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Anna Maria (Unknown) Zeller (1690 - 1765)

Anna Maria Zeller formerly [surname unknown] aka Briegel, Breugal, Priegel
Born in Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reichmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married about 1710 in Livingston Manor, Albany, New York Colonymap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , , , and
Died at about age 75 in Tulpehocken, Berks, Pennsylvaniamap
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Biography

Anna Maria was born ca 1690. Her last name at birth is unknown.[1]Noted Zeller researchers, John Vallentine and Hank Jones both suggest she was probably a daughter of Georg Briegel (who was #84 on Governor Hunter's subsistence lists). If so, her mother's name was Eva.[2] [3]Without a marriage record, Anna Maria's surname is uncertain. (Entrikin-5 06:33, 8 January 2024 (UTC))

According to Vallentine, Anna Maria married Johann Heinrich Zeller sometime before June 30, 1710 when the Subsistence list shows Heinrich's household with 2 persons over age 10 and 2 under age 10. [4]

Anna Maria Zeller, Henrick's widow, is reported to have survived him until 1765, but it was not until 1772 that any disposition was made on his property. On 28 December of that year John Zeller of Berks County, Anna Maria Saltzgeber, widow of Lancaster County, John Pontius of Berks County, in right of his wife Anna Catherine, Leonard Schwartz of Berks County in right of his wife Anna Catherine, Leonard Schwartz of Berks County in right of his wife Anna Elizabeth, Barbara Leru, and Hartman Zeller of Frederick County, Maryland, for the consideration of 250L paid by John George Zeller, released and quit-claimed their rights in the 245 acres of which Johann Heinrich Zeller had died seized. Thus from his will and the quit-claim deed, a list of the children of Johann Heinrich Zeller can firmly be established.

Vital Data

  • Birth - c1690 - ?Germany, ?Holland, ?Belgium [3][1]
  • Death - 1765 - Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania [3]Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.[1]
  • Burial - Tulpehocken Trinity UCC Cemetery, Millardsville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania or Reeds Cemetery, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania [5][1]

Marriage and Family

  • Marriage
    • Johann Heinrich Zeller - Livingston, Albany, New York - 1711 [6][7][8]

Henrich Zeller married Anna Maria Unknown. There has been some suggestion that her family name (or widowed name) was Briegel, but no primary sources have emerged to support this. They had the following children: [9][10][11]

  1. Hartmann (1711) m? Catherine, later m2 Anna Maria Unknown; 8 children.
  2. Mary Catherine ( ~1712- ~1748) m Leonard Anspach (~1710-); at least one child.
  3. Anna Maria Zeller (1715-a1776) m Andreas Salzgeber; 5 children [12]
  4. Johann Heinrich Zeller (c1717-a1754) - described as "simple in victuals and drink"
  5. Johann David Zeller (c1719- ). described as "simple"
  6. Barbara Elizabeth Zeller (c1720-a1760) m Jonas Lerew (~1716- ~1760); 7 children
  7. Anna Catarina Zeller (1724-1794) m John Pontius (1717-1792); 10 children. Buried in Union County, PA.
  8. Johannes "John" Zeller m1 Anna Maria Becker; 2 children, m2 Maria Catharina Lauer (1727-1799); 7 children
  9. Johann George Zeller (c1725-1792) m Barbara Haas; 13 children
  10. Anna Elisabetha (c1725-1803) m1 John Adam Battorf (1720- bef 10 Oct 1757); 7 children, m2 Leonard Schwartz (~1723- ); 5 children

Residence

  • 1711 - Neu-Annsberg, New York [13]
  • 1713 - Pennsylvania [14][15]
  • 1756 - Berks County, Pennsylvania [16]

Research Notes

The suggestion that her parents originated in Holland has been debunked.; this is the source of her family name being Van Briegel,[17]

E032 - Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Immigration. Walter Allen Knittle. 1937. Dorrance & Co, Philadelphia, Pa.

E074 - The Huguenot Society of America 25:176-177. 1954. "Huguenot Pioneers"

E137 - Vallentine, John F. 2012. The Tulpehocken Zellers And Their Zeller Decendants. Ebook. 1st ed.

E141 - Koch, Richard T, Ancestors of Esther Saltzgaber , Self Published, Frostburg, MD, 1990

E142 - Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Marriages Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.;

E143 - Will of Heinrich Zeller, Berks County Will Book 1, p. 13 - "Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994," images, FamilySearch , Berks ; Estates 1752-1799 Wert, Christina-Zwerentz, Ludwig; images 1401-1403 of 1812; county courthouses, Pennsylvania.

