Joseph Reichart (1663 - abt. 1744)

Born 12 Jan 1663 in Kirchberg, Wurttemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Husband of Anna Maria (Hoffman) Reichardt — married 9 Jan 1711 in West Camp, Ulster, New York Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1744 at about age 80 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York

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Biography

Birth

Joseph was born on January 12, 1663.

Marriages and Children

First Wife

Joseph married Anna Maria Vogel in 1687. ^[1] From that record we glean:

Event Type Heirat

Marriage Date: 28 Juni 1687

Marriage Place: Kirchberg, Marbach u. Oa, Württemberg, Deutschland

Father: Hanß Reichardts

Spouse: Anna Vogels

Page number: 82;83

Author Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Marbach)

City or District Kirchberg, Marbach u Oa

Household Members

Groom: Joseph Reichardt

Gender männlich

Hanß Reichardts (groom's father)

Anna Vogel (bride)

Thomas Vogels (bride's father)

Treated in considerable detail by Jones J., (Hunter Lists #590)^[2] including about his forebears and those of his first wife Anna Vogel daughter of Thomas, and basic details about his 5 siblings. Jones evidently uses the Kirchberg chbk for the June 28 1687 marriage to Anna Vogel daughter of Thomas (p. 760).

Daughter Anna Constantia was born in 1689. ^[3] Data gleaned from this record:

Name: Joseph Reichardt

Gender: männlich

Spouse: Anna Reichardt

Child: Anna Constantia Reichardt

Page number: 351;352

Author: Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Marbach)

City or District: Kirchberg, Marbach u Oa

Second Wife

Second wife - "January 9, 1711, Joseph Reichert of Kirchberg, county of Marbach, grand duchy of Wurtemberg, a widower and Anna Maria, widow of the late Johann Niclaus Treber, a Wheelwright, of Wollstein in the county of Cruetznach.”^[4]

Johannes (Hanss) Reichardt and second wife Constantia had these children:^[2]

1. Anna Christina, bpt. 16 June 1659, sponsors were Christiana, wife of Michael Bauer, and Anna, wife of Michael Übel.
2. Constantia, bpt. 15 Dec 1660 died 1678, buried 18 Aug 1678
3. Joseph bpt. 12 Jan 1663

Immigrated to New York and had 8 children;

1. Catharina, bpt. 2 April 1665, died 1676, buried 16 Dec 1676, aged more than 11 years.
2. Johann Michael bpt 14 Dec 1666, died 16 Mar 1668;
3. Anna Maria, bpt 29 Jan 1669, md. Johann Bernhard Zipperle 27 Feb 1711^[5]

Joseph Reichardt & his 2nd wife Anna Maria Treber (née Hoffmann) were sponsors at the baptism of her nephew Joseph Hoffmann in 1711.^[6] This is the Kocherthal baptism of Joseph Hoffman July 8 1711, #65 in the Olde Ulster transcription (3, 86), listing parents as Gabriel and Susanna Hoffman. Witnesses were Joseph Reichart and wife Anna Maria.

Joseph and Anna Maria were sponsors for Johan Jacob Nohr baptized at Rhinebeck Feb. 18 or 19 1721 (Holland Society Year Book 1903 - p. 81). Son of Joseph’s sister. Also, for a niece Anna Maria Nöcher [Near/Naher] in 1717. Also for Joseph Van Geldern in 1723 ^[7]

Migration

Joseph, Anna, and 2 children immigrated to New York in 1689.^[8]

The 42nd name in the Statement is that of Joseph Reichert without other family members which suggests that he was in West Camp in early winter of 1710, alone without family. The church records call him widower in January 1711. Nothing is known of his wife. She may have died before he left Germany or she may have died en route to New York. Joseph Rikert is known to have had a daughter, Anna Constantia, and a sister, Anna Maria, who are presumed to have followed him to America. Records state Reichert, Joseph, (e) w. Anna Maria & 2. ch .^[9]

Jones’ presentation of the passenger / subsistence lists data^[2] raises a few questions. Most problematic is the 1709 Rotterdam list showing Jozep, wife and 6 ch. Even if this includes his sister and 2 (or 3?) of his children with Anna there are still unaccounted-for slots. It’s possible that the 4 persons >10 in 1710 are Joseph and his sister and his 2 children, Anna having died by then. If the 5 people >10 in Mar. of 1711 now include wife Anna Maria Hoffman Treber it’s difficult to account for the entry in the West Camp Census with Joseph Reichart by himself. By the time of the Simmendinger listing^[9] his sister and daughter had married and his 2 sons with Anna Maria were born (p. 761f).

According to THE SIMMENDINGER REGISTER, Joseph Reichert arrived with his wife Anna Maria & 2 children and settled in Becksmansland (later known as Rhinebeck, NY).^[9]

Descent By Sea - Joseph Rikert provides these incites.^[10]

Joseph Rikert came by sea to America in 1710 as part of the large emigration of Palatines. Around 1714, with about thirty other families, Joseph Rikert crossed the river and became one of the founders of the town of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY.

