(Son of Johan Deter-Detrich Elrod)
1 Jeremiah I Elrod b: 1709-1711 At Sea or England or Delaware or Penn. d: 11 May 1767 .. +Sarah Elizabeth m: Bef. 21 Aug 1737 Lancaster Co PA d: 27 Mar 1743 Monocacy, MD ..... 2 Elizabeth Elrod b: 16 Apr 1741 *2nd Wife of Jeremiah I Elrod: .. +Mary 'Catherine Douthitt m: Abt. 1752 ..... 2 Adam Elrod b: Jul 1753 NC ......... +Anna Catherine Milligan m: 21 Feb 1783 Surry Co NC ..... 2 Jeremiah II Elrod b: 16 Aug 1755 NC d: 1841 TN ......... +Mary 'Polly b: 1760-1770 m: KY ..... *2nd Wife of Jeremiah II Elrod: ......... +Anna Catherine Barbara Volger b: 12 Aug 1761 Broadbay, now Waldoboro Maine-Knox Co m: 01 Jan 1781 Surry Co NC d: 23 Aug 1842 NC
Jeremiah's Descendants still live in Tennessee In records his name was Jeremias. Jeremiah Elrod - The first Jeremiah Elrod that PDE could find was born in the early 1700's before 1720. He is probably the child of John Teter Elrod and his 1st wife Marie Mageline Lerchenzeiler. He, or William, is possibly the son who accompanied the parents on the ship as it came across the Atlantic. He married Sarah _____________. They had a child Elizabeth b. 16 Apr 1741. Elizabeth was baptized on 2 Jun 1741 with Diederick Ellradt (John Teter Elrod) and wife as sponsers. Elizabeth was baptized by Pastor John Casper Stoever. Jeremiah's wife died, and was buried 27 May 1743 in Maryland. This information is recorded in the "Maryland Records of Colonial Revolutional County Churches." by G.M. Brumbaugh, Vol 1. p. 258. It is assumed that this is the Jeremiah Elrod who later married Catherine (Douthett?) Jeremiah Elrod died 11 May 1769. At this time he had two boys under 14 years old, Adam, b Jul 1753, and Jeremiah b 16 Aug or Sep 1755. After Jeremiah died, George McKnight on the 1st of Aug 1769 was appointed guardian of his children. The widow got 1/3 of the estate. Adam Elrod was bound over to George McKnight. Jeremiah was bound out to his uncle Robert Elrod RIN #18 to learn the Art of Weaving until he was age 21. Uncle Robert Elrod later went to KY. Jeremiah at he time of his assignment to Robert was 11 years and 5 months old. Adam was at this time 16 years and seven months old. This was when the Estate was finally settled. They each got 1/3 of the estate, a horse and a bridle, PDE believed this man to be the father of Elizabeth. If so, she was either dead, or was 26 years old, since she was left out of his will. What happened to her is unknown. Shortly after he assumed the responsibility for Jeremiahs child, Adam, George McKnight lost his wife. George then married Jeremiah's widow, Catherine. After Jeremiah Elrod died, 11 May 1769, we have difficulty tracing his son, Jeremiah. The reason is that there were two Jeremiah Elrods born in 1755. Jeremiah had a boy born 12 Aug/Sep 1755. The parents of the other Jeremiah born in 1755 are unknown. Since Jeremiah's boy was assigned to his uncle Robert, who went to Kentucky, and since the Jeremiah who married and left Barbara Volger also went to Kentucky, they appear to be the same person. In Surry Co. Wills 1771-1821" vol II, p.91, we find the will of Barbara Harris dated 9 Sep 1789. The will refers to Jeremiah Elrod as Witness and it says they gave one cow each to Jeremiah Elrod and Michael Fogler. Barbara is also mentioned. I am assigning him as the child of Jeremiah and calling him Jeremiah Elrod Jr. This is the one who was married twice and had at least 17 children. The other Jeremiah born in 1755 married Mary Null in 1785. (ED. Jeremiah Jr had 3 children before this time) and the bondsman was Peter Elrod in Surry Co NC. This Peter Elrod was possibly being a bondsman for his brother. There were a Jeremiah Elrod and Peter Elrod who moved to the Pendleton District of S.C. PDE assumed this Jeremiah to be the one who married Mary Null, and assigned him label 1-B. He recognized that these two Jeremiahs might be incorrectly identified, but considered that the available evidence, though