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Note: Notes for Leonhart Kegel Enkenbach-Alsenborn Municipality in Germany Enkenbach-Alsenborn is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the northern edge of the Palatinate forest, approx. 10 km north-east of Kaiserslautern. Wikipedia Born: Abt 1684 Obermehling Now Mehlengen West Germany Arrived: 25 Sep 1732 Philadelphia on ship "Loyal Judith" Census: 1737 settled in Berks County, PA at least til 1752 He lived in Pennsylvania at least 22 years Death: Bet 1754 & 1757 in Brecknock, Berks, PA ; Or North Carolina. Leonhart was listed as a member of a Reformed Protestant Church; It is believed that most of the ship's passengers were Luthern and Mennonite. Kegel surname notes following: The Kegel surname history is of the ancient Pomerania family tracing its ancestry as a family of Teutonic orgin before the year 1100 and appears first in the ancient records records in Pomerania. The original Cagle surname ia an ancient Mayo family tracing its ancestry of Irish orgin before the year 1100 and appears first in the ancient records in Mayo. Source from Larry Chesbrough. Mehlingen is near Kaiserslautern, Black Forest and Sembach. At one time know as Overmehlingen and Neidermehlingen, West Germany. Death place: Berk Co., PA or Moore County, NC NOTE: Mr. John G. Cagle, "The Editor of Cagle Journal", The Grerman Immigrant (Leonhard) left the Dutch port of Rotterdam, September 1732 on the British ship "Loyal Judith" by Rhine River to Holland which was a very length journey. He was recorded September 25, 1732 ports of PA Philadelphia age 48. Source: Cagle Journal January 1991 page 1-4. The Kegel family left came to America to escape the the religious, economic, and political pressure which plagued Europe in that area. Leonhart lived a number of years in old Philadelphia County. He moved westward to Old Lancaster County. In 1737-1750 (in the part that become Berks County, 1n 1752) and acquired some 200a land from that state. The last recorded records 11 October 1754. He did not appear on the annual Tax list Berks County, PA. He probably died, and is buried here in PA. He would have been some 70 years old. His family moved from PA to North Carolina traveling south with the Morevians (Religious Denomination) arriving in the fall of 1754 apparently about the time of Leonhart death. Records began to show up by 1755 in North Carolina. Traditionally a family stayed together until their parents died and moved on. His family went to Old Rowan County, NC present Guilford County, by 1764 moved to Cumberland County, NC, by 1784, now Moore County, NC. So, speculating old Leonhart Kegel our immigrant ancestor may have died in Philidelphia. Some authors have said he died along the Deep Rivers in NC. His death has not been proved. This author has put his death place Brecknnot Twp. Berks County, PA. Source for some of the above information can be found: The Cagle Journal of Historical Inquiry January 1991 p. 1 Earl Cagle wrote his comments: In looking at what is available the ship "Loyal Judith" made several tripsback and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. I have been unable to find anydetailed data on the ship. However, it must have been fairly good sized andwell built. Our ancestor Leonard Kegel, arrived in Philadelphia on the 25Sept 1732. Some sources list 115 passengers and a few say 115 passengersplus families. As most of you know only the men or head of household'snames were shown on these early passenger lists. It has been estimated thatthese trips from Germany took 90-120 days. This depends on what port theyleft from and weather encountered along the way.This sailing of the "Loyal Judith" left from Rotterdam, Holland to Cowes,England and then on to the Colonies arriving in Philadelphia ; PA. He first appears on a land warrant in Philadelphia, County as listed below :Name Acres DateKegel, Leonard, 200 Oct. 11, 1737.So this places him still in Philadelphia, only five years after hisarrival. On the ship's passenger list he was listed as 48 years old. Wehave no proof that his wife and children were with him on this voyage.However, for my part I think they were. We know that from records found atthe German Reformed Church in Sembach, Germany that he had at least twochildren before coming to America. Maria Margareta Kegel, had herconfirmation in 1729 at 14 years of age. She is thought to be the daughterof Leonhart & Maria Elisabetha Kegel, born about 1715.Then there was the baptismal record for John Theobald Kegel born 29 April1728, and baptised on 2 May 1728. His parents were shown to be Leonhart &Susanna Kegel, and Godparents listed as Theobald Fuchs and his wifeChristina of Alsenborn, Germany. Also listed as a Godparent was AndreasBusch, of Trippstadt, Germany.It is my understanding that the German name "Theobald" translates to"David". So his given name was John David Kegel, or John David Cagle.However, when he starts appearing on records later in the Colonies he isshown as "David Cagle". This I feel is one and the same person and it washis personal preference to go by David.So in 1732 David was about 4 years old, and his sister Maria was about 