Person:Niclaus Coblentz (1)

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Name Niclaus Coblentz
Alt Name Hans Nichalas Coblentz
Alt Name Niclaus Koblentz
Gender Male
Birth? 14 Jan 1695/96 Fort Coblentz, Prussia, Germany
Baptism[6] 14 Jan 1697 Friedelsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
Marriage 10 Jun 1727 Gonnheim, Germanyto Anna Catherina Orth
Alt Marriage 10 Jun 1727 Gonnheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germanyto Anna Catherina Orth
Emigration[1] 1743 Came to America from Germany
Death? Bet 1808 and 1810 Littletown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Ship Record to America - 1743

Ship: 1743 St. Andrew

[List 103 A, B, C] St. Andrew
Captain: Robert Brown
From: Rotterdam
By Way of: Cowes
Arrival: Philadelphia, 7 Oct 1743
Name, Age Place of Origin (Town, Province) Source Remarks (USA, Spelling Variations, Occupation, Relationships, etc.)
Niclaus Coblentz, 45, Friedelsheim, Bayern-Pfalz Bur2000 Kobelentz, To Adams Co.
Anna Catharina
Johann Adam
Johann Philipp
Johann Peter
Johann Herman
Maria Margaretha
Anna Maria, 3
Johanna Dorothea

Source: http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/pa/1743sa.htm


Information on Niclaus Coblentz

Hans emigrated to Philadelphia at The age of 45 years, on October 7, 1743, on ship St. Andrew, Robert Brown, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes. He settled in Adams County (formerly York co.) Pa., near littletown and took out a warrant from penn and had 1999 acres surveyed in German Township, York County, on May 31, 1762, in his name, Hans Nicolaus Koplentz (from a surveyor's plot by Archibale McClean-RE: York County Historical Society No. 11966 and land office, Department of Internal Affairs at Harrisburg, Pa.)

This same land was resurveyed for Herman Coblentz July 23, 1765, "in right of his father, Hans Nicolaus Koplentz for 211 acres and 84 perches, The tract called "Koplentz." Herman obtained a patent June 7, 1767, "The appurtenence unto his son, Herman Koplentz." Tradition advises The Hans Nicolaus Coblentz emigrated from Fort Coblentz-on -The-Rhine, Prussia.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mikesell/gedgen/grpf4618.html

References
  1. Brace, Edwin T. & Atha Peckenpaugh. Peckenpaugh, Pickenpaugh, Beckenbaugh Genealogy. (Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD 1984)
    pg. 27.
  2.   The Coblentz Family in America 1743-1982, Ruth Coblentz, paragraphs about Hans Nicholaus and son Peter. Son Philip is not in the book nor is John Coblentz b. 1764.
  3.   Monocacy and Catoctin, Vol. III, Calvin E. Schildknecht
    Additions and Corrections to the History of Frederick Couny, MD (6pp)
    Page 67 about Hans Nicholas Coblentz and pages 115, 124, 125, 206, and 272
  4.   A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, I. Daniel Rupp, 1975
    p. 166 Niclaus Kobelentz and p. 391 Jacob Coblentz
  5.   Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Ralph Beaver Strassburger, 1980 Vol. I Ship List for Nichl Coblentz, Niclaus Kobelenz (3pp) Facsimile Signature Volume-Niclaus (1743) and Jacob (1770) Vol. III picture of the courthouse where the Oath of Allegiance was signed
  6. Friedelsheim Reformed KB

    sponsors - Niclaus Klinger & Maria Margaretha, both Single