So this places him still in Philadelphia, only five years after his
arrival. On the ship's passenger list he was listed as 48 years old. We
have no proof that his wife and children were with him on this voyage.
However, for my part I think they were. We know that from records found at
the German Reformed Church in Sembach, Germany that he had at least two
children before coming to America. Maria Margareta Kegel, had her
confirmation in 1729 at 14 years of age. She is thought to be the daughter
of Leonhart & Maria Elisabetha Kegel, born about 1715.
Then there was the baptismal record for John Theobald Kegel born 29 April
1728, and baptised on 2 May 1728. His parents were shown to be Leonhart &
Susanna Kegel, and Godparents listed as Theobald Fuchs and his wife
Christina of Alsenborn, Germany. Also listed as a Godparent was Andreas
Busch, of Trippstadt, Germany.
It is my understanding that the German name "Theobald" translates to
"David". So his given name was John David Kegel, or John David Cagle.
However, when he starts appearing on records later in the Colonies he is
shown as "David Cagle". This I feel is one and the same person and it was
his personal preference to go by David.
So in 1732 David was about 4 years old, and his sister Maria was about 17
years old. Keep in mind that these are children that can be verified by
early records. Leonard & Elisabetha, could have had other children than
Maria Kegel born about 1715. Leonard Kegel was born about 1684, and would
have been about 31 years old when Maria, was born. So in effect it is
anybodys guess as to how many children were born in Germany, and came to
America with their parents.
Earl Cagle 7/11/2004
earl1947a(a)earthlink.net
300th ANNIVERSARY OF THE
Birth of Leonhart KEGEL, German immigrant to America. The year of 1984
marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Leonhart Kegel (Leonard Cagle),
the German imigrant who arrived at the ports of Philadelphia in 1732.
According to the ships passenger list, Leonhart was 48 years old at the time
of his arrival; thus, it would appear that he was born during the year 1684
(or in the later part of 1683). He is believed to be the ancestor of
thousands of Cagle families in the United States. According to oral
traditions preserved in many Cagle families around the nation. Leonhart
Kegel left his home in the Rhenish Palatinate (in the SW part of what is now
West Germany) in the early part of the 18th Century, and sailed down the
Rhine River to Holland. There he joined thousands of other Germans,
displaced by war and economic hardship who were awaiting passage to the
American Colonies. His staying in Holland is said to have been very lengthy,
but eventually he found passage to America in the summer of 1732 on the ship
"Loyal Judith". This ship British-owned and stopped first at the ports of
Cowes, England, and then sailed for America, arriving at the ports of
Philadelphia on September 25, 1732. The passenger list show that 119
Palatine men, plus their wives and children, arrived on the vessel. The
Rhenish Palatinate was largely Protestant in Religion, and it is believed
that most of the ship's passengers were Lutherans and Mennonites.
Source: Cagle Journal Introductory Issue just before January 1985.
Leonhart [1] KEGEL, upon arriving in Pennsylvania, settled in old
Philadelphia County, (probably in that northern portion which in 1784 was to
become Montgomery County, when Philadelphia County was divided), and
acquired his first farm there in 1737. In the 1730s most of the colony of
Pittsylvania was still under the control of the Indians, and European
Settlers occupied only a small area in Philadelphia in SE corner of the
colony. By 1750, however, the frontier was gradually expanding westward,
and Leonhart Kegel moved to a new farm in Lancaster County (in that portion
which in 1752 was to become Berks County when Lancaster was divided). His
land lay in Brecknock Township, in a hilly region on the headwaters of the
Conestoga River, overlooking the Mennonite and Amish settlement on the
Lancaster plains.
The earliest settlers of Brecknock Township, where of Welch origin; however,
they were few in number, and by the year 1750 the township was settled
primarily by Germans. The Township lies in the heart of "Pennsylvania Dutch
Country" of southwest PA, and the striking stone houses, bank barns, and
carefully ordered fields, which haracterized the culture of the area, are
very much in evidence. The rich limestone soil of Lancaster County, in some
areas, has been supported cultivation since 1709. However, the less fertile
sandstone soil of the Furnace Ridge area, where Leonhart Kegels land was
located, was settled somewhat later in time with early land warrants dating
from 1730s and never supported as large a population as did Lancaster
Plain. By the year 1750, when Leonhart acquired his land. The better land in
Lancaster and Berks Counties were already taken, leaving only land of lesser
fertility to be homesteaded by new comers.
