Jacob Speidel

Citat från "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9HRW-DNM : accessed 2014-03-13), entry for (Johan) Jacob Speidel:

"John Jacob Speidel, the ancestor of all the people who spell their name Speidel, Speidell, Spidell, Spydell, Spidel or Spidle and whose origin is Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, arrived in Halifax on the ship Pearl, 13 Sep 1751, out of Rotterdam, 2 Jul 1751. On the sailing list of the Pearl his name is written Jacob Spydell, age 30 years, home The Palatinate, 1 man, 1 woman, farmer. (The "y" with two dots above the name is the same as "ei".) On the Indebtedness List it appears that he signed his own name, Jaocb Speidel, but it was probably written by a clerk as he did not sign his name to his will in 1792 but made his "x" only. His age as given was incorrect. The record of his burial in Zion Lutheran Church, Lunenburg, March 6, 1801, gives his age as 77 years. Jacob, as he was always called, was accompanied by a woman when he sailed from Rotterdam. We assume she was his wife, but there is no record of her being in Halifax and there is no record of her burial there so that she must have been one of the many who died at sea. In any case we find this entry in the records of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax. "June 23, 1752 John Jacob Speidell, widower, married Magdalena Eisenhauer, spinster." The Eisenhauer family also arrived on the ship Pearl in 1751. Magadena's burial record is in the High-German Reformed Church, Lunenburg. Jacob was granted a lot of land in Dartmouth H-10. In June 1753, he and his wife along with other Foreign Prtotestants were moved to their new home at Lunenburg. In Dec. 1753, we find Jacob Spidell in Samuel Zouberbuhler's Division, with grave danger of Indian attack. In 1753-54 he received land grants, and in 1754 he received 5 sheep, one sow, and one goat. His livestock needs were met in 1756 as he took part in a Cattle Expedition to Grand Pre. In St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, we find the baptism of the first Speidel child born in Canada (9 Oct 1754 Anna Barbara). When the High German Reform Church was formed in 1770, Ja cob and Magdalena attended there and had one child baptised there in 1772. The Eisenhauers were Calvanists, but Jacob was a Lutheran. "