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page 1292
births, marriages, or burials after 1720 except the birth of Hans Georg's
son Jost, in 1724. The only children that have been found in the records
of Pennsylvania are: Hans Georg, who came to Pennsylvania on the ship ,,William
and Sarah" in 1727; Anna Elisabeth and her husband, Johan Eberhardt
Riehm. who emigrated in 1717; Anna Maria, wife of Andreas Meixel. whose
minor children are mentioned in the Orphans Court Dockets of Lancaster
County in 1748; Johannes, who settled on the Mill Creek in what is now
Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County, and was administrator for his
father' s estate in January 1727; and possibly Anna Catharina and Hans
Ulrich. The earliest record of the family in America that has been discovered
appears on the Assessment Rolls of Conestoga Township, Chester County (now
all that portion of Lancaster County west of Octorara Creek and north to
the Conestoga Creek) for the years 1724-1725. On this roll is the name
of John ,,Swoape."
,,The Swopes, as other settlers on what was then the frontiers, had
much to contend with in privations incident to a life in an uncultivated
wilderness, the country vhich greeted them on their arriral was not as
inviting as now. That portion not covered with heavy timber was covered
with stunted oak and underbrush, which had annually been burnt off by the
Indians to drive out the game. This had to be cleared and made tillable
by the most crude instruments of husbandry. Our ancestors showed their
discernment by selecting the very best lands, and by their untiring efforts,
energy and perseverance assisted in making that wilderness the garden spot
of fair Pennsylvania. The first humble dwellings were replaced by spacious
stone houses and fine barns. These homesteads have already housed several
generations and bid fair to shelter many more." (The Swope Family
by G.E. Swope, page 24).
(Also in the above book is the following statement,) ,,Wherever we have
found anyone who has had a knowledge of Yost Swope, there we have also
found the tradition that he ,took up' 1,000 acres of land in Leacock township,
Lancaster county, PA. This we are unable to prove, as no deeds have been
found. Our conclusion, based on all the information we could gather, is
that he did take up the land intending to pay for it on time, as was often
done by the early settlers, but died before he had paid for it, and his
interest passed to his daughters and was lost sight of in the change of
name. His son John had already been provided for with 630 acres."
(page 27).
In 1725 Jost Schwab's son, John or Johannes, married Anna Dorothea Lein,
daughter of John Lein of Leacock Township, Lancaster County. (See page
1360).
Jost Schwab (Yost Swope as the English spelled it) probably died in
January 1727 since his son, John (Johannes) was appointed administrator
of his estate the 29th of January 1727. (See the inventory of his estate
on page 1307).
The following September l8th Jost's eldest son, Johann (Hans) Georg
Schwab (see page 1338), arrired in Philadelphia on board the ship ,,William
and Sarah," and hurried to a jouful yet sorrowful reunion with his
brothers and sisters in the Conestoga Valley.
page 1293 (pictures not shown due to poor quality)
above: A view of the stronghold, Steinsberg, "Compass of
the Kraichgau. Here was born Johann Georg Wolfhardt, father of Anna Katharina
Wolfhardt, the wife of Jost Schwab.
below: Situated in the fruitful countryside within view of the
Steinsberg is the district town of Sinsheim, birthplace of Jost Schwab.
page 1294
THE DAUGHTERS OF JOST SCHWAB
ANNA ELISABETHA SCHWAB (No. 4, page 1288), the eldest daughter
of Jost and Anna Katharina (Wolfhardt) Schwab, was born the tenth of October
1692 in Duehren bei Sinsheim, Baden, Germany, and was christened at the
Lutheran Church there the sixteenth of October 1692. When she was ten years
old she moved with her parents to Leimen near Heidelberg. Here she met
Johann Eberhard Riehm and they were rnarried the fifth of April 1712. He
was a baker like her father and may have been an apprentice in his shop.
Their first child, a son, Johann Jakob Riehm, was born 1 June 1713 and
christened in the church in Leimen 14 June 1713. A daughter, Anna Katharina,
named for Anna Elisabetha's mother, was christened 19 January 1716. The
last record of Eberhard Riehm in the church records in Leimen, he appears
as a sponsor at the christening of his nephew, Johann Eberhard, son of
Mathias Riehm on 1 May 1717. He is believed to have left Leimen with his
wife, and two young children shortly after this.
On February 24, 1724 ,,Eberhard Ream of Conestoga asked for a grant
of 200 acres of land on a branch of that creek, inclnding a small Indian
settlement called Cocalico." (Minutes of the Board of Property of
the Province of Pennsylvania, Minute Book L). ,,He has the Indians' consent
to settle and can pay the purchase money down." Eberhard and Anna
Elisabetha Riehm settled their family on the banks of the Cocalico Creek.
