Johannes Siegfried, I

Children mentioned:

1. Maria Elisabeth m. Johannes "John" Rothermel
2. Joseph Joseph Siegfried
3. John Johannes Siegfried, II
4. Catherine Catharine Magdalena Romig m. Frederick Romig Johann Friederich Romig
5. Susan Susanna Maria LeVan m. Daniel Levan Daniel LeVan, Jr.
6. Magdalena Magdalena Fischer m. Anthony Fischer Anthony Fisher
7. Anna m. Jacob Fischer
8. Margareth Margaretha Moss m. Jacob Moss Jacob Moss.

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He came to America sometime after 1710 and before 1720. Birthplace per Rich Siegfried . He settled first around Oley in Philadelphia Co (now Berks Co), and then in the early 1720s moved to the Maxatawny area of Berks Co.

Leon Borst has a lot of info on this family. Ancestor of Bob Hewitt and Jane Green

Per Leon: Johannes Siegfried was the progenitor of the Siegfried Family in Maxatawny, Pennsylvania. He had 600+ acres of land in Maxatawny when he died in Dec 1747 and his will left 1/2 the land to son Joseph and 1/2 the land to son John. The will also provided for his widow, Elizabeth, and for his six daughters, the youngest of whom were Anna and Margaretha.

Per Leon: They were Mennonites and lived in Oley, Philadelphia Co. (now Berks Co.) before moving to Maxatawny, Philadelphia Co. (now Berks Co.).

From "Pennsylvania Archives" (Series 2, Vol 19): "9b'r 1724, John Sigfrid requests the grant of about 300 acres of land above Oley when it is to be granted", but he never received, via warrent/patent, the 300 acres he requested. [9b'r is an abbreviation for November, the ninth month in the Julian calendar, which was the official calendar in use in Colonial America until 1752.] On Mar 7 1732, he purchased 294 acres in Maxatawny (land he was probably living on when he made his request in 1724) from a land speculator, Casper Wister, who received a Patent for 2,000 acres on Apr 13 1730. [The heirs of William Penn "purchased" this land from the Indians on Sep 7 1732.] He later purchased more land adjacent to the 294 acres.

From Dori Coplien: "John Siegfried, brother of Joseph, and co-founder of the Siegfried family in Maxatawny township, died late in the spring of 1746. His widow, Elizabeth, made her last will and testament, June 17, 1766, and she died between that date and the filing of her will, Nov. 10, 1767. She designated her son, Joseph Siegfried, and her trusted and esteemed friend Sebastian Zimmerman as her executors. The children mentioned in the will were : Joseph; Margaret, m. to Jacob Moss, of Lynn township, Lehigh County; Catherine, m. to Frederick Raumich; Susanna, m. to Daniel Levan; Elizabeth, m. to John Rothermel; Magdalena, m. to Anthony Fisher; and Anna, m. to Jacob Fisher (Deisher, will has Teisher)." Note: Johannes Siegfried, Jr., was not named in the will because he had died the previous year.

However, Morton Montgomery's "History of Berks County" was wrong about Johannes and his sons Johannes and Joseph. Per Leon Borst: Montgomery for his 1809 publication, apparently didn't know that Johannes (the father of Joseph and John) was the founder of the Siegfrieds in Maxatawny (or in fact, that he even existed).

Per Leon Borst: "To date, no one knows where or when Johannes and his wife Eliaabeth were born (Switzerland and Germany are "probabilities" -- people speculate that they were born in the 1690's since that would put them in their 20's when their first known child, Catharina, was born in 1719). Nor do we know when and where they were married or Elisabeth's maiden name. Any dates or "facts" you see without qualification prior to the 1719 record of their daughter's birth are pure speculation. Also, Catharine wasn't born in Oley Township, Berks County, Pa. as many people write. She was born in Oley (an area quite a bit larger than present day Oley Township), Philadelphia County (present day
Oley Township was officially formed in 1740 and this area of Philadelphia County became a part of Berks County when Berks was established in 1752). And Johannes Siegfried did not move to Maxatawny Township. He moved from Oley to an area the Indians called Mach-set-hanne (Bear's path creek) and I believe he moved there in 1724 -- eight years before the Penns "purchased" the
land from the Indians in 1732. When Johannes died in Dec of 1747, he left half his 600+ acre farm in Maxatawny Township (became a Township in 1742)to son Joseph and half to son Johannes (John)."

Facts about this person:

Emigration Abt. 1715

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