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Husband: RENZ HEINRICH (Bachelor of Arts 1548, Master of
Arts 1551, Inspector of Scholars at Seminary of United Theological
Studies 1554, Pastor in Lustnau & Winnenden, Abbot at St. Georgen,
monastery in the Black Forest
born: 10 Aug 1529
Place: Weinsberg, Neckar, Wuerttemberg (No.
1, page 1334)
Married: 1557
Place: Stuttgart
Died: 2 Sep 1601
Place: Nuertingen, Schwarzwald, Wuerttemberg
Buried:
Place: Lutheran Church, Nuertingen, Schwarzwald, Wuerttemberg
Husband's Father: Renz, Ulrich II (1506-1585
Husband's Mother: Moegenhardt, Anna Euphrosine
Wife: GRAETER, MARIE (No. 1, page 1336)
Born: 1532
Place: of Winnenden, Neckar, Wuerttemberg
Died: 3 June 1620
Place: Alpirsbach, Schwarzwald, Wuerttemberg
Wife's Father: Graeter, Casper (1500-1552)
Wife's Mother: Zeh, Anna
Children: When
born: Town: County:
State: Date
of 1st marr.: Died:
Ctry: To
Whom:
RENZ
1. (F) Barbara about
1557 Lustnau 17
June 1576
LIEBLER,
Jacob
2. (F) Eleanore about
1559 Lustnau 7
Dec 1579 1637
WOLFHARDT,
Alexander
3. (F) Helene 3
Nov 1560 Winnenden GREBER,
Johann Heinrich
4. (F) Christina 13
Apr 1562 Winnenden 14
Oct 1635
RENZ,
Sebastian
5. (F) Sophie
21 Jun 1563 Winnenden 6
Aug 1584 15
Nov 1609
VEHRINGER,
Andreas
6/ (F) Maria Salome 7
Oct 1565 Winnenden BLOSS,
Jakob
7. (M) Ernst about
1567 St. Georgen 27
Feb 1640
STECHER,
Katharina
8. (F) Maria about
1569 St. Georgen MENDLIN,
Peter
9. (M) Heinrich about
1571 St. Georgen
10. (F) Euphrosine about
1573 St. Georgen
11. (M) Ludwig about
1575 St. Georgen
12. (M) Zacharias about
1577 St. Georgen 16
Aug 1599
13. (M) Otto Johann about
1580 St. Georgen 16
Aug 1599
Sources of information:
Renz, Ernst: *Familie Renz aus Schwaben* (The history of a Swabian
family from the middle ages to the present time).
Other marriages:
#7 Ernst md (2) 15 May 1611, GAYLING, Anna Maria
page 1336
Husband: GRAETER, Casper (Latin schoolmaster
in Heilbronn, clergyman in Herrenberg 1534-1537, court chaplain to Duke
Ulrich at Stuttgart)
Born: 1500
Place: Gundelsheim, Neckar, Wuerttemberg
Died: 21 Apr 1557
Place: Stuttgart, Baden
Wife: ZEH, Anna
Born:
Place: of Heilbronn
Children: When
born: Town: County:
State: Date
of 1st marr.: Died:
Ctry: To
Whom:
GRAETER
1. (F) Marie 1532 of
Heilbronn Neckar Wuertt. 1557
RENZ,
Heinrich
2. (F) Catharine 1533 " " " 14
Aug 1598
WEINLIN (VINARIUS),
Abel
3. (M) Philipp 1540 " " " 9
Feb 1592 1612
HEZELDAF,
Margarete
Sources of information:
Faber, Ferd. Friedr.: *Die Wuerttembergische Familien-Stiftung*, Stuttgart,
1853, vol. 109, p. 14.
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C
H A P T E R 3
THE
GEORGE SCHWABS OF LANCASTER AND YORK COUNTIES
At least three George Swopes were living in Lancaster County before
1749, and in York County after it was created from Lancaster County in
1749. Because of the sparsity of the records of that period, it is diffinult
to tell one George Swope from the other. One was undoubtedly the son of
Jost Schwab and attended the wedding of his brother, Johannes (John) to
his second wife, Catharina Elisabeth Graeff in Lancaster County in 1742.
