio against Cornelius Quick. Horse stealing was the charge
upon which he was found guilty, and the sentence of the court was "That he be whipped on his
naked back 50 stripes, on Saturday, October 27, at 2 o'clock P.M." He was the father of several
children and died December 24, 1865, aged eighty-three years, eight months, and twenty three
days. His wife, Lydia, died April 5, 1835, aged fifty two years. David Mann married Rachel Irvin;
they had several children, but one of whom came into the township; he died June 29, 1856, aged
seventy-two years, five months and nine days, his wife, Rachel, died August 7, 1878, aged
seventy-three years, four months and twelve days. Two of the sons remaining in Kentucky
afterward came out Henry and Jacob. The former purchased the fifty acres owned by Lydia
Jenkins Mann, and settled upon it, where his son John now lives. This was in the year 1809. Jacob
came and settled upon a part of this place, but soon afterward purchased land in what is now
Washington Township, near Cuba, and remained there. The George Mann in that Township is his
son. Henry died February 1, 1858, aged nearly seventy-nine years; his wife, Rachel, died March
25, 1862, aged seventy-six years, eight months and twenty-eight days. John, now an old man,
occupies his father's homestead, ere many years be to, will be called to his rest.

More About George Adam Mann:
Burial Location: New Burlington Cemetery, 8 miles south of Xenia,,Ohio

More About Maria Elizabeth Hermann:
Burial Location: New Burlington Cemetery, 8 miles south of Xenia,,Ohio

Children of George Mann and Maria Hermann are:

+	16	i.		Elizabeth³ Mann, born September 23, 1763 in ,Rockingham,Virginia; died Bef. 1863.
	17	ii.		George Mann, born October 09, 1763 in Peaked Mountain,Augusta,Virginia; died Bet. 1776 - 1781 in During the Revolutionary War.

Notes for George Mann:
Died in the Revolutionary War. Was never married.

+	18	iii.	Jacob Mann, born March 11, 1764 in Peaked Mountain,Augusta,Virginia; died October 1840 in Washington Township,Clinton,Ohio.
	19	iv.	Magdalena Mann, born March 11, 1765 in ,Rockingham,Virginia; died Bef. 1865.
+	20	v.	John Mann, born July 20, 1771 in ,Rockingham,Virginia; died October 17, 1846 in ,Nicholas,Kentucky.
+	21	vi.	Peter Mann, born 1773 in ,Rockingham,Virginia; died 1852 in ,Nicholas,Kentucky.
	22	vii.	Henry Mann, born April 04, 1779 in ,Rockingham,Virginia; died February 04, 1856 in ,Greene,Ohio. He married Rachel Jones March 14, 1805.
	23	viii.	Charles Mann, born March 01, 1782 in ,Rockingham,Virginia; died December 24, 1865 in ,Greene,Ohio. He married Lydia Jenkins.
	24	ix.	David Mann, born March 10, 1784 in ,Rockingham,Virginia; died June 29, 1856 in ,Greene,Ohio. He married Rachel Irwin.

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