General Notes

Nickname:<NICK> Nicholas
Also Known As:<_AKA> Nicholaus Query
BIOGRAPHY: Johann Nicolaus Quirin was born December 16, 1714 in the townof Wolfskirchen, in Alsace, France to Hans Jacob and Margaret (Quirin)Quirin.  In 1728 he received communion.  He was a member of theWolfskirchen Lutheran Church.  He married Ana Margaretha Bauer sometimearound 1738.  In 1752 he took his wife and children to the city ofRotterdam.  There, they boarded the English ship Halifax for a journey toAmerica.   A sister Elizabeth Stroh had immigrated to Pennsylvania in1749.  After a stop at Cowes, England, the Halifax crossed the Atlanticand arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, September 22, 1752.Johann signed the oath of allegiance at the statehouse as "Hans NickelQuierin."   "Quierin" was the spelling his family would use on themajority of documents they were found on from that date until the 1780's."Nicholas" was the name he went by throughout his life.  He settled inRockland Township of Berks County, Pennsylvania, attending the ChristLutheran Church located in the town of Dryville.  It was commonly knownas the Mertz Church.   He relocated to Maxitawney Township by 1767, butmaintained membership in the church.  In 1778, "John Quorden" signed aloyalty oath in Montgomery County, Maryland.  On May 8, 1779, NicholasQuery, as he now called himself, purchased a 223-acre farm in MontgomeryCounty, Maryland, known as "Maiden's Bower", "Resurvey of Rich Meadows"and "Montross".  He purchased it from Samuel Boone, cousin offrontiersman Daniel Boone.  Samuel Boone ran a firearms factory thatsupplied weapons to the rebels and was in need of cash badly by 1779.  Astream called Muddy Creek bisected his farm.   On it, Nicholas built agrist and saw mill.  He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Churchof Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.   The records of that churchshow that "Nickolas Queri" took communion with his wife Margareth on May19, 1782 and on June 7, 1783.  Nicholas wrote his will on October 13,1788.   John Nicholas Query died in Montgomery County, Maryland onNovember 14, 1788, age 73.   His will was probated December 15, 1788.  Init, he made the following bequests to his children: Sons Daniel andHenry:  The whole of my land, to them and their heirs forever to bedivided between them, share and share alike so as to make it of equalvalue to each of them on their jointly paying the following sums of moneyto their five sisters at the times mentioned, Viz: Fifteen pounds commoncurrency to Mary Ann March within one year after my wife's decease.Twenty-five pounds within one year to Christine Schindler after my wife'sdecease.  Twenty-five pounds to my other three daughters Catherine March,Elizabeth Humbert and Susannah Tice each like money within one year of mywife's decease.  Source: The Family of John Nicholas Query - AGreat-Great-Great Grandfather of President Dwight David Eisenhower, ByPatrick R. Pearsey, 2000.

BURIAL: The family burial ground of the Query�s is on the above property,which was known as the Haywire Farm in the late 1900s.  A Mr. HarrySteidle of Germantown, Maryland then owned it.  He sold the farm and theland was turned into a housing development.  He retained enough of it forhis own house and the Query Family Cemetery.  Of all the Query�s buriedthere, only two stones remained by the 1970s.  One has the inscription�Died the 24 November, 1788, John Nicolus Query — Was born the 17 ofDecember 1714�.  The other one is apparently for his granddaughterCharlotte (daughter of Daniel Query).  Its inscription reads �CQC, BornJuly, 1801, died April 26, 1826.�  She married William Counselman onMarch 2, 1826.