Daniel Breneman and Christiana [Unk]

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Husband Daniel Breneman ¹

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Mennard (      -Bef 1784) - Bef 1773

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   Other Spouse: Barbara [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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Wife Christiana [Unk] ¹

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Breneman

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The earliest immigrant in this branch of the Breneman family was Daniel Breneman, who reached Philadelphia on board Captain Ralph Forster's ship Hero from Rotterdam on October 27, 1764. Daniel settled first in Conestoga, Pennsylvania, where by 1772 he was already listed on tax rolls as the owner of a plantation of 150 acres. The exact relationship between Daniel Breneman and Melchior Breneman, Jr., is uncertain. It is known, however, that upon his arrival in Pennsylvania, Daniel went immediately to Conestoga and to the home of Melchior Breneman, Jr., the son of the immigrant Melchior, and that this younger Melchior provided aid to Daniel in obtaining land of his own. It is generally believed that Daniel's father and Melchior, Jr., were first cousins.

His second wife Mrs. Barbara Tobias had four children with her first husband and was apparently quite well-to-do, so that Daniel increased his fortunes considerably by his second marriage. His appears along with that of his wife in a series of ventures into real estate speculation in Lancaster County from 1784 to 1797. About 1785 he and his family moved to Virginia and settled a short distance south of Edinburg in Shenandoah County.

On June 9, 1796, he bought for 1000 pounds a large tract called "Beaver Spring," situated along the Little Sewickley Creek in Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The land had formerly been the property of John Probst. By September 23, 1797, he was settled permanently there.

He served as a private, 3rd class, in Capt. Jacob Metzger's Company, Fourth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia, during the last years of the Revolution. The muster roll gives his age vaguely as "between 18 and 53." At the time of the Whiskey Rebellion, on July 14, 1794, he was drafted again for service, and as he did not appear for duty was fined by Capt. Ludwick Urban, to whose company he had been assigned. This blunt reminder evidently brought him back to the ranks, for his descendants state that it was on the campaign against the "bootleggers" in Western Pennsylvania that he became interested in real estate in that unsettled region and decided to settle there permanently.

Which of the three wives of Daniel Breneman was the mother of the various children cannot at present be determined.

1 Ronald A. Audet, The Camp-Breneman Families of Pennsylvania and Virginia (Williamsburg, VA: Privately published, 1996), Pg 15.

2 Ronald A. Audet, The Camp-Breneman Families of Pennsylvania and Virginia (Williamsburg, VA: Privately published, 1996), Pg 16.