Mathis Firestone (Feuerstein)

  General Notes:

MATHIAS FIRESTONE was born Johann Mathias Feuerstein 5 April 1744 at Berg, Alsace, a son of Nicholas and Catharina (Nunnemacher) Feuerstein. Sailed from Rotterdam on ship Peggy (Capt. James Abercrombe) arrived 24 Sept. 1753. 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). They settled on a farm in Frederick County, Maryland, before 31 March 1787 when he was deeded land there by Richard Wood. In 1790 he was head of a family with his wife, four sons under age sixteen, and four daughters. Mathias died in 1829 in Columbiana County, Ohio.

Mathis married Ann Marie Bieber (Beaver), daughter of Lorentz Lawrence Bieber (Beaver) and Catharina Adams, in 1774. (Ann Marie Bieber (Beaver) was born on 15 Jul 1752 in Berks Co. PA. and died on 12 Feb 1827 in Columbiana Co. OH..)