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Persönliche Daten ABRAHAM Teter SR. 

• Er wurde geboren Januar 1768 in Pendleton Co. (W.) VA.Quellen 3, 6, 7
• (Census-State 1810) in 1810 Illinois State Census for Randolph Co., IL.Quelle 8
• (Genealogy-Henckel #1) in HG #542 "Henckel Genealogy".Quellen 6, 7
• (Genealogy-Teter #1) in TD #d.2. "Teter Descendants".Quelle 9
• (Property #2) in "Squatters" on Indian land, Register of Applications in 1807.Quelle 10
• (Property #1) am 6. März 1797 in deed to Isaac Henkle.Quelle 7
• (Religion) am 21. März 1811 in Silver Creek Baptist Church of Lower Silver Creek.Quelle 11
• (Will-Dated) am 3. Mai 1815 in File A 35-6, St. Clair Co., Illinois Territory, 1815, Case 49.
• (Will-Proved) am 24. Mai 1815 in St. Clair Co., Illinois Territory, Will Proved by widow Mary Teter, and faithful friend Peter Mitchell.
• Er ist verstorben am 3. Mai 1815 in Illinois Terr., now St. Clair Co., IL, er war 47 Jahre alt.Quellen 3, 6
• Er wurde beerdigt in St. Clair Co., IL, location unknown.
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 4. Dezember 2022.

Familie von ABRAHAM Teter SR.

Er ist verheiratet mit MARIA "MARY" Kittle.

Sie haben geheiratet am 28. November 1793 in Randolph Co., West Virginia, er war 25 Jahre alt.Quellen 3, 7, 12, 13, 14

Kind(er):

1. Abigail Teter  1794-1855 
2. Joshua Teter  1796-1797
3. Levi Teter  1799-1839 
4. Isaac Teter  1801-1860 
5. Christenah Teter  1803-1882 
6. REBECCA Teter  1805-1843 
7. Priscilla Teter  1807-1850 
8. Solomon Teter  1809-1891 
9. Abraham Teter  1811-???? 
10. Phillip Teter  1813-1896 
11. Mary Teter  1815-1869 

Notizen bei ABRAHAM Teter SR.

By Catherine J. Hill and Richard K. Hill"
In 1784, Virginia had surrendered to the general government all claims to the Northwest Territory. In 1787 "An Act for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River" was passed by congress. Under this ordinance General Arthur St. Clair was appointed governor. In 1800 the Indiana Territory was organized; we have been unable to find the date when the Illinois Territory was established. The only reference found was in the proclamation of 9 February 1801, ".....By the terms of this proclamation but little Illinois territory--a narrow strip along the Wabash--was left in Knox County."  The next mention found of the Illinois Territory was 28 April, 1809, in another proclamation continuing St. Clair and Randolph Counties of Illinois Territory without change of boundaries, except that the eastern boundary of each county was extended to the eastern boundary of Illinois Territory.  We do find that this area must have already been included as Illinois Territory as early as 1807 when so many of our ancestors made applications, for land, in 1807 as "Squatter(s) in Territorial Illinois."

Biography by Professor Joseph M. Kellogg:
Abraham Teter first appears for himself separately in the Personal Tax lists in 1790, and continues so there in Pendleton County through 1796.

On December 23, 1788, Abraham Teter located 66 acres on both sides of Seneca Creek and the North Fork, between two tracts of his own land; his own land in this case was that he inherited from his father Paul Teter. (Pendleton County Location book No. 1, page 2). On February 10, 1791, he had surveyed 130 acres, on both sides of Seneca creek and on both sides of the North Fork between and adjoining his former land at the mouth of Seneca. (Pendleton Survey book A, page 31). No doubt this tract included that located as mentioned above. A patent for this __ tract was granted him on July 22, 1794. (Virginia Land book No. 30, page 610).

On September 6, 1794, Abraham Teter sppears on a roll of militia for Pendleton County in Captain William Gragg's Company. (Morton's History of Pendleton County, Page 400); and his name also is on the list of those who voted in the elections in Pendleton County, in 1789, 1791, and 1792 - for Congressman, senator, assemblyman, etc.

On March 6, 1797, as widow of Paul Teter deceased, Rebecca joins with her son Abraham Teter and Mary (Kittle), his wife, in a deed to Isaac Henkle for 400 pounds, of a number of tracts of land around the mouth of Seneca, etc. including various patents to Paul Teter and also the 130 acre tract patented to Abraham himself in 1794. (Pendleton County Deed book #2, page 319).  This was immediately prior to her removal with son, Abraham, to Illinois.

In 1797, after the death of Paul Teter, the family sold all their property in Pendleton Co., (W.) Virginia, and Abraham Teter, and family, with Hannah Teter Mitchell, and family, came, with the Badgley Colony, to Northwest Territory (later Indiana Territory, then Illinois Territory), in 1797, accompanied by their mother Rebecca Henkle Teter and all of their other siblings, settling in the New Design Settlement in what is now Monroe Co., IL.

