Note about marriages

Johann Adam Walborn's first wife was unquestionably Anna Elisabetha Zietz. They married in Wiesbaden in 1691. Later, after she died in 1717, it is possible he remarried to Anna Elisabeth Feg, but that is not proven, and in any case no children resulted from that marriage.

Lore

I quote from Maxine Bennett's book- "The Walborn Family" "Family legend tells us that the name Walborn had its origin with the birth of a small child found in the woods in the fatherland many years ago. Those rescuing the infant, not knowing its parentage, decided to give it a name connected with its discovery, so they gave it the namewhich meant Woods Born: WALD-GEM BORNE, WALD BORNE, WALDBORN. The latter form appears on Baptismal records in Germany. The history of the Walborn family is most interesting, to say the least,and to speak of the Walborns is to speak of the Batdorfs, for these two families have been closely related for more than two hundred and seventy five years. The original home of the Walborns was in Wiesbaden, Germany. Dr. Fritz Braun, well-known German genealogist, formerly of the HelmatstellePfalz, of Kaiserlautern, Germany, lists: "Johan Adam Wal(L)born ausWiesbaden, Hausmann auf dem Schutzenhof, ausgewandert mit Frau AnnaElisabeth, u. 6 Kindern 1690-1708. Sil: mit Anna Elisabeth u. 6 Kindern in Schmidsdorf(Schoharie)." Sil" Simmendorf Register." The following and most all my Walborn information are excerpts from "TheWalborn Family Book" Thank you Maxine!

Hans Adam's wife Anna Elisabetha (Feg) (EA has a note in the margin stating that FEG was changed from Schneider and that Anna Elisabetha's father, Johann Peter Feg was the son of Nicolaus Feg-Schneider, son of Johannes Schneider. I'm sorry to say, unless I can find documentation somewhere, I don't know where I got that information!)

The summer of 1708 started the journey for the Walborn Family to America.They traveled down the Rhine to Rotterdam, Holland by boat. A long,tedious trip, arriving in London with thousands of other Germans,destitute and eager to take advantage of Queen Anne's offer to establish a Colony in New York, America! Ten vessels were loaded with over 3,000 Germans, including our Hans Adam Walborn, Peter Batdorf, Johann Peter Feg and Johannes Risch families. They left England the 25th of December,1709 and after a long, terrible six months, arrived in New York in June, 1710. That Fall, about 1,400 were moved 100 miles up the Hudson River, to Livingston Manor. All our families among those moving. They were under indenture to serve Queen Anne as grateful subjects, to manufacture tar and raise hemp, in order to repay the expenses of their transportation and cost of subsistence. The experiment was a complete failure. Our families who,in order to escape the certainty of famishing, left late in the autumn of 1712, for Schoharie Valley, about sixty miles north-west. After 6 weeksof hard grueling travel in 3 feet of snow, they arrived, only to lose the land and all improvements ten years later because of some defect in their land titles. In 1723, 33 families, ours included, again packed their meager belongings and settled in Tulpehocken Valley along the Swatara Creek in southern Pennsylvania, about 15 miles west of Reading. Hans Adam was still listed there in 1741, but the exact date of his death is not known.

Hans Adam served in the French and Indian Wars, starting in 1711 in the Expedition against the French, serving with General Nicholson at Montreal. On 26 July 1711, he was one of the Palatine Volunteers in the Annesbury and Queensbury Expedition against Canada. In 1717, he had taken the Oath of Allegiance, and was a volunteer from Annsburg, in what was called the East Camp. He fought with the English against the French at Montreal and also in the defense of Albany. Hans and his wife Anna Elisabetha were parents of six children.

Anna Elisabetha notes:

Following their marriage, they lived in a section of the Rhine Valley known as the Palatinate. Church records of the family were found inWiesbach-Nassau, Germany, and baptismal records from Weisenbaden,Germany, were obtained by Herman Walborn of Saint Paris, Ohio, in 1969,for 2 daughters of Hans Adam and Anna Elisabetha Walborn of Idar,Germany.

Summary

Taken from: http://www.genealogycenter.info/ellingham/getperson.php?personID=I1...

