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Persoonlijke gegevens Dielman Kolb 

• Hij is geboren op 10 november 1691 in Wolfsheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.Bronnen 2, 3, 4, 5
• Geïmmigreerd rond 1717 vanuit From Ibersheim in the Palatinate.Bron 2
• Beroep: Weaver and Minister.Bron 3
• (Acheivments) in Help Translate The Martyr's Mirror from Dutch To German.Bron 2
• (Founder) in Mennonite Church, Lower Salford, Montgomery Co., Pa.Bron 3
• (Will Dated) op 8 juli 1748.Bron 3
• Hij is overleden op 28 december 1756 in Lower Salford Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, hij was toen 65 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 30 december 1756 in 30 December 1756, Lower Salford Mennonite Church Cemetery in Lower Salford, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.Bron 3
• Boedelverdeling op 30 april 1757.Bron 3
• Een kind van Dielman Edward Kolb en Agnes Heindricks Schumacher

Gezin van Dielman Kolb

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Gertrude Schnebeli.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 juli 1714 te Zurich, Switzerland, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth Kolb  1715-1780
2. Elizabeth Schnebli Kolb  ± 1715-1784 

Notities over Dielman Kolb

This is request number 2 of 12 allowed for this hour. Your account expires at the end of November, 1998. GenServ Report Output: vitals 20 Oct 1997 Dielman KOLB (588), born 1691, died 1717. Married Elizabeth SCHNEBLI (589), born 1691. Children of Dielman KOLB and Elizabeth SCHNEBLI: 1 Elizabeth Schnebli KOLB (119), born about 1715, died 1780. Married 1730, Andrew ZIEGLER (118), born 1707, died 1 May 1797, son of Michael ZIEGLER , THE EMIGRANT (116) and CATHERINE (117). ====================================================================== === Information is from the NEYR7EA database belonging to: submitter: [Neyer, Betty] email: [(XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)] street_1: [2314 Foxwood Drive] street_2: [] city: [Orange Park] state: [FL] zip: [32073] country: [USA] telephone: [904-269-3529] remarks: [] ===================================================================== ====

 

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Posted 08 Jan 2016 by geodet26

 