"History of St. Clair Co., (Illinois)," F167, Hans George Dieter Family (Tieter), by Nora Lee McWilliams West:
     "It was Paul and Rebecca's son, Abraham (b. ca 1768) with his wife, Mary Kittle, (m. ca 1793) who ventured forth to pioneer on a new frontier.  Early spring of 1797 found Abraham's family, including his widowed mother, Rebecca, making preparations to move.  They were influenced by glowing reports about Illinois, recently (1787) organized as an American Territory (Northwest Territory).  A large group from Pendleton County Virginia, sold their property, crossed the mountains to Morgantown on the Monogahela River where they set sail in flatboats down the rivers to Fort Massac.  Headed overland for New Design Settlement; they were beset by floods, mud, rain, disease, and inadequate housing.  Abraham and Mary's 13 month old Joshua died October 1797.  Since no further mention of Paul's wife, Rebecca, has been found, it is likely she perished at this time also.  Not until 1807 did Abraham and Mary settle permanently near New Athens on Silver creek....."

"History of St. Clair Co., (Illinois)," Vol. II, 1992, F16, "Badgley Family", by Dianna Hartman states the following:
"David Badgley of the 4th generation (born 1749), moved from Virginia to St. Clair County…In 1796, with his son, Aaron, his brother, Anthony, and others, traveled by horseback to visit Illinois and Missouri to look for better land for farming…The following year he returned to St. Clair County with his family and some friends (Teters, Carrs, Millers, Strouds, & Eymana). They emigrated down the Ohio River in flatboats from Brownsville, VA to Shawneetown, IL, and then overland to Kaskaskia, then the metropolis of the West."

More on "The Badgley Colony," can be found in Reynold's, "Pioneer History of Illinois (pages 235-238).
"This colony, all numbered and all told, amounted to about one hundred and fifty-four souls. They crossed the mountains on wagons, pack-horses and on foot to Morgantown on the Monongahela River. Here they waited some time for their boats to be finished. At last, in May, they set sail down the rivers to the land of promise-Illinois. After a long, tiresome and exposed voyage down the rivers they landed at Ft. Massac, on the Ohio river. The flat-boats, or brood horses, as they were sometimes called in derision, were not covered and the families in them were exposed to the inclemency of the weather and the heat of a summer sun.

"This year, 1797, was uncommonly wet and the streams between the Ohio and Kaskaskia were all out of the banks and swimming. It rained almost every day, and the roads between Kaskaskia and Massac were literally covered with water and the mud almost impassable. This colony fixed up their wagons, horses and all things for the New Design, Illinois, and left Massac. They were detained in this wilderness of mud and water for about a month - exposed to almost a vertical sun over their heads and positive mud and water under their feet.

"It must be recollected that at this time not a house stood between Kaskaskia and Massac. They rafted the creeks and at last reached civilization and contemplated relief, but woefully were they disappointed. They were hailed at Kaskaskia and New Design with all the good feelings peculiarly incident to the pioneers, but a tempest of the most direful calamity was gathering to burst upon their devoted heads. Almost one-half of this cheerful and flourishing colony died during the first summer and fall of their arrival.

"This mortality is almost unprecedented in any country or under any circumstances. A most malignant fever prevailed, which was supposed to be contagious. This prevented the people from paying that kind attention to the sick which they needed. Scarcely a phyician could be procured.

"When they reached the New Design they could not procure houses to receive them and they were huddled together to the great injury of their health. In fact, provisions were not plenty. The Indian War had only ceased a year or two before and the inhabitants had not raised much support for themselves or the immigrants. At any rate such was the mortality that even the burying of the dead was scarcely attended to.

"The graveyard of 1797 may yet be seen at the New Design, which will cause the observer to shudder at the mortality and distress of that day. Scarcely a family of all these immigrants but had to mourn the loss of one or more of its number, and many of the families were almost extinct; leaving, perhaps, a few helpless children to grieve over the loss of their parents, brothers and sisters. At this time there were no means of relief for this distress in the country, except kind and benevolent hearts. The country was healthy after this year and immigrants who were not swept off soon did well.

"Scarcely at any time of in any country will be found so many moral, honest and laborious citizens, to the number of this colony, as the immigration from Hardy County to the New Design. The names of Carr, Stookey, Eyeman, Shook, Mitchell, Clark, Badgley, Teter, Miller and other will be recognized as the heads of families of this colony whose descendants at this day are numerout and respectable.

"This colony introduced into the country an orderly and moral influence which did great service to the present inhabitants. The emigrants from Virginia attended strictly and honestly to business and not only imporved the country but their example also impressed the people. They were the first to raise Sheep to any number and manufactured the wool into clothers. They turned their attention to the culture of wheat and raisd a surplus for market. They also encouraged the breed of horses and cattle and raised a great number themselves." (Source for this excerpt: RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: "Fitschen, Engelken, Dieter/Teter, Ehlen, Klindwort/Klintwort, Dammann, Bredchoft, Meier/Meyer, Ficken and Many Others," by Roger Engelken, ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX))).

At an election held at Cahokia in January 1799, among the lists of voters were Abraham Teter, John Teter, and Peter Mitchell.

In 1803 or 1804, together with Peter Mitchell, Barbara Shook, and others, they came to Fayetteville Precinct in Indiana Territory, later Illinois Territory, now St. Clair Co., IL, following the meanderings of Silver Creek, and settling in Section 33 on Silver Creek.  Here Abraham, his wife, Mary Kittle Teter, and family settled, as squatters on Indian land, to start their new life.

Register of Applications in 1807 of "Squatters" on Indian land applying for the land on which they lived, or had made improvements, shows the following:

ABRAHAM TETER is listed as "Squatter in Territorial Illinois", No. 118, 25 December 1807.  His tract of land was "situate on the West side of Silver Creek about five miles above the mouth of said creek adjoining Joseph Chance on the North." Permission was granted 25 December 1807 for 320 acres.

