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MICHAEL ISENER (ISNER). Paid
£3 12sh for 48 days. He was born about 1732 in Germany, and emigrated to
Pennsylvania on the Neptune before settling in the Tygarts Valley. He
signed as Melchor Eisnert on an allegiance from the passengers at
Philadelphia on 24 September 1753.29 He had made two
settlements by 1778: one near the Evermans at the present Glenmore
Subdivision, and another at the mouth of Chenoweth Creek on the west
side of the Tygarts River. He is, no doubt, the Michael Austner who was
at the vendue sale of David White. He served on the first grand jury in
Randolph County in 1787, and was living in 1790.30 Two of his
sons filed pension applications on 1 November 1834. Thomas Isner, the
elder of the two (born 1758), states that he "was raised in Randolph
County, Virginia" but says nothing about his birthplace.31
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29 Ralph Beaver Straussburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers:
a publication of the early lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia
from 1727 to 1808 (Norristown, 1934), I 543. According to David
Armstrong of Elkins his signature on this list matches that on documents
found in the Tygarts Valley. Where he lived (in Pennsylvania?) prior to
1772 is not presently known. He and his eldest son Thomas are called
Ausner on the petition of 6 November 1777.
30 Hu Maxwell, History of Randolph County, West Virginia
(Morgantown, 1898) 183. Isner seems to have died without the benefit of
probate.
31 White, II, 1806. Thomas Isner claimed to have served as an
Indian spy, but his petition was apparently denied or never pursued.
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