Johan Jacob Klein 1736

Immigrant from Germany 1744

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Johan Jacob Klein is not a direct ancestor, and no relationship has been established. He apparently immigrated with his father Philip Wendel Kleinalong with Johannes Klein, whom we believe to be our ancestor, on the ship "Phoenix" in 1744, and all settled in Northampton (now Lehigh) County, PA.

Johan JACOB Klein was born 23 August 1736 in Germany and died in Frederick County, Virginia, on 27 August 1816.^[1].

On 20 Oct 1744, the male passengers of the ship "Phoenix" aged 16 and older took the oath of allegiance at the Philadelphia Court House^[2] - all three signed their name in German script - and John Adam Klein whose name was written in English script and signed with a mark. It is Jacob's association with Philip Wendell Klein that makes this 1744 voyage on the Phoenix the most likely one to have transported Johan Jacob Klein to America. If so, he was eight years old and not required to sign the oath.

In Pennsylvania he married Anna EVA Dusong, who was born on 6 October 1739, possible in Germany, and died in Frederick County, Virginia, on 1 May 1816.^[1c]. Jacob and Eva's first son was named Philip, first daughter Catherine, and second daughter (fourth child) Maria Magdalena. Twenty-three years after their marriage, Maria Magdalena was born to Johan Jacob and Anna Eva Klein, and baptized at Ziegel Church in Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania.^[P3] Her baptismal sponsors were Philip Wendel Klein and his wife, Maria Magdalena.

In Frederick County

In Frederick County, Virginia, on 10 March 1787 at Newtown [Stephens City] Rev. Christian Streit conducted the funeral of Maria Magdalena Klein, born in early 1699. She died at age 87 years 10 ½ months.^[3] Maria Magdalena was thirty-seven years older than Jacob. Could she have been the wife of Philip Wendel and the mother of these Klines?

Jacob was affiliated with the Lutheran Church. Four miles southeast of Stephens City, then called Newtown, near Jacob's home, was Pine Hills Church, or St. Joseph's Pine Church. In 1784 that congregation sent Jacob as a lay representative of the Pennsylvania Ministerium at Lancaster. The Pine Hills congregation constructed a church building in 1800, but disbanded around 1812, its members probably absorbed by the Lutheran congregation in Newtown.^[4] Jacob and Eva are buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Stephens City, Virginia.^[1a][1b]

Family

Jacob had two brothers who also settled in Frederick County, Adam (died 1800) and Anthony (d. 1829). Adam named his brother Jacob, as co-executor of his estate.<sup class="reference"^[5] Anthony named his nephew, Anthony Kline, as co-executor of his estate^[6].
I have found no birth dates for Adam or Anthony, but both had children born in the 1760s, so they likely were born in the 1730s^[7]. I have not found any Kleins in Pennsylvania German Pioneers who could be Adam or Anthony They likely were under sixteen when they immigrated or they were born in America.

In the "Old Graveyard" on Mulberry Street in Stephens City there is an eroded, broken stone for "Katherine Kli..." and contains only five or six letters. It is likely that the name is Katharine Kline. She died in 1814 at age 77.^[9] A birth year of 1737 makes her of an age to be a sister of Jacob. There is no record of a Kline to whom she was married. Could Katharine be an unmarried sister of Jacob, Adam, and Anthony or a sister-in-law?^[10] Could she be the wife of Anthony?

Published sources place Jacob's arrival in Frederick County in the early 1760s^[1b][16], but there are no records of the brothers in the county until the 1770s. Jacob and Eva settled on West Run, south of Stephen's City and northeast of Middletown. The 1815 property tax list records Jacob Kline, Sr. on the headwaters of West Run, Pine Hills, ten miles south of Winchester. The first record of Jacob in the deeds of Frederick County is on 8/0 September 1773 when he paid Lawrence Snapp £240 for for 300 acres on "Henry Chrisman's Spring Run, a drain of Crooked Run"; the beginning point was the survey on West Run. There is a reference in the deed to a corner of a division between Klein and Shipe, possibly suggesting that Jacob was already resident there^[17]. Over the next forty years Jacob acquired over 1500 acres of land in Frederick and Hampshire Counties, establishing a foundation for his children who purchased or inherited land from their father.^[18]