Abraham's sisters, Hannah Teter Mitchell and Barbara Teter Shook also settled on Indian land.

Peter Mitchell is listed as "Squatter in Territorial Illinois", No. 138, 31 December 1807.  His tract of land was "situate on the East side of Silver Creek about four miles above the mouth adjoining Barbara Shook (HG #545 & TD #d.5.; sister of Hannah Teter Mitchell, Peter's wife.) on the South." Permission was granted 31 December 1807 for 320 acres.

Barbara (Teter) Shook is listed as "Squatter in Territorial Illinois", No. 139, 31 December 1807.  Her tract of land was "situate on the East side of Silver Creek about four or five miles above the mouth adjoining Peter Mitchel."  Permission was granted 31 December 1807 for 320 acres.

Abraham and wife, Maria "Mary" Kittle had 11 children, and his daughter Rebecca was the first child of white parents born in Fayette precinct.

"History of St. Clair Co., (Illinois)," Vol. II, 1992, F16, "Badgley Family", by Dianna Hartman:
"At this time the county was inhabited by two tribes of Indians--the Kickapoos and the Pottawattamies.   In 1808 there was a treaty with them allowing them to hunt until 1809, at which time they left."

1810 Illinois Census Returns, Grand Tower, Randolph County, Illinois Territory: (378)
A. Teeters
2 males, age 10 to 16
1 male, age 26 to 45
4 females, age 0 to 10
1 female, age 10 to 16
1 female, age 26 to 45
(383)
P. Mitchel
4 males, age 0 to 10
1 male, age 10 to 16
1 male, age 26 to 45
1 female, age 0 to 10
1 female, age 10 to 16
1 female, age 26 to 45

On March 21, 1811, the old Silver Creek Baptist Church of Lower Silver Creek was organized. Among those listed as Founders were Abraham Teter, Mary Teter, Peter Mitchel, Hannah Mitchel, Rebecca Griffin, and also Barbara (Teter) Shook, Mary (Teter) Radcliff, sisters of Abraham Teter and Hannah Teter Mitchell. Peter Mitchel was the first clerk.

In the election of September 17, 1818, to organize and form the State of Illinois, the list of voters included John Teter, Peter Mitchell, George Mitchell, Patrick Huggins, Peter Hill; Abraham had died in 1815.  (Peter Hill, a grandson of the previous mentioned voter, Peter Hill, married Hannah Emaline Mitchell, granddaughter of Peter Mitchell, Jr.& Hannah Teter, and Abraham Teter & Mary Kittle. ; Hannah Emaline was the daughter of William W. Mitchell and Rebecca Teter).

"History of St. Clair County, Illinois, 1881", pgs. 166, 269-270
FAYETTEVILLE PRECINCT, The First Land Entries
".....In 1797 Abraham Teter moved from Randolph county, Virginia, to New Design, Monroe county, this state (IL). In 1803 or 1804, in company with Peter Mitchell, Barbara Shook, Isaac Griffen and families he came to this township, followed up the meanderings of Silver creek to section 33, T. 1 S., R. 7 W., where he found a double log cabin occupied by a Mr. Cook. He bought Cook's claim, agreeing to occupy one end of the cabin, and Cook the other, the first winter. Mitchell and Griffin located near by. Across the creek lived a family named Radcliffe. So that Cook and Radcliffe are believed to have been the first settlers. Among the early settlers was a rumor to the effect that a family of three--Husband, wife and child had, prior to this, attempted to erect a cabin near the mouth of Silver creek, but, before its completion, had met their deaths. Their decomposed bodies were found by hunters from New Design, and buried underneath a large hickory tree which was often pointed out. This was about 1797, when militia claims were being selected. The names of the parties and all facts are matters of oblivion.

"Mrs. Cook enjoyed the reputation of being bewitched. Neighbors in the vicinity of Turkey Hill (in those days ten, or even fifteen miles was looked upon as being in the neighborhood) verily believed her a witch. Mr. Radcliffe, living on the other side of Silver creek, some two or three miles distant, laid claims to being a witch-master, and by a singular coincidence established his claim firmly in the minds of the people. Once Messrs. Teter and Mitchell had occasion to remain over night with him. At midnight they were aroused by loud laughter, and waking, saw Radcliffe sitting bolt upright in a bed on the floor laughing heartily. Said he, 'Mrs. Cook just came down the chimney, and I have kicked her into the fire.' Imagine Teter's surprise on the following morning at hearing his wife's greeting him with a statement that Mrs. Cook had 'just been in and said she came near burning up last night. Some coals had rolled out of the fireplace and burned her bed partially and awakened her by burning her feet.' Therefore Radcliffe was authority in matters of witchery, and Mrs. Cook was more a witch than ever. The following spring they left the settlement. Isaac Mitchell was born in the fall of 1805, being the first male child born there.

"Solomon Teter was born Feb. 19, 1800, and is the oldest native born person (in 1881) now living in the precinct. He was one of a family of eleven children, ten of whom, five boys and five girls grew to years of maturity. His sister Rebecca was the first female child born. She was born in 1805....."

".....A child of Peter Mitchell was the first death, occurring in 1806. It was buried on section 34. The old burial ground thus set apart was used until some fifty or sixty graves were made, then abandoned.

"Peter Mitchell was the first justice of the peace, and many were the hearts he caused to thrill with happiness as he tied hymeneal knots. As a justice he held high rank, and was for many years retained in that capacity.

