Person:Michael Rancke (1)

Name	Michael Rancke
Alt Name	John Michael Ranck
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	28 Oct 1701	Mannheim, Baden, Germanysource = OLT, needs verification
Marriage	Bef 1728	Mannheim, Baden, Germanyto Anna Barbara Swoope
Death`^?`	28 Jul 1778	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United Statessource = OLT, needs verification
Burial`^?`		East Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United StatesRanck Family Cemetery

References

Family Recorded, in Ranck, J. Allan; Ezra H. Ranck; and Harriet M. (Harriet Mae Spangler) Ranck. The Ranks of the Rancks : a Ranck - Rank family history and genealogy. (Lebanon, Pennsylvania: Privately printed, c1978).

[June 5, 1728, John Michael and Anna Barbara with 203 other emigrants, set sail from Rotterdam for America on the English ship "Mortonhouse". John Coultas was its master. After 81 days of rough ocean voyage crowed in the dismal holds of the ship, arrived in Philadelphia on August 24, 1728.

When John Michael and Anna Barbara arrived in Pennsylvania, they were allotted 7 or 8
hundred acres of land. The proprietary right to Pennsylvania, at William Penn's death had passed to his widow. When she died in 1733 it became the property of the three sons so that the formal deeds which were secured in 1742 and 1757 were signed by Thomas Penn.]
Recorded, in The Twentieth Century Boigraphical Dictionary of Notable Americans" vol IX.by Edward Sprague Rand
4:page number needed.

"Michael and Anna were Huguenots, and adherents of the Moravian church, who escaped from Holland in the English vessel Morton House, and landed in Philadelphia, PA., August 24, 1728, helping to found the town of New Holland."