Casper Diedrich FAHNESTOCK

                   REFN: 7516
Became a wheelwright and farmed the property at Ephrata, near his
father.  In 1753, he made a trip back to Germany to secure more learned
andable divines for the Lutheran Church.  He visited Wiesbaden and
talked the Rev. John Gleim and his family to come to Pennsylvania.  They
sailed from Wurtemberg on The John and Elizabeth, and landed in
Philadelphia 11/7/1754.  On 3/21/1786, Casper bought from John Penn, the
once famous Admiral Warren TavernPlantation, consisting of an inn and
211 acres. He took over the inn, which was then on the direct stage route
from Philadelphia to Lancaster.  His mother-in-law died there in October
of 1786.  In 1789 he turned the management of the inn over to his son,
Charles, who then passed it to his son, William, in 1834.  The inn lies
just beyond Malvern in East Whiteland Twp., in Chester County.  It was
built in 1745 and was known as the Admiral Warren Tavern until after the
Revolution.  Thereafter, it was called the General Warren Tavern.  During
the Revolution it was run by a Tory landlord and was used as a meeting
place of the Tories.  At one time the inn was considered the county seat
ofChester County.  The original tavern burned in 1831, and at once
rebuilt much as it is now.  As of 1945, because of the Lancaster
Turnpike, it is no longer on any main road, though it still operates as a
tavern.