Martin Oberlin (later changed to Overly or Overley) came to America before 1755 (exact date unknown) landing in Philadelphia and settling in the mostly German settlement of Bethel in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Martin married Eva Marie Nagel on October 14, 1755 and they had six children. He became a British subject on September 24, 1764 after living in America at least the required seven years. (see below) He had land in Lancaster, Bedford and Westmoreland counties in Pennsylvania. In the 1790s Martin migrated to Fleming County, Kentucky and then to Bourbon County, Kentucky. In 1797 he moved north across the Ohio river and settled in Ross County, Ohio.
"Martin Overley and his sons, Boston, Frederick and Martin, came from Bourbon County,Kentucky,in 1797. They built a bark shanty in section 5, in which they kept bachelor's hall until fall, during which they cleared off a piece of land and planted it to corn. They subsisted principally on cornbread and sugar water, with an addition sometimes, by way of variety, of scalded nettles. For their meal and salt they were compelled to go to Kentucky. In the fall, after securing their crop, they returned for their families, moving out on pack-horses. There was no road, only an Indian trail through the dense forest. The wife of Frederick Overley carried on her horse, all the way from Kentucky, a spinning wheel and her babe, eight weeks old. They all moved into the bark shanty until their several log cabins could be built." p.458-a Standard History of Ross county, Ohio VI: 1917.
These children have not been located:
Jacob Overly 1760-1819
Caspar Overly b.1764 Allegheny Co., PA - d.1831 Guernsey Co., OH.
Becoming a Citizen of His Majesty's Colonies in America:
"Pennsylvania, S. S. Edward Shippen, Jr., Prothonotary of the Supream Court of the Province of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify, That at a Supream Court held at Philadelphia, for the said Province of Pennsylvania, the 24th Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-four,....Martin Oberlin of Bethel, in the County of Lancaster, being a foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been out of the same of the said Colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven Years. And the said Martin Oberlin having produced to the said Court, a Certificate, of his having taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within Three Months before the said Court, took and subscribed the Oaths, and did make and repeat the Declaration (appointed by an Act, made in the First year of the Reign of King GEORGE THE FIRST) according to the Directions of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and others, therein mentioned, as are settled in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America; and thereupon was admitted to be His Majesty's natural born Subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain, pursuant to the Direction and Intent of the said Act of Parliament. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supream Court, the 24th Day of September, in the year first above mentioned. Edward Shippen, Jr."
Some biographical information provided by Susanne Grunwald in Hessen/Germany & FAG member Nancy Clewell.
"Martin Overley and his sons, Boston, Frederick and Martin, came from Bourbon County,Kentucky,in 1797. They built a bark shanty in section 5, in which they kept bachelor's hall until fall, during which they cleared off a piece of land and planted it to corn. They subsisted principally on cornbread and sugar water, with an addition sometimes, by way of variety, of scalded nettles. For their meal and salt they were compelled to go to Kentucky. In the fall, after securing their crop, they returned for their families, moving out on pack-horses. There was no road, only an Indian trail through the dense forest. The wife of Frederick Overley carried on her horse, all the way from Kentucky, a spinning wheel and her babe, eight weeks old. They all moved into the bark shanty until their several log cabins could be built." p.458-a Standard History of Ross county, Ohio VI: 1917.
These children have not been located:
Jacob Overly 1760-1819
Caspar Overly b.1764 Allegheny Co., PA - d.1831 Guernsey Co., OH.
Becoming a Citizen of His Majesty's Colonies in America:
"Pennsylvania, S. S. Edward Shippen, Jr., Prothonotary of the Supream Court of the Province of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify, That at a Supream Court held at Philadelphia, for the said Province of Pennsylvania, the 24th Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-four,....Martin Oberlin of Bethel, in the County of Lancaster, being a foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been out of the same of the said Colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven Years. And the said Martin Oberlin having produced to the said Court, a Certificate, of his having taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within Three Months before the said Court, took and subscribed the Oaths, and did make and repeat the Declaration (appointed by an Act, made in the First year of the Reign of King GEORGE THE FIRST) according to the Directions of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and others, therein mentioned, as are settled in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America; and thereupon was admitted to be His Majesty's natural born Subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain, pursuant to the Direction and Intent of the said Act of Parliament. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supream Court, the 24th Day of September, in the year first above mentioned. Edward Shippen, Jr."
Some biographical information provided by Susanne Grunwald in Hessen/Germany & FAG member Nancy Clewell.