Johann Adam Walborn

• Birth ? Wiesbaden, Germany
• Gender Male
• Reference Number 546 _UID C204C2DB61DAF94FA8F15C3DE3AAF99331C1
• Died ? Berks Co., PA
• Person ID I12409 Last Modified 19 Oct 2001
• Father Joachim Waldborn, b. 1629, Germany d. Sep 1689, Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
• Mother Anna Maria É, b. 1636, Germany d. 30 Dec 1693, Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
• Married ? Family ID F5209
• Family Anna Elisabetha Zietz, b. ?, ? d. ?, ?
• Married 15 Feb 1691 Mosbach-Biebrich, Germany
• Children
• 1. Christian Wilhelm Walborn, b. Apr 1692, Idar Rhineland-P, Wiesbaded, Germany d. 11 Dec 1769, Heidelburg Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• 2. Maria Elisabetha Walborn, b. 25 Oct 1696, Wiesbaden, Nassau, Germany d. 1722, Berks Co. PA
• 3. Anna Christina Elizabeth Walborn, b. 24 Jul 1700, Weisbaden, Nassau, Germany d. 17 Dec 1782, Nazareth, Northampton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• 4. Johann Herman Walborn, b. 1 Jan 1708, Pr. Hessen, Nassau Wiesbaden, Germany d. 10 Jan 1747, Tulpehocken, Berks, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• 5. Anna Susanna Walborn
• 6. Maria Catharina Walborn

!Sources: Book: "The Palatine Families of New York" by Henry Z. Jones, 1985, page 1051-1054; Confirmation: Church Records of Mosbach-Biebrich(Chbks. begin 1674), 1680; Genealogy: "The Walborn(Walburn) Family" by Herman W. Walborn; Marriage: The Church Records of Mosbach-Biebrich - Johann Adam Waldbrun md. Anna Elisab(etha) Zietz (Gietz?- hard to read), 15 Feb 1691 ;

The following was extracted from Henry Z. Jones' book: "The German home of this Tulpehocken family was Wiesbaden(6 km. n. of Mainz; Chbks. begin 1688), entries on this family also at Mosbach-Biebrich/Wiesbaden (Chbks. begin 1674). The father of the emigrant was undoubtedly Joachim Waldborn, bur. as Jochim Wallbrun 10 Sept 1689, aged 60 yrs.; Anna Maria, wid/o the late Joachim Walborn, d. 30 Dec 1693, aged 57 yrs. (both Mosbach-Biebrich Chbk.). Johann Adam Walborn made his initial appearance on the Hunter Lists 1 July 1710 with 4 prs. ovr 10 yrs. and 3 pers. under 10 yrs of age. The family was recorded with 5 over 10 and 2 under 10 yrs. on 4 Oct 1710. Jno. Adn Walbourn of Annsberg was a soldier in 1711 (Palatine Volunteers to Canada). Hanss Adam Wallborn and his wife Anna Elisabetha with 6 ch. were at Neu-Ansberg ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register). I strongly believe that Johann Adam was the mysterious Andrew Falborn/Walborn listed on the Tulpehocken petition dated 1723; there is not further reference to this Andrew Walborn that has been found, and the written forms of Adam and Andreas may easily be mistaken for each other in 18th century handwriting (HJ). Johann Adam Walborn was on the Tulpehocken tax list dated 1725(The Hub of the Tulpehocken, by Earl W. Ibach, p. 12)." "Johan Adam Waldborn was called a day-labourer at Wiesbaden in 1696, and a Hoffman in Schutzenhof in 1703(Wiesbaden Chbk)."

Another summary

Taken from: http://bransoncook.systemaxonline.com/gedcoms/walborn/pafg01.htm

1. Johann Adam WALBORN was born in 1665 in Wiesbaden, Germany. He died after 1741 in Pennsylvania.

Johann married Anna Elisabetha FEG, daughter of Johann Peter FEG and Anna Maria RISCH, on 15 Feb 1690/1691 in Idar Oberstein, Germany. Anna was born about 1670 in Vollmersbach, Germany. She died UNKNOWN in United States.

Johann and Anna had the following children:

     	2 	M 	i 	Andreas David WALBORN was born about 1690 in Idar, Rhine-land, Pfalz, Germany.

   + 	3 	M 	ii 	Christian Wilhelm WALBORN

     	4 	F 	iii 	Maria Elisabetha WALBORN was born on 25 Oct 1696 in Wiesbach-Nassau, Germany.

     	5 	F 	iv 	Anna Christina Elisabetha WALBORN was born on 24 Nov 1700 in Wiesbach-Nassau, Germany. She died on 17 Dec 1782 in Nazareth, Tulpehocken Co, PA and was buried in Nazareth, PA, Moravian cem.

     	6 	M 	v 	Johann Hermanus WALBORN was born on 1 Jan 1707/1708 in Wiesbach-Nassau, Germany. He died on 10 Jan 1746/1747 in Lancaster Co, PA.

     	7 	F 	vi 	Maria Catarina WALBORN was born in 1709 in Aboard Ship, Atlantic Ocean.

===Yet another history===

Taken from: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/c/h/Thomas-A-Scherzing...

