Person:Matthias Ambrose (1)

Land in Maryland

Ambrose, Matthias, Frederick County, Name of Tract: Gap; 100 Acres; Date: 10 Nov 1752.

References: BY3/605.

[Source: Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1783. Consolidated Edition, pg. 11].

Will Transcript

Will of Matthias Ambrose of Frederick County, Maryland

In the name of God Amen the 19th day of October in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Two I Matthias Ambrose Senr of Frederick County and State of Maryland Yeoman being in good health of Body & of perfect mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament that is to Say Principally and first of all I Recommend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God that gave it and for my Body I recommend to the earth to be Buried in a Christian Like and Decent Manner at the discretion of My Executors. Nothing doubting at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Powers of God and as touching such world estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me within this life I give devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner

In premise it is my will and I do order that in the first place all my just Debts and funeral charges be paid & satisfied, Item- I give and bequeath unto the Church at Peter Apple’s Called, Jacob’s church the sum of three pounds

Item- I give and bequesth unto my daughter Catheron Willer. The sum of Forty Shillings, Item- I give and bequeath unto John Weller Senr the Remainder of my Estate both Really and Personally to his heirs and assigns for Ever

Item – my will and desire is that none of my children Except Catherina Weller shall have or claim any right to my present estate that They now have in hand, having given them their full shares & put it into their hands for this many years past

Item – I constitute make and ordain my good and Trusty Friend John Weller Executive of this my last will made hereby disallows Revokes disannuls all and Every other former, Testaments Wills Legacies and Executors by and in any ways before this time Named Will & Bequeath Ratifying and confirming this and no other, to be my Last will and Testament Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & [ ] the day & year first within written

Signed Sealed & Published

Delivered By the said Matthias Ambrose and is his Last Will & Testament in the presence of us the

Subscribers

[signed] Benjamin Ogle

Friends Frederich Troxell and Frederich [Bare]

Will proved on Oct 16 1784

[Source: Frederick County Register of Wills (Wills, Original) Box 10, folder 29 Matthias Ambrose, 1784 [MdHR 9493, 1-5-1-10-19]].

Estate Account

Frederick County, Maryland Will Book 2, pg. 106

Ambrose, Mathias (Senr.), Administrators: John Weller.

Date of Probate: Oct. 16, 1784

Frederick County, Maryland Will Index

Notes

Info. from the Ambrose genealogy site said his birthdate was 1696 but when I enter that date it shows 1695/96; don't know why. He immigrated on Oct 11 1732 to Philadelphia and was naturalized about Oct 1743 in St. Mary's City, MD. He died on Aug 10 1784 in Frederick Co., MD and was buried in Apple's Lutheran & Reformed Church, Thurmont, Maryland. He was a miller.

Most of the information on the Ambrose descendants was taken from the Ambrose Genealogy Site, Pat Asher...Rootsweb.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ambrose&id=I10238

•ID: I10238 •Name: Mathias AMBROSE •Sex: M •Note: The name Mathias can be spelled many ways - Mateas, Matheis, Matthias and others. Also the name Ambrose has many spellings - Ambrossi, Ambrosey, Ambrosin (refers to female/wife of) and Ambrosius, etc. •Birth: 7 FEB 1696 in Germany •Note: This date is from his tombstone. There is an IGI record, Batch No. F505791, Sheet 10, that says 10 Feb 1690. 1 2 •Death: 10 AUG 1784 in Frederick County, Maryland •Burial: Apple's Lutheran & Reformed Church, Thurmont, Maryland •Note: As of 1999, the tombstone is in bad shape. It says: Mathys Ambro, geb die 7 Feb 1696, Verfch die 10 Aug 1784, Alt 87 Jahr 6M, Wen: 3Tag. •NATU: ABT OCT 1743 St. Mary's City, Maryland •Note: The earliest original record of Mathias AMBROSE in Maryland is his naturalization which occurred sometime between June 1743 and June 1744. The naturalization process required communion and approval by a minister as well as the civil authority. The ceremony took place at St. Mary's City, the capitol of Maryland at the time. Original Record : Document EI-7, p. 296 from the Provincial County (Judgement Record), dated 19 Oct 1743. 3 •Immigration: 11 OCT 1732 Philadelphia, American Colonies •Note: The ship PLEASANT, J. Morris, Master from Rotterdam, last from Deal, 150 passengers, arrived in Philadelphia 11 Oct 1732 with passenger Matheis Ambrossi age 37 on board as head of household. 4 •Occupation: Miller

