Abraham Merckle

With family affairs in order, Abraham Merkle then immigrated in 1717 from Germany to America with his wife and 5 children, his married daughter with new son-in-law, and his brother Balthasar Merkle with his wife and 3 children.

Abraham arrived in Philadelphia without his wife and two of his daughters; Veronika, Katharine and Rosina apparently died en-route, possibly buried at sea.

Undaunted, Abraham quietly began integrating the Merkle Family line into the German community in Philadelphia County. The very next year, on November 15, 1718, Jost Hite was able to purchase 600 acres a few miles up Perkiomen Creek for the price of 125 pounds. Here, Jost built a grist mill just outside of present day Schwenksville. Abraham and his children connected with the family of the master linen weaver who had settled Germantown in 1685.

According to the Church Book of Bonfeld, Kingdom of Württemberg, Abraham and Anna Veronika Merkle (aka /Merckle /Markle /Markley) were the parents of thirteen children in Germany. Forty-four children are documented for the 1st Generation of family members that emigrated to America.

   The names of [Merkle] Family members used in the Profiles of Abraham and Anna Veronika Merkle and their children have been brought into alignment with the historic (German) Merkle Family Tree: 

"Stammtafel der familie Merkle; nach den Kirchenbüchern zu Bonfeld, Oberamts Heilbronn, königreich Württemberg, und denen zu Wimpfen, grossherzogtum Hessen (1886)." (see Descendants of Abraham Merkle, 1884)

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Stammtafel der familie Merkle (German)
http://archive.org/details/stammtafelderfam00mark

This is a supplement to H.S. Dotterer's Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack ... pub. 1884.

   Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 

http://archive.org/details/descendantsofjac00dott

   Source: S38 Abbreviation: Frey Journal Title: Jon Frye, Frye Family Association Journal. (4356 Chippewa Trail, Jamestown, OH 45335) Repository: #R1 Page: Vol. 3, Issue 2; Fall 2003. p.46 "Benjamin's Christina" by Charles J. Burgess

   Repository: R1 Name: My Files Address:

   Source: S4 Abbreviation: Ancestral File Title: Ancestral File, version 4.19 (2002), Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah. Available online at http://www.familysearch.org. Note: Highly inaccurate. Use as pointers to possible data only. Repository: #R4

   Repository: R4 Name: Online Address: Web Address: http://www.gentryjournal.org/index.htm

   Source: S84 Abbreviation: WorldConnect Title: WorldConnect database at Rootsweb. <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/> [This is the same file available from Ancestry.com Family Trees.] Note: Files are submitted by individuals. Research notes often included. Source data sometimes cited. Repository: #R1 Call Number: Copied webpage Data: Text: Lee Case <lease@deseretmail.com> GEDCOM download. 21 July 2000.

   Source: S89 Abbreviation: Palatine Families of New York Title: Henry Z. Jones, Jr., The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710 (Universal City, CA 1985) Note: Copies in my file sent by Hunterdon NJ Historical Society. Also in Birmingham Library. Repository: #R1 Call Number: F130 .P2 J66

   Source: S98 Abbreviation: German Origins of Jost Hite Title: Henry Z. Jones, Jr., Ralph Connor and Klaus Wust, German Origins of Jost Hite, Virginia Pioneer (Shenandoah History; Edinburg VA; 1979) Note: Copy of book owned by Hank Adams. Repository: #R1 

Arrived in American colonies 1717

GEDCOM Source

@R-2146910031@ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Yates Publishing Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv 1,7836::0 Source number: 20301.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: WAY. http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=826818&ti=0&in... Birth date: 1664 Birth place: Ge Marriage date: 1684 Marriage place: Ge 1,7836::826818

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@R-2146910031@ Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Gale Research Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passe 1,7486::0 Place: New York, New York; Year: 1717; Page Number: 8 1,7486::1719178

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GEDCOM Note

<p><Historie></p><p><p>Es existiert ein Stammbaum, der ab den Kindern von Abraham nach Amerika geht aus dem Internet, er liegt ausgedruckt bei Merckle Georg (Jörg). Kann irgendwann einmal verfolgt werden.</p><p>1717 nach Pensylvenia/USA mit Frau und 5 ledigen und 2 verheirateten Kinder ausgewandert (Daten über Frau Anne Schüßler, Bad Rappenau-Bonfeld, erhalten (aus Kirchenbuch Bonfeld).