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117. FRIEDRICH KARL¹² SECKEL (GEORG FRIEDRICH¹¹, GEORG FRIEDRICH¹⁰, HANS GEORG⁹, WILHELM⁸, BERNHARD⁷, LIENHARD⁶, KLAUS⁵, KLAUS⁴, KONZ³, DIETRICH BUTTEL², DIETRICH¹) was born September 02, 1746 in Schwabisch Hall, Germany, and died January 06, 1806 in Schwabisch Hall, Germany. He married CHRISTINE MARIE BELLES October 13, 1778, daughter of JO. MICHAEL BELLES.

       Children of FRIEDRICH SECKEL and CHRISTINE BELLES are:
 

       Children of JOHN SECKEL and KATHERINE DRESHER are:
 

Notes for JOHAN WILHELM SECKEL:
#2041
The first Seckel born in America was Johan Wilhelm Seckel in 1737 - this date was "derived" from St. Michael's and Zion Church record Vol. 4, Page 228 day of death 20 May 1791 for Wilhelm son of Johann David Seckel (1710-1774) he was 54 years old from a fall in the stable.
References to ancestor's Revolutionary War services - Wm. Sickle,
Germantown Battalion Continental Troops - Private 7/1/1776 - 7/31/1777
Capt. George Hubley's Company

From records of marriages Evangelical Lutheran Congregation:
Whilhelm Seckel and Mary Roberts married Aug 2 1760
Witnesses - Johann David Seckel and wife, the grooms parents, his kinsfolk and others who wre present in the fathers house.
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       Children of JOHAN SECKEL and MARY ROBERTS are:
 

Notes for LORENTZ SECKEL:
#1900
Full name - Georg Lorentz Seckel, (Lawrence)
Also known as Lorenz, George Lawrence, Lornetz.
From records of St. Michael's and Zion Records: Lorentz, son of Jurg David and Anna Catarina Seckel. b. May 11, bap. June 29 1746. sponsors Lorentz Bast and Wife
                1746-1823
The third Seckel born in the land of opportunity was Lorentz Seckel. Lawrence Seckel, eldest son of George David Seckel, was born at Philadelphia, Pa., 11 May, 1747; died 6 March, 1823. He was a merchant and prominent citizen of Philadelphia, where he served as a member of City Councils, and on the Board of Port Wardens, and also as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. He was deeply interested in charitable and philantropic matters, was a founder and first treasurer of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, the first to be organized as an exclusively English Lutheran Church, and the only one which has maintained a continous existence since 1806. From 1790 until 1820, Mr. Seckel was a manager of the Pennsylvania hospital: was some years a manager of the Philadelphia Dispensary, and a trustee of the Young Ladies Seminary, of which the Reverand Samuel Magaw was the president. He married, first, 18 August, 1775, Barbara, daughter of Jacob Chrystler. She was living 5 April, 1779, when she joined her husband in a deed. he married, second 31 July, 1783, Maria Graeff. By his first wife he had but one child, Mary, and by his second wife he is known to have had two sons, and one daughter. It is possible that he had other children.

The Diarist, Jacob Hiltzheimer, writes in Volume XVI, Page 254 of The Penn- sylvania Magazine: "It would be wrong to leave this side of the river without advertingto the history of an extraordinary tree. On the place of Lawrence Seckel, afterwards of the Girard Estate, near Point Breeze, stood a pear tree, the fruit of which was used for many years by a tenant until at last Mr. Seckel eating thereof discovered its great excellence. Its origin is entirely unknown, but it is the respected anscestor of all the Seckel pear trees of the country."

Watson says in his annals of Philadelphia:

"The Seckel pear was cultivated by Lawrence Seckel, and the original tree stands on the place in the Neck, once his and afterwards Stephen Girard's about five miles from Philadelphia and about one mile above the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. * * * He told the father of C. J. Wistar (my informant) when he gave him some of the pears, that he knew not how the tree came there."

From: The gardener's Monthly, January 1865

** "Lorenz Seckel was a well-known wine merchant of Philadelphia, and the farm on which the tree stands was his country seat, in a then somewhat fashionable rural district, now given over to the growth of plethoric cabbages, endless tomatoes, and onions infinite."...
 

"May 1, 1784 - went to Lawrence Seckel's place where a number of gentlemen dined on shad and beefsteaks. His excellency General Washington arrived here from Virginia." As quoted from the Pennsylvania Magazine Volume 16, page 168.

"On 25 May 1779, Lawrence Seckel joined in a petition to the Second Continental Congress deploring the "Decay of Credit and the Depreciation of the Money" as a destructive force upon the efforts of our patriots in the establishment of the Country."

The First Continental Congress served September 5, 1774 to October 6, 1774. The Second Continental Congress served May 10, 1775 for six years. Both met at Carpenter's Hall - built 1770. "The papers of the Continental Congress" contain a paper "Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and other states" by Lawrence Seckel, dated 25 May 1779

Lawrence Sickle served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly 1789 and 1790 according to the Susquehannah Company Papers by Rob't. J. Taylor Vol. X, Pages 17, 92, and 95.

