Re: BAST/BOST Family-Frederick Co. Maryland
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Re: BAST/BOST Family-Frederick Co. Maryland
9/14/00
Hi, Paula,
Mary Bast was b. 16 Nov 1759, d. 23 Jun 1848, dau. of Valentine Bast, b. abt 1729 in Germany, will signed 26 Mar 1809, on file in Frederick Co., MD.The will mentions his dau. Mary Mikesell.He signed his name in the German script Bast, although one son later signed it Baust.
I don't know if he was married when he arrived in Pennsylvania on the Royal Union in 1750, but if not he married soon after arrival, name unknown.Valentine had four or five wives, but Mary was by the first wife, I believe.
Valentine was in Maryland by 1762 when he was naturalized.
He may have been the Valentine Bast who m. Anna Barbara ___ in Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., Pa on 23 Mar 1760.If so his first wife must have died soon after Mary's birth.
There is a book which I found in the LDS library at Salt Lake on the Mikesell family.You might be able to get it at your Family History Center.It is by Ardella M. Rohde, c. 1985.
Marge