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KRATZNER GENEALOGY

ALBRECHT

Louise - p. European (c. 1807 – c. 1877)

AMSDEN

William - European (c. 1594 – c. 1664)

Isaac (Sr.)- Immigrant (1620 – 1659)

2 sons killed by Indians

Isaac (Jr.) (1655 – 1727)

Captain in King Philip’s War under Captain David Henchman

Town Clerk

Selectman

Proprietor of Ockoocangansett Purchase

Justice of the Peace

Elizabeth (1677 – 1749)

BATES

Edmund - European (c. 1568 – 1610)

Edward - Immigrant (1593 – 1644)

Arrived aboard the ship Griffin

Joined the First Church in Boston

Follower of Anne Hutchinson’s religious teachings and disarmed for heresy

Proprietor of Weymouth, Massachusetts

Deputy to the General Court

Commissioner to end small cases

Selectman

Often employed by the town in legal matters

Held office of elder of the church at Weymouth and other offices of trust

Owned interest in a corn and saw mill

John (1641 – 1722)

Mary (1667 – 1743)

BECKER

Catherine - European (c. 1650 – 1729)

BENT

Jane - European (c. 1594 – bef. 30 Aug 1631)

BERCKNER

Sophia - European (c. 1736 – 1808)

BERKEL

Hans Jacob - Immigrant (c. 1680 – bet. 1739 and 1760)

Arrived aboard the ship Pink Lady (also called Mary or Pink Mary)

Maria Magdelena - Immigrant (c. 1706 - aft. 1759)

Lutheran

BERKELEY

Mary - p. European (1596 – c. 1666)

BRADFORD

William (Jr.) - European (c. 1560 – 1591)

Prosperous yoeman farmer

William (Gov.) - Immigrant (1590 – 1657)

Raised by paternal Uncles

Joined puritan congregation

Imprisoned trying to escape religious persecution to Holland

Escaped to Green Gate Holland

Became a fustian (weaver)

Arrived aboard the ship Mayflower

Mayflower Compact

Author

Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Governor

Richest man in the Colony when died

William (Maj.) (1624 – 1703/04)

Member of the Council of War

Major in the French and Indian Wars (chief military man in the colony next to Miles Standish)

Great Swamp Fight at Narragansett Fort

Deputy Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts

One of Governor Andros council

Councilor of Province of Massachusetts Bay Charter

Alice (1659 – 1745/46)

BROCK

Mary - European (1567 – c. 1620)

BULKELEY

Frances - p. European (1568 – 1610)

Distant relative to Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet)

CAMPBELL

Robert - Immigrant (bet. 1672/73 – 1725)

Claim of ancestry to the Duke of Argyle

See Sir Walter Scott’s “Tales of my Grandfather” for evidence of the nobility of the Campbell family

Presbyterian

Charles - Immigrant (c. 1696 – bef. 2 June 1770)

Jane (bef. 6 Dec 1719 – 1803)

CARPENTER

Alexander - p. European (c. 1560 – 1612)

Member of the Separatist congregation Ancient Brethern

Green Gate Assembly

Claim ancestry to John in England 1303

Alice - Immigrant (1590 – 1671)

Parents originally opposed marriage to William Bradford because of inferior social status.

Arrived aboard the ship Anne

Married the 1st Governor of the Plymouth Colony – William Bradford

Regarded highly for her willingness to help those in need and strength of character

Provided guidance to youth and promoted interest in literature lecturing on current topics

CHANDLER

James - European (c. 1555 – c. 1648)

Roger - Immigrant (1580 – 1665)

Sayworker

Sarah - Immigrant (bef. 15 Oct 1622 – bef. 27 Oct 1675)

CHILTON

Lyonell - European (1539 – 1582/83)

Yoeman

James - Immigrant (c. 1564 – 1620)

Tailor

Holland to escape religious persecution

Anti-Armenian riot

Arrived aboard the ship Mayflower (oldest passenger)

Daughter 1st female to step ashore in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Wife 1st known record of female pilgrim having been excommunicated

