William B. Rittenhouse

William B Rittenhouse

• BIRTH 28 Nov 1691
• DEATH 8 Aug 1767 (aged 75) Rosemont, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
• BURIAL Prallsville Cemetery Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA

Biography

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14077675/william-b-rittenhouse

Also Rittenhousen.

Born 1695/6 in Cresheim (now Mt. Airy), Germantown Twp (now in City of Philadelphia), Philadelphia Co, PA. Died in Rosemont, Amwell (now Delaware) Twp, Hunterdon Co, NJ.

Father Gerard/Gerhard/Garret Rittenhouse/Rittinghausen, b 1674. Mother probably Margaret Ann Revacomb/Rubicam. (???)

Gerard [SIC: William] may have had a wife, previous to Catharine Howell, by whom he had sons

• Garrett (1721-1797),
• Abraham (1723-1815),
• Jacob (1725-1811), and
• Henry R. (1732-1815).

Notice that these sons' birth years would overlap with those of his children by Catharine Howell.

In addition to the four linked below, William and Catharine had these five children:

• Priscilla (1719/20 - bef 18-Oct-1757) m. Christopher Search
• Moses Hemphill (1722-1774) m. Mary Unknown
• Susannah Sarah (abt 1727 - ?) m. Justus Wilhelm Rubenkam
• Hannah (abt 1729 - 19-May-1798) m. A. H. Dalrymple
• Anne (abt 1731 - ?)

Origins

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95816107/gerhard-rittenhouse

Child of Hans Umstead/Unstadt and Barbara is: Anna Margaretta Umstead, born 1675 in Germany; died February 10, 1696/97 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA; married Gerhard Rittenhouse 1695 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA.

Children of Gerhard Rittenhouse and Anna Umstead are:

1. William Rittenhouse, born 1695 in Cresheim, near Germantown, PA; died April 13, 1767 in Prallsville, Hunterdon, NJ; married Catherine Howell 1719.
2. Peter Rittenhouse, born February 1695/96 in Cresheim, Philadelphia Co., PA; died 1748 in Cresheim, Philadelphia Co., PA; married Ann Peters Heisler 1719.

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William B Rittenhouse has a Brother, Peter Umstead Rittenhouse.