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Book Title: A History Of Jessamine County, Kentucky

Early Settlers on Jessamine Creek.

   The early settlers on Jessamine creek were mostly German Protestants who came
in large part from Pennsylvania and Maryland, with a few from Virginia. The
following letter written by Dr. Peter Trisler to Rev. David Zeisberger in 1794,
from Jessamine county, will prove valuable, historically:

                          Jessamine Creek, September 4, 1794
Dear David:    I am exceedingly sorry that you did not come along with your
father during his recent visit to this delightful country. The sun shines
brighter in this country, and the skies are more blue, than the damp, moist
atmosphere at the mouth of the Cuyahoga. A good school is needed among us, and I
invite you once more to leave that inhospitable country of savages and cold winds.
                              Faithfully yours,
                                       PETER TRISLER.

   From most reliable records Rev. Jacob Rhorer was the founder of the first
Moravian church on Jessamine creek, in 1794, and the building was used as a
Moravian church by the Rhorer family up to near the beginning of the Civil War.

   The following are the names of the early settlers who were of German
parentage and belonged to the.Moravian Church, or "United Brethren": Arnspigers,
Alcorns, Cormans, Bowmans, Bruners, Earthenhousers, Easleys, Funks, Fraziers,
Grows, Gilmans, Goforths, Hiffners, Howsers, Harbaughs, Horines, Ritters, Rices,
Masners, Zikes, Ketrons, Waggamans, Warmslys, Overstreets, Quests, Yosts,
Hoovers, Trislers, Turks, Turpins, Shreves, Veatches, Vantresses, Naves, Cogars,
Crows, Copleys, Cawbys, and Schmidts. Nearly all of these names were in the list
of German settlers in the western part of Jessamine county, who were largely the
followers of John Huss. They were men of great common sense, good judgment,
honesty, a high sense of morality, and great lovers of freedom, and their
descendants still reside in that part of Jessamine county which their ancestors
in the early history of the state settled.

   In 1884 John Cawby had a Bible which was printed at Wittenberg in 1440. This
Bible was brought from Germany to Maryland in 1780, by Peter Trisler, who, in
1794, settled in the present limits of Jessamine county, where he died April 22,
1821. This old Bible was the property of Mrs. Nancy Horine, who was a
grandaughter of Dr. Trisler.

   Dr. Peter Trisler was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1745. He came to
Hagerstown, Maryland, when a very young man, and settled on Jessamine creek in
1791. When he came from Germany he brought the old Bible above referred to, and
this book contained records of a large number of the families above named. From
this stock German settlers have gone throughout the West and South, and they
usually became men of thrift, energy, character and brains. Some now in Illinois
and many in Missouri have carried away with them the splendid qualities of these
early settlers, and in their new homes have shown the sterling qualities of
their ancestors, who did so much to create and promote the best interests of the
new state they helped to found in the then wilderness of Kentucky.

   Names of those who settled in other parts of Jessamine from 1782 to the close
of the century:

   Archibald Bristow; Manoah Singleton; Elder Michael Rice; Jacob Howser; David
Watson, Sr.; Jacob Sedowski, afterward removed to Bourbon county; James
McKinney; Jeremiah King; Col. Jos. Crockett; Abraham Howser; Jacob Rhorer; John
Welch; Jacob Bruner; James Overstreet; Chris. Mason; Wm. Moss; Jno. Thornton;
Patrick Watson; Fielding Pilcher; Shadrach Pilcher; Samuel Rice; Minor Young;
Rev. Jno. Hudson; Jeremiah Dickerson; Wm. Fletcher; Wm. Bowman; John Two Nine
Scott; Col. Byrd Prewitt; Jno. Johnson; Jno. Lowry; Thos. Caldwell; Col. Geo.
Walker; John Lewis; James Duncan; Chas. Duncan; Jonas Davenport; James McCabe;
Jacob Rice; Rev. Nathaniel Harris; Col. Wm. Price; Col. Jno. Price; Major
Netherland; Benj. Blackford; Benj. Adams; Jno. Todd; Robt. Campbell; Abraham
Cassell; Francis Lowers; Thos. Shanklin; Robt. Shanklin: Daniel Mitchell; Thomas
Rowland; Thomas Overstreet.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF
BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be
measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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