Johann Georg Bachman

George BACHMAN 2826

Birth1686, Richterswil, Canton Zurich, Switzerland1605, p. 182.

Christening2 May 1686, Richterswil, Canton Zurich, Switzerland1605, p. 49. As his authority, Baughman cites “Amt-Tåuferamt, Wiedertåuferen Gut” F III, 36b.14 ‘Rudolf Bachman von Richterswilerberg’ (Ledgers of Confiscated Property and Disbursements 1640-1678, Staatsarchiv Zürich, Switzerland) Age: <1

Residence1717 to 1752, Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania1605, p. 95. Age: 31

Death19 Nov 1753, Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania2825 Age: 67

BurialSaucon Mennonite Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania69, p. 102.

OccupationOwned Der Siebenstern tavern214

FatherJos BACHMAN (1657-1736)

MotherRegula TREICHLER (1646-1706)

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Bucks County, Pennsylvania - George Bachman along with his wife Anna Maria Schnebele led this Swiss Mennonite family from Richterswil, Canton Zurich via Ibersheim to Pennsylvania around 1717. Settling in Coopersburg, his eleven children were devoted to their religion and their families. George ran the Der Siebenstern, or Seven Stars, tavern and hotel. Among his descendants are his brave son, conscientious objector George Bachman and wife Esther Oberholtzer. Esther, along with Eve Yoder, petitioned for the restoration of household goods confiscated by local government officials in an overzealous patriotic fervor. Leon Borst has written a profile of Colonel John Siegfried, the Northampton County Sheriff who carried out the confiscations.

Franklin, Richland, and Columbiana Counties, Ohio - In the first decade of the nineteenth century, George's grandsons migrated west to Ohio. Henry Bachman became an Associate Judge in Columbiana County; Abraham Baughman and wife Mary Katherine Dietz or Deeds settled in Richland County. Patriot George Baughman and wife Barbara Steele raised their family of ten children in Franklin County. George Baughman qualified for a Revolutionary War pension of $30 per year. The George and Barbara Baughman Pension Application has been microfilmed by the National Archives and is available online by subscription to Footnote.com. These handwritten and contemporary documents provide an insight into their lives together and a glimpse into the birth of our nation. Daughter Susannah Baughman and husband John Agler remained in Franklin County, Ohio to raise their family of eleven children. Son Jesse Baughman also remained in Franklin County, founding the village of Bridgeport, which eventually became known as Gahanna. Jessie Baughman married first Catherine Turney and second Mary Alberry.

Logan County, Ohio - Samuel Baughman and wife Elizabeth Huffman relocated to Logan County, Ohio, where both are buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Jackson Township.

Auglaize County, Ohio - Henry Baughman and wife Mary Agler came to Clay Township in 1836 to raise their family of thirteen children. Their daughter Margaret Baughman later married Arthur Bitler; their son William Baughman married Mary Bitler. Their son, David Baughman and second wife Catherine Yike, settled in Roundhead, Hardin County.

Kalamazoo County, Michigan - George and Barbara's son David Baughman and wife Maria Canfield were married in Franklin County in 1825, but had relocated their family to Kalamazoo County, Michigan before 1850 according to some information. This has not yet been confirmed by this researcher.

Arrived in Pennsylvania in 1715. _______________________________________________________________ The Coopersburg Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.Portions of the text below were adapted from a copy of the original nomination document. [%E2%80%A0] Adaptation copyright © 2011, The Gombach Group.

Significance

The importance of Coopersburg, among the communities of Lehigh County, is several fold. It was one of the first villages to be settled, it was the only one to be founded by Mennonites, it soon became a center of cooperation among Mennonites, Moravians, Lutheran and Reformed people, it developed as an important way station on the major highway linking it with Allentown and Bethlehem to the north and Philadelphia to the south, and it was the only sizeable town In Lehigh County south of Lehigh Mountain.

