Abraham (Merckle) Merkle (1664 - abt. 1734)

Born 1 Mar 1664 in Bonfeld, Ritterkanton Kraichgau des Schwäbischen Ritterkreises, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Veronika (Landvatter) Merkle — married 27 Jul 1684 in Bonfeld, Ritterkanton Kraichgau des Schwäbischen Ritterkreises, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died about 1734 at about age 69 in Alsace, Kingdom of France

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Biography

This profile is part of the Markle Name Study.

Abraham (Merckle) Merkle migrated from Germany to Pennsylvania.

Abraham (Merckle) Merkle was an early settler in Pennsylvania.

Abraham Merkle (b. 1 Mar 1664, d. 1734)

Abraham Merckle was christened on 2 Mar 1664 in Bonfeld. He was the son of Jörg Merckle and Eva.^[1] He died 1734 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Abraham married Anna Veronika Maria Landvatter July 27, 1684 in Bonfeld, Germany;^[2] born 1666 in Oberamt, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died about 1717 perhaps at sea.

Abraham was the child of Georg Merklin. Born 1603 in Wimpfen, Hesse, Germany, Georg had moved from the District of Wimpfen, to Bonfeld, District of Heilbronn in Württemberg, Germany after one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history; the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Georg married Eva about 1646, and in 1654 became a citizen of Bonfeld. Abraham Merkle was born March 1, 1664 in Bonfeld (the birth-place of Jacob Markley, see Preface).

The "Palatinate phase" of the Thirty Years' War (1621–1625), consisted mostly of sieges conducted by the Spanish army that left the Palatinate in the hands of the Spanish. On May 6, 1622, the combined Spanish army of Field Marshal t'Serclaes van Tilly and General Fernández de Córdoba (commanding Imperial and Holy Roman Empire Forces) attacked Wimpfen, where Georg Merklin was living.

The Spanish army then captured the city of Heidelberg on September 19, 1622 following an eleven-week siege. Christian the Younger of Brunswick lost the Battle of Stadtlohn where 13,000 out of his army of 15,000 were lost, including fifty of his high-ranking officers. Württemberg lost three-quarters of its population during the war. Entire regions were denuded by foraging armies. Together with the complete surrender of Bohemia in 1623, virtually all resistance in Germany ended. (see Google map, Rheinland-Pfalz Region from Heidelberg to Bonfeld)

In 1704 Abraham Merkle's oldest daughter Anna Maria Merkle married 19 year-old Jost Hite in Bonfeld, Germany. Jost was a linen weaver like Abraham Merkle, who was a master of the trade. Jost and Anna Maria then moved to Strasbourg, Alsace, where Jost worked as a linen weaver. However, after their first two children were lost in the midst of war, they fled the devastation created by the French Army in Alsace.

In 1708 their third child, Maria Elisabetha, was born and christened in a small village near Bonfeld ("Treschklingen", see map). Anna Maria and Jost then fled the Palatinate region with their infant child, traveling (North-West) down the Rhine to Rotterdam, as Jost Hite's father prepared to follow with his wife and four children. On July 15, 1709 both families migrated to England as Palatinate Refugees; but Jost's stepmother sailed alone as "Head of Household" with only two children. On June 16, 1710 four of the original nine family members finally emigrated to New York as refugees from the Palatinate of the Rhine, having lost Jost's father and four children.

Sometime before 1716 Abraham Merkle knew that Anna Maria, Josh and baby Maria had safely landed in America; that they had joined a work party of several hundred indentured German families in the New York Hudson valley. He heard how Anna Maria and Josh had moved from Kingston, Ulster County, New York in 1714 with four healthy young children (Maria Elisabetha "Mary", b. 1708; Elizabeth, b. 1711; Magdalena, b. 1713; and John, b. 1714).

When Jost purchased 150 acres on Skippack Creek near Germantown in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Abraham Merkle was able to establish that Swiss-Germans from Strasbourg and the Bonfeld-Kraichgau Region had settled there in 1695 (see Google map, Heartland of the Lower Palatinate). Indeed, under the direct sponsorship of William Penn, a well-known Dutch-German family of weavers and linen-merchants from Krefeld and Mülheim on the Ruhr in Westphalia, north of Frankfurt, were among the founders of Germantown in Pennsylvania. With the foresight of a true Master, Abraham immediately began mobilizing the Merkle family resources behind this amazing daughter of his and her family in the "New World".

