Michael Alt (I) [12367]

  General Notes:

“Descendants of Jacob Alt (I)” by Priscilla Boswell [30-I-2001];
birthdate from LDS Ancestral File for 1771; “Descendants of Adam
Boots (1733-1803)” [LDS film #1036425] by Clyde S. Boots, pp.
617-622; C. S. Boots fam. gp. sheet used here for both birth-
and deathdates; family group chart (Mrs. Julia A. Thompson,
Baltimore, MD): ‘died between 3 Dec 1824 and 2 Sep 1826, leaving
widow Mary and children, Mary wife of Jacob Roads; Elizabeth,
wife of C.Rohrbaugh; Barbara wife of Daniel Ketterman; and
‘others’ — the deed itself is signed by Mary Alt, Michael Alt
and wife Elizabeth, Jacob Roads and wife Mary, Christian
Rorhabaugh and wife Elizabeth; Daniel Ketterman and wife
Barbara, Susanna Alt, Jacob Alt and Christina Alt, of Hardy
County [VA]: ‘continues to say Michael and Mary were about to
make a deed called for by the contract … [typed message runs off
page and is lost]’; “Early Records of Hampshire Co., VA” ‘Deeds,
Leases & Mortgages’: “1779: Michael Alt [grandfather] to David
Welton [both of Hampshire co] 73 a., Lot 43, on S. Branch; 24 a.
on S. Branch; rec. 3-9-1779, Wit.: John Nevil, Jr., Abel
Westfall, Moses Hutton, Jonathan Heath”; “Grant County Our
Heritage” pp. 129-130: ‘The Henry Buzzard Story’: Alt pedigree;
“Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War” p. 106: ‘Frederick
County’ [7 Mar 1776] Capt. Henry Boteler; Lt. Thomas Odle, etc.,
rank & file, Adam Boot (Henry Ault, Wm. Ault, John Ault, etc.);
p. 237: ‘Washington County’ [1 Jul 1777/5 Oct 1778] List of
Officers and Men in Capt. Henry Botelers Company: (4th class)
George Boot, Adam Boot (‘6th Class’ Henry Ault, Lieut. Thomas
Odel, inter al. familiar surnames); “Washington Co., MD 1783 Tax
Assessment” (Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan 1992, p. 23) ‘Bachelors in Lower
Antietam & Sharpsburg Hundreds’: Michael Alt? (?unclear);
“Genealogies of the Kimble & Alt Families” (in Hardy Co., VA) by
H. A. Alt [1937]; Clara Mae Ross “Chapter XV: Michael Alt
Family” ‘Children of Michael and Mary (Boot)s Alt’ [manuscript:
2001]: of Michael Alt’s 12 children, only first 8 are certainly
those of Mary Boots; remaining 4 likely a second marriage to a
Mary after presumed death of Mary Boots — see each child’s entry
for datings; 1850 Fayette Co., OH census (Marion township) p.
57B [ll. 7-14]: daughter Mary, wife of John Rhodes, gives
Maryland as birthplace (which may reflect upon mother’s
birthplace as well as father’s, known to be in MD)

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: farmer.

2. Religion: German Reformed.

Michael married Mary Boots [11201] [MRIN: 4700], daughter of Hans Adam Stieffel [1] and Barbary [14281], about 1788 in ?MD. (Mary Boots [11201] was born about 1775 in , Hardy, Virginia, USA and died before 19 Apr 1802 in ?pendleton Co., VA.)

Michael next married Mary [13800] [MRIN: 5175] before 1803 in ?hardy / ?Pendleton Co., VA. (Mary [13800] died after 1811.)