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Vol. 2

Doc0194.pdf

Extract from Book:
Page 280:  "List of Foreigners Imported in the Ship Albany, Robert Brown, Master, from Rotterdam.  Qualified Sept. 2, 1749."
- Johannes Schimpf (Col. 2, Top)
Page 281: 
-  Alexander Klinger [first column 5th from bottom] - [cousin to Johannes I think]
-  Johannes Klinger [9th from bottom]

Page 280

Page 281

Original data: Daniel Rupp. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776. Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart & Co, 1898. Bk3394

Extract from DB:  "Johannes Klinger, name written by clerk" - Also listed: "Alexander Klinger", [cousin of Johannes, I think]

Extract from Book:
Page 193:
126) Sept 2, 1749. Wirtembergers from Erbach, - ship Albany, Robert Brown, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes. - 285 passengers (German below)
Page 194:
Johannes Schinf (Col. 1, Top)
Johannes Klinger (Col. 2, #9)
Alexander Klinger (Col. 2, #16)
J. George Folk (Col. 2, #12)

Page 193

Page 194

Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Volume 1, p. 395.
:The foreigners whose names are underwritten, imported in the ship Albany, Robert Brown, Master, from Rotterdam, bur last from Cowes in England, did this day take the usual oaths to the government. By the list 108. Number of Souls 285, from Erbach and Wirtemburg."

Johannes (O) Klinger

A few notes women and children took no oaths so their names weren't recorded that's why there's a list of 108 for a ship that held 285 people. Rotterdam simply means more of the ships registry (where they started). This ship sailed down the Rhine picking up passengers in Erbach and Wurttemburg. Cowes, England was where it last stopped for provisions before actually putting to sea. The "O" is parentheses above is how Johannes actually signed, those who could not write usually used an X, but O's also appear on the oaths fairly regularly.

Page 7:  "Between 1749 and 1751, three Klinger brothers and a cousin (Johannes)[1] emigrated, with their families, to Pennsylvania from Pfaffen-Beerfurth, Germany.. Alexander Klinger and his wife Elizabeth, along with a number of relatives, arrived in Philadelphia on September 2, 1749 aboard the "Albany."  He settled near Reading, PA, where he was later joined by his brother Johann Philip Klinger ("Philip")."

[1]  My emphasis

Parents:
Father: Johann Wilhelm Klinger b 19 Jul 1699 - Kirch-Beerfurth, Germany
Mother: Anna Catharine Heist - b 1 Apr 1708 - Pfaffen-Beerfurth, Oldenwald, Germany

Christina Elizabeth (Margaretha) Fuss ID0437
Born: 1730 in Shippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Died: 1793 in Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Children
Philip Klinger ID0420 - born 10 Nov 1754 - Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
John Klinger ID2275 29 Feb 1768 in Pikeland Township. Chester County, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Klinger - ID2272 - 1760 in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Catherine Klinger - IDID2273 - Bef 1762 in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Dorothy Klinger - ID2274 -1763 in Chester County, Pennsylvania

Johannes Klinger came to America on the ship Albany 2/9/1749 with
cousin Alexander Klinger (cousin through mothers Agatha and Anna
Catharine Heist); married Christina Fuss on 20/9/1753, daughter of
Nicolaus Fuss. Johanne's father died when he was eight months old
(Johann William) and his mother married Johann Jakob Gaertner.
Johannes left with his cousin Alexander Klinger from Wuertenberg,
Erbach, Germany to Rotterdam, Holland, and Cowes, England, and landed
at Philadelphia, according to Pennsylvania German Pioneers. He
settled near Yellow Springs, now Chester Springs, Pikeland Township,
Chester County. [Original Source: Klinger, Mary. The Klingers: From the Odenwald, Hesse, Germany, ca 1610-1989. Sacramento, Pennsylvania : M. Klinger, c1989. Bk2974, pg 10, 11.]

Johannes is buried with his wife, Margretha in the same grave at Vincent Reformed Church, both were of Lutheran faith....[Original Source: Fluck, Jonathan Lewis. A history of the Reformed churches in Chester County. Herald Printing and Binding Rooms, 1892 - Bk3319. Bk3319, pg 122.]