John served as a private in Lt. Col. Thomas Posey\u2019s Battalion of the 3rd regiment. \u00a0He was on muster roll in 18 April 1782 for 41 days \/ 6 months.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In September 1784 a certificate states that a sum of 16 pounds 19 shillings was given to him as payment for his services.\u00a0 \u00a0He also provided beef to the cause.<\/p>\n I am a descendent of:<\/p>\n John Axline<\/p>\n Charlotte & Philip Everhart\u2014brother of Lawrence (Patriot)<\/p>\n Deliah & John Copeland\u2014grandfather John C Copeland (Patriot)<\/p>\n Sara & George Washington McGaha\u2014grandfather William Bagant<\/p>\n Rosa & Thomas Riley<\/p>\n Lula Virginia &William Joseph Coffman<\/p>\n Catherine Coffman & Charles Cooper (my parents)<\/p>\n (For more background on John Axline, see our History Mystery<\/a>.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Adam Housholder\u00a0 (presented by Edward Spannaus,\u00a0 Sgt. Lawrence Everhart Chapter SAR):<\/strong><\/p>\n During the 1750s the family \u2013 the parents, Adam, and his siblings \u2013 moved to Berks County, Pennsylvania. About 1770, Adam married Catharine Bechtel. Adam, age 27, was listed on the 1773 tax list of Cumru Township in Berks County. He was listed as a farmer holding 100 acres of land, 50 of which he cultivated; ten acres of those were cornfields.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In 1777, Adam sold his land in Berks County, and soon after that, he moved his wife and family to Washington County, Maryland, where he took the Oath of Fidelity and Support to the Government of Maryland.ii<\/sup><\/a> He was enlisted in the Washington County Militia, Captain Peter Swingle’s Company (Number 3, Second Battalion), 2d Class.iii<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In 1780, Adam and Catherine were listed as baptismal sponsors at the Zion (German) Reformed Church in Hagerstown, Maryland. Shortly after that, Adam and Catharine and their children moved across the Potomac River to Loudoun County, Virginia, to the area then known as \u201cThe German Settlement\u201d but now known as Lovettsville.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Adam was on the Virginia Taxpayer List, 1782-1787.iv<\/sup><\/a> He leased land from George William Fairfax by a Deed of Assignment dated 3 Jan 1781. In 1798, Adam\u2019s son Daniel bought this leased land, which remained in the Householder family into the 1900s.v<\/sup><\/a> The house, enlarged a couple of times, still stands on its original site today.vi<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Adam purchased additional land in 1789, on which he grew wheat and raised hogs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Adam was a member of the German Lutheran Church at the Short Hill, later known as New Jerusalem Lutheran Church in Lovettsville, established around 1765 on land donated by George William Fairfax. In 1797, Adam was one of five Trustees for the Church when George William Fairfax\u2019s nephew Ferdinando Fairfax deeded the land to the church.vii<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A few years before this, in 1794, Adam\u2019s wife Catharine died. The translated church burial record reads: \u201cAdam Haushalter\u2019s wife Catharine, buried Sept. 10, 1794, aged 44 years, 6 months less 7 days.\u201dviii<\/sup><\/a> Catharine was buried at New Jerusalem. Her headstone inscription reads: <\/span><\/span>\u201cIn memory of Catharine Housholter, the wife of Adam Housholter of Loudoun County, who died Sept. 10<\/i><\/span><\/span>th<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/sup>, 1794, aged 44 years.\u201dix<\/sup><\/a><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/a> In 1796, Adam married his second wife, Susannah Rickard, widow of Simon Rickard, who was most likely Johann Simon R\u00fcckert, a Hessian soldier who deserted and settled in Lovettsville.x<\/sup><\/a> Susannah had three children from her first marriage. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Adam died eight years later, in 1804, and was buried next to his first wife Catharine. The entry in the Parish Register reads (as translated): \u201cAdam Hauschalter, 55 years.\u201dxi<\/sup><\/a> The inscription on his headstone reads:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In memory of Adam Housholter, who departed this life September 27<\/i><\/span><\/span>th<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/sup>, 1804, aged 55 years. Farewell, my spouse and children dear; As you must yet remain. The Lord of Host be your defense, Till we meet again.\u201dxii<\/sup><\/a><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Adam left three children by his first wife: Adam (b. 1772), Daniel (b. 1774), and Eve (Axline) (b. 1776). Adam also had three children with his second wife Susannah: Susannah (Kalb) (b. 1799), Gideon (b. 1800), and Solomon (b. 1804). