Johannes Wilhelm Penrod 2nd (abt. 1700 - abt. 1756)

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Contents 1 Biography 2 Biography 3 Sources 4 Acknowledgements

Biography

[[When Johannes Wilhelm Poenradt [[[Penrod-188|Johannes Wilhem Poenradt]] was born on 19 June 1700, in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. His father, Hanss Heinrich Bonrodt or Bonraht, was 45 and his mother, Catharina Elisabetha Flamm, was 44. He married Elisabeth Fercken in 1720, in Gummersbach, Rhineland, Prussia, German Empire. He lived in Brothersvalley Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1773 and Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1790. He died on 7 October 1756, in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Milford, Black Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on October 7, 1756, in Frederick, Maryland at the age of 56.

Johannes and Gertrude Poenradt Johannes Poenradt Posted 29 jul 2012 by marycda Johannes Poenradt and his wife Gertrude were among the German Palatines who fled Germany in the early 1700s. At the invitation of Queen Anne of England in the spring of 1709, about 7,000 Palatines left. They were promised land in America by Queen Anne. The main group of 3000 passengers arrived in New York aboard 10 ships, they arrived on June 13, 1710, with newly appointed royal governor, Robert Hunter. The passengers experienced much sickness during the voyage, and nearly five hundred were lost at sea. Upon arrival they were quarantined for se months on Nutten (now Governors) Island due to typhus on board. Johannes Poenradt and his wife Gertude were promised 100 acres on the North side of the Hudson River. But, they could not begin work until the spring of 1711. In the autumn of 1712 Hunter could no longer afford the expense of the Germans and the Germans were left to fend for themselves, still in debt to the crown.

Disgusted, they left for the land along the Schoharie Creek, which they claimed had been promised to them by Queen Anne. In the winter of 1712-13 about fifty families walked to the Schoharie valley. The remainder joined them in the spring, making a total of between five and seven hundred people. They founded seven gdorfhs, or farming villages there.

Dispite being promised free land, the Germans were required to work for several years to pay for their transportation expenses. The Germans were also forced to pay rent for their property. The Germans were to produce tar from the trees, but they were unsuitable. In 1711, the English conscripted German Palatines to fight the French in northern New York. Upon their return, the Palatines discovered that their families had nearly starved in their absence. Weiser led the Palatines in complaining to Governor Hunter.

The Mohawk, part of the Iroquois Confederacy, helped the German Palatines throughout the winter of 1713-14. After negotiating with the Mohawk, the Germans were given permission to move further west in the valley. The Germans who settled here were very poor. At Schoharie, they grew corn, potatoes, and ground beans to get through the following year. Life was was harsh and familites sometimes went two or three days without food. Eventually, multiple villages in the area sprang up and more food was grown, thus life improved and people no longer starved.

But , despite the fact that Hunter had let the Germans go free, he had threatened them not to move to Schoharie or he would see it as rebellion. The Palatines were resistant, and the land that they had settled on in Schoharie was taken away and granted to seven landlords by Hunter. The German deputies were stripped of their titles, and the promise of free land by Queen Anne was ignored. This brought an uproar, and the Germans rebelled. They drove out the sheriff who was sent from Albany, and became increasingly hostile to the government. The Germans decided to send representatives to appeal to the Board of Trade in London. Upon arrived the three men found that Queen Anne had died. The new monarch, King George I, was not interested in their case and Hunter had portrayed the Germans as rebels and enemies to the Crown.

In July of 1720, their debts were finally paid and Weiser again petitioned to the Board of Trade. By this time, Hunter had resigned as governor and the new Governor, William Burnet, was ordered to grant land to the Germans. In 1723 he completed what was called the Burnetsfield Patent, whereby 100 heads of families received about 100 acres each on the north and south sides of the Mohawk River in New York. In 1723, William Keith, Baronet Governor of Pennsylvania heard about the suffering of the Germans in New York. He invited them to the colony of Pennsylvania. With the help of the Mohawk, Weiser led a group of Germans from Schoharie south to the Suquehanna River; they traveled along Indian paths and by canoe to present-day Tulpehocken in the spring of 1723.

After the Poenradts (Penrods-english spelling) moved out of New York to Pennsylvania, they settled in the border areas of Penn and Maryland-Bedford, later Somerset Co., PA. In the history of the county: History of Somerset County, PA, there is a lot of detailed Penrod information. A very interesting history about life in the Turkeyfoot region and the Glades. The family name became an English phonetic spelling (as did many German names), Poenradt to Penrod.]]

Biography

Name: John Wilhelm /Penrod/ 2nd^[1]

Name: Johannes John Wilhelm /Poenradt Penrod/

Name: Johannes John Wilhelm /Poenradt Penrod/

Name: Johannes Wilhelm /Poenradt/

Residence:

Date: 1790

Place: Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA

Arrival

Date: 1710

Place: New York, New York, USA^[2]

Burial:

Place: Milford, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-1793834232 Page: Place: New York, New York; Year: 1710; Page Number: 86 APID: 1,7486::1944979
2. ↑ Source: #S-1793834232 Page: Place: New York, New York; Year: 1710; Page Number: 86 APID: 1,7486::1944979

• Source: S-1094120623 Repository: #R-1798986660 Title: Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,2497::0 Page: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4; Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794; Microfilm Roll: 315 APID: 1,2497::1407159
• Source: S-1793834232 Repository: #R-1798986660 Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Author: Gale Research Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenge Note: APID: 1,7486::0
• Source: S-2130359488 Repository: #R-2146567895 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7330233&pid=540
• http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/penrod/1028/
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 September 2020), memorial page for Johannes Wilhelm Poenradt (19 Jun 1700–7 Oct 1756), Find A Grave: Memorial #86940094 ; Maintained by Daniel Pletcher (contributor 47418370) Unknown.

Acknowledgements

Penrod-188 was created by Margie Bernard through the import of The Burton _ Marjorie Tollas B.ged on Nov 1, 2014.