Johann Adam Walborn (son of Joachim Walborn and Anna Maria Lnu) was born Abt. 1665 in Weisbade/Mosbach, Germany, and died Aft. 1741 in Tulpehocken Settlement, Berks, Co., PA. He married Anna Elisabetha Feg on February 15, 1690/91 in Mosbach-Biebrich, daughter of Johann Peter Feg and Anna Maria Risch.

Notes for Johann Adam Walborn:
Listed as a soldier in 1711 serving with the Palatine Volunteers to Canada. Johann Adam and his wife Anna Elisabetha were listed with 6 children in 1716/1717 at Neu-Ansberg, NY (a German settlement in the Schoharie region). Stilled lived there in 1717; Christian Wilhelm (second son) was married there.

About 25 of these families moved through the woods in NY state to the upper reaches of the Susquehanna River, built rafts, and sailed downriver settling in Tulpehocken Twshp, Berks Co., PA. List contains: Wallborn, Hans Adam with wife Anna Elisabeth, 6 children.[60]

By 1723 was listed in Tulpenhocken Settlement, PA, and was on the Tulpehocken tax list of 1725. His two sons, Christian and Johann Hermann, are shown as owning pioneer homesteads in the Tulpehocken Valley on maps dated 1723.

Rupp, p 448: living in Livingston Manor NY in 1710

Jones, 1985: "Palatine Families of New York": Johann Adam Walborn brought his wife, Anna Elizabetha, and six children to America under the protection of Queen Anne. Governor Robert Hunter of New York arranged passage for 2500 Germans to America in exchange for their work at the tar and pitch processing plants along Schoharie Creek and the Hudson River in New York. After two years of work the tar/pitch program was closed because it was never financially viable (due to the German's resistance to serfdom). Around 1723 the Walborn family travelled to the Tulpehocken Settlement (mostly Germans from the New York project) in Berks County, Pennsylvania. There the Walborns lived for generations mostly as farmers and carpenters.