According to records found by the Editor of Cagles Journal in Pennsylvania
State Archives at Harrisburg, PA, in 1750 Leonhart Kegel applied for a Land
Warrant for his 146 0.5 acres #15. of land in Lancaster County (Warrant
number A-28-211); his name was spelled "Keagel" on his Land Warrant. The
land was duly "assigned and allowed" to him on November 9, 1750. This is a
tract of un-settled land, owned by Commonwealth of PA, under the control of
the Penn family (The descendant of William Penn), Leonhart Kegel did not
follow through on his Warrant and gain permanent title to this tract of
land, because in 1754 his family left PA and moved southward into North
Carolina, eventually, in 1791, the land which Leonhart thus vacated in PA
was re-surveyed and divided into three tracts, and claimed by new owners,
1805, 1812, and 1867. In 1750, at the time Leonhart's Land Warrant, old
Ancaster County, PA covered a much larger area than it does today. Leonhart
name did not appear on annual Tax list for Berks County, this would indicate
the family of Leonhart Cagle did not remain long in their Mountain Cove in
Berks County, PA, for by 1754 (he was 70 yrs old) not later than winter,
they removed to the upper Deep River in the Piedmont of (what is now
Guilford Co.), North Carolina, where they settled permanently. Oral
tradition states that they joined a Wagon Train of Moravian Breathers, the
German-Speaking religious sect a group which founded Bethlehem and Lititz,
PA, and Bethania, Bethabara and old Salem NC. They made their way through
Maryland, Shinandoah Valley of Virginia, and on to North Carolina, the Kegel
family (with their name now anglicized to "Cagle").The first permanent
Moravian Settlers on the Wachau tract were twelve single brethren, who
arrived in NC, from Bethlehem, PA, in the fall of 1753. Beginning in 1753,
The Moravians began their annual wagon trips.
The Moravian were strictly a religious group that embraced persons of
various racial origin, though the official language of the Moravians was
German. The Moravian diary and records of 1750s make reference to many
non-Morivian German families who migrated to North Carolina in the company
of the annual Moravian Wagon Train. Although the Cagles are not mentioned
specifically by name in these records, there is reason to believe that their
arrival in NC occurred in fall of 1754. one reason for this belief is the
fact that Jacob Cagle, (grand-son) 1755-1845 by his own statement, indicated
that he was born in North Carolina in April of 1755, thus showing that the
Cagles were in NC not later than spring of that year. This fact, captured
with the knowledge that the Morivians made their annual trip to NC in the
fall of each year, this would suggest that the Cagles arrived in the fall of
1754. The Cagles lived for a brief period of time on the upper Deep River;
the precise location of their home has yet to be determined, but it is
believed to have been a few miles to the East of the Moravian settlement
(which lay in what is now Forsyth Co.), perhaps near the modern town of
Greensboro (in present Guilford Co.), At that early date, however, the
entire region was still part of old Rowan County, an immense county which
covered NW quarter of the state. Thus, the earliest Cagle records in NC are
found in old Rowan County. It was in old Rowan County, on the eadwaters of
Deep River, that Jacob Cagle, 1755-1845--perhaps the first Cagle child South
was born in April of 1755. (Jacob himself provided his birthdate and
birthplace, in the autobiographical statement in his Rev. War pension
Application of 1834, filed from Warren County, Tennessee.) By 1764, however,
the Cagles had moved again, this time further down stream on the Deep River,
into Cumberland County, NC, where they located in the extreme NW corner of
the county (in that portion which in 1784 was to become Moore County, when
Cumberland was divided). In fact, Moore County, NC, might be considered the
ancestral home of all the Cagles in the South, since it was from there,
beginning in the 1790s, that their various branches spread into Georgia and
Tennessee, and later across the entire South, into the midwest, and all the
way to the West Coast by the year of 1850. As yet, it has not been
determined precisely when and where the death of Leonhart Kegel, the German
immigrant of 1732, occurred. It is possible that the aged pioneer, who
would be some 70 years old when his family moved from PA, to North Carolina
is buried somewhere on or near the Deep River Moore County in North
Carolina.It is believed, though without complete documentary proof at
present, that the younger Cagles who purchased land in the Cumberland
(present Moore) County, NC in the 1760s were among the sons of Leonhart
Kegel. These men, who were probably born in the 1720s and 1730s, included
David Cagle (Died 1780s), John "Dutchman" Cagle (died 1799), and Henry
Cagle, Sr. (died 1802). It is thought John "Dutchman" Cagle lived in Oley
Township Berks County, PA, when Leonhart Kegel/Cagle occupied Alsace
Township near by, in Berks County, PA, and was the son of Leonhart Cagle,
and John moved to NC in 1750s and died in 1799 in the NW corner of Moore
County, NC. It thought the old immigrant Leonhart/Leonard Cagle; died after
1755, has
not been determined his place of death, PA or NC. I think he died in PA (My
opinion LJWP)
Source: John Cagle Journal Little Rock, AR, starting with introductory issue
1985, and spreading over a 12 part series from January 1995, up to December
1995.
