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- !"THE GREAT PROGENITOR: JOHN ALTICK .. by Dr. Altus, Santa Barbara,CA1971
"My presumption is that John is the Johannes Franziskus, son of Danieland Anna Barbara (Fleck) Altig, christened April 25, 1748, in Schonau.Our John is not the son of Johannes Franziskus Altig who married (2)Anna Maria Weigl, for had he been he would surely have been mentionedin the will of August 11, 1771. I suspect that Johannes Konrad JosephAltig born to Johanne s and Anna in 1751 died shortly thereafter,possibly on the way over on the Ship Anderson - - passengers died likeflies on those ships. If I'm correct in the parentage of our John,then he is a brother of Tillmann Altick of Berkeley County, Virginiaand very likely of Daniel Altick of Shippensburg.
"Solomon Altick, one of our John's older sons, born in 1780 or 1781,claimed, in the 1870 ce nsus to have been born in Maryland. If so,his father John was probably in an early Dunkar d settlement in thesouthern portion of Washington County, Maryland, very close to theborde r of Virginia, where Berkeley County lay, and living in the samearea where, during the Civil War, the Battle of Antietam would befought. Thus he would have been living close to where his presumptivebrother, Tillmann entered the Revolutionary War. John is supposed tohave been a teamster for the military during the Revolutionary War (soreported his grandson, Israel Altick, born about 1810 in FranklinCounty, Virginia.) This would make sense. He was young (he and Marymust have married 1771-1773), without money, and teaming would bringsome in . And he had enough at the close of the war to buy a 150 acrefarm in present-day Franklin County, Virginia and pay 100 pounds"current money" for it in 1784. The deed is recorded (he bought froma John Peary) in Bedford County, Virginia. Franklin County was formedfrom Bedford in 1786.
"John Alldick is the way our John first shows on the tax rolls ofBedford County, in 1783 owning one horse and two cows. (Querry: Ifhe had been a teamster, why didn't he have more th an one horse?) Whatdrew him to the low, gentle Blue Ridges of the southern part ofVirginia ? Land. And the presence of German-speaking people, such asJacob Miller, the famous Dunkard preacher who had arrived there fromFranklin County, PA about 1765 and had first purchased land there in1775. Jacob came from the same area where Daniel Altick finished upand where Joseph Altick, our John's son, went to from Virginia. WhenFranklin County, Virginia was f ormed in 1786, Rocky Mount was namedas the county seat. It still is. It is a real Dogpatch of a town.But it is there where all the old Altick records are still to befound. It's poor, classed (in federal terms) as 100% rural, with lotsof farms in the soil bank, a littl e tobacco grown, some dairy farmingand (so it is reported) a lot of moonshining taking place . Over 40Altices were on the voting rolls there in 1964.
"John Altick stayed in southern Virginia 35 years, marrying off his 14children, finally sel ling out in the fall of 1818, moving in his oldage (70 if he's Johannes Franziskus, son of Daniel) to Ohio, close toDayton and the Miami River, where his old Dunkard preacher, Jacob Miller, had preceded him in 1800. John was dead by 1828, when a lawsuitwas brought to settl e a deed he'd given: fortunately for us, it namesall his children and heirs, since to quiet the deed, all had to besued.
"The Alticks in Virginia probably lived in a one-room log cabin (thereare still some there) , with that scad of children. For what littlecash needs they had, they grew tobacco, dried it, packed it into a hugbarrel called a hogshead which they pulled by horse (rolling it) toLynchburg, Virginia, 50 miles away on rocky, stumpy trails withoutbridges, across creeks a nd rivers. Healthy? Can you imagine raising14 children to maturity, all of whom married? The outdoor life, thehard work, the simple fare with plenty of home-grown fruits andvegetable s were better medicine than many of us now have. And that'show John Altick, our ancestor fr om Schonau, raised an enormousfamily.
Aileen Altis Brauer,Rt #1,Box 339,Sedalia,M O 65301,1995. To Ohio in1818.
FGR Jewell Brauer, Sedalia, MO.
John stayed 35 years in Virginia and was a teamster in RevolutionaryWar. At age 70 in early 1800's moved to Montgomery County, Ohio. Wasliving there in 1818.
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1748 - Abt 1828 (~ 79 years)
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Daniel Altig (née Sr.), b. Abt 1710, Schonau, Heidelberg, Baden, Germany 
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