Michael Kellar was born in about 1760. He married Catherine Monroe, daughter of Thomas Monroe and Catharine Hore, in Stafford County, Virginia. They had nine children. Michael died in 1816 in Fairfax, County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and California.

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"Arent Theunisen Van Hengel, with his wife, Tryntie Reynders, and three children, Reynier, Mary, and Hendrick, came from Hengel in the county of Zutphen (now in Gelderland), Holland, in 1653, and settled on Staten Island [New York]. It is probable that he was killed during the Indian uprising on Staten Island"--Page 27