Johan Ernst Empie[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
1654 - 1728 (74 years)-
Name Johan Ernst Empie [11, 12, 13] Birth 1654 Worms, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany 
[12] Christening 13 Nov 1664 Bleichenbach, Büdingen, Oberhessen, Hessen, Germany Gender Male Death 1728 Schoharie, Albany, New York, British Colonial America [11, 12] Burial 1728 Schoharie, Schoharie Co.,, New York, United States, Memorial ID 89074356 [11, 12] Person ID I312684220452 Oswald Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
Family 1 Maria Ursula Rosenbach, b. Abt. 1660, Worms, Wormser Stadtkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 1709, England, United Kingdom (Age 49 years) Marriage Abt. 1699 Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany Children 1. Johann Adam Empie, b. 1700, Königsburg, Kosel, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany d. 1768, Palatine, Montgomery, New York, United States (Age 68 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]2. Johannes Empie, b. 11 Oct 1702, Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 06 Aug 1777, Stone Arabia, Palatine, Montgomery Co., New York, United States (Age 74 years)3. Hans Empie, b. Abt. 1704, Palatinate region, Germany d. 1760 (Age 56 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]4. Johannes Ludovicus Empey, b. 19 Dec 1704, Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany d. 1709, London, England, United Kingdom (Age 4 years)5. Johan Paulas Emichen Empie, b. 18 Sep 1707, Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany d. 1710, Stone Arabia, Montgomery, New York, United States (Age 2 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]Family ID F3141 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
Family 2 Margaretha Winter, b. Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany d. 1713, Montgomery, New York, United States Marriage 21 Aug 1709 Savoy, London, England Family ID F3142 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
Family 3 Anna Christiana Empie, b. 1696 d. Aft. 1726, Montgomery, New York, United States (Age 31 years) Children 1. Elizabetha Empie, b. Abt. 01 Oct 1716, Albany, New York, United States d. Abt. 18 Feb 1793, Stone Arabia, Palatine, Montgomery, New York, United States (Age 76 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]2. Christina Empie, b. 1718, Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, United States d. 22 Aug 1796, Palatine, Montgomery, New York, United States (Age 78 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]3. Peter Empie, b. 1726, , Scholarie, New York, USA [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]Family ID F3140 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
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Notes - Immigration Source
U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name Johannes Empey
Arrival Year 1710
Arrival Place New York, New York
Primary Immigrant Empey, Johann Ernest
Family Members Wife Empey, Margretha Winter; Child Empey, Johannes; Child Empey, Johann Adam
Source Publication Code 3620.1
Annotation Date and port of arrival or date and place of mention in the New World. A few are date of intent to emigrate. Number on the Hunter Lists, birth dates, family relationships, and places of origin may also be provided. Exhaustive information on more than 500
Source Bibliography JONES, HENRY Z., JR. The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, Volume I. Universal City, CA: Author, PO Box 8341, Universal City, CA, 1985. 624p.
Household members
Name Age
Johann Ernest Empey
Johannes Empey
Margretha Winter Empey
Johann Adam Empey
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!Married Elizabeth Krantz, 18 Dec 1711,S
!Married Elizabeth Krantz, 18 Dec 1711,Schoharie Valley, NY
Johannes Emmerich & Anna Margaretha (Depes?)
The family of Johannes Emmerich & Anna Margaretha (Depes?) has been documented by Henry Z. Jones, Jr.
See: Jones, Henry Z., Jr. The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710. In Two Volumes. Rockland. Maine: Picton Press, 1985. pp. 206 - 208.
last name might have been spelled EMMER
last name might have been spelled EMMERICH also
Was his surname really Emichen ?
Was his surname really Emichen ?