"On April 28th, 1813, Patrick Huggins and Elizabeth Mitchell, also William Huggens and Darter Barbary were married by Nathan Arnett, a preacher of the gospel.  Thus the list of marriages commenced with a double wedding.

"As early as 1815 John Boucher taught subscription school in the Silver creek settlement. The school-house had an open fire-place which occupied all of one end of the building. On dark days part of the roof was raised for admission of light.

"The early settlers were a devoted people, conscientious and straight-forward in the observance of religious exercises. On the 21st day of March, 1811, they organized the Silver Creek Baptist Church, with seven members (Founders were Abraham Teter, Mary Teter, Peter Mitchel, Hannah Mitchel, Rebecca Griffin, and also Barbara (Teter) Shook, Mary (Teter) Radcliff, sisters of Abraham Teter and Hannah Teter Mitchell). Met from house to house until 1817, when a log church was built....."

"This precinct was represented in the Black Hawk war by Solomon Teter, Aaron Land, Isaac Griffin, John Baker and Myram McMullen....."

"First Baptist Church of Freeburg," pg. 23, T59:
     "The First Baptist Church was organized with some members of the Silver Creek Baptist Church and some members of the Richland Baptist Church.
     "The old Silver Creek Baptist Church was organized March 21, 1811 and included among its early members Abraham and Mary Teter, Peter and Hannah Mitchell, Mary Radcliff and Barbara Shook..."

Illinois State Archives, Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database:
Purchaser: Teter, Abraham
Residence of Purchaser: St. Clair (Co.)
Legal Description:
Aliquot Parts or Lot: SEFRDSIC     Section Number: 33
Township: 01S     Range: 07W  ;   Meridan: 3     County of Purchase: St. Clair
Details of Sale:
Acres: 157.70  Price per Acre: 2.00  Total Price: 315.40  Type of Sale" FD (Federal)
Date of Purchase: 01/12/1815
Volume: 009  Page: 245

"Henckel Genealogical Bulletin," pg. 352
"The will of Abraham Teter (File A 35-6 St. Clair Co., Illinois Territory, 1815, Case 49 St. Clair Co., Ill.. 1821) was signed 3 May 1815, and proved by the widow Mary Teter and faithful friend Peter Mitchell on 24 May 1815."

Abraham Teter died May 3, 1815 and Hannah Teter Mitchell died before April 25, 1820; Peter Mitchell, Jr. died about September 11, 1834 and Mary Kittle Teter Mitchell died September 5, 1841. Their burial places are not known.

"Fitschen, Engelken, Dieter / Teter, Ehlen, Klindwort / Klintwort, Dammann, Bredehoft, Meier / Meyer, Ficken and Many Others," by Roger Engelken, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)
Name: Abraham Teter
Sex: M
Birth: JAN 1768 in Augusta County, Virginia (Source 1)
Death: 3 MAY 1815 in Saint Clair County, Illinois (1)
Will: 3 MAY 1815 Saint Clair County, Illinois (2)
Probate: 24 MAY 1815 Saint Clair County, Illinois (2)

Note:
1. Biography by Professor Joseph M. Kellogg
  "Abraham Teter was born in 1770, (since in the Personal Tax lists it is seen that he was not over 16 years old in 1786, but was over 16, but under 21, in 1787). He first appears for himself separately in these lists in 1790 and continues so there in Pendleton County through 1796.
  "On December 23, 1788, Abraham Teter located 66 acres on both sides of Seneca Creek and the North Fork, between two tracts of his own land. (Pendleton County Location book No. 1, page 2). "His own land" in this case was that he inherited from his father Paul Teter.
  "On February 10, 1791, he had surveyed 130 acres, "on both sides of Seneca creek and on both sides of the North Fork between and adjoining his former land at the mouth of Seneca." (Pendleton Survey book A, page 31). No doubt this tract included that located as mentioned above. A patent for this ___ tract was granted him on July 22, 1794 (Virginia Land book No. 30, page 610).

"An interesting letter from Moses Henkel, surveyor of Pendleton County, mentioning Abraham and other Teters is preserved in the records of the Augusta County Court and is published in the Chalkley records, vol. 1, page 483. It runs as follows:
"Sir:
  "I understand that you are much dissatisfied about the land I surveyed for Abraham Teter, on the North side of Seneca joining his own land, saying I promised to send you word before I surveyed it. I remember of promising not to survey it before Andrew Johnson would return from Rockingham, who was to bring your entry, and Andrew returned and brought no entry, and moreover old George Teter searched Lewis' records and found no such entry as you spoke of, and the widow Teter demanded the surveying of the same, and as Abraham had the oldest entry by warrant, I thought myself in duty bound to survey it, neither saw I any occasion to send for you when I knew you had no entry for the land. I am ready, at your demand, to survey 100 acres for you on Seneca, above Abraham Teter's land, for your entry is now made by warrant, for I have lately obtained a warrant for you from Colonel Hamilton. I desire that you be moderate in your censures, and whether or not, I am your hearty well wisher and obsequious, M. Henkle
  "Addressed to Mr. William Gragg, Sr. on Seneca.

  "That there was further dispute about this property is shown by the record of the Circuit Court Docket Book (Pendleton County), where on September 6, 1799, the suit of Abraham Teter vs. William Gragg, administrator was tried and decided. The Sheriff's return is "satisfied". Costs were $2.90.

