Johan Heinrich Dietz (1724 - 1823)

Born 1724 in Vollmersbach, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany [uncertain]

Husband of Anna (Müller) Dietz — married 21 Feb 1758 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 27 Jun 1823 at about age 99 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, United States

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Biography

Johan Heinrich / Hen(d)rick Dietz, of uncertain parentage, was born in 1724 in Vollmersbach, Birkenfeld, Pfalz (Palatinate, now Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany.

Johan Heinrich wed Annatje Müller on 21 February 1758 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, New York. ^{[1] [2]}

Johan Heinrich and Annatje had at least seven children:

1. Philip Dietz / Teats, bapt. 21 Nov 1762 at Saint Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York;
2. ELIZABETH DIETZ / DIETS / TEATS, bapt. 9 Aug 1764 at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, NY;
3. Joseph Dietz, bapt. 9 Aug 1764 at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, NY;
4. Anna Barbara Dietz, bapt. 11 Dec 1766 at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, NY;
5. Anna Dietz, bapt. 27 Jul 1769 at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, NY;
6. Johannes Dietz, bapt. 9 May 1773 at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, NY;
7. Catharina Dietz, bapt. 15 Aug 1775 at St. Peters Lutheran Church, Rhinebeck, Dutchess, NY.

Johan Heinrich Dietz died on 27 June 1823 at Rhinebeek, Dutchess county, New York. ^[3]

Name

Johan(nes) Heinrich Dietz was this person's original name in Germany, and in the German Lutheran Church records in New York. The Dutch Reformed Church officials wrote his name as Johan Hendrick Dietz or Henrik Dietz. His corresponding Dutch surname is Diets, and sometimes he was recorded as such by the New York Dutch. In some records the variant Tiets was used; later colonial British and U.S. records anglicised his name to John Henry Teats. Teats is the English phonetical rendition of Tiets.

The surname Dietz is a dialectal variant of the word Deutsch, meaning German, but oiginally meaning folkish, of - or, belonging to - our own people.

In the eighteenth century it was a convention amongst many German families that all boy children be baptised with the first name Johannes or Johan (the equivalent of the English John). But only the eldest was actually ever called Johan(nes); the younger sons were called by their second baptismal name. Thus, this person was usually known as Heinrich Dietz, rather than Johan Heinrich Dietz. The German name Heinrich is equivalent to the Dutch name Hendrik and the English name Henry. - Albertus

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage Records of the Dutch Church at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York. Text: "Name: Johan Henrik Dietz; Spouse: Anna Muller; Marriage: 21 Feb 1758 - Poughkeepsie (The Flats), Dutchess, New York."
2. ↑ Ancestry.com Note: I read a photographic image of the original record on-line at Marriage Record of Johan Henrik Dietz & Anna Muller Text: "Feb 21 with Certificate. Johan Henrik Dietz & Anna Muller Y: D: both born in Germany and living here". 11 Feb 2014 - Albertus
3. ↑ Webtrees Henrick Dietz Text: "Henrick Dietz born in 1724 at Hooge, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and died 27 Jun 1823 at Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York, USA."

Other Sources

• FamilySearch. Note: Several Family Search Genealogies (formerly called Ancestral Files) attest to his name - Henrick Dietz, anglicised as Henry Teats - the date and place of his birth, and three marriages, albeit with inconsistencies. Also, the baptismal records of his children (q.v.) at St. Peters Lutheran Church of Rhinebeck (Reynbeek) furnish their fathers name - Heinrich Dietz - and that of their mother - Anna [Muller]. See here below several Family Search references to Heinrich, Hendrik, Henrick Dietz (alias Henry Teats):

1. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/99Q6-PNY
2. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/99XT-WY1
3. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGJ4-617
4. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGPL-NHF

• Lartigue, Carrie Louise (Teats), Henry Teats and Betsy Shook, their ancestors and descendents, 1912. Microreproduction of original published: Spokane, Wash. C.L. Lartigue, 1970 Henry Teats and Betsy Shook Text: "John Henry Teats (1724-1823), or Johan Henrick Dietz, immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Dutchess County, New York before 1758, and married Anna (Annatje) Muller in 1758. Henry Teats (1797-1880), a grandson, married Betsy Shook in 1821, and moved to Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan in 1837. After the death of his wife, Henry moved to Hope, Kansas to live with a son and family. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, Michigan, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho, Washington and elsewhere. Includes other lines of ancestry (many of them Dutch) in New York, New England and elsewhere to the early 1600s." Note: Includes index (including Dietz as a variant spelling). Includes Campau, Cramer, DeWitt, Fox, Freer, Generaux, Healy, Houghten, Shook and related families.

Acknowledgements

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