George Heinrich WEIDNER 

George Heinrich WEIDNER[1, 2]

Male 1717 - 1792

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  • Nickname  Henry 
    Birth  9 Oct 1717  , , probably Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Gender  Male 
    Misc  1742  [5] 
    first trip down Great Wagon Road 
    Will  1742  , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Was bequeathed twelve pounds in his mother's will. 
    • Triviena. . .
      I gif to my son Henry Widener twelve pounds for all I have reason to give him lease [less] because he was disobedient after his father's death, by his own will, he went from me and made himself his own master, several years before the Law giveth him to be free.

      I gif thirty pounds to my daughter Trifiana. Peter Weidner as the ealtest (oldest) of my sons living with me at the present time [is] to have the new house as his own for his help to me as a father to his Junger [younger] brothers and sisters. The house is not yeat builded but shall be builded hereafter. [Catherine did not live long enough to build the new house.]

      The Residue of my estate bik and small goots [big and small goods] and land to be divided into three ekal part s and go the three Junger broders [supports his younger brothers] till they are in full age, that is his Junger broders Jacob and Isaac. . .

      Witnesses: John Henry Hagerman, Leonard Keil, and Johannes Hildebrand. Proved by them at Cocalico before Conrad Weiser, Esq., February 1742-3

      [This is a very rough abstract. A copy of the will and inventory may be ordered from Philadelphia County, PA.] - Through Four Generations, p. 30 }
    Possessions  1750  Oley Township, Berks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Residence  1750  Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • "Hickory was established by Henry Weidner who migrated to the region from Montgomery Pennsylvania. In 1750, along with his brother-in-law he acquired a land grant which included thousands of acres of land. During the 1790's Henry Robinson built a tavern located under an enormous hickory tree in the northwest portion of Catawba County."
    Property  16 Aug 1750  Cocalico Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Possessions  29 Sep 1750  , Burke, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 9] 
    • 1391 Henry Whitner Grant xxxx 29 Sep 1750 Henry Fork

      1000 acres
    Naturalization  19 Sep 1753  , Rowan, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • The Rowan Co Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Book 1:16
      Henry Witner came into Open Court & Took the State Oaths & Subscribed the Test appointed by law in order for Naturalization.
    Possessions  15 Apr 1763  , Burke, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    1392 Henry Whitner Grant xxxx 15 Apr 1763 Henry Fork 
    Possessions  6 Jul 1767  , Burke, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    1397 Henry Whitner Grant 0635 06 Jul 1767 Jacob Fork 
    Military  1781  American Revolutionary War Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    • Held a meeting at his home in which Col. McDowell convened the Militia officers to raise supplies to feed the army for 12 months. The Revolutionary Pay Vouchers for this meeting are in the NC archives.
    Military  1784  , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    • Henry formed a militia unit comprised of the area of present-day Catawba County. He served as Captain for a year or two.
    Census  1790  , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    • "Henry Whitener, Sr" (73) was enumerated as head of household. He is the only male. The household also includes two females, likely Mary Catherine (Mull) (57) and possibly Mary Ann (36).
    1790 Census, Lincoln Co., North Carolina     		1790 Census, Lincoln Co., North Carolina
    Year: 1790; Census Place: , Lincoln, North Carolina; Roll: M637_7; Image: 0069.
    Occupation  Planter 
    Probate  Abt 1790  , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Will recorded in will book 2/414. 
    Will  1790  [15] 
    • "The old pioneer Henry Weidner who discovered Henry River now bearing his name and who was known as King of the Forks devised a large estate in 1790 among his children He enhanced the dowry of his only single daughter by this bequest I likewise give unto my daughter Mollie my two stills and all the still vessels."
    Henry Weidner Will Clipping    		 Henry Weidner Will Clipping
    Possessions  17 Nov 1790  , Burke, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    1394 Henry Whitner Sr Grant 496 17 Nov 1790 Jacob Fork 
    Died  31 Jul 1792  [4] 
    Buried  Aft 31 Jul 1792  , Catawba, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 16] 
    Address:
    Weidner-Robinson Cemetery 
    Henry Weidner Tombstone - English side    		 Henry Weidner Tombstone - English side
    http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/ViewPhoto.aspx?pid=-1797566701&tid=2952867&oid=1a7dd595-b4d9-446f-949a-e5a2a7602404
    Henry Weidner Tombstone - German side    		 Henry Weidner Tombstone - German side
    http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/ViewPhoto.aspx?pid=-1797566701&tid=2952867&oid=590630ff-d015-4a53-9751-8f5340ac4a41
    Notes 
    Person ID  I1679  Kendrick-Hemphill
    Last Modified  10 May 2013 

    Father  Peter WEIDNER,   b. 1688, Coburg, , Sachsen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1725 and 1736 
    Mother  Catherina SCHNEIDER,   b. 1690, Coburg, , , Saxony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1742, Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F85  Group Sheet

