Father: ?
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Family 1 :
Mary Jane KNEISSLY
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Appears to have been the first of the Beaver family to have settled in Massanutten. A Cunrod Beever appears in Edwin Young's 1785 list of families in the Shenandoah Valley as one white person. From A History of Shenandoah County Virginia, by John W. Wayland (Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg, VA: 1927), pp. 220 - 221: |
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Edwin Young evidently lived on the east side of the Massanutten Mountain, within the limits of the present Page County. His territory was a considerable area centering, apparently, around the site of Luray. Most of the names in Young's list are still familiar in this region.
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A Christian Beever family with 3 white persons and a Jno. Beaver family with 3 white persons and 1 black person, also show up on this list and are assumed to be Conrad's sons.
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From the History and Genealogy of the Bieber, Beaver, Biever, Beeber Family, by the Reverend Irvin M. Beaver (Reading, Pennsylvania; 1939), page 515: |
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Conrad Bieber, b. 1738, d. before 1783, in Virginia; m. about 1755 to Mary Kneisley. Moved to Virginia before 1757. Mary Kneisley was the daughter of Hans Kneisley, son of Jacob Kneisley (Nissly), who pioneered into Lancaster Co., Pa., about 1729. Hans Kneisley's will, of Cocalico twp., Lancaster Co., Pa., probated 1757 at Lancaster, Pa., names Mary, wife of Conrad Beaver, of Virginia. Conrad Beaver owned 410 acres of land on Pass Run in Page Co., Va., about 3 miles north of Luray Va., and died there and may be bur. on his plantation. Conrad Beaver was evidently a cousin of the Immigrant Valentine Bieber. Valentine came to America in 1768.
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Charles W. Beaver [a great great-great-grandson of Johannes Bieber], who has spent most of his business life with the Yale & Town Mfg. Co., in the U. S. and abroad, says: My father, Samuel, who died in Florida in 1928, used to talk to me occasionally about the Beaver family history. When I saw him last, shortly before he died, he placed in my hands several interesting heirlooms which he said had been made and used by his great-grandfather, Conrad Beaver, in Virginia a hundred and fifty years ago. They are hand tools and consist of a wrought iron screw driver, a wrought iron hand-forged rasp, a bullet mould and a small plane which the early pioneers used in shaping gun stocks, and hand-wrought pincers.
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The Virginia Census Records for 1785, Shenandoah Co.: Abraham Beever, 2 persons. Christian Beever, 3 persons. Conrad Beever, 1 person. Michael Beaver, 3 persons. John Beever, 3 persons. David Beaver was too young for this census, as he was born in 1769.
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Beaver Family historian, Janice Patterson, has pointed out that though a connection between Johannes Bieber and Conrad is commonly listed in Beaver Family genealogies, it is in error. There appears to have been two Conrad Beavers and I. M. Beaver's connection of Johannes to Conrad is confused and misleading (see Janice Patterson's essay Johannes Bieber for details of I. M. Beaver's errors). The Conrad that was Johannes' son was born about 1738, in the Oley Hills of Pennsylvania. The birthdate as well as the patrimony of the Conrad Beaver listed here who married Mary Jane Kneissly (and from whom Henry Beaver is believed to have descended) is not known at this time.
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From Order Book 1772-1774 Shenandoah County, Virginia, compiled by Amelia C. Gilreath, (1986), p. 8: |
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JACOB RIFE ... Deft This Day came the Plantiff by his attorney ... Defendant being arrested and ruled to find Special bail but failing therein ... Judgment shall be given against Deft. and COONROD BEVER his security for the Bill ...
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Page 39 [25 June 1772] ISAAC HITE, Gent. ... Plt |
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JACOB RIFE ... Deft This Day came the Parties by their attorneys ... COONROD BEVER undertook for the Defendant ... Deft. saith that he hath paid this debt in the Declaration mentioned ... Therefore the Trial of the Issue is refered till the next Court ...
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{Release] Between John Beaver Eldest son & Heir at Law of Cunrad Beaver deceased of County Shanandoah & Barbara his wife [to] Michael Beaver of same County ... consideration of Fifty Pounds ... 210 acres (same as above) ... |
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Recorded: 28 Aug. 1783
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A 180 acre portion of this property was then transferred by John to his brother Abraham.
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This page created on 07/16/01 11:02. Updated 05/18/05 21:51.