Ed. Note: Apart from the Pennsylvania sources and data, this page including introductory notes were provided by contributor James Funkhouser. The Pennsylvania and Virginia sources are listed and numbered separately for clarity. Note that some sources are under copyright restrictions. Sources exist which have different/contradictory data as to Jacob's birth date and the year and means of his arrival, we consider them less likely or less reliable than the sources as charted below. The contradictory sources are presented separately HERE, so viewers may make their own informed interpretations.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	23 Aug 1736	Germany
Marriage			To Anna Eva Dusong (b.6 Oct 1739, d. 1 May 1816)
Death	27 Aug 1816	Frederick Co., VA
Burial		Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery Stephens City, Fredericks Co., VA

Ancestry chart segment

     Generation 8           Generation 9
                        +-- Philip Wendel Klein   
                        |   (17??-????)                                                                                                     
+-- Johan Jacob Klein --+
|   (1736-1816)         |
+                       +-- Maria Magdalena Unknown
|                                (17??-????)
+-- Anna Eva Dusong  
    (1739-1815)                                  

Sources: ^[P1]

Children

Ten or more children with Anna Eva Dusong,
Birth order unknown, beyond as given in the introduction.

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Philip Klein, "1st son"	M	1 Jan 1760	Pennsylvania	married 31 Mar. 1791 to Elizabeth Switzer, dau. of John & Anna Maria Switzer/Swisher,	d. 1842
Adam Klein "2nd son"	M	1761			d. 1846
Catharina Klein "1st daughter"	F			John Hammak
Maria Magdalena "Mary" Klein	F	23 May 1767	Weisenburg T, Northampton Co. PA	Michael Shwizer	d. 1852
Abraham Klein	M
Mary Barbara Klein	F	1772		Jacob Taflingar	d. 1842
Daniel Klein	M
Unknown Klein	F			Unknown Snyder	1 daughter
Anthony Klein	M
Elizabeth Klein	F			Unknown Taylor	Elizabeth is single; expect widowed
Eva Klein	F			Frederick Mawk

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
b. Germany	b. 1736-1744
arr. Philadelphia	12 Oct.1744
raised on farm 1 mile NE of Seipstown, Weisenberg Twp., Northampton Co.(now Lehigh) Pennsylvania	by 1746 to 1769
Friederick Co. VA	by 1763

Sources regarding Pennsylvania

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
P1	History of Lehigh County, PA by C. R. Roberts, 1914. At Bethlehem Public Library . Kline Familybiographies pp. 679-685 p. 679. Philip Wendel Klein, the ancestor of this family, was a native of Germany, and emigrated to America on the ship Phoenix, arriving at Philadelphia on October 12, 1744. He settled in Weisenberg Township, on a farm about a mile northeast of Seipstown. As early as 1746 his name appears in this section, and on Dec. 5, 1753, he secured a warrant for land, which he sold to his son, John Jacob, on Nov. 10, 1761. Philip Wendel Klein was one of the organizers of the Lutheran congregation at Ziegel Church, where his name appears in 1750. His sons were: John Adam, John Jacob, Lorentz, and Peter. pg. 679. John Jacob Kline sold the land on April 1, 1769, to Marks Pontius and removed to Salisbury township	(See additional text)
P2	History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon by Alfred Mathews & Austin Hungerford, 1884. pg. 455: Philip Wendel Klein came from Germany prior to 1750. He settled in Weissenberg township, on a farm about a mile northeast from the present village of Seipstown, for which he obtained a warrant in 1753, and sold it to his son, John Jacob on Nov. 10, 1761. Philip Wendel Klein had a number of children, among whom were John Jacob, John Adam, and Peter. John Jacob Kline had his father's homestead which he sold April 1, 1769, to Marks Pontius, and moved to Salisbury township.	(See additional text)
P3	Records of Ziegel Church, Weisenberg Twp., Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania. Baptism by Rev. Daniel Schumacher. Extracted 1990 by contributor Fran Bean, from records at Historical Society Library, Allentown Pennsylvania. Maria Magdalena Klein born 23 May 1767, bapt. 31 May 1767. Parents: Johann Jacob Klein & Anna Eva Klein. Sponsors: Philip Wendell Klein & Maria Magdalena.	(See additional Klein records at Ziegel Church)
P4	Ralph Beaver Strassburg and William John Hinke, Pennsylvania Pioneers, 3 vol. (Pennsylvania German Society: 1934; Rockport, Maine: Picton Press reprint, 1992, 202)I:354-356 [List 106C] Phoenix.

