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Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Re: Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

jen (View posts)
Posted: 21 Aug 2006 3:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
I tried emailing you directly but it was returned...

The Swackhammer family tree I have is 31 pages long.. a bit long to put here... keep in mind that all I have I did not research myself but got from internet postings of others.... but the childrens names I have are:

from 1st wife Eva Marie Hoffman (d. 1728 in Germany)
1.child died within 1st year.. don't have name
2.Caterine 'Katie' 'Catrina' m. Johann Christopher Kern
(died in NJ)

from 2nd wife Anna Katherine Kuch:
3. Johann Konrad (Conrad) m. Elizabeth unknown
4.John (Johannes) m Susan Margaret Terryberry
5. Gotlieb d. at birth

from 3rd wife Elizabeth Miller
6. Eve m. Jacob Davidse Schuyler
7. John
8. Ann m. Adam Leeke
9. Dorothea 'Dolly' m. Phillip Terryberry
10. Elizabeth m. Jacob Dufford
11. Barbery
12. Baltus (Bollus) m. Mary Francheer
13. Helena
14. Andrew
15. Jacob
16. Samuel m. Sarah Smith
17. Daniel


if you email me with your proper email address I will send you gedcom & pdf files of what I have.

Jen
PS- I am not a Swackhammer myself but have cousins that are

Re: Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

jeff (View posts)
Posted: 22 Aug 2006 10:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Do you know what paper the obit was published in?

Jeff

Re: Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

DANSWACK (View posts)
Posted: 22 Aug 2006 12:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for the recent notes, I have sent Jen and Tina my new email address, and it also has caused me to retap my research. I have found one small piece of info that led me to others, including the fact that our ancestor was a part of the "Love & Unity" debacle, a predecessor to Year of the destroying Angels in 1738. I've attached the source, but although it seems he was part of the suit, I have conflicting data as to whether he was actually on the Love & Unity..

Do either of you have any other data on this issue?

Thanks

Dan

http://lthome.com/linc/genealogy/German0201.htmhttp://lthome...

In some instances these German immigrants have recorded in writings which are still accessible the story of their sufferings and their wrongs. We have a case of this in the record of the voyage of the ship Love and Unity, than which no vessel was perhaps ever more unaptly named. This ship under the command of Captain Lobb, sailed from Rotterdam for Philadelphia in May, 1731, with more than one hundred and fifty Palatines. Instead of going to Philadelphia, these people, or rather the survivors, were landed on the island of Martha's Vineyard, off the southern coast of Massachusetts. Of their number, only thirty-four reached Philadelphia in May, 1732. 25

In a letter written by Johannes Gohr, Jacob Diffebach, Jonas Daner, Jacob Kuntz and Samuel Schwachhamer, dated February, 1732, to the Rev. Michael Weiss, a German Reformed minister in Philadelphia, they say among other things: "Captain Lobb, a wicked murderer of souls, thought to starve us, not having provided provisions enough, according to agreement; and thus got possession of our goods; for during the voyage of the last eight weeks, five persons were only allowed one pint of coarse meal per day, and a quart of water to each person. We were twenty-four weeks coming from Rotterdam to Martha's Vineyard. There were at first more than one hundred and fifty persons-more than one hundred perished. * * * To keep from starving, we had to eat rats and mice. We paid from eight pence to two shillings for a mouse; four pence for a quart of water. * * * In one night several persons miserably perished and were thrown naked overboard; no sand was allowed to be used to sink the bodies but they floated. We paid for a loaf of Indian corn eight shillings. Our misery was so great that we often begged the captain to put us on land that we might buy provisions. He put us off from day to day for eight weeks, until at last it pleased Almighty God, to send us a sloop, which brought us to Home's Hole, Martha's Vineyard. * * * Had he detained four days longer every one of us would have famished; for none had it in his power to hand another a drop of water. * * * All our chests were broken
Caption: German Immigration Into Pennsylvania. Domestic Industries. Tow and Flax Reels. Hanks of Spun Flax. open. * * * The captain constrained us to pay the whole freight of the dead and living, as if he had landed us at Philadelphia, and we agreed in writing to do so, not understanding what we signed; but we are not able to comply, for if we are to pay for the dead, we should have taken the goods of the dead; but in discharging the vessel, we found that most of their chests were broken open and plundered.

"The captain however, has determined, that we shall pay him in three weeks; we, therefore, desire you to instantly assist us as much as is in your power. For if we have to pay, the wicked captain will make us all beggars. * * * We would have sent two or three men with this letter, but none of us is yet able to stir, for we are weak and feeble; but as soon as there shall be two or three of us able to travel they will follow." 26

The whole history of American colonization may confidently be challenged to present so pathetic and sorrowful a tale. The voyage of the "Mayflower" has been told and retold in song and story. It is the entire stock in trade of certain writers. If I remember it aright its one hundred and two Puritans were all landed after a voyage of sixty-five days duration. Not a death from any cause, certainly none from starvation. Yet that voyage is extolled as the one beyond all others where the courage, fortitude and endurance of colonists were tried to their utmost. If the student of American colonization wishes to learn where humanity's sorest trial on this continent occurred, he must turn to the German immigration to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century.

In this instance the deception and rascality perpetrated on these poor people became the subject of official investigation. 27

The sequel to this tale of oppression and suffering is not the least interesting part of the story. It appears that several of these wretched German immigrants had charged Captain Lobb with killing several of their countrymen by his brutal treatment. Such an accusation could hardly be passed over in silence, so he haled his accusers into the Massachusetts courts, and after a prolonged trial, the captain was not only acquitted of the charge but the witnesses against him were saddled with the costs of the trial and sent to jail until they were paid. The Philadelphische Zeitung of 1732 has an account of the proceedings. 28

Re: Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 3:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Swackhammer, Reger, Reiger
Dear Jeff,

If you still have the scan of Samuel Swackhammer Will I would appreciate receiving a copy. I am researching the connection of Elisabeth Swackhammer b ca. 1773 m. Frederick REGER/REIGER.

Olivia

Re: Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Posted: 30 Nov 2007 11:07AM GMT
Classification: Query
I should still have it, just have to find it. I can look over the weekend and email you a scan Monday.

jeff

Re: Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 2:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: SWACKHAMMER
My late husband is a descendant of Lambert Swackhammer's dtr Julia Augusta Georgianna who m'd Joseph Dunmore. Would like to see the family tree of Samuel. I know Samuel had 3 wives and 25 children so I'm sure the tree is lengthy. Is it posted anywhere?

Patti Meyers

Re: Samuel Swackhammer Will - Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Posted: 25 Sep 2012 10:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
I can send you what I have, if you can send me your email address. email me at sulking@hotmail.com
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