Coopersburg was founded and grew along the south branch of Saucon Creek. The stream created a small valley as it flowed northward to join the main branch of the Saucon directly south of Friedensville. Coopersburg is surrounded by low lying hills to the west, south and east. Both valley and hills were covered with fertile limestone soil which attracted settlers as early as 1730. Geography thus made agriculture and transportation the two most important industries. Settlers, largely German, moved into Bucks County directly south of Lehigh Mountain, from 1730 onward, George Bachman, a Mennonite, took up 300 acres of land, on which Coopersburg evolved in 1737. It is likely that along the south branch of the Saucon and Indian trail extended southward from Lehigh Mountain to the Delaware River and with settlement became a crude road extending northward from Philadelphia to the foot of the mountain. As early as 1735 a King's Highway had been opened from the Goshenhoppen region across the mountain at Zionsville to the Macungie Plain in the Great Valley. This was about 10 miles west of Coopersburg. Incentive to open a similar road came with the peopling of the Great Valley between the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers, after 1730. The Bethlehem Pike which was opened from Philadelphia to Bethlehem in 1755 passed through the settlement forming on the land of George Bachman. Sometime between 1745-1750 he founded a hotel named Der Siebenstem (The Seven Star) located at the heart of present day Coopersburg. About his farm settled other farmers, and craftsmen like weavers, coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths and millers. In 1763 Upper Saucon Township had about 250 people. Farming exceeded other occupations by about 4 to 1 in the township. Around Der Siebenstem were built a log barn, a log store and a few log houses to shelter the tradesmen who served the drivers and passengers of wagons and stagecoaches which stopped at the hotel.

Three other families who made important contributions to Coopersburg appeared before 1800. Daniel Cooper who shortly after his arrival in Philadelphia in 1775, bought Der Siebenstem and surrounding land from the Bachmans. In 1800 he built a stone house and barn on his property. A second was Michael Landis who, in 1791, purchased a large tract east of Der Siebenstem through which, later was to be built the North Pennsylvania Railroad. A third was Joseph Frey, Jr., who settled in the village about 1800 and became prominent in politics, milling and distilling operations.

Birth: 1686 Zürich, Switzerland Death: Nov. 19, 1753 Coopersburg Lehigh County Pennsylvania, USA

Johann Georg Bachmann was born in Richterswil, Horgen, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.

He was the son of Jodocus Bachmann and Regula Treichler, and was baptized on 2 May 1686 in Richterswil.

He married Anna Maria Schnebelli in 1715 in Ibersheim, Worms, Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

In Aug 1717, he arrived in Philadelphia with his wife and infant son, Henrich. He traveled west and settled near present day Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Twp., Lehigh Co., PA.

On 4 Jun 1737, George received patent to his first property (tract No. 95, 334 1/2 acres). Eventually, George would own a total of 1000+ acres of land in Upper Saucon Township.

In 1738, George Bachmann, Samuel Bechtel and Philip Geisinger were the founding members of the Mennonite congregation established at Coopersburg.

In 1745, he opened an inn and tavern, "Die Siebenstern" (The Seven Stars), at the present site of Main and State Streets in Coopersburg, to accomodate the German Moravians heading for their new settlement at Bethlehem, seven miles further north up the trail.

George died in Upper Saucon Twp. (now Coopersburg), Northampton (now Lehigh) Co., PA.

He was buried at the old meetinghouse next door to his original property.

NOTE: Some researchers have indicated a birth date of 17 Jun 1685. This, however, seems unlikely given his baptism - which took place on 2 May 1686.

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NOTE: From a well-documented website with much research devoted to the Johann Georg Bachmann family:

Philip Ritter reports on his personal observations of the Bachman Coopersburg gravestone during a Summer 2005 visit thusly, "I managed to make a couple of visits to the Saucon Mennonite Church Cemetery . . . he did not die on "22 Nov." The stone clearly says "9ZZ Novr." I've seen 9th Nov given in some online databases and that was the first thought of our Swiss friends. But after more discussion they concluded that it must be "19th Nov." where the first Z stands for "zehn" (as in nuenzehn) and the 2nd for the ordinal, although I don't know how the -tel in nuenzehntel would come to be represented by a -z. Maybe it has something to do with Swiss German. At any rate he most likely died on the 19th of Nov or [but] possibly the 9th.

