Nikolaus Leyenberger

1. Name: Nicholas LEYBERGER
2. Sex: M
3. Birth: 1707 in Germany
4. Death: in Frederick Co., MD
5. Note: The following was researched and written by Pat (Chiano) Smith.
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   Nicholas (immgrant) marriage in Hornbach Reformed Church in Brenschelbach. Brenschelbach is not longer on present-day German maps but in the 1700's it was in what today is southwestern Germany with France to the south, the Rhine River to the

   east and Saarbrucken to the west. Brenschelbach was thus in the lower part of Alsace which was part of Saarland. It in turn, was part of a broader region known as the Palatinate which encoompassed the whole of the Rhineland region including

   what is not part of Switzerland. Germany did not come into being as a separate nation until 1871, hence our Nicholas Lybarger in the 1700's were commonly referred to as Palatines.

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   When Nicholas (Nikolaus) left for America he and other emigrants were were embarking on a dangerous adventure. He may have had a son with him. His wife was likely with them but, like other female passengers, her name was not recorded on any of

   the captain's lists. In any event , if he was married at about age 20, in 1727 that would have put him at age 32 when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1739, the average age of most immigrants coming to America at the time. One of the best accounts

   of what Nicholas Leyenberger likely endured in making the journey is found in Gottfried Mittelberger's often cited Journey to Pennsylvania. In 1750 he followed the same route down the Rhine River to Rotterdam in Holland which took 7 weeks and

   then to England and from there to Philadelphia for a total travel time of 5-6 months. He chronicled his experiences in order to publicize the misery and sorrow he encountered and to thereby discourage his countrymen from leaving their homeland.

   What follows incorporates Mittleberger's account:

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   Nikolaus and his family probably began their migration from Brenschelbach in Feb or Mar of 1739 given that it would 5-6 months before they reach Philadelphia. Their journey began by boat down the Rhine River to Rotterdam together with many

   other German-speaking people amoung whom were Lutherans, Reformed, Mennonites, and Catholics. Tolls had to be paid to over 36 different customs houses which virtually left them impoverished. Upon reaching Rotterdam they were crammed cheek to

   jowl into a ship holding up to 600 passengers that took them to Deal, England where they boarded the ship "Snow Betsie" or Snow Bettsey. for the long and arduous journey across the ocean.

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2. Note: From "Pennsylvania German Pioneer", on Ancestry.com, the name of the ship was "Robert and Alice" belonging to Dublin.
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   From "Immigrants In Pennsylvania, 1727 - 1776": Nicklas Leyberger, name written by clerk. Sept. 3, 1739 . Palatines imported in the ship Robert and Alice, Walter Goodman , Commander, from Rotterdam , last from Deal .--Seventy-eight men,

   fifty-seven women and eighty-eight children--in all 213

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2. Note: There is a Nicholas Lybarger as one of the founding elders of what was then the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, now St Paul's English Lutheran Church. This may have been Nicholas Sr.'s son.
3. Change Date: 25 FEB 2004

Father: Benedikt LEYBERGER

Marriage 1 Mary Catharina

   * Married: 1727 in Brenschelbach

Children

  1. Has Children Nicholas LEYBERGER b: 1733 in Palatinate, Germany

  2. Has No Children Ludwig LEYBERGER b: ABT 1735 in Palatinate, Germany

  3. Has No Children John George LEYBERGER b: 13 JUN 1741 in Conewago, York, PA

Was born in Germany and brought over his wife Maria and two sons Ludwick and Nicholas around 1736-1740. Maria and Nikolaus were married in Brenschelbach Hornbach Reformed Church (Lutheran) in Saarland in the Palatinate around 1727

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