It’s Family Time~Peter Keppel, Sr. and Anna Elizabeth Grobb

Peter Keppel and his wife Anna Elizabeth Grobb are my 5th Great Grandparents. Ironically, three Land Deeds laid this family directly into my research path with very little research. What was bitter sweet is the the three land deeds are sequential within the land deed book and again required very little effort.

Let’s see what these land deeds tells us.

“Know all men by these presents that I george Erenhart in Right of my wife Margaret & I John grube in the wright of my wife Elisabeth & I Martin dry in wright of My Wife Catherine & I peter Koppel & John Coppell strikethru & Henry Copple all of us Lawfull Heirs & Legatees of Peter Koppler deceased...”

The beginning of these three deeds reads almost verbatim and says that

• George Earnhart & his wife  Margaret Keppel
• John Grube and his wife Elizabeth Keppel
• Martin Dry and his wife Catherine Keppel
• Peter Koppel
• John Coppell 
• Henry Copple
• Killian Coppel

are all lawful heirs of Peter Koppler, deceased. So the entire family of 3 daughters and 3 sons have been named within each of these three land deeds.

Peter Keppel and Anna Elizabeth Grobb were married on 6 January 1756 in Goshenhoppen, Pennsylvania. Their marriage entry reads:

Item 32
Peter Kepple, single, Lutheran, born 1730 May, son of Paul Keppel. Came to America in 1750. Married Anna Elisabeth, single, Lutheran, 20 years of age, da(ughter) of Johan Grob, from Whitehall township. Banns published (1) on Dec. 28, 1755 in Old Goshenhoppen, (2) on Jan 1; (3) on Jan. 4 in Old Gosh. Married January 6." [Page 58 of a Marriage Book][My thanks to apertile for providing this info and allowing my use of it.]

Peter Keppel and Anna Elizabeth Grobb had the following known children:

• Margaret Keppel md George Earnhart
• Elizabeth Keppel md John Grube
• Catherine Keppel md Martin Dry {My 4th Great Grandparents]
• Peter Keppel, Jr.
• John Keppel  md Sarah Crowell
• Henry Keppel
• Killian Keppel  

At some point after 1810, John Keppel and his wife Sarah  moved to Bedford County, Tennessee. George Earnhart and his wife Margaret Keppel are also there with John Killian and Sarah in an 1812 Tax Record. By 1824, Peter Keppel, Jr. has joined his brother, John Killian and sister, Margaret Earnhart in Bedford County. 

My 3th Great Grandparents Martin Dry and Catherine Keppel chose to remain in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

Peter Keppel died before 20 October 1806. No exact death date, obituary, death notice or tombstone has been found for either Peter or his wife Anna Elizabeth Keppel. The 1806 Minutes of the Cabarrus Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions contain comments about Letters of Administration and Inventory & Sales of the estate of Peter Kepley, Sr.

Peter Keppel and his wife Anna Elizabeth Grobb are my 5th Great Grandparents. 

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1. "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s," database, ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Arrived on the Phoenix in 1749. 3 February 2020), Joh. Peter Koppel; citing Arrival year: 1749; Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America.
     2. Salford, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA, "Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801, 1780, Peter Keppel; , Pennsylvania Archives, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.
     3. 1786 Pennsylvania, U.S., Septennial Census, 1779-1863, Pennsylvania, population, Upper Salford, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA, Line 88, Peter Kepple, Peter Kepple; FHL microfilm .
     4. 1790 U S Census, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, population schedule, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Page: 366; Image:, Household of Peter Caple; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : viewed 6 February 2020); citing  National Archives Microfilm M637, Roll 7.
     5. Peter Caple, 20 December 1791, , ; North Carolina State Archives of North Carolina Land Grants, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.
     6. Betty J. Camin, Cabarrus County, NC Court Minutes: Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, 1793-1797 (Raleigh, Wake Co., NC: Self-Published, 1998), page 4.
     7. 1800 U S Census, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, population schedule, Salisbury, Cabarrus, North Carolina, Page: 713; Image: 277, Peter Kepley; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 February 2020); citing  National Archives Microfilm M32, Roll 29.
     8. Margaret B. Bost, Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions: July 15, 1805-April 23 1817 (Cabarrus Genealogical Society: Self-Published, ©1995.), pages 19 & 24.
     9. Land Deed - Division of the Estate of Peter Kapple Sr.; 8 August 1807; Deed Book #6; Page(s) 166; Register of Deeds; Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina; 12 December 2020.
     10. Land Deed - Division of the Estate of Peter Kapple Sr.; 8 August 1807; Deed Book # 6; page(s)167.
     11. Land Deed - Division of the Estate of Peter Kapple Sr.; 8 August 1807; Deed Book # 6; page(s)158.
     12. "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940," database, FamilySearch (http://www.FamilySearch.org : viewed 3 February 2021), Johann Peter Köppel /Kepley, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V26D-GZC; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V26D-GZC.
     13. Land Deed - Division of the Estate of Peter Kapple Sr.; 8 August 1807; Deed Book # 6; page(s)168.