Christopher Richter (abt. 1645 - abt. 1713)

Born about 29 Jun 1645 in Siegen, Nassau-Siegen, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Catharina (Becker) Richter — married 1665 in Trupbach,Nassau Siegen,,Germany

Descendants

Died about 1713 at about age 67 in Trupbach, Nassau-Siegen, Germany [uncertain]

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Biography

"Christopher (Christoffel, Stoffel) Richter of Trupbach, born around 1645, son of Johannes and Anna Richter of Siegen, died at Trupbach some time after 1713, the date of his wife's death. He married about 1665/6 Anna Catharina, daughter of Hermann Becker of Trupbach and his first wife, Ottilia.... She died at Trupbach June 5, 1713, aged 72 years. The court records (Landschreiber-Protokollen) show that on Aug. 8, 1669 there was an exchange of inherited property between Mannes (i.e., Hermann) Becker of Trupbach and Catharina, 'wife of Stoffel Richter,' daughter by his first marriage, regarding Catharina's inheritance from her mother, as well as what she might expect from her father.... On Feb. 28, 1675 Christopher Richter and Anna Catharina his wife mortgaged fields and meadows they owned at Trupbach to Martin Klingspor of Siegen to secure a debt of 20 Reichsthaler, the sum being borrowed to repair damages to their property done by Gen. von Koenigsmarck and his troops as they marched through Nassau-Siegen. Christoper Richter was a clockmaker, and is shown as a member of the Guild of Steelsmiths and Toolmakers of the Freudenburg district in 1698 and 1699. After 1699 his name is crossed out, and the roll on Jan. 2, 1705 shows in his stead Johannes Richter of Trupbach, admitted as a clockmaker. On Aug. 21, 1696 all the master-locksmiths of Siegen complained against the two sons of 'Christophel Clockmaker' of Trupbach and Philip Marburg for making locks, on the ground that these should be made only by their Guild at Siegen....The church accounts of Holtzklau state that on Jan. 22, 1716 'the clockmaker at Trupbach' (i.e., Johannes Richter, I suppose) had provided the parish church clock with two new wheels and a pendulum, and that his brother, Jacob Richter of Langenholdinghausen, had repaired the hands of that clock, which had faded out. The children of Christopher and Anna Catharina (Becker) Richter were [eight children born between 1667 and 1680]..."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ B. C. Holtzclaw, Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750 (Harrisonburg, Virginia: The Germanna Foundation, 1964), pp. 437-38.

• B.C. Holtzclaw, John Jacob Rector and of Germanna and His Descendants, (Germanna Record No. 4), April 1963, Published by the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc. p3. see also Dr. William J. Hinke, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 41, p.41 ff.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134445511/christophel-rector: accessed 24 July 2022), memorial page for Christophel Rector (29 Jun 1645–1713), Find A Grave: Memorial #134445511 , ; Maintained by Carole Conrad (contributor 46532185)Burial Details Unknown.

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