And so in 1716 his second daughter, Anna Felizitas Merkle was married to Johann George Bopp aka Popp in Bonfeld; and his oldest surviving son, Andreas Jeremias Merkle, married Maria Katharine G. Lautenschlager in Wimpfen. With family affairs in order, Abraham Merkle then immigrated in 1717 from Germany to America with his wife and 5 children, his married daughter with new son-in-law, and his brother Balthasar Merkle with his wife and 3 children.

Specifically, (see Descendants of Abraham Merkle for German Family Tree) this exciting and dangerous adventure included his wife, Anna Veronika Landvatter; their children Anna Felizitas and her husband Johann George Bopp; Anna Katharine; Anna Veronika; Regina Christine "Christen"; Jacob Merkle and Anna Rosina Merkle; and Abraham's brother, Balthasar Merkle with his wife Elizabeth and children Maria Catharine, Hans Jerg and Maria Elizabetha.

Abraham arrived in Philadelphia without his wife and two of his daughters; Veronika, Katharine and Rosina apparently died en-route, possibly buried at sea.

Undaunted, Abraham quietly began integrating the Merkle Family line into the German community in Philadelphia County. The very next year, on November 15, 1718, Jost Hite was able to purchase 600 acres a few miles up Perkiomen Creek for the price of 125 pounds. Here, Jost built a grist mill just outside of present day Schwenksville. Abraham and his children connected with the family of the master linen weaver who had settled Germantown in 1685. By 1722 all of Abraham's surviving children were married and propagating their own families:

Anna Felizitas (Merkle) Bopp lived with her family in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania to the age of 84; died in 1773.

Regina Christine "Christen" married Benjamin Frey (son of Heinrich Frey and Anna Catherine Levering) about 1721. They had 9 children in Perkiomen, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, near the families of Christen's sister Anna Maria (Merkle) Hite (who had 11 children) and her brother Jacob (Merkle) Markley. After her father Abraham Merkle died in 1734 and their last child was born in Perkiomen, Christen and Benjamin followed the historic Hite-Wagon-Train of German and Scots-Irish families to Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley to raise their children there. Christen Frey died 1760 in the Shenandoah Valley at Cedar Creek in Frederick County, Virginia.

Anna Veronika married William Frey (son of Heinrich Frey and Anna Catherine Levering) about 1722. They had 10 children adjacent to the Hite Family, also near her sister Christen (Merkle) Frey and her brother Jacob (Merkle) Markley. She died 1752 in Frederick Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Jacob Merkle (now know as Jacob Markley) married Barbara Dodderer in 1722 and Barbara Rausch in 1739. Jacob lived his life in Skippack, Pennsylvania and had 14 children by two wives; he died 1784 at the age of 83 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. (see the book online, "Descendants of Jacob Markley", The Markley Freundshaft, 1884)

Abraham lived to see his children prosper in America; he experienced the incredible lives of his children, grandchildren and especially his oldest daughter Anna Maria, and helped Jost Hite organize the sixteen families that opened up the Shenandoah Valley in 1732. In 1734, after the Hite Wagon Train had successfully settled a vast new frontier along Opequon Creek, Abraham Merkle died in Philadelphia County, having completed his rich 70-year adventure to the "New World".

Anna Maria, the German Palatinate Subsistence refugee who married Jost Hite, and led the Merkle Family parade to America in 1710, died in the Shenandoah Valley at "Long Meadows", Frederic County, Virginia in 1739.

According to the Church Book of Bonfeld, Kingdom of Württemberg, Abraham and Anna Veronika Merkle (aka /Merckle /Markle /Markley) were the parents of thirteen children in Germany. Forty-four children are documented for the 1st Generation of family members that emigrated to America.

The names of [Merkle] Family members used in the Profiles of Abraham and Anna Veronika Merkle and their children have been brought into alignment with the historic (German) Merkle Family Tree:

"Stammtafel der familie Merkle; nach den Kirchenbüchern zu Bonfeld, Oberamts Heilbronn, königreich Württemberg, und denen zu Wimpfen, grossherzogtum Hessen (1886)." (see Descendants of Abraham Merkle, 1884)

Children of Abraham Merkle and Anna Landvatter are:

(i) Jeremias Andreas Merkle, born May 16, 1685; died young after May 1685 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany.

(ii) Anna Maria (Merkle) Hite, born January 16, 1687 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died 1739 at Long Meadows, Frederic County, Virginia; married Johann Justus "Jost" Hite November 11, 1704 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; born December 5, 1685 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany. Anna Maria emigrated to New York with her husband Jost Hite and baby daughter Mary in 1710 as Palatinate Subsistence refugees.