Died aboard the Mayflower while in Cape Cod Harbor

Isabella -Immigrant (1587 – 1665)

Arrived aboard the ship Mayflower

CHRIST

George (c. 1750 – c. 1820)

Catherine (1770 – c. 1830)

Lutheran

CLEVELAND

Samuel Isaac - European (1583/84 – 1635/36)

Moses - Immigrant (1619/20 – 1701/02)

Ship’s carpenter’s apprentice and/or an indentured apprentice to a joiner, housewright or master builder

Listed on the Woburn Militia Roll

Identified with all the political movements of the day

Great great great great great grandfather of President Grover Cleveland (through son Aaron)

Josiah (1666/67 – 1709)

Served in the Indian War

Proprietor of Plainfield, Connecticut

Henry (1699 – 1779)

Ensign in the Canterbury Train Band

Lieutenant in the French Wars

Jabez (1737 – 1775)

Planer

Killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill (one of the first)

Sarah (1762 – 1830)

CRAMER

Mathias - p. European (c. 1692 – c. 1762)

Andreas - Immigrant (c. 1712 – c. 1786)

Arrived aboard the ship Pink Plaisance

Lutheran

George (1745 – c. 1815)

Benjamin (1794 – 1875)

Traveled 600 miles by wagon train

Michael (1821 – 1864)

Henry (1861 – 1886)

School teacher

Died of Typhus Malaria

Julia Henrietta (1887 – 1943)

Back injury

Southern Missionary Baptist

Interest in Christian Science

Died of acute dilatation of heart due to endo carditis

DAULTON

Johnes - p. European (1566 – c. 1636)

Elizabeth - Immigrant (1597 – bef. 15 Apr 1667)

DILLEN

Pricilla - European (c. 1560 – 1653)

Member of the Separatist congregation Ancient Brethern

Green Gate Assembly

Daughter Alice marries the 1st Governor of the Plymouth Colony, William Bradford

DONNER

Anna Barbara - European (1658 – 1700)

EMMONS

Susannah (c. 1698 – c. 1741)

FAIRBANKS

George - European (1562 – 1650)

Claim to descendency to Anthropologist Margaret Mead and Vice President Charles Warrant Fairbanks

Richard - Immigrant (c. 1600 – 1667)

Inn Keeper

Disarmed for supporting the petition in favor of Wheelwright

Postmaster

Admitted to Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

Lydia - Immigrant (1622 – 1704)

FARRER

Mary - p. Immigrant (c. 1573 – c. 1643)

FARWELL

William - European (c. 1582 – 1637)

Henry - Immigrant (c. 1605 – 1670)

Tailor

Member of City Council of Boston, England

Church Deacon

Mary (1640 – 1713/14)

FELLWOCK

Friederich - European (1757 – 1841)

Michael - Immigrant (1802 – 1886)

Tailor

Wilhelmine - Immigrant (1835 – 1900)

Lutheran

The Great Depression

Died of breast sickness

Fellwock Early Ancestors

FITCH

Thomas - European (1590 – 1632/33)

Clothier

Claims ancestry to Governor Thomas Fitch of colonial Connecticut; John Fitch designer of the steamboat; Clyde Fitch turn-of-the-century playwright, and Lord Alfred Tennyson (son of daughter Elizabeth)

James (REV) - Immigrant (1622 – 1702)

Reverend

Developed Palsy

James (Maj.) (1649 – 1717)

Fitch Distant Relatives

FURNER

Francis - European (c. 1538 – bef. 1580)

Susannah - Immigrant (1564 – 1621)

Escaped religious persecution to Holland

Arrived aboard the ship Mayflower (oldest passenger)

Daughter (Mary) 1st female to step ashore in Plymouth, Massachusetts

1st known record of female pilgrim having been excommunicated

Died during the “great sickness”

GAMBY

Catherine (1773 – 1837)

Attended a nurse’s school in Holland

Prophetic Sense

Temperament and muscle

Died of pneumonia

GERING

Hans Georg - European (c. 1630 – bef. June 1694)

Susannah - Immigrant (1673 – c. 1743)