(See page 1354). He remained in Leimen vith his wife and children after
Jost and Anna Katharina Schwab took the rest of the family to America.
His name disappears from the records of Leimen (see page 1303) after the
birth of his son, Jost, in 1724. His wife's name was Anna Eva. He must
be the ,,Hans Jerrick Swaep" with a family of six persons, who arrived
on the ship William and Sarah and qualified in Philadelphia the 21st of
Septenber 1727. (See FGS page 1341).
The second George Swope was a son of the above George. He was a blacksmith
in Paradise Township in York County when his father died in 1756.
The third George Swope with a wife Anna Maria, also lived in York County.
In York County Deed Bock A, page 59, dated 27 June 1753, George Swope of
Manchester Township, yeoman, and his wife, Anna Maria, granted to Michael
Swoope of York Town, tavernkeeper, for pound 262.10.0 an undivided half
interest in 300 acres to be located anywhere in the Province of Pennsylvania,
pursuant to a promiscuous grant from John White's attorney to the aforesaid
George Swoope, Esquire, of York County and Martin Eichelberger of York
County. On the l0th of July 1753 George Swoope granted to Benediet Swoope
fifty acres of land located somewhere in the Province of Pennsylvania for
pound 20. Benedict Swoope was an innkeeper in the Town of York. (later
he was a minister of the Reformed Church.) On the 4th of September l753
Benedict (in this deed he is called Benjamin, but it is the same man as
Bencdict, innkeeper in York Town) Swoope and Susanna, hie wife grant to
Zacharius Shugart of the same place. George Swoope and Anna Maria must
have been the parents of Michael and Benedict/Benjamin Swoope.
The church records of Sinsheim in Baden, Germany, state that Johann
Georg Schwab married Anna Maria Keydel, daughter of Johannes Keydel, the
mayor of Zuzenhausen on the fifteenth of November 1718. They had two children
before disappearing from the record of Sinsheim: Anna Maria, born 7 December
1719 and John Michael, born 24 February 1726.
Georg Schwab and Georg Albrecht Schwab, brothers of Jost Schwab, were
buried in Sinsheim the 2nd of January 1718 and the 22nd of Decenber 1717,
respectively. Johann Georg Schwab, husband of Anna Maria Keydel was a son
of one of these men and therefore a nephew of Jost Schwab. After 1726,
Johann Georg and Anna
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Maria Schwab and their family disappear from the records of Sinsheim.
He probably was the Hans Jerick Schwab with a family of three persons who
also arrived on the ship William ard Sarah and qualified in Philadelphia
the 2lst of September 1727. On this same passenger list is the name of
Albert Swoap with one person who must have been another relative of Jost
Schwab since the name Albrecht Schwab appears in the records of Sinsheim.
(See page 1303 and 1304.)
And who was John Michael Schwab, born 24 February 1726 to Johann Georg
Schwab and Anna Maria Keydel in Sinsheim? Certainly he is the Col. Michael
Schwab of York County and Revolutionary War fame.
HANS JORG or JOHANN GEORG SCHWAB, eldest son of Jost and Anna Catharina
(Wolfhardt) Schwab, was born in Duehren bei Sinsheim, Baden, the 19th of
July 1682 and was christened at the village church the following Sunday.
Hans Georg Boser, a citizen of Weiler was his godfather. Hans Jorg learned
the baker's trade from his father. When Hans Jorg was nineteen years old,
he moved with his parents from Duehren to Leimen, a village near Heidelberg
and the Bergstrasse Road. (See No, 1, page 1288).
Not long after the move to Leimen, Hans Jorg met and married Anna Eva,
a maiden from a nearby village. Their first son was christened in Leimenon
the 9th of January 1706, and named Johann Georg after his father and both
of his great-grandfathers. His great-grandfather, Johann Georg Wohlfarth
(also spelled Wolfhardt) of ,,Duehren bei Sintzheim" was his godfather
at the christening,
At least seven other children were born to Hans Jorg and Anna Eva Schwab:
Anna Barbara, Georg Michael, Georg Adam, Eva Elisabeth, Anna Eva, Anna
Marelis, and Jost. (FGS page 1341).
