Individual Details

Marriage

Possibly 20 JAN 1751 in the Germantown section of Philadel-
phia to Anna Elisabeth LINTZIN - see page 601 - RECORD OF
THE MARRIAGES IN THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CONGREGATION IN PHILADELPHIA COMMENCED ANNO 1745. The marriage record reads:
"Weber, Christoph./Lintzin, Anna Elisabeth; m. January 20 in
my room in Germantown. Witness. Matthias Lintz and many
farmers."
St. Michael's and Zion Church in Philadelphia, PA
(The word "possibly" is used since thus far no
evidence has been found to prove that this Christopher and
our forefather were one and the same. We know that Chris-
topher's wife was Elizabeth, but, again, is this the same
Elizabeth?). There is also the possibility that Christopher
had a second wife by the name of Elizabeth CHAPMAN.

Land Grant

The Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland Proprietor of The Northern Neck of Virginia:

To all to whom this present writing shall come sends Greeting:

Know ye that for good for & in consideration of the Compensation to me paid & for the annual rent herein after reserved, I have given, granted & confirm unto William
Chapman of Berkeley County apignee* of Geo. Chapman, a certain tract of waste & ungranted Land on each side of Sleepy Creek in the said County bounded as by a ( )
thereof made by Richard Rigg. Beginning at a chestnut stake about 2 poles beyond the East bank of Sleepy Creek at the butt of a tree said to be a corner oak to Wm Paul's 218 acres patent, extending thence along a course of a line of the same S 44oE 34 poles to the said Creek & the course continued in the waters down the creek 47 poles to the opposite bank of a great bend of the same & the course continued 119 poles to the place where Paul's supposed corner(?) pine should have been & the course further continues 50 poles to 2 large chesnuts & a chesnut oak on a ridge on the north side of Sleepy Creek Mountain, then S 46o E 42 poles to a double bodied white oak at the head of a small hollow in a line supposed to be Mathias Swyon's 159 Acre patent, then along it S89o W 80 poles to a white oak, a black oak & a pine on the high end of a ridge in the line then leaving the said patent & along the high hills of the creek NoWt 78 poles to 2 black oaks & a white oak, then N29o E 29 poles to a Pine, then N 43o W 80 poles to 2 white oaks & a oak on the East side of the bank of the Creek, then along the several courses & meanders of the same down the creek joining the bank thereof N38o E 82 poles, N47o W 80 poles, N85o E 96 poles & crossing the creek & the course continued four poles to the Beginning- containing 147 acres - Together with all Rights, Members & appurtenances thereto belonging. Royal mines Excepted, and a full third part of all Lead, copper, Tin, coals, Iron mine & Iron ore that shall be found therein. To have and to hold the said 147 acres of Land, together with rights, profits & benefits to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining Except before Excepted to him the said Wm Chapman his heirs & apagne forever he(?) the said Wm Chapman his heirs & apigns therefore yielding & paying to me, my heirs or apigns, or to my certain attorney or attornies, agent or agents of my heirs or apigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck, yearly & every year on the Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel, the fee rent of one shilling sterling money for every 50 acres of land hereby granted & so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity. Provided that if the said Wm Chapman his heirs and apigns1 shall not pay the said reserved annual rent as aforesaid, so that the same or any parts thereof shall be behind & unpaid by the space of 2 whole years after the same shall become due. If legally demanded that then it shall & may be lawful for me, my heirs or apigns1 - Proprietors as aforesaid, may or their certain attorney or attornies agent or agents unto the above Granted premises to reenter & hold the same so as if this Grant had never passed."
Given at my office in Frederick County under my hand & seal
stated the 12 day of March 1777.
/s/Fairfax

*Notation: "Fairfax, Thomas, 6th Baron Fairfax of Cameron (1693-1781), Scottish peer and Virginia landowner, born in Kent, England, and educated at the University of Oxford. He inherited from his mother, the daughter of Baron Thomas Culpeper (1635-89), governor of Virginia, estates in Virginia constituting one-fourth of the entire colony. In 1735, when the possibility arose that the grant would be revoked
by the Crown, Fairfax visited America, had the lands surveyed, and defended his claims, in which he was confirmed in 1745. He settled in Virginia in 1747 and built a home in the Shenandoah Valley on lands surveyed by George Washington. During the American Revolution, Fairfax remained a firm Loyalist.

Land

On 16 February 1779 Christopher Weaver purchased from William Chapman, for the sum of five pounds Sterling, a tract of land containing 147 acres, on the east side of Sleepy Creek, Berkeley County, Virginia. William Chapman had received this land as a grant from the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax on 12 March 1777. Nancy Chapman the daughter of William Chapman, later married Henry Weaver, son of Christopher.
[This later was part of West Virginia.]

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Sleepy Creek, Berkeley County VA. (Land Book 1782 - 1795
Christopher WEAVER, page 13 - 147 acres - value 5/ 36 shill-
ings 15 pence.)

