Notes for Alexander I Zartman: Transcribed pages from Rufus C. Zartman's family history:
PART I
Alexander Zartman and Wife, Ann Catharina, Sons Jacob and Alexander
''People will not look forward to posterity who do not look backward to their ancestors."Edmund Burke
THE AUTHOR OF THIS WISE COMMENT was upright, conscientious, conservative, religious and profound. His character commands Universal Respect. He was born in Ireland in 1730, two years before our Zartman ancestors arrivedin America.
Many great things have had small beginnings. The giant oak grewfrom a tiny acorn. The mighty sea is an accumulation of little drops of water.From Alexander Zartman, Wife and two sons in this country has sprung forth afamily now located in forty or more States of our Union, from Massachusetts toWashington and from Florida to Alaska, and Canada, Mexico, Panama, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, and Africa. This mar-velous growth began in Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1728, four years, five months and twenty-two days before George Washington was born.
Alexander Zartman, my ancestor, and his heroic wife, Ann Catharina, and their sons, Jacob and Alexander II, seem like four giant pillars supporting a vast human superstructure the Zartman family now spread over such avast area.
ALEXANDER ZARTMAN AND ANN CATHARINA ZARTMAN and their son Jacob aged five years came from Germany in the summer of A. D. 1728. They are classified with thousands of other immigrants as coming from the Palatinate. It is more probable that they came out of the province of Wuertemberg. They came downthe River Rhine to Rotterdam, Holland, and from there, on June 22, 1728, via Cowes, they sailed for this new, faraway Western world. Their ship was a
p. 2 sailing vessel named Albany, and the master of it was Lazarus Oxman. Thisship was their home for seventy days. On or about 8/31/1728, the Albany came up the Delaware River and arrived safely in the port of Philadelphia, which wasthen a city forty-five years old. The Albany on this most important voyage brought over thirty adult male passengers. The total number, counting men, women and children, was about one hundred passengers. The names of the following males are on record. Ablin, Andrew Belitz, Lorentz Bengel, Johan Daniel Bergenstott, Jerig Fred Birbisdorff, George Frid. V. Bloemen, Jan Buch, HansGeorg Buegel, Georg Wendel Donbach, Hans Jacob Dubois, Conrad Eichelberger, Friederich Gertner, Georg Glasser, Johan Philip Hoth, Casper Kalb, Martin Kapling, Mathies Keil, Johan Carl Keim, Michel Motz, Hans Georg Mueller, Hans Riedt, Casper Rieger, Hans Jerick Scholler, Simon Shoman, Philip Shonfeldt, Johannes Stellfeldt, Heinrich Thoman, Philip Von Steysplatz, Frid Christof Weiess, Jacob Zartman, Alexander
Our Ancestor (Alexander Zartman) and the men who came with him on the good ship Albany qualified as American citizens on 9/4/1728, in Philadelphia. A law had been passed by the Provincial Council requiring every male immigrant, sixteen years of age and upwards, upon arrival at the port of Philadelphia, to appear before the Mayor or Court of the County and subscribe allegiance to King George II. This was done by Alexander Zartman. The oath of allegiance to which he and his fellow-voyagers subscribed was as follows:
"We, subscribers, natives and late inhabitants of the Palatinate upon the Rhine, having transported ourselves and families into this Provinceof Pennsylvania, a colony subject to the crown of Great Britain, in hopes and expectations of finding a retreat and peaceable settlement therein, do solemnlypromise and engage that we will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His present Majesty, King George the Second, and his successors, kings of Great Britain, and will be faithful to the proprietor of this Province; and that we will demean ourselves peaceably to all His said Majesty's subjects, and strictly observe and conform to the laws of England and of thi
Transcribed pages from Rufus C. Zartman's family history:
PART I
Alexander Zartman and Wife, Ann Catharina, Sons Jacob and Alexander
''People will not look forward to posterity who do not look backward to their ancestors."Edmund Burke
THE AUTHOR OF THIS WISE COMMENT was upright, conscientious, conservative, religious and profound. His character commands Universal Respect. He was born in Ireland in 1730, two years before our Zartman ancestors arrivedin America.
Many great things have had small beginnings. The giant oak grewfrom a tiny acorn. The mighty sea is an accumulation of little drops of water.From Alexander Zartman, Wife and two sons in this country has sprung forth afamily now located in forty or more States of our Union, from Massachusetts toWashington and from Florida to Alaska, and Canada, Mexico, Panama, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, and Africa. This mar-velous growth began in Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1728, four years, five months and twenty-two days before George Washington was born.
Alexander Zartman, my ancestor, and his heroic wife, Ann Catharina, and their sons, Jacob and Alexander II, seem like four giant pillars supporting a vast human superstructure the Zartman family now spread over such avast area.
ALEXANDER ZARTMAN AND ANN CATHARINA ZARTMAN and their son Jacob aged five years came from Germany in the summer of A. D. 1728. They are classified with thousands of other immigrants as coming from the Palatinate. It is more probable that they came out of the province of Wuertemberg. They came downthe River Rhine to Rotterdam, Holland, and from there, on June 22, 1728, via Cowes, they sailed for this new, faraway Western world. Their ship was a
p. 2 sailing vessel named Albany, and the master of it was Lazarus Oxman. Thisship was their home for seventy days. On or about 8/31/1728, the Albany came up the Delaware River and arrived safely in the port of Philadelphia, which wasthen a city forty-five years old. The Albany on this most important voyage brought over thirty adult male passengers. The total number, counting men, women and children, was about one hundred passengers. The names of the following males are on record. Ablin, Andrew Belitz, Lorentz Bengel, Johan Daniel Bergenstott, Jerig Fred Birbisdorff, George Frid. V. Bloemen, Jan Buch, HansGeorg Buegel, Georg Wendel Donbach, Hans Jacob Dubois, Conrad Eichelberger, Friederich Gertner, Georg Glasser, Johan Philip Hoth, Casper Kalb, Martin Kapling, Mathies Keil, Johan Carl Keim, Michel Motz, Hans Georg Mueller, Hans Riedt, Casper Rieger, Hans Jerick Scholler, Simon Shoman, Philip Shonfeldt, Johannes Stellfeldt, Heinrich Thoman, Philip Von Steysplatz, Frid Christof Weiess, Jacob Zartman, Alexander
Our Ancestor (Alexander Zartman) and the men who came with him on the good ship Albany qualified as American citizens on 9/4/1728, in Philadelphia. A law had been passed by the Provincial Council requiring every male immigrant, sixteen years of age and upwards, upon arrival at the port of Philadelphia, to appear before the Mayor or Court of the County and subscribe allegiance to King George II. This was done by Alexander Zartman. The oath of allegiance to which he and his fellow-voyagers subscribed was as follows:
"We, subscribers, natives and late inhabitants of the Palatinate upon the Rhine, having transported ourselves and families into this Provinceof Pennsylvania, a colony subject to the crown of Great Britain, in hopes and expectations of finding a retreat and peaceable settlement therein, do solemnlypromise and engage that we will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His present Majesty, King George the Second, and his successors, kings of Great Britain, and will be faithful to the proprietor of this Province; and that we will demean ourselves peaceably to all His said Majesty's subjects, and strictly observe and conform to the laws of England and of thi
Children of Alexander I Zartman and Ann (Anna) Catharina UNKNOWN are:
+Hans Jacob Zartman, b. 22 Sep 1722, Ittlingen, Baden, Germany, d. 11 Feb 1793, Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland, PA, USA.
Alexander I Zartman (b. Abt. 1692, d. 24 Dec 1762)
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