Display Patriot - P-229090 - Christopher KETTERING/KETTENRING/CATRON

Christopher KETTERING/KETTENRING/CATRON

SAR Patriot #: P-229090

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A023252

Birth: 1725 Hermersberg / / Germany
Death: Jul 1793 / Wythe / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Donated foodstuffs for soldiers and fodder for horses


Additional References:
  1. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
  2. Annals of Southwest Virginia pg 765-766 and 773
  3. VA Public Claims by Abercrombie, pg 684

Spouse: Anna Maria Susanna Gose
Children: Jacob Catron/Kettering; Johan Franz/Francis; Johan Philip;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1973-03-28 RI Unassigned Cecil D Baldwin (103931) Johann   
2000-01-25 ID 3610 John Archilus Williamson (151432) Johan   
2001-01-31 MO 8315 Gerald Rex McCoy (148166) Jacob   
2004-10-25 FL 19309 Robert Miles Bowman (155516) Johan   
2023-07-28 NE 106490 Mark A Byars (221675) Jacob   
Burial:
UNKNOWN (Unindexed)
Location:
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Find A Grave Memorial #:
21802188
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Comments:
  • Find-a-Grave Memorial was found using the Kettenring surname spelling
  • There is no information regarding the burial


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Author: Mark A Byars

Christopher Kettenring was born about 1714 in Hermersburg, Germany.  

He married Anna Maria Gose near Rotterdam, Holland, in about 1744, and they had at least ten children:1

  • Johan Francis was born on 22 October 1746 and married Barbara Houch
  • Adam
  • David
  • Solomen
  • Barbara was born on 22 January 1760 and married Stephan Gose
  • Peter was born on 10 May 1754 and married Elizabeth Houck/Houch
  • Jacob was born in 1749 and married Elizabeth Gost
  • Phillip was born about 1760 and married Elizabeth Spraker
  • Catherine was born on 8 August 1762 and married Henry Eller
  • Christian was born in 1764
  • Christopher was born in October 1769 and married Susannah Houch

The family emigrated from Germany on the ship "Chance" and landed at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on 9 September 1765, with the variant spelling of the family name as "Kettering."2

By 1770, the family had moved to Botetourt County, Virginia, where Christopher was named as surveyor of a road project in October 1770.3 In April 1782, he presented a claim to the Montgomery County, Virginia court for compensation for providing cattle, mutton, beef, and oats to the Company of Major Thomas Quirk, which was stationed to guard the strategically important lead mines near Austinville that provided ammunition for the patriot cause.4 In May 1782, he again presented a claim to the Montgomery County, Virginia court for providing pasturage for horses and bread and mutton for the men of Captain Isaac Campbell's Company of light horse militia.5

During his lifetime, Christopher was alternately known by the German names "Stophel" or "Stoval." His descendants used the variant of their surname, "Catron." 

The Patriot is believed to have died in 1793, about 79 years old, in Wythe County, Virginia.1

Sources:

  1. Catron, Henry H., Hettenring Family in America, Illinois. Mount Pulaski: HJ Wibble Publishing. 1956, page 94
  2. Strassburger, R. & Hinke, W. (editor); Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Pennsylvania. Norristown: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934, Volume 1, pages 705-706.
  3. Summers, Lewis Preston, Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800, Vol. I, Tennessee. Johnson City: The Overmountain Press, 1929, page 97
  4. Ibid. Pages 765-766
  5. Ibid. page 773

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Additional Information:
  • Providing supplies to Captain Campbell's Company of Light Horse Militia of Montgomery County, VA 08 May 1782
  • DAR has name as Catron


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