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Chapter Three -- The Second Generation, North

 

 

Sometime shortly following Thomas0 Casebolt's death, his minor children may have been farmed out to friends or relatives in northern Maryland and, possibly, in southeastern Pennsylvania. It may well have been that they were placed in pairs. The eldest son, John1 may have taken the youngest, Henry4 under his wing. As we will see in Chapter 4, they both settled in the same out-of-the-way area in what is now West Virginia.

 

NAOMI2 (CASEBOLT) BURNEY (1750? - 1842)

Naomi2 and Robert3 must have been placed together at some distance from the family home. This would help explain why Naomi2 and Robert3 remained so close throughout their lives, whereas, as adults, they seem to have had virtually no contact with John1 and Henry4 (for one possible contact see page 3-13 below).

My best guess is that Naomi2 and Robert3 were placed further north in Maryland than the neighborhood of the Thomas0 Casebolt properties; perhaps, as far north as southern Pennsylvania. Robert3 who enlisted in 1777 at York, Pennsylvania, said in 1832 that when he left Pennsylvania to go west following his discharge in 1781, he left his discharge papers with his elder sister, Naomi2 who was by then, or who was shortly to be, the wife of Thomas Burney. Naomi2 Casebolt Burney in 1832 immediately confirmed that she had been living in Pennsylvania in 1781 and that Robert had left his papers with her. She signed her statement with an X. Thomas Burney confirmed that he had seen the discharge papers in his wife's pos-

 

CASEBOLT -- An American Family              Copyright 1992 - RAK

Ch.3 - Second Generation, North                         Page 3-1

Last Revised: 14 August 2001

 

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