Person:George Seifert (1)

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Intermediate Source:MySource:Quolla6/Passenger Lists of the Two Brothers, 1753

Overview

A consensus DOB is commonly given as 5 September, 176, but his POB is rarely given. When given, one of two locaitons are put forward:

• Odenwald, Gammelsback, Germany,
• Donnersbergkreis, Germany.

No basis is given on which on or the other choice could be selected.

His parents are occassionally given as

• Joachim Jacob Siefert (1697-1760) and
• Eva Liesabetha Edelmann, (1712-c1750)

His wife is sometimes identified as

• Lissabetha Lentx Crusl, or
• Elizabeth Edelmann

Some assume that he married twice, so perhaps both names are correct. His will confirms the given name of his wife as Lissabetha, but Elizabeth would be the anglicized version of the given name.

IN addition to his wife, his will, written 9 May 1789, gives various other family members as

Wife Lissabetha.

Sons: Abraham, Johann Peter.

Daus: Eva, Hanna, Marrilissaabet.

Brother: Bernhard Sifferd.

Sister: Lissabet.

Others: Jacob Fisher, Jacob Jost, Hannes Rentelman, Petter Barringer, Georg Henirich Barger, Phillip Frints. Wit: John Rintelman, Bernhart Seifert, Henrig (x) Fesperman.

(source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~siffordsiefert/folks/7953.htm citing Page 55. D:85, apparently of the Rowan County Will Book D.)

George is believed to have immigrated with his father aboard the ship "Two Brothers" in September 1753. The passenger list for The two Brothers does give a George Ludwig Siefert (various spellings) arriving in Philadelphia in 1753. The same passenger list also identifies a "JOhn Jacob Sieffert" (various spellings) who could be his father, but there's no indication to think so in particular based on the information in the passenger list, or even that the two men are related. The family settled in what was then Northampton County, PA (in the portion that is now known as Lehigh County). He is said to have inherited his fathers property in LeHigh County. A search of Lehigh County records is needed to confirm this.

George immigrated to Rowan County NC sometime before 1777 when he is said to have served as a tax asserssor. He owned about 700 acres of land adjacent to the Organ Church, and before his death in 1789 donated 10 acres to the church.

According to Hattie Alexander (source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~siffordsiefert/folks/7953.htm )

George Ludwig (Lewis) Sifford died in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1789. He was probably buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery at Organ Church. His wife, Elizabeth, survived him by thirty years. She is buried in the graveyard at Organ Church, where a simple granite slab bears an inscription in German. This inscription, some years ago, was translated into English and graved on the other side of the stone: Elizabeth Seifert / Died APril 3, 1829 / Wife of George Ludwig Seifert / Mother of Abraham Seifert / Grandmother of Dr. Paul A. Seifert. / Aged 75 years, 4 days.
George Ludwig Sifford owned 701 acres of land adjacent to the Church and in 1786 he gave 10 acres of this land to the Church. In his will, dated Sept. 11, 1789, he bequested 100 acres each to his brother, Leonard, and his sister, Elizabeth. George Ludwig Sifford was a tax assessor in 1777 and was listed for jury duty in 1780.