Frantz Brossman (1693 - 1749)

Born 4 Sep 1693 in Waldangelloch, Sinsheim, Baden, Germany

Husband of Anna Clara Elizabeth (Randolph) Brossman — married 6 Jun 1724 in Waldangelloch, Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Baden, Germany

Descendants

Died 18 Oct 1749 at age 56 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Frantz Brossman (b. 1693, d. 16 Oct 1749)

Frantz Brossman (son of Nicholas Brossman and Elisabetha) was born 1693 in Reihen, Germany, and died 16 Oct 1749 in Stouchsburg, Berks Co., PA. He married Anna Clara Rudolph on 06 Jun 1724 in Baden, Heidelberg, Waldengelloch, Germany, daughter of Hans Jerg Rudolph and Catharina Margaretha Fessler.

Notes for Frantz Brossman: The following notes were contributed to the Drummond collection by Schuyler Brossman. Contributed to him by Annette Burger, of Worthington,Ohio in October, 1982.

"More notes on Frantz Brossman, Reihen, Germany, Lutheran Churchbook (6920 Sinsheim, Elsenz) Germany. Nicholas Brossman, citizen here, and Elisabetha first appear in the church record with the Baptism of a daughter: Anna Dorothea, baptized 10 Aug 1701. They also had a son, Ludovicus, b. 12 Dec 1705. No further records of their family at Reihen. Waldengelloch, Lutheran Churchbook (6920 Sinsheim, Elsenz) Germany: Married (2) 21 May 1707 - Nicholaus Brostman, Drehrer (a turner) and AnnaMaria, the widow Wipf. Married (3) 24 Nov 1711 - Meister Nicolaus Brossman, Trehrer (turner) and widower, and Magdelene, widow of Johannes Burckle at Hilspach.

In the baptism records of their children, it is indicated that Magdalena is Catholic. Children: 1. Johann Michel, b. 25 Apr 1713; 2. Margaretha Barbara b. 5 Sep 1715. Died 8 Aug 1717 - Nicholaus Brossman, Dreher here, age 64 years. (therefore born about 1653 - 1717 less 64 = 1653). Married on 6 Jun 1724 - Frantz Brossman, a Treher, and Anna Clara, daughter of the late Hanz Jerg Rudolph.^[1] Hans Jerg Rudolph married 18 Nov 1680, Catharina Margaretha Fessler. Their daughter Clara Elisabetha was baptized 11 Mar 1700. She is evidently the Anna Clara who married Frantz Brossman." end of report.

1994 note: impossible to determine if church records cited above relate to Frantz Brossman without further investigation.

Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pa. Vol I of 2, publ, Beers & Co., 1909. p. 1659, vol I. : "The Brossman family is one of the oldest in Berks county, dating back to the early part of the eighteenth century. Francis (Frantz) Brossman, a German by birth, so tradition says, was one of the Schoharie County, N.Y., settlers who came to Berks county between 1723 & 1728. When Berks county was organized in1752, he was an inhabitant of Heidelberg township. The following year, 1753, he paid eighteen pounds tax, and in 1754 he paid twenty-two pounds tax. This shows him to have been a large landowner. His remains are undoubtedly buried at St. Daniel's (Corner) Church, which was the spiritual home of all those early pioneers...".

Schuyler Brossman, Rehrersburg, Pa. 7 Dec 1971. Brossman Family Historian. part of Drummond collection: "Frantz Brossman, was aged 45 years when he arrived in Philadelphia, Pa from Rotterdam via Deal on the ship Friendship on 3 Sep 1739. The ship commander was William Vitteryand it carried 150 passengers. According to his age he would have been born in 1693-1694.

The ship list of the ship, Friendship, is found, of Sep 1739 the name Frantz Prossman even though his signature is written Brossman.

Available records indicate he had the following children: Anna Magdalena, m. Johannes Kistler; Justina Catarina, b. before 1734; Frantz Sebastian Brossman, b. 28 Aug 1728, d. 26 Nov 1797, bur Christ Luth. Ch., Stouchsburg, Pa. Served in Berks Co., Militia, Rev. War, M. Maria Saloma----; Maria Appolonia Brossman, b. ca. 1732, Baltser Umbonhauer, lived Bernville, Pa.; Anna Margaretha Brossman, b. ca. 1733, may have m. Jacob Rossell; Christina, b. ca. 1738; Johannes, b. either 1739 or 1742, d. 26Aug 1807, m. Anna Maria Heilman, b.1742, d. 1812.

Frantz Brossman, the immigrant, came from Germany. He died without a will and an inventory of his estate in Jan 1750, recorded in the Lancaster County Pa courthouse lists his widow as Clarlis or Corlis. He died in October 1749 and was buried 18 Oct 1749 probably in the cemetery of Christ Lutheran Church of Stouchsburg as this is recorded in the church records..."

A transcription of the records are to be found in the Historical Society of Berks Co, Reading, Pa. It should be noted that the part of Lancaster county in which Frantz lived later became, in 1752, Berks County."Frantz Brossman was among the founders of Christ Church in 1743."

From another source: "The first reference to the Brossman (Brosman, Brossmann, Brozman, Brozmann, Brotzman, Brotsmann, Broseman, Brossman etc.) Family in America appears on the passenger list of the ship Friendship which landed in Philadelphia, Penna. Sept. 3, 1739. Among the list of passengers appears the name of Frantz Brossman whose age is given as 45 years. His signature indicates that he was able to write his own name while many of the other passengers signed it with an X or other mark. On the clerk's list the name is spelled Prossman, which is probably the way Frantz Brossman pronounced it with his German accent.However on the signature list the name is spelled Frantz Brossman. This is a good example of how various spellings of the same name came about,with church, tax collector, militia sergeant, etc., each writing the name differently. -----"

End of notes.

More About Frantz Brossman: Burial: 18 Oct 1749, Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery . Occupation: Turner.

More About Frantz Brossman and Anna Clara Rudolph: Marriage: 06 Jun 1724, Baden, Heidelberg, Waldengelloch, Germany.

• Franz Broßmann marries Anna Clara, daughter of the deceased Hans Jerg Rudolph.^[2]

Children of Frantz Brossman and Anna Clara Rudolph are: +Anna Maria Magdalena Brossman, b. 1722, Baden, Heidelberg, Waldengelloch, Germany, d., Albany Twp., Berks Co., PA. Frantz Sebastian Brossman, b. 28 Aug 1728, Waldengelloch, Germany, d. 20 Nov 1797. Maria Appolonia Brossman, b. 19 May 1730, Baltser Umbonhauer, d. 04 Nov 1815, Bern, Berks Co, PA. Anna Margaretha Brossman, b. 1733, Waldangelloch, Germany, d. 1817, Maryland. Justina Catarina Brossman, b. Bef. 1734. Christina Brossman, b. Abt. 1738. Johannes Brossman, b. Abt. 1739, Waldangelloch, Germany, d. 26 Aug 1807, Robesonia, Berks Co., PA.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Church book Waldangelloch, Baden: Landeskirchliches Archiv Karlsruhe > Waldangelloch > Mischbuch 1678,1674,1674 - 1732,1739,1735 [1]
2. ↑ Church book Waldangelloch, Baden: Landeskirchliches Archiv Karlsruhe > Waldangelloch > Mischbuch 1678,1674,1674 - 1732,1739,1735 [2]
3. ↑ Entered by Dana Jones.

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Birth

04 Sep 1693

Waldangelloch,Kraichgau,Baden-Württemberg,Germany

E8.807222

N49.209446

Death

18 Oct 1749

,Berks,Pennsylvania,United States

Acknowledgments

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