Person note
Surrname also: Empey; Empie; Emige; Emchen;
Family search, IGI, Family Ordinance Record; Pedigree Resource File #66;
Parents: Johannes Ernst Emichen, (b. abt 1675/80, Worms, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, d. aft 1760,
Schoharie, NY) PRF #127, (b. 4feb94LA, e:19feb94LA); & 1) Maria Ursula Rosenbach, (b. abt
1670/98/1700, d. aft 1760, NY); PRF #91, #58, #127, #129, #132, (b. 30jan93AZ, 2nov94SG,
e: 19nov94SG); or 2) Anna Christina Empey, (b. abt 1709/17, d. aft 1760, NY);
Notes on Johan Part 2
BIOGRAPHICAL:
Johannes emigrated with his family to London in June of 1709, where he appears on the May 6, 1709, London Lists with his father "Ernst Emichen" as "a son, age 6." Unlike his two younger brothers, Paulus and Ludovicus, and his mother, Maria, Johannes survived the terrible living conditions of both the 7 month stay in London and the 6 months on shipboard (3 months in harbor just waiting to sail) arriving in New York in June of 1710 and first appearing on the Hunter Lists of 1 Jul 1710, listed with his family as one of "2 persons under age 10." In October of 1710, the family was sent with the other Palatines of their group up the Hudson to Livingston Manor, a tract of land where the labor of the emigrants was going to be used to produce tar and pitch for the English
fleet.
The family of Johan Ernst Emichen was assigned to West Camp, where they remainded under stressful conditions until the tar project failed and they were free to go elsewhere.
According to Henry Z. Jones, by 13 March 1715/1716, Johannes had been naturalized (Albany Nats.).
From DKM: "Johannes Empie was one of the original Patentees at Stone Arabia in 1723, originally receiving lots #6 and #46. When additional land was laid out he was 19th on the list and was allotted Lots 3, 12, 4, 16, 18 and 2, First Division, according to Helen Abel Empie Failing. She spoke of this on my visit with her 29 May 1998.
As told to HWW: Helen didn't know when he disposed of these and got Lots 86 and 88 of the Second Allotment. Helen and her husband still own the property, lots 86 and 88, Second Allotment. Part of the original house is incorporated into the present 2 story, frame dwelling. No parts of the old barns remain. We sat in the house kitchen looking out the picture window, looking north and viewing the fertile, rolling fields. Helen and her husband are
retired and do not work the land, but it is rented to an adjacent farmer, keeping the fields into agricultural production, usually field corn.
Church records at Stone Arabia show that Johannes Empey and Elizabeth Snell Empey were still living there (Rev. Sommers Lutheran Cong. List) by 1744 when their daughter, Anna Maria, was baptized (Jan 8, 1744) and he was chosen elder and installed (Aug. 12, 1744).
His family appeared on Pastor Sommer's list of his congregation at Stone Arabia and Cani-Schohare in 1744, and Johannes ("Hannis his HE mark Empie") was among those signing the release for the division of the church lot (Lot 20 of the First Division) at Stone Arabia between the Lutheran and Reformed congregations, again confirming this division 29 Dec 1770 with others, (this time signed "Johannes Emge") representing the Stone Arabia Trinity Lutheran Church. (DKM) By this time Johannes had acquired Lots 86 and 88 of the Stone Arabia Patent, Second Division.
The 1763 list of Freeholders of the City and County of Albany made to provide jurymen for the Provincial courts, includes at Stonerabie: Johannes Empie and Philip Empie. Only those with a certain value of property were placed on this list (Nat'l Genealogical Soc. Quart., Dec 1860, 48:171. The last record of Johannes is a land transfer of Stone Arabia lot 86 of 198 acres in the Stone Arabia Patent, Second Division, from him to his son Jacob Empie date June 7, 1771. (Note that this same son, Jacob was killed at Oriskany, August 6, 1777.) Since all of his children were born after 1723, they were born in Stone Arabia.
DEATH: Stone Arabia, Palatine, Montgomery Co., NY.
