16. Hans Jacob^A Anspach (Hans Henrich^B, Jacob^C, Jacob^D, Jacob^E, Ambrosius^F) was born in Frankfort Main, Germany November 29, 1640. Jacob died before 1700 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

He married Anna Dorthea before 1682. Anna was born UNKNOWN. Anna died April 26, 1699 in Steinbach, Taunus, Germany.

Jacob's occupation: Master Smith. Hans Jacob was a master smith.

Hans Jacob Anspach and Anna Dorthea had the following children:

18 i. Anna Maria Catherina¹ Anspach⁽³⁾ was born in Steinbach,Taunas,Germany May 9, 1682. Anna died 1747 in Millbach, Lebanon Co.,PA. Her body was interred 1747 in Reith's Church, Stouchesburg,PA, Reith's Church Cemetery. She married twice. She married Johannes Jacob Peter Batdorf in Badorf?,Germany, 1696. Johannes was born in Darmstadt, Germany 1671. Darmstadt is in the present state of Hessen,Germany. He was the son of Johannes Batdorf.

Johannes died 1709 in London,England. He emigrated, 1708. Point of origin: Badorf,Germany. (See Johannes Jacob Peter Batdorf for the continuation of this line.) She married Johannes Georg Zellar in New York Colony, 1712. Johannes was born in France 1686. Probably in Alsace-Lorraine, or other border area, so that he knew the German language. He was the son of Jacques de Sellaire and Clothelde de Valois.

Johannes died 1737 in Millbach, Lebanon Co.,PA. He applied for homestead land in Millbach, Lebanon Co.,PA, after 1723.

She was christened in Steinbach,Taunas,Germany, May 9, 1682. She emigrated, 1708. Point of origin: Badorf,Germany. According to info. from Larry Patrick Cornwell, the Batdorf family fled their little village of Badorf, near Stuttgart, in the current state of Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany. They traveled by boat down the Rhine River to Rotterdam, Holland, then on to England. Johannes died in England in 1709. Anna Maria Catharina took the children on to America in 1710 - with hundreds of others. Three of her five children died enroute or shortly after they arrived in New York Colony on June 10,1710.

She resided in Tent structures on Nut Island, now Governor's Island 1710. She resided in Livingston Manor 1710. 14 hundred people were moved almost 100 miles up the Hudson River to Livingston Manor, including the Batdorf, Walborn, & Anspach families. Today, there is a town of Livingstonville in Schoharie County. The three surviving Batdorfs lived in Livingston Manor for two years. Then they moved with a group of about 150 Germans, including the Walborns, to New Annsburg (sometimes called Schmidsdorf). New Annsburg was about 60 miles northwest of Livingston Manor in the Schoharie Valley. Mr. Cornwell states that it was a three week trek with sleds in snow without horses or roads. It was just before or soon after they made the journey that Anna Maria Catharina Batdorf married Johannes Zellar, in 1712.

She resided in New Annsburg /Schmidsdorf, Schoharie Valley, New York Colony 1712. Anna Maria Catharina had five children. She and her children had to make the journey to America without Johannes Batdorf, who died the year before the immigration. Hundreds made the voyage in ships with military escort in 1710. It is said that all the children under 10 died during the voyage or soon after arrival in America. Information on places, events, and dates (other than birth date) were provided by Larry Patrick Cornwell. Joe Batdorf disputes this Anna Maria Catherina being the same woman who married Johannes Jacob Peter Batdorf. This is not my line & I have not researched it myself.

+ 19 ii. Johannes Balthasar Anspach was born before August 26, 1683.⁽⁴⁾

20 iii. Anthonius Anspach was born before December 1, 1687. He was christened December 1, 1687.

21 iv. Anna Ursela Anspach was born in Steinbach, Taunus, Rhineland, Germany before March 29, 1696. Anna died August 28, 1724. She was christened in Steinbach, Taunus, Germany, March 29, 1696.

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