Lawrence Seckel (1746-1823) along with approximately fifteen (15) members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives dined at President George Washing- ton's house on Market Street including the President and Mrs. Washington and four members of their family on 5 Sept. 1791 -
The Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. 20, page 199.

Lawrence Sickel (1746-1823) dined with the President and Mrs. Washington on 18 Feb. 1797 shortly before Washington's term expired along with other repre- sentatives of the Pennsylvania House.
The Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. 21, page. 187
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       Child of LORENTZ SECKEL and BARBARA CHRYSTLER is:
 

Notes for JOHANN DAVID SECKEL:
#1904
(1749-1815)
According to the records of St. Michael's and Zion Church, the fifth Seckel born in the land of freedom was Johan David Sekel son of Jurg David Sekel and wife Anna Catharina - born 18 January 1749.
John David Seckel, so baptized, the second son of George David Seckel was born at Philadelphia, 18 January 1749, died there, 6 November,1815 In a deed executed by him and his wife in 1800, he is styled "gentleman." he was a large land proprietor. He owned League Island, a tract of over two hundred and twelve acres, and there had his country seat. He had other large holding in the southern section of the City, some of which are within the bounds of the recently establish-
ed League Island Park. On one of his farms was a pear tree, which is said to be
the progenitor of what is known as the "Seckel" pear. Mr. Seckel's town house was at the north-west corner of Eighth and Market Streets, where now stands the extensive buildings of Strawbridge & Clothier.
He was married by the Rev. William H. Muhlenberg, 18 June, 1776, to Mary, daughter of Adam Guier, q.v., a wealthy resident of Kingsessing, born 28 November 1760; died 30 November, 1809. Mrs Seckel, her husband and several of their children were buried in the grounds of St. John's Lutheran Church.*
NOTE: ANOTHER BIO CREDITS THE TREE TO THE PROPERTY OF LAWRENCE SECKEL

*All that was mortal of those of the Seckel name buried in St. John's Churchyard was removed to the George David Seckel lot in Laurel Hill in July 1924, when the church property was condemned by the Delaware River Bridge Commission and ordered demolished.

At David Sekell's at Spring Garden, is to be seen an ox weighing 1,892 pounds. Pa. Gazette 10 April 1746.

Spelling of Johann David from: Philadelphia County Births 1766-1780 by John T. Humphrey from records for St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church.

Notes for MARIA GUIER:
#2017
Mary Guier, daughter of Adam Guier a wealthy farmer and grazier, died 3 November, 1809; married to David Seckel, q.v.
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Mrs. Seckel, her husband and several of their children were buried in the grounds of St. John's Lutheran Church.

Volume 14 Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Pages 17 and 18 contains "Fragments from Old Philldelphia Graveyards: as follows:

Page 17:
George D. Seckel, b. Feb 22, 1778 - d. Nov. 4, 1857
Removed John David Seckel (1749-1815)
his wife, Mary Seckel (1760-1809)
their son, William Seckel (1789--1815)
John David Seckel (1786-1818)
his wife, Catharine Seckel - Oct. 4, 1853
Lawrence Seckel (1747-1823)
Mary, wife of Adam Guier - Oct. 9, 1841
Catharine Seckel (1784-1815)
Lawrence Seckel, Jr. (1789-1817)
Philip Seckel (1775-1815)

Page 18:
Mary H. and Maria - children of Adam Seckel
Mary, George H. and Eveline - children of George L. Seckel
Lawrence J. and Sarah Ann - children of John L. Seckel (s/b John D. Seckel, Jr.)

All that was mortal of those of the Seckel name buried in St. John's Churchyard
was removed to the George David Seckel lot in Laurel Hill in July 1924, when
the church property was condemned by the Delaware River Bridge Commission and ordered demolished.

(Note: If they attended St. Michael's Zion Lutheran Church, why were they buried in St. John's Churchyard?)

Spelling of Maria Guier from: Philadelphia County Births 1766-1780 by John T. Humphrey from records of St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church

       Children of JOHANN SECKEL and MARIA GUIER are:
 

Notes for MARIA BARBARA SECKEL:
|1901
Baptism Zion and St. Michaels - July, 1751 - Maria Barbara Seckel,
Daughter of Jurg David Seckel and wife Anna Catharine - sponsor was
Maria Barbara Beckelsin (Brockelsin)
 

Notes for WILLIAM SHEAFF:
#2028
William Sheaff, married 1 July, 1773, Maria Barbara Seckel, eldest daughter of George David Seckel by his wife Ann Maria Catharine Enkels who was born at Philadelphia, in 1751 and died there, 13 August, 1817.
He died 11 August, 1803, aged fifty-eight years. Mr. Sheaff was a prominent and wealty wine merchant of Philadelphia, and one of its influential citizens. By his will, made three days before his death, he gave his entire estate to his wife, making no mention of children, but from the will of his widow and other sources, it is learned that, he had eight children.
Page 366- Seckel/Sickel Family Heritage notes Wm. (Born Weisenberg -
June 17, 171? - Died Phila. Aug. 11, 1803
 

       Children of MARIA SECKEL and WILLIAM SHEAFF are: