Thones Kunders, Original 13 Families of Germantown, PA

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Thones Kunders was one of the original settlers of Germantown. In 1683 his and 12 other families emmigrated from Krefeld, Germany and settled in the region they named Germantown. Kunders was a dyer by trade and lived until 1729.
While Kunders is significant in his role as an early settler, his home holds its own story in the history of Germantown and of the United States. The Germantown Society of Friends held their first meetings in Kunders's house. The members of the society were Quakers and Mennonites. At this time some Quaker families in Germantown decided to practice slavery. This concerned several members of the Society as even before the 17th century slavery was considered (at least by some) morally wrong. On February 18, 1688 the first protest against slavery in the new world was drafted in Kunders's house.

The protest was written by Francis Daniel Pastorius. The four signers, including Pastorius, opposed the importation, sale, and ownership of slaves. The protest contains powerful statements of this sentiment such as, "...we shall doe (sic) to all men like as we will be done ourselves; making no difference of what generation, descent or colour they are." The content of the protest is shown below.
Modern readers may find some of the spelling a bit peculiar. This is partly a result of changes in the English language since 1688. Partly, though, the spellings are, in fact, mistakes as Pastorius and the other signers were of German descent. They spoke German originally and not English. Even then, English was the predominant language of the colony of Pennsylvania, and so, Pastorius struggled to draft the document in the less familiar language.

This protest became the first step in the fight against slavery in America. This fight continued throughout the history of America, ultimately leading up to the Civil War. It is a fight which is deeply-rooted America's history, and it all began in the modest house of Thones Kunders. The house no longer stands, but today a marker stands on this historic site at 5109 Germantown Ave. The original copy of the protest has not survived but a full-size photograph of it and the table on which it was signed can be seen in the Germantown Mennonite Meeting House.

"Among the first Germantown settlers was Thones Conrad. The first religious meeting of the Quakers, in that place, was held at his house in 1683. He was a hospitable, well-disposed man, of an inoffensive life and good character. He died in the year 1729.

Thones Kunders married Magdalen Tyson,

Thones Kunders married Magdalen Tyson, 31 Mar 1677 in Krefeld. This is a matter of record there...since there have been so many spellings of these families, maybe we can agree ultimately and speak with the same voice -Thones Kunders' sons spelled their names, in their own handwriting: Cunraed Cunraeds, Madtis Conders, John Cunrads, and Henry Cunred. Subsequent generations are found with varied spellings, some correct, others not. --p 18 in the cited book of the last e-mail says that Barbara Tyson was the daughter of Reynier Tyson. WRONG. She was the daughter of Cornelius Tyson. She was the wife of Madtis Conders, aka Mathias Kunders, etc. Madtis and Barbara named their first son Anthony and the second Cornelius. --pp 79-85 discusses the STREEPER family which has nothing to do with KUNDERS other than Thones Kunders' daughter Ann married Leonard Streeper. Ann's mother, we know now, was a TYSON, not a Streeper --Deed Book G-11 which refers to "Thomas" Kunders was obviously a typo or error in transcription. It should have read "Thones" and was perhaps misunderstood. --the second son of Thones Kunders, Madtis, or Mathias, was named for his maternal grandfather, Theiss Doors--but will not go into the naming customs here. - Erik Conard. We do not know for sure where they are buried. Old Judge Conrad's 1891 book claims they were buried perhaps in NJ at Haddonfield. Current thought is that they are in the old Germantown Burying Ground. -Erik Conard, referring to Thones and Magdalen The protest was not a speech. It was submitted to the Monthly Meeting at Rigert Worrell's house by Gerret Hendricks, Derick and Abraham Updegraph, and Francis Daniel Pastorius who wrote it at a meeting at Thones Kunders' house. - Protest against Slavery. This comment was submitted by Eugene Stackhouse. -- There is a historical marker at the site of Kunder's home at Wister and Germantown which was erected in 1988. Copyright 1991 by the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of PA "Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; A Biographical Dictionary" Volume One 1682-1709 by Craig W. Horle, Jeffrey L. Scheib, David Haugaard, Joy Wiltenburg, Marianne S. Wokeck, Joseph S. Foster, Rosalind J. Beiler. Sponsoring Institutions: Center for Public Policy, Temple University; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; House of Representatives, Commonwealth of PA; Library Company of Philadelphia; Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies. Published by UPP Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. Pastorius and [Abraham] op den Graef were the only two Germantown residents who served as assembly men in the colony's first three decades, perhaps a commentary on the fact that they may have been the only settlers from Germany who spoke English well. Their provincial political careers were also short-lived, occurring between 1687 and 1692; presumably, their broader appeal to the Philadelphia County electorate may have ceased as both became involved with the government of the newly-incorporated Germantown and when Pastorius sided after 1692 with the anti-Keithians and op den Graef with the Keithians. In 1688 both men had signed the first known protest of Pennsylvania Quakers against slavery, an unpopular position.6

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, ===
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Dennis Kunders
Year: 1709
Place: Philadelphia CO., Pennsylvania
Family Members: Son Matthis; Son Cunrad; Son John
Source Publication Code: 6664.11
Primary Immigrant: Kunders, Dennis
Annotation: Date and place of naturalization. Extracted from records in the Division of Archives and Manuscripts at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission located in the William Penn Memorial Museum and Archives Building in Harrisburg, PA. Colonial Records
Source Bibliography: [PENNSYLVANIA COLONY.] Abstracts of Pennsylvania Records of Naturalizations, 1695-1773, Found in Colonial Records (Minutes of Provincial Council), Volumes 1, 2, 3, 9, & 10, Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania, Volumes II, III, IV, VI, VII, & VIII, and Pennsylvania Archives, Series 1, Volumes 1, 3, & 4. York, PA: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, 1983. 24p.
Page: 3

Name: Dennis Kunders
Year: 1709
Place: Germantown, Pennsylvania
Family Members: Son Conrad; Son Matthias; Son John
Source Publication Code: 926.26
Primary Immigrant: Kunders, Dennis
Annotation: Date and place of naturalization. Some of those listed were Quakers and Mennonites who refused to take the naturalization oath by swearing.
Source Bibliography: BREITBARD, GAIL. "1709 Germantown, Pa., Naturalizations." In The Lost Palatine, no. 6 (1982), pp. 3-4.
Page: 3

The Original 13
...Was the number of German immigrant family groups that were counted on the ship called: "Concord". These 13 families were german settlers, whose most noted stop on their long journey was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania... after which a part was designated to become their new home...Germantown.

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The 13 counted families that boarded the Concord departed from London on July 24, 1683, and arrived safely in Philadelphia on October 6 1683 and are among the passengers listed below:

Lenert Aratts (Arents)

Elizabeth Bennett, servant to James Claypoole

Johannes Bleikers

James Claypoole and wife Helena and seven children

Edward Cole, Jr., servant to Claypool

William Hard

Peter Keurlis

Thones Kunder

Hugh Lamb

Jan Lensen

Jan Luykens

Hugh Masland and wife, servant to Claypoole

Abraham Op Den Graeff

Derick Op Den Graeff

Hermann Op Den Graeff

Jan Siemes

William Streypers

Leonard (Ryner/Rynier)Teison (Tyson)

Abraham Tunes

Cicely Wooley, servant to Claypoole

From "William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania", by William I. Hull, Ph.D., F.R. Hist.S., Genealogocal Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1970 (no longer in print) Submitted by Susan Hunsicker.

July 9, 1673 Amish, "Friends", Baptized

July 9, 1673 Amish, "Friends", Baptized in Gloch Sailed on Concord to Pennsylv ania in 1683.[New Cunard.ged] July 9, 1673 Amish, "Friends", Baptized in Gloch Sailed on Concord to Pennsylv ania in 1683.
Germantown Settlement History extract
Until William I. Hull proved that most of the original (1683) families were an interrelated group of Quakers, it had been assumed that the group was Mennonite. But since only one family (Jan Lensen) o

Guide Book to Historic Germantown, 1902,

Guide Book to Historic Germantown, 1902, page 31 & 41: One of original settlers of Germantown, house at 5109 Main St., Phila. 1st meetings of the Soc. of Friends in Germantown were held here. PA Quakers did own slaves. It was from members of this little meeting that a public protest against slavery was issued as early as 1688. Thones Kunders (Dennis Conrad) was a dyer by trade. He died in the fall of 1729. He was the ancestor of the Conard & Conrad families. Sir Samuel Cunard, founder of the Cunard Steamship Line, is among his descendants.

!FAMILY RECORDS OF JESS V. AMBLER,DESOTO

!FAMILY RECORDS OF JESS V. AMBLER,DESOTO, TEXAS. ALSO MAY HAVE BEEN KNOW AS ANTONIS COENEN HECKERS LENSEN. HIS FATHER CONRAD (OR COENEN) LENSEN-- MOTHER ANTGEN (ANNA) THONIS.