- From "The Descendants of Johan Ernst Emichen : Volume II - The Loyalist Canadian Empey Family" - http://www.magma.ca/~ekipp/
JOHAN ERNST AND EMPIE FAMILY HISTORY
1700's
From Germany to the British Colonies
This article describes the birth, marriages, births of children, arrival (London and the colonies), naturalization, and descendent family history of Johan Ernst Empie.
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Obituary
Johan immigrated to the United States on 5-5-1709, coming through Nutten Island (Governor's Island), Kings Co. New York. He was among the first of the Paltinates to come to this country. According to the 'London Lists of Palatine Immigrants', Ernst was 55, his sons were 9, 6, 5 & 1 1/2. He was a Lutheran husbandman and vinedresser.
(His first wife had died in England). He owned property by 1723.
He married Margaretha Winter, daughter of Hans Carl Winter, on 8-21-1709. Then he also married Anna Christiana.
The German spelling was 'Emichen'. The name was also spelled 'Empey' by some of his family.
Michael arrived as a young man with his
Michael arrived as a young man with his Mother from Germany in 1709, and settled in Schoharie, where he married Elizabeth. In 1723, they joined a group of German settlers in a migration from the Schoharie area to the Berks Co. region of Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1713, the Rieths and others searched for a better location for permanent settlement. In that year, George Rieth visited Tulpehocken Valley in Pennsylvania and in 1719 several Rieths led scouting parties through great hazard and hardship into unsettled parts of Penn's great domain. In 1722, when visiting Albany, Gov. Keith of Pennsylvania invited the Schoharie Palatines to move to his province. Early in 1723, 15 families of about 50-60 people cut a trail from Schoharie about 40 miles to the headwaters of the Susquehanna River. There they made canoes dug out of chestnut logs and rafts and shoved off on their hard, exciting journey. They travelled past arrow-shooting Indians to the mouth of Swatara Creek, where Middletown now stands below Harrisburg then up that creek and a trek across a gravel ridge into the Tulpehocken Valley, then in Lancaster County and later in Berks County. Their horses and cattle were driven by a shorter overland route, (too difficult for women and children), down the Delaware River and then across to Tulpehocken. After reaching there, 12 horses ran away and many months later, ten of them reached their old homes in Schoharie, N. Y. The Book of Names - Kocheathal Records (Page 43) Marriage performed by Joshua Kocherthal, in the year 1709, Dec. 18th. Johann Michael Eraerich of Delkenheim commune Epstein Darmstadt and Elizabetha Krantz, widow of the late Conrad Krantz of the commune of Zigeaheim in Hessia. (The Evangelical Church of Ziegmhain Germany say they have no record of a marriage of Conrad Krantz.) The Last Will and Testament of Johann Michael Emerich Tulpehocken the 10 of June 1743 In the name of God, Amen. Whereas I am yet in good health and perfect understanding. Considering I am a moral man will therefore put my house in order as it shall be alter I am dead. First, I recommend my soul to my God and Maker and my body to the earth to a happy resurrection. My will is that my wife Elizabeth Emerich and Michael Rith with Herman Walbom shall be my Executors to execute what is herein written. The same power I have had over what was mine the same power I give to my wife Elizabeth to do with as I have done as long as she continues unmarried but if she marries again she shall have her third part and no division shall be made till my youngest child is of age and then shall my wife have her third part if she continues a widow. And I will that all my children shall have equal share except my deceased daughters child Catrina Leitner, I give her ten pounds because they took the child to them. If one of the children should be disobedient to the mother against the law of nature and the country, then the mother shall have the power to take that child's share and divide it among the rest. And my youngest son shall take possession of the plantation if he is able to pay the rest of the children and the mother their share and if the mother should like it to live with the son that has the plantation then she shall take her seat in the house and my two youngest sons shall have four pounds each more than the rest because the eldest had their assistance m improving their plantations. This is my last will and testament which I have sidled and with my seal do certify. Johann Michael Emerich (Seal) Also signed by witnesses Michael Sheller, Johannes Forer, Johann Philip Meurer In Tulpehocken in Lancaster County July 31, t 744 personally appeared Michael Sheffer and Johan Philip Meurer witnesses to the foregoing will of Johann Michael Emerich and upon their oath did say that they saw and heard the said Johann Michael Emerich sign and seal and declare the foregoing will as his last will and testament and that the doing thereof he was of sound mind memory and understan ding to the best of their knowledge. Before me Conrad Weiser The executors to the foregoing will are sworn before me July 1744 Conrad Weiser A true translation of the original (in German) by Conrad Weiser.
