Johan Ulrich Stephan
BIRTH 2 Oct 1710
Switzerland
DEATH 28 Apr 1760 (aged 49)
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL
Hebron Moravian Cemetery
Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Deed Bk: R Pg: 28-32 - Children of Ulrich Stevens/Stephe deceased acknowledge receipt of funds from father's estate & sell land. Some sell land to George Wampler/Wampfler who states he is a son-in-law to Ulrich. Other stated children in land deeds are Henry/Henrich, Annamaria Wice (Weis in German it states), Michael, & John/Jannes.
Surname is indexed as Stevens and various spellings appear in land docs on these pages including Stevens/Steven/Steaven/Stephe/Steffe/Staffe. It refers to Steffe and Staffe as in German which explains variations in names as they are anglicized. First name was spelled Ulrich and Ulrick.
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The parish register of Hoffen Reformed Ch. (on the French-held Alsatian side of the Duchy of Zweibrucken) has numerous references to Ulrich’s family. His father Johann Stephan died 5/2/1730 at the age of 54 years and 9 months, described as the former schoolmaster of Hoffen. On 5/21/1737 Ulrich married Anna Maria Schirmer of Hoffen, daughter of a goose herder. That Sept. 9 they had a Johann Michel whom they lost on 10/25. On 12/3/1738 they had Maria Elisabetha (who would marry George Wampler in Pennsylvania). On 1/23/41 they had Anna Maria (who presumably died young as they had another by that name in 1750 who married George Weiss). All three baptisms were sponsored by a “Jost Stephan” of Betschdorff and later Rittershofen, described as hinderass and schirmer; whether he was Ulrich’s brother or uncle was not specified. As of 1737 Ulrich was described as master tailor and hinderass. Ulrich’s manumission and voyage of emigration are not found in extant records. (See Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Immigrants from the Northern Alsace to America (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992, p.484.)
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