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Personal data Johannes Balthasar Anspach 

  • He was born on August 26, 1683 in Steinbach, Taunus, Germany.
  • He died on December 5, 1748 in Stouchsberg, Tulpehocken, Berks Co. Pennsylvania, he was 65 years old.
  • He is buried December 1748 in Christ Lutheran Church @@ Tulpehocken, Berks Co., Pa.
  • A child of Hans Jacob Anspach and Anna Dorothea
  • This information was last updated on June 2, 2015.

Household of Johannes Balthasar Anspach

He is married to Anna Maria Riedt- Reith.

They got married in the year 1710 at New York, he was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Johan George Anspach  1712-1744 
  2. Leonard Anspach  1712-????
  3. John Peter Anspach  1715-1797
  5. John Johannes Anspach  1721-1777 


Notes about Johannes Balthasar Anspach

BORN SOUTHEAST OF ANSPACH GERMANY , ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ----------------------------------------- *****************7 TH GREAT GRANDPARENTS TO DAVID ALAN BINKLEY********************************** WILL IS LOCATED AT PHILIDELPHIA , PA BOOK 1 PG 34 ( GERMAN WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION ) will dated Dec 1744 Favorite Bible verse was I Peter 1-9 read at his funeral on Dec 5, 17 in his 65th year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------- HE RESIDED IN LIVINGSTON, NY IN 1710 , HE WAS AN INDENTURED SERVANT . HE SERVED IN THE MILITARY IN CANADIAN CAMPAIGN , QUEEN ANNE'S WAR 1711. HE PETITIONED THE COURT TO BECOME A CITIZEN IN MAYOR'S COURT , ALBANY , NY ON JAN. 3, 1715 HE MADE A WILL IN PHILIDELPHIA , PA SEPTEMBER 1744 BALTHASAR AND OTHER COLONISTS WERE DRAFTED TO SERVE IN QUEEN ANNE'S WAR AND RETURNED TO FIND THAT THEIR FAMILIES HAD NOT BEEN PROVIDED FOR IN THEIR ABSENCE. THEY WERE NEVER PAID FOR THEIR SERVICE AND MANY EVENTUALLY LEFT NEW YORK COLONY FOR PENNSYLVANIA , INCLUDING BALTHASAR AND HIS FAMILY. THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COLONISTS ENCOURAGED THEIR GERMAN COUSINS TO COME TO SETTLE. HOWEVER , THEY WERE NOT PREPARED FOR THE UNANNOUNCED MASSES THAT DESCENDED ON THE SUPPOSEDLY EMPTY LAND. THE INDIANS USED THE LAND AND HAD TREATIES WITH THE DUTCH , CAME BACK AND FOUND THESE GERMANS HOMESTEADERS THE DUTCH WERE UPSET, THE INDIANS WERE UPSET, AND THE GERMANS DIDN'T REALIZE THE PROBLEMS THEY WERE CREATED. REAL TROUBLE BEGAN WHEN THE HOMESTEADERS WERE ATTACKED , THE GERMANS WERE OUTRAGED, BALTHASAR'S FAMILY WAS SAVED FROM HARM,, BUT MANY WERE NOT SO LUCKY. EVENTUALLY THE COLONISTS DROVE THE INDIANS WESTWARD AND THEN FOLLOWED T POPULATE THE LAND INTO OHIO, INDIANA AND ILLINOIS TERRITORIES WHICH LATER BECAME STATES.

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Birthday August 26, 1683

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1683: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 24 » The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
    • July 16 » Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
    • September 11 » Battle of Vienna: Coalition forces, including the famous winged Hussars, led by Polish King John III Sobieski lift the siege laid by Ottoman forces.
    • September 12 » Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
    • September 17 » Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules".
    • October 3 » Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.

Day of death December 5, 1748

  • The temperature on December 5, 1748 was about 10.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken vochtig. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1748: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 11 » Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
    • August 26 » The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
    • October 12 » War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
    • October 18 » Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.


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