1653

1653

Some have his name as Dennis; Informati

Some have his name as Dennis; Information from a book in the Greene County Public Library , Xenia, OH shows the name as Thones; also the manifest o f his arrival from a book at Sioux Falls Public Library, S oiux Falls, SD The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, Passengers and Ships P rior to 1684 page 96 shows him arriving on 6 July 1683 on t he Concord Batch #: 1760801, Source Call #: Batch #: A537203, Source Call #: 537203, 537204, 537216, 53 7217,537218 Batch #: 1760973, Source Call #: NAME VARIATION: Thones Or Dennis /KUNDERS OR CONRAD/ Thones /KUNDERS OR DENNIS/ Thones Dennis /CONRAD OR KUNDERS/ Alt Birth: 1648 Crefeld, , , Germany BIRTH: Crefeld, , ,Germany or Prussia Alt Birth: Abt 1653 Neuwerk, Honschaft Damm, Munchen-Gladba ch, Rhineland Alt Death: Dec 1729 Germantown, Worcester Twp., Philadelphi a, PA Ordinances: SS 12 Feb 1992 in OGDEN Ogden, UT also. Alt Birth: 1648 Neuwerk, Honschaft Damm, Munchen-Gladbach , Prussia Alt Death: 1729 Germantown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania

On July 24, 1683 German emigrants set s

On July 24, 1683 German emigrants set sail on the good ship "Concord". There were thirteen men with their family from Crefeld.

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The parents of this fam. were born in Ge

The parents of this fam. were born in Germany, and came to Am. in 1683, their children and desc changed their name to Conrad

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- passengers of ship Concord 1683 - https://www.geni.com/projects/Passengers-of-the-ship-Concord-1683/33583 - [- 6. Tönes Coenen-Heggers wife Lentgen (Matteis-Doors), about 33 and children: Conrad, Matthias, Agnes, and Entgen. Variant spellings of the surname: Kunders, Conradts, and Hekkers.