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n i<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Unless otherwise noted, this biographical material comes from descendant Jane Farrell Burgess, The Householder Genealogy: Householder\/Housholder\/Haushalter, Vol. II<\/i> (Rockville, Md., 1989) (copy at Lovettsville Museum).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n ii<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Ms. Burgess\u2019s source for this is: Gains Brombaugh and Margaret Hodges, Revolutionary Records of Maryland, Part I<\/i> (Washington DC, 1924), pp. 14, 20. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n iii<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> S. Eugene Clements and F. Edward Wright, The Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War<\/i> (Heritage Books, 2006), pp. 248-249. (copies of relevant pages are attached)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n iv<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Ms. Burgess\u2019s source is: Ronald Vern Jackson, Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S. taken in 1790 \u2013 Enumeration 1782-1785 \u2013 Virginia <\/i>(Bountiful, Utah, Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., 1908).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n v<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Deed of sale from Ferdinando Fairfax to Daniel Householder, 20 Jul 1798, Deed Book Z, p. 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n vi<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> I have had a tour of this house, which is located on Householder Road near Lovettsville. See the photo at the end of this article: http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/the-german-american-zweiturhaus\/<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n vii<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, A People of God, 1765-1965<\/i> (Lovettsville, 1965), p. 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n viii<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Parish Register 1765-1836<\/i>, p. 231.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n ix<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Catherine and Adam are buried are buried at sites KK15 and KK15. See https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/42916559\/catharine-householter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n x<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Johann Simon R\u00fcckert was a prisoner-of-war in Frederick, MD, and deserted 15 Oct.1781. He married Susanna Meyer, and they had three children baptized at New Jerusalem. He died in 1793 and was buried at New Jerusalem as Simon Rickert. See list of \u201cUnconfirmed\u201d in the article \u201cHessian Soldiers in Lovettsville,\u201d http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/hessian-soldiers-in-lovettsville\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n xi<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Parish Register 1765-1836<\/i>, p. 237.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n xii<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/42916558\/adam-householter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Conrad Roller (written by David E. Cook, presented by David Huxsoll, both of\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Fairfax Resolves Chapter SAR):<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Roller family then moved to Loudoun County, Virginia. \u00a0John roller is listed as one tithable in the 1768 List of Tithables for Cameron Parish.\u00a0 He remains on the Tithe Lists until 1784.[vii]<\/a>\u00a0 However prior to that John Roller secures a lease from Sarah Fairfax that he mentions in his will.\u00a0 In the will he mentions a fish pot suggesting this was his likely his main source of income.\u00a0 John asks that the remainder of his estate (less movables) be sold to the highest bidder provide his executors secure license to do so from the agent for Sarah Fairfax.[viii]<\/a> \u00a0There are no references to farm implements, slaves or animals in the probate records.\u00a0 The lease is valued at 125 pounds.[ix]<\/a><\/p>\n Conrad Roller is first mentioned in the 1771 Tithe Lists for Shelburne Parish as a single tithable.\u00a0 The Shelburne Parish was formed from Cameron Parish in 1769.[x]<\/a> \u00a0Like his father, Conrad appears to have paid taxes through the Revolutionary War period and with further research may be proven to have performed a patriotic service by doing so.<\/p>\n Conrad Roller\u2019s military service consisted of two tours in the army.\u00a0 According to his wife\u2019s pension file, he served as a private for four to six months in Pennsylvania before they were married.