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''Johan Jacob Klein'' is not a direct ancestor, and no relationship has been established. He apparently immigrated with his father [[Philip Wendel Klein]]along 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'' is not a direct ancestor, and no relationship has been established. He apparently immigrated with his father [[Philip Wendel Klein]]along 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. | ||
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− | + | :'''Johan JACOB Klein''' was born 23 August 1736 in Germany and died in Frederick County, Virginia, on 27 August 1816.<sup>[1]</sup>. | |
− | '''Johan JACOB Klein''' was born 23 August 1736 in Germany and died in Frederick County, Virginia, on 27 August 1816.<sup>[1]</sup>. | + | 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<sup>[2]</sup> - 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. |
− | 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<sup>[2]</sup> - 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 |
− | '''Family''' | + | 1816.<sup>[1c]</sup>. 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.<sup>[P3]</sup> Her baptismal sponsors were [[Philip Wendel Klein]] and his wife, Maria Magdalena.<br> |
− | <br><br>The Pennsylvania and Virginia sources are listed and numbered separately. ''Note that some sources are under | + | '''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<math>\frac1/2</math> months.<sup>[3]</sup> 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.<sup>[4]</sup> Jacob and Eva are buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Stephens City, Virginia.<sup>[1a][1b]</sup><br> | ||
+ | '''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"<sup>[5]</sup> Anthony named his nephew, Anthony Kline, as co-executor of his estate<sup class="reference"<sup>[6]</sup>.<br> 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<sup>[7]</sup>. 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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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?<sup class="reference"<sup>[10]</sup> Could she be the wife of Anthony?<br> | ||
+ | :Published sources place Jacob's arrival in Frederick County in the early 1760s<sup>[16]</sup>, 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<sup>[17]</sup>. 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.<sup>[18]</sup> | ||
+ | <br><br>Ed. Note: Apart from the Pennsylvania sources and data, this page including introductory notes 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''.<br> While contradictory sources exist as to Jacob's birth date, the year and means of his arrival, we consider them less likely or less reliable than the sources charted below. The contradictory sources are presented separately [[The Question of Origins|'''HERE''']], so viewers may make their own informed interpretations. | ||
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− | Ten or more children with Anna Eva Dusong,<br>Birth order unknown | + | Ten or more children with Anna Eva Dusong,<br>Birth order unknown, beyond |
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! Name || Gender || Date of Birth || Birthplace || Spouse || Notes || Sources | ! Name || Gender || Date of Birth || Birthplace || Spouse || Notes || Sources | ||
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|Philip Klein ||M||1 Jan 1760 ||Pennsylvania ||married 31 Mar. 1791 to Elizabeth Switzer, dau. of John & Anna Maria Switzer/Swisher, ||d. 1842 || <sup class="reference"></sup> | |Philip Klein ||M||1 Jan 1760 ||Pennsylvania ||married 31 Mar. 1791 to Elizabeth Switzer, dau. of John & Anna Maria Switzer/Swisher, ||d. 1842 || <sup class="reference"></sup> | ||
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|Catharina Klein ||F || || ||John Hammak || || <sup class="reference">[]</sup> | |Catharina Klein ||F || || ||John Hammak || || <sup class="reference">[]</sup> | ||
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+ | |Maria Magdalena "Mary" Klein ||F||23 May 1767 ||Weisenburg T, Northampton Co. PA || Michael Shwizer ||d. 1852 || <sup class="reference">[P3][1][2]</sup> | ||
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|Abraham Klein ||M || || || || || <sup class="reference">[]</sup> | |Abraham Klein ||M || || || || || <sup class="reference">[]</sup> |
Revision as of 14:34, 1 May 2021
Immigrant from Germany 1744
- 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<math>\frac1/2</math> 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<sup class="reference"[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?<sup class="reference"[10] Could she be the wife of Anthony?
- Published sources place Jacob's arrival in Frederick County in the early 1760s[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 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.
While contradictory sources exist as to Jacob's birth date, the year and means of his arrival, we consider them less likely or less reliable than the sources charted below. The contradictory sources are presented separately HERE, so viewers may make their own informed interpretations.
Date | Location | Notes | Sources | |
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Birth | 23 Aug 1736 | Germany | [1] | |
Marriage | To Anna Eva Dusong (b.6 Oct 1739, d. 1 May 1816) |
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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: []
Children
Ten or more children with Anna Eva Dusong,
Birth order unknown, beyond
Name | Gender | Date of Birth | Birthplace | Spouse | Notes | Sources |
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Philip Klein | M | 1 Jan 1760 | Pennsylvania | married 31 Mar. 1791 to Elizabeth Switzer, dau. of John & Anna Maria Switzer/Swisher, | d. 1842 | |
Adam Klein | M | 1761 | d. 1846 | |||
Catharina Klein | F | John Hammak | [] | |||
Maria Magdalena "Mary" Klein | F | 23 May 1767 | Weisenburg T, Northampton Co. PA | Michael Shwizer | d. 1852 | [P3][1][2] |
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 |
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b. Germany | b. 1736-1744 | [] | |
arr. Philadelpia | 12 Oct.1744 | [] | |
raised on farm 1 mile NE of Seipstown, Weisenberg Twp., Northampton Co. VA |
by 1746 | [] |
Sources regarding Pennsylvania
Ref. Num. | Description | Image of original |
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P1 | History of Lehigh County, PA by C. R. Roberts, 1914. At Bethlehem Public Library . Kline Familybiographies pp. 679-685
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(See additional text) |
P2 | History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon by Alfred Mathews & Austin Hungerford, 1884.
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(See additional text) |
P3 | Records of Ziegel Church, Weisenberg Twp., Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania. Baptism by Rev. Daniel Schumacher.
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(See additional records) |
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 | |
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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. | |
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 Grafe. 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 | Norris, 763, says 1763; Cartmell, 485, says 1764. | |
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 Biocksler [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 Cacapehon adjoinint Frederick Conrod's, assigned by Conrod to Jacob Clyne, 26 July 1878, and patented to Clyne on 27 July 1787. |