Johann Matthias Alspach (1695)

Born 30 Nov 1695 in Thaleischweiler, Thaleischweiler-Fröschen, Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Johann Mattias Alspach was born in 1695. He arrived in America in on the Robert and Alice in 1738, the "Year of the Destroying Angels", a perilous journey where sickness was rampant. From a letter by Captain Walter Goodman, "On the 4th of July last I sailed out of Dover in England and arrived here on this river on the 9th of September with crew and passengers in good health but on the way I had many sick people, yet, since not more than 18 died, we lost by far the least of all the ships arrived to-date. We were the third ship to arrive. I sailed in company with four of the skippers who together had 425 deaths, one had 140, one 115, one 90, and one 80, The two captains Stedman have not yet arrived and I do not doubt that I shall be cleared for departure before they arrive since I begin loading tomorrow. I have disposed of all my passengers except for 20 families."

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• https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/PA%20to%20VA%20to%20OH/AlspachFamily.html

• https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/alspach/75/

• https://loyolanotredamelib.org/php/report05/articles/pdfs/Report40Wust21-56.pdf

• Pennsylvania Gazette, 07 Sept 1738 [1]

• https://www.biffle.org/robertandalicelist.html