Their nearest neighbors were the Delaware Indians who lived in a village
across the creek from the Riehms. The Riehm boys grew up with these peaceful
Indians and hunted and fished with them.
Johan Eberhard Riehm became interested in the Moravian Church and wanted
the Moravian clergy to build a church on his land, but instead in 1745
they built a school and a church on the farm of Henry Haller, Sr, which
started a disagreement between Riehm and the Moravians. Bishep Cammerhoff
of the Moravian Church wrote a letter dated 20 Mach 1748, "there is
a man at Muddy Creek, named Eberhard Riehm, in whose house, if my memory
serves me right, our dear Father (Count Zinzindorf) preached and of whom
Lischy, when in was still at Muddy Creek, made much ado, because he had
700 acres of land and was best able to pay, while the rest of the brethren
were poor people. He is a restless and puffed up fellow. He got the fantastic
idea into his head, when the Brethren first came to Muddy Creek that they
should build a meeting house for them on his land. He had the idea that
when the building was erected on his land, the Brethren would be under
him and he would be the trustee and regent of the congregation, as the
Brethren would live there by bis grace. But we did not accept bis offers
and propositions. Hence he became critical and sought to make out of his
children a gang (of whom four lived on his land in separate families, but
in such a manner that he had not given them any land, could chase them
off, if he wanted to do so). He told them that he had 700 acres of land,
while in Bethlehem there were only 500. He would unite with them and build
a Bethlehem together on his plantation. And then more people would move
to him than to Bethlehem. All these ideas were probably the fruits of the
principles which Lischy has circulated along these people, when he first
preached there."
page 1295
HUSBAND: RIEHM or REAM, Johann Eberhardt (citizen
and baker)
Born: 6 Oct 1687
Place: Leimen, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Married: 5 Apr 1712
Place: Leimen, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Died: 22 Aug 1779
Buried:
Place: Reamstown, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania
Husband's Father: Riehm, Hans Andreas
WIFE: SCHWAB, Anna Elisabetha (No.
4, page 1288)
Born: 10 Oct 1692
Place: Duehren bei Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Chr.: 16 Oct 1692
Place: Lutheran Church, Duehren bei Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg,
Germany
Buried:
Place: Reamstown, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania
Wife's Father: Schwab, Jost or Justus (1656-1727)
Wife's Mother: Wolfhardt, Anna Katharina (1663-?)
Children: When
born: Town: County: State: Date
of 1st marr.: Died:
Ctry To
Whom:
RIEHM or REAM
1. (M) Johann Jacob 1 June 1713 Leimen
Heidel- Baden- 1735
chr
14 June 1713
berg Wuertt. HELLER,
Christina
2. (F) Anna Katharina " " " 12
Aug 1735 5
Nov180?
chr 19 Jan 1716 " " " LEINBACH,
Johannes, Jr.
3.. (M) Abraham 1718
"
PA LEINBACH,
Johanna Maria
4. (M) Nicholas 1721 "
PA (1)
REIDER, ELIZABETH
5. (M John Nov 1723 East
Lanc. PA ...,
Maria Eva
Cocalico
twsp.
6. (M) Mathias 1726 "
" " ...,
Magdalena
7. (M) Andrew about
1728 "
" " ...,
Susanna
8. (F) Susannae about
1730 " " " DIFFT,
Daniel
9. (M) Tobias about
1733 " " " 16
May 1758
KELLER,
Juliana
10. (M) Adam about
1735 " "
"
11. Samuel about
1737 " " "
Sources of information:
1. Bapt. rec. of the Lutheran Church in Duehren, Baden-Wuerttemberg.
2. Marr. rec. of the Reformed Church in Leimen, Baden-Wuerttemberg.
3. Genealogy of the Stukey and Ream Families.
Other Marriages:
#4 Nicholas md (2) HARTMAN, Catharine
page 1296
Johann Eberhard Riehm and his family were members of the Muddy Creek
Reformed Church. Tobias Ream, a son of Eberhard, laid out a plan for a
town to be called Zoar, located on land deeded to him by his father. This
town was commonly called Reamstown even in the early days of the town's
history when it was officially called Zoar. In 1803 the name was officially
changed to Reamstown when the post office was established there. The town
celebrated its bicentennial in 1960.