E144 - Lou D. MacWethy, The book of Names Especially Relating to the early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley, St. Johnsville, N.Y. 1933, pp. 126

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Anna Maria Briegal Zeller (1690–4 Nov 1765), Find A Grave: Memorial #48219135, citing Reeds Cemetery, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by William James Diehl (contributor 47171394) .
  2. ↑ HZ Jones, The Palatine Families of New York, (1985), p. 105
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Vallentine, p23-2
  4. ↑ Vallentine. 2012. p.13.
  5. ↑ Find A Grave 80283769
  6. ↑ Huguenot Pioneers, p17
  7. ↑ West
  8. ↑ Koch, p25-3
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ HZ Jones, The Palatine Families of New York (1986), p. 1130-1132
  11. ↑ Strausstown Roots
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ MacWethy, p12
  14. ↑ Knittle, Simmendinger List, p29
  15. ↑ Knittle, p30
  16. ↑ Will of Heinrich Zeller
  17. ↑ Johann Heinrich Zeller, by Arta F. Johnson in The Palatine Immigrant vol. v, no. 4 (spring, 1980). p. 177

Source Repository

C149 - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=80283769

C150 - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=48219135

E032-Knittle - https://archive.org/details/earlyeighteenthc00knit

E137 - https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1942131&from=fhd

E141 - https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE78492&from=fhd

E143-Will of Heinrich Zeller - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-28790-27076-5?cc=1999196

E144 - MacWethy - https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Book_of_Names_Especially_Relating_to.html?id=uzu8htIHYfYC

Source Comments

E137 - Vallentine's book is a treasure trove of information about the Zeller family that descended from Johann Heinrich and Johann George Zeller who moved into the Berks County, Pennsylvania area about 1720. It is a derived work, but it is very well documented with over 600 referenced sources.

E143 - Accessed online March 5, 2016

Acknowledgements

  • Anna Maria Briegal Zeller's biographical data is a compilation of information from several merged profiles contributed by Dana Schreder, R Murphy, Dick Gates, Charles Taylor, Barbara Nelson, and Dan Zeller.




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Entrikin-5 Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
Seeing no objections from profile managers, the Palatine Migration Project leaders have changed Anna Maria's LNAB to Unknown and updated the biography to reflect agreement between researchers, Jones and Vallentine that, based on circumstantial evidence, Anna Maria Zeller was PROBABLY a Briegel, but no records exist to definitively support that conclusion. Because the tradition that she was a Briegel is so pervasive, her profile includes the various iterations of Briegel as other last names, appearing here as "AKA"
posted by Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
Baucom-233 Jim Baucom Jr.
The profile is wrong, Subsistence Records show immigrant Johann Henrich arrived at New York, with NO WIFE and one child. He married widow Anna Maria unknown who had one child in 1710. There is zero recorded data that she was a Briegal other that Frank Zeller's big lie. Why is this so difficult for you Palatine Managers to understand?
posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Jim Baucom Jr.
Baucom-233 Jim Baucom Jr.
If you had checked Gov Hunter's Subsistence list you would have found that Georg Briegel and one other person over age 10 arrived at New York in 1710, (2,0) and he was still (2,0) in 1712.

Johann Henrich Zeller married Anna Maria unknown in 1710 who had a child. She probably a widow. Henrich could not have married Georg's sister, because there was no child when they arrived.

posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Jim Baucom Jr.
Baucom-233 Jim Baucom Jr.
Here is what makes wikitree the best genealogy website available. When the manager(s) of any profile receive conflicting information they review their source and compare it to what they presently have. "Could have been" or "Maybe" are not a source.

Sources 1. The will of Henrich Zeller states his wife was Anna Maria. 2. Gov Hunter's subsistence shows that he married her 1710 and that she had a child, It went from (1,1) to (2,2) 3. Palatine George Briegal was (2,0) when he arrived at NY. There was no child included with him. 4. Anna Maria Briegal first appeared as his wife when he was born France, to fake parents, and that she was born Holland. They were Huguenots, not Palatines. The whole thing is a LIE. 5. Stop repeating LIES, without absolute proof.

posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Jim Baucom Jr.
Baucom-233 Jim Baucom Jr.
The Huguenots made Anna Maria Briegal Henrich Zeller's wife.

Johan Heinrich Zeller Son of Jacques & Clothilde (de Valois de Reni) Zeller Born 1684 Died 1756 Married Anna Marie Berigal Daughter of Jame Briegal (Von Bruegal) of Holland Born 1690 Died 1765

Henrich b Germany. They lied He was born before 1680, not 1684. He had a daughter age 9 when he arrived at NY JUN1710. They lied His parents were not Jacques and Clotilde,. They lied If they did not know any true facts about Henrich, why would they know who he married? Think about that!

What we do know: Palatine George Briegal was (2,0) on the subsistence list when he arrived at New York in 1710 and later in 1712 (2,0). There was no child with him. 4JUL1710 and 4AUG1710 Henrich was (1,1) on the subsistence list, then 4OCT1710 he was (4,0) and 31DEC1710 he was (2,2). Sometime after 4AUG1710 Henrich married a woman who had a child, probably a widow. Supposedly Anna Maria was his George's daughter or sister, but either way there was no child under age 10. HENRICH MARRIED AN UNKNOWN PALATINE WIDOW .

posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Jim Baucom Jr.
Entrikin-5 Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
When we have consensus from the profile managers that the LNAB should be changed to Unknown, one of them will make that correction. John Vallentine's 2012 book, The Tulpehocken Zellers, pp 21-25, presents evidence that Anna Maria Zeller was PROBABLY a Briegel. She may have been the daughter or a sister of George Briegel. She would not have been a child under age 10 in 1710 if she married Johann Heinrich about 1710. so, if she was George Briegel's daughter, of course he would be documented with two adults in his household. The Briegel subsistence list data does not exclude Anna Maria as his child or sister. In fact, the subsistence data supports the possibility.
posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
edited by Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
Baucom-233 Jim Baucom Jr.
How did you Palatine experts miss this? I say this, jokingly because there is no way you can reply info on 2000+ Palatines. Only personal managers should manage each profile.