Info from: The Walborn Family by Maxine Bennett, Published by Clifford Bennett 1984 - P. 11-15 N.1 Family legend tells us that the name WALBORN had its origin with the birth of a small child found in the woods in the fatherland many years ago. Thos rescuing the infant, not knowing its parentage, decided to give it a name connected with its discovery, so they gave it the name with meant Woods Born: WALDGEM BORNE, WALD BORNE, WALDBORN. The latter form appears on Baptismal records in Germany. The history of the Walborn Family is most interesting, to say the least, and to speak of the Walborns is to speak of the Batdorfs, for these two families have been closely related for more than two hundred and seventy five years. The original home of the Walborns was in Wiesbaden, Germany. Dr. Fritz Braun, well-known German genealogist, formerly of the Helmatstelle Pfalz, of Kaiserlautern, Germany, lists: "JOHAN ADAM WAL(L)BORN aus Wiesbaden, Hausmann auf dem Schutzenhof, ausgewandert mit FRAU ANNA ELISABETH, u. 6 Kindern 1690-1708. Sil: mit ANNA ELISABETH u. 6 Kindern in Schmidsdorf (Schoharie)." Sil" Simmendorf Register. Following their marriage, Hans was a tenant farmer, living in a section of the Rhine Valley known as the Palatinate, on land owned by Egydius Sartorius. Church records of the family were found in Wiesbach-Nassau, Germany, and three baptismal records from Wiesenbaden, Germany, were obtained by Herman Walborn of Saint Paris, Ohio, in 1969, which gives the baptismal records of two daughters of Hans Adam Walborn and wife Anna Elisabetha of Idar, Germany. No doubt Hans was discouraged with the meager living he could provide for his family as a tenant farmer. The people were tired and wary of the ravages and destruction of the European Wars, the bloody persecutions, and the dreadful sufferings of the Protestants. One can easily understand why they accepted Queen Anne's offer. They joined the many thousands who took advantage of Queen Anne's offer to transport families to america, with the intention of establishing a Colony in the present state of New York. In the summer of 1708, they traveled by boat down the Rhine to Rotterdam, Holland. The trip was a long and tedious one, due to the many stops made enroute, and required considerable time. Before they reached Rotterdam, most of their meager resources had been exhausted, and by the time they reached London most of them were destitute and entirely dependent upon the government for subsistence. Ten vessels were loaded with over three thousand Germans and among them were several families of our ancestors -- the Hans Adam Walborn family, the Peter Bardorf family, the Johann Peter Feg family and the Johannes Risch family. They left England the 25th of December, 1709, and after a six months' tedious voyage reached New York in June, 1710. The voyage was longer than usual because of heavy storms. The crowed quarters, the foul air and insufficient food, made them easy prey of disease, and many died. Upon landing, the survivors were encamped in tents they had brought with them from England. Here they remained till late in autumn, when about fourteen hundred were moved one hundred miles up the Hudson River, to Livingston Manor. The Walborn, Batdorf, Feg and Risch families were among those settled at Livingston Manor. The were under indenture to serve Queen Anne as grateful subjects, to manufacture tar and raise hemp, in order to repay the expenses of their transportation and cost of subsistence. The experiment was a complete failure, and the Germans, being unjustly oppressed, became dissatisfied with their treatment and their situation. Our ancestors were among the one hundred and fifty families who, in order to escape the certainty of famishing, left late in the autumn of 1712, for Schoharie Valley, about sixty miles north-west of Livingston Manor. They had no open road, no horses to carry of haul their luggage. They loaded their belongings on crude, roughly-built sleds and pulled them themselves, through a three-feet-deep snow, which greatly obstructed their progress. Their way was through an unbroken forest, and it took them three full weeks to reach their destination. They had been in Schoharie about ten years when, owing to some defect in their land titles, they were deprived of both their lands and their lands and the improvements they had made upon them. In the Spring of 1723, thirty-three families (including our ancestors) again packed their meager belongings and settled in Pennsylvania, in Tulpehocken, about fifteen miles west of Reading. The war record of the Walborns in America begins in New York when, in 1711 during the French and Indian Wars, Hans Adam Walborn volunteered for the Expedition against the French and served with General Nicholson at Montreal. On 26 July 1711, he was one of the Palatine Volunteers in the Annesbury and Queensbury Expedition against Canada. In 1717, John Adam Walborn had taken the Oath of Allegiance, and was a volunteer from Annsburg, in what was called the East Camp, located on the east side of the Hudson River about where the present site of the city of Germantown, Dutchess County, now stands. He fought with the English against the French at Montreal and also in the defense of Albany. In 1723, Johann (Hans) Adam Walborn and his family were living in southern Pennsylvania, in the Tulpehocken Valley Settlement along Swatara Creek. In 1741, he was again listed as one of those still living in the Tulpehocken Settlement. The exact date of his death, however, is not known. March 1992 IGI gives place of marriage as Mosbach, Gross Umstadt,l Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt. Herman W. Walborn, comp. "Walborn (Walburn) genealogical history of America: descendants from the settlement of 1710, including data on allied families and other associated connections (St. Paris, OH: Walborn, c 1975)... says his name was Hans Adam Walborn and wife was "Anna Elisabetha Feg of Idar, Germany. Listed as a tenant farmer living in a section of the Rhine valley, known as the Palatinate on land of Egydius Sartroius. Listed as head, among the 30,000 German Refugees that arrived in New York in 1710. Served with General Nicholson at Montreal. On the list of Palatine Volunteers in the Annesburg, and Queensbury Expedition against Canada. Listed in New York State as parent of six children ... was still living in 1741 at the Tulpehocken Settlement." (Info from Mar 96:) Dr. Carmen J. Finley 4820 Rockridge Lane Santa Rosa, CA 95404 INTERNET: FINLEYC 707/544-2072 He has the wife as: Anna Elisabetha Gietz (Zietz) chr. 1681 Wiesbaden, Germany; md. 15 Feb 1691 Mosbach, Biebrich, Germany !Cynthia Cornwell McCachern gives DIETZ as alternate spelling.

More About Johann Adam Walborn and Anna Elisabetha Feg: Marriage: February 15, 1690/91, Mosbach-Biebrich.

Children of Johann Adam Walborn and Anna Elisabetha Feg are:

   Andreas David Walborn, b. Abt. 1690, d. date unknown.

   +Christian Wilhelm Walborn, b. April 1692, Idar, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany, d. December 11, 1769, Hydelberg Twp., Lancaster Co., PA.

   +Maria Elizabetha Walborn, b. October 25, 1696, Wiesbach--Nassau, Germany, d. Aft. 1770, Berks Co., PA.

   Anna Christina Walborn, b. July 24, 1700, d. date unknown.

   Johann Herman Walborn, b. August 1707, d. date unknown.

   Maria Cathrina Walborn, b. Abt. 1709, d. date unknown.

   Anna Susanna Walborn, d. date unknown.