[xi]<\/a> \u00a0(Conrad married Elizabeth Slates of Pine Run Hundred, Frederick County, Maryland in Loudon County on 21 March 1779.)[xii]<\/a> \u00a0On 19 March 1781, he and his brother, John, (identified as planters) were drafted for an 18-month period.\u00a0 They were inducted into the Virginia Continental Line at the Old Albemarle Court House on that date.[xiii]<\/a>\u00a0 In April 1782, both he and his brother were listed in the 1st<\/sup> Company [possibly under the command of Capt. William George][xiv]<\/a>, 3rd<\/sup> Virginia Regiment commanded by LTC Thomas Posey.\u00a0 According to LTC Posey\u2019s service record the Regiment had just returned to Camp Ebenezer from service in Georgia under the command of General Anthony Wayne.[xv]<\/a>\u00a0 Both Conrad and John appear not to have been mustered out until December 1783, a period considerably longer than his term of enlistment.\u201d[xvi]<\/a> This record confirms statements found in Elizabeth\u2019s pension record that he did not return for a long time after serving his 18 months, that he helped guard prisoners at Frederick Barracks in Maryland.[xvii]<\/a><\/p>\n Again, like his father, Conrad initially leased property from the Fairfax family.\u00a0 On 1 April 1785, he was able to secure a long-term lease from George William Fairfax for 105 acres on the Dutchman Creek which is just west of the present town of Lovettsville.\u00a0 The rent of 2 Pounds, 7 Shillings and 5 Pence was paid on 31 May.<\/p>\n As part of the contract, Conrad was required to build a 15 by 20 ft. dwelling house, a 20 by 20 ft. barn, \u201cafter the manner of Virginia building,\u201d and to plant an orchard of 100 winter apple trees and 50 peach trees [?].\u00a0 He must maintain the buildings, orchards, and fences and replace any trees that decay or die.\u00a0 He is to leave 15 acres of woods untouched.[xviii]<\/a><\/p>\n The 1789 tax list shows Conrad as the sole tithable and that he owned five horses.[xix]<\/a> In 1802, he is taxed along with son, John.\u00a0 They both are taxed for two horses apiece.[xx]<\/a><\/p>\n Later in life, Conrad purchased 54 acres from Ferdinando Fairfax for $328.\u00a0 This property acquired in July 1803 was described as a tract of wooded land on the southeast side of Short Hill. The property was described as Lot No. 17, part of Shannondale, in a Deed of Relinquishment of Dower Rights by Elizabeth B. Fairfax, wife of Ferdinando Fairfax.[xxi]<\/a> \u00a0In 1815, the property is listed as being on the east side of Short Hill, 13 miles northwest of the courthouse.[xxii]<\/a><\/p>\n Conrad Roller, passed away 08 October 1824, aged 72 years, 7 months, 1 week and 5 days.[xxiii]<\/a> Elizabeth passed away 25 February 1845, aged 83 years, 2 months and 11 days.[xxiv]<\/a><\/p>\n The couple had eleven children. Two died young.\u00a0 The surviving nine children were named in Conrad\u2019s will. The children are Elizabeth born 26 January 1784, Frederick, Maryland. All the rest were born in Loudoun County and include Conrad, Jr., b. 07 February 1786; Catherina, b. 29 December 1787; Frederick, b. 17 Feb 1790; Jonathan\/John, b. 08 July 1792; Christian, b. 18 September 1794 (died 05 November 1794); David, b. 30 August 1796; Daniel, b. 18 August 1798; Priscilla, b. 25 October 1800; Samuel, b. 07 November 1802 (died 01 January 1803); and Israel Roller, (mentioned in the will).[xxv]<\/a>,[xxvi]<\/a><\/p>\n [i]<\/a> \u201cRegister & Description of Noncommissioned Officers & Privates at Chesterfield Court House, Powhatan Court House, Carter\u2019s Ferry, Albemarle Old Court House, Cumberland Old Court House, Winchester Barracks. Enlisted at different times from 1777 to 1783,\u201d vol 1, p. 75.<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a> Loudoun County Will Book F, pp. 457-458, at: https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3QS7-89P6-RK1?i=597&cat=415823<\/a>.<\/p>\n [iii]<\/a> Ancestry.com, Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line], Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014<\/p>\n [iv]<\/a> Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1772-1890 [database on-line], Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.<\/p>\n [v]<\/a> Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013 [database on-line], Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.<\/p>\n [vi]<\/a> Maryland State Archives, mdsa_s1414_1.pdf at https:\/\/msa.maryland.gov\/megafile\/msa\/stagser\/s1400\/s1414\/000000\/000001\/pdf\/mdsa_s1414_1.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n [vii]<\/a> Hopkins, Margaret Lail, \u201cIndex to The Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia and to Slaveholders and Slaves, 1758-1786,\u201d Baltimore, 1991, p. 68.