Johann Peter Troxell, I

Peter Traschel

• Sex: M
• Birth: 1691 in Lenk, Switzerland
• Death: 1766 in Frederick Co., Maryland
• Baptism: 6 NOV 1691 Lenk, Switzerland
• NATU: 10 APR 1742 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania
• Father: Jakob Traschel b: 1652 in Lenk, Switzerland
• Mother: Margaretha Brengel
• Marriage 1 Juliana Catherina Frauhuger b: 1703. Married: ABT 1723 in Katzenthal, Alsace, France

Family

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Children

1. Peter Troxell b: 28 DEC 1723 in Katzenthal, Alsace, France
2. Daniel Troxell b: 1726 in Katzenthal, Alsace, France
3. David Troxell b: 27 JUL 1734 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
4. John Troxell b: 1736 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
5. Christian Troxell b: 17 MAR 1738/39 in Eygpt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
6. Juliana Margaretha Troxell b: 17 MAR 1738/39 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
7. George Frederick Troxell b: 1741 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania
8. Margaretha Troxell b: 25 OCT 1744 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania

Sources:

Title: Troxel(l) Trails and Tales

Author: Richard M. Troxel

Publication: Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1997

Note: This book is the revised and expanded edition of Troxel(l) Trails published in 1977.

Repository:

Note: Personal library

Media: Book

Page: p. 2-3, 4-7

Text: Peter Traschel and his wife Juliana Catherina, age 30, along with two sons, Peter and Daniel, ages 9 and 7, immigrated to America in the ship Samuel of London under the command of Hugh Percy, Master, from Rotterdam, late of Deal. They landed in Philadelphia on 17 August 1733.

AST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF PETER TROXELL ( B. 1691) FREDERICKS COUNTY, MARYLAND- BOOKOF WILLS - LIBER A NO. 1, PAGES 213 & 214 DIED APRIL 16, 1766 FREDRICK CO. MARYLAND PAGES 213 " IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN THIS 16TH DAY OF APRIL ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND 66. I, PETER TROXELL, OF FREDERICK COUNTY IN PROVINCE OF MARYLAND OF PERFACT MIND AND MEMORY THANKS BE GIVEN TO GOD THEREFORE, CALLING TO MIND THAT IT IS APPOINTED FOR ALL MEN ONCE DIE, DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, THAT IS TO SAY PRINCIPALLY AND FIRST OF ALL, I GIVE AND RECOMMEND MY SOUL INTO THE HANDS OF GOD THAT GAVE IT TO ME; AND FOR MY BODY I RECOMMENED IT TO THE EARTH TO BE BURIED IN A CHRISTIAN AND DECENT-LIKE MANNER, AT THE DISCERTION OF MY EXECUTOR. NOTHING DOUBTIMG BUT AT THE GENERAL RESURRECTION I SHALL RECEIVE THE SAME AGAIN BY THE MIGHT POWER OG GOD, AND AD TOUCHINH SUCH WORLDY ESTATE WHEREWITH IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO BLESS ME IN THIS GIVE DEVISE AND DISPOSE OF IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER AND FORMS. IMPRIMIS, IT IS MY WILL AND I DO ORDER THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE ALL MY JUST DEBTS AND FUNERAL CHARGES BE PAID AND SATISFIED.

ITEMS, I GIB=VE AND BEQUEATH TO JULIANAH CATHERINATH ONE GIN AND ONE BED BESIDE HER THIRD OF MY MOVABLE ESTATE.

ITEMS, I GIVE MY WILL AND I DO ORDER MY SONS FREDRICK AND JOHN TO BE MY EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS OF MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

ITEMS, IT IS MY WILL THAT IF I SHOULD DIE BY ONE OR THE OTHER OF MY CHILDREN, THAT THE SAME SHALL RECEIVE BEFORE ANY DIVISION; AND I DO HEREBY UTTERLY DISALLOW, REVOKE AND DISANNUAL ALL AND EVERY OTHER FORMOE TESTAMENT, PAGES 214 WILLS, LEGACIES, AND EXECUTORS BY ME IN ANY WAYS BEFORE THIS NAMES. WILLED AND BEQUEATHED, RATIFYING AND CONFIRMING THIS NO OTHER TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. IN WITHNESS WHEROF I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THE DAY AND YEAR ABOE WRITEN. PETER TROXELL (SEAL)

