Person:Maria Unknown (748)

URL: https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Magdalena-33

Starting these pages after finding detailed migration information from ProGenealogists.com was only available in the Wayback Machine. Am attempting to reproduce it here so it won't be lost. Hopefully this isn't duplicative - although I wasn't able to find this info elsewhere on WeRelate.

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In 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of poverty, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America. The trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus. Many immigrants, particularly children, died before reaching America in June 1710.

The Palatine immigration of about 2100 people who survived was the largest single immigration to America in the colonial period. Most were first settled along the Hudson River in work camps, to pay off their passage. By 1711, seven villages had been established in New York on the Robert Livingston manor. In 1723 Germans became the first Europeans allowed to buy land in the Mohawk Valley west of Little Falls. One hundred homesteads were allocated in the Burnetsfield Patent. By 1750, the Germans occupied a strip some 12 miles (19 km) long along both sides of the Mohawk River. The soil was excellent; some 500 houses were built, mostly of stone, and the region prospered in spite of Indian raids. Herkimer was the best-known of the German settlements in a region long known as the "German Flats"

Biography

Mary Magdalena Unknown was born in 1720. Presumably she was born in Europe and migrated around the same time as her future husband, who landed in Philadelphia in 1749. She married Andreas Grett (Jr) and they had ~7 children. The family was Catholic.

Children of Andrew Grett and his wife Mary Magdalena: 1. Andrew Grett Jr. born on July 17, 1755 and who died October 4, 1811, age 56 years, 2 months and 15 days. He married Elizabeth Henrich in the Chapel of St. Paul 1777. [Per "The Goshenhoppen Registers, 1741-1818," Reprint from Records of theAmerican Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, indexed by Elizabeth P. Bentley, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, Baltimore, 1984; page 109: "Grett - Henrich: November 17, 1777, during Mass at Christian Henrich's house at Asperum Collem, Andrew Grett, single, to Elizabeth Henrich, Widow Riffel.

2. John Grett (!1756- ), married Elizabeth Seiffert in 1776. 3. Michael Grett (~1757-1816), married Catharine Hartman in 1774.

4. Nicholas Grett (!759-1845),

5. Magdalena Grett (~1760- ) 6. Maria Barbary Ann Grett (1760-1843), married Philip Seiffert/(Sauvert).

7. George Adolf Grett (~1765- )

Maria Magdalena Greth died February 4, 1806 age 86 years Wife of Andreas "Andrew" Greth/Grett/Gredt brn. Dec. 26th 1720

=== NOTES ===Due to the various dialects of German the surname is spelled either: Gredt/Grett/Greth/Kredt/Greath/Greath/Creat/Create

Sources

Strausstown Roots

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Maria Magdalena “Mary” Greth, in Find A Grave.