Hans Peter Eaker Jr.

• General Notes
  • Peter Egger (Eaker), a Swiss shoe cobbler, arrived in America in 1741.  Like many German speaking immigrants of the time, the family settled in Lancaster County, PA.  When the migration to the Catawba River area of North Carolina began, the Eakers were among the first to move in the early 1750s.  This journal is about the Eaker and related families who settled in Lincoln County, NC in the mid eighteenth century and traces a line which remains in the area of Old Tryon to this day.
    
    Peter and Barbara attended Mulbach Reformed Church in what is now Lebanon Co., PA which is near Muddy Creek in Lancaster County where the other Eakers lived.
    
    When Peter, Jr. moved south to North Carolina he quickly began acquiring land both through grants and purchase.  Together Peter, his brother Christian and his father owned about 1750 contiguous acres between the south side of Little Beaverdam Creek in present day Gaston County and running north almost to Indian Creek in present day Lincoln County.  Besides farming, one deed mentions that Peter, Jr. operated a grist mill on part of the property.
    
    Their neighbors were Michael Rudisill, Joseph Baker, Nathaniel McClurg, John Crouse, Peter and Jacob Plonk, Johannes Dietrich Biehn (John Teeter Beam), and Adam Whisnant.
    
    During the Revolutionary War the Eaker family remained neutral, though they had a definite Tory leaning.  The only active fighting they experienced was as Tory soldiers at the Battle of Ramsour's Mill.  After that both Peter and Christian and their sons did not participate in battle.  There is a record of Peter selling or giving supplies to the British soldiers.  After the war the Eakers were among the men indicted under the Confiscation Act for their assistance to the British.  There is no record however of them losing their land.  Peter's son-in-law Nicholas Warlick, did however lose his land.  Obviously hard feelings did not last long as another of Peter's daughters, Mary, and his son John Peter both married children of Patriot Col. Frederick Hambright.

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