Nicholas Cain

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Immigrated from England in 1732 on the Ship "Plaisance"
CARN, Nicolaus
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The lines of Cain's we are following and which descended from Nicholas KAIN of PA and VA, used the given names of James, John, Daniel, Jesse, Edmond, Cornelius, Arnold and David. The religion after 1750 was almost exclusively Methodist. These CAIN families always settled in the outlying hill country on the frontier, but in distinct German or Dutch settlements. Our ancestor, Nicholas KAIN, named his first son James. He had a son, Edmond, and also a daughter, Ann. Chapter 2, page 6-7
Nicholas KAIN was a young man of approximately 25 years when he left his father's home and with several other young men, traveled north from the Colonial Settlements of Philadelphia and Chester County into a beautiful and fertile land on the frontier. The Proprietaries of Pennsylvania had recently made available lands to settlers and development companies in this new frontier. The London Company surveyed and opened a tract for settlement as did William Streyper of the Germantown Mennonites. These lands are on the Perkiomen, Tinicum and Tohickon Creeks in Bucks Co., north of Philadelphia.
The earliest data located at the date of this writing [1986] is the issuance of a warrant for one hundred acres of land to Nicholas KANE from the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, issued at Philadelphia on the 18th day of November in the year 1736.
After marking his land and making some improvements, Nicholas then journeyed back to Philadelphia in the Summer of 1736 and made application for a warrant and a survey. Due to the demand for land warrants, it was several months later before he received his documents.
He did woo and wed a German girl by the name of Catherine, her maiden name is unknown. He returned to Bucks County with his new bride. Their first child was born in the fall of 1737 and a daughter which they named Margaret. Their son James was born in early 1739.
About the year 1740, Nicholas with his brother John and the Custer and Humble men, made an exploratory trip south and west down the Shenandoah Valley into Virginia. The KAIN family, Custers, Mauks, Trumbos and Shoemakers located land and staked claims in the Valley of the North Branch of the River in the Gap of the Mountains, forming one of the first German settlements in that part of the West Augusta Co., VA. In the Winter of 1740-41, the KAIN family migrated to their new land. This would be the location of the KAIN family for the next 13 to 14 years.
When he left Bucks County, PA, he stopped for a short time in Frederick County, Virginia. Nicholas CAIN obtained a land patient in 1747 where he lived for about 12 years. John was born in 1742, Daniel was born in 1743. Edmond, Cornelius, Jesse and David were all born in that part of Augusta County, Virginia.
Nicholas applied for and received a warrant for 100 acres of land. The patent was issued on 20 August 1747, and it was duly surveyed with an additional 400 acres by Tho. Lewis, County Surveyor, in 1750. (This narrative continues, in the book, "Descendants of Nicholas Cain" Cain & Evans, 1986.)

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