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| Some of the historic buildings in Newport, near the coast (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
January 14, 1666- My eighth great granduncle, Andrew Bacon, is born to Nathaniel Bacon & Ann Miller in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
Ancestry & Genealogy of Alfred Leslie Worland, Rosella Johnston and Allied Colonial Families.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
On This Day, January 14th
January 14, 1666- My eighth great granduncle, Andrew Bacon, is born to Nathaniel Bacon & Ann Miller in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
Monday, February 24, 2014
February 1743, Pennsylvania
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| Seal of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
February 26, 1743- Samuel Embree, son of Moses Embree and Mary Southard marries Rachel Lewis, daughter of James Lewis & Sarah Potts, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
It was the first marriage at Robeson Friends Meeting House.The log structure had been built two years earlier on rented land.
(Joseph Conard is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magadalen Tyson and Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Rachel Lewis is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.)
Saturday, November 23, 2013
October 1742- Pennsylvania
October 3, 1742- A daughter, Margaret, is born to Isaac Shoemaker & Hannah Roberts in Upper Dublin Twp, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.
October 5, 1742- A son, Henry, is born to Cornelius Tyson & Barbara Pennypacker in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
October 14, 1742- A son, Matthias, is born to Jacob Pannebecker & Margaret Tyson in Skippack, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.
(Henry Tyson and Matthias Pannebecker are my third cousins 7 times removed. They are first cousins. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff. Margaret Shoemaker is their fourth cousin.
Margaret Shoemaker is my fourth cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graef & Gretchen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)
Philadelphia's pledge of religious tolerance attracted many other religions beside Quakers. Mennonites, Pietists, Anglicans, Catholics, and Jews moved to the city and soon outnumbered the Quakers, but they continued to be powerful economically and politically. Political tensions existed between and within the religious groups, which also had national connections. Riots in 1741 and 1742 took place over high bread prices and drunken sailors. In October 1742 and the "Bloody Election" riots, sailors attacked Quakers and pacifist Germans, whose peace politics were strained by the War of Jenkins' Ear
The city was plagued by pickpockets and other petty criminals. Working in the city government had such a poor reputation that fines were imposed on citizens who refused to serve an office after being chosen. One man fled Philadelphia to avoid serving as mayor.
In the first half the 18th century, like other American cities, Philadelphia was dirty, with garbage and animals littering the streets. The roads were unpaved and in rainy seasons impassable. Early attempts to improve quality of life were ineffective as laws were poorly enforced.
-Wikipedia
Thursday, November 21, 2013
September 1742, Pennsylvania
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| The covered bridge at Schofield Ford, Pennsylvania. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
September 18, 1742- Henry Conrad, son of John Conard & Alice Lukens, marries Jane Jones, daughter of Catherine & Edward Jones, at the Plymouth, Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania.
9th-mo. 18, 1742. Henry Conrad, of Upper Dublin, Philadelphia county, and Jane Jones, of Whitemarsh, in said county. At Plymouth meeting-house. Witnesses, Dennis, Ann, John, Henry and Cornelius Cunrad, Joseph Jones, Edward and Catharine Stroud, Thomas Potts and 16 others. -Plymouth Meeting, Its Establishment, And The Settlement Of The Township
With Historical, Genealogical And Biolgraphcal Data FromRecords Of Friends by Elwood Roberts.
(Henry Conrad is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magdalen Tyson and Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Ann Adamson is my second cousin 6 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Pott and Jonas Potts & Mary Thomaston.)
September 16, 1742
The Pennsylvania Gazette
NOTICE is hereby given, THAT William Bradford,
jun. has set up a NEW PRINTING OFFICE, in the House that Mr. ANDREW BRADFORD
formerly lived, in Second Street, where PRINTING is done at the most reasonable
Rates: Where may be had,…Blank Bonds, Bonds and Judgement, Arbitration Bonds,
Powers of Attorney, Servant's Indentures, Bills of Lading, fine Temple and other
Sorts of Spectacles, Sealing Wax, Ink Powder, brass and leather Ink Pots,
Writing Paper of sundry Sorts, lead Pencils, Pocket Books, Blank Books,
Dividers, Gunter Scales, Parchment, &c. …
Sunday, November 17, 2013
August 1742, Pennsylvania
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| Lower Quad in Winter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1895) |
August 26, 1742- Henry Conrad and Jane Jones declared their intention of Marriage with each other the second time - Elizabeth Ellis and Rachel Potts are appointed to attend the Marriage and bring accounts to the next Meeting. Monthly Meeting held att Gwynedd the 26 of the 8 mo 1742
(Mary Hallowell is my third cousin 7 times removed. Henry Conrad is her second cousin once removed. Henry Conrad is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones and Thones Kunders & Elin Magadalen Tyson.)
