Christian Niswanger Sr.
Birth: 12 Oct 1673 Steinsfurt, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death: 1736 (aged 62Å63) Kernstown, Winchester City, Virginia, USA
Burial: Old Opequon Cemetery, Kernstown, Frederick County, Virginia, USA
Memorial #: 240315631
Bio: Christian NISWANGER, Sr., the Immigrant married first in about 1700 at Sandhausen near Steinsfurt, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany to Anna Magdalena (Steffen) Stephens.
Anna Magdalena Stephens was born 14 Dec 1676 in the village of Steinsfurt to Gabriel (Steffen) Stephens (1645-1720) and his wife Barbara Barr (1752-1711).
They had at least five children: Anna Elizabeth (1701-1717), Anna Maria (1704-), John Jacob (1706-1711), Christian II, Jr. (1) (1708-1710), and Johannes John (1710-).
Christian's first wife Anna Magdalena (Steffen) Stephens died around 1712.
Their son Johannes, known as John came to America with his father. John Niswanger married Magdalena (Keffer) Kieffer in Old Frederick County, Virginia.
Christian Niswanger, Sr., the Immigrant married next, his second wife, Maria Magdalena. After his death, Maria Magdalena, his widow married Jost Hite on 10 Nov 1741 near Winchester-Kernstown, Frederick County, Virginia.
Christian Niswanger, Sr., the Immigrant and Maria Magdalena had two son: Christian Niswanger, Jr. (2) (1715-) and John Jacob Niswanger (1716-1753).
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Signers of Petition of Inhabitants of Colebrookdale, 1728:
Petitioning May 10, 1728 for relief of suffering at the hands
of the "Ingians".
Location: Falkners Swamp, and near "Coshahopin".
PETITIONERS:
---Benjamine FRY, --- Hanss DETWEILER, ---- Jacob CUHNTRF,
Christian NIGHSWANGER, --- Yost HYT, ---
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Family Members
Spouse
Maria Magdalena Hite 1698-1792
Children
Christian Niswanger 1715-Unknown
Jacob Niswanger 1716-1753
Created by: The Pathfinder (48133744)
Added: 4 Jun 2022
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240315631/christian-niswanger
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Christian Neuschwanger Story
Posted 29 Jan 2012 by Kira Gebauer
Christian and Magdalena married at Steinsfurt but moved soon after to the village of Sandhausen, a few miles northwest of Steinsfurt, and he was called a hindersass [renter] when a daughter was baptized at nearby Leimen in November 1701. By February 1709 Christian and Magdalena were living at Friesenheim on the western side of the Rhine, not far from Ludwigshafen, and had two children baptized in the Reformed Church at nearby Oggersheim in 1713 and 1716. Their three oldest children died at Friesenheim between 1710 and 1717 and they are last mentioned in the records at Oggersheim in 1718. By 1728 they were living at Coalbrookdale Township in Philadelphia County (now in Berks County). Christian "Neuschwanger" signed a petition along with Jost Hite (Hans Justus Heydt) and others asking for relief and protection from the hostile and destructive activity of the Indians in May 1728 (Pennsylvania Archives, Series "1" Vol. I, p. 214).
Christian was one of the original members of the Skippack Reformed Congregation, organized in 1729 and by May of 1730 he was an Elder in the church and his brother-in-law, Peter "Stephan" was a deacon. A bitter controversy had developed soon after the congregation was organized. Christian Neuschwanger and Peter Stephan were among those who signed several letters, addressed to the Reformed Church officials in New York, asking for help in resolving the conflict "...which has separated the nearest blood relatives and has thrown them into animosity against one another"(William J. Hinke, The Life and Letters of Rev. John Philip Boehm [Philadelphia, 1916], pp. 207-10). This controversy dragged on into 1731 and may have been an important factor in Neuschwanger's decision to join Jost Hite, who was recruiting families to start a settlement in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
As early as 1732 the Neuschwangers had moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with Hite. Also with them were Magdalena's brother, Peter Stephens, Hans Georg Baumann (Hite's son-in-law) and more than a dozen other families from the Coalbrookdale-Skippack area of eastern Pennsylvania, willing to brave the hostile Virginia frontier. They were certainly firmly established in Virginia by the spring of 1734 when a surveyor for Hite noted as one of his marks "Niswanger's Hunting Path." In March 1736 Hite made out a deed to Christian Neuschwanger for 435 acres adjoining his own tract and Peter Stephens's land near present-day Stephens City, Virginia (Orange County Deed Book "1," p. 436). Christian Neuschwanger died prior to February 1739 when Hite reissued the deed to Christian's son, Jacob Neuschwanger (Orange County Deed Book "3," p. 80).
Magdalena, widow of Christian Neuschwanger, made a marriage contract with Jost Hite, 10 November 1741, "with the knowledge and consent of their Friends, Children and Relations." She promised him "Love and Obedience" and brought with her four heads of cattle, three horses and other personal property. Hite promised her "Christian love and faithfulness" and promised to provide her a home as long as she lived. Hite's sons witnessed the contract. Jacob Neuschwanger, Peter Stephens and Lewis Stephens witnessed Magdalena's list of property (Fred. Co. Deed Book "l," p. 16). Magdalena was apparently deceased by April 1758 when Hite wrote his will, making no mention of a wife (Fred. Co. Will Book "2," p. 487). For Hite's origins and family see Henry Z. Jones, Ralph Conner and Klaus Wust, German Origins of Jost Hite (Edinburg, VA, 1979).
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