The graves of Johann Eberhard and Anna Elisabetha (Schwab) Riehm are
in the Ream graveyard at Reamstown, Pennsylvania. The tombstone inscriptions
read as follows:
,,Hier liegt Bergraben Des Here
lies buried of
Eberhart Rihms Seine Ehe Eberhart
Rihm, his wife
Frau Elisabeth, Eine Ge Elisabeth,
nee
Borene Schwobin Geboren Schwob,
born
in Europa zu Diren Den 10 in
Europe, at Duehren, the lOth
Octob. 1692 in der Ehe of
Oct. 1692. In marriage
Hat Sie Gelebet 49 Jahr she
lived 49 years
7 Monat 18 Tag Verschied 7
months, 18 days. Passed away
D. 4ten Mertz 1761 Ihres Alters the
4th of March 1761, her age
68 Jahr 4 Monat 22 Tage. 68
years, 4 months, 22 days.
,,Hier Ruhen Die Here
rest the
Gebeine Eines Sehr Ehrlichen bones
of a very honest
lieben Alt Vaters dear
old grandfather
Joh. Eberhard John
Eberhard
Rihms Rihms
Gebh. 1687 in born
1687 in
Europa Verehligt Europe,
married
im Jahr 1711 mit in
the year 1711
Elisabeth Schwabe Elisabeth
Schwab
Ging 1717 N. America Came
1717 to America
Woselbst Sich Seine Fam
Where his family
ilie von 10(?) Kindern Ver of
10(?) children
mehrte auf Seelen. increased
to 150 souls.
He
fell asleep in Jesus 22
August
1779 His
age 92 years."
The Ream Family Association, Inc., Forest V. Ream, president, Friendship,
Maryland, is doing extensive research on the Ream family in Germany and
Pennsylvania, and are planning to publish in the near future a Ream History
and Genealogy.
page 1297
ANNA MARIA SCHWAB (NO.7, page 1288), daughter of Jost and Anna
Katharina (Wolfhardt) Schwab was born the 3rd of October 1698 and christened
the 9th of October 1698 in Duehren bei Sinsheim, Baden, Germany. When she
was a little girl of three and a half, her parents moved from Duehren to
Leimen near Heidelberg.
On the 19th of September 1719 Anna Maria Schwab married Andreas Meixell,
a widower and a citizen of Leimen. This couple probably came to America
with the Jost Schwab family in 1720. They were living in Donegal Township,
Lancaster County, when Andreas Meixell wrote his will the 25th of October
1735. The will was probated the third of March 1740. In his will he named
bis wife, Ann, and appointed Emanuel Carpenter and John Swope as his executors.
The Lancaster County Orphans Court record dated 6 December 1748, states
that Conrad ,,Mixsell" one of the sons of Andreas Mixsell, chose Emanuel
Carpenter and John Swope as his guardians. Conrad was over age fourteen.
Emanuel Carpenter and John Swope were appointed guardians of Mary and George,
orphhan children of Andrew Mixsell. These children were under age fourteen.
In the reoords of Trinity Lutheran Church in New Holland and Heller's
Salem Reformed Church of Upper Leacock Township a Jacob Meixell, born about
1712, and a Hans Martin Meixell, born 10 November 1713 are mentioned. These
men were probably sons of Andreas Meizell by bis first marriage, or they
were his younger brothers.
Note - Andrew Mixsell's name is on the Assessment list of Conestoga
Township, 1724-1725.
page 1298
JOST SCHWAB
ORIGINAL RECORD EVIDENCES
l. Letter of June 1, 1959 to Robert Long, Flourtown, Pennsylvania
from Pastor Gerd Boettcher of the Lutheran Church at Duehren, Kreis Sinsheim,
Baden.
Dear Mr. Long,
Today I got by a circuitous route your letter of Jan. 2,1959 to the veterinarian,
Dr. Schwab, of Sinsheim. At the moment I am really very busy, as there
will be a visiting delegation to my church next Sunday, and day after tomorrow
I have to fly to Berlin for a conference. But your letter has already been
knocking about here so long that I want to give you at least some sort
of response.
Right away I looked in the oldest church archives for the name of your
relative, Jost Schwab, and did indeed find a page on which is inscribed
something about Jost Schwab and his familial connections, but unfortunately
the script is of such outmoded style that I need time to decipher it. Perhaps
I'll get around soon to communicating the precise entries to you. Until
then I just wanted today to inform you that you can come on to some new
tracks in your genealogioal research here in Duehren, a small town in the
neighborhood of Sinsheim. In case you come to this region I would be glad
to help you.
I have been able so far to translate one entry: Jost Schwab was married
to Anna Katharina of the Buergermeister family of Wolfhardt here in Duehren.
The Wolfhardt's are a very interesting family here in the Kraichgau. One
of their number was pastor during the Thirty Years War and wrote the only
intact diary of that time that has been well-preserved here in our Duehren
church archives.
Maybe sometime I shall have the pleasure of making your personal acquaintance.