Philadelphia was known in colonial times as the "Athens of America" because of its rich cultural life. Because of the liberality of Penn's principles and the freedom of expression that prevailed, the province developed a conspicuous variety and strength in its intellectual and educational institutions and interests. An academy that held its first classes in 1740 became the College of Philadelphia in 1755, and ultimately grew into the University of Pennsylvania. It was the only nondenominational college of the colonial period. The arts and sciences flourished, and the public buildings of Philadelphia were the marvel of the colonies. Many fine old buildings in the Philadelphia area still bear witness to the richness of Pennsylvania's civilization in the eighteenth century. Such men of intellect as Benjamin Franklin, David Rittenhouse, John Bartram, and Benjamin West achieved international renown. Newspapers and magazines flourished, as did law and medicine. Pennsylvania can claim America's first hospital, first library, and first insurance company. -PHMC
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
June 1741, Pennsylvania
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| English: Front page of an almanac printed in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1739 by Christopher Sauer. Picture of the text in German Language Printing in the American Colonies up to the Declaration of lndependence (part 2), the website above. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Isaac Shoemaker & Hannah Roberts are married in Pennsylvania.
Isaac Shoemaker is the son of Peter J. Shoemaker & Margaret Op den Graeff. Hannah is the daughter of Thomas Roberts & Margaret Gove. Both were born in Germantown.
The couple settled in Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, where Isaac purchased a tract of land and followed the life of a farmer.
(Isaac Shoemaker is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
1741, Pennsylvania
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| SVG of Pennsylvania state seal (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The same year, his sister Margaret marries Benjamin Mason.
(Samuel and Margaret Shoemaker are my third cousins 8 times removed.)
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
1741, Pennsylvania
1741- Gabriel Schuler is born to Samuel Showler & Magdalena Levering in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Isaac Shoemaker marries Hannah Roberts in Pennsylvania.
Margaret Shoemaker and Benjamin Mason are married in Pennsylvania.
Samuel Shoemaker, son of Peter Shoemaker & Margaret Op den Graeff, dies at the age of 21 in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Martha Ann DeHaven is born to Abraham DeHaven & Rebecca Pawling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
( Gabriel Schuler is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Thonis Klincken.
Siblings Margaret Shoemaker, Isaac Shoemaker and Samuel Shoemaker are my third cousins 8 times removed. Martha Ann DeHaven is their first cousin once removed. Martha Ann DeHaven is my fourth cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)
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| The traditional colors of a Lancaster County covered bridge: red sides and white portals (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Isaac Shoemaker marries Hannah Roberts in Pennsylvania.
Margaret Shoemaker and Benjamin Mason are married in Pennsylvania.
Samuel Shoemaker, son of Peter Shoemaker & Margaret Op den Graeff, dies at the age of 21 in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Martha Ann DeHaven is born to Abraham DeHaven & Rebecca Pawling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
( Gabriel Schuler is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Thonis Klincken.
Siblings Margaret Shoemaker, Isaac Shoemaker and Samuel Shoemaker are my third cousins 8 times removed. Martha Ann DeHaven is their first cousin once removed. Martha Ann DeHaven is my fourth cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)
Thursday, February 3, 2011
1734, Pennsylvania
1734- Peter Lukens, with wife Gaynor Evans, moves to Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Peter was a clockmaker. He is mentioned as residing on a tract in Horsham of seventy-five acres. The following year the Horsham road is mentioned as having been laid out from his house up into the centre of Montgomery Township.
Thomas Lewis is born to James Lewis & Sarah Potts in Pottsgrove, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Herman DeHaven, with wife Anneken Op den Graeff, moves to New Providence, where they live on a 200-acre tract. Herman builds a saw mill and grist mill. He also keeps an ordinary or inn. He is granted a license for the inn in 1734.
(Peter Lukens is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Thomas Lewis is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.