slim, supported his assumptions. To further complicate the assignments one must accept the facts that both Jeremiah Elrods are listed in the 1790 census of NC., both have the same number and gender of children and the wives of each are of nearly the same age. Their 1790 census entries read: one white male over 16, one white male under 16, and three white females, no slaves. One of these Elrods was in Salisbury District, Rowan County, NC, and the other one was from Salisbury District, Stokes County, NC. The following references are made to the Jeremiah Elrods. PDE was unable to determine if they refer to Jeremiah Jr or to Jeremiah 1-B. There are a good many entries in the "Moravian Records of NC" Page 1873, 11 May 1783, Jeremias Elroth, house father, signed rules and regulations of society. Page 1924 Jeremiah Elrod of Friedland was born 1755, Page 2219-2220, 1 May 1788, Bro. and Sister Aust set out for Pennsylvania, stopped at Friedland, from which they wil journey further with Jeremiah Elrod's wagon. Page 2222, 4 Jul 1788, Jeremiah Elrod has returned from Penn. and brought us some letters. Page 2378, 16 & 17 July 1789, Jeremiah Elrod helped some preachers find some mineral springs. Page 2900, 15 Sep 1807, Barbara Elrod and Philip Carl Schott have left our communion in order to marry. (Ed. This is Anna Catherine Barbara Volger who married Jeremiah Jr. They separated about 1800-1803.) There are other references to Jeremiah Elrod. In Rowan Co NC, Inferior Court 8 Aug 1778 there is a list of persons in Capt. Cox' District who had not taken the oath of Allegiance. Among them were Samuel Elrod, William Elrod and Jeremiah Ellrod. Now, in Capt. Eakles District is also found another Jeremiah Ellrod, so apparently both of the Jeremiah Elrods had Loyalist leanings. The people who came to America in the Palatine immigration had been treated in America much better than in their former home in Germany, so it is easy to see how they might have had Loyalist leanings. We therefore find Elrods on both sides in the Revolutionary War. In connection with the attitude of German immigrants at the time of the Revolution, the following excerpt from Thomas Fleming's "Liberty Tavern", chapter 7, page 107, makes interesting reading. "For the next seven days, New Jersey oscillated like a pendulum between two mighty magnets - Staten Island with its British Army and Fleet, and Philadelphia, where the Congress debated a declaration of independence. The countryside was rife with rumors of men making fortunes selling fresh vegetables and meat to the British on Staten Island. In Burlington, New Jersey's Provincial Congress was still wrestling with the text of our new constitution. On July 1, 1776 two of the delegates from Bergen County stayed overnight at the tavern. They told Jonathan Gifford that some thirty other legislators had decided to go home rather than participate in such revolutionary business. The Bergen gentlemen, both stolid Dutchmen who swore picturesquely in their mother tongue, said they did not feel authorized to declare New Jersey independent. Three out of every four men detested the idea, they vowed. The Dutch had been treated fairly and had prospered greatly under the King of England's rule for a hundred years now. It seemed to many of them gross ingratitude if they took the side of the New Enland men in this present quarrel. The whole trouble began and ended with those damned Puritans from Massachusetts and Connecticut, the Dutchmen swore. There were just enough of their brethren in New Jersey to poison the atmosphere. They wouldn't be happy until they made Sam Adams or John Hancock the lord protector of America. All this was declaimed in stentorian tones while the ex-legislators consumed several chickens, a side of beef, a slab of ham, a fleet of vegetable dishes, and several quarts of hard cider."
Charlotte
Curlee Ramsey
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