
Caspar Ott

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Name Caspar Ott Birth Dec 1727 Oberhasli, Niederhasli, Zürich, Switzerland Christening 16 Nov 1738 Kirchberg, Aargau, Switzerland Gender Male Death Mar 1795 South Carolina, United States Person ID I312684221003 Oswald Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
Father Mechlior Ott, b. Abt. 1699, Oberhasli, Niederhasli, Zürich, Switzerland d. 23 Oct 1755, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States
(Age 56 years)
Relationship unknown Mother Gretchen Schmidt, b. 1699, Alance Lorraine,,Up. Rhine Valley,Switzerland d. 1770, Switzerland
(Age 71 years)
Family ID F3130 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Peggy Ann Miller of Columbia writes that she descends from Jacob Ott
(1755-1820) who married Mary Elizabeth Ott (1759-1816) son of Jacob
Ott and Margaret Fitchner. She sends data on unrelated Miller family
stating that "Miss Margaret Ott married John Miller in 1775. They
adopted John Larr who was born in 1800 (source:Miss Emily Culler,
1975, Salley Museum) She also sends Family Group Sheet as follows:
Father- Jacob Ott (b. 1725 Switzerland, d. abt 1786, son of Melchior
Ott and Gretchen Schmidt) Mother: Margaret Fitchner. Children: Jacob
(1755-1820) m. Mary Elizabeth Ott; Margaret (b. 1758/59) m. John
Miller, 1775; Abraham James (1757-1799)" [Letter from Mrs. Floyd W.
Miller (Peggy Ann Miller) of Columbia, SC to Wm. C. Hill dated 8 Aug
1994.]
Children of Casper Ott:
Caspar Ott married Mary Stehely in 1752.[69] Before the Giessendanner record gives out, it shows four children born to the couple: Margaret (1753), Hans George (1755), Maria (1757), and Mary Elizabeth (1759).[70] Any son born after that would have been too young to father Jacob in 1774. Even Hans George, the oldest son, would have been only nineteen. Unless that last illegible line on the Charles Ott Bible page shows Hans George, my guess is that Jacob born 1774 was the son, and not the grandson, of Caspar Ott.
Marriages in eighteenth-century Orangeburgh tended to be between men in their mid-twenties and women in their late teens. Caspar was 24 when he married Mary Stehely. Mary’s age is unknown, but if she was, say, 17, then she would have been 39 when Jacob was born. The 1790 census shows “Gasper Ott Senr” with three males over 16 and one under 16, two females, and three slaves.[71] (Jacob would have been 16 at the time, and so could have fit in either category of males, depending on the census-taker’s whim
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