In 1717 Hans Jorg and his family joined his father and mother, Jost
and Anna Katharina, in bidding farewell to his sister, Anna Elisabeth,
her husband, Johan Eberhardt Riehm", and their two children, Johann
Jakob, age five, and Anna Katharina, one year old as they departed on the
long journey to the New World. They gave them wishes tor their good fortune
and hopes that they all might be reunited somtime in the near future.
In May of 1720, Hans Jorg, his wife, and children again said goodbye;
this time tu his father, mother, brothers, and sisters. Other relatives
and friends may also have joined this group.
Good news of the NewWorld from his brother-in-law, Johan Eberhardt Riehm,
his father, Jost, and his brother, Johannes (a thousand acres of land is
not a thing to be overlooked), and Jorg became more and more anxious to
join them in Penn's Woods. In 1727 George cast his lot with a group of
Palatines, members of the Reformd Church, traveling to the New World under
the leadership of Rev. Georg Michael Weiss.
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A passenger list of the ship ,,William and Sarah," William Hill,
Master, from Rotterdam, dated in Philadelphia the 18th September 1727 inecludes
the names "Hans Jerrick Swaep - 6 persons, Hans Jerick Schaub - 3
persons, Albert Swoap - 1 person." On the 21st of September 1727 ,,Johann
Georg Schwab" and his male companions took the Oath of Allegiance
to the British government in the presence of the Governor and the Provincial
Council and signed his name.
Who are the men on the passenger list? Following the name of Hans Jerick
Schaub are the letters - Conn - vhich is believed by Strassburger and Hinke
to mean Conestoga where several of the passengers on the ship settled.
We know that Hans Jorg Schab went directly to the Conestoga Valley home
of his brother, Johannes, for on October 2,1727 a letter was addressed
to John Georg Schwab in the Conestoga Valley by Rev. Weiss, the leader
of the expeedition from the Palatinate to Pennsylvania. The odd spelling
on the passenger list of the Schwab names is the interpretation of the
Sound of their names by the Englishman who made out the list.
About this time there were three Reformed congregations in Lancaster
County. A Hans Jorg Schwab became an elder of the Reformed Church at Cocalico
(Bethany Church near Ephrata). ,,John Lein (father-in-law of Johannes Schwab,
brother of Hans Jorg) was an elder of the earliest Reformed Church, which
at first was called The Hill Church and later Hellers, now officially called
Salem. The third Reformed Church was at Lancaster. At first no regular
pastors were available. The people built school houses and persuaded school
masters or other intelligent persons to conduct the worship service and
read printed sermons on Sundays. Heller's Church had its origin in the
year 1725, with a small gathering in private houses, here and there, with
the reading of a sermon, with singing and prayer, according to the German
Reformed order, on all Sundays and holidays; but for want of ministers,
without the administration of baptism and the Lord's supper.' (Lancaster
County Historical Society Paper, 5:4-16). This explains why no early baptism
of children are to be found for those years." (Proving your Pedigree,
Archibald Bennett, 24: 113-118)
In 1733 a Hans Jorg Schwab was one of the subscribers to the Evangelical
Lutheran Church on the Codorus, the only denomination then organized in
what is now York County. This area on the Codorus Creek was truly pioneer
territory and church records of marriages of his children and baptisms
of his grandchildren are very scant. His son, Georg, was a blacksmith in
York County. There are several entries of George Schwab/Swope in the county
records of York and Lancaster, but it is hard to tell which George Schwab/
Swope they concern, father, son, or cousin. In the Early Lancaster County
Land Warrants 1713-1742, #695 and #696, John George Swab received a warrant
for 150 acres on the Mill Creek adjoining William Lewis land in Earl Township
on the fifth of December 1734. On the twentieth of February 1734, he (George
Swob) received a warrant (#741) for 200 acres between Cocalico Creek and
Muddy Creek. On May 18, 1744, the Proprietory government sold
page 1340
four acres to theLutheran Church of New Holland, Lancaster County, in
the names of George Swope, Wendle Zvecker, John Borger, Nathaniel Lightner,
and Michael Rine as trustees for the said congregation (Office of Internal
Affairs at Harrisburg, Book of Surveys A. vol. 50, Page 286). When lot
No. 91 was laid out and surveyed for the use of the German Reformed congregation
of York, George Schwaab was one of the trustees for the congregation.
