Johannes Marbut
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Johannes Marbut (1756 - 1823)

Johannes Marbut
Born in Hochstadt, Kreis Hanau, Hessen-Nassau, Freistaat Preußen, Deutschlandmap
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Husband of — married 2 Apr 1787 in Newberry, South Carolina USAmap
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Died at age 67 in Newberry, South Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

Johannes was born in 1756. He passed away in 1823.

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Note: from:http://www.noblereid.com/page11.html

JOHANNES MEERBOTT/MARBUT (JOHANN PHILIPP MEERBOTT, JOHANN CASPER MEERBOTT, ANTON MEERBOTT) was born on July 24, 1754 in Hochstadt, Germany and died on September 22, 1823 in Newberry County, South Carolina. He married SARAH INMAN on April 02, 1787 in Newberry County, South Carolina. Sarah was the daughter of JOSHUA and ANNE INMAN of Pennsylvania. Sarah was said to have been from a Quaker family and was probably disowned from the church for marrying out of unity. She was born in 1761 in Pennsylvania, and died in 1836 at Newberry County, South Carolina. Johannes changed his name from Meerbott to Marbut, and on November 03, 1807 he received his naturalzation papers stating him to be an American citizen named JOHN MARBUT. He is the reason that all that are surnamed Marbut, can trace their linage back to this very man. I have written more history on my long ago grandfather in the Marbut section of the Paternal Summary page 13. The photo is of the uniform he wore as an mercenary sent to America during the Revolutionary War.

Page 13: Giles County, Tennessee is located in the extreme southern part of the state just above the Alabama state line. Minor Hill, of Giles County, is a small town that was the center of Susie Rachel Lee's life after her birth on March 16, 1882. Marbut's Post Office is down the road a piece, and now is just an entry in a list of historical Post Offices...

Hessen-Hanau Germany, is a district located near Frankfurt, Germany. The immigrant Johannes Meerbott was born on the 24th of July 1756 in the village of Hochstadt, Hessen-Hanau, Germany. He is almost certainly the ancestor of all persons bearing the surnames Marbut. It is Johannes that changed the name from Meerbott to Marbut. We can go back to his ggrandfather Anton, 1655 to 1713, then to his grandfather Johann Casper, 1681 to 1758, to his father Johann Phillip Meerbott, and mother Anna Margaretha Kapps. This last marriage produces the main ancestor that is responsible for the Marbuts coming to America...

The living conditions and political climate in that part of Germany can only be read about or thought of as being harsh and hard. In 1776 when the Revolutionary war started in America, the King of England made a deal with the King of Germany, to send mercenary soldiers to fight for Britain. Johannes was a 19 year old boy caught up in this request for troops, and he was sent across the sea to fight on the side of the British. He landed in Quebec in June of 1776, but was captured in October of 1777. He was held in Winterhill, Mass. for a little over a year, and then marched with the other captives for about two months or so to Charlottesville, Virginia, to arrive in January of 1779. In school history we read about how hard and bad the winters were on George Wasington and his troop at Valley Forge. You can only imagine how it was for prisoners of war in that part of the country. This internment lasted into 1782 where he indentured himself to work out his capture. About six or so months after his doing this, there was a prisoner exchange on May 12, 1783. We can think that after that exchange, he would probably have been let out of his commitment and be able to return to Germany or stay in America. He was on the list of prisoners that remained in America after the war. We pick him up a year later when he hired himself out to a family in Pennsylvania...

Joshua Inman and his wife Anne were living in Pennsylvania as of 1784. They took in an immigrant named Johannes Meerbott from Hanau Germany. The conditions of what he was to do, and how long he was there is not known, but supposedly, after awhile and falling in love, he took a mule and a few belongings and eloped with their daughter Sarah to the Newberry District of South Carolina. They were married on April 02, 1787 in Newberry, and began a family. They did name their first boy Joshua after Sarah's father. In 1803, after changing his name to John Marbut, he received his citizenship papers and became an American citizen. It is likely that John didn't say to much about his war experience, because he put on his naturalization papers that he arrived from Hanau, Germany in 1784. John and Sarah had their third child, a boy, who they named John Marbut II. Philip was his 4th child. After John and Sarah passed away while still living in Newberry, it looks like some of their children migrated to Giles County, Tennessee, because this is where we again pick up John Marbut II. Here is where he meets Anna Thomas, and on July 30,1811, they are married. John II and Anna raise a large family. In fact, Anna bore fourteen children. It must have been one noisy home at dinner time. The ninth child was a boy named John Adams Marbut...

Died 22 Sep 1823. Newberry County, South Carolina, USA. [1] 22 Sep 1823. Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States. Found multiple copies of death date. Using 22 Sep 1823

Residence Abt 1820. Newberry County, South Carolina, USA. [1]

Probate: 12 May 1824. Newberry, South Carolina, USA. [1]

FSID K2XS-MPR.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Source: S1604299550 South Carolina Will Transcripts, 1782-1868; Author: Brimelow, Judith M.; Probate Place: Newberry, South Carolina Ancestry Record 9080 #631539




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Johannes Meerbott-1 and Marbut-130 appear to represent the same person because: Marbut is the LNAB referred to in the bio of Johannes Meerbott-1. spouse and son in process of merge too.
posted by Teresa Downey
Hi Teresa,

why did you merge Meerbott-1 into Marbut-130 and not the other way around?

His (German) LNAB is Meerbott, much later in life changed to Marbut (naturalization).

@Shirley, please correct LNAB to Meerbott and put Marbut as "other"/"aka" (where I added Meerbott as for now).

2 years ago I have been researching the Meerbott family for a descendant (living in Texas) and will be adding all the profiles, information and sources, when I (hopefully soon) get to do it.

thanks and regards, Vanessa

posted by Vanessa Hecker

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