Very sincerely yours,
Gerd Boettcher, Pastor
2. Extract from the Baptismal Records of the Luterhan Church at Leimen,
dated August 22, 1962, with pastoral certification as to its accurate copy:
Year 1704, page 118. Date of baptism 28 May 1704
Child baptized: Johannes Schwab
Parents: Jost Schwab, citizen and baker here residing and his wife Anna
Catharina.
Godparent: Johannes Kitzmueller, presently the miller at the Thorn Mill.
page 1299
Added note by the pastor: ,,It may be of interest that on October 21,
1707, for Jost Schwab, citizen and baker here residing, and his wife (name
not mentioned) there was baptized a child named Hans Ulrich.
3. Letter of August 27, 1962, from Pastor Gerhard Niemann of the
Lutheran Church at Duehren:
Dear Mr. Long,
When I recently entered upon my pastoral service in Duehren I soon discovered
a letter that you wrote ca January 2, 1959 to Dr. Schwab of Sinsheim. At
that time Dr. Schwab probably forwarded it to our pastoral office here
for an answer to be worked out here, but my predecessor then neglected
the matter. Do not therefore be too much annoyed if you have not received
a reply before this.
For quite a while I have occupied myself with your matter and was also
able to find out some things. Let us start out with Johannes Schwab. From
the Luterhan pastor's office at Leimen I was able to get an extract from
the register of births from the year 1704, aocording to which this Johannes
was baptized May 28, 1704 in Leimen. Since on account of infant mortality
at the time it was customary to baptize no later than the second day after
birth, he was born, therefore, on May 26 or 27, 1704. The parente were
Jost Schwab and his wife, Anna Katharina. I enolose the certified extract.
Jost (i.e., Justus) Schwab, designated ,,Schwaben zu Duehren bei Sinsheim"
in the ancient records, really turns up in our oldest church record-book.
He was married May 17, 1681 to Anna Katharina Wolfhart.
From this marriage issued the following children:
l. Hans Joerg, born July 19, 1682 in Duehren.
2. Jost Conrad, born April 29, 1687 in Duehren.
3. Jost Conrad, born January 11, 1690 in Duehren.
4. Anna Elisabeth, born Octobor 10, 1692 in Duehren.
5. Anna Magdalena, born April 11, 1697 in Duehren.
6. Maria, born October 9, 1698 in Duehren.
7. Johannes, born about May 27, 1704 in Leimen.
8. Hans Ulrich, born about October 20, 1707 in Leimen.
Therefore, Jost Schwab lived in Duehren from 1681 till about 1700. From
then on the name Schwab disappeared in Duehren. Only in the year 1702 a
citi- and master-baker, Albrecht Schwab, is named as godfather in our church
archives.. This is probably a brother of Jost Schwab.
One more thing about this Jost: you write that he lived from 1678 on. That
cannot be right, as he already married in 1681. Where did you get this
date, anyhow?
George Schwab was the father of Jost.. He was a citzen and councilman in
the year 1681 in Sinsheim. Unfortunately, I was not able to find out
page 1300
anything in Sinsheim about this Georg Schwab - neither the dates of
his birth and marriage nor anything about his wife, for in the so-called
War of the Palatine Succession (Liselotte of the Palatinate!) Sinsheim
was, as well as Heidelberg, totally destroyed, and in the process all the
ancient records were also lost (burned).
According to your letter this father of Jost Schwab is supposed to have
been a Buergermeister in Leimen.(see page 1305) It would very much interest
me to know where you got that information. For in the ,,Contributions to
the Local History of the Community of Leimen" by Georg Ludwig Menzer,
the sequence of Buergermeister of Leimen is set forth, but no Schwab is
mentioned. Therein, it is only mentioned that in 1702 Jost Schwab moved
from Sinsheim to Leimen and was immediately at the age of 46 - so he was
born in 1655 - enrolled as a citizen (elector).
So that was all I could find out about the Schwabs. It was no easy job
to dig up all I did. On the other hand, much more might be reported about
the mother of Johannes Schwab, the Anna Katharina nee Wolffhart. If you
were also interested in that, you should let me know by another letter,
and then I'll do it. Her father was Buergermeister in Duehren. Her grandfather
was pastor in Duehren, and her great-grandfather was the Lutheran abbot
of the Alpirsbach cloister in the Black Forest and Councilor to the Duke
of Wuerttemberg (around the year 1600). In our oldest church record book
there is a hand written diary of thirteen pages by the Pastor Wolffhart
covering the year 1664!