*See Book"By the Name of Emerich etc" by
*See Book"By the Name of Emerich etc" by K.D.Haines Death and Will on pg. 13,10 & 12 Marriage and children on pg. 16 & 17. *Dates 1709 Dec.25th departed Prussia; 1710 Jun 14th arrived in N.Y. 1712 winter to Schoairie Valley,N.Y. 1723 to Tulpehocken Twp.,Berks Co.,Pa. *See also letter from K.D.Haines to Carol Hoffman about the parentage of Johann Michael Emerich. *Deed Book 2A pg 241 at Reading, Berks Co.,Pa. * Johann Michael Emerich & Elizabeth Krantz were married by Joshua Kocherthal on the 18 Dec. 1709 (Livingston Manor,N.Y.) (Kocherthal Records Page 43) (Families on west side of Hudson River,N.Y.) *Tulpehocken Valley or Twp.(Changed to Lancaster Co. & later to Berks Co.)
!Empey was spelled Emichen. Records from
!Empey was spelled Emichen. Records from Worms, Germany. Some data based on speculation on age and age of sons by wife #2. Arrived London, England 5/6/1709 age 55. Had 2 other wives: Margaretha Winter m. 8/21/1709 in Savoy, London, England. Anna Christina ? by 1717 in Schoharia Co.,NY. Children of this marriage: Elizabeth 10/1/1716 Christina 1718 Margaretha Anna Eva 1722 Two youngest sons by first wife died 1709/1710 in London or crossing Atlantic.
Notes on Johan Part 1
[1024] SOURCES: "The Empey Family," E. Keith Fitzgerald, gen. Revised Jan 1984.
"The Palatine Families of NY," Henry Z. Jones, p. 201.
"London Churchbooks and the German Emigration of 1709," John P. Dern.
NAME AND ORIGINS: Dr. Fitzgerald writes to Hank Jones, 10 Nov 1984, that at the baptism in Worms of Johannes, Johan Ernst is described as "Beisass", a word not known today. He writes: "Even on the 'phone the professor didn't know it as it was really old German. "As you can see he has come through for me." (We assume from the next paragraph that the translation had to do with being a "a foreign neighbor of fugitive.) He continues, "Another thought - with the name Empey being Irish Huguenot (and therefore French) - and thus this German info saying the Emichs were 'Foreign Neighbors' and possibly 'fugitives from a foreign country' - it makes me wonder if somewhere back in time they were not all from the same roots." He (the professor) has also found that the names Emig/Emich/ Ehmig (and I guess all those other variants) are the same name - and that is a short for for Emmerich."
The London Churchbook records state that Johan Ernst was of K�nigsberg, more recently Worms, Germany.
BIRTH: Recorded: London Churchbooks, P 39: "Emichen, Ernst, age 55." This was his age on June of 1709 when he arrived in London, making him born abt 1654.
BAPTISM: Hank Jones writes Dr. Fitzgerald, 20 November 1984: "I found Johannes Emmerich bpt 13 Nov 1664 at Bleichenbach near Hanau: his father was Johannes E., Sr., d. 23 Nov 1688, aged 74 years (Selters Chbk.)"
Does this mean he was born closer to 1664 instead of about 1654 as formerly thought?; The 1654 date was derived from the age given in the London Churchbooks in 1709. Could his age then have been 45, a more likely age of a father of young sons, or was he baptized at age 10?;
MARRIAGES:
First wife was Maria Ursula Rosenbachin, by whom he had 4 children, Adam, Johannes, Ludovicus and Paulus. Maria and the 2 younger children died soon after they reached London.