17years old. Keep in mind that these are children that can be verified byearly records. Leonard & Elisabetha, could have had other children thanMaria Kegel born about 1715. Leonard Kegel was born about 1684, and wouldhave been about 31 years old when Maria, was born. So in effect it isanybodys guess as to how many children were born in Germany, and came toAmerica with their parents.Earl Cagle 7/11/2004 earl1947a@earthlink.net 300th ANNIVERSARY OF THE Birth of Leonhart KEGEL, German immigrant to America. The year of 1984 marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Leonhart Kegel (Leonard Cagle), the German immigrant who arrived at the ports of Philadelphia in 1732. According to the ships passenger list, Leonhart was 48 years old at the time of his arrival; thus, it would appear that he was born during the year 1684 (or in the later part of 1683). He is believed to be the ancestor of thousands of Cagle families in the United States. According to oral traditions preserved in many Cagle families around the nation. Leonhart Kegel left his home in the Rhenish Palatinate (in the SW part of what is now West Germany) in the early part of the 18th Century, and sailed down the Rhine River to Holland. There he joined thousands of other Germans, displaced by war and economic hardship who were awaiting passage to the American Colonies. His staying in Holland is said to have been very lengthy, but eventually he found passage to America in the summer of 1732 on the ship "Loyal Judith". This ship British-owned and stopped first at the ports of Cowes, England, and then sailed for America, arriving at the ports of Philadelphia on September 25, 1732. The passenger list show that 119 Palatine men, plus their wives and children, arrived on the vessel. The Rhenish Palatinate was largely Protestant in Religion, and it is believed that most of the ship's passengers were Lutherans and Mennonites. Source: Cagle Journal Introductory Issue just before January 1985. Leonhart [1] KEGEL, upon arriving in Pennsylvania, settled in old Philadelphia County, (probably in that northern portion which in 1784 was to become Montgomery County, when Philadelphia County was divided), and acquired his first farm there in 1737. In the 1730s most of the colony of Pittsylvania was still under the control of the Indians, and European Settlers occupied only a small area in Philadelphia in SE corner of the colony. By 1750, however, the frontier was gradually expanding westward, and Leonhart Kegel moved to a new farm in Lancaster County (in that portion which in 1752 was to become Berks County when Lancaster was divided). His land lay in Brecknock Township, in a hilly region on the headwaters of the Conestoga River, overlooking the Mennonite and Amish settlement on the Lancaster plains. The earliest settlers of Brecknock Township, where of Welch origin; however, they were few in number, and by the year 1750 the township was settled primarily by Germans. The Township lies in the heart of "Pennsylvania Dutch Country" of southwest PA, and the striking stone houses, bank barns, and carefully ordered fields, which haracterized the culture of the area, are very much in evidence. The rich limestone soil of Lancaster County, in some areas, has been supported cultivation since 1709. However, the less fertile sandstone soil of the Furnace Ridge area, where Leonhart Kegels land was located, was settled somewhat later in time with early land warrants dating from 1730s and never supported as large a population as did Lancaster Plain. By the year 1750, when Leonhart acquired his land. The better land in Lancaster and Berks Counties were already taken, leaving only land of lesser fertility to be homesteaded by new comers. According to records found by the Editor of Cagles Journal in Pennsylvania State Archives at Harrisburg, PA, in 1750 Leonhart Kegel applied for a Land Warrant for his 146 0.5 acres #15. of land in Lancaster County (Warrant number A-28-211); his name was spelled "Keagel" on his Land Warrant. The land was duly "assigned and allowed" to him on November 9, 1750. This is a tract of un-settled land, owned by Commonwealth of PA, under the control of the Penn family (The descendant of William Penn), Leonhart Kegel did not follow through on his Warrant and gain permanent title to this tract of land, because in 1754 his family left PA and moved southward into North Carolina, eventually, in 1791, the land which Leonhart thus vacated in PA was re-surveyed and divided into three tracts, and claimed by new owners, 1805, 1812, and 1867. In 1750, at the time Leonhart's Land Warrant, old Ancaster County, PA covered a much larger area than it does today. Leonhart name did not appear on annual Tax list for Berks County, this would indicate the family of Leonhart Cagle did not remain long in their Mountain Cove in Berks County, PA, for by 1754 (he was 70 yrs old) not later than winter, they removed to the upper Deep River in the Piedmont of (what is now Guilford Co.), North Carolina, where they settled permanently. Oral tradition states that they joined a Wagon Train of Moravian Breathers, the German-Speaking religious sect a group which founded Bethlehem and