(iii) Anna Felizitas (Merkle) Bopp, born January 6, 1689 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died October 9, 1773 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; married Johann George Bopp (aka Popp) February 28, 1716 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany. Anna Felizitas emigrated to New York with her father Abraham in 1717, and her husband Johann George Bopp emigrated with her.

(iv) Anna Veronika Merkle, born August 22, 1690; died young August 23, 1691 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany.

(v) Andreas Jeremias Merkle, born June 9, 1692 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died April 19, 1766 in Wimpfen, Hesse, Germany; married Maria Katharine G. Lautenschlager October 6, 1716 in Wimpfen, Hesse, Germany; born about 1695 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany. Their child Georg Paul Merkle, born about 1740 in Wimpfen, Hesse, Germany; married Maria Magdalene Barbara Uber, September 23, 1760 in Bonfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Georg Paul and Maria Magdalene Merkle had six children in Germany. Their fifth child, Johann Christoph Merkle, emigrated to America and settled at Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

(vi) Anna Katharine Merkle, born March 19, 1695 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany. In 1717 she immigrated from Germany with her father; apparently died en-route.

(vii) Anna Veronika (Merkle) Frey, born January 3, 1697 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died 1752 in Frederick Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married William Frey about 1722 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; born 1695 in Roxborough, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; died June 15, 1768 in Frederick Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Veronika Merkle emigrated to New York with her father Abraham in 1717 at age 20; was reunited with her sister Anna Maria Hite in Perkiomen, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; and raised ten children with William Frey in Falkner Swamp (Frederick Twp.) adjacent to the Hite Family, her sister Christen Merkle and her brother Jacob Merkle.

(viii) Regina Christine "Christen" (Merkle) Frey, born March 20, 1699 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died January 1, 1760 at Cedar Creek in Frederick County, Virginia; married Benjamin Frey about 1721 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; born about 1696 in Roxborough, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, died March 1753 at "Frye Fort" in Frederick County, Virginia.

Christen Merkle emigrated to New York with her father Abraham in 1717 at age 18; was reunited with her sister Anna Maria Hite in Perkiomen, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; and raised nine children with Benjamin Frey at Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley.

(ix) Isaac Merkle, born July 11, 1701 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died young October 15, 1701 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany. Twin brother of Jacob Merkle.

(x) Jacob Merkle, born July 11, 1701 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died August 29, 1784 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He emigrated to New York with his father Abraham in 1717 at age 16.

Married (1) Barbara Dodderer (daughter of George Philip Dodderer and Veronica Schleipfer) February 13, 1722 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; born about 1704 in Stebbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, died July 24, 1738 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Married (2) Barbara Rausch (aka Kausch) July 29, 1739 in Perkiomen, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; born April 14, 1714, died September 1784.

(xi) Isaac Merkle, born February 22, 1704 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died young 1705 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany.

(xii) Anna Rosina Merkle, born November 5, 1705. In 1717 she immigrated from Germany with her father at age 11; apparently died en-route.

(xiii) Abraham Merkle, born March 12, 1708 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany; died young September 11, 1708 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany.

Marriage of Jörg Merklin and Eva

Date: abt. 1646

Place: near Wimpfen or Bonfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Husband: Jörg Merklin

Wife: Eva

Child: 01 Dietrich Merkle

Married (1) Apollonia Bucher

01 01 Hans Jakob Merkle

Married (2) Anna Sibylle Ziegler

01 01 Hans Thomas Merkle

01 02 Anna Sibylle Merkle

01 03 Franz Jakob Merkle

01 04 Sibylle Elisabeth Merkle

Married (3) Anna Katharina Hartmann

Child: 02 Jörg Merkle

Child: 03 Georg Matthäus Merkle

Married Agnes Hess

03 01 Anna Veronika Merkle

03 02 Hans Matthäus Merkle

03 03 Johann Georg Merkle

Married Anna Eva Bathasar Dinkel

03 03 01 Katharine Barbara Merkle

03 03 02 Johann Leonhard Merkle

03 03 03 Marie Barbara Merkle

03 03 04 Eva Felizitas Merkle

03 03 05 Johann Georg Frederich Merkle

03 03 06 Johann Peter Merkle aka | "JOHN MARKLEY of

03 03 06 married Eveline Hummel | Somerset County"

03 03 06 01 Jacob Markley

03 03 06 02 Matthias Markley

03 03 06 03 Joseph Markley

03 03 06 04 Margaret (Markley) Hendrickson

03 03 06 05 Peter Markley

03 03 06 06 Eve Catherine (Markley) Miller

03 03 06 07 Susannah (Markley)