Regarding Duehren the following may be said: it's a very old place! Archaeological
remains from the pre-Christian era (celtic graves), excavation of a Roman
villa that dates from 300 B.C., ,,villa Durmina" in 769 A.D., first
church built in 827, Lutheran since 1552. There is a book of regional history
concerning Duehren by Prof. Karl Schumacher, Ph.D., director of the Romano-Germanic
Central Museum of Mainz. About fifteen houses four hundred years old are
still standing here. The church was set afire in 1945 by fire from the
American tanks and thereby destroyed. (Don't interpret this as a complaint).
Nevertheless, the magnifcent Choir room from the year 1494 (Gothicc style
of architecture) with all the valuable paintings on the ceiling that date
from the same year are intact. In this Choir in 1681 Jost Schwab was married
to his Anna Katharina.
I remain at your disposition for further advice, to the degree that
I can obtain such information for you, and remain with kindest regards,
Yours,
Gerhard Niemann, Pastor
page 1301
4. Records copied at Lancaster County Historical Society, August
1969. Records submitted by Blanche A. Swope, 323 Richland Lane, Pittsburgh,
PA. from researoh done in Germany prior to Hitler.
Contributions to the Local History of the Community of Leimen by
Georg Ludwig Meinzer.
27 April 1702 - the following citizen was enrolled.
Jost Schwab, his age 46 years, his wife, Anna Katerina Schwab, her age
38 years, he has the Reformed religion, and she the Lutheran religion.
He was born at Sinsheim on the Elsenz (river), Kreis Heidelberg, Baden.
They brought with them the following children:
Hans Jorg, 19 years
Jost Conrad, 13 years
Anna Elisabeth, 11 years
Anna Margaretha, 7 years
Anna Magdalena, 5 years
Anna Maria, 3 years
Anna Katharina, 1/2 year
Churchbook in Duehren near Sinsheim: Churchbook in Leimen:
Jost Schwab, unmarried son of Georg Schwab, citizen and councilman at
Sinsheim, married bis betrothed, Anna Katharina, single daughter of Hans
Jorg Wolfhart, mayor of this place on Tuesday, the 27 May 1681. Through
God's blessinge the following children were born to them:
Hans Jorg was born the 19 July 1682. He was baptized the following Sunday.
The godparent was Hans Jorg Boser, citizen at Weyler.
Jost Konrad was born Friday, 29 April 1687 and brought for baptism on Sunday,
the 1st August. Godparent: Jost Konrad Eglauf. (marginal note - Died 17
August 1689.)
Jost Konrad, born the 11 January 1690; baptized the 12 of the same month.
Godparent: Jost Konrad Eglauf.
Anna Elisabeth, born October 1692, baptized on Sunday, the 16th of the
same month. Godparent: Elisabeth, wife of Conrad Eglauf.
On the 24 April 1712 after the proclamations were read three timesi
n the parish church by Johann Peter Haan, the Reformed pastor at that time,
Johann Eberhardt Riehm, of the baker' s trade, single son of Hans Andreas
Riehm, citizen of Leimen, was married te Anna Elisabeth Schwab, single
daughter of Jost Schwab, citizen and baker of the same place. They had
two children born in Leimen:
Johann Jakob Riehm baptized the 14 June 1713 in the parish church. The
sponsor was Johann Jakob Alsentz, etc.
Anna Katharina Riehm was baptized the 19 January 1716 in the parish church.
Anna Katharina Riehm was the daughter of Hans Eberhardt Riehm, citizen
and baker of Leimen and his wife, Anna Elisabeth, born Schwab. Anna Magdalena,
the daughter of Jost Schwab and his wife, Anna Katharina, was baptized
the 11 April 1697, dominica quasimodigenine, and named after the sponsor,
Anna Magdalena, the daughter of Hans Georg Bender.
page 1302
On the 9 October 1698 Justo Schwab, citizen and baker here and his wife,
Anna Katharina had a daughter baptized and named after her godparent, Maria,
wife of Alexander Wolfhart.* (FGS p 1331, child Nr. 2)
On the 19 September 1719 after the third proclamation Pastor Kirchmeyer
married in the parish church, Andreas Meixel, widower and citizen at Leimen,
and the young woman, Anna Maria Schwob, legitimate, single daughter of
Jost Schwab, citizen and baker in Leimen. (Andreas Meixel died in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania in 1739. The wll was written in High Dutch and not translated
for nearly a century. The executors were his widow, Anna Maria Meixel,
and John Schwab, her brother.)
Anna Margaretha Schwab was baptized at Sinsheim the 18 August 1695.
Parents: Jost Schwab of Duehren and Anna Katharina, his wife.
Godparent: Margaretha Ganser. Anna Margaretha was born the 18th of June
1695.
Anna Katharina Schwab. No baptismal record found; the only actual date
found is that of the census of 1714 when she was confirmed after Christmas
and admitted to the Lord's Supper. ,,Anna Katharina Schwab from Leimen,
13 years old. Father - Jost."