Lititz, PA, and Bethania, Bethabara and old Salem NC. They made their way through Maryland, Shinandoah Valley of Virginia, and on to North Carolina, the Kegel family (with their name now anglicized to "Cagle").The first permanent Moravian Settlers on the Wachau tract were twelve single brethren, who arrived in NC, from Bethlehem, PA, in the fall of 1753. Beginning in 1753, The Moravians began their annual wagon trips. The Moravian were strictly a religious group that embraced persons of various racial origin, though the official language of the Moravians was German. The Moravian diary and records of 1750s make reference to many non-Morivian German families who migrated to North Carolina in the company of the annual Moravian Wagon Train. Although the Cagles are not mentioned specifically by name in these records, there is reason to believe that their arrival in NC occurred in fall of 1754. one reason for this belief is the fact that Jacob Cagle, (grand-son) 1755-1845 by his own statement, indicated that he was born in North Carolina in April of 1755, thus showing that the Cagles were in NC not later than spring of that year. This fact, captured with the knowledge that the Morivians made their annual trip to NC in the fall of each year, this would suggest that the Cagles arrived in the fall of 1754. The Cagles lived for a brief period of time on the upper Deep River; the precise location of their home has yet to be determined, but it is believed to have been a few miles to the East of the Moravian settlement (which lay in what is now Forsyth Co.), perhaps near the modern town of Greensboro (in present Guilford Co.), At that early date, however, the entire region was still part of old Rowan County, an immense county which covered NW quarter of the state. Thus, the earliest Cagle records in NC are found in old Rowan County. It was in old Rowan County, on the eadwaters of Deep River, that Jacob Cagle, 1755-1845--perhaps the first Cagle child South was born in April of 1755. (Jacob himself provided his birthdate and birthplace, in the autobiographical statement in his Rev. War pension Application of 1834, filed from Warren County, Tennessee.) By 1764, however, the Cagles had moved again, this time further down stream on the Deep River, into Cumberland County, NC, where they located in the extreme NW corner of the county (in that portion which in 1784 was to become Moore County, when Cumberland was divided). In fact, Moore County, NC, might be considered the ancestral home of all the Cagles in the South, since it was from there, beginning in the 1790s, that their various branches spread into Georgia and Tennessee, and later across the entire South, into the midwest, and all the way to the West Coast by the year of 1850. As yet, it has not been determined precisely when and where the death of Leonhart Kegel, the German immigrant of 1732, occurred. It is possible that the aged pioneer, who would be some 70 years old when his family moved from PA, to North Carolina is buried somewhere on or near the Deep River Moore County in North Carolina.It is believed, though without complete documentary proof at present, that the younger Cagles who purchased land in the Cumberland (present Moore) County, NC in the 1760s were among the sons of Leonhart Kegel. These men, who were probably born in the 1720s and 1730s, included David Cagle (Died 1780s), John "Dutchman" Cagle (died 1799), and Henry Cagle, Sr. (died 1802). It is thought John "Dutchman" Cagle lived in Oley Township Berks County, PA, when Leonhart Kegel/Cagle occupied Alsace Township near by, in Berks County, PA, and was the son of Leonhart Cagle, and John moved to NC in 1750s and died in 1799 in the NW corner of Moore County, NC. It thought the old immigrant Leonhart/Leonard Cagle; died after 1755, has not been determined his place of death, PA or NC. I think he died in PA (My opinion LJWP) Source: John Cagle Journal Little Rock, AR, starting with introductory issue 1985, and spreading over a 12 part series from January 1995, up to December 1995. By: LaMona Joyce "Waldron" Phillips Great-great-granddaughter of Henry Marion Cagle & Jane E. Lloyd. Mr. John G. Cagle of Little Rock, AR has article about 300th Anniversary of the Birth of Leonhart Kegel, Germany Immigrant to America. Introductory Issue 1985 By: LaMona Joyce "Waldron" Phillips Great-great-granddaughter of Henry Marion Cagle & Jane E. Lloyd. List, 4/30/2003 Roll CallIt appears to me that Leonard Cagle probably had the following sons:DavidLeonard& The three listed below--John "Dutchman"Henry, Sr.Charles, Sr. Children of Leonhart Kegell and Susanna?? by Nancy Jane Balmer/ 7/11/20031. Karl Wilhelm Kagel\Cagle (some say) I have found no proof2. Johannes "John Dutchman" Kagel\Cagle 3. Johan Theobald (David) Cagle 4. George 5. Henrich6. Leonhart "Leonard" Jr. 7. Jacob 8. Charles Hi LaMonaKarl Wilham Kegell came from a lady in Neveda who is off of this line she was suposed to get back to me but never did . Can we buy a book for the 75 years of the The spectator Excerpts from 75 years ago ?? I would love to get it if there is one??Love Ya Nancy Jane 7/12/2003
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