WITHNESS: PHILIP KINGENSMITH ADAM RYDENOWER PEWTER SCHAEFER

ON THW 8TH DAY OF MY MAY 1776, CAME THOMES SCHELY BEFORE ME THE SUBSCRIBER AND MADE OATH ON THE HOLY EVANGELISTS OF ALMIGHT GOD, THAT HE TRANSLATED PETER TROXELLS WILL FROM ATHE DUTCH LANGUAGE INTO THE ENGLIGH LANDAGUES ACCORDING TO BEST OF HIS WILL AND KNOWING AND THAT IT IS NEAR IN SUBSTANCE & FORM AS POSSIBLY CAN BE TRANSLATED. SWORN BEFDORE H J BOWLES DY COMMY ON THE 6TH DAY OF MAY _______, CAME PHILP KLINGENSMITH ADAM RYDENOUR & PETER SCHEAFER THE TREE SUBSCRIBING WITHENESSES TO THE FOREGOING WILL & MADE OATH ON THE HOLY EVANGELISTS OF ALMIGHT GOD THA THEY DID SEE THE TESTOR PETER TROXELL SIGH AND SEAQL THE TESTAMENT, AND THAT AT THE TIME OF HIS SO DOING HE WAS THE BEST OF THEIR APPREHENSION OF A SOUND AND DISPOSING MIND AND MEMORY AND THAT THEY SEVERALLY SUBSRICBED THEIR NASMES AS WITHNESS TO THE SAID WILL IN THE PRESENCE OF THAT SAID TESTOR AND IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER. SWORN BEFORE T. BOWLES OF FREDRICK COUNTY

BEFORE COMMING TO AMERCIA, PETER HAD MIGRATED TO FRANCE WHERE HE MET AND MARRIED. JULIANNA CATHERINA TRAUTHAGER, DAUGHTER OF JHANNES HANS AND BARBARA(JAGGI) TRAUTHAGER. PETER AND HIS WIFE, ALONG WITH THEIR TWO SONS, PETER(2) AND DANIEL, AGES 9 AND 7 RESPECTIVELY, IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA ON THE SHIP THE SAMUEL OF LONDON UNDER THE COMMAND OF HUGH PERSY, MASTER FROM THE ROTTERDAM, LATE OF DEAL

UPON LANDING AT PHILADELPHIA, PA. ON AUGUST 17 1733, PETER AND HIS FAMILY PROCEEDED TO EGYPT IN BUCKS COUNTY (THAT PART TO BECOME WHITE TWP. NORTHHAMPTON COUNTY IN 1752, AND LEHIGH COUNTY IN 1812).

Source; https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/o/w/Lou-Bowman-IL/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-...

The Troxell family arrived in America from what is now western Germany in 1733. John Peter Troxell, also known as Johan Peter Trachsel, acquired 410-acres of property along Coplay Creek, Egypt, Pennsylvania in 1748 and built his home in 1756.

In 1768, he sold the house and 410-acre property to Peter Steckel and moved to Gwynned Township, Philadelphia County, and eventually settled in Frederick County, Maryland.

The Steckel family owned the property for the next 140 years until 1906, when Albert Steckel sold the home to someone outside the family. It was used as a rental property until December 6, 1941, when the Lehigh County Historical Society was given the house and 24 acres of ground by a Steckel family descendent.

The Troxell-Steckel House is one of the oldest structures in Lehigh County and an excellent example of German medieval style architecture brought to eastern Pennsylvania by German settlers. The home has been renovated and is open to the public for tours and events.

Emigrated to America on ship "Samuel" of London under the command of Hugh Persey, Master from Rotterdam, late of Deal. They were included in the passenger list of "Palatines, 89 males above 16, 86 females, 54 males under 16, 62 females under 16--in all, 291". Among those on the ship's manifest appeared the names "Peter Drachsel, above 16, Peter and Daniel Drachsel, under 16". Upon landing at Philadelphia, PA, on August 17, 1733 (four years earlier than his brother John), Peter and his family proceeded to Egypt in upper Lehigh Co., in the township of Whitehall. Little is known of Peter and his family during their stay here. The Egypt Reformed Church, founded in 1734, carried records referring to Peter as a Censor in 1736 and as a Deacon in 1737. Peter and Juliana had a number of children of which eight are recorded. Except for Peter (2) and Daniel, who emigrated with their parents, all the children were born and baptized in Egypt. Peter's (1) name appears in the church records at Egypt until 1744.

Peter(1) was apparently a man of some means, owning during his lifetime in Egypt and Lehigh Co. between 800 to 1600 acres of land there. During his short stay at Egypt he secured, on Oct. 15, 1737, his first Warrant of 300 acres. He took the sacrament of naturalization 9 Mar 1741, and 19 Apr 1742, was naturalized in the Supreme Court of Philadelphia.

