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Descendants of Nicklaus Fast and Cadarina Dorner

Generation No. 2

4. Catherine³ Fast (Nicklaus², Johann Jacob¹) was born Abt. 1751 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, and died Bef. 1818. She married Heinrich Weber Abt. 1767 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. He was born Abt. 1740.

Child of Catherine Fast and Heinrich Weber is:

Anna Catherine⁴ Weber, born December 31, 1769 in Frederick Co., Maryland. She married John Adam Fast 1785 in Frederick Co., Maryland; born Abt. 1756 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; died July 07, 1839 in Virginia.

10. John Jacob³ Fast (Nicklaus², Johann Jacob¹) was born Bef. March 27, 1758 in Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland, and died July 27, 1827 in Fairfield Co., Ohio. He married Maria Catherine Rudisill³ 1783 in Pennsylvania, daughter of Johann Rudisill and Maria Schaeffer. She was born 1766 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania³, and died August 1829 in Ohio³.

Notes for John Jacob Fast:
See book giving history of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland. Reported to contain info. on Jacob's christening.
Evangelical Reformed Church of Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland has book
reported to contain info. on Jacob's christening - Baptized 3-27-1758 - Middletown is in Frederick Co

More About John Jacob Fast:
Baptism: March 27, 1758, Frederick Co., Md., Evangelical Reformed Churc
Burial: August 1827, Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Hocking Co., Ohio
Occupation: Farmer

More About Maria Catherine Rudisill:
Baptism: June 21, 1766, Trinity Lutheran, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Burial: Fairfield Co., Ohio
Occupation: House Wife

Children of John Fast and Maria Rudisill are:

Margaretha Elisabeth⁴ Fast, born March 21, 1784 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; died Abt. 1790.

More About Margaretha Elisabeth Fast:
Baptism: December 07, 1787, Jacob's Lutheran Church, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania

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Catherine Fast, born April 17, 1785 in near Reading, Pennsylvania; died January 02, 1870 in Fairfield Co., Ohio. She married Abraham Beery March 07, 1802 in Rockingham Co., Virginia; born July 20, 1773 in York, York Co., Pennsylvania; died June 15, 1845 in Berne, Fairfield Co., Ohio.

More About Catherine Fast:
Baptism: June 07, 1786, Jacob's Lutheran Church Fayette Co., Pennsylvania

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Elizabeth Fast, born 1786 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; died September 23, 1846 in Hocking Co., Ohio. She married Richard Poling April 18, 1809 in Allegheny Co., Maryland; born 1786 in Allegany Co., Maryland; died March 15, 1846 in Hocking Co., Ohio.

More About Elizabeth Fast:
Burial: Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Hocking Co., Ohio

+	20	iv.	Sarah Fast, born Abt. 1788 in Pennsylvania; died WFT Est. 1839-1887.
+	21	v.	Keziah Fast, born Bet. 1788 - 1790; died WFT Est. 1832-1888.
	22	vi.	Anna Barbara Fast, born August 22, 1794; died WFT Est. 1808-1888. She married John Springer February 04, 1819 in Fairfield Co., Ohio; born 1800 in Rockingham Co., Virginia.
+	23	vii.	Jacob Fast, born 1796; died 1882.
+	24	viii.	Margaret Fast, born February 17, 1798 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; died November 05, 1897 in Van Wert Co., Ohio.
+	25	ix.	Abraham L. Fast, born October 16, 1804 in Redstone, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; died September 05, 1874 in Center Twp., Mercer Co., Ohio.

14. Christian³ Fast (Nicklaus², Johann Jacob¹) was born August 14, 1763 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, and died November 23, 1826 in Orange Twp., Ashland Co., Ohio. He married Ann Barbara Mason August 01, 1783 in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, daughter of Martin Mason and Christina Waite. She was born September 09, 1767 in Hampshire Co., Virginia, and died August 13, 1855 in Ashland Co., Ohio.