Sources regarding Virginia

These sources from contributor James Funkhouser

Ref. Num.	Description
1	Lutheran cemetery, Stephens City, Virginia. birth and death dates from a transcription from Survey Report, Old Lutheran graveyard: 1936 Oct. 26. Research by made by Robert G. VanMeter. Library of Virginia. US GenWeb Tombstone Project (http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/frederick/cemeteries/oldlutheran.txt)
1a	Find A Grave Memorial No. 11770917,at (http://www.findagrave.com/). Memorial created Sept. 2005 & maintained by Jonathan Coulter (contributor no. 46788180). Gravestone: Jacob Kline. Memorial: Birth: 23 Aug 1736 Germany; Death: 27 Aug 1816 Age 80 Frederick County, Virginia, USA; Burial: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery". Family Members: "Spouse Eva Dusong Kline 1739-1850; Children Philip Kline 1760-1842, Adam Kline 1761-1846, Mary Magdalene Swisher 1766-1852, Mary Barbara Taflinger 1772-1842"
1b	J.E. Norris, ed., History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley (Chicago: A. Warren and Co.,1890; Berryville, Va: Virginia Book Company reprint:1972):763. This source places Jacob's arrival in Frederick Co., Virginia in 1763.Please see also The Question of Origins
1c	Find A Grave, Memorial No. 28585250, at (http://www.findagrave.com/). Memorial maintained by James Claycomb, contributor no. 4686203. Gravestone: Eva Klein Memorial: Eva Dusong Klein born 6 Oct 1739, Germany. Death 3 May 1815 age 75, Stephens City, Frederick County, Virginia. Spouse: Jacob Kline 1736-1816. Children: Philip Kline 1760-1842, Adam Kline 1761-1846, Mary Magdalena Kline Swisher 1766-1852, Mary Barbara Kline Taflinger 1772-1842.
2	Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 3 vol.(Pennsylvania German Society: 1934; Rockport, Maine: Picton Press reprint, 1992, 2002)I 345-356 [List 106 C]Phoenix.
3	William Edward Eisenberg, This Heritage: The Story of Lutheran Beginnings in the Lower Shenandoah Valley, and of Grace Church, Winchester(Winchester, Va.: Trustees of Grace Lutheran Church, 1954):348, from appendix B, "Diary of Christian Streit."
4	William Edward Eisenberg, The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1717-1962: Trustees of the Virginia Synod, Lutheran Church in America, 1967)457; and Rootsweb Mailing List, OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA-L, 26 April 2006, "Lutheran Church Records" (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/old-frederick-co-va/2006-04/1146095958: accessed 28 March 2012).
5	Frederick County, Va., Wills, 6:557, Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Frederick County, Winchester, Va.
6	Frederick County, Va., Wills, 15:133.
7	World Connect a posting has a birth date of 16 Sept 1742 for Adam, but its source is an Ancestry Tree http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=wattsfam&id=P40336)
8	William Edward Eisenberg,, This Heritage: The Story of Lutheran Beginnings in the Lower Shenandoah Valley and of Grace Church, Winchester (Winchester, Va.: Trustees of Grace Lutheran Church, 1954):348, from appendix B, "Diary of Christian Streit."
9	"Old Graveyard", Stephens City, Va.: Find A Grave. Alternatives could be Klick, Klink/Kling.
10	Commentary, James Funkhouser, Adam's wife, name unknown, died before 1800. Anthony's wife was living when Anthony made his will on 30 May 1815, but she was not named in the will.
16	T. K. Cartmell, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia 1738-1908, (Eddy Press Corpl, 1909) pp 485-486. https://archive.org/details/shenandoahvalle00cartgoog https://archive.org/details/shenandoahvalle00cartgoog/page/n496/mode/2up This source places Jacob's arrival in Frederick Co., Virginia in 1764. Please see also The Question of Origins
17	Frederick County, Va., Deeds 16: 220-221, Lawrence Snapp to Jacob Kline, Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Frederick Co., Winchester, Va. Norris, 763, says Jacob arrived in 1763 and bought 400 acres, nine acres of it cleared, for $400, but there is no record of this purchase and no mention of it in the distribution of his estate.
18	Frederick County, Va., Deed 21:453 (1786) 28:194 (1804 Jacob Bicksler [Bixler] to Jacob Kline. Library of Virginia, Northern Neck Grants S, 1780-1788, p. 259-260 and Northern Neck Surveys No. 1, 1786-1789, pp. 88-89. 334 acres on Great Cacapon adjoining Frederick Conrod's, assigned by Conrod to Jacob Clyne, 26 July 1878, and patented to Clyne on 27 July 1787. Note: The Great Cacapon, ("medicine water") River is, since the 1863 founding of West Virginia, in that state's Morgan County. Today lies adjacent to Virginia's Frederick County of which it was once a part.