Abraham Hess

Other Events:

• Census: 1800, Bethell and Belfast Twps., Bedford, Pennsylvania
• Residence: 1800, Bethell and Belfast Twps., Bedford, Pennsylvania; With three boys and a girl under age 10, a boy and girl age 10 to 15 and a woman age 26 to 44

Balthasar married Catharina 1752. Catharina was born 1731, Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Immigration: 15 Sep 1729, Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania; Ship Thistle of Glasgow
• Naturalization: 29 Aug 1730, Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Notes:

Jeremiah Hess was born about 1675. He first appears in Mutterstadt, Germany, at the beginning of the 18th century. (1)

Married a woman named Anna. (2)

Children: (3)
Peter, possibly born in 1703.
Hans Conrad, born May 3, 1705. Died in Ireland.
Elisabeth, born Oct. 21, 1708. Died in Ireland.
Christian, born July 14, 1713. Died in Mutterstadt.
Hans Conrad, baptized Aug. 19, 1714.
Balthasar (usually Baltzar in America), baptized Dec. 8, 1717.
Eva.

The Hess family first appears in Mutterstadt, which is southwest of Mannheim in the modern state of Rheinland-Pfalz. In her study of the immigrant from Mutterstadt to Pennsylvania, Annette K. Burgert says that the town was uninhabited following the Thirty Years? War (1618-1648). The village was slowly repopulated by migrants from France, Switzerland and other parts of Germany. (4)

However, the Pfalz continued to be a poor and troubled region, causing many to move elsewhere. Many fled to Ireland.

In 1709, Jeremy Hess and his family appear on the list of immigrants who arrived in England on June 2. Jeremy appears under the heading of husbandmen and vinedressers and is listed as 34 years old and Lutheran. In his party, were his wife; sons, ages 7 and 5; and daughter, age 2. Also on the list are Paul Heyn and Michel Andrus, both of Mutterstadt. (5)

Once again, life was hard. Two children ? Hans Conrad and Elisabeth ? died in Ireland. In 1711, the Hess and Heim families were among those who gave up on Ireland and migrated to Holland. (6)

The Hesses must have returned to Mutterstadt, where the births of three children are recorded after 1711. (7)
Almost 20 years later, Jeremiah and his family again left Germany.

In August 1730, Jeremiah arrived in Philadelphia aboard the Thistle of Glasgow, which had sailed from Rotterdam, Netherlands. Also aboard the ship were Thomas and Heinrich Hess, who may have been relatives. A Ludwig Has also appears on this list of immigrants, who qualified on Aug. 29, 1730. (8)

In 1730, Jeremias Hess appears as the baptismal sponsor of a child of Johan Georg Schweinhart at Falckner Swamp in what is now Montgomery County. (9)

On Sept. 9, 1734, Jeremiah received a warrant for 100 acres in Philadelphia County. (10)

Jeremiah and his family settled in Salford in Philadelphia County, according to his will. By the time Jeremiah wrote his will April 28, 1739, Peter and Eva had moved to Maryland. Conrad and Baltzer remained in eastern Pennsylvania.

Jeremiah died before April 11, 1743, when his will was proved.

(1) "Early Pennsylvania Pioneers from Mutterstadt in the Palatinate," by Annette K. Burgert, page 11. Also in "The Palatine Families of Ireland," by Henry Z. Jones Jr., page 63. (2) Anna is identified by Jones as the daughter of Hans Paulus Heim of Mutterstadt. However, Burgert, who checked the same records, doesn?t make that connection. (3) Peter, Eva, Conrad and Baltzar are listed in Philadelphia County Will Book G, No. 73, as cited in "Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol., IV, Abstracts of Philadelphia Wills, Part II, 1726-1747," page 823. A facsimile of Jeremiah Hess? will appears in "I Shook My Family Tree," by Thelma (Hess) Parsons, pages 170-171. The birth dates come from the Mutterstadt church books, as cited by Burgert, page 11. Irish immigration records cited by Jones and Burgert also indicate that Jeremiah and Anna has a 7-year-old son when he arrived there in 1709. This son may have been Peter. (4) "Early Pennsylvania Pioneers from Mutterstadt in the Palatinate," page 2. (5) "Early Pennsylvania Pioneers from Mutterstadt in the Palatinate," page 2. She cites The Tribbeko and Ruperti lists, Board of Trade Miscellaneous Vol. 2, no. D68. (6) "Early Pennsylvania Pioneers from Mutterstadt in the Palatinate," page 11. She cites "Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration," by Knittle, Appendix D, page 281. (7) "Early Pennsylvania Pioneers from Mutterstadt in the Palatinate," page 11. She cites the village church books. (8) "Pennyslvania German Pioneers," Ralph Beaver Strassburger, page 31. (9) "Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers," by Annette K. Burgert, page 156. (10) "Pennsylvania Archives," Series 3, Vol. 24, page 19.

Jeremiah married Anna Maria Heim 1702. Anna (daughter of Hans Paulus Heim and Anna Mabel Volcker) was born 1687, Mutterstadt, Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died Sep 1743, Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Hans — Anna Mabel Volcker. [Group Sheet]