LDS states that she married Johann Henrich Zeller at New York JUN 1709 a year before he arrived at NY from London JUN 1710 with a 9 year old daughter and no wife.

French born Henry Zeller married Anna Maria Berigal U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Johanna Zeller Gender: Male Birth Year: 1693 Spouse Name: Anna Maria Breigell Spouse Birth Year: 1693 Number Pages: 1 Huguenot Pioneers," pp. 176, cited in Note 1. Her surname has been spelled in various ways. All LIEs!

A microfilm NY Gov Hunter’s original Subsistence was viewed by John F. Valentine. And this is what he saw as reported in his 2012 Book, The Tulpehocken Zellers and Their Descendants. On the first entry, 30 JUN 1710 Henrich arrived NY and on 4 JUL 1710 and the entry he is (1,1), no wife but with a child under age 10. By 4 OCT 1710 he married Anna Maria who was a widow with child or a younger sibling. The person making the entry (4,0) mistakenly made the children over age 10 but that got corrected on the next entry on 31 DEC 1710, (2,2)

The only Briegal on the subsistence list is George Briegal, (2.0). who with one other person over age 10. This completely eliminates Henrich’s wife from being a Briegal. If she was a widow her name would not been Briegal or if the child were her younger sibling, he would have stayed with his father George and not with Henrich and Anna Maria.

Henrich married Anna Maria Unknown. This is very obvious when you research the possibilities.

posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Jim Baucom Jr.
edited by Jim Baucom Jr.
Entrikin-5 Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
Jim, please check your email for a lengthy response to your most recent communication sent to the Palatine Migration Project. I replied at length 3 days ago and have not received an acknowledgement from you. Perhaps you overlooked the email.
posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
edited by Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
Zeller-296 Dan Zeller
Berigal-1 and Briegal-1 appear to represent the same person because: Same husband, similar vital information, etc.
posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Dan Zeller
Zeller-296 Dan Zeller
Von Berigal-1 and Briegal-1 appear to represent the same person because: Similarities in Name, Birth Date, other details.

Hi Barbara. My name is Dan Zeller, and recently I started a free-space project to clean up the Zeller tree back in the 1700s time frame. Anna Maria Briegal was the wife of Johann Heinrich Zeller. He is one of the profiles that we have recently merged from about four separate profiles. We've also merged about four profiles of Anna Maria. I stumbled on yours just yesterday while browsing Zeller profiles. I believe that your Anna Maria Von Berigal is one in the same as Anna Maria Briegal. Please take a look and if you agree, merge the two. You will still be a manager of the merged profile, but you will find a lot more information and connections. I am working on a unified Biography for Anna Maria that I will have posted shortly. Here is a link to our project page. I will be glad to add you if you want to join in. http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Zeller_-_1650_-_1850

-- Thanks -- Dan

posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Dan Zeller
Zeller-296 Dan Zeller
Perigal Vonbreugal-1 and Briegal-1 appear to represent the same person because: Both married to Johann Heinrich. I have been puzzled about where "Perigal" came from. At first I thought it was a merely a mistaken pronunciation of VonBreugal. But I stumbled on a record at Geni.com that listed her as a sister to Anna Maria Briegal. Probably just more undocumented and poorly researched genealogy being blindly entered into a genealogy site.

There are plenty of Perigals in Family Search, however. So it is not a phony surname.

Anyway. Take a look. If you think we have a match, please merge. If not, let me know.

- Dan

posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Dan Zeller
Zeller-296 Dan Zeller
Breughal-1 and Briegal-1 appear to represent the same person because: Johann Heinrich needs only one wife named Anna Maria Briegal. And by the way, we have an option to list a second last name for her as an "AKA".

It is difficult to determine what name she went by in her day, but I did a little poking around to see how these names survived over the years. Briegal seems to be the most persistent. There is only one Breughal record in FamilySearch, six for Breugal, 26 for Breigal, and 151 for Briegal.

For the sake of reconciliation, it seems to make the most sense to me to set Last Name at Birth to Briegal and AKA to Breugal.

I suspect that her ancestry in Europe may have well gone by Breugal or Breughal. I could get along with either of those for the AKA.

posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Dan Zeller
Zeller-296 Dan Zeller
Briegal-3 and Briegal-1 appear to represent the same person because: Johann Heinrich needs only one wife named Anna Maria Briegal
posted on Briegal-1 (merged) by Dan Zeller

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