Person:Johannes Ehrenhardt (2)

The Ehrendardts came from small villages in Pfalz, Bayern. The area is also known as the Palatinate, Bavaria. The village of their origin is called Ilbesheim, located in the Landkreis (County) of Kirchheimbolanden. This added descriptor is sometimes used to differentiate Ilbesheim from other villages bearing the same name. A record of the immigration of Johannes is indexed in Strassburger's PA German Pioneers 1727-1775, Vol. 1, page 356; also other Passenger and Immigration Public records.

Arrived in Philadelphia on 11/2/1744 with his entire family by his second wife, Anny Sybilla Taubin. They came in the British ship, Friendship, out of Rotterdam. He and his son Johan Philip (was only child old enough to sign) signed an oath to the King of England and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (A son, Johan Jacob, by Johannes' first wife was already in America and h ad immigrated on 9/9/1738 on the Ship Glascow.)

Johannes obtained a land warrant of 100 acres in Lowhill Twp., Bucks County, Pa. in 1746. Upon his death in 1767, his eldest son Johan Georg (still lving in Pa) administered his estate. Johann Philip and Johann Kilian had already migrated to Rowan County, NC while Johann Henrich (the youngest child) never left Pa. Johan Georg migrated to Rowan County, NC after the death of his father, Johannes in 1774 and purchased a tract of land adjacent to Johan Philip. These 3 brothers generated an Earnhart population in North Carolina that far exceeds any other state.