Anneken Op den Graeff is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes. Peter Lukens is her second cousin.)
Thomas Lewis is born to James Lewis & Sarah Potts in Pottsgrove, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Herman DeHaven, with wife Anneken Op den Graeff, moves to New Providence, where they live on a 200-acre tract. Herman builds a saw mill and grist mill. He also keeps an ordinary or inn. He is granted a license for the inn in 1734.
(Peter Lukens is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Thomas Lewis is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.
Anneken Op den Graeff is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes. Peter Lukens is her second cousin.)
Monday, December 20, 2010
August 1732, Pennsylvania
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| Thomas Penn |
His elder brother John, and his sister Margaret Freame and her young son joined him, arriving September 19, 1734. John remained only a year, but Margaret Freame stayed until the news of her husband's death in the late spring of 1741. She and her brother Thomas then returned to England, arriving at Plymouth late the following November.
August 29, 1732- Mary Kirk is born to John Kirk & Sarah Tyson in Abington Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Thomas Penn is my third cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Pletjes Driessen & Alet Gobels Syllys.
Mary Kirk is my second cousin 8 times removed. Thomas Penn is her third cousin once removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)
Saturday, December 11, 2010
February 1732, Pennsylvania
February 16, 1732- Margaret Tyson is born to Derrick Tyson & Ann Hooten in Upper Dublin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Margaret Tyson is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)
(Margaret Tyson is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
November 1731, Pennsylvania
November 5, 1731- Rosamond Hallowell is born to William Hallowell & Margaret Tyson in Abington, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
November 11, 1731- Mary Lewis is born to Ellis Lewis & Mary Tyson in Upper Dublin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 18, 1731- Matthias Lukens is born to Abraham Lukens & Mary Maurle in Towamencin, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
(Matthias Lukens is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Rosamond Hallowell are my third cousins 7 times removed. Rosamond and Mary are first cousins. Matthias Lucken is their second cousin once removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)
November 11, 1731- Mary Lewis is born to Ellis Lewis & Mary Tyson in Upper Dublin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 18, 1731- Matthias Lukens is born to Abraham Lukens & Mary Maurle in Towamencin, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
(Matthias Lukens is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Rosamond Hallowell are my third cousins 7 times removed. Rosamond and Mary are first cousins. Matthias Lucken is their second cousin once removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
March 1731, Pennsylvania
March 25, 1731- Abraham Isaac Op den Graeff dies in Skippack, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Abraham was born in 1660 in Krefeld, Germany. At the age of 19, he married Catherina Trintje Jansen, at the Krefeld Reformed Church.
"We whose names appear are to these presents subscribed, do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern, that soon after our arrival in this province of Pennsylvania, in October, 1683, to our certain knowledge Herman of de Graff, Dirk op den Graff, and Abraham op den Graff, as well as ourselves, in the care of Francis Daniel Pastorius, at Philadelphia, did cast lots for the respective lots which they and we then began to settle in Germantown; and the said Graffs (three brothers) have sold their several lots, each by himself, no less than if a division in writing had been made by them. Witness our hands this 29th Nov., A.D. 1709.
Lenart Arets
Thones Kunder
Abraham Tunes
Jan Lensen
William Streygert
Jan Lucken
Reiner Tysen”
A slave ship had sailed into Philadelphia, and the slaves were bought up by wealthy Philadelphia Quakers. Allegedly, most wealthy Englishmen in Philadelphia owned slaves, and the Germans at Germantown all opposed slavery, because of their history of having been oppressed in Germany.
"Over the years there seems to have been a decline in the respect held towards him by Germantown settlers. His personality, which seems to have been difficult, as is evident from his increasing appearances in the Germantown court, may have been mostly responsible for this development. Excepting the recording of deeds two appearances as a juror, in 1702 and 1703, and a debt case in 1704, most of Op den Graef's court appearances involved personal infringements of the law. Thus he was twice cited and fined for neglecting his fences, he was deemed responsible for the repeated misdeeds of his children, he let his hogs run loose, and he verbally abused people, who then abused him in return. ...In March 1704 Op de Graef was convicted of abusing the bailiff in open court..." (House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1991, "Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary".
He sold his house at Germantown on May 16, 1704, and thereafter lived in "The Dutch township" along the Perkionen. Hwas the only one of the family to return to the Mennonite faith, which he did sometime after 1708. He was also the only one to have children.
