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Note: e port at Rotterdam and arrived in Philadelphia on 10 Dec 1772, he was alone with a note from his mother Rachel Warner to be indetured as an apperentice to Jonathan Meredith of the Philadephia Tanner & Currier. His indenture was to be a term of 10 years and 3 months, with the 3 months being schooled in the knowledge of the tanning and curing of leather. William's children all stated to the U.S. census takers that William was born in Pennsylvania, but one son, Rinard, told the census taker on his last census that his parents were both actually born Germany. Rinard also told this to his daughter Elizabeth Roseanna Warner, who was the first to write down the Warner family history. The reason it was not written down earlier was because most of the Warner's did not know how to read & write. Why the children of William told the census takers he was born in Pennsylvania is not known. Next came Dorothea Volmer who traveled on the sailing ship "Mary" which last left the port at Hamburg with her father Phillip Jacob Volmer arriving at Philadelphia in 1777. In the U.S. census of 1790, William is listed as William Skinner. William and Dorothea married on 7 September 1794 in Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, this church being a German Lutheran church. William and Dorothea then moved to Schoolkill, Pennsylvania (this town no longer exists)in Charlestown Township of Chester County. While there they were counted in the 1800 and 1810 U.S. censuses. In 1800 listed as Wm. Warner and in 1810 under his full first name. To this union of William & Dorothea were born 10 children: Margaret, Samuel, William, Thomas, Joseph, John, Jacob, Rinard and two other daughters whose names are yet to be determined. William died between 1811-1820. Dorothea, who was usually called Dorothy, moved to Buffalo Township of Perry County near the town of Liverpool between 1811 and 1820 (Whether or not William moved the family before he died or she moved after is unknown). In 1819 we find a record of her daughter Margaret marrying to Mr. Phillip Rapp in Juniata County. In 1820 the Warner family is counted on the U.S. census under Dorathy Warner in Perry County, Pennsylvania. This record shows three of her children, Margaret, Samuel, and one of the other daughters having left the household. A year later in a Pennsylvania state census, called the septennial census, the family is found in Fermanagh Township of Juniata County. Samuel, the son of William is listed as a cordwainer (another term for cobbler or shoemaker) and Dorothy is listed as -Warner; a widow, working as a spinster. In 1830, there appears no census records of them except for Joseph, who is in Greenwood Township who has his mother living with him. Where the other's are in 1830 is uncertain at present. Most of the children then appear in the 1840 census of Juniata County, except for Rinard, who may be the Rinard listed in York County and their sister who remained in Liverpool in Perry County.
Note: William Skinner Warner immigrated to the United States as a young boy at the early age of 8, being born in the latter part of the year of 1764. He came on the sailing ship "_______" which last left th
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