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Father of: - Heinrich (1717-1792) - Hans Jacob (1720-) - Catarrina Clemens (1722-1810) - Hans Georg (1724-1806) - Christian (1727-1783) - Maria Magdalena Geisinger (1729-1785) - Elisabeth Schwartz (1732-1812) - Johannes (1735-1805) - Samuel (1739-1814) - Susanna (1742-) - Abraham (1744-1825)

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Spouse:

 Anna Maria Schnebelli Bachmann (1698 - 1776)

Children:

 Catarrina Bachman Clemens (1722 - 1810)*

 Christian Bachman (1727 - 1783)*

 Maria Magdalena Bachman Geisinger (1729 - 1785)*

 Elisabeth Bachman Schwartz (1732 - 1812)*

 John Bachman (1735 - 1805)*

 Samuel Bachman (1739 - 1814)*

 Abraham Bachman (1744 - 1825)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Saucon Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery Saucon Valley Lehigh County Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: Law-Miller Roots Record added: Apr 17, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 35985570

Mennonite Family History, Volume XI, Number 1, January 1992 1536 Froschauer Bible with Schnebelli-Bachman family Records, on file Lehigh County Historical Society

1717 Immigration: [228] "On 15 August 1717, a ship under the command ofCaptain Richmond arrived in Philadelphia with 150 Palatines aboard. Among them were more Mennonites from Ibersheim, including Hans Georg Bachman,his wife and their one-year-old son Heinrich. Also aboard were Hans and Martin Br, Jacob Bhm, Hans Brubaker, a Brachbill, a Langenacker, and a Schnebelli."

Naturalized Jan.9,1729

He established Hotel der Sieberstern,(The Seven Stars) now the Fire House in Coopersburg at the corner of present day Main and State Streets.

The Lenn-Lanape Indians kept a village known as "Skakunk" or Sa-ku-wit, meaning "Mouth of the creek". The swiss named this general region " Der Grosse Sumpf". Eventually the Bachman land became known moe specifically as " Saucon".

"The Will of Johann George Bachman can be found in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Will Book K, page 179. It was written on 15 Oct 1753 and presented to the court in Philadelphia on 29 May 1754. He leaves all his remaining real and personal properties to his wife Anna Maria. He had already distributed land and monies to his married children. To his remaining minor sons, John, Samuel, and Abraham, he asks that his wife distribute land when they reach 21 years of age. Money is left to daughter Susannah upon her eighteenth birthday (as has gone to all his daughters). He states that should any of his children dispute his will that they be proclaimed disobedient and that the remaining estate be sold. He further leaves money to the poor of his congregation. The will was signed George Bachman and witnessed by Jacob Musselman, George Acherman, and John Hooker. The will was undisputed. It should be notedthat he named his wife as Executrix and his son Henry, friend Abraham Clemens and friend John Joeder, Jr., as overseers.

From Phil Ritter, A quick comment on the spelling and pronunciation of the Baughman name. My understanding is that the original spelling for most Baughmans was "Bachman." This is certainly true for my ancestors. Johann Georg Bachman was born in either Switzerland or Germany (of Swiss origin) in 1686 and his family was probably Mennonite. He and his wife are buried in the Saucon Mennonite Cemetery, but some of their children were baptized in the Tohican (sp?) Reformed Church. One of his sons (Samuel) went south into TN and the descendants have retained the Bachman spelling (Nathan Bachman was a U.S. senator during the New Deal). My ancestors went west through Ohio and by at least 1803, the spelling Baughman was being used in official records. Apparently some descendants then changed the pronunciation of the name to better match the spelling! I have been told by distant cousins that some pronounce it Bow-man, and others even Buff-man, the latter particularly in areas where there were Bowmans present, in order to make a distinction. My branch retained the Bock-man pronunciation which is probably closer to the original German (the ch in German is between a k and an h, like a k but with no stop). On my grandmother's death certificate, someone first wrote "Bochman" (probably based on phonetics), crossed it out, and then wrote Baughman.

The earliest known of our family line in this country was Georg Baughman. The Bachman (Baughman) is of German derivation and refers to one who dwells at or near a creek or stream. Georg was purported to be of the Swiss branch of this Germanic clan. The fact that the old family Bible in which are listed the children of Georg Baughman came from Switzerland would certainly tend to bear this out.

It is not known when Georg came to this country. However, being of Swiss Mennonite background, certain speculation can be made as to why and approximately when he came. In the early sixteenth century the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland spawned what was known as the Anabaptist movement. This Protestant sect derived its name from the doctrine that once an individual understood the Scripture, he would be directed by it. Since only an adult could have such an understanding, adults must be baptized again into the church, and infant baptism was rejected. Anabaptists rejected "the oath and use of the sword" and thus would neither serve in government where they were required to take an oath of allegiance nor fight in war. They also practiced the "Meidung" or avoidance, which required total ostracism from the society of those who "fall into error or sin". In 1526 the city of Zurich imposed the death penalty on all those who were even known to associate with Anabaptists and for the next two centuries they were harshly persecuted. The organized church persecuted them for what was maintained as the heresy of their insistence on individual self direction of faith and worship. The state also persecuted them for their rejection of civil magistracy and for their total pacifism.