  "On September 6, 1794, Abraham Teter appears on a roll of militia for Pendleton County in Captain William Gragg's Company. (Morton's History of Pendleton County, page 400); and his name also is on the list of those who voted a the elections in Pendleton County, in 1789, 1791 and 1792 - for Congressman, senator, assemblyman, etc.

  "In the year 1797, Abraham Teter removed from Pendleton County, and went west to Illinois. He was accompanied by his mother, his sisters, and possibly others of the family. Before leaving it was necessary, of course, to dispose of his property in Pendleton County and on March 6, 1797, Abraham Teter and wife Mary, and his mother Rebecca Teter the widow of Paul, made a deed to Isaac Henkle, for 400 pounds, of a number of tracts of land around the Mouth of Seneca, etc. including various patents to Paul Teter and also the 130 acre tract patented to Abraham himself in 1794. (See notes under Paul and Rebecca Teter, his parents). (Pendleton County Deed book #2, page 319).
  "It is said that on arriving in Illinois he settled first in what is now Monroe County, and then later went to St. Clair County, where he lived in Fayette precinct (not far from the present East St. Louis). In the History of St. Clair County Ill. pub. by Brink, McDonough & County, 1881, it is said that Abraham Teter came to New Design in Monroe County in 1797 and then to Fayette township in St. Clair County in 1803 or 1804, together with Peter Mitchell, Barbara Shook, and others, settling in Section 33 on Silver Creek. (pages 269-270). Also, on page 53 it is stated that a few miles south of Silver Creek, Abraham Teter, his sister Mrs. Shook and Peter Mitchell began making improvements. On the organization of the old Silver Creek Baptist church in 1811, among the constituent members were Abraham Teter, his wife Mary, Hannah Mitchell, Peter Mitchell, Rebecca Griffen, Mary Radcliff and Barbara Shook. (same, page 166). On page 70 of the same book is given an election poll at Cahokia, Ill. in January, 1799 and among the names appearing are those of Abraham Teter, John Teter, and Peter Mitchell. Abraham Teter is said to have had 11 children, and his daughter Rebecca was the first child of white parents born in Fayette precinct. Of these 11 children, 1 died young: of the others, 5 were boys and 5 girls."

The Badgley Colony
From: Reynold's Pioneer History of Illinois (pages 235-238).
  "An efficient and enterprising colony of Americans immigrated from Hardy county, Virginia, and settled at New Design, Illinois, in 1797. This was the largest and most flourishing company of farmers, mechanics and laborers that ever came to Illinois at or before that day.
  "A year or so before 1797, David Badgley and Leonard Carr came out to explore the country. Daniel Stookey, Abraham Eyeman, Mr. Whetstone and Abraham Stookey also explored the country before the colony settled in Illinois. These explorers came from the south branch of Potomac, Hardy County, Virginia, on horseback and examined the country thoroughly. They remained in the country most of the summer and Rev. David Badgley frequently preached. Mr. Stookey and others crossed the Mississippi at St. Louis in 1796, and gave that French village, the country around it and commandant a passing notice.
  "This exploring party decided on making Illinois their homes for life. They returned to Virginia and reported the facts of their discoveries to their neighbors and friends. This whole colony mustered up and commenced a long and arduous journey, at that day, for the Far West.
  "It is said that Solomon Shook and Mr. Borer came to Illinois the year before. This colony, all numbered and all told, amounted to about one hundred and fifty-four souls. They crossed the mountains on wagons, pack-horses and on foot to Morgantown on the Monongahela River. Here they waited some time for their boats to be finished. At last, in May, they set sail down the rivers to the land of promise - Illinois. After a long, tiresome and exposed voyage down the rivers they landed at Ft. Massac, on the Ohio river. The flat-boats, or brood horses, as they were sometimes called in derision, were not covered and the families in them were exposed to the inclemency of the weather and the heat of a summer sun.
  "This year, 1797, was uncommonly wet and the streams between the Ohio and Kaskaskia were all out of the banks and swimming. It rained almost every day, and the roads between Kaskaskia and Massac were literally covered with water and the mud almost impassable. This colony fixed up their wagons, horses and all things for the New Design, Illinois, and left Massac. They were detained in this wilderness of mud and water for about a month - exposed to almost a vertical sun over their heads and positive mud and water under their feet.
  "It must be recollected that at this time not a house stood between Kaskaskia and Massac. They rafted the creeks and at last reached civilization and contemplated relief; but woefully were they disappointed. They were hailed at Kaskaskia and New Design with all the good feelings peculiarly incident to the pioneers; but a tempest of the most direful calamity was gathering to burst upon their devoted heads. Almost one-half of this cheerful and flourishing colony died during the first summer and fall of their arrival.
  "This mortality is almost unprecedented in any country or under any circumstances. A most malignant fever prevailed, which was supposed to be contagious. This prevented the people from paying that kind attention to the sick which they needed. Scarcely a physician could be procured.
  "When they reached the New Design they could not procure houses to receive them and they were huddled together to the great injury of their health. If fact, provisions were not plenty. The Indian War had only ceased a year or two before and the inhabitants had not raised much support for themselves or the immigrants. At any rate such was the mortality that even the burying of the dead was scarcely attended to.
  "The graveyard of 1797 may yet be seen at the New Design, which will cause the observer to shudder at the mortality and distress of that day. Scarcely a family of all these immigrants but had to mourn the loss of one or more of its number, and many of the families were almost extinct; leaving, perhaps, a few helpless children to grieve over the loss of their parents, bothers and sisters. At this time there were no means of relief for this distress in the country, except kind and benevolent hearts. The country was healthy after this year and immigrants who were not swept off soon did well.
  "Scarcely at any time of in any country will be found so many moral, honest and laborious citizens, to the number of this colony, as the immigration from Hardy County to the New Design. The names of Carr, Stookey, Eyeman, Shook, Mitchell, Clark, Badgley, Teter, Miller and others will be recognized as the heads of families of this colony whose descendants at this day are numerous and respectable.
  "This colony introduced into the country an orderly and moral influence which did great service to the present inhabitants. The emigrants from Virginia attended strictly and honestly to business and not only improved the country but their example also impressed the people. They were the first to raise Sheep to any number and manufactured the wool into clothes. They turned their attention to the culture of wheat and raised a surplus for market. They also encouraged the breed of horses and cattle and raised a great number themselves.
  "The beneficial influence of this colony to improve the country was in a short time perceived by everyone. The people composing it were not proud or overbearing, but on the contrary they were remarkable for their modest and amiable deportment, so that they taught by example the people, who esteemed and admired them. The colony was extremely moral and correct and their descendants to this day are notorious for their sober and orderly conduct." - Pioneer History of Illinois by John Reynolds."