York Town was laid out in November 1741 and George Swoope applied for
lots No. 87, 104, 124 and 140. Michael Swoope applied for lot No. 75. On
April 1, 1744 George Schwab took the sacrament as was required by Act of
Parliament and on April 10-12, 1744 he was naturalised at a Supreme Court
held in Philadelphia. He was commissioned one of His Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, 22 April 1749. The Act of Assenbly
of August 19, 1749 created the County of York and he was appointed trustee
for the county lands. He was commissioned and October 31, 1749 was qualified
as Justice of the Peace for the County of York, and was one of the first
commissioners of the county. According to tradition, the commissioners
unually met at his house before the Court House was built. (York County
Genealogioal Reports, vol. 23, page 215.)
George Schwab, Sr., son of Jost (he usually used the name George instead
of bis hull name Hans Jorg or Johann Georg) died in Paradise Township,
York County in 1756. Administration Bonds were issued to the administrators
of his estate, his vife, Eva, and son, George, blacksmith. Michael Swoope,
son of George Schwab, Sr's cousine Johann Georg (or George) Schwab, was
the bonds man. The estate of George Swoope (as hbis name is spelled in
the Administration Acoount dated 29 November 1758, showed a balance of
pound 245.12.7. In the Orphans Court Dockets, vol. A, Page 193, the personal
estate of George Swoope of Paradise Township was distributed among his
widow, Anna Eve, and his issue or representatives thereof: George Anna
Barbara, wife of Michael Ranck: Eva Elisabeth, widow of Peter Yeager; Anna
Eva, deceased widow (this meant that both she and her husband were dead)
of Paul Burget (Paul Burckhardt); Jost, deceased; and Anna Marelis, wife
of Peter Huber. The date of this Orphans Court record was the 28th of August
1761. In York County will Book B, page 105 is the will of Ann Eve Sweven
(could this be a mistranslation of the German female ending ,,Swobin"?)
of Paradise Township, York County, dated August 1764 and probated April
3, 1767 in where she names her son, George Swope, and 6(?) daughters.
The records of baptism of three of the children named above and two
other children have been located in the Lutheran parish register in Leimen,
Baden, Germany (See page 1303). The marriage of Georg Schwab and Anna Eva
and the births of the other children are probably recorded in another parish
near Heidelberg which our researcher has not yet located. (See FGS page
1341).
page 1341
Husband: SCHWAB, JOHANN (HANS) JORG or GEORG (master
baker in Germany; farmer in America) (No. 1, page
1288)
Born: 19 July 1682
Place: Duehren bei Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Chr.: the following Sunday
Marr. 18 Sep 1703
Place: Reformed Church, Walldorf, Heidelberg, Baden
Died: Adm Bonds 10 Apr 1756
Place: Paradise township, York county, Pennsylvania
Husbands' Father: Schwab, Jost (1656-1727)
Husband's Mother: Wolfhardt, Anna Katharina (1663-?)