Finally, during the years shortly after 1672 over seven hundred of the Anabaptists, who were by this time also known as the Swiss Brethren, were expelled from Switzerland and migrated to the Palatine area of Germany. Our Georg Baughman was probably a part of this migration as an infant during the late 1680's. Then after a sojourn of twenty to thirty years, these same people began to hear of the promise of religious tolerance and freedom in the New World. Many immigrated to the Colony of Pennsylvania around the year 1715 and it is with these our Georg probably came to this new country. We do know Georg Baughman was naturalized as early as 1729 and his name was Anglicized to George.

It must be mentioned at this point that the old family tradition espouses that our original Georg came to this country in the company of and as the private secretary of the famous British founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn. However, research has proven this extremely unlikely as Penn's second and last visit to Pennsylvania was in 1699 when Georg would have been but thirteen years of age. Georg is not listed as passenger on Penn's ship nor is it reasonable that he would be Penn's secretary at that age. There was also nothing among any of Penn's records to substantiate his having a secretary or associate of any kind named Baughman. Another tradition also holds that one of the Bachman descendants was one Lieutenant Bachman who is listed as being killed with the Swiss Guard who died in defense of King Louis XVI at the Tuileries during the French Revolution in 1792. The Lieutenant's name is inscribed in the stone statuary known as the "Lions of Lucerne" in that city. However, in view of the long history of total pacifism of our Anabaptist-Swiss Brethren-Mennonite ancestral line, it is equally unlikely that this mercenary pugilist shares our line. As both of these stories are so widespread, it is necessary that their impracticality be brought to light.

Records show that Georg Baughman first acquired land in the Coopersburg area of Bucks County, later Northampton County, in the Colony of Pennsylvania as early as 1735. Some 334-½ acres of land described as tract number 95 were warranted to him in 1735 and later patented on June 4, 1737. County land records also list the following subsequent acquisitions: May 2, 1739 - 30 acres; June 5, 1739 - 80 acres; July 18, 1740 - 103 acres; and another 110 acres also on July 18, 1740. Finally, in 1742 he acquired tract number 34 of 40 acres, another 38 acres, and also tracts number 11, 23 and 29. By this time Georg's land holdings totalled almost 1,000 acres.

In 1742 Georg was one of the early settlers who petitioned that his area be made a township. He followed this as one of those who petitioned to erect Upper Saucon Township in March 1743. The word Saucon comes from the Indian "sak-unk" meaning "at the place of the creek's mouth." Georg was certainly true to the meaning of the Baughman name, being "one who dwells at or near a creek or stream. Then, about 1745 George opened a hotel in Coopersburg known as "Der Siebenstren," translated "The Seven Stars.

Georg Baughman died in 1753 at the age of sixty-seven and was buried at the neighboring meeting house. His immediate descendants seem to have held sole possession of the original Baughman tract until the close of the eighteenth century.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35985570

Johann Georg Bachmann was born in Richterswil, Horgen, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.

He was the son of Jodocus Bachmann and Regula Treichler, and was baptized on 2 May 1686 in Richterswil.

He married Anna Maria Schnebelli in 1715 in Ibersheim, Worms, Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

In Aug 1717, he arrived in Philadelphia with his wife and infant son, Henrich. He traveled west and settled near present day Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Twp., Lehigh Co., PA.

On 4 Jun 1737, George received patent to his first property (tract No. 95, 334 1/2 acres). Eventually, George would own a total of 1000+ acres of land in Upper Saucon Township.

In 1738, George Bachmann, Samuel Bechtel and Philip Geisinger were the founding members of the Mennonite congregation established at Coopersburg.

In 1745, he opened an inn and tavern, "Die Siebenstern" (The Seven Stars), at the present site of Main and State Streets in Coopersburg, to accomodate the German Moravians heading for their new settlement at Bethlehem, seven miles further north up the trail.

George died in Upper Saucon Twp. (now Coopersburg), Northampton (now Lehigh) Co., PA.