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In the Berkeley County Office of the Surveyor of Lands is a
document for Parcel 708, Index Map 98.41, 147 acres sum-
marized as follows:
24 Jan 1769 warrent Chapman, William
1 Sep 1770 survey Chapman, George (bro of Wm)
12 Mar 1777 grant Chapman, William & Mary
16 Feb 1779 L & R Weber, Christopher & Elizabeth
28 Mar 1783 Will Weaver, Christopher (Jr) & Mary (son)
27 Sep 1794 B & S Weaver, John (Rebecca Cartmell)
This brings forth problems - Mary, wife of William Chapman?
- John's wife was Catherine Peckinpaugh (proven), so why was
Rebecca Cartmell mentioned where wive's name were on the
document.

Deed

Berkeley County Deed, Christopher Wever, 1779
Berkeley County, Martinsburg, West Virginia, Deed Book 5, pp 159-160.
THIS INDENTURE made this 16th day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy Nine BETWEEN William Chapman of the County of Berkeley and State of Virginia of the one part and Christopher Wever of the aforesaid county and state of the other part. WITNESSETH that the said William Chapman for and in consideration of the sum of Five Pounds Sterling to him in hand paid by said Christopher Wever at or before the Sealing and Delivering of these presents DOTH bargaion and sell unto said Christopher Weber all that tract of land situate lying and being on the East side of Sleppy Creek in the aforesaid county and state granted to the said William Chapman from under the hand of the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax bearing date the 12th day of March A. D. 1777 and bounded as follows BEGINNING at a chestnut stake about two poles beyond the East bank of Sleepy Creek at the Butt of a tree said to be a cornered oak to William Paul's 218 acre Patent extending thence along a course of a line to the said Creek and the course continuing in the water down the Creek to a pole to the opposite bank of a great bank of the same and the course continuing 119 poles to the place where Paul's supposed fence should have been and the course further continuing 50 poles to the two large Chestnut and chestnut oaks on a ridge on the No side of Sleepy Mountain thence S 46 E 42 poles to a double bodied while oak and a single white oak at the head of a small hollow in a line supposed to be of Matthias Swims 159 acre patent thence along it S 69 W 80 poles to a white oak a black oak and pine on the high of a ridge in the line leaving said Patent and along the Light Hills of Creek N W 78 poles to two black oaks and a white oak thence N 29 E 29 poles to a pine thence N 43 Wt 50 poles to a white oak and black oak on the East bank of the said Creek and joining to the bank thereof N 30 E 82 poles N 47 W 80 poles N 85 E 96 poles and crossing the Creek and the course continuing 4 poles to the beginning containing 147 acres and all Houses, Orchards, Water Ways Water Courses Profits, Commodities, Hereditaments and appurtances whatsoever to the land hereby granted or any part thereof belonging or in anywise appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits thereof TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the land and premises above mentioned and every part and parcel with the appurtances unto the said Christopher Weber his Heirs Executors Administrators and assigns from the Day next before the day of the Date of these presents for and during the full end and term of one whole year next ensuring and fully to be completed and ended yielding and paying therefore the rent of one Pepper Corn on Lady Day next if the same shall lawfully be demanded to the interest and purpose that by virtue of these presents and the statute for transferring uses into possession the said Christopher Weber may be in the actual possession of the premises and he therefore enabled to accept a grant and release of the Reversion of Inheritance thereof to him and his heirs.
IN WITNESS whereof the said William Chapman hath hereunto set his hand and Seal the day and year first above written.
His Mark
Signed Sealed and Delivered
William H Chapman (seal)
in the presence of
John Skeling
Robert Cockburn
At a court held for Berkeley County the 16th day of February 1779 This Indenture was acknowledged by William Chapman party thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste.
(the middle initial "H" is in doubt - probably "X" his mark)

Examined
William Drew Co Clk
I, Christine Bergen, 800 Winchester Ave., Martinsburg, W. Va do hereby certify that the above is a true, accurate and complete copy of the deed as shown in Deed Book 5, pages 159 and 160, Berkeley County Court, Martinsburg W. VA. Given under my hand and Seal this 23rd day of January 1964.
/s/Christine Bergen My commission expires January 8, 1974.
(Copyright 1997 Laurence Weaver, Jr. Laurence has submitted this file for use in the WVGenWeb Archives. It may be freely copied, but may not be sold or used in a commercial project without permission of the submitter.)

Military

On 24 October 1780, Christopher submitted a Public Service Claim (Number 400) to Berkeley County for supplying wheat to the Continental Army. He received 122 Pounds and ten Shillings.

From original hand-written list of names and compensation at the Virginia State Library, Richmond VA.

