Anthony Nicely and Elizabeth Yeager

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Husband Anthony Nicely ¹

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            AKA: Anthony Kneisle 1
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         Father: [Father] Kneisle (      -      )
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Wife Elizabeth Yeager ¹

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Children

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1 M Anthony Nicely ¹

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           Born: Abt 1761 - Westmoreland Co, PA
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2 M Adam Nicely ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Anthony Nicely

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He came in 1730 from Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a tedious voyage of six months. He was accompanied by his two brothers, Jacob and John, and also by Jacob Bergen and John Yeager, the two last-named bringing their families with them. Leaving Philadelphia the little company of immigrants travelled on foot to the southwestern part of Pennsylvania, settling in what was then Donegal township, later became part of Ligonier township, Westmoreland County. It was about four miles west of Fort Ligonier, on the banks of the Four-Mile Run, that they found an abiding place. The Nicely brothers took up, among them, about twelve hundred acres, clearing a large part of this and planting corn. They carried their produce to Cumberland, Maryland, and purchased their salt at Saltsburg, Westmoreland County. They suffered frequently and severely from the aggressions of the Indians, the wife and two children of Jacob Nicely being slain by them. This so discouraged the unfortunate man that he left the neighborhood and is supposed to have gone to Armstrong County, where many of the name of Nicely claim a Jacob Nicely for their ancestor. Anthony and John Nicely remained in Westmoreland County.
He was a member of the Lutheran church.

Besides the two sons listed, he had some daughters who went west and whose names have not come down to us.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Yeager

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She died at the age of seventy years.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 857.