Category: Pennsylvania Mennonite Pioneers Interest Group
Categories: Swiss-German and Mennonite Immigrants to Pennsylvania | Germantown, Pennsylvania
This category is for researchers who are interested in Pennsylvania Anabaptist Pioneers.
I am interested in talking about my Anabaptist ancestors who lived in Germantown and later settled in Montgomery County; both these areas were then in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The first of these families arrived, I believe, on the ship, Concord, 6 October 1683.
I am especially looking for indiviuals who were born in Europe and who belonged to Anabaptist groups in Germantown or Montgomery County, PA. I would love to hear research questions and suggestions.
I am corresponding by email with a group of people who are DNA cousins and/or whose family trees connect with mine in the Stem, Kuster, and Zimmerman families. I would like to expand this conversation. I am exploring how this interest group on Wikitrees might work to do that.
I have found I have connections to:
- Gottshalks/Godshalls
- Conrads
- Doors
- Stamms/Stems
- Kusters/Custers
What other families can we talk about?
“The descendants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters”, Jean M. White, editor, Publ. The Castor Association of America, p. 23-24 quotes “the 1691 petition of naturalization.
- Copia naturalisations
- Peter Kyeser and Dirk Keyser
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
- and of sixty one person more
- German Town
- From
- William Penn Esq.
- Dated 7th May AD 1691
William Penn, Proprietary of the Province of Pensilvania &c. By the King and Queens authority.
- To all to whom these presents shall come. Send greetings &c. Wheras
Francis Daniel Pastorius, Jacob Telner, Dirck Isaacs op de Graef, Herman Isaacs op de Graef, Tennis Conderts, Abraham Isaacs op de Graef, Jacob Isaacs, Johannes Cassel, Hewart Papen, Herman Bon, Albertus Brandt, Jacob Schumacker, Wolter Simens, Dirick Keyser, Arnold Cassel, Dirick Keyser, Jr., Jan Lensen, Jan Duplouvys, Peter Schumaker, Peter Schumaker, Jr., Isaac Dilbeeck, Jan Doeden, Abraham Tennis, Willm Rittenhuysen, Claes Rittenhuysen, Johannes Custers, Heinrich Buchholts, Isaac Jacobs, Matthis Jacobs, Wigerd Levering Isaac Schoffer, Clas Tamsen, Hans Milan, Dirick Sellen, Hendrick Sellen, Paul Wolff, Lenart Arens, Arent Klincken, Paul Kastner, Willen Streipers, Keondrdt Backer, Viet Scherkes, Hans Peter Umstadt, Anthony Duplouvys, Heinrich Kesselberg, Reinert Tissen, Jan Lucken, Peter Klever, Heinrich Frey, Hans Andreas Kramer, Jurgen Schumacker, Isaac Schumaker, Peter Kurlis, Gerhard Levering, Johannes Bleikers, Herman op de Trap, Kirick op de Klock, Cornelis Siverts, Reiner Hermans, Anthony Loof, Andreas Souplis, Jan Williams, high and low Germans. Inhabitants and owners of land in German Town, and in the county of Philadelphia, being foreigners and so not freemen, according to the acceptation of the laws of England, have requested to be made Freeman of the said Province…”
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