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| Name |
Mathias Setzer |
| Born |
03 Oct 1784 |
Lincoln County, North Carolina  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Notes |
- The Catawba River Valley, Rowan County NC, became in 1777: Burke County NC, and became in 1779: Lincoln County NC, and finally in 1842: Catawba County, NC.
http://www.livingplaces.com/NC/Catawba_County/Newton_City/North_Main_Avenue_Historic_District.html
". . . The significance of the North Main Avenue Historic District can best be understood as an integral part of Newton's [Catawba County, NC] overall development. The North Carolina General Assembly in 1842 authorized seven commissioners to establish Newton as the county seat of Catawba County. The act, which created Catawba from the northern section of Lincoln County, required the commissioners to select a site of at least fifty acres for the new town. The home of Mathias Barringer, near the center of the county, was to serve as a temporary courthouse. [1]
The county court soon fulfilled the objectives established by the General Assembly. In April 1843, Mathias Setzer, Jacob Deal, and Jacob McGee deeded to Jonas Bost, chairman of Catawba's "select court" of five men, fifty-one acres to be used for the town of Newton. The land lay in the heart of a productive agricultural area that produced primarily various grains and fruit. Newton was located on Three Creek Road, which originated to the South and intersected Island Ford Road near the present site of Conover. [2] Within a year the court hired David Setzer to build a temporary jail and sold lots to raise money for the construction of public buildings. . . .
[1] The commissioners were B.C. Allen, Lawson Lawrence, Thomas Clonniger, Daniel Lutz, Joseph Wilson, Alexander M'Caskill, and Daniel Finger. Laws of North Carolina, 1842-1843, c. 8, 9. Newton was named for Isaac Newton Wilson, son of Nathaniel Wilson, the member of the General Assembly who in 1842 introduced the bill authorizing the creation of Catawba County. William S. Powell, The North Carolina Gazetteer (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), p. 351.
[2] Mathias Setzer, Jacob Deal, and Jacob McGee to Jonas Bost, April 18, 1843, Catawba County Deeds, Book I, p.53, microfilm copy, Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh; Charles J. Preslar, Jr., (ed.), A History of Catawba County (Salisbury: Catawba County Historical Association, 1954), pp. 50-54, 160 . . ."
U.S. Census Slave Schedules Catawba County, NC 1850: "Matthias Setzer, black female age 27, black male age 22, black female age 17, black male age 14, black male age 12, black female age 3, black female age 2."
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| Person ID |
I30473 |
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| Last Modified |
19 May 2013 |
| Father |
John Setzer, b. Abt. 1754, Rowan County, North Carolina, U.S.A. , d. 18 Mar 1822, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age ~ 68 years) |
| Mother |
Catherine Bushart Barringer, b. 06 Aug 1763, Rowan County, North Carolina, U.S.A. , d. 10 Feb 1810, Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A. (Age 46 years) |
| Married |
Abt. 1778 |
North Carolina, USA |
| Family ID |
F18039711 |
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