On 16 Apr 1743, Peter (1) made application for a Warrant at the land office at Philadelphia to acquire a tract of land located in the Lower Jordon Valley, on the Jordon River, a fertile land similar to that which he had known as a boy in his native Switzerland where agriculture was the primary vocation. This parcel, 305 acres, 35 perches, was purchased 10 Nov 1743 from Casper Wistar, the bill of sale being made in 1742. A considerable length of time transpired from the date of the Warrant in 1743 until the Patent was granted on 3 Apr 1782, but in those days this was not uncommon. The date and land office index number are recorded on file in the land office now located in Harrisburg, PA. The following is the description, courses and measurements of this tract a as recorded under Warrant #D-13-199, Patent #P-1-179:

"Begin at a post thence N 10 E 181 perches; N 80 W 286 perches; S 10 W 181 perches; S 80 E 286 perches; to the place of beginning. Called Troxelburg." Lower Jordon Valley, Pennsylvania German Settlement, published by the Lehigh County Historical Society, Volume 18, 1950, pg. 32.

This new home site of Peter and his family was approximately 5 mile from their old home at Egypt. Peter and his family were among the first settlers of the Jordon Valley, their antecedents being: John Eastman, 1734; Nicholas Kern, 1737; Godfred Knauss, 1737; William Allen, 1738; Lawrence Good (Guth), 1741; and Casper Wistar, 1743, the same year as Peter.

On a location 1/4 mile downstream from the stone bridge at "Troxell's Crossing," and to the south of and within a few hundred feet of the Jordon River, on gently sloping ground and at near the edge of the Jordon flood basin, stands a remarkable memorial to Peter Troxell, the emigrant.

The story goes that the Indians would burn the lands south of the Jordon Creek, chasing the wild game across and through the gap in the mountains, where the Indians would wait in ambush to make their kill for their meat supply. When the settlers came to this valley they gave the creek the name of Jordon as it flowed through a country, the south of which was like the desert of Petrea and north was the fruitful country of Palestine.

Here in 1744, he and his sons built a substantial dwelling, 35 x 25 feet, 2 1/2 stories high, with an adjoining Kitchen 20 x 23 1/2 feet in size. The walls were constructed 20" thick. this house, contrary to the normal log cabin construction usually built at this time by the settlers, was built primarily for the use of Peter's family but proved in time to be a haven of many purposes. During the French and Indian War the settlers took refuse therein to escape the marauding Indians. Church meetings were held here, and at one time it served as a tavern (by Peter (2) in 1761). It is interesting to recall the time of the building of the house. Old-timers related that while the construction was going on, Indians sat on the hillside opposite the river and watched the proceedings, Peter and his sons never knowing if they would attack.

Upon visiting the location described above, one can still see this fine old house, still standing in its original form. It is believed to be the oldest house in Lehigh County. The Troxell's lived in the home until 8 Apr 1854 at which time it was secured by the Minnich family. They resided there as owners until about 1950, at which time the house and property it is situated upon, plus adjoining tract, were purchased by Trojan Powder Company of Allentown. The Minnich's made repairs to the house as they were needed during their reign as owners and the Trojan Powder Co., along with interested individuals, continued the maintenance until today it stands in as good condition as it was the day it was built. Present plans are for the house to be maintained as a historical site and monument of our forbearers. The validity of the date of construction is borne out by the fact that when the large hearth was removed in the kitchen for repairs in 1910, the mantel piece was found to be inscribed with the figures " 1744".

The last known date of Peter (1) living in the house was 12 Jan 1754, the day that he mortgaged the house and property to Lynford Lardner for L294. Records indicated that soon after this date Peter moved to Fredricks Co., MD where he died in April, 1766, at the age of 75 years. His oldest son, Peter (2) assumed the mortgage on the old home and lived there for a number of years.

Little is known at this time of the disposition of the real estate that Peter held in and around Egypt, however evidence is present that some of his heirs held title to portions of these lands, and in one case it is believed that his brother, Hans John, who emigrated to America in 1737, secured some of the property.

Johannes Peter Trachsel BIRTH 6 Nov 1691 Switzerland DEATH 6 Apr 1766 (aged 74) Frederick County, Maryland, USA BURIAL Jordan United Church of Christ Cemetery Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90206942/johannes-peter-trachsel

Johannes Peter was the husband of Juliana Catharina (Trauthager) Fraudhueger

He was the son of Jakob Trachsel and Margaretha (Brengel) Trachsel

He was born in Lenk, Canton of bern, Switzerland

Children Photo Peter Johannes Trachsel 1723–1811

Photo Christian Troxell 1739–1814

Photo Mary Margaret Troxell Wotring 1744–1814

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Troxel-161
• Troxel, Richard M.; Troxel(l) Trails and Tails, a revised and expanded edition of Troxel(l) Trails (1977); (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1997).