Notes for Christian Fast:
IN 1781 CHRISTIAN FAST, THEN ABOUT 19, WHEN MARCHING UNDER THE U.S. FLAG, A YOUNG LADY SAW HIM, AND AS HE APPEARED YOUNG AND SMALL IN STATURE SHE REMARKED, "WHAT YOUNG SNOTNOSE OF A BOY IS THAT?" ON AUGUST 24TH HE WAS CAPTURED BY INDIANS AND TAKEN TO UPPER SANDUSKY A PRISONER. AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE HE WAS IN A BOAT A FEW MILES ABOVE THE FALLS OF THE OHIO RIVER; THE BOAT WAS SHOVED TO A SHOAL AND A BUFFALO HEIFER SHOT, AND WHEN IN THE ACT OF COOKING THE HEIFER FOR BREAKFAST, THOSE ON BOARD WERE ATTACKED BY INDIANS. THE FRIGHTENED SOLDIERS WERE UNABLE TO SHOVE THE BOAT INTO THE CURRENT. AS THE INDIANS RUSHED DOWN THE SHORE, FIRING INTO THE BOAT, CHRISTIAN LEAPED OVER THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BOAT, AND AT THE SAME TIME RECEIVED A FLESH WOUND IN HIS THIGH. . ON STRIKING THE WATER HE WAS CAUGHT BY ONE OF HIS COMRADES AND THEY BOTH SANK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER. AFTER EXTRICATING HIMSELF, HE AROSE TO THE SURFACE AND STRUCK OUT FOR THE OTHER SHORE, AND WHEN HE AROSE TO ASCENT THE BANK HE SAW TWO INIANS APPROACHING, WHO SAID, "COME ON BROTHER, WE WILL USE YOU WELL."

HE THREW HIMSELF BACK INTO THE WATER, JUST IN TIME TO DODGE THEIR BULLETS AND SWAM TO THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER. WITH VIGOROUS EXERTION HE OVERTOOK A SMALL HORSE BOAT AND BOARDED HER JUST AS SHE SURRENDERED. AFTER 2 OR 3 DAYS' MARCH, THE INDIANS BUILT A CAMPFIRE AND THE PRISONERS WERE MADE TO DANCE ONCE AROUND BEFORE BEING TIED UP FOR THE NIGHT. CHRISTIAN FAST PLEAD OFF BECAUSE OF HIS PAINFUL WOUND, BUT THEY WOULD TAKE NO EXCUSES; SO HE LIMPED ALONG FOR A FEW STEPS, THEN SPRINGING TO HIS HANDS, HE ELEVATED HIS FEET AND COMMENCED A SORT OF BEAR DANCE, TURNING SOMERSAULTS AND YELLING LIKE AN INDIAN. THOSE GYMNASTIC MANEUVERS CAPTIVATED THE INDIANS AND FROM THAT TIME ON HE WS THE HERO OF THE PARTY, AND NO LONGER TIED AT NIGHT.