On 21 August 1709, in London Johan Ernst married Margaretha Winter, with whom he and his two remaining sons emigrated to New York in July of 1710. They were settled in West Camp on the west side of the Hudson River, where Adam was confirmed 30 April 1711. By 1713, they had moved to Schoharie where "Joh. Emerich and wife Margaretha" were sponsors at a baptism for Anna Eva, daughter of Johannes Hess and Catarina Lilofin. Sometime between 1713 and 1715, his second wife died.
By 1715 he had married Anna Christina __?;__ by whom he had 2 children, Elizabeth, born 1 Oct 1716, and Christina, born about 1718. NOTE: David Kendall Martin believes that "the age of Johan Ernst Emichen in 1709, compared with the ages of his children, indicates that likely he had at least one wife before his wife of that year, Maria Rosenbachin.
BIOGRAPHICAL: Origins per Henry Jones:
"Johan Ernst Emick, widower of Konigsberg more recently Worms, Germany, md. Margaretha d/o Hans Carl Winter of Bach in Wurtembergschen, 21 Aug 1709 (London Chbks. and the German Emigration of 1709, by John P. Dern, p. 25). "Emick's ancestral origins then were at 6520 Worms and possibly 6301 Konigsberg near Wetzler. "Ernst Emichen aged 55, his wife, sons aged 9, 6, 5, and 1 1/2, Lutheran, husbandman and vinedresser, were in the 1st arrivals in 1709 (London Lists)". (HJ)
Ernst Emichen made his first appearance on the Hunter Lists #162, 1 July 1710 with 2 pers. over 10 yrs of age and 2 pers. under 10 yrs; the numbers changed to 3 pers. over 10 yrs and 1 pers. under 10 on 4 Oct 1710, and the last entries for the family in 1712 noted 4 pers. over 10 yrs of age. An old manuscript dated 1711 recorded that 1 lb of butter was given for Joh: Ernst Emichen (NY Col Mss., Vol 55, p. 29e).
Johan Ernest Emigen was nat. 13 March 1715/1716 (Albany Nats.). Johan Ernst Eingen and Anna Christiana with 2 children were at Neu-Heessberg, ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register), per HJ, p 201. Fitzgerald notes that Lutheran Church records 1673-1735 rec'd from Worms, Germany, state that 3 children were born to Johan Ernst Emichen and Maria Ursula Rosenbachin; Johannes, 1702, Joh. Ludovicus, 1704, Joh. Paulus, 1707. Another son, Adam, was born in 1700. Adam and Johannes became patentees at Stone Arabia, Montgomery Co., NY, in 1723, when the family moved to that area.
DEATH: David Kendal Martin writes to EKF: "Johan Ernst Emichen was a Stone Arabia Patentee in 1723, but was dead by 1744, as he was not on the Sommer's list of the Lutheran congregation." We don't know exactly where he died. If Johan Ernst Emichen and not his 21 year old son, Johannes, was the patentee, "J. Empie" (as listed on map) or "Johannes Emigen" (as written on list) who claimed Lots 6 and 46 in the Stone Arabia Patent, then it is likely he died in Stone Arabia. If his son made the claim, it is likely that his father moved from Schoharie to Stone Arabia to live with one of his sons, and died there.
NOTE: (BEG) There were 4 K�nigsbergs located all over Germany and also in what is now Poland. Hank Jones' researcher (at EKF's request) narrowed the field down to the one just north of Frankfort, Germany. His baptism record (recited) shows he was baptized at "Bleichenbach near Hanau". Hanau is just west of Frankfort so this probably the right K�nigsberg. The family moved to Worms later but weren't there long enough to leave any records except the children's baptisms.
