MARRIED: Ann Warner
(c.1768-between 1850 and 1860)
(March 31, 1795)
CHILDREN:
JOHN BURGER (1795-1851)
Joseph Burger (1798-1886)
Sarah Burger (1800- )
Samuel Burger (1803-1888)
Phillip Burger (1808-1855)
Nancy Burger (Kiser) (c.1810- )
Joel Burger (1811-1868)
David Burger (1814-after 1880)
From the Botetourt County, Virginia Heritage Book:
(First entry:)
The earliest Burger in Botetourt County was Henry Burger, who bought 60 acres on Beaver Dam Creek from Joseph Paxton for 90 pounds in 1793. In 1795 March 31, he married Ann Warner, daughter of Daniel Warner; the bond recorded in Botetourt County on 3/27/1795. Family research indicates that Henry Burger was a Hessian soldier who fought on the side of the British, but Henry, finding the New World more attractive than the old, stayed in America.
They were married by the Rev. Samuel Gray, from New Jersey; for in the 1850 Census, Ann age 82, lists her places of birth as New Jersey. Henry died in 1831, intestate. They had bought land on Catawba Creek and last on Lapsley's Run.
(Second entry:)
Among the early settlers in Botetourt County were the Burgers and the Warners. Heinrich Burger, born between 1755 (my correction: the book says 1775--D.D.A.) and 1760 purchased land in the Beaver Dam area. Heinrich americanized his name to Henry from the original spelling about the time of his marriage to Ann Warner...in Botetourt County. Ann Warner, born in 1768 in New Jersey, was the daughter of Daniel Warner, Sr. It is thought that the Burger and Warner families had known each other before coming to Botetourt.
According to further research into the records by family historian Nash Kerr Burger, Jr., Henry Burger was a Grenadier in the von Linsingen Battalion, Co. 3. By February 1783 he was in New York, but apparently deserted that year shortly before his company was to ship back to Germany. The typical life of a Hessian grenadier in the Revolution can be found in this article by Edward G. Maul.