Will

In the name of God Amen I Christopher Weaver living on Sleepy Creek in Berkeley County and colony of Virginia Yeoman being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling into mind the mortality of my body do make this my last will and testament in manner following I recommend my Soul into the Land of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent Christian Burial at the discretion of my Executor and as such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to help me in this life I give and devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner and form first I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Weaver my dearly beloved wife the third of my land during her life time and all my moveable Estate after all my Just debts and funeral be paid Also I give to my well beloved sons John Weaver and William Weaver and Henry Weaver and daughters Mary and Dolly and Elizabeth an equal part at my wife's Decease and if John Weaver is not satisfied to be paid five Shillings Sterling out of the Estate Also I give to my beloved son Christopher the tract of land which I now live on to him his heirs and aligns for ever Likewise constitute Elizabeth Weaver my wife and Christopher Weaver and William Rankin make and ordain any Sale Executors of this my last will and testament I do hereby utterly disallow and make all former testament Wills Legacies and Executors Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and testament and in witness whereof I have hereto set my hand seal this twenty eight day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty three. Signed sealed and declared as my last will and testament
Christopher Weaver (LS) in presence of William Rankin Mathias Swain & William Hixson(?)
At a court held for Berkeley County the 15th day of April 1788 this last will and testament of Christopher Weaver deceased was proved by the oaths of William Rankin and William Hixon two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Examine
Testr.
M.V. Hunter ClCt
(The above will was hand copied from the original hand-written will at the County Court House, Martinsburg, West Virginia, by the compiler - law jr. Because of the age of the paper, it could not be removed from the book to be photocopied.)

Note

Historically, families, relatives, and friends migrated
westward in groups, frequently settling in the same locali-
ties. It seems that the ancestors of this compiler who
eventually settled in Mad River TWP which became Champaign
County with another split becoming Clark County, the WEAV-
ERS, STURMS, RECTORS, CHAPMANS,and ROSS families all lived at one
time in the western edge of Berkeley County, VA and the
nearby eastern edge of Hampshire Co. (Note in the above
1782 Hampshire County census that William CHAPMAN and two
ROSS families had the same census taker!) (A settlement in
Hampshire County was supposedly named for the RECTOR fami-
ly, but thus far this compiler has yet to locate*
where it might have been - there is, of course, Rector-
ville, about seven miles east of Maysville (formerly Lime-
stone), Mason County, Kentucky. Most of the members of the
above families spent several years in Mason County before
coming to Mad River Twp. (William CHAPMAN's neighbor and
"in-law", Charles RECTOR, according to an affidavit, he was
drafted into military service by Captain Tepley, in the
spring of 1781, at Hampshire County, Virginia, (now West
Virginia) near Oldtown "on the Virginia side." The pension
was apparently denied because it lacked substantiating
evidence. A note in the file states that the Colonel
Cresap Charles said he served as an orderly sergeant died
in October 1775. Old Town is in present day Allegany Coun-
ty, Maryland across the Potomac from Green Spring,
Hampshire County, West Virginia. This is the closest
discription of the locale where these families lived -
about 30 miles west of Sleepy Creek, the WEAVER'S home.)

Name

Christopher Weaver's birth name was Christoph Weber.

Military

It has been reported that Christopher served the Colonies in the Revolutionary War as an Ensign (unconfirmed?).


It must be noted that Christopher Weaver had a total of four sons that served in the Revolutionary War. Their names were William, Christopher Jr., Henry and John.

Burial

Christopher and Elizabeth are believed to be buried in a cemetery located near Sleepy Creek Lake in the Sleepy Creek Public Hunting and Fishing Area.

Note

The will of Christopher Weaver provides an interesting insight into the inner dynamics of the Weaver family. The document stipulates an equal distribution of the estate to the seven children only upon the death of his wife, Elizabeth. Furthermore, " if John Weaver is not satisfied, (he is) to be paid (only) five shillings sterling out of the estate". This is alluding to a quarrel that would eventually cause the family to separate.

Residence

The "promised land" was expanding westward with the completion of the Lancaster Road. The lure of cheap farm land and the availability of Conestoga wagons provided the impetus to move the Weber family 110 miles west to Sleepy Creek, Berkeley County, Colony of Virginia. With this new start and the similar sound and confusion of the two names, it must have seemed natural to change the family name from Weber to Weaver. After all, for the most part, colonists were British and English speaking. With the onset of the Revolutionary War, Berkeley County would quickly feel immediate and profound effects. As early as 1777, soldiers from the Berkeley County militia were involved in the Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania. In that battle, George Washington tried to prevent General William Howe from taking Philadelphia. It was a British victory with the outnumbered American army being driven from the field. Afterward, from 1778-1779 the militia was garrisoned at Fort McIntosh.

Military

Weaver: -- no Christopher Sr. or Jr.
(possible) Christopher, b 1730 d 1787 VA m (1) Elizabeth X PS VA
John, b 1749 VA d p 1-13-1831 OH m (1) Catherine (Peckinpaugh) Pvt VA
William, b 12-24-1759 PA d 6--1836 OH m (1) Mary Kiger Pvt VA PNSR