Johan Frederick Wentz, Sr

Frederick WENTZ SR the Immigrant
Came to America from Partenheim, Germany on the Ship Speedwell, landing in Philadelphia on Sept 25, 1749. Several years earlier two of his brothers, Valentine and Philip had come to America, landing also in Philadelphia on Sept 2, 1743. Frederick married a Margaret Miller, had 6 children (4 boys and 2 girls), farmed near Philadelphia and died March of 1768. These three brother came to America as a result of their uncle, Peter Wentz, who had settled near to Philadelphia in 1704 and eventually acquired upward of 3,000 acres of prime farm land near Skippack, in now Montgomery Co, but then yet a part of Philadelphia Co of PA.

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Frederick Wentz Sr. "came to America from Partenheim, Germany on the Ship Speedwell, landing in Philadelphia on Sept. 25, 1749. Several years earlier two of his brothers, Valentine and Philip Wentz, had come to America, landing also in Philadelphia, on Sept. 2, 1743. Frederick married a Margaret Miller, had 6 children (four boys and two girls), farmed near Philadelphia, and died on March of 1768. These three brothers came to America as a result of their uncle, Peter Wentz, who had settled near to Philadelphia in 1704 and eventually acquired upwards of 3,000 acres of prime farm land near Skippack, in now Montgomery County, but then yet a part of Philadelphia Co., of Pa."

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