Johannes Schwab has been baptized in the parish church by Pastor Johann
Peter Haan in Leimen.
Parents are Jost Schwab, citizen and master-baker here and his wife, Anna
Katharina.
Godparents: Johannes Kitzmiller, miller at the Thorn Mill.
Hans Ulrich Schwab was baptized at the parish church.
Parents are Jost Schwab, citizen and baker here and his wife.
Godparent, Hans Ulrich Jerbuer, citizen and taylor here.
George Schwab was the father of Jost Schwab. He was born about 1610,
married about 1630, and died after 1681 and before 1689.
Margaretta (Zimerman) Schwab, widow of George Schwab, councilor. She
died 17 March 1695, age 82 years.
5. Research done by Herr Hermann Oskar Pertsch of Heidelberg, January
1972.
Paten (Sponsors or Godparents) - Reformed Churchbooks, Leimen.
1695, 25 IX Schwab, Jost, posthumous son of ... Schwab former citizen
at Sandhausen.
1697, 18 8 Schwab, Anna, wife of Philipp Schwab, citizen at Nussloch.
1697, 22 9 Schwab, Hanss Philipp, citizen and barber-surgeon at Walldorf.
1697, 3 Nov, Schwab, Anna Barbara, wife of Peter Schwab, citizen at Walldorf.
1700, 20 VI Schwab, Hanss Jost, (Gerichtsverwandter) senator or councilman
at Sandhausen.
1697, Michaels day, Schwab, Anna Barbara, widow of the deceased Forstknecht
Bernhard Schwab, Seeknecht at Ketsch.
Marriages From Various Parishes near Heidelberg.
Mannheim-Neckarau 1682, 20 June- Schwab, Johann Adam, Churpfaltz Forstknecht,
son of the deceased Berndt Schwab, (Gerichtsverwandter) senator or councilman
at Sandhausen,
Bride - Spickart, Anna Barbara, daughter of the deceased Michel Spickart,
Gerichtsverwandter here.
page 1303
5. Research of Herr Pertsch continued.
Marriages:
Schriesheim: 169O, 28 June - Bridegroom: Schwab, Johann Joost, widower,
village mayor at Sandhausen. Bride: Mack, Miss Johanna, daughter of Johann
Georg Mack, chief magistrate here.
Nussloch: 1697, May - Bridegroom: Schwab, Johann Philipp, widower, of
the Petty Court of Nussloch. Bride: Reister, Miss Anna Barbara, daughter
of Georg Reister of. the Petty Court.
Leimen: 1712, 5 IV - Bridegroom: Riehm, Johann Eberhard, a baker.
Bride: Schwab, Anna Elisabeth, daughter of Jost Schwab, a citizen and baker
in Leimen.
1706, 24 6 - Bridegroom: Bott, Hanss Georg, the son of the deceased Hanss
Bernhard Bott, citizen at Sandhausen.
Bride: Schwab, Anna Catharina, widow of the mayer of Sandhausen, Jost Schwab.
Burial Records of the Reformed Church of Nussloch:
1714, 9 Feb - Schwab, Hans Philipp, citizen here, age 64 years.
Baptismal Records From the Lutheran Churchbook of Leimen:
Date Child
Father
career
Mother
Sponsor
1706, 9 Jan. Johann
Georg Schwab, Joh, Georg Master
Wohlfahrth,
Joh.
Georg von
Duehren bei
Sinsheim
1713, 13 Jan, Georg Michael
Schwab, Joh. Georg chr.
in Walldorf
1715, 17 Sep. Georg Adam Schwab,
Joh, Georg Masterbaker Anna Eva "
1716, 16 Apr, Eva Elisabeth Schwab,
Joh. Georg "
1724. 2 Feb. Jost Schwab,
Joh. Georg "
Birth Records of Sinsheim, Reformed Churchbook:
Date Child
Father
Mother
1690, 4 Dec. Hans Jacob
Schwab, Georg Anna
Esther
1692, 22 VI Anna
Margaretha Schwab , Georg Anna
Esther
1719, 7 Dec. Anna Maria Schwab,
Johann Georg Anna Maria
1726, 24 Feb Johann Michael Schwab,
Johann Georg Anna Maria
Confirmation Records of Sinsheim:
1690, Sep, Schwab, Rosine 15 years
1690, 25 Dec. Schwab, Anna Barbara 13
years, daughter of Georg Albrecht Schwab, Stiftsschultheiss
1696 Schwab,
Anna Catharina 14 years
1698, Easter Schwab, Georg Albrecht 17
years
1701, 27 Mar. Schwab, Anna Catharina 15 years
1706, Easter Schwab, Anna Margarethe 14 years
1711, 24 V Schwab, Matheus 14
years
page 1304
5. Research of Herr Pertsch continued.
Marriage Records in the Reformed Church in Sinsheim:
1697, 17 Feb. Rheinich, Hanss Peter of Eberbach and Schwab, Maria Rosina,
legitimate, single daughter of Georg Albrecht Schwab, Stifts-Schultheiss
here.
