Person:George Ziegler (10)

Birth: Apr. 1, 1677
Alb-Donau-Kreis
Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death: 1756
York County
Pennsylvania, USA


Family links:
Spouse:
Anna Martha Mayer Ziegler (1680 - 1750)

Children:
Johann Jacob Ziegler (1703 - 1765)*
Johann George Ziegler (1712 - 1792)*
Johan Philip Ziegler (1714 - 1800)*
Anna Christina Ziegler (1715 - ____)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
In Memory of our Progenitor, who came to America with their children. September 18, 1727

Note: New Headstone

Burial:
Bott Cemetery
York County
Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: Vicky Moran
Record added: Jan 06, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 17327748

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ZIEGLER: German and Jewish, tiler, roofer, brickworker

Name: Johann Philipp Seigler
Arrival Year: 1727
Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
Primary Immigrant: Seigler, Philip
Family Members: Wife Anna Mayer; Son Johann Jacob; Daughter Maria Catharina; Son Hans Martin; Son Johann Georg; Son Johann Philipp; Daughter Anna Christina
Source Publication Code: 1031.8
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of naturalization. Span indicates period between last mention of emigrant in country of origin and first mention of his residence in the New World. "Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname.
Source Bibliography: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. 461p.

Hans Georg Ziegler and his wife, Sara (last name unknown) had fifteen children. All of whom would live out there lives and die in Weiler am Steinsberg, Sinsheim, Baden, Germany - except one. The thirteenth child, and youngest son, born April 1,1677, was Georg Philip. Georg Philip grew into manhood and married Anna Martha Mayer. Together they had eight children. Three of the eight children died before attaining the age of six. Georg Philip Ziegler was a burgher and member of the Town Council of Weiler in 1727.

We do not know the reason why Georg Philip made his decision to come to America. Of course, there were many reasons to select from including unwieldy inheritance laws, an over-abundance of specialists in available occupations, and not least, a lingering reaction to the Thirty Years War. Additionally, William Penn dispatched sales people into Germany to extoll the virtues of immigration to Pennsylvania along with the promise of free land.

Georg Philip and his family, sold all their belongings, home and lands and set out on the biggest adventure of their lives. He paid 24 florins, 19 Kreuzer emigration tax to go to Pennsylvania in addition to the fare charged for the voyage. Georg Philip appears as Philip Seigler, "5-1/2 freights" in the passenger list of the ship "William and Sarah" that arrived in America September 18, 1727. The naming convention was, in Germany, that the first name (Georg) would frequently be completely ignored as though it did not exist in everyday life. Thus, we have multiple Johann's as sons. The 5-1/2 freights signified that four children accompanied their father and mother on the long voyage. In fact, we know that only one of the living children, Maria Catherina, was left behind in Germany because she was a 22 year old married woman. The half "freight" was a daughter, Anna Christina, eleven years old at the time of the voyage. (Children under age twelve traveled at half fare.) The boys accompanying their parents were twenty-four year old Johann Jacob, (the oldest son), Johann Georg, aged fifteen, and Johann Philip, aged thirteen.

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