Marriage 1 Elizabeth WILHIDE •Married: ABT 1725 in Germany? Children 1. Catherine Salome AMBROSE b: ABT 1725 in Germany 2. Jacob AMBROSE b: BET 1727 AND 1730 in Germany

Marriage 2 Maria Catherine SPOHN b: ABT 1697 in Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland 5 •Married: ABT 1733 in Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland 6 Children 1. Johann Philip AMBROSE b: 6 FEB 1734 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 2. Augustus Heinrich AMBROSE b: 13 OCT 1736 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 3. Mathias AMBROSE b: 20 MAR 1739 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 4. Johann Frederich AMBROSE b: 20 JUN 1741 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 5. Maria Barbara AMBROSE b: 24 JAN 1743 in Frederick County, Maryland

Sources: 1.Title: Tombstone Page: Apple's Church 2.Title: Mary E. Ambrose, Ancestors and Descendants of Amos Ambrose and Mary Brough, of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania: Self, 1996) 3.Title: Elaine Roeseler, Personal Research Page: email transcription Mar 1999 4.Title: Prof. I. Daniel Rupp, 1876, Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants in Pennsylvania (Reprinted by Genealogical Printing Co., 1985) 5.Title: Elaine Roeseler, Personal Research 6.Title: LDS Ancestral File

From Genforum.com post:

Posted by Margaret Forsythe (e-mail: maf39@@uswest.net) on April 19, 1999 at 07:42:11:

In Reply to: Ambrose, Mathias (1695-1784) posted by Marie Peiffer on December 26, 1998 at 09:35:40:

MATTHIAS AMBROSE arrived at Philadelphia on October 11, 1732 aboard the ship "Pleasant" from Rotterdam by way of the English customs port of Deal. Ambrose settled first in the Conestoga area of Lancaster County. He was 37 years of age. Most likely he was already married or was soon to be, for we have record in the Muddy Creek Church book of baptisms of four sons born between 1734 and 1741. From the baptism sponsors - Mattheis and Anna Barbara Rossel for son Mattheis in 1739, Johann Friederich Verdries for son Johann Friederich in 1741 and from other facts, it is clear that Ambrose had probably moved on to the Monocacy area (Frederick County, Maryland) , even though Stover's records did not note it, sometime in 1737 or 1738. He would have been nearly 48 when on June 13, 1743 Pastor Candler baptised his daughter Maria Barbara Ambrose. Jacob Weller and his wife Maria Barbaa were this child's Luthern Sponsors. Coincidentally Johannes Weller, who arrived in Philadelphia three months later, was shortly thereafter to marry Mattheis Ambrose's older daughter, Catharine Ambrose. This is only part of an article that I will mail with the wills. Another intresting item in this article is the notation"The gravestone shows Ambrose's birth as February 10, 1690, five years earlier than he claimed on his arrival in the country in 1732. He died August 10, 1784. This I think was quoted from, Holdcrafts, 'Names in Stone'

I have a copy of the will of Mathias Ambrose that was entered on the records of Frederick County MD October 16, 1784. It however does not contain a list of his children, Catherine's will was entered 13th day of October 1807, and does contain her childrens names> Henry, John, Jacob, Ludwick, Mathias. The daughter are listed as Sophia, Catherine, Margaret and Eve. If you would like a copy e-mail me your mailing address, and I will forward you a copy.

More About MATHIAS AMBROSE: Fact 1: October 11, 1732, Debarked ship Pleasant, Philadelphia, PA6 Fact 2: DAR record indicating Mathias was son of Pierre d'Amboise of Lorraine, France7 Fact 3: Abt. 1732, Settled in Conestoga area of Colalico twp, Lancaster Co., PA8 Fact 4: 1750, Peter Apple deeded 1 acre of land to Mathias for a schoolhouse.9 Fact 5: 1765, Log church built on same site, became known as Apple's Church.10 Fact 6: 1782, Made his will leaving his estate to daughter Catherine.11

1. ↑ Tracey, Grace L. and Dern, John P. Pioneers of Old Monocacy, The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987)
   pg. 187.