Timeline

Here is a brief timeline of events of my direct Castleman ancestors. It is kept brief in order to show the travel from one location to the next.

• 1634 Johann Casselman marries Anna at the Lutheran Church in Adelshofen, Germany.
• 1709 In winter Hans Dietrich Casselman and family emigrate to America.
• 1713 The first Palatines arrived in the Mohawk Valley in January.
• 1729 First log church of the Palatines in Stone Arabia is built.
• 1749 Andreas Ludwich Casselman receive two land grants totalling 700 acres. in Wappacomo or the Great South Branch of Potomac in Frederick County,Virginia from Lord Fairfax.
• 1750 brothers David, Jacob, and Lewis came to Virginia from Albany County, NY. 
• 1761 Andreas Ludwich Castleman cleared & improved a 300 acre plantation on Dunnings Creek about 4 miles from the Town of Bedford in Cumberland County, PA.
• 1762 David purchased Head Spring Farm at Summit Point. 
• 1765 David sells Head Spring Farm and puchases Glen Owen Farm 3 miles east of Berryville, VA.
• The original Log church in Stone Arabia, NY is burned by the Tories and Indians on Oct. 19, 1780.
• 1795 Alfred Castleman is born in Runnymede,Virginia.
• 1801-02 son William serves in the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• 1808-1811 William serves in the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• 1811 David sells Glen Owen farm and purchases Rose Hill 
• 1824 David conveys 1 acre of property at Rose Hill to Wickliffe Academy. 
• 1826 David dies at the age of 92, leaving behind an estimated 240 descendants including 1 great great grand child. 
• 1826 Osborne David Castleman is born in Runnymede, VA. 
• 1832 William dies in Runnymede, Frederick County, VA.
• Over a disagreement about slavery Osborne David moves away from his father, and heads to Missouri. He obtained a land grant from President Van Buren. 
• 1858 Osborne David marries Trithena Groves in Dent, Missouri. 
• 1880 Alfred dies in Battletown, Clarke, Virginia.