He was a Lutheran and help found three churches. [To date] The place of Joseph’s burial remains undiscovered and there is no indication of a family burying ground on the farm. The oldest marked grave in the cemetery at St. Peter’s church is that of Carl Naher, Joseph’s son-in-law, who died in 1733. [The first recorded service of worship at West Camp took place on June 3, 1711. source - church website] Joseph died about 13 years after the founding of St. Peter’s Church where he was active in its affair. Perhaps he was buried there in an unmarked grave.

Death

Joseph died in about 1744. No site is known for his burial.

Research

Comments on Suzanne RW's work. Suzanne RW^[11] adds the following: Joseph Rikert‘s name is found first in a “Statement of heads of Palatine families and number of Persons in both Towns on ye west side of Hudson’s River, Winter, 1710.” West Camp then consisted of two towns, Newton and Elizabethtown. The Statement contains 82 names, and tabulates 257 persons under six headings.^[10]

[Comment: the Statement of Heads ... appears in the Documentary History of ... New York ( 2 eds 1850 ) III 569f or 343f. The description of the listing is accurate. Is this the West Camp Census? Not in Knittle? The description of the makeup of West Camp is complicated by Knittle below]

[Comment: image of Statement listing is Image 1 here. The Records would seem to be the Simmendinger listing^[9]. Another rendering of that listing (Knittle 297) is Image 2 here. The (e) indicates Becksmansland, which Knittle argues is West Camp (?) (p. 292)]

Reverend Kocherthal recorded the marriage of Joseph Reichert and Anna Maria Traver at West Camp as follows:^[12]

Later Kocherthal records the births of two of their sons.

[Comment:sources for Johan David and Johan Bernhard linked to their profiles, with variant spellings of the name.]

[Question:Do Joseph’s appearances in the Subsistence List thus straddle this marriage? There he is Joseph Reichardt with 4 people over 10 in 1710 and (new?) wife A. M. Träberin making 3 over 10 in 1712 (?) (Knittle 288)]

By late 1714, thirty-five families, including Joseph Rikert’s, moved to Dutchess county and settled on lands laid out for and sold to them in fee by Colonel Henry Beekman. It was Beekman Patent that now is the town of Rhinebeck.

[Comment: This agrees with an account in Historic Old Rhinebeck p. 42. Dutchess tax records show Joseph Reykert in Rhinebeck until 1728 at least.]

Marriage records indicate the marriage of Joseph Rikert’s daughter (by his former marriage), Anna Constantia Rikert to Carl Naher, “at Rhinebeck” January 11, 1715.

[Comment: this record seems to be Kocherthal marriage Jan. 11 1715 in Rhinebeck, #68 in the Olde Ulster transcription (4 (1908) 26). Another location?]

[Comment: Joseph is taken to have arrived by 1710. The Simmendinger list^[9] was compiled somewhere around 1717, after the births of Johan Bernhardt and Johan David.]

Sources

1. ↑ Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1985
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Jones, Henry Z., Jr. The Palatine Families of New York - 1710 (Universal City, California, 1985) p. 760
3. ↑ Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1985
4. ↑ This church record seems to be the Kocherthal marriage record of Jan. 9 1711, #32 in the Olde Ulster transcription (3 [1907] p. 379) Unfortunately that transcription renders the name Reinhart, but the quotation is word-for-word otherwise. Is there a better location to find this? Not in Lutheran Records in HSYB 1903?
5. ↑ church books in West Camp
6. ↑ Records of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp, New York: http://web.archive.org/web/20111222020503/http://www.bettyfink.com/stp001.htm
7. ↑ (Holland Society Year Book 1903 - p. 91)
8. ↑ Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Gale Research; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data - Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4} "The Simmendinger Register, from Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores," by Walter Allen Knittle, Ph.D., Philadelphia, 1937. Republished online at ://threerivershms.com/knittlesimmendinger.htm
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Descent By Sea - Joseph Rikert - https://descentbysea.org/joseph-rikert/
11. ↑ Is she an authority, or is this just another statement by a WikTreer who created a duplicate profile?
12. ↑ Cannot confirm reference - can someone supply online address and page? - Olde Ulster transcription renders name as Reinhart (p. 379).

See also:

• Documentary History of New York, Vol. III, p. 569-70*The Rikert-Rykert-Riker Family Manuscript compiled by Smith Henry Riker and Carroll Rikert 1932 A 929.2 9R5392 State Library, Albany, NY
• Württemberg, == AckwGermany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1985; Author: Ancestry.com
• Olde Ulster 3 (1907)
• Morse, Historic Old Rhinebeck (1908)
• Bacon Family knowledge and records - see Barton-7380 for info.