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From: Dennis <shadow(a)tfb.com>
To: mailing Casteel <CASTEEL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 6:20 AM
Subject: THE CASTEEL FAMILY
Article by Charles E. Hoye
Thomas Casteel of the Blooming Rose
One of the pioneer settlers of what is now Garrett County ,
Maryland, was Thomas Casteel, son of Shadrack and Laurena. He was
born
in Prince George's County, Maryland and settled first in Valley
Township, Bedford County , Pennsylvania, where he and his brother
Acrhibald, served in Captain Evan Cessna's Company of Bedford militia
during the Revoluntionary War.
In the census of 1790, Thomas Casteel is listed as the head of a
family of five in Bedford County. Prior to 1798, Thomas Castee l
migrated to Maryland, He is said to have resided for a time on the
"Blooming Rose " tract near the Friend settlement, near the Thomas
Fike farm, but in 1814 Nathanial Wallace for $100 deeded him 73 1/2
acres of "Black Oak Ridge" and 39 3/4 of "Narrow Escape," which
becameThe Casteel home near the James McMullin settlement, about two
miles southwest of Friendsville, Maryland.
On the Assesment Roll of 1798, Thomas Casteel was assesst with
two
horses, nine cattle, etc, valued at L54:15s- but no land. In the
census of 1800 he was listed in the same neighborhood, in Sandy Creek
Hundred as head of a family of ten.
The pioneer Thomas Casteel and his wife are problably buried in
the old Hall Graveyard on Blooming Rose.
Among their children were:
(a) Thomas, who appears to have served in a Pennsylvania Artillery
Company in 1813;
(b) Jeremiah, who in 1812 bought at tax sale 273 acres of "The
Granary" near the Maryland - Virginia line, and in 1820 was listed as
the head of a family of nineteen in Preston County, Virginia )now
West
Virginia.
(c) Shadrack, born in Bedfoed County in about 1780.
(d)Nathaniel died April 2, 1866.
SHADRCK CASTEEL--
Son of Thomas, settled at Methany Mill on Muddy Creek. The census
for 1810 for Monongalia (now Preston) County , Virginia, lists him as
head of a family of eight. His children were:
(a) Archibald, who m. Susan, dau of Peter DeWitt.
(b) Elizabeth, m Joseph DeWitt son of Peter.
(c)Meshak.
(d) John
(e) Jeremiah.
(f ) Rebecca.
(g)Thomas.
(h)Nathaniel.
NATHANIEL CASTEEL
Son of Thomas, the pioneer, bought Military Lots 4106 and 4108,
called "Limestone," now the Rhodeheaver farm at Sang Sun, MD. He and
his wife, Jane McMullin, are buried there in the farm graveyard.
Their children were:
(1) Thomas, b December 15, 1808; d June 19, 1892
(2) Martha E.N., b May 10, 1811, m. Henry Fredlock
(3) Louisa, m. Edward Taggart
(4) Jane, m. Benjamin Jenkins
(5) James, moved to Illinois
(6) Nathaniel, m. Ellen Conrad
(7) Nelson, m. Amanda----------
(8) Meshach, b. 1816, d. 1904, m. Catherine Kitzmiller.
(9) Nathan, b. June 8, 1821,d. 1892, m.Sarah Brant.
(10)William, b. June 8, 1821; m. Jane Brant
Nathan and William, twins, married sisters, daughters of John
Brant
of Oakland, Maryland. General D.T.E. Casteel, U.S. Army, retired, is
a
son of William. Meshach Casteel was an early Garrett County school
teacher.
Nathan Casteel was a very industrious man. He rented the Hoye
farm
at Gap Run from 1840 to 1849, when he bought it . In 1856 he moved to
his farm on the Oakland-Deer Park Road. Truman W. Casteel, during his
life-time judge of the Orphans' Court and a County Commisioner, was a
son of Nathan.
I don't know where the article was published, i hope it will help
someone out there.
Dennis