1712, 14 June Schwab, Herr Georg Albrecht, Stiftsschultheiss and Frau Magdalena
Doersch.
1718, 15 XI Schwab, Georg, citizen here and Keydel, Anna Maria, daughter
of Johannes Keydel, rnayor of Zuzenhausen.
Burial Records of Sinsheim:
1695, 27 III, Schwab, Margaretha, 84 years old, widow of Georg Schwab,
citizen and senator in Sinsheim.
1708, 14 III, Schwab, Dorothea, 64 years old, wife of Herr Georg Albrecht
Schwab, Stiftsschultheiss (seminary director)
1712, 2 VI, Schwab, Anna, 73 years old
1717, 22 Dec. Schwab, Albrecht, Stiftsschultheiss (seminary director)
1718, 2 I, Schwab, Georg, 58 years and 3 months old. Son of Georg Schwab
and Margaretha born Zimmerman.
1718, 13 IV, Schwab, Anna Esther, 57 years old, wife of Georg Schwab, baker
and senator here.
6.At the Berks County Historical Society, Reading, PA in the Personalities
File is the following information recorded on an index card. The source
of the information is not given, but it appears to have been extracted
from an old Family Bible. Inquiries were made at the Society to learn if
the Bible or other source was in the collection of the Society, but we
were informed that the bible was not in their collection and that the source
of the information on the card was unknown.
Jost Schwab of Sinizheim, 22 February 1678.
Maria Schwob, born 3 Weinmond (October) 1698.
Anna Catharina Schwob, born 3 Herbstmond (September) 1701.
John Schwob, born 26 May 1704 in Aquarious.
Haness UlrichSchwob, born 1707.
My wife's child delivered in death 7 Herbstmond (September) 1709.
My sister's child, Anna Christina born 1 Heumond (July) 1678.
My daughter, Anna Eliass child born 1 Brachmond (June) 1713. *
My Kett's first son born 9 March 1724.
*This must be Johann Jacob Riehm, son of Joban Eberhardt Riehm and Anna
Elisabeth Schwab, baptized in Leimen 14 June 1713.
7. In Gilbert E. Swope's History of the Swope Family and Their Connections,
1678-1896, the following document is printed. The book states that
the original document was in the possession of Adam Swope of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania when the book was published in 1896. This document does not
match research done in Germany or the United States. Perhaps it was translated
incorrectly; for this reason I would like very much to know where the original
page 1305
document is. Our Jost was a member of the Reformed Church, not the Lutheran
Church; his wife's name was Anna Katharine, not his mother's name; his
father's widow, Margaretha born Zimmerman [she could have been Jost's mother
or his stepmother), died in 1695, twenty-five years before this document
was written. Then who is the Jost Schwab of the document? Research in Germany
appearing on page 1303 has found other Jost Schwab's living in the vicinity
of Leimen at the same time that Jost and Anna Katharina Schwab were living
there and having children there. The translation of the document as it
appears in the History of the Swope Family is as follows:
"Lectoria Salutino; or Pentalem Ammegemon a Salutis Oceana.
After the death of her husband, a burger and burgomaster in Liemen under
Burstrasser (Bergstrasse) in Kurpfalz, Anna Katharine Swope was delivered
of her youngest son, Yost Swope (Jost Schwab). Both were Evangelical Lutheran
in Religion, and received into the church of Christ with the rest of the
beloved family. As they intend to depart for a strange land, I herewith
attest to their Christian character and the life they led up to this time,
having long been their pastor and spiritual adviser. As their fide pastorale,
I willingly testify that the above named Anna Katharine and her beloved
son, Yost (Jost), have always been honest and pious as becomes God-fearing
Christians and lovers of Christ and his church. And we have no knowledge
of them excepting what is noble and good, naught but praise. The All-Helper
be their support and guide, and bless their coming and going, and grant
all their wishes with the richest blessings, both on earth and in heaven,
ever partaking of the Holy Communion.
Leimen, Germany, May 5, 1720.
M. John Christoph Schrenik, Pastor Evangelische Kirchengemeinde"
Perhaps the Anna Catharina Schwab, widow of Jost Schwab, the mayor of
Sandhausen who married Hanss Georg Bott, the 24 of June 1706 is the Anna
Catharine Swope of the above document.* Were she and her son related to
Jost and Anna Katharina (Wolfhardt) Schwab, and did they accompany them
to America in May of 1720? To find the meaning of this document, research
continues.
