NAAS Families
Germany to New Jersey
My sixth great-grandparents Elizabeth NASS about 1716-1753 Krefelt, Germany to Ringoes, Hunterdon County, New Jersey and
Heinrich Hirt LANDIS born in Alsace to Amwell Township, Hunterdon County,
New Jersey. Elizabeth was the daughter of Reverand Johannes NAAS
early minister of the Church of the Brethren in America.
Heinrich LANDIS built a stone house in 1750 Amwell, New Jersey, which still stands and
is a Registered National Landmark where Lafayette
recovered after the ordeal at Valley Forge
during the Revolutionary War.
Elizabeth's father Johannes NAAS was born in 1669
Nordheim, Germany, died May 12, 1741 in Amwell, New Jersey. He came on the ship Pennsylvania Merchant September 18, 1733. Is buried in Moore Cemetery Sergeantsville, New Jersey. His marker is broken and no words visible.
He is on the list of the members
who joined the German Baptist Brethren in Europe pages 54-70, Submitted by Ron Gordon. From "A History of the German Baptist Brethren" by Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Brethren Publishing House, Mount Morris, Illinois,
1899, reprinted 1961 are the following NAAS:
- Naas, John
- Naas, ????, first wife of above, died in Kreyfelt
- Naas, Margaret, second wife of above
- Naas, ????, daughter of John, by first wife
- Naas, Jacob Wilhelm, son of John
- Naas, Mary, wife of Jacob Wilhelm
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