Wife: HAMMER, Anna Eva
Died: wp 3 Apr 1767
Place: Paradise township, York county, Pennsylvania
Wife's Father: Hammer, Johann Michael (died before 3 Nov 1697)
Wife's Mother: Kraeh (Kreh, Graew, Kraew), Anna Barbara - (2) Schwab,
Joh. Peter, citizen at Walldorf
Children: When
born: Town: County:
State: Date
of 1st marr.: Died:
Ctry: To
Whom:
SCHWAB
1. (M) Johann Georg chr 9 Jan 1706 Leimen
Heidel- Baden LEVER,
Lena or Anna Barbara
berg
2. (F) Anna Barbara about
1708 "
"
1784
RANCK,
John Michael
3. (M) Georg Michael chr 13 Jan 1713
" " "
4. (M) Georg Adam chr 17 Sep 1715
" " "
5. (F) Eva Elisabeth chr 16 Apr 1716 " " " JAEGER or
YEAGER, Peter
6. (F) Anna Eva about
1718 " " 16
Oct 1739
BURCKHARDT,
Paul
7. (F) Anna Marelis about
1720 " "
HUBER,
Peter
8. (M) Jost chr
2 Feb 1724 " " " 5
Apr 1743
BECKER,
Anna Maria
Sources of information:
1. Reformed & Lutheran Parish Registers of Leimen and Duehren,
Baden, Germany.
2. York Co. Adm. Bond Bk. A, p. 133.
3. York Co. Orphan Court Docket A, p. 193.
4. York Cl. Will Bk. B, p. 105.
5. Marr. rec. of Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA.
page 1342
THE
DAUGHTERS OF HANS JOERG (JOHANN GEORG) AND ANNA EVA SCHWAB
Four daughters and their husbands are named in the will of George Swoope
(Hans Joerg Schwab) of Paradise Township, York County, Pennsylvania. The
eldest daughter, ANNA BARBARA, born about 1708, married John Michael Ranck,
born 28 Octeber 1701 in Neckarau near Mannheim in Baden, Germany, the son
of Hans Valentine Ranck and Margaretha Philippe. John Michael Ranck arrived
in Philadelphia, 24 August 1728 on board the ship ,,Mortonhouse".
He died in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania the 28th July 1778; Anna Barbara
died in 1784. They had the following children:
George Michael Ranck went to Survey County, North Carolina.
John Ranck went to Survey County, North Carolina.
Philip Ranck, born 1734 married Barbara Stauffer, 10 August 1763. They
had nine children: Michael, 1763-1878; Barbara married Jacob Schnall; John;
Anna Maria married Peter Klug; Elizabeth married Mr. Grosh; Philip; George;
Mathias; and Christiana Ranck.
Valentine Ranck, born 1 October 1747, died 16 March 1839, married Barbara
Geyer, 9 April 1780. Children: Henry; Michael, 1793-1871, married Barbara
Ranck; Barbara married Joseph Hummel; John, 1797-1867; George, 1785- 1860;
Daniel; and Samuel Ranck.
Samuel Ranck, born 30 Ju]y 1742, died 22 May 1815, married (i) Maria
Salome (2) 2 August 1774, Margaret Kleinman. Children born to first wife:
Anna Maria; Elizabeth; and John Ranck, 1771-1861. Children born to second
wife: Peter, 1777-1859; Samuel, born 1775. Samuel Ranck, Sr. crossed
the Delaware with General Washingten Christmas night 1776.
Margaret Ranck married Philip Grosh, 10 August 1762. Their children
were Mathias Grosh, John Grosh, Sarmel Grosh, Christian Grosh, Peter Grosh,
George Grosh, and Rosanie Grosh, wife of John Shreiner.
Barbara Ranck married Jacob Stiegelman, 6 May 1759. Children: Jacob
Stiegelman, Eva Stiegelman, Barbara Stiegelman, John Stiegelman, and George
Stiegelman.
Christian Ranck married Wendel (?) Fockler. Their children were George
Fockler, Barbara Fockler, Elizabeth Fockler, Eva Fockler, Christiana Fockler,
Abraham Fockler, Samuel Fockler, and Wendel Fockler.
Anna Maria Ranck, born 25 December 1750 in Lancaster County, Pa. and
died 4 January 1837. She married Rev. Christopher Grosh (born 12 January
1748 in Eichloch, Rheinhessen, Germany, died 16 April 1829 in East Earl
Township Lancaster County, Pa.) 16 March 1769. Their children were: Barbara
Grosh married Christian Hawk; Mary Grosh, 1777-1853; Catharine Grosh, 1780-l857;
Margaret Grosh married Mr. Dundore; Susanna Grosh married Mr. Weidman;
Elizabeth Grosh; Philip Grosh; David Grosh, 1776-1849; and John Grosh.