By: LaMona Joyce "Waldron" Phillips
Great-great-granddaughter of Henry Marion Cagle & Jane Elizabeth Lloyd.
Mr. John G. Cagle of Little Rock, AR has article about 300th Anniversary of
the Birth of Leonhart Kegel, Germany Immigrant to America. Introductory
Issue 1985
By: LaMona Joyce "Waldron" Phillips
Great-great-granddaughter of Henry Marion Cagle & Jane E. Lloyd.
List, 4/30/2003 Roll Call
-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Cagle via CAGLE
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2018 10:35 AM
To: Cagle E-Mail List ; Earl Cagle
Cc: Earl Cagle
Subject: [CAGLE] The Trip To The Colonies
Dear List Members,We all know of our ancestor's Leonhart Kegel's, trip to
America. This excerpt puts the trip into perspective. This is from the
book:PENNSYLVANIA
GERMAN PIONEERS
A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals
In the Port of Philadelphia
From: 1727 to 1808
By Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL.D.
'President of the 'Pennsylvania German Society
Edited by William John Hinke, Ph.D., D.D.
IN THREE VOLUMES Volume 1: 1727 - 1775
JOURNEY TO PENNSYLVANIA
The journey to Pennsylvania fell naturally into three parts.
The first part, and by no means the easiest, was the journey
down the Rhine to Rotterdam or some other port. Gottlieb
Mittelberger in his Journey to Pennsylvania in the year 1750,
writes
:
“This journey lasts from the beginning of May to the end of
October, fully half a year, amid such hardships as no one is
able to describe adequately with their misery. The cause is because
the Rhine boats from Heilbronn to Holland have to pass
by 26 custom houses, at all of which the ships are examined,
which is done when it suits the convenience of the customhouse
officials. In the meantime the ships with the people are
detained long, so that the passengers have to spend much
money. The trip down the Rhine lasts therefore four, five and
even six weeks. When the ships come to Holland, they are detained
there likewise five to six weeks. Because things are very
dear there, the poor people have to spend nearly all they have
during that time.”
The second stage of the journey was from Rotterdam to
one of the English ports. Most of the ships called at Cowes, on
the Isle of Wight. This was the favorite stopping place, as 142
ships are recorded as having sailed from Rotterdam to Cowes.
Other ships touched at one of seven other channel ports. Taking
them from east to west they were : Deal, where twenty two
ships stopped, Dover, with eleven ships, Portsmouth
thirty-two ships, Gosport, near Portsmouth, two ships, Porte
in Dorsetshire, one ship (No. 109), Plymouth two ships, Falmouth,
in Cornwall, four ships. One ship (No. 297) went from
Rotterdam to London, one ship (No. 263) from Rotterdam to
Berwick upon Tweed, on the east coast of England, near the
Scotch border, five ships from Rotterdam to Leith in Scotland,
two ships from Rotterdam to the Orkney islands (Nos, no,
163) and one ship from Rotterdam to St. Christopher, one of
the West India islands.
Best Regards,Earl D. Cagle Sr.
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