Johann Philip Steffan

(Burial location unknown -- Muddy Creek was where he and his family were repeatedly documented.) Johann Philip Steffen (c.1704-c.1765), Annamaria Barbara (Herzog) and their sons George and Lorentz arrived at Philadelphia on board the St. Andrew in Sep. 1737. In the late 1740s he married a Magdalena who bore several more children, and finally he married a Dorothy in the 1750s that probably didn't produce progeny. Guardianships for his children were established on Mar. 5, 1765 and proceedings took place in Orphans Court in August 1766.

No burials have as yet been discovered for the generation of the patriarch's children and very few for that of his grandchildren. The earliest date from the 1820s-1840s and tend to be great-grandchildren who died young. Most of the burials that remain undiscovered probably were at Muddy Creek, where the family was repeatedly documented well into its third generation.

NOTE WELL: During this family's first two generations the surname is extraordinarily unstable. The German would be Stephan or Steffan, but it can be found as Steffen, Stephen, Steven, Stevens. Towards 1800 it is in a process of transition to Steffy, Steffe, Steffey, but the older forms still recur especially with German scribes.

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Johann Philip Steffen (c.1704-c.1765), Annamaria Barbara (Herzog) and their sons George and Lorentz arrived at Philadelphia on board the St. Andrew in Sep. 1737. In the late 1740s he married a Magdalena who bore several more children, and finally he married a Dorothy in the 1750s that probably didn't produce progeny. Guardianships for his children were established on Mar. 5, 1765 and proceedings took place in Orphans Court in August 1766. No burials have as yet been discovered for the generation of the patriarch's children and very few for that of his grandchildren. The earliest date from the 1820s-1840s and tend to be great-grandchildren who died young. Most of the burials that remain undiscovered probably were at Muddy Creek, where the family was repeatedly documented well into its third generation.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steffan-98

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181707829/johann-philip-steffan

NOTE WELL: During this family's first two generations the surname is extraordinarily unstable. The German would be Stephan or Steffan, but it can be found as Steffen, Stephen, Steven, Stevens. Towards 1800 it is in a process of transition to Steffy, Steffe, Steffey, but the older forms still recur especially with German scribes.

GEDCOM Source

@R200287808@ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s 1,7486::0 Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1737; Page Number: 109 1,7486::3365515

GEDCOM Source

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