03 03 06 07 Married (1) Keagey {Jacob}

03 03 06 07 Married (2) Fadely {Peter}

03 03 07 Johann Jacob Merkle

03 03 08 Johann Georg Martin Merkle

03 04 Johann Friedrich Merkle

03 04 Married Regine Christine Katharine Kegele

Child: 04 Anna Magdalene Merkle

Child: 05 Wolfgang Georg Merkle

Married Anna Elisabeth

Child: 06 Balthasar Merkle

Married Elizabeth

06 01 Anna Barbara Merkle

06 02 Hans Lorentz Merkle

06 03 Johann Adam Merkle

06 04 Maria Catharine Merkle

06 05 Hans Jerg

06 06 Maria Elizabetha Merkle

Child: 07 Jörg Heinrich Merkle

Married Marie Katharine

07 01 Benigna Maria Merkle

07 02 Bernolf Ulrich Merkle

Child: 08 Abraham Merkle

Married Anna Veronika Landvatter

08 01 Jeremias Andreas Merkle

08 02 Anna Maria (Merkle) Hite

08 02 Married Johann Justus "Jost" Hite

08 02 01 Anna Maria Hite

08 02 02 Maria Barbara Hite

08 02 03 Mary (Hite) Bowman

08 02 04 Elizabeth (Hite) Froman

08 02 05 Magdalena (Hite) Chrisman

08 02 06 John Hite

08 02 07 Infant Hite

08 02 08 Jacob Hite

08 02 09 Isaac Hite

08 02 10 Abraham Hite

08 02 11 Joseph Hite

08 03 Anna Felizitas (Merkle) Bopp

08 03 Married Johann George Bopp/Popp

08 04 Anna Veronika Merkle

08 05 Andreas Jeremias Merkle

08 05 Married Maria Katharine G Lautenschlager

08 05 01 Georg Paul Merkle

08 05 01 Married Marie Magdalene Uber

08 05 01 01 Johann Lorenz Merkle

08 05 01 02 Marie Elizabeth Friederike Merkle

08 05 01 03 Marie Friederike Merkle

08 05 01 04 Johann Adam Merkle

08 05 01 05 Johann Christoph Merkle

08 05 01 06 Marie Juliane Merkle

08 06 Anna Katharine Merkle

08 07 Anna Veronika (Merkle) Frey

08 07 Married William Frey

08 07 01 Veronica (Frey) Miller

08 07 02 Heinrich "Henry" Frey

08 07 03 William Frey

08 07 04 Magdalena (Frey) Paus

08 07 05 Jacob Frey

08 07 06 Christina (Frey) Segner

08 07 07 Salome (Frey) Hensel

08 07 08 Elizabeth (Frey) Grubb

08 07 09 Catherine (Frey) Gesel

08 07 10 Matthais "Christian" Frey

08 08 Regina Christine (Merkle) Frey

08 08 Married Benjamin Frey

08 08 01 Abraham Frey

08 08 02 Henry Frey

08 08 03 Jacob Frey

08 08 04 Joseph Frey

08 08 05 Samuel Frey

08 08 06 Benjamin Frey Jr.

08 08 07 Christena Anna Frey] Powell

08 08 08 William Frey

08 08 09 Elizabeth Frey

08 09 Isaac Merkle

08 10 Jacob (Merkle) Markley

08 10 Married (1) Barbara Dodderer

08 10 01 Abraham Markley

08 10 02 Philip Markley

08 10 03 Infant Markley

08 10 04 Isaac Markley

08 10 05 Veronica (Markley) Schwenck

08 10 06 Rebecca (Markley) Isaac

08 10 07 Infant Markley

08 10 08 Christina (Markley) Antes

08 10 09 Catharine (Markley) Brennemann

08 10 Married (2) Barbara Kausch/Rausch

08 10 10 Eleanor (Markley) Boganer

08 10 11 Elizabeth (Markley) Benner

08 10 12 Mary Magdalena Markley

08 10 13 Anna Barbara (Markley) Smith

08 10 14 Hanna (Markley) Brotzman

08 11 Isaac Merkle

08 12 Anna Rosina Merkle

08 13 Abraham Merkle

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Marriage

Husband: Abraham Merkle

Wife: Anna Veronika Landvatter

i Jeremias Andreas Merkle

ii Anna Maria Merkle

iii Anna Felicitas Merkle

iv Anna Veronika Merkle

v Andreas Jeremias Merkle

vi Anna Katherine Merkle

vii Anna Veronika Merkle

viii Regina Christena Merkle

ix Issac Merkle

x Jacob Merkle aka Markley

xi Isaac Merkle

xii Anna Rosina Merkle

xiii Abraham Merkle

Birth

Date: 1 MAR 1664

Place: Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany

Marriage:

Date: 27 JUL 1684

Place: Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany

GEDCOM download. 21 July 2000.^[3]

Parents

Husband: Jorg Merklin

Wife: Eva UNKNOWN

Child: Abraham Merkle

Name

Abraham Merckle^[4]

Christening

2 Mar 1664

Sources

1. ↑ Church book Bonfeld, Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Heilbronn > Bonfeld > Mischbuch 1607-1737 Band 1 Archion image 30
2. ↑ Church book Bonfeld, Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Heilbronn > Bonfeld > Mischbuch 1607-1737 Band 1 Archion image 146
3. ↑ Source: #S4 Page: Version 4.19 online. 1 Dec 2001.
4. ↑ Family Data Collection - Births about Anna Maria Merckle

Link: 8th Great-Grand Father of Lawrence Bailey Bailey-11646 Direct Ancestor of Meghan Markle ,Duchess of Suffex, wife of Prince Harry of Wales, married 5/19/2018

• https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-Merckel/6000000003615661280

Managed by: Private User Last Updated: September 17, 2021 BURIAL Burial Details Unknown Created by: Gathering Roots Added: 6 Apr 2018 Find A Grave: Memorial #188586216

• Henry Sassaman Dotterer, Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.. pub. 1884.

Source: Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania .. (1884); Author: Dotterer, Henry Sassaman, 1841-1903; Markley Freundschaft (Montgomery County, Pa.) pbl. Subject: Markley family (Jacob Markley, 1701-1784) Published 1884 by The Markley Freundschaft in [Norristown, Pa.], 36 p. Library of Congress CS71.M345 1884. http://archive.org/details/descendantsofjac00dott

• This Family Tree is a supplement to H.S. Dotterer's Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.. pub. 1886.

Source: Stammtafel der familie Merkle nach den Kirchenbüchern zu Bonfeld, Oberamts Heilbronn, königreich Württemberg, und denen zu Wimpfen, grossherzogtum Hessen. Published 1886 by Markley freundschaft of Montgomery Co. Pa. in Norristown, Pa., suppl. to H.S. Dotterer's Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack.. pub. 1884. Note: No TOC or numbered pages. http://archive.org/details/stammtafelderfam00mark

• Source: S38 Abbreviation: Frey Journal Title: Jon Frye, Frye Family Association Journal. (4356 Chippewa Trail, Jamestown, OH 45335) Repository: #R1 Page: Vol. 3, Issue 2; Fall 2003. p.46 "Benjamin's Christina" by Charles J. Burgess.
• Source: S84 Abbreviation: WorldConnect Title: WorldConnect database at Rootsweb. <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/> (The same file available from Ancestry.com Family Trees.) Files submitted by individuals. Research notes often included. Source data sometimes cited. Repository: #R1 Copied webpage. Text: Lee Case <lease[at]deseretmail.com> GEDCOM download. 21 July 2000.
• Source: S89 Abbreviation: Palatine Families of New York Title: Henry Z. Jones, Jr., The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710 (Universal City, CA 1985)
• Source: S98 Abbreviation: German Origins of Jost Hite Title: Henry Z. Jones, Jr., Ralph Connor and Klaus Wust, German Origins of Jost Hite, Virginia Pioneer (Shenandoah History; Edinburg VA; 1979).
• Note: Abraham & Anna Veronica had 13 children. They emigrated to Pennsylvania from Bonfeld, Germany in 1717. Name also seen variously as /Markle /Markley /Merklin /Merkle /Merckle at different times and places.

A folder found in the Montgomery Co PA Historical Society lists the children of Abraham Markley (really?) (Abraham Merkle):

• Family Data Collection - Births about Anna Maria Merckle http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepoolb&h=3035329&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t17454982_p560202278_kpidz0q3d560202278z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid

• Stammtafel der familie Merkle; nach den Kirchenbüchern zu Bonfeld, Oberamts Heilbronn, königreich Württemberg, und denen zu Wimpfen, grossherzogtum Hessen, by Markley Freundschaft, Montgomery County, Pa., pub; Dotterer, Henry SassamanFamily Genealogy Sheet

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