He was buried at the old meetinghouse next door to his original property.

NOTE: Some researchers have indicated a birth date of 17 Jun 1685. This, however, seems unlikely given his baptism - which took place on 2 May 1686.

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NOTE: From a well-documented website with much research devoted to the Johann Georg Bachmann family:

Philip Ritter reports on his personal observations of the Bachman Coopersburg gravestone during a Summer 2005 visit thusly, "I managed to make a couple of visits to the Saucon Mennonite Church Cemetery . . . he did not die on "22 Nov." The stone clearly says "9ZZ Novr." I've seen 9th Nov given in some online databases and that was the first thought of our Swiss friends. But after more discussion they concluded that it must be "19th Nov." where the first Z stands for "zehn" (as in nuenzehn) and the 2nd for the ordinal, although I don't know how the -tel in nuenzehntel would come to be represented by a -z. Maybe it has something to do with Swiss German. At any rate he most likely died on the 19th of Nov or [but] possibly the 9th.

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Father of: - Heinrich (1717-1792) - Hans Jacob (1720-) - Catarrina Clemens (1722-1810) - Hans Georg (1724-1806) - Christian (1727-1783) - Maria Magdalena Geisinger (1729-1785) - Elisabeth Schwartz (1732-1812) - Johannes (1735-1805) - Samuel (1739-1814) - Susanna (1742-) - Abraham (1744-1825)

  - From Find A Grave 

Johann Georg Bachmann was born in Richterswil, Horgen, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.

He was the son of Jodocus Bachmann and Regula Treichler, and was baptized on 2 May 1686 in Richterswil.

He married Anna Maria Schnebelli in 1715 in Ibersheim, Worms, Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

In Aug 1717, he arrived in Philadelphia with his wife and infant son, Henrich. He traveled west and settled near present day Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Twp., Lehigh Co., PA.

On 4 Jun 1737, George received patent to his first property (tract No. 95, 334 1/2 acres). Eventually, George would own a total of 1000+ acres of land in Upper Saucon Township.

In 1738, George Bachmann, Samuel Bechtel and Philip Geisinger were the founding members of the Mennonite congregation established at Coopersburg.

In 1745, he opened an inn and tavern, "Die Siebenstern" (The Seven Stars), at the present site of Main and State Streets in Coopersburg, to accomodate the German Moravians heading for their new settlement at Bethlehem, seven miles further north up the trail.

George died in Upper Saucon Twp. (now Coopersburg), Northampton (now Lehigh) Co., PA.

He was buried at the old meetinghouse next door to his original property.

NOTE: Some researchers have indicated a birth date of 17 Jun 1685. This, however, seems unlikely given his baptism - which took place on 2 May 1686.

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NOTE: From a well-documented website with much research devoted to the Johann Georg Bachmann family:

Philip Ritter reports on his personal observations of the Bachman Coopersburg gravestone during a Summer 2005 visit thusly, "I managed to make a couple of visits to the Saucon Mennonite Church Cemetery . . . he did not die on "22 Nov." The stone clearly says "9ZZ Novr." I've seen 9th Nov given in some online databases and that was the first thought of our Swiss friends. But after more discussion they concluded that it must be "19th Nov." where the first Z stands for "zehn" (as in nuenzehn) and the 2nd for the ordinal, although I don't know how the -tel in nuenzehntel would come to be represented by a -z. Maybe it has something to do with Swiss German. At any rate he most likely died on the 19th of Nov or [but] possibly the 9th.

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Father of: - Heinrich (1717-1792) - Hans Jacob (1720-) - Catarrina Clemens (1722-1810) - Hans Georg (1724-1806) - Christian (1727-1783) - Maria Magdalena Geisinger (1729-1785) - Elisabeth Schwartz (1732-1812) - Johannes (1735-1805) - Samuel (1739-1814) - Susanna (1742-) - Abraham (1744-1825)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 12 2018, 13:45:36 UTC

The Life Summary of Johann Georg When Johann Georg Bachmann was born in 1686, in Richterswil, Zürich, Switzerland, his father, Jodocus Joseph Bachman, was 29 and his mother, Regula Treichler, was 40. He married Anna Maria Schnebeli in 1715, in Ibersheim, Worms, Rheinhessen, Hesse, Germany. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 19 November 1753, in Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, at the age of 67, and was buried in Lehigh Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LL9B-4V9/johann-georg-bachman...