Italian name Alberti..he was a govt. official until an insurrection of some kind there and he fled first to Austria and then to Germany where he became a Capt. in the German army. There he became involved in a duel in which he killed the other man. He fled to American in time to serve in the American Revolution. For this service he grants of 400 acres of land on Mill Creek, (now Forsyth Co.) near Bethania and another 300 acres nearby in the years 1778, 1779 respectively. He married 3 times...his first wife is unknown but according to the Moravian Records. Bethania Diary, he asked to hold funeral services for his wife who died at 12:00, May 3, 1781