Sebastian Bast

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Husband Sebastian Bast ¹

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         Father: Wilhelm Bast (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Anna Michael (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Sebastian Bast

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There is a family tradition of a "Boston" Best who went to the Carolinas. Boston or Bastian is a shortened form of Sebastian. It is believed that this Sebastian Best was born about 1717 in the Palatinate, Germany. He arrived in Philadelphia from Amsterdam on the ship "Billender Townsend" on October 5, 1737. Later he migrated from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and settled near the Catawba River in the South Fork country in what is now Gaston County. He built a log shanty and cleared some ground for planting. Later around 1747 he made a journey back to Pennsylvania to look for a wife. While camping over-night on the way, somewhere in Upper North Carolina or Virginia, he met up with Pieter Ana (Peter Hoyle) who was moving from Maryland to the Catawba country in North Carolina with his family. Sebastian Best eventually married Peter's daughter Katrina who was born about 1735. Bostian was a private in a militia company formed under Captain Samuel Coburn to defend against possible Indian attacks when the Catawbas were being stirred up by agents of the South Carolina government during border disputes between North and South Carolina. But this company was first mustered for military service not against the Indians, but for the so-called Spanish Alarm of 1748 when there were rumors of pillage and raid on the coast of North Carolina by the Spaniards from Florida. Boston was among the enlisted men summoned to shoulder their muskets against the Spaniards, although his group saw no action in the skirmish. Sebastian was among the good-sized population who dwelt west of the Catawba without formal title to the land. Finally in 1749 pioneers were obliged to apply for formal grants to the farms on which they had lived and labored for years. These grants, made by the Governor of North Carolina in the name of George II of England, called for the payment of yearly rents and the clearing and cultivation of three acres out of every hundred. Bostian asked for formal title to his own land in 1750, six years after he had built on it, because he had married at last, to the pretty Katrina Berl. The Patent he received from the State was dated May 15, 1754, for 300 acres of land on the branches of Leeper's and Killian's Creek. Sebastian made a will in July 1761. It is thought that he lived to be an old man, dying about 1780, and was buried with his wife in a private graveyard on his farm. There is no tomb-stone. They had 13 children.

1 Jude Ann Fischer, Wilhelm Best - Abridged Edition (Privately published, 1985), Pg 6.

2 Jude Ann Fischer, Wilhelm Best - Abridged Edition (Privately published, 1985), Pg 11.