Person:Johann Swartzlander (1)

Switzlanter: World Family Tree #2132 Johann Philip SCHWARTZLANDER: Born on 17 Feb 1723 in Steinhardt Swartzwald, Bavaria, Germany; died abt 1804, New Britian, Bucks, PA; first married 23 Jan 1742 to Maria Magdalena PETZEL; second married 20 Dec 1752 Philadelphia, PA to Maria Agnes TROST.

NOT THS PHILLIP He was in the Civil War and after being shot in the jaw was given an honorable discharge. I have it in our lockbox. He then grew a beard to cover the fact that his jaw wasn't quite straight. I can even tell he was a relatively small man (the information comes from his discharge).

Steinhartwald is near Steinhart onthe Womitz River in Upper (Franconia) Bavaria, Germany. The family, possibly of Austrian origin according to Karl A. Kumrow of the German Informatin Bureau was possibly Nobles or "Bauern" of the "Schwartz land" in th early Lordship of Schwartzenburg on teh Elz River (a tributary of th Rhine) section of Waldrich (forest Church). The Lordship of Schwartzenburg was in the state of Breisgau one of the Austrian domains of the Duchy of Baden. The Schwartzlander family left Steinhart probably in late April 1752 to Nurnberg. Probably by the Rengnitz and Main Rivers, they went by the Rine to Rotterdam, Holland. The trip down the Rhine took four to six weeks because of many delays. Rhine boats of that era had to pass at least 36 different customs houses between Heilbronn and Holland. The boat was examined at each at the convenience of th customs officials. When they reached Holland, they were held up again from five to six weeks. In June 1752 th efamily sailed for America on the Snow Louise, captained by John Pittcairne. The ship sailed across the North Sea, stopped at Cowes on teh Isle of Wright, England before continueing. It sometimes took two to four weeks, because of the contrary winds of the North Sea to make the trip from Holland to Cowes. It took eight to twelve weeks to sail from England to Philadelphia even in the most favorable winds. The Snow Louise, considering the small passenger list upon arrival and the fact that it took five months sailing after leaving Rotterdam, must have experienced an exceptionally rough voyage. Gottleib Mittelberger, who made a passage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia two years earlier, described conditions in a small booklet, "Pennsylvania" first published in Frankfurt and Leipzig in 1756. "During the journey, the ship is full of pitiful signs of distress - smells, fumes, horrors, vomiting, various kinds of sea sickness, fever, dysentery, headache, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth rot, and similar affections, all of them caused by the age and the highly salted status of the food, especially teh meat. Also the very bad and filthy water, which brings about the miserable destruction and death of many." Johannes first wife, Barbara, whom he married in Germany in 1744, died during the their journey to the new country. The Snow Louise docked on Tuesday, November 7, 1752 outside the port of Philadelphia. On the following morning, Johannes went to the courthouse at Philadelphia before Magistrate Edward Shippen to take the usual Qualification Number 71, an oath of Allegiance to the King of England and to Pennsylvania.