AFTER ENDURING THE HARDSHIPS OF INDIAN LIFE FOR ABOUT A YEAR, THERE WAS A GRAND COUNCIL HELD BY SEVERAL INDAIN TRIBES AT CHILLICOTHE. THERE IS WAS RESOLVED TO RAISE AN ARMY TO OPERATE AGAINST THE BORDER SETTLEMENTS OF VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVAIA. CHRISTIAN FAST, HAVING WON THE CONFIDENCE OF HIS CAPTORS, VOLUNTEERED FOR THE EXPEDITION IF THEY WOULD LET HIM HAVE A GUN. THE CHIEF PROMISED THAT THE FIRST WHITE MAN THEY WOULD KILL, THAT HAD A GUN, HE SHOULD HAVE IT. HE WAS PAINTED IN TRUE WARRIOR STYLE, HIS HAIR BING PUT UP IN A CUE AND DRAWN THROUGH A SILVER TUBE AND ORNAMENTED WITH FEATHERS. HE WAS FURNISHED WITH A TOMAHAWK, SCALPING KNIFE AND BOW.
HIS OBJECT IN VOLUNTEERING WAS TO GET TO PLACE THAT HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH SO AS TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE. THE EXPEDITION PASSED DOWN THE OLD WYANDOT TRAIL, THROUGH WHAT ARE NOW CRAWFORD, RICHLAND AND ASHLAND COUNTIES AND PROCEEDED TO AND ATTACKED THE SMALL FORT AT WHAT IS NOW THE CITY OF WHEELING, WV. ON THE 3RD NIGHT OF THE SIEGE HE SAID TO KAWASA, HIS INDIAN BROTHER THAT HE WAS THIRSTY AND DESIRED HIM TO GO WITH HIM TO THE RIVER AND GET A DRINK. KAWASA ANSWERED HIM IN A CROSS WAY, "GO YOURRSELF, NO ONE WILL HARM." HE WILLINGLY COMPLIED. TAKING HIS CAMP KETTLE WITH HIM, HE LEFT IT ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER TO MAKE THE INDIANS BELIEVE HE HAD FALLEN IN AND DROWNED. HE CAREFULLY WENDED HIS WAS THROUGH INDIAN LINES IN THE DIRECTION OF FORT RICE. HE HASTENED TO HIS OLD HOME IN WHAT IS NOW FAYETTE COUNTY, PA. ON ARRIVING AT THE CABIN OF HIS PARENTS HE SO RESEMBLED A WILD INDIAN WARRIOR THAT THEY WERE UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH HIM. AT LENGTH HIS MOTHER RECALLING SOME PECULIAR SPOT NEAR THE PUPIL OF HIS EYE RUSHED FORWARD TO EMBRACE HIM IN HER ARMS. THIS WAS LATE IN THE FALL OF 1782. IN 1783 HE MET THE YOUNG LADY BEFORE MENTIONED, WHO WAS SO INQUISITIVE TO KNOW WHO HE WAS, AND TO WHOM HE HAD THE HONOR HIMSELF OF INFORMING HER. HER NAME WAS ANNA BARBARY MASON, AND SHE BECAME THE HAPPY BRIDE OF THE LITTLE SNOTNOSE SOLDIER BOY.

CHRISTIAN LOCATED IN DUNKER TWP., GREEN COUNTY, PA., WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL THE YEAR 1815. WHEN HE MOVED TO THIS FARM IN ORANGE TWP., ASHLAND CO., OHIO, THEN AN UNBROKEN FOREST. THAT SAME EVENING THEY WERE VISITED BY 8 OR 10 INDIANS HEADED BY AN OLD WARRIOR WHO HAD SEEN THEIR LIGHT. THE OLD INDIAN LOOKED AT HIM FOR A MOMENT AND THEN RUSHING FORWARD EXCLAIMED, "TUCKWECOBY!", HIS INDIAN NAME. HE OFFERED HIS HAND IN FRIENDSHIP. THAT OLD WARRIOR WAS THOMAS LYONS, WHO WAS PRESENT AT HIS CAPTURE AND WHO WAS ALONG WITH THE EXPEDITION AT WHEELING WHEN HE MADE HIS ESCAPE, 33 YEARS EARLIER. THE DELAWARE INDIANS ALWAYS REGARDED HIM AND HIS CHILDREN AS OF THEIR TRIBE, AND CALLED HIS CHILDREN HALF INDIAN. - from Fast Reunion Book, 1888.

Children of Christian Fast and Ann Mason are:

	26	i.	Martin⁴ Fast, born June 12, 1784 in Greene Co. Pennsylvania; died June 13, 1838 in Orange Twp., Ashland Co., Ohio. He married Catherine Blosser June 26, 1806; born June 08, 1790; died March 21, 1859.
+	27	ii.	Nickolas Fast, born June 11, 1786 in Greene Co., Pennsylvania; died December 14, 1868.
+	28	iii.	Christian Fast, born October 06, 1795 in Greene Co., Pennsylvania; died 1840 in Prairie City, Illinois.
	29	iv.	David Fast, born August 01, 1797 in Greene Co., Pennsylvania; died January 26, 1882. He married Elizabeth Biddinger March 17, 1818 in Ashland Co., Ohio; born December 13, 1790 in Prob. Greene Co., Pennsylvania; died July 28, 1881.
	30	v.	Christeany Fast, born May 13, 1811; died July 04, 1898.

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