- From "The Descendants of Johan Ernst Emichen : Volume II - The Loyalist Canadian Empey Family" - http://www.magma.ca/~ekipp/
[1025] SOURCES: "The Empey Family", genealogy chart, E. Keith Fitzgerald, rev. 1984.
"Palatine Families of NY", Henry Z. Jones, 1985, page 201.
Article: "Historic Stone Arabia", Enterprise and News
newspaper), St. Johnsville, NY, February 4, 1931, page 26.
"First Settlers of Schenectady", Pearson.
BIRTH: Born 1700 in Germany per age record given in London Churchbooks. We have no
church record of his birth as we do of the other 3 children.
BIOGRAPHICAL: Adam traveled to London with his parents at the age of 9, appearing on the
London Churchbooks, p 39, as "son age 9". Unlike his two youngest brothers, he survived the trials of both the stay in London and the voyage to America, where the family arrived in New York City in 1710. Here, Adam first appeared on the Hunter Lists of 1 July 1710 as one of "2
pers under 10 years." By Oct of 1710, he must have had a birthday, since the list of 4 Oct 1710
notes "3 persons over 10, and 1 under 10."
After staying about 3 months in New York on Nutten Island (now Governor's Island), in Oct
of 1710 the family was moved with the rest of the Palatines, who had arrived about the same
time, up the Hudson River to Livingston Manor, a large tract of land, upon which were
established many camps, where the Palatine families were expected to labor to produce tar and pitch for the English Navy.
Adam's family was sent to West Camp, where it remained until the Tar Camps were closed and the family left for Schoharie in 1712/1713. When circumstances forced the family from Schoharie, it moved to the Mohawk Valley, where the two sons, now age 23 and 21 were given land in the new Stone Arabia Patent, granted in 1723. Adam received lots 11 and 14.
Henry Jones says: "Johan Adam, conf. 30 Apr 1711, at the new German colony (West Camp
Luth. Chbk.) Jerg Adam Oemich sp. Joh: Martin Seibert in 1716 (West Camp Chbk.)
Adam Empie was a patentee at Stone Arabia in 1723 (Stone Arabia Patent). He md.
Catharina Barbara Schmidt, d/o Adam Smit, 5 Feb 1727." Pearson's "First Settlers of
Schenectady" gives children - Maria, Anna, Johannes, Adam, Heinrich.
MARRIAGE: Dutch Reformed Church, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., NY USA. "Adam
Aemke, jm and Catrina Barber Smit, jd". No witnesses listed. Surname given as "Aemtgen" in
baptismal record of his first child, Maria.
From "Genealogy of the First Settlers of Schenectady", pg 65 reads:
EMPIE, Adam, m. first Catrina Barber, dau. of Adam Smit(?;), Feb 5, 1727.
- From "The Descendants of Johan Ernst Emichen : Volume II - The Loyalist Canadian Empey Family" - http://www.magma.ca/~ekipp/
[1023] SOURCES: "The Empey Family" researched by E.K. Fitzgerald, M.D., Rev. 1964.
"Empey Family", compiled by Edith Van Heusen Becker from various church and civil records.
"American Ancestry", Vol 2:36.
"Ancestors of Mary Anne Fox", compiled by George D. Finkbinder, Dewitt, NY.
"The Eighteenth Century Snell Family of the Mohawk Valley", by David K. Martin.
The Palatine Families of NY," Henry Z. Jones, 1985, p 201-202.
Lutheran Church Records - 1673-1735, Worms, Germany. Henry Z. Jones.
BIRTH: "Probably born in K�nigsberg near Wetzlar, Germany, between March and June of 1702, based on the Hunter's ration list wherein child changes from under ten to over ten." (DKM letter to EKF 13 Mar 1982).
BAPTISM: Johannes was born 11 Oct 1702 at Worms, Germany. He was baptized on 15 Oct 1702, Lutheran Church at Worms per Worms Lutheran Church Records, 1673-1735 (EKF).
Record reads: #162, 1702 Oct 11, Oct 15: Johannes.