EVA ELISABETH SCHWAB, baptized 16 April 1716 in Leimen, Baden, Germany,
the daughter of Hans Joerg Schwab and Anna Eva, married Peter Jager or
Yeager. We know that her husband, Peter Yeager, died before the 28th of
August 1761 becauae Eva Elisabeth was a widow at the time of the settlement
of her father's estate. They had a son, Johan Jost, christened 28 October
1740, and a daughter Maria Scharlotta, christened 30 January 1745; both
at Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland in Lancaster County. Johan Jost
and his wife, Anna Marie (Baecker) Schwab were the sponsors at both christenings.
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ANNA EVA SCHWAB, third daughter of Hans Jorg and Anna Eva Schwab, was
born in Germny about 1718. She married Paul Burckhardt the16th of October
1739 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
If there were more burial records such as the ones for Paul Burckhardt
and his little son Johann Carl, in the churchbook of Christ Lutheran Church
in York, York County, Pennsylvania, genealogy would be an easy job. These
tvo burial records are as follows:
Burial:
16 August 1758 Johann Carl Burckert, born
7 September 1751, died 15 August 1758 one hour before day.
Age
6 years 11 months and 8 days. Buried in the burial ground of Henrich Bott.
Parents:
Paul Burckerdt and Anna Eva.
Godparentss
The grandparents, Carl Burckert and Anna Cunigunda.
31 August 1758 Paul Burckert, born 6 May
1716, baptized 17 May 1716, died 29 August 1758
between 6 and 7 o'clock in the morning departed in peace.
Buried in the ground of Henrich Bott. Funeral text: Micha 7,9. Exodus.
Genesis 3,19.
Parents: Carl Burckert, still living here in America.
Mother: The deceased Anna Margaretha from Flomborn in the Churpfalz.
In 1740 he married his first wife, Anna Eva Schwobbin, who died 11
December 1756
from
which eight children were born, five still living. He came to America Anno
1736.
On the 22 February 1757 he espoused his second wife, Anna Eva, widow of
Henrich Becker,
his present widow. His age is 42 years, 3 months, 12 days.
(In front of the parish register of Christ Lutheran Church in York are
the names of Paul Burckhardt and Georg Schwab,"subcribers to the founding
and upkeep ot this Churchbook.")
The names of the five surviving children of Paul Burckhardt and Anna
Eva Schwab are found in the York County Orphans Court Records of 28 November
1758 and 29 November 1760. They are Maria Magdalena, Maria Esther, Anna
Maria, Maria Catrina, and Anna Margareta. Martin Eichelberger was executor
of Paul Burckhardt's will, which was written in German and therefore, was
not recorded. (See FGS page 1344).
ANNA MARIA ELISABETH SCHWAB was born in Ger:may about 1720, the
daughter of Hans Joerg and Anna Eva Schwab. She married Peter Huber or
Hoover. In the Churchbook of the Reformed Church on the Maidan Creek and
the Cocalico Creek in an entry of baptism for Elisabet Huber, daughter
of Peter and Anna Maria Huber on the 13th of April 1746. We have no further
information about them.
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Husband: BURCKHARDT, PAUL
born: 6 May 1716
Place: Flomborn in the Churpalz
Chr.: 17 May 1716
Married: 16 Oct 1739
Place: Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Died: 29 Aug 1758
Place: Manchester township, York county, Pensylvania
Buried: 31 Aug 1758
Place: Ground of Henrich Bott
Husband's Father: Burckhardt, Carl
Husband's Mother: ..., Anna Margaretha
Husband's Other Wifes: (2) 22 Feb 1757, BECKER, Mrs. Anna Eva (widow
of Henrich Becker)
Wife: (1) SCHWAB, ANNA EVA (No.