The following was written about John's son, the Rev. Christian Walborn:

"He was a lad of 17 years when he left his native land and accompanied his parents to America. Christian and Catharina, with their family, were among those who settled in the Tulpehocken Settlement in 1723. In 1725, they were one of the thirty families of the Tulpehocken Settlement who met to discuss their plans for a place in which to hold their religious meetings, and also a permanent site for their members. Along with their plans were expressions of a need for a school for the instruction of their children. The church, called Rieth's or Zion's Church, took over five months to construct, and was completed in 1727. It was made out of crude logs and the pulpit was a huge round block, the base of a tree. Seats were split logs, and a large vault was built for safety beneath the earthen floor, as a stock place for their ammunition. Legend tells us that usually the pastor kept his old flint lock rifle in front of him as he preached. They had to be constantly on guard of Indian attacks. There was no fire-place, so the members had to warm themselves, in winter, by an outside fire before attending services inside. This church stood in the corner of the cemetery at Stouchsburg until the latter part of the nineteenth century, when it was destroyed by fire. In 1742, dissatisfaction among the members of the church arose from the influences of the Moravian body, which took over the Church's Services. The Lutherans and Reformed Members built, in 1743, their new church, The Christ Church (Lutheran later) on the west edge of Stouchsberg, Pennsylvania. It is in this same church yard that many of the earlier Walborn ancestors and their direct descendants are buried. From this church's early registries have come the birth and baptismal records of the Walborn Families of those early years. Christian and Catherina Walborn were Charter members of the Christ Lutheran Church, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, and throughout their lives continued to be very active workers in the church. Christian quite often served the early church as Supply Pastor, though only a lay-minister. This is why he was usually referred to as "Reverend" Christian Walborn. Christian Wilhelm Walborn was Naturalized 13 Sept 1761, and was a very successful farmer on the Walborn Homestead. The ancestral home which was built on the large Walborn Homestead, still stands at the western edge of Myerstown, Lebanon County., Pennsylvania." His will is recorded in Lancaster County, Will Book J-I p. 348: "In the name of God, Amen. I, Christian Walborn, of Hydelberg township in the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsylvania, widower, being in health of body and of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding and considering the many accidents and casualties that attend, and will at length end this mortal life, do make and declare this my last Will and Testament. First, principally recommending my immortal spirit to the hands of my great Creator, trusting in the merits of my blessed Saviour for pardon and remission of all my sins, and a happy admission into the regions of bliss and immortality. And as to such worldly estate where-with it hath pleased God to bless me, I give, devise, and bequeath the same in the following manner: Imprimis, I will, order and direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid off and discharged as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. Item: I give and devise the plantation whereon I now live in Hydelberg township aforesaid containing about one hundred and seventy six acres, unto my loving son, Martin Walborn, to hold to him, the said Martin Walborn, his heirs and assigns forever, which said land was made over unto the said Martin by indenture or release, as by the same may appear, on condition that he, my son Martin, his heirs, executors or administrators, pay or cause to be paid unto my loving children hereafter named, yearly, the sum of twenty-five pounds Christian Wilhelm Walborn was born in Apr, 1692, baptized on Nov 27, 1692, and confirmed in 1707 in Idar, Rheinland-Pfalz, Rhenish Palatinate (now the state of Palentine, Germany) and died on Dec 11, 1769 in Tulpehocken, Hydelberg Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the age of 77. He married Catharina Elizabetha Batdorf on Dec 11, 1717 in New Annsberg (Schmidsdorf), New York. She was the daughter of Johannes Jacob Peter Batdorf and Anna Maria Catharina Anspach. She was born about 1697 and died in 1764 about the age of 67. Christian was 18 when he immigrated with his parents to New York in 1710, and married Catharina Elizabetha Batdorf seven years after their arrival. They were among the families who settled in Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania in 1723. In 1725, they were one of the thirty families of the Tulpehocken Settlement who met to discuss their plans for a place in which to hold their religious meetings, and also a permanent site for their members. Along with their plans were expressions of a need for a school for the instruction of their children. The church, called Rieth's or Zion's Church, took over five months to construct, and was completed in 1727. It was made out of crude logs and the pulpit was a huge round block, the base of a tree. Seats were split logs, and a large vault was built for safety beneath the earthen floor, as a stock place for their ammunition. Legend tells us that usually the pastor kept his old flint lock rifle in front of him as he preached in case of Indian attacks. There was no fireplace, so the members had to warm themselves in winter by an outside fire before attending services inside. This church stood in the corner of the cemetery at Stouchsburg until the latter part of the nineteenth century when it was destroyed by fire. On Nov 2, 1739, Christian Walborn bought 176 acres from Casper Wister for £70, 8s according to Lancaster County records, and on May 5, 1742 he bought land from Henry Bassler. In 1742, dissatisfaction among the members of the church arose from the influences of the Moravian