GITTON

Jane - European (c. 1560 – bef. c. 1622)

GUTHMAN

Sophi (1746 – c. 1816)

HAGGETT

Henry - Immigrant (c. 1594 – 1677)

Hannah (c. 1645 – c. 1710)

HANSON

Alice (1562 – 1597) European

HARRY

Simon - p. European (c. 1694 – c. 1764)

Magdelina - p. Immigrant (c. 1725 – c. 1792)

HAYME

Edward - European (1580 – c. 1650)

Susannah - Immigrant (1606 – 1653)

HELLEIN

Anna Dorthea - p. European (c. 1690 – c. 1760)

HENEAGE

Lucy - European (1586 – 1621)

Claims ancestry through her brother Thomas to Ana Mary Robertson (aka “Grandma Moses”), Vice President Dan Quayle, President William Howard Taft and Governor Robert Taft of Ohio

HODGE

Sarah (c. 1672 – c. 1731)

HOLLOWAY

William - Immigrant (1586 – 1665)

Tailor and cloth shop merchant

Beaten

Grace (c. 1648 – 1727)

HORPUFF

Andreas - p. European (c. 1690 – c. 1760)

Maria – p. Immigrant (1713 – c. 1783)

Possibly arrived aboard the ship Shirley

JACOBY

Bartholomew (c. 1747 – c. 1830)

Served in the Revolutionary War

John (Sr.) (1771 – 1844)

Farmer, Carpenter, and Church Trustee

Suffered from asthma

Margaret (1793 – 1850)

Jacoby Distant Relatives

History of the Jacoby Name

JUNG

Anna Catherina - European (1684 – 1744)

KASBIN

Anna Sylbilla - Immigrant (c. 1674 – aft. 29 Dec 1711)

KOPP

Johann Jacob - Immigrant (c. 1670 – 1741)

Anna Sophia (1695 – 1771)

KRATZNER

Martin - p. European (c. 1800 – c. 1870)

Carl - Immigrant (c. 1827 – bef. 13 Jan 1867)

Revolution broke out in Prussia

Travel westward

The Great Depression

Draft Malaria Civil War

Frederick (1856 – 1927)

Flood

Coal Miner

Died being struck by a passenger train

Daniel (1880 – 1963)

Coal Miner

Railroad boilermaker

Died of arteriosclerotic heart disease

Julian (1916 – 2010)

Served in WWII

Owned and operated his own restaurant business “JULIAN’S”

LAPE

Nancy Anna (1818 – 1919)

Sons called to join the North in Civil War. All returned, but one.

Known as a great religious leader as a member of the Christian church.

LATHEIMER

Anna Margaretha (c. 1637 – c. 1707)

LEONARD

Samuel (Sr.) - European (1553 – 1618)

Samuel (Jr.) - Immigrant (1584 – 1629)

Arrived aboard the ship White Angel

John Solomon - Immigrant (1609 – 1671)

One of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Samuel (c. 1644 – aft. Nov 1720)

Carpenter, husbandman, and planter

Early proprietor of Worcester, Massachusetts

Son kidnapped by Indians and kept in captivity for nearly 2 years

Abigail (c. 1703 – 1729)

Leonard Distant Relatives

LEVERETT

Elizabeth - European (c. 1571 – 1610)

LOEST

Christian - European (c. 1741 – bef. 7 Jan 1808)

Rebecca - p. Immigrant (1768 – c. 1838)

LORING

Anthony - p. European (c. 1550 – c. 1620)

Wealthian - Immigrant (1602 – 1679)

LOSCH

Hans Jacob - European (c. 1638 – c. 1693)

Gerichtsmann (man of law court)

Lutheran

Johann Balthasar - Immigrant (1671 – 1710)

Gemeinsmann (townsman)

Lutheran

Died at sea on way to America

Johann Adam - Immigrant (1695 – 1768)

Anna Christina (c. 1722 – aft. 1780)

MANN

Jasper (1843 – 1911)

Raised by Uncle

Served in the Civil War Union Army as Private Co. I, 3rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Logging accident