6, page 1341)
Born: about 1718
Place: Leimen, Heidelberg Baden, Germany
Died: 11 Dec 1756
Place: York County, Pennsylvania
Wife's Father: Schwab, Johann (Hans) Joerg (1682-1756)
Wife's Mother: ..., Anna Eva
Children: When
born: Town: County:
State: Date
of 1st marr.: Died:
Ctry: To
Whom:
BURCKHARDT
1. (F) Maria Magdalena 13 Oct
1740 Christ Lutheran York PA
25
Nov 1740 York
2. (F) Maria Esther about
1742 " "
3. (F) Anna Maria May
1747 " "
(age
11 in May 1758)
4. (F) Maria Catrina about
1749 " " 15
Aug 1758
5. (M) Johann Carl 7
Sep 1751 " "
6. (F) Anna Margareta about
1753 " "
Paul Burckhardt came to America in 1736.
He and Anna Eva had two other children who died before 1758.
Sources of information:
1. Rec. of Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, PA.
2. Rec. of Rev. Joh. Caspar Stoever.
3. Bur. rec. of Christ Lutheran Church, York, PA.
4. York Co. Orphan Ct., Dockets, vol. A, p. 107 & 155.
page 1345
JOHANN GEORG SCHWAB (page 1347) of Sinsheim married Anna Maria Keydel,
daughter of Johannes Keydel of Zuzenhausen the fifteenth of November 1718.
He was a son of either Georg Schwab or Georg Albrecht Schwab of Sinsheim,
brothers of Jost Schwab of Sinsheim, Duehren and Leimen. He and his wife,
Anna Maria Keydel, had two children born in Sinsheim, Anna Maria, born
7 December 1719, who married John Martin Eichelberger in Pennsylvania;
and Johann Michael, born 24 February 1726 who became a colonel in the Revolutionary
War. This family is believed to have come to America on the ship "William
and Sarah" arriving in Philadelphia in September 1727. They settled
in the Conestoga Valley of Lancaster County at first; later moving to York
county which at that time was still part of Lancaster County.
In York County Deed Book 1, page 59, dated 27 June 1753, George Swoope
of Manchester Township, yeoman, and his wife, Anna Maria, granted to Michael
Swoope of York Town, tavernkeeper, for pound 262.l0.0 an undivided half
interest in 300 acres te be located anywhere in the Province of Pennsylvania,
pursuant to a promiscuous grant from John White's attorney to the aforesaid
George Swoope, Esquire, of York County and Martin Eichelberger of York
County.
On the 10th of July 1753 George Swoope, yeoman, of the county of York and
Anna Maria, his wife, granted to Benedict Swoope fifty acres of land located
somewhere in the Province of Pennsylvania for 20 pound;. Benedict Swoope
was an innkeeper in the Town of York. On the 4th of September 1753 Benedict
(in this deed he is called Benjamin, but it is the same man as Benedict,
innkeeper in York Town) Swoope and Susanna, his wife grant to Zacharius
Shugart of the same place for 20 pound; for the fitty acres granted him
by George Swoope.
On April 7, 1772 George Schwaab of Paradise Township and his wife, Anna
Maria, granted to Conrad Gentzler for 500 pound; one hundred and ninety-six
and three quarter acres in Paradise Township warranted to the said George
Swobe, 25 August 1746. (York C. Deed Book A, Page 61, 111 and Book E, page
170).
The Reverend Benedict Swope was also a son of this couple. Some sources
say he was born in September 1731. Mrs. Frances Swope Paul of Amarillo,
Texas, has done extensive research on the records of Benedict Swope and
says that he was born the 9th of March 1731 and that he was married te
Maria Susanna Welcker by Rev. Georg Michael Weiss (the minister who was
the leader of the group of emigrants sailing on the ,,William and Sarah"
on the 8th of October 1751. In 1771 he was ordained to the ministry of
the Reformed Church. (See FGS p 1352)
A daughter, Margaretha, born to Hans Georg Schwab and his wife, Anna
Maria, was baptized the l7th September 1733 at Cocalic Reformed Church
in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pa. On the 18th of November 1745
a son, John Jacob Schwab, was baptized by Rev. Jacob Lischy. Other children
were probably born to this couple, but their record may be lost to history
because the itinerant minister of the pioneer communities in which this
family lived either did not make a record of the baptisms he performed.
or the record has been lost.
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