Parents: "Johann Ernst Emichen, beisa� and day laborer Maria Ursula, born Rosenbachin. Godf: "Johannes Hainlein, citizen and carpenter."
CONFIRMATION: Johannes was confirmed in 1720 at Tschoghari in the so called Fuchsen-dorp (N.Y. City Luth.
Chbk.)
Michael arrived as a young man with his
Michael arrived as a young man with his Mother from Germany in 1709, and settled in Schoharie, where he married Elizabeth. In 1723, they joined a group of German settlers in a migration from the Schoharie area to the Berks Co. region of Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1713, the Rieths and others searched for a better location for permanent settlement. In that year, George Rieth visited Tulpehocken Valley in Pennsylvania and in 1719 several Rieths led scouting parties through great hazard and hardship into unsettled parts of Penn's great domain. In 1722, when visiting Albany, Gov. Keith of Pennsylvania invited the Schoharie Palatines to move to his province. Early in 1723, 15 families of about 50-60 people cut a trail from Schoharie about 40 miles to the headwaters of the Susquehanna River. There they made canoes dug out of chestnut logs and rafts and shoved off on their hard, exciting journey. They travelled past arrow-shooting Indians to the mouth of Swatara Creek, where Middletown now stands below Harrisburg then up that creek and a trek across a gravel ridge into the Tulpehocken Valley, then in Lancaster County and later in Berks County. Their horses and cattle were driven by a shorter overland route, (too difficult for women and children), down the Delaware River and then across to Tulpehocken. After reaching there, 12 horses ran away and many months later, ten of them reached their old homes in Schoharie, N. Y.
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The Last Will & Testament of Johann Mich
The Last Will & Testament of Johann Michael Emerich of Tulpehocken 10th of June 1743 In the name of God, Amen. Whereas I am yet in good health andperfect understanding. C onsidering I am a mortal man will therefore putmy house in order as it shall be after I am d ead. First, I recommend my soul to my God and Maker and my body to the earthto a happy resurrecti on. My will is that my wife Elizabeth Emerich andMichael Rith with Herman Walborn shall b e my Executors to execute whatis herein written. The same power I have had over what was mine the same power I giveto my wife Elizabet h to do with as I have done as long as she continuesunmarried but if she marries again she s hall have her third part and nodivision shall be made til my youngest child is of age and th en shall mywife have her third part if she continues a widow. And I will that allmy childr en shall have equal share except my deceased daughter's childCatrina Leitner, I give her te n pounds because they took the child tothem. if one of the children should be disobedient t o the motheragainst the law of nature and the country, then the mother shall have thepowe r to take that child's share and divide it among the rest. And myyoungest son shall take pos session of the plantation if he is able topay the rest of the children and the mother tdhei r share and if themother should like it to live with the son that has the plantation thensh e shall take her seat in the house and my two youngest sons shall havefour pounds each mor e than the rest because the eldest had theirassistance in improving their plantations. Thi s is my last will andtestament which I have signed and with my seal do certify. Johann Michael Emerich (seal) Also signed by witnesses Michael Sheffer Johannes Forer Johann Philip Meurer In Tulpehocken in Lancaster County July 31, 1744 personally appearedMichael Sheffer and Joha n Philip Meurer, witnesses to the foregoing willof Johann Michael Emerich and upon their oat h did say that they saw andheard the said Johann Michael Emerich sign and seal and declare t heforegoing will as his last will and testament and that the doing thereofhe was of sound m ind, memory and understanding to the best of theirknowledge. Before me, Conrad Weiser A true translation of the original (in German) by Conrad Weiser The Indenture covering the settlement of the property of JohannMichael Emerich was date d October 10, 1752. According law, the eldestson, John Jacob, received two sevenths, and Ba lthaser, Leonhard, CatrinaMMMargred Creitser, wife to Andrew Creitser, John Adam and John re ceivedone-seventh. According to the terms of the will the property settlementwas to be mad e when John, the youngest, became of age.
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