body, which took over the church's services. The Lutherans and Reformed Members built their new church in 1743, calling it the Christ Church (later called the Evangelical Lutheran Church), on the west edge of Stouchsberg, Pennsylvania. It is in this churchyard that many of the Walborn descendants were buried. From this church's early registries have come the birth and baptismal records of the Walborn families. Christian and Catharina were charter members of the church. He served the early church as a lay-minister, and was usually referred to as Reverend Christian Walborn. In 1744, Christian built a two story stone residence on the side of a hill. The home was still standing in 1973, on the west edge of Myerstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Christian was a member of the church council at Tulpehocken in 1748. Christian Wilhelm Walborn was naturalized on Sep 13, 1761, and was a successful farmer on the Walborn homestead. His will is recorded in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Will Book J-1, p 348: "In the name of god, Amen. I Christian Walborn, of Hydelberg Township in the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsylvania, widower, being in health of body and of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding and considering the many accidents and casualties that attend, and will at length end this mortal of life, do make and declare this my last Will and Testament. "First, principally recommending my immortal spirit to the hands of my great Creator, trusting in the merits of my blessed Savior for pardon and remission of all my sins, and a happy admission into the regions of bliss and immortality. And as to such worldly estate where-with it hath pleased God to bless me, I give, devise, and bequeath the same in the following manner: "Imprimis, I will, order, and direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid off and discharged as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. "Item: I give and devise the plantation whereon I now live in Hydelberg Township aforesaid containing about one hundred and seventy six acres, unto my loving son Martin Walborn, to hold to him, the said Martin Walborn, his heirs and assigns forever, which said land was made over unto the said Martin by indenture or release, as by the same may appear, on condition that he, my son Martin, his heirs, executors, or administrators, pay or cause to be paid unto my loving children hereafter named, yearly, the sum of twenty-five pounds lawful money aforesaid, until the aforesaid sum of five hundred pounds being fully and duly paid, the first payment of twenty-five pounds as aforesaid, to be made at the expiration of one year after my decease, unto my loving son Christian, and so to continue in yearly payments aforesaid, to each and every of my children, beginning at the said Christian (he being the youngest), to the oldest, to wit, "Christian; Hermanus, Margreta Elizabeth, the wife of John Kurtz; Christina, the wife of John Albert; Catharina, the wife of Nicholas Miller; Margreta, the wife of George Conrad; Catharina, the wife of Christoph Kneble; Eva, the wife of Lorentz Hautz; Adam Walborn; the sum of twenty-five pounds unto my grandchildren, Peter and David Smith (sons of Peter Smith, who was intermarried with my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, deceased) and then beginning at said Christian and continue until the last, as before mentioned. "Item: I give unto my son Adam, the further sum of one shilling sterling, to be paid him six months after my decease, as his birth right (he being the oldest son), over and above his equal share with the rest of my children, and no more. "Item: I will, order and direct that my personal estate be divided to and in eleven equal shares, to and among my children, to wit, Martin, Christian, Hermanus, Margereta Elizabeth, Christina, Catharina, Margreta, Catherina, Eva, Adam, and my two grandsons, Peter and David, to have one share between them of said personal estate, as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. "And lastly, I nominate and appoint my loving son Martin Walborn and son-in-law Christopher Kneble, executors of this, my Will and Last Testament. Hereby making void, all former and other will or wills by me heretofore made, declaring this and no other to be and contain my Will and Last Testament. In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, this twenty-ninth day of March ano domo 1764. "Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the within testator Christian Walborn as his Will and Last Testament in the presence of Peter Schnabli, Sabina Snavely, Philip Marstiller. Sworn before me by Philip Marsteller, one of the witnesses, this eleventh of December, 1769. Edw. Shippen, D. R. Christian Walborn." The children of Christian Wilhelm Walborn and Catharina Elisabetha Batdorf were: i John Adam, b. 1717, m. Euphrosina Catharine Karsnitz (Karthonix) in 1744, d. Mar 2, 1773 ii Maria Elizabeth, b. ca. 1718, m. Peter Schmitt, d. 1764 iii Eve Anna, b. 1720, m. Philip Lorentz Hautz in 1740, d. Oct 22, 1788 iv Catharina, b. 1722, m. 1st, Christopher Knoebel on Mar 15, 1744; 2nd, Christopher (Christian) Knoebel, d. May, 1807 v Maria Magdalena Margretta, b. 1724, m. 1st, George Magnus Conrad (Konrad) on Jun 14, 1748; 2nd, Peter Smith vi Maria Catharina, b. 1726, m. Nicholas Miller (Muller) on Apr 11, 1751 vii Christina, b. Jul, 1732, confirmed Oct 9, 1748 at age 16 years and 3 months, m. John Jacob Albert on Nov 9, 1748 viii Martinus, b. Apr 15, 1733, confirmed Jun 3, 1750 at age 17, m. Maria Margaretha Lei in 1754, d. Feb 3, 1816 ix Hermanus, b. Mar, 1737, confirmed in 1753 at age 16, m. Catharina Brucker (Bricker) and Catherine Elizabeth Reith, d. Mar 15, 1813 x Anna Margretta Elizabeth, b. 1739, confirmed in 1753 at age 14, m. Johannes Nicholas Kurtz xi Christian, Jr., b. 1740, confirmed in 1754 at age 14, m. 1st, Anna Barbara Koppenhauver ca. 1760; 2nd, Christine Heberling; 3rd, Catherine Elizabeth Batdorf (double cousin), d. Mar 13, 1814 xii George Peter, b. Jun 17, 1744, bap. Jul 8, 1744, never married, d. Mar 19, 1764