Died of arteriosclerotic dementia with chronic cardiac valvular disease immediate hypostatic pneumonia

Estella (1868 – 1938)

Pioneers traveling in covered wagon

Claims ancestry to the Revolutionary War and Nathaniel Bacon and the Green Mountain Boys (have not been able to substantiate this claim)

MANNING

Mildred - European (1560/61 – 1627)

MAYER

Michael - European (1672 – 1732/33)

Judge

Johannes Hans - Immigrant (c. 1699 – c. 1766)

Arrived aboard the ship Friendship

Members of the Host Reformed Church

Tanner, Farmer and Miller

Philosophic and accurate mind

Egidius - p. Immigrant (c. 1722 – 1812)

Arrived aboard the ship Friendship

Justice of the Peace

Served in the Revolutionary War (Captain Minnich’s Co.)

Judge of the Common Pleas Court

Church accountant

Served on the Orphan’s Court

Maria Catherine (1749 – 1820)

Traveled down the Mississippi

Slave owner

MONTIER

Johanna - p. European (1584 – c. 1654)

NEFF

Hans Jacob - European (1658/59 – 1718)

Father died from plague

Belonged to Reformed Church

Died from shooting accident

Johann Michael - Immigrant (1686/87 – aft 1757)

Arrived aboard the ship James Goodwill

Naturalized 11 and 13 April 1743 (Michael Sr.; Michael Jr.)

Deacon in the Christ Lutheran Church

George Abraham - Immigrant (1719 – 1803)

Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church

Abraham (1753 – 1824)

John (1777 – 1841)

Served in the War of 1812 as Private in Captain Samuel Spangler’s Co.

Samuel J. (1820 – 1876)

Served in the Civil War as Private in the 35th Regiment Illinois Infantry Co. G.

Margaret (1860 – 1937)

“Strawberry Wilson”

Unassuming, no formal education, wonderful sense of humor, lovable and loving.

Neff Period History

NYE

Hans Johann Christoph - European (1683 – 1753)

Hans Georg - Immigrant (1713 – p. bef. 1776 or 1790)

Arrived on the ship Shirley

George (1755 – 1830)

Oath of Allegiance in 1778

Justice of the Peace

Road Building Supervisor

Trustee of Israel’s Reformed Lutheran Church

Susannah (1783 – 1855)

PERRIMAN

John - p. European (c. 1606 – c. 1676)

Bullet Immigrant (unable to determine definition of “bullet immigrant”)

Frances - Immigrant (1636 - 1728)

PLYMPTON

Robert - European (c. 1588 – bef. 1638)

Elizabeth - Immigrant (1622 – 1689)

Arrived aboard the ship Jonathan

READ

William (Sr.) - European (1565 – 1621)

Knighted at Whitehall before the coronation of King James I at Westminster

Barrister of Middle Temple and Gray’s Inn, London, and also of Canterbury, Kent, England

William (Jr.) - Immigrant (1606/07 – bef. 13 June 1679)

Sailed with Reverend Joseph Hull’s Company

Tailor

Freeman

Deputy for Weymouth, Massachusetts to the General Court of the Bay State Colony

Constable

First Church of Boston

Selectman

Josiah (Sr.) (c. 1643 – 1717)

Josiah (Jr.) (1668 – 1752)

Isaac (1699 – 1769)

Amity (1725 – c. 1804)

REEVE

John - European (1561 – 1621)

Anna - Immigrant (1590 – 1685/86)

RICHARDS

Thomas (Sr.) - European (c. 1570 – aft. 1608)

Thomas (Jr.) - Immigrant (1596 – bef. 28 Jan 1650/51)

Arrived aboard the ship Mary and John

In the colonization of New England no company, except the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, were called to such severe trials as the first planters of Dorchester

Merchant

Freeman

Weymouth Church

Alice - Immigrant (1627 – 1671)

ROUTH

Dorothy - p. European (c. 1584 – bef. 17 July 1617)

RUTTER

Nicholas - European (c. 1589 – aft. 1616)

John - Immigrant (c. 1616 – 1695)

Many young men were forced to disguise themselves as servants in order to leave England