Notes from:
History of St. Clair County, Illinois
published by Brink, McDonough & County (1881)
p. 48. "The Shook family was from Virginia. They settled southeast of Turkey Hill. Samuel Shook said to have come there in 1798. He died in 1827."

p. 49. 'In the district west and southwest of Belleville, in the years 1801 and 1802, settlements were made by John Teter, Abraham Eyeman, William Miller, Martin Randleman and Daniel Stookey. They were of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
John Teter came in 1801 and he had a house by 1802. He served as County Commissioner.
  "William Miller was brother-in-law of Teter. He settled about 3 miles southwest of Belleville."

p. 50. "The Badgleys were descendants of Anthony Badgley of New Jersey who settled in Virginia and died about 1800. Rev. David Badgley, Baptist minister, visited Illinois in 1796, preached in the New Design settlement, and founded there the first Baptist church in Illinois. He also visited Missouri. Returning to Virginia he gave a favorable account of the country, so that his sons and a number of other persons determined to emigrate to Illinois. The colony consisted of a large number of families among which were the Teters, Carrs, Millers, Strouds and Eyemans. They floated down the Ohio in flatboats from Brownsville to Shawneetown, and then went overland to Kaskaskia, which place was reached on July 4th, 1797.
  "Rev. David Badgley settled in American Bottom, west of Moredock lake in the present Monroe county in 1797 or 98, and then moved to a place west of Belleville in 1804. He died on Dec. 16, 1824, aged 76.
  "Anthony Badgley, a brother of David, who came with him, first settled at New Design and then also came to near Belleville in 1804. He died in 1837, aged 77. He had sons Hiram and Simeon, etc.
  "Aaron Badgley was a son of David. He died in 1858, aged 85. Other sons of Rev. David Badgley, were: Ichabod, David Jr., Job, and Abraham."

p. 53. "A few miles from the mouth of Silver Creek, in Fayetteville precinct, Abraham Teter, his sister Mrs. Shook, and Peter Mitchell began making improvements in 1804. Peter Mitchell served as Justice of the Peace, County commissioner, etc."

p. 55. "The summer preceding the arrival of the Mitchell and other families from Virginia was a period of universal sickness. To the Virginians the change of water and climate was not healthful."

p. 70. "Among the voters at an election at Cahokia in January, 1799, were:
Daniel McCann, John Teter, Samuel Judy, Peter Mitchell, John Scott, Daniel Shook, Wm. Scott Sr., David Badgley, Abraham Teter, Anthony Badgley."

p. 166. "At the organization of the old Silver Creek Baptist church on March 21, 1811, the constituent members were: Abraham Teter, Mary Teter, Peter Mitchell, Hannah Mitchell, Rebecca Griffin, Mary Radcliff and Barbara Shook. Peter Mitchell was first clerk."

p. 269. "In 1797, Abraham Teter moved from Randolph County, Virginia, to New Design in Monroe County In 1803-04, in company of Peter Mitchell, Barbara Shook, Isaac Griffen and families he came to Fayetteville township."

p. 270. "Isaac Mitchell, born in fall of 1805, was the first male child born there. Solomon Teter, born Feb. 19, 1809, was one of a family of 11 children. His sister Rebecca born 1805 was the first female child born there. A child of Peter Mitchell was the first death in 1806."

  "Abraham Teter married, in 1793-94, Mary Kittle, daughter of Abraham Kittle Sr. of Randolph County. Abraham Teter died some time before 1820, when, on April 25, 1820 his widow Mary Teter married (2nd) Peter Mitchell. She died before 1834, when the settlement of Abraham Teter's estate was recorded."

2]  Notes from Catherine Hill, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)t, 26 July 2003. (Old e-mail address. New e-mail address: s(XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)-2007)

  "Paul did not accompany Rebecca, and their children, when they removed to the Northwest Territory in 1797. He had died in 1784. Captain Paul Teter was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

  "All birth records of Abraham Teter and Maria "Mary" Kittle, and family, and the marriages of Abraham and Mary Kittle Teter, and Philip and Margaret Thompson Teter, we have found in the "Teter-Mitchell-Hill" Family Bible of (Hannah) Emaline Mitchell Hill, nee Mitchell. Emaline was the daughter of Rebecca Teter and William W. Mitchell; she was the 3rd wife of William. Rebecca Teter was the daughter of Abraham Teter and Mary Kittle, and the sister of Levi Teter. I am descended from Rebecca Teter and William W. Mitchell. William W. Mitchell was the son of Peter Mitchell/Mischler, Jr. and Hannah Teter; the date of Peter and Hannah's marriage bond was 27 August 1791, Pendleton County, (W.) Virginia. Hannah Teter was the sister of Abraham Teter. Abraham died 3 May 1815 in Illinois Territory, now St. Clair County, IL. Hannah died between 1810-25 April 1820.