    He married Anna Elizabetha Zietz/Gietz on Feb 15, 1691, according to the Mosbach-Biebrich Churchbook, near Wiesbaden, in current-day Germany.

Following their marriage, they were tenant farmers in a section of the Rhine Valley known as the Palatinate, on land owned by Egydius Sartorius.
Johann Adam Walborn was called a day-laborer at Wiesbaden in 1696, and a Hoffman in Schutzenhof in 1703, according to the Wiesbaden Churchbook.
In the summer of 1708, along with their five children, they began their immigration to America. They joined thousands of others who accepted Queen Anne of England's offer of transportation to America to establish a colony in New York.
They traveled down the Rhine River to Rotterdam, Holland, making many stops and taking considerable time. By the time they had reached Rotterdam, they were very short of provisions, and by the time they reached London, most of the families were destitute and entirely dependent upon the government.
Ten boats were filled with over three thousand fellow Germans, including the Walborn and Batdorf families.
They left England on Christmas day, 1709, and reached New York almost six months later in June of 1710. The voyage was longer because of crowding, foul air, insufficient food, and disease. Many died.
When they landed in New York, they set up and lived in tents they had brought with them from England. They remained until late autumn, when about 1400 of them moved a hundred miles up the Hudson River to Livingston Manor. (Today there is a town of Livingstonville in Schoharie County.)
At Livingston Manor, they were indentured to raise hemp and manufacture tar for England, to repay their expenses. When this enterprise proved unsuccessful, 150 families, including the Walborns and the Batdorfs, escaped the English oppression and lack of food in the autumn of 1712.
They moved about sixty miles northwest to Schoharie Valley to New Annsberg (sometimes called Schmidsdorf), having to pull their belongings on crude sleds through a forest and three feet of snow without horses or roadways. It took them three weeks to travel the sixty miles.
Johann served in the French and Indian Wars. He volunteered for the expedition against the French and served with General Nicholson at Montreal, Canada. On Jul 26, 1711, he was one of the Palatine Volunteers in the Annesbury and Queensbury Expedition against Canada.
In 1717, he had taken the Oath of Allegiance and was a volunteer from Annsburg, in what was called the East Camp, located on the east side of the Hudson River near the present site of Germantown, Dutchess County, New York.
He also fought in the defense of Albany, New York.
After living in Schoharie about ten years, 33 families of 150 people, including the Walborns and the Batdorfs, had their land and improvements taken away because of some land title defect. In the spring of 1723, they cut a road to the headwaters of the Susquehanna River and floated down the river on flatboats and canoes, driving their cattle along the banks.
In Pennsylvania, at what is now Middletown, in Dauphin County, they turned up the Swatara Creek and landed at their destination in the western part of what is now Berks County and the eastern part of what is now Lebanon County. Indians guided their journey and were their neighbors.
They settled along the Swatara Creek, about fifteen miles west of Reading in Tulpehocken in southeast Pennsylvania, and were listed as being there eighteen years later in 1741.
The children of Johann (Hans) Adam Walborn and Anna Elizabetha Zietz/Gietz were:
i Andreas David, b. ca. 1690, d. ca. 1717

  *ii    Christian Wilhelm, b Apr 1692, bap. Nov 27, 1692, confirmed in 1707, m. Catharina Elizabetha Batdorf on Dec 11, 1717, d. Dec 11, 1769

    iii   Maria Elisabetha, bap. Oct 25, 1696, confirmed Jul 19, 1710, m. Johannes Martin Batdorf (brother of Catharina Elizabetha Batdorf) on Jul 18, 1720, d. aft 1767

    iv   Anna Christina Elisabetha, b. Nov 24, 1700, bap. Jul 29, 1703, m. John George Loesch on Dec 15, 1721, d. Dec 17, 1782

    v    Johann Hermanus, b. Aug, 1707, bap. Jan 29, 1708, m. Maria Margaretha Feg on Jul 20, 1728, d. Jan 10, 1747

    vi   Maria Catarina, b. 1709, m. Peter Schell on Oct 6, 1730* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33593156/johann-adam-walborn Find A Grave Memorial] - [https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Sep 30 2019, 2:42:09 UTC''

* Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 9 2019, 17:11:40 UTC

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1st cousin of his 1st wife

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Johann Adam Walborn
BIRTH 1666
Germany
DEATH unknown
Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 33593156 · View Source

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Johann (Hans) Adam Walborn was born circa 1666 near Wiesbaden, present-day Germany, was confirmed in 1680, and died after 1741, probably in southern Pennsylvania in the Tulpehocken Valley Settlement along Swatara Creek.