Concord was the name of the ship that carried the first German immigrant group from Europe to America, composed of 13 Mennonite-Quaker families of Krefeld. In 1681, William Penn, an English real estate entrepreneur, received a large grant of land from King Charles II. This grant included present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware. Penn, a Quaker, chose to draft a charter of liberties for his colony guaranteeing free and fair trial by jury, freedom of religion, freedom from unjust imprisonment, and free elections. The colony was to be a refuge for Quakers who were facing persecution. James Claypoole, a London businessman and Quaker who knew William Penn, purchased 5,000 acres of land in the new settlement and chose to move his family and business to America. For the move, Claypoole contracted with William Jefferies, master of the English schooner called the Concord, a 500 ton ship measuring 130 by 32 feet. The ship left Rotterdam on 6 July 1683 and arrived in Gravesend. Here twelve fellow Quakers (many who were former Mennonites) and one Mennonite with their families from Krefeld, 33 persons in all, made their way to Gravesend to join the Claypoole family on the voyage. The Concord left London, England on 24 July 1683 and arrived in the port of Philadelphia on 6 October after a voyage of 75 days. Here the German immigrants were greeted by a German lawyer, Franz "Francis" Daniel Pastorius, a close friend of Willian Penn. He had arrived in Philadelphia earlier in August to help prepare for the arrival of the Concord. Pastorius assisted the newcomers in establishing the Germantown Mennonite Settlement. Although the Concord carried a complement of 40 crewmen and 120 passengers, these are the family heads recognized as constituting what has become known as "The Thirteen" (in alphabetical order):] - Record & history of Tönes , age 33, wife Lentgen & children
- Legacy NFS Source: Tones Thones Kunders Konders - Ralph L. Coleman, Jr., GEDCOM file imported on 30 Dec 2001. (3415 Harrison Blvd #36
Ogden, Utah 84403-1266) - [- Copied from GEDCOM files created from my previous records, compiled
1955 - 2001.] - Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246612209
- Legacy NFS Source: Thone Kunders - International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of July 14, 2007, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA - Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2198981292
- Thones Kunders house and his role in an anti-slavery protest - US history website - http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/lower/kunders.htm - Shows kunders house site and explains his role in an early protest against slavery.
- Toenis Kuners, "Germany Marriages, 1558-1929" - "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JHQQ-225 : 11 February 2018), Toenis Kuners and Lentgen Matteisen, 20 Jun 1677; citing Evangelisch, Krefeld, Rheinland, Prussia; FHL microfilm 174,469. - [- This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.]
- Legacy NFS Source: Tones Thones Kunders Konders - Ralph L. Coleman, Jr., GEDCOM file imported on 24 Mar 2000. (Ralph L. Coleman, Jr.
Ogden, Utah
2000) - Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246612208
- U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s - Place: Germantown, Pennsylvania; Year: 1709; Page Number: 3 - http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7486&h=1023843&indi...
- Text of Dennis Cunrad's will - City of Philadelphia, Register of Wills Office - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B2-P3F7-B?i=468 - [- Will of Thones Dennis Cunrads
In the Name of God. Amen
I Dennis Cunrads of Gerntown in the County of philad.a in the province of pensilvania being not
of perfect health of body but of Sound & perfect mind & memory praise be therefore given to
almighty God.
I make & Ordain this my Last Will & Testament in manner & form following (that is to say) first &
principally I Commend my soul into the hands ofAlmighty God hoping through the meritts of
Jesus Christ to have full & free pardon of all my sins and to guh-ritt(?) Everlasting Life & my
Body I Committ to the Earh to be decently Buried at the Discretion of my executors hereafter
named And as to nthing ffiz Disposition of all such Temporall Estate as it hath pleased God to
bestow upon me I Give & Dispose thereof as followeth
Imprimis It is my Will that all my just Debts & funerall Charges be paid & Discharged.
Item I give & Bequeath unto (my son in Law) Griffith Jones the Dwelling house wherein I & the
said Griffith Jones now Dwell & the Lott thereunto belonging containing fifty acres of Land
together with the Barns Stables Orchards Outhouses stills (& Dying Shuttle) Worms & Worm
Tubs thereunto belonging to have & to hold the said Land with the premises & appurtences
thereunto belonging to him the said Griffith Jones his heirs & assigns To the only proper use &
Behoof of him the said Griffith Jones his heirs & assigns forever.
Soe the said Griffith Jones finding & allowing Anthony Looft [?] now Living with me Sufficient
meat Drink Washing Lodging & Apparell so Anthony Looft shall Live and it is my will that my
said Son in Law Griffith Jones pay for the said Land & premises the Sum of One hundred & fiftie
pounds of Lawful money of pensilvania after the death of the said Anthony Looft the said One
hundred & fifty pounds to be equally divided amongst my Children that is to say Cunrad
Cunrads Mathias Cunrads John Cunrads Henry Cunrads Ann Sharpers Agnes Powell &
Elizabeth Jones cash to have an equall Shareofthe Remaind of my said Estate to them in
Severalty & to them & assigns for Ever.
Lastly I do hereby nominate constitute & appoint my said Son Cunrad Cunrads & my said Son in
Law Griffith Jones to be joint Exets of this my Last Will & Testament hereby Revoaking
Disannulling and making void all former Wills & Testaments by me made/
In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal this nineteenth day of June in the year
of our Lord 1722:
Be it known that before the delivery and Sealing hereof I give & Bequeath to my abovenamed
Son in Law Griffith Jones the used furniture standing in the new Room to be for the use of
friends
Witness my hand and seal the Day & year above written. Dunnis Cunrads (S:S)
Sealed Signed published and Declared in the presence of us Peter Shoemaker Dirk Jansen
David Socy
Philad.a December December 30th 1729: Then personally appeared Peter Shoemaker & Dirk
Jansen in Two of the Witnesses to the within Written Will & on their Solemn Affirmations
affirming to Law did Declare they saw & heard Dennis Kunders the Testator within named sign
seal publish & declare the same Will to be his Last Will & Testament & that at the doing thereof
he was of Sound mind, Memory & understanding to the best of their knowledge
Be it Remembered that on the 30th Day of December the Last Will & Testament of Dennis
Kunders Dec'd was proved in due form of Law & probate & Letters Testamentary were granted
unto Cunrad Cunrads & Griffith Jones the Exec.es therein named having first Solemnly affirmed
according to Law well & truly to admin. the said decds Estate and bring an Inventory thereof into
the Register Generalls Office at philad.a at or before the Thirtyeth Day of January next and also
to render an account when thereunto lawfully given under the seal of the said Office.] - Text of entire will
- Thones Kunders, "Find A Grave Index" - "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVX-RDX7 : 13 December 2015), Thones Kunders, 1729; Burial, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Germantown Preparatory Meeting of Friends Cemetery; citing record ID 11544394, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- Legacy NFS Source: Thone Kunders - Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA - Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2198981253
- Legacy NFS Source: Tones Thones Kunders Konders - birth: 1653; - GEDCOM file submitted by OldPreSep2009Files, rlcolemanjr a hotmail.com. Imported on 28 September 2009. - [- birth: 1653;
death: December 1729; Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States] - Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246612207
- Legacy NFS Source: Thone Kunders - International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of July 20, 2007, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA - Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2198981404
- Dennis Konders land records 1702, 1704 Philadelphia - Old Phila. Land Records: Book 20, vol 68, page 267- [1702]
Old Phila. Land Records: Book 20, vol 68, page 263 [1704]

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Pennsylvania State Archives

RG-17
Records of the Land Office
PHILADELPHIA OLD RIGHTS (INDEX), 1682-1745. series #17.79

• Images of Each Index Page* - http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-79OldRightsIndexPhila... - [- Warrant to 275 acres of land in Philadelphia, March 19, 1702

Warrant to 275 acres of land in Philadelphia, September 6, 1704]
- Will of Dennis Cunrads - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9B2-P3F7-B - [- Will of Dennis Cunrads naming his son-in-law Griffith Jones and his children Cunrad Cunrads, Mathias Cunrads, John Cunrads, Henry Cunrads, Ann Sheepers, Agnes Powell, and Elizabeth Jones.] - The will of Dennis Cunrads names many of his children.

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