  "After the death of Hannah and Abraham, Mary Kittle Teter married Peter Mitchell/Mischler, 25 April 1820 in St. Clair County, IL.

  "Peter Mitchell/Mischler was born about 1760-1770, and died about the 21st August 1834 in St. Clair County Peter was the son of Reverand Peter Mischler, Sr. a Lutheran Minister."  [New Information, 2005: Rev. (Johann) Peter Mischler, Sr., immigrant was born 1732 in Gersweiler, in Saarbrucken, (in Saarland), Germany; another source: Gohiem, Germany, and died 23 June 1812 in Pendleton Co., (W.) VA.  He married (mother of Peter Mitchell, Jr.) Maria Catherine Dissinger 15 January 1760 in Gersweiler, Germany (they came from Gersweiler in 1761 already married!), daughter of Johann/John Dissinger and Anna Meyer.  She was born 17 May 1743 in Gersweiler, Saarbrucken (in Saarland), Germany].

"Hannah Teter was born about 1773 in Augusta County, Virginia, now Pendleton County, West Virginia; she died between 1810-25 April 1820 probably in Randolph County, IL (or St. Clair County)

Peter Mitchell was born between 1760-1770; he died about 21 August 1834 in St. Clair County, IL. His father, Rev. Peter Mischler, Sr., born about 1732 in Gersweiler, in Saarbruck, Germany. He was an immigrant Lutheran Minister We do not have the name of his wife; he did have at least one other child that we know about, George Mitchell or Mischler. We do not know the names of his mother and father, but we do have a little information about them. The Rev. Peter Mischler's father was Roman Catholic and his mother was Lutheran. It was in the latter faith that Peter Mischler was confirmed by a certain Reverend Rust in Mohlstadt. He studied to be a tailor, and at the age of twenty-nine years he came to America, landed in Philadelphia on the ship Squirrel on October 21, 1761. It was with his own hand that he signed the immigrant list as Peter Mischler. Rev. Peter Mischler owned considerable land in the area of the Propst Lutheran Church. His wife is not known. Rev. Mischler was still alive on September 5, 1809 when he sold two tracts of land to his son, George. Rev. Peter Mischler, Sr. was the first resident Lutheran Minister to the Propst Lutheran Church, 1772-1812.

3. St. Clair County History, Pages 269-271, Philadelphia: Brink, McDonough, and Company, 1881

In 1797 Abraham Teter moved from Randolph county, Virginia, to New Design, Monroe County, this state. In 1803 or 1804, in company with Peter Mitchell, Barbara Shook, Isaac Griffen and families he came to this township, followed up the meanderings of Silver creek to section 33, T. 1 So, R. 7 W., where he found a double log cabin occupied by a Mr. Cook. He bought Cook's claim, agreeing to occupy one end of the cabin, and Cook the other, the first winter. Mitchell and Griffin located near by. Across the creek lived a family named Radcliffe. So that Cook and Radcliffe are believed to have been the first settlers. Among the early settlers was a rumor to the effect that a family of three--husband, wife and child had, prior to this, attempted to erect a cabin near the mouth of Silver creek, but, before its completion, had met their deaths. Their decomposed bodies were found by hunters from New Design, and buried underneath a large hickory tree which was often pointed out. This was about 1797, when militia claims were being selected. The names of the parties and all facts are matters of oblivion.

Mrs. Cook enjoyed the reputation of being bewitched. Neighbors in the vicinity of Turkey Hill (in those days ten, or even fifteen miles was looked upon as being in the neighborhood) verily believed her a witch. Mr. Radcliffe, living on the other side of Silver creek, some two or three miles distant, laid claims to being a witch-master, and by a singular coincidence established his claim firmly in the minds of the people. Once Messrs. Teter and Mitchell had occasion to remain over night with him. At midnight they were aroused by loud laughter, and waking, saw Radcliffe sitting bolt upright in a bed on the floor laughing heartily. Said he, "Mrs. Cook just came down the chimney, and I have kicked her into the fire. Imagine Teter's surprise on the following morning at hearing his wife's greeting him with a statement that Mrs. Cook had "just been in and said she came near burning up last night. Some coals had rolled out of the fireplace and burned her bed partially and awakened her by burning her feet." Therefore Radcliffe was authority in matters of witchery, and Mrs. Cook was more a witch than ever. The following spring they left the settlement. Isaac Mitchell was born in the fall of 1805, being the first male child born there.

Solomon Teter was born Feb. 19, 1809, and is the oldest native born person now living in the precinct. He was one of a family of eleven children, ten of whom, five boys and five girls grew to years of maturity. His sister Rebecca was the first female child born. She was born in 1805.