Martin Oberlin (later changed to Overly or Overley) came to America before 1755 (exact date unknown) landing in Philadelphia and settling in the mostly German settlement of Bethel in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Martin married Eva Marie Nagel on October 14, 1755 and they had six children. He became a British subject on September 24, 1764 after living in America at least the required seven years. (see below) He had land in Lancaster, Bedford and Westmoreland counties in Pennsylvania. In the 1790s Martin migrated to Fleming County, Kentucky and then to Bourbon County, Kentucky. In 1797 he moved north across the Ohio river and settled in Ross County, Ohio.
"Martin Overley and his sons, Boston, Frederick and Martin, came from Bourbon County,Kentucky,in 1797. They built a bark shanty in section 5, in which they kept bachelor's hall until fall, during which they cleared off a piece of land and planted it to corn. They subsisted principally on cornbread and sugar water, with an addition sometimes, by way of variety, of scalded nettles. For their meal and salt they were compelled to go to Kentucky. In the fall, after securing their crop, they returned for their families, moving out on pack-horses. There was no road, only an Indian trail through the dense forest. The wife of Frederick Overley carried on her horse, all the way from Kentucky, a spinning wheel and her babe, eight weeks old. They all moved into the bark shanty until their several log cabins could be built." p.458-a Standard History of Ross county, Ohio VI: 1917.
These children have not been located:
Jacob Overly 1760-1819
Caspar Overly b.1764 Allegheny Co., PA - d.1831 Guernsey Co., OH.
Becoming a Citizen of His Majesty's Colonies in America:
"Pennsylvania, S. S. Edward Shippen, Jr., Prothonotary of the Supream Court of the Province of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify, That at a Supream Court held at Philadelphia, for the said Province of Pennsylvania, the 24th Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-four,....Martin Oberlin of Bethel, in the County of Lancaster, being a foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been out of the same of the said Colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven Years. And the said Martin Oberlin having produced to the said Court, a Certificate, of his having taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within Three Months before the said Court, took and subscribed the Oaths, and did make and repeat the Declaration (appointed by an Act, made in the First year of the Reign of King GEORGE THE FIRST) according to the Directions of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and others, therein mentioned, as are settled in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America; and thereupon was admitted to be His Majesty's natural born Subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain, pursuant to the Direction and Intent of the said Act of Parliament. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supream Court, the 24th Day of September, in the year first above mentioned. Edward Shippen, Jr."
Some biographical information provided by Susanne Grunwald in Hessen/Germany & FAG member Nancy Clewell.
"Martin Overley and his sons, Boston, Frederick and Martin, came from Bourbon County,Kentucky,in 1797. They built a bark shanty in section 5, in which they kept bachelor's hall until fall, during which they cleared off a piece of land and planted it to corn. They subsisted principally on cornbread and sugar water, with an addition sometimes, by way of variety, of scalded nettles. For their meal and salt they were compelled to go to Kentucky. In the fall, after securing their crop, they returned for their families, moving out on pack-horses. There was no road, only an Indian trail through the dense forest. The wife of Frederick Overley carried on her horse, all the way from Kentucky, a spinning wheel and her babe, eight weeks old. They all moved into the bark shanty until their several log cabins could be built." p.458-a Standard History of Ross county, Ohio VI: 1917.
These children have not been located:
Jacob Overly 1760-1819
Caspar Overly b.1764 Allegheny Co., PA - d.1831 Guernsey Co., OH.
Becoming a Citizen of His Majesty's Colonies in America:
"Pennsylvania, S. S. Edward Shippen, Jr., Prothonotary of the Supream Court of the Province of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify, That at a Supream Court held at Philadelphia, for the said Province of Pennsylvania, the 24th Day of September, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-four,....Martin Oberlin of Bethel, in the County of Lancaster, being a foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been out of the same of the said Colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time during the said Seven Years. And the said Martin Oberlin having produced to the said Court, a Certificate, of his having taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within Three Months before the said Court, took and subscribed the Oaths, and did make and repeat the Declaration (appointed by an Act, made in the First year of the Reign of King GEORGE THE FIRST) according to the Directions of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and others, therein mentioned, as are settled in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America; and thereupon was admitted to be His Majesty's natural born Subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain, pursuant to the Direction and Intent of the said Act of Parliament. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supream Court, the 24th Day of September, in the year first above mentioned. Edward Shippen, Jr."
Some biographical information provided by Susanne Grunwald in Hessen/Germany & FAG member Nancy Clewell.
Gravesite Details
There is no stone remaining and the cemetery has disappeared with time.
Family Members
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