He died before Mar 27, 1731, when his tract of 530 acres was divided among his surviving children. He lies buried in Skippack Memorial Cemetary in Pennsylvania.
(Abraham Isaac Op den Graeff is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)
Abraham was born in 1660 in Krefeld, Germany. At the age of 19, he married Catherina Trintje Jansen, at the Krefeld Reformed Church.
Abraham was the youngest of the three Op den Graeff brothers who came from Krefeld on the ship 'Concord'.
He and his brothers had paid for 2,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania from Jacob Telner (who had an original land grant for the land from William Penn, dated Mar. 9, 1682) while still in Europe. 828 acres of this land was located in what is now Germantown. The Eastern State Penitentiary now stands on part of the original tract at Craterford, Pennsylvania.
"We whose names appear are to these presents subscribed, do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern, that soon after our arrival in this province of Pennsylvania, in October, 1683, to our certain knowledge Herman of de Graff, Dirk op den Graff, and Abraham op den Graff, as well as ourselves, in the care of Francis Daniel Pastorius, at Philadelphia, did cast lots for the respective lots which they and we then began to settle in Germantown; and the said Graffs (three brothers) have sold their several lots, each by himself, no less than if a division in writing had been made by them. Witness our hands this 29th Nov., A.D. 1709.
Lenart Arets
Thones Kunder
Abraham Tunes
Jan Lensen
William Streygert
Jan Lucken
Reiner Tysen”
Abraham and his brothers transferred their weaving industry to Germantown and were largely responsible for making it famous and it was claimed that Abraham was the most skilled of all Germantown's "High German People and Low Dutch" trading in weaving linen cloth. Abraham won a Governor's prize of 1500 Lire for the first and finest piece of linen woven in the State of Pennsylvania.
In 1688, Abraham and Herman Op den Graeff, another man, and Pastorius, met at Thone Kunder's home to draft a resolution in opposition to salvery, supposedly put in writing by Pastorius. They presented it at their monthly meeting, which refered it up the Quaker chain of meetings as too weighty to deal with until it reached the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. |
| The Original Signatures |
A slave ship had sailed into Philadelphia, and the slaves were bought up by wealthy Philadelphia Quakers. Allegedly, most wealthy Englishmen in Philadelphia owned slaves, and the Germans at Germantown all opposed slavery, because of their history of having been oppressed in Germany.
In 1689 he was one of eleven men to whom Penn granted a charter for Germantown, where he is called "Abraham Isaacs Op de Graef" and in that charter he was one of the six men appointed to serve as the first "committeemen". He served as town burgess in 1692 and was a member of the colonial assembly in 1689, 1690 and 1692.
His last years were marked by trouble; his fences over which he had quarrelled with his neighbors were condmened as insufficient. He quarrelled with the sheriff over how much he had to pay for the legal costs associated with his son's unauthorized appropriation of a neighbor's horse. He was sued in 1704 by a neighbor for money due on purchased goods- and he was hardly a poor man. "That same year, an old Krefeld neighbor and fellow-pilgrim, Veit, or David Scherkes, declared that 'no honest man woud be in Abraham's company' and when Abraham sued him for slander, David was acquitted." (Dutch Quakers)"Over the years there seems to have been a decline in the respect held towards him by Germantown settlers. His personality, which seems to have been difficult, as is evident from his increasing appearances in the Germantown court, may have been mostly responsible for this development. Excepting the recording of deeds two appearances as a juror, in 1702 and 1703, and a debt case in 1704, most of Op den Graef's court appearances involved personal infringements of the law. Thus he was twice cited and fined for neglecting his fences, he was deemed responsible for the repeated misdeeds of his children, he let his hogs run loose, and he verbally abused people, who then abused him in return. ...In March 1704 Op de Graef was convicted of abusing the bailiff in open court..." (House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1991, "Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary".
He sold his house at Germantown on May 16, 1704, and thereafter lived in "The Dutch township" along the Perkionen. Hwas the only one of the family to return to the Mennonite faith, which he did sometime after 1708. He was also the only one to have children.
He died before Mar 27, 1731, when his tract of 530 acres was divided among his surviving children. He lies buried in Skippack Memorial Cemetary in Pennsylvania.
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| Penn's Invitation |
(Abraham Isaac Op den Graeff is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)
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