Father: Paul Dieter b: ABT 1732 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Commonwealth
Mother: Rebecca Henckel b: 5 OCT 1736 in Macongie Creek, Upper Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Commonwealth

Marriage 1 Maria Kittle b: 1 SEP 1776 in Minisink, Sussex County, New Jersey
Married: 28 NOV 1793 in Randolph County, Virginia 1

Children:
Abigail Teter b: 5 DEC 1794 in Pendleton County, Virginia
Joshua Teter b: 1 SEP 1796 in Pendleton County, Virginia
Levi Teter b: 1 AUG 1799 in Saint Clair County, Illinois
Isaac Teter b: 16 APR 1801 in Saint Clair County, Illinois
Christina Teter b: 20 JAN 1803 in Saint Clair County, Illinois
Rebecca Teter b: 16 JAN 1805 in Saint Clair County, Illinois
Priscilla Teter b: 25 FEB 1807 in Saint Clair County, Illinois
Solomon Teter b: 19 FEB 1809 in Cahokia, Saint Clair County, Illinois
Abraham Teter b: 11 JAN 1811 in Saint Clair County, Illinois
Philip Teter b: 26 MAR 1813 in Saint Clair County, Illinois
Mary Teter b: 18 APR 1815 in Saint Clair County, Illinois

Sources:
Title: Hopkins Family Genealogy
Author: Tim Hopkins
Publication: RootsWeb
Note: Hopkins/Samuell/Ginn Family
Repository:
Note: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=timrhopkins
Media: Electronic
Title: Cochran Family Genealogy
Author: Frank Cochran
Publication: Genealogy.Com
Note: Documents sources extensively
Note: Good
Repository:
Note: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kandfcochran/
Media: Electronic

The following are sources for Abraham & Mary Kittle, Peter Mitchell & Hannah Teter, and their children.
SOURCES: All birth records of Abraham and Maria "Mary" Kittle Teter, and Family, and marriages of Abraham and Mary Kittle Teter and Philip and Margaret Thompson Teter:  "The Teter-Mitchell-Hill" Family Bible of (Hannah) Emaline Mitchell Hill, daughter of Rebecca Teter (the daughter of Abraham Teter and Mary Kittle), and William W. Mitchell (the son of Hannah Teter and Peter Mitchell, Jr.). Bible was in possession of Matilda "Tilly" Catherine Zoller Hill, deceased, wife of William Peter Hill. Their deceased son, Samuel Adam Hill's 2nd wife, Shirley Yates Hill, had Bible and said she would give it to one of Sam's grandchildren. Shirley has since married and moved to another state (she had no issue by Sam); we don't know her new surname nor to whom she gave the Bible. At that time there were two granddaughters, Samatha and Ginger Hill; since then, Ginger Hill, daughter of William A. Hill, Sam's son, was killed in an automobile accident.

Other SOURCES: "Henckel Genealogy", 1500-1960, Ancestry and Descendants of Reverend Anthony Jacob Henckel, 1668-1728, Pioneer Evangelical Lutheran Minister, Emigrant from the German Palatinate to America in 1717, pgs. 215-216, 250-251, by William Sumner Junkin & Minnie Wyatt Junkin; Sponsor: Burt Brown Barker, LL.D.; © 1964 Henckel Family Association.  The "Henckel Genealogical Bulletin", pgs. 330, 352-357, 792-799.   "Squatters in Territorial Illinois", "the first americans to settle outside the american bottom after the revolutionary war", "Register of Applications in 1807", from "Illinois Libraries", Vol. 50, #5, May 1977, published by the Illinois State Library, Springfield, IL 62756.  RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, "Fitschen, Engelken, Dieter / Teter, Ehlen, Klindwort / Klintwort, Dammann, Bredehoft, Meier / Meyer, Ficken and Many Others," by Roger Engelken, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

  "History of St. Clair County, Illinois, 1881", with Illustrations; pg. 166, "Old Silver Creek Baptist Church", pgs. 269-270, Fayetteville Precinct, "The First Land Entries"; © 1881 Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia; Reproduction of book made possible through sponsorship of Marissa Historical and Genealogical Society, Marissa, Illinois, Reproduction by Whipporwill Publications, 4400 Jackson Ave., Evansville, IN 47715.
  "History of St. Clair County, Illinois," 1988, Volume I, St. Clair County (IL) Genealogical Society, © 1988 Curtis Media Corporation, Dallas Texas, and St. Clair County Genealogical Society; Pg. 23, T59, "First Baptist Church of Freeburg; F167, "Hans George Dieter (Tieter) Family", by Nora Lee McWilliams Vest; F739, "Abraham Teter, Sr. and Mary Kittle", by Catherine J. & Richard K. Hill; F740, "Levi Teter and Annis Walker", F741, "Solomon Teter"; by Nora Lee McWilliams Vest; F742, "Solomon Teter", by Edgar Hesse.
  "History of St. Clair County, Illinois," 1992, Volume II Compiled by St. Clair County Genealogical Society, © 1992 Curtis Media Corporation, Dallas, Texas; F16, "Badgley Family", by Dianna Hartman; F423.  "Maria 'Mary Kittle and Abraham Teter, Sr.", by Catherine J. & Richard K. Hill.

1810 State Census for Randolph Co., IL.   Marriage Book and Book of Deaths at Courthouse in Randolph Co., IL.  "St. Clair County, Illinois Marriage Records, 1791-1845", by Robert Buecher.   "Silver Creek Baptist Church Minute Books, 1835-1864."

Numbering systems: HG# -  "The Henckel Genealogy", by Junkin & Junkin; TD# -  "Teter Descendants, of Hans Jorg & Maria Dieter", by Eva A.Teter Winfield, Rte 3, 417 Old Furnace Road, Ridgeley, WV 26753.77.

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