Johann Georg Ludwig Zeh or See

George (Johann)Ludwig SEE (ZEH) was born about 1689, Silesia, Germany and died Aug 1751, Augusta County, Virginia. Johann Ludwig Zeh was his birth name and he was known as George See after migration to America.

• parents: Johannes SEE (ZEH) (~1672-1750) Anna Magdalena (1672-1750)

Spouses

1. Margaret TSCHUDI (JUDY) Death 1758, Hampshire County, Virginia Marriage abt 1710, Germany (Palatinate region) or New York

Children

1. Frederick Michael (~1710-1763)
2. Elinor (Eleanor) (1712-1782)
3. Margaret (1725-1815)
4. Michael Adam (1726-1795)
5. George (~1732-<1811)
6. Elizabeth (1734-1811)
7. Barbara (~1739-)
8. Mary Magdalena
9. Simon
10. John Berent

Notes for George (Johann)Ludwig SEE (ZEH) George and Margaret See (Zeh) are believed to have emigrated to America in 1710 during the first Palatine migration to America as did George’s parents. George and Margaret’s first son, Frederick Michael, was probably born on the journey to America. The couple and their first child are believed to have spent the winter of 1710 through the summer of 1711 along the Mohawk river in New York Colony in a place called Livingston Manor. About 1718 they moved to Schoharie, New York. In 1728, along with about 33 of the other German Palatine families, they left New York Colony and moved to Tulpehocken Colony in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The family remained there, according to family tradition, until about 1740-45 when they migrated to the South Branch of the Potomoc river valley in what was then Augusta County, Virginia. They were, along with Michael Ernst Harness, Sr. and his family, a part of the Pennsylvania German migration to that area. Somewhere between Harness’s land and Petersburg was where George See and his family settled.

The migration of the See family in colonial America closely paralelled that of the Harness family, and the families became not only friends, but there was more than one intermarriage.

NOTE: Sara E. Patton, a family researcher in Virginia, noted in 1997 that “Pennsylvania German Pioneers, a publication of the original list of arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1717 to 1808” lists a Johan Ludovick Seys (also written as Johann Ludwig Sees and John Ludwig Seess as arriving on the Pennsylvania Merchant from Rotterdam on Sept. 18, 1733. Ms. Patton said that is the same date and ship that other family historians had previously cited, but somehow the name Johan got changed to George.

George (Sr.) died sometime before Nov 15, 1752 when the appraisal of his estate was returned and recorded by the Augusta County Court. The surveyors were “John Coningham, Daniel Richason, and Henry Kearr” (Augusta Will Book 1, p.457). Last Modified 24 Jul 2005Created 29 Jul 2007 using Reunion for Macintosh Contents · Index · Surnames · Contact · Web Family Card

There is a possibility this individual migrated to the United States

prior to 1710. A George Zeh was listed in rupps on pg. 448 as

number of males 21 in 1710-11 in Livingston manor, N.Y. Also

on pge 465 of this book it says 33 families of Germans who came

in New York in 1710 settled in Schoharie and George Zeh's

name was on this list, as well as listed on the membership in

Tulpehocken church in 1743-46. At George See's death his son

Frederick See qualified as administrator of his father's estate

according to Chalkeys records which showed Frederick

administered his brother's John's estate in 1756 at the time ofhis

death. Little was known of this family until this time