*see page l303 (line 13)
page 1306
8. Chester County Collections, #1-8, 1936-1937, page 313.
Letter of Administration granted to John Swoap, son of Jost Stwope,
29 January 1727.
Bond
Know all man, by these presents: That, we, John Swoap, Jacob Lynne,
and Casper Loughman and all of ye county of Chester, yeoman are held and
firmly bound unto Potters Evans, Reg'str Gen'al for the Province of Pennsylvania,
in the sum of Eighty pounds current money, of the s'd Province. To be paid
to ye said, Reg'str Gen'rl, his certain Att'y G. Excell'y, Admis, or Assigns,
to which ye may in it well and truly, do be maid, we will bind ourselves
our hands and hearts, Ex. G. Adm'Ex and jury of them in the whole and for
the whole and solemnly and firmly by these presents, Sealed vith our own
seal, and dated the twenty-ninth of January Anno-Domini 1727.
The condition of this Obligation is sutch, yt, if the above bond an
John Swope (Jost Schwab) admits of all and singular and if chatles and
Creditts of John Swope, deceased to make or cause to be made a true and
perfect grant of an all and singular goods, chattels and creditts, of ye
s'd possessed which have or shall come to ye hands, possession or knowledge
of him, the said John Swope or to the hands or possession of any others,
a son or sons, the Sons to make an exhibit or causeth, an exhibit to be
made. Ye, Reg. Ex-Gen'rl's Office at Chester on or before the twenty-seventh
day of March, next ensuing, and the same goods and chattels and credits
of the possessions at ye time of his death or which any time after, shall
come to ye hands or possession of any other of son or sons for him. Do
well and truly admit aocording to Law and find I do make or cause to be
made a true and just account of this s'd advent, at or before the tenth
day of March, which will be in ye year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and twenty eight and all of the rest and Residue of other said chattels
and Creditts which shall be found remaining on ye said administratrix,
ye have being first examined and allowed of by the Orphan's Court for the
County of Chester shall be valid and pay unto sutch possessor or possessors
Respectively, or as the said Court by its voice or sentence pronounceth
the Law shall limit and appoint, and if it shall appease that any last
will and Testament was made by the Defendent and the Executor therein named
as Exhibitt-: to ye Register Esquire, for the said County, stating request
to have the it, allowed and proved of accordingly if the said John Swoap
being thereinto requested no lands and holdings up the said. Lastly of
adminis'tr a probation of sutch testament being just had and made at the
s'd Office, then this obligation to be rayd, I or else to stand and remain
in full force and virtue in law.
Sealed and Signed in the presence of:
Johannes
Schwab
Hugh Lowe Casper
Loughman
Jos. Lowe his
Jacob
L Lein
mark
page 1307
"An Inventory of all and singular, the goods and Chattels and credits
of Joste Swope of Mill, near Conestoga in the County of Chester, pator
deceased, taken and appraised, the sixteenth of ye 11th month Anna Domini
1728. By we, whose name are here underwritten.
Imprimus: Have your private and outstanding, decates.
lb.
s. p.
4 books 10
17 8
1 chest 6 4
2
Axes, hose and sundry tools 6 4 2
1 feather-bed 0
5 0
1 littel spinning wheel 1
7 6
1 beade lining 0 8
0
1 table 2
0 0
Pewter & brass & iron pots 1
0 0
Brass kettel 0
3 0
4 horses and mares 1
0 0
5 horned cattel 6
10 0
6 sheep 7
10 0
Sundry head of hogs 1
4 0
2 drawing kind & seat of
0
5 0
5 ould cages & 1 cobord 0
8 0
Brass waiter 0
1 6
1 pr scales & 1 pound wait 0
2 6
1 chafing dish, tobaclah tongue 0
0 1
25 pounds of lead 0
6 3
Soatle Saten 0
0 6
1 crosscut saw 0
2 0
1 opocos tools 1
0 0
42
15 1
Appraised by us:
Henry
Jones
Wm.
Wilers
( The value of the articles in this inventory are most illuminating.
Jost Schwab owned four books which these men appraised as being of more
value than his horses, his cows, his sheep, or any other article he owned.
Would this inventory not be of even greater interest if they had given
the titles of these precious books? Two of the four books were probably
a Bible and a hymn-book. Durs Thommen, a Swiss settler on the Quittapahila
Creek in Lancaster county (now Lebanon county) wrote to the authorities
in Basel requesting that they send him two Bibles and two or three psalterspiels
(hymn books). ,,German books are rare in this land, especially the Bible
and the psalter spiel", he wrote.)
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