Arrived aboard the ship Confidence

Carpenter

Built the first meeting house in Sudbury, Massachusetts

Selectman

Jane - Immigrant (1656/57 – 1739)

SARGENT

Richard - European (1575 – 1674/75)

Joanna - Immigrant (c. 1609 – 1647/48)

SASSE

Martin (Sr.) - p. European (c. 1717 – bef. 1808)

Martin (Jr.) - Immigrant (1767 – c. 1837)

Henrietta - Immigrant (1804 – 1860)

The 1837 edit of Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia forced the union of the Lutheran church and the Reformed church into the United church. Many Germans immigrated for religious freedom

SAUER

Hans Jacob - European (c. 1646 – 1728)

Anna Dorothea - Immigrant (1690 – aft. Apr 1756)

Arrived aboard the ship James Goodwill

SAYLOR

Mathias (c. 1725 – c. 1795)

Mary (1757 – 1821)

SCHWARTZ

Maria Elisabeth (1735 – 1806)

SHAEFE

Thomas (Rev) - European (1562 – 1639)

Doctor of Divinity

Dorothy - Immigrant (1601 – 1669)

Arrived aboard the ship Hector

SLANY

Elizabeth - p. European (c. 1555 – c. 1625)

SNELLING

Mary - p. European (c. 1610 – c. 1680)

Bullet Immigrant (unable to determine definition of “bullet immigrant”)

STALLMAN

Maria Catherina - European (c. 1703 – bef. 1745)

Niederhochstadt Reformed Church

STEVENS

Katherine - European (c. 1573 – aft. 26 Mar 1609)

STEWART/STUART

Mary (c. 1697 – bef. 29 Jan 1756)

STUART

Janet - Immigrant (c. 1676 – aft. 14 Feb 1729)

TRUMBULL

William (c. 1682 – 1760)

Walter (c. 1712 – 1748)

Jane (1745 – c. 1815)

Husband Jabez Cleveland died in the Battle of Bunker Hill (one of the first to fall)

WARNEI

Maria Elisabeth - European (1766 – 1808)

WELBY

Richard - European (1564 – 1695)

Olive - Immigrant (1604 – 1690/91)

WELCH

Philip (Sr.) - European (1612 – c. 1682)

Philip (Jr.) - Immigrant (1638 – c. 1708)

Kidnapped and sold in America

King Philips War

Fined for public drunkenness

John (Sr.) 1670 – 1728)

First Church of Beverly

Land dispute

Freeman

John (Jr.) (1693 – 1743)

David (1725 – 1796)

Ebenezer (1758 – aft. 1820)

Enlisted in the 3rd Regiment of General Parson’s Brigade of the Connecticut Line serving under Colonel Willis (Wyllys) in Captain Henry Champion’s Company.

Served under Colonel Dergy’s (Kurkee’s) Regiment in Captain Hart’s Company.

Served until Colonel Zebulon Butler in Captain Clift’s Company.

Served in the Revolutionary War as Fifer and Corporal and discharged at West Point

Shoemaker

House and furniture lost in fire

Afflicted with rheumatic pains and broken arm

Died in woods (intoxication)

Isaac Newton (c. 1802 – bef. 15 Feb 1826)

Nancy(1824 – 1891)

WHITE

Julia Ann (1842 – 1919)

Jacoby Church of the Brethren (Dunkards)

Husband logging accident

Suffered stroke

WHITFIELD

Thomas - European (1545 – 1629)

Henry (Rev) - Immigrant (1597 – 1657)

Founder of Guilford, Connecticut

Shaumpishuh (Indian “Queen Bee”) relinquished land

Claims ancestry to Geoffrey Chaucer’s sister Catherine; Mrs. Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1st wife of Teddy Roosevelt)

Abigail - Immigrant (1622 – 1659)

WILSON

Mary (1570 – 1613) European

WINN

Edward (Sr.) (c. 1582 – 1645) European

Edward (Jr.) (1605 – 1682) Immigrant

Carpenter, surveyor and selectman

Anne (c. 1626 – bef. 6 May 1682) Immigrant