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- [S24] Eighteenth Century Emigrants, Annette Kunselman Burgert, (The Pennsylvania German Society, 1986), 88-93.
Annette Kunselman Burgert provided detailed information which she transcribed from religious records and local histories in Germany as well as data (often sparse) that she found in Pennsylvania.
"101. DIEHL, Johan Jacob--1742; DIEHL, Johan Wilhelm--1742; DIEHL, Johan Philip--1744.
EUROPEAN RECORDS. Hinzweiler Reformed KB. Johan Simon Thiel, son of Peter Thiel of Horspach [sic, old spelling; 1985 ZIP] 6799 Horschbach, m. 17 Jan 1702 Anna Elizabetha [Biber], daughter of the late Henrich Biber of [1985 ZIP] 6799 Welchweiler. They had:
1. Johan Daniel b. 29 Dec 1702 m. 22 Feb 1724 Maria Catharina Geres
2. Simon Peter b. 16 Sep 1706 m. 10 Jan 1730 Elizabetha Catharina [Cassel], daughter of late Peter Cassel
3. Johan Phillip b. 17 Jan 1710 [subject of entry #101]
4. Johan Michael ( q.v.) b. 9 Sept 1712 m. 22 Mar 1736 Maria Magdalena Dielmann
5. Johan Jacob b. 8 Feb 1715 [subject of entry #101]
6. Johan Wilhelm b. 13 Dec 1717 [subject of entry #101]
7. Johan Adam b. 22 Mar 1720
8. Maria Margretha Charlotta b. 14 May 1722
9. Anna Catharina b. 20 May 1725
10. Maria Margretha b. 18 Apr 1728
ZMP: Lichtenberg
1742: Jacob Dhiel [sic] and his brother Wilhelm Dhiel [sic] of Horspach [sic] move to America [No indication they were "single," but that fact may been ommitted by the compiler.]
1744: Philipp Dhiel [sic] of Horspach [sic], single, moves to America
AMERICAN RECORDS. One Jacob Diehl, Upper Milford, Northanpton, PA naturalized, Fall 1765."
Edited by Roy Richard Thomas May 2007
- [S37] Germans West of the Catawba, Lorena Shell Eaker, (Location: Tennessee;), GS 929.3756 E11., pp. 133, 185.
p. 133:
"Wilhelm Diehl/Deal [Abt. 1717-Bef. Jun 1790]
(Eaker: What this writer has is a collection of notes without proof of where they belong.)
Mechlenburg County, NC Deed Book 4:491-3, 27 Feb 1768 William Diehl/Deal [Abt. 1717-Bef. Jun 1790] bought 400 acres on Clarks Creek from Nicholas Fry. (Eaker: Perhaps the father-in-law of William Deal, Jr.[1742-1789]?)"
[Tryon County, NC was formed in 1768 from Mecklenburg County. Tryon County was abolished in 1779 and Lincoln and Rutherford Counties were formed from it.]
p. 185: "Phillip Henry Grader received 12 Sep 1772 60 acres on branch of Clarks Creek, Lincoln County, NC Deed Book 1:659, which he deeded to Henry Bollinger, Nicholas Fry, Peter Eigart, John Shuford, Martin Coulter, Frederick Markle, Michael Grindstaff, William Deal [Abt. 1717-Bef. Jun 1790], and John Deal for a school and meeting house on 25 May 1773, Lincoln County, NC Deed Book 1:713-4."
p. 133: "Lincoln, NC Deed Book 1:713, 25 May 1773 William Diehl [Abt. 1717-Bef. Jun 1790] and John Diehl lived on Clarks Creek
1788 John Deal was on road committee
Lincoln, NC Deed Book 16:105, 30 Jun 1790 Rudolph Conrad and John Hasselberer, Excrs. of William Deal [Abt. 1717-Bef. Jun 1790], deceased, sold 400 acreas on Clark's Creek granted 28 Oct 1782
(Eaker: One note says he was b. 8 Jun 1742 Maryland d. 16 Nov 1789 NC. This writer [Eaker] suspects the birth date has been confused with what must be [that of] William, Jr.)"
Edited by Roy Richard Thomas August 2007
- [S42] A Religious History of the American People, Sydney E. Ahlstrom, (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1972, 1158 PP.)), Ch. 16, "The German Reformed and Lutheran Churches.", (pp. 245-247).
"The political history of the German-speaking regions of Europe in the centuries following the Reformation is an incredibly complex tangle. . . . Ecclesiastical division compounded [political] complications . . . because confessional loyalties were fiercely debated. . . .
The German Reformed Church. The distinct German Reformed tradition which came into existence both as a theology and as a political force naturally owed much to the Reformation in German Switzerland, above all to Zwingli and Bullinger of Zurich. . . . In this unsettled state of affairs, serious economic dislocations and continual outbreaks of religious persecution led great numbers of harassed peoples of every religious affiliation to seek haven in America. . . .
The German Reformed Church in America. The planting of the German Reformed church in Pennsylvania was one result of these upheavals. By 1730 it was estimated that the German Reformed church had fifteen thousand potential adherents in Pennsylvania. The bulk of the immigration came from the provinces of the Rhineland; indeed, so many Palatines came to America that the word became almost a synonym for 'German.' Many came as 'redemptioners,' indentured as servants for a stipulated length of time in repayment for their passage. Because very few of them moved as organized religious groups, they lacked a ministry. Like many others who came to America out of state churches in Europe, moreover, they were habituated to having ecclesiastical matters ordered by the authorities, and were ill-prepared to take them into their own hands. The primitive state of the country and the dispersion of the people were also obstacles to organized church life and support of a regular ministry. . . . A 'founder' of a German Reformed congregation, therefore, would be faced with a difficult task. . . ."
Edited by Roy Richard Thomas Sep 2007
- [S44] ROOTSWEB.COM, (INTERNET), http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/ccgsfam.htm .
"Settlement in present-day Catawba County began after 1740, during the period before and after the French & Indian Wars [1754-1763]. The early pioneers made land claims to the Crown (under the then current governor) in Bladen county until 1750, when the area of the Catawba Valley became Anson county. During the "Indian Wars," in 1753, Rowan became the new county seat. The early pioneers to the Catawba Valley were virtually isolated from the supply trains from Pennsylvania during the frequent raids from 1754-1762. Indeed, there was much depradation on the Carolina frontier before the end of the war. From then until the 1790's the Great Wagon Road carried an increasing volume of southern bound traffic.
The Catawba Valley became Burke county in 1777, right in the middle of the Revolutionary War. Two years later, in 1779, before the war really came to western North Carolina with a fury, the Catawba Valley became Lincoln county. The Battles at Ramsours Mill, Cowpens, and King's Mountain would pave the road to British collapse in the American Colonies.
Those settling in the Catawba Valley were originally of two distinct communities: Those speaking German and those speaking English. The Palatine Germans and Swiss generally found land to their liking in the northern portion of the county which resembled the ridges and rolling hills of their homeland. For the most part, the Scot-Irish and English settlers formed the communities in the south-east part of the county."
Edited by Roy Richard Thomas August 2007
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