Johann Freidrich Schneider ⁹²

  General Notes:

Per Ivana Erney

Brøderbund WFT Vol. 16, Ed. 1, Tree #2134, Date of Import: 5 Jun 1999]

From: "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America"
Came to America on the "Robert and Alice" 11 September 1738, with his brother Johan Nicholas and his uncle Johannes. His brother Johannes came in 1741 on the "Lydia".

From Broderbund Banner Blue, WFT Vol. 1 #5027
From the "Ancestral History of Yost Snyder":
"Johan Nicholas Schneider, Johan Friedrich Schneider, and Johannes Schneider, presumably brothers, arrived in Philadelphia 11 Sept 1738 on the ship 'Robert and Alice. They settled in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Their birth dates are not known but they were apparently young adults when they arrived."
"They may have come from the same general area as other Germans in Lehigh County of whom James Hauser wrote in 1920, 'More than three-fourths of the inhabitants of the county are German, or their descendants, and the localities in which they lived were generally named in honor of the fatherland, as Hanover, Heidelberg, Weisenberg .... They speak a dialect of the German language which is akin to the language of their forefathers who came from the Palatinate...."
"Frederick, as stated above, arrived in Philadelphia on 11 Sept, 1738 and settled near Egypt, Pa. He married Anna Maria Saeger, daughter of Johan Nicholas and Anna Barbara Saeger of Whitehall Twp. Anna Barbara was born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany in 1721 and came to America in 1733 with her parents."
"Frederick and Barbara were married in 1740 and lived in Heidelberg Twp, Lehigh co. (In 'The Saeger Family, Elizabeth Saeger Daniel places the family in Northampton County, which would be true until 1812, but the area is now called Lehigh County)."
"The family moved to Heidelberg Twp after the baptism of two children at ERC; see p 6. Heidelberg Twp is just NE of North Whitehall Twp. Frederick was one of the contributors when the first Heidelberg Church was built in 1744-45."
"He took out land warrants for a total of 294 acres in Pleasant Corner which is near the Lowhill Twp line. In 1769 he was listed as one of the first members of Lowhill Church. The church is still there, on Pa. Rte 100, near Pleasant Corner. The Blue Mountain range, a part of the Appalachian Mountains., and the
Appalachian Trail are just north of this area."
"Frederick was on the 1772 tax list but not on later lists. He may have died about this time. No death record located for him or his wife, Anna Maria (Saeger)."

From: "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace" p. 13
The 1738 emigration year was terrible in the number of deaths at sea. It is estimated that 35% of the emigrants died at sea. On one ship, the "Charming Nancy" 250 died at sea and only 65 survived.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 8 Sep 1715. ⁹²

Johann married Anna Maria Saeger in 1740 in , Lehigh Co, Pennsylvania.⁹² (Anna Maria Saeger was born on 6 Aug 1720 in Reichenbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany ⁹² and died in 1790 in Whitehall Twp, Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania ⁹².)