<\/p>\n [viii]<\/a> Loudoun County Will Book F, pp. 457-458, at: https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3QS7-89P6-RK1?i=597&cat=415823<\/a>.<\/p>\n [ix]<\/a> Loudoun County Will Book G, pp. 26, 97-99, at https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3QS7-99P6-RQCZ?i=59&cat=415823<\/a>.<\/p>\n [x]<\/a> Hopkins, Margaret Lail, \u201cIndex to The Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia and to Slaveholders and Slaves, 1758-1786,\u201d Baltimore, 1991, p. 68.<\/p>\n [xi]<\/a> NARA, \u201cRevolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files,\u201d Pub. M804, Group 15, Roll 2078.<\/p>\n [xii]<\/a> NARA, \u201cRevolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files,\u201d Pub. M804, Group 15, Roll 2078.<\/p>\n [xiii]<\/a> \u201cRegister & Description of Noncommissioned Officers & Privates at Chesterfield Court House, Powhatan Court House, Carter\u2019s Ferry, Albemarle Old Court House, Cumberland Old Court House, Winchester Barracks. Enlisted at different times from 1777 to 1783,\u201d vol 1, p. 75.<\/p>\n [xiv]<\/a> NARA, \u201cRevolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files,\u201d Pub. M804, Group 15, Roll 2078.<\/p>\n [xv]<\/a> NARA, \u201cCompiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army Durian the Revolutionary War,\u201d Group 93, Roll 0907, No. 221, 222.<\/p>\n [xvi]<\/a> \u201cRegister & Description of Noncommissioned Officers & Privates at Chesterfield Court House, Powhatan Court House, Carter\u2019s Ferry, Albemarle Old Court House, Cumberland Old Court House, Winchester Barracks. Enlisted at different times from 1777 to 1783,\u201d\u00a0 pp. 225, 343.<\/p>\n [xvii]<\/a> NARA, \u201cRevolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files,\u201d Pub. M804, Group 15, Roll 2078.<\/p>\n [xviii]<\/a> Loudoun County, VA, Deed Book P, 1 Apr 1785, p. 280.<\/p>\n [xix]<\/a> Loudoun County, VA, 1798 Personal Property Tax List B, at http:\/\/www.binnsgenealogy.com\/VirginiaTaxListCensuses\/Loudoun\/1789PersonalB\/18.jpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n [xx]<\/a> Loudoun County, VA, 1802 Personal Property Tax A, p. 16 at http:\/\/www.binnsgenealogy.com\/VirginiaTaxListCensuses\/Loudoun\/1802PersonalA\/16.jpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n [xxi]<\/a> Loudoun County, VA, Deed Book 2D, _Jul 1803, p. 56.<\/p>\n [xxii]<\/a> Ward, Roger G., \u201c1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer)\u201d, Athens, 1999, p.116.<\/p>\n [xxiii]<\/a> Find a Grave, Memorial 28050281, at https:\/\/images.findagrave.com\/photos\/2012\/41\/28050281_132898531163.jpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n [xxiv]<\/a> Find A Grave, Memorial 28050336, at https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/28050336\/elizabeth-roller<\/a>.<\/p>\n [xxv]<\/a> Loudoun County Will Book F, pp. 457-458, at: https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3QS7-89P6-RK1?i=597&cat=415823<\/a>.<\/p>\n [xxvi]<\/a> New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Records at: https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/library\/books\/records\/item\/291345-new-jerusalem-evangelical-lutheran-church-lovettsville-loudoun-county-virginia-parish-registers-1784-1836?viewer=1&offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"SAR](\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SAR-Axline.jpg\")
<\/a>John Axline married in 1771 in Loudoun County Christena Mertz the step-daughter of his brother Adam.\u00a0 With Christena, he had 10 children David, John, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Jacob, Daniel, Catherine, Philip Henry, another John after death of the 1st, and Ann Maria<\/p>\n<\/a>Adam Householder was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on 16 Sep 1746, and was baptized at the Warwick Lutheran Church, Brickerville, Pennsylvania, on 22 Sep 1746. He was the son of Johan Adam Householder and Maria Elizabetha Weidman. Johan had emigrated from Europe to Pennsylvania in 1739.i<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Conrad Roller was born 03 Mar 1752 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania[i]<\/a> to Johannes\/John Andreas David and Rosina Roller.[ii]<\/a>\u00a0 Conrad\u2019s father, John, was born 28 Nov 1730 in Katholisch, Geisingen, Villingen, Baden-Wurttemberg (now Germany).[iii]<\/a>\u00a0 His mother is presumed to have been born in what is now Germany too. His parents had initially resided in Philadelphia County in 1750,[iv]<\/a> moved to Bucks County, then Montgomery County where his sister, Anna, was baptized at the New Hanover Evangelical Lutheran Church, on 26 Aug 1753.[v]<\/a> \u00a0The family appears to have moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland as John Roller became a naturalized citizen in Frederick County, Maryland on 11 Sep 1765.[vi]<\/a><\/p>\n