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Mathias Feuerstein¹

Male
b. 5 April 1744, d. 1829

Father

Nicholas (Hans) Feuerstein¹ b. 25 March 1712, d. before 11 January 1768

Mother

Anna Catharina Nonnenmacher¹ b. 2 August 1711, d. circa 1760

Pop-up Pedigree

Family	Anna Maria Bieber b. 15 July 1752, d. 12 February 1827
Children	1.	Jacob Firestone b. 15 Aug 1775, d. 12 Apr 1830
	2.	Catherine Firestone b. 21 Mar 1777, d. 11 Nov 1857
	3.	Sarah Firestone b. 4 May 1778, d. 12 Sep 1854
	4.	Elizabeth Firestone b. c 1780, d. 13 Oct 1855
	5.	Margaret Firestone b. 1781, d. a 11 Sep 1814
	6.	John F. Firestone b. 16 May 1782, d. 13 Dec 1849
	7.	George Washington Firestone b. 22 Apr 1784, d. 22 Apr 1851
	8.	Solomon Bieber Firestone b. 4 May 1786, d. 1841
	9.	Mary Firestone b. 9 Oct 1789, d. 15 Sep 1869
	10.	Nancy Firestone b. a 1790
	11.	Mathias Firestone b. 17 Feb 1796, d. 5 May 1871
	12.	Daniel F. Firestone b. 31 Mar 1797, d. 27 Dec 1864
	13.	Hannah Firestone b. 29 Nov 1799, d. 10 Jul 1887
	14.	Joseph Firestone b. 20 Sep 1806, d. 4 Oct 1888

Note*

He was baptized Johann Mathias Feuerstein on April 8, 1744 at Berg Evangelical Lutheran Church in Alsace. Witnesses to his baptism were Martin
Nunnenmacher and Anna Elizabeth Persch (wife of Christian Persch, weaver), Johann Mathias Dormeyer (son of Johann Mathias Dormeyer, an estate
keeper), and Anna Elizabeth Heckel (daughter of the late Peter Heckel, farmer).

He immigrated Sept 24, 1753 to Philadelphia aboard ship "Peggy" when he was 9 with his parents. His family was indentured in Lancaster, PA. He lived in New York for a while. He lived with his parents until 1760.

He was a private in Captain Thomas White's Co., York Co., PA militia in the Revolutionary War.

Before Mar 31, 1787 he settled on a farm near Frederick Co., MD This farm may have been at Trapp (now Jefferson) on Mill Creek, ten miles from where his older brother Nicholas settled in 1786.

He was listed as head of family in Frederick Co., MD in the 1790 census.

In 1799 he lived at New Georgetown, OH or resided in Beaver Co., PA along the border of Ohio.

References on him include NGSQ article, Vol. 52, "Founders of the American Firestone Family" by George Ely Russel. Also the book "Eighteen Century
Emigrants from Northern Alsace to America" by Annette Kunselman Burgert, Picton Press, Camden, ME.

The veteran's book says he died in Maryland.

The children of Mathias and Ann Firestone were:

1. Nancy Firestone
2. Jacob Firestone b: 15 AUG 1775 in Paradise Township, York Co., PA
3. Catherina Firestone b: 21 MAR 1777 in Northumberland Co., PA
4. Sarah Firestone b: 4 MAY 1778 in Pennsylvania
5. John F. Firestone b: 16 MAY 1782 in Frederick Co., MD
6. George W. Firestone b: 22 APR 1784 in Frederick Co., MD
7. Solomon Firestone b: 4 MAY 1786 in Frederick Co., MD
8. Mary Firestone b: 9 OCT 1789 in Frederick Co., MD
9. Elizabeth Firestone b: BEF. 1790
10. Margaret Firestone b: BEF. 1790
11. Mathias Firestone b: 2 NOV 1794 in Beaver Co., PA
12. Daniel Firestone b: 31 MAR 1797 in Columbiana Co., OH
13. Hannah Firestone b: 29 NOV 1799 in New Georgetown, OH
14. Joseph Firestone b: 20 SEP 1806
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Biography*

From the "FOUNDERS OF THE AMERICAN FIRESTONE FAMILY By GEORGE ELY RUSSELL" which appeared in the "National Genealogical Society Quarterly":

"MATHIAS FIRESTONE was born Johann Mathias Feuerstein on 5 April 1744 at Berg, Alsace, a son of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnemacher) Feuerstein.* During the Revolutionary War he served as a private in Captain Thomas White's company, York County, Pennsylvania, militia. In about 1774 he married Anna Maria Bieber (Mary Ann Beaver) , possibly a daughter of Jacob and Catharina Bieber who witnessed the baptism of their son John in 1782 at Frederick, Maryland. They settled on a farm in Frederick County, Maryland, before 31 March 1787 when he was deeded land there by Richard Wood, and where in 1790 he was head of a family with his wife, four sons under age sixteen, and four daughters.** Head of family at South Beaver twp., Beaver Co., Pa., said to have died in 1829, possibly in Columbiana County, Ohio."

NOTES:
* Lutheran Church Records, Berg, Alsace, Copied by E. P. Buchanan.
** First Census of the United States. Washington. 1908.

Birth*

5 April 1744

Berg Evangelical Lutheran Church, Berg und Thal, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France¹

Marriage*

4 April 1774

Paradise Twp., York Co., PA, Principal=Anna Maria Bieber¹

Census*

1790

1790 Federal Census, Maryland, Frederick County, No Township, Series: M637, Roll: 3, Page: 256
Firestone, Mathias 1-4-5-0-0²

Death*

1829

Columbiana Co., OH¹