He married Anna Elizabetha Zietz/Gietz on Feb 15, 1691, according to the Mosbach-Biebrich Churchbook, near Wiesbaden, in current-day Germany.

Following their marriage, they were tenant farmers in a section of the Rhine Valley known as the Palatinate, on land owned by Egydius Sartorius.

Johann Adam Walborn was called a day-laborer at Wiesbaden in 1696, and a Hoffman in Schutzenhof in 1703, according to the Wiesbaden Churchbook.

In the summer of 1708, along with their five children, they began their immigration to America. They joined thousands of others who accepted Queen Anne of England's offer of transportation to America to establish a colony in New York.

They traveled down the Rhine River to Rotterdam, Holland, making many stops and taking considerable time. By the time they had reached Rotterdam, they were very short of provisions, and by the time they reached London, most of the families were destitute and entirely dependent upon the government.

Ten boats were filled with over three thousand fellow Germans, including the Walborn and Batdorf families.

They left England on Christmas day, 1709, and reached New York almost six months later in June of 1710. The voyage was longer because of crowding, foul air, insufficient food, and disease. Many died.

When they landed in New York, they set up and lived in tents they had brought with them from England. They remained until late autumn, when about 1400 of them moved a hundred miles up the Hudson River to Livingston Manor. (Today there is a town of Livingstonville in Schoharie County.)

At Livingston Manor, they were indentured to raise hemp and manufacture tar for England, to repay their expenses. When this enterprise proved unsuccessful, 150 families, including the Walborns and the Batdorfs, escaped the English oppression and lack of food in the autumn of 1712.

They moved about sixty miles northwest to Schoharie Valley to New Annsberg (sometimes called Schmidsdorf), having to pull their belongings on crude sleds through a forest and three feet of snow without horses or roadways. It took them three weeks to travel the sixty miles.

Johann served in the French and Indian Wars. He volunteered for the expedition against the French and served with General Nicholson at Montreal, Canada. On Jul 26, 1711, he was one of the Palatine Volunteers in the Annesbury and Queensbury Expedition against Canada.

In 1717, he had taken the Oath of Allegiance and was a volunteer from Annsburg, in what was called the East Camp, located on the east side of the Hudson River near the present site of Germantown, Dutchess County, New York.

He also fought in the defense of Albany, New York.

After living in Schoharie about ten years, 33 families of 150 people, including the Walborns and the Batdorfs, had their land and improvements taken away because of some land title defect. In the spring of 1723, they cut a road to the headwaters of the Susquehanna River and floated down the river on flatboats and canoes, driving their cattle along the banks.

In Pennsylvania, at what is now Middletown, in Dauphin County, they turned up the Swatara Creek and landed at their destination in the western part of what is now Berks County and the eastern part of what is now Lebanon County. Indians guided their journey and were their neighbors.

They settled along the Swatara Creek, about fifteen miles west of Reading in Tulpehocken in southeast Pennsylvania, and were listed as being there eighteen years later in 1741.

The children of Johann (Hans) Adam Walborn and Anna Elizabetha Zietz/Gietz were:

i Andreas David, b. ca. 1690, d. ca. 1717

• ii Christian Wilhelm, b Apr 1692, bap. Nov 27, 1692, confirmed in 1707, m. Catharina Elizabetha Batdorf on Dec 11, 1717, d. Dec 11, 1769

iii Maria Elisabetha, bap. Oct 25, 1696, confirmed Jul 19, 1710, m. Johannes Martin Batdorf (brother of Catharina Elizabetha Batdorf) on Jul 18, 1720, d. aft 1767
iv Anna Christina Elisabetha, b. Nov 24, 1700, bap. Jul 29, 1703, m. John George Loesch on Dec 15, 1721, d. Dec 17, 1782
v Johann Hermanus, b. Aug, 1707, bap. Jan 29, 1708, m. Maria Margaretha Feg on Jul 20, 1728, d. Jan 10, 1747
vi Maria Catarina, b. 1709, m. Peter Schell on Oct 6, 1730

Family Members
Parents
Joachim Waldborn
1629–1689

Children
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Christian Wilhelm Walborn
1692–1769

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Anna Christina Elisabetha Walborn Loesch
1700–1782

Hermanus Walborn
1708–1747