    Family  Catherina MULL,   b. 24 May 1733, Goshenhoppen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1804, Lincolnton, Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Abt 1749  Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Address:
    Goshenhoppen Reformed Church 
    Children 
    >1. Daniel WHITENER,   b. 14 Oct 1750, , Anson, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jan 1833, , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Captain Henry WHITENER,   b. 1752, , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1811, Marquand, Madison County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Abram WHITENER,   b. 1754, , Anson, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Oct 1780, Kings Mountain, , North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
    >4. Catherine WHITENER,   b. 1756, , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1838, , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
    >5. Barbara WHITENER,   b. 1760, Lincolnton, Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1840, , Catawba, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Mollianna WHITENER,   b. Aft 1763, , Mecklenburg, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1796, , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
    >7. Elizabeth WHITENER,   b. 8 Oct 1764, Lincolnton, Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1827, , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
    >8. Mary Ann WHITENER,   b. 31 Mar 1765, , Anson, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Aug 1837, , Lincoln, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F81  Group Sheet

  • Photos
    Henry Weidner Museum Display    		Henry Weidner Museum Display
    "Museum Display, contains original headstones of "Henry" and his wife Catherina, a piece of china brought over from Germany and a gun powder horn."

  • Sources 
    1. [S52] McAllister, Anne Williams, Heinrich Weidner, 1717-1792; Catharina Mull Weidner, 1733-1804, Through Four Generations (Lenoir, N.C.: A.W. McAllister, 1992), p. 30 (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S134] Bob & Mary Anne Robins Ancestors, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rrobins-01&id=I2377 (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S52] McAllister, Anne Williams, Heinrich Weidner, 1717-1792; Catharina Mull Weidner, 1733-1804, Through Four Generations (Lenoir, N.C.: A.W. McAllister, 1992), p. 27 (Reliability: 2).

    4. [S52] McAllister, Anne Williams, Heinrich Weidner, 1717-1792; Catharina Mull Weidner, 1733-1804, Through Four Generations (Lenoir, N.C.: A.W. McAllister, 1992), p. 32 (Reliability: 2).

    5. [S52] McAllister, Anne Williams, Heinrich Weidner, 1717-1792; Catharina Mull Weidner, 1733-1804, Through Four Generations (Lenoir, N.C.: A.W. McAllister, 1992), p. 33 (Reliability: 2).

    6. [S52] McAllister, Anne Williams, Heinrich Weidner, 1717-1792; Catharina Mull Weidner, 1733-1804, Through Four Generations (Lenoir, N.C.: A.W. McAllister, 1992), pp. 29-30 (Reliability: 2).

    7. [S52] McAllister, Anne Williams, Heinrich Weidner, 1717-1792; Catharina Mull Weidner, 1733-1804, Through Four Generations (Lenoir, N.C.: A.W. McAllister, 1992), pp. 33-34 (Reliability: 2).

    8. [S231] Hickory, North Carolina Facts, Schools, Colleges, Weather, Zip Code and More.
      "Hickory, North Carolina Facts, Schools, Colleges, Weather, Zip Code and More." CityTownInfo.com. 15 Nov. 2008. http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/north-carolina/hickory.

    9. [S177] Direct Line Software Deed Data Pool, http://www.directlinesoftware.com/Pool/ncburke.txt (Reliability: 2).

    10. [S331] STEPHENS-REED of Southeast Missouri, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gstephens214&id=I1479 (Reliability: 2).

    11. [S177] Direct Line Software Deed Data Pool, http://www.directlinesoftware.com/Pool/ncburke.txt (Reliability: 3).

    12. [S52] McAllister, Anne Williams, Heinrich Weidner, 1717-1792; Catharina Mull Weidner, 1733-1804, Through Four Generations (Lenoir, N.C.: A.W. McAllister, 1992), 35 (Reliability: 3).

    13. [S28] Ancestry.com, 1790 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.Original data - Indexed from: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States in the Year 1790. Washington, D.C.: Government), Year: 1790; Census Place: , Lincoln, North Carolina; Roll: M637_7; Page: 111; Image: 0069. (Reliability: 3).
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1790usfedcen&h=178689&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

    14. [S294] North Carolina State Archives MARS Catalog, http://mars.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/logicrouter/servlet., http://mars.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/logicrouter/servlet/LogicRouter?PAGE=object&OUTPUTXSL=object.xsl&pm_RC=CRBDB&pm_OI=15982&pm_GT=Y&pm_IAC=Y&api_1=GET_OBJECT_XML&num_result=0 (Reliability: 3).

    15. [S252] J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, ed., "Letters of John Rust Eaton." The James Sprunt historical publications (1st ed. Vol. 9. Raleigh, N. C.: Commercial Printing Co., 1910. Google Books), 42 (Reliability: 3).

    16. [S134] Bob & Mary Anne Robins Ancestors, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rrobins-01&id=I2377 (Reliability: 3).
      Title: E-mail from Gene Rooks
      Abbrev: E-mail from Gene Rooks
      Author: Gene Rooks
      Page: He was the first to be buried in the family graveyard, referred to as the Weidner-Robinson Graveyard, that is on top of the hill behind his original home-place, now owned by descendants of Jesse Robinson who married his daughter Mollie. She was the next to be buried there in 1796.

      The last person was buried there in 1965. The site is difficult to reach, as the present owners only clean it up once a year for reunion visits, and when the weeds are high, ticks are abundant. We have pictures of the ancestral tombstones. Those of Heinrich and his wife are in German, with a newer memorial showing the English translation.



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