Dielman KOLB, youngest son of Dielman Kolb, Sr., was born 10 Nov 1691, at 1:00 in the afternoon, in the Palatinate (Pfalz) at Wolfsheim.The following is taken from an old book which was printed in Germany in 1581,and was brought over to this country by Dielman Kolb and was in the possessionof the family until 1895, when it was sold at public sale after the death ofDaniel K. Cassel, Harleysville, PA.(Translation)      Anno, 1691, the 10th of November, I Dielman Kolb, was born into thisworld at one o'clock in the afternoon.    Anno 1714, on St. Jacob's Day, in the 23rd year of my age, I was marriedto my housewife, Elizabeth.    Anno, 1717, the 21st of March, we went to Ibersheim, in the Palatinate,on the journey to Pennsylvania and the 10th August, 1717, arrived safely herein Philadelphia.    This book belongs to me, Dielman Kolb, and I have received it from JacobSchnebli of Manheim, in the Palatinate, Anno Dom., 1722 at this time dwellingin Solforth township, in the County of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.The name of Andrew Ziegler appears as one-time owner of this book; he marriedElizabeth, the only daughter of Dielman and Elizabeth Schnebli Kolb.Dielman Kolb was a Mennonite minister, living at Manheim, where he attendedthat congregation as a preacher.  He made himself both useful and most valuableby receiving and lodging his persecuted fellow believers who fled from Switzer-land, as appears from a letter dated August 27, 1710.  He in turn sufferedpersecution, which eventually led to his emigration to Pennsylvania to join hisbrothers, Martin, Jacob, Henry and John, who had preceded him ten years earlier.Dielman Kolb purchased 225 acres of land on January 4, 1721 from Derick (DirkJansen) Johnson, weaver, and Margaretha his wife.  This tract lay in that partof Philadelphia County that later became Salford Township.  At a still laterdate, Salford was divided into Upper and Lower Salford, and this land fell theninto the latter division and when Montgomery County was taken from Philadelphia,1785, both the Salfords were included in the new organization.According to the deed of Dirk Jansen to Dielman Kolb, the first land transactionwhich appears upon record, this tract adjoined other land of "Tilman Kolb."Heckler in his history of Lower Salford, says this other land was acquired bypatent from the Commonwealth, but if so, there is no record on file at the LandOffice in Harrisburg.On April 2, 1721, Dielman Kolb purchased of Nicholas Scull another 107 acres ofland adjoining his other tract bounding on the lands of Andrew Ledrach, Gerhart Clemens and others.  Part of this tract is now occupied by the village ofLederachville.  On June 14, 1731, he added another 50 acres to his great tract.This last purchase he made of John Naglee.  About this time, however, he sold50 acres of his land out of the northwestern corner of his farm to GallyHeffelfinger.  By a survey made for Andrew Ziegler, senior, his son-in-law,May 7, 1767, it appears that after selling these 50 acres he still had 559acres and eight-eight perches.  It is seen by this that Dielman Kolb was a manof means and owner of a considerable estate.On October 10, 1733, Dielman Kolb sold 250 acres of his land to his stepson,Jacob Schnebli, or Snavely, "of the city of Manheim in the dominion orPrincipality of the Prince Palatine, on the Rhine, in High Germany," who latercame to this country and resided on this tract until his death.Dielman Kolb, junior, married in Germany, 1714, Elizabeth Schnebli, a widow,who had several children by her first husband, one of them being a son Isaac,who later settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Mathias, and the abovementioned Jacob "Snavely." In 1728 the great road from Goshenhoppen to Skippack was laid out throughDielman Kolb's land, and his residence was about three-fourths of a milesoutheast of the present village of Lederachville.Dielman Kolb was a minister of the Mennonite church, though, as was customaryat that time, he engaged in other occupations as well.  Not only did he attendupon the Mennonite congregation at Salford, but, besides carrying on extensivefarming, he was a weaver as well.  He appears to have been prominent in theaffairs of the Mennonite Church, and to have been noted for his religious zeal.He was very intimate with Henry Funk, a minister and bishop of that faith, andit was through the perseverance and zeal of these two men that the Mennonitecongregation in Salford was organized in 1738.On the fourth and fifth of October, 1738, Henry Ruth and his wife, Modlena, ofSalford, by deed of lease and release granted to Henry Funk, Dielman Kolb,Christian Moyer, Jr., and Abraham Reiff ten acres and forty perches of land,part of his homestead tract.  Of the parties of the second part all wereresidents of Franconia Township, except Dielman Kolb, who was of Salford.  Funkwas a bishop, Kolb a minister, and Moyer and Reiff were deacons or "Vorsteher."There was a building of some kind call a "tenement" on the land when it waspurchased, but whether or not this "tenement" was turned into a meeting houseto be used until the completion of the new one, which was immediately commenced,is not known, but it was not long before they were in their new church building.It appears that these four officials were considered as the trustees and thatthey, or the members of the church, were not satisfied that they should have thedeed for the land with the meeting house thereon all in their name and power.Therefore, they had Robert Jones of Worcester write them a deed of conveyance,called a "declaration" or deed of trust, in which these four officials as "parties of the first part" convey it to the church as the "second part," thesecond part being represented by seventeen members of the congregation.  Thisdeed of trust was recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, Norristown,long years after.Matters appear to have gone on very well and the church prospered.  In time, however, it was considered to the advantage of their church that a new congre-gation be organized at Franconia, for the use and greater convenience of thoseof the faith residing in that locality, which was then called Indian Field.A new deed was executed, in order to convey back to the congregation in Salforda "Declaration of Trust" from the two surviving trustees residing in FranconiaTownship to two others of Salford.  This second paper dated March 25, 1763,recites that Henry Funk and Dielman Kolb are dead and Christian Moyer andAbraham Reiff are the survivors of the "trustees," while Jacob Clemens andChristian Funk represent the congregation.In connection with Bishop Henry Funk, Dielman Kolb supervised the translationof Jan Van Braght's "Bloedigh Tooniel" from the Dutch into the German language,and certified as to its correctness."The Bloedigh Tooniel", or Bloody Theatre or Martyr's Mirror, is a history ofthe "defenseless Christians, who suffered and were put to death for the testimonyof Jesus their Saviour, from the time of Christ until the year A.D. 1660."  Ittraces the history of those Christians "who from the time of the Apostles were opposed to the baptism of infants, and to warfare, including Lyonists, Petro-busians, and Waldenses, details the persecution of the Mennonites by theSpaniards in the netherlands, and the Calvinists in Switzerland, together withthe individual sufferings of many hundred who were burned, drowned, beheaded,or otherwise maltreated, and contains the confession of faith adopted by thedifferent communities."This book had been published in Dortrecht, July 23, 1659, the author beingT. Jan Van Braght, and many copies were brought to this country, but they wereall printed in the Dutch language.  It was considered necessary by theMennonites that their young members should have the book to read to remind themof the faith and steadfastness of their fathers in the principles of the church,and the propriety of having it transcribed into the German script was a matterof consultation among prominent members of the church for some time.  Thegreat difficulty was to find a translator and a printer in the wilds ofPennsylvania, and naturally they turned to the older and wealthier churches ofEurope for assistance.  On October 14, 1745, Jacob Godshall of Germantown,Dielman Kolb of Salford, Michael Ziegler, Yellis Cassel and Martin Kolb ofSkippack, and Heinrich Funk of Indian Creek (Franconia), sent a letter toAmsterdam on the subject, applying for aid.Apparently this aid did not come, but after a great deal of trouble theysucceeded in finding both a translator and printer.  This was at Ephrata, onthe Conestoga creek, in Lancaster County, where a little community of Dunkardshad established themselves and introduced monastic institutions, where theylived single as monks, friars and nuns, holding their lands and goods incommon.  About 1745 they secured a hand printing press and also had a papermill.  Here in this quiet valley they translated and published the "BloedighTooniel."  The first part was completed in 1748, the second part in 1749, thewhole containing about fifteen hundred pages, and it took fifteen men threeyears to finish it.  The price per single copy was 20 shillings.Dielman Kolb made his will July 8, 1748, and it was proved April 30, 1757, nearly nine years later.  In this will, he named as trustees his "loving andtrusty friend Henry Funk" and John Ulrich Berger.  He provided well for hiswidow, Elizabeth, during her natural life; it is not know how long she survived him.   Except for 50 acres of land to be laid out of that part nextadjoining the land he had sold to his stepson, Jacob Snebley, which he leftto his grandson Dielman Ziegler, he bequeathed to his only child, Elizabeth,wife of Andrew Ziegler, Sr., all his lands, plantations and tenements whatsoever.To his stepson, Matthias, and granddaughter, Catherine Ziegler, he left cashmoney and to the "Congregation of ye Dutch Mennonists in Salford" he bequeathed2 pounds 1 shilling and to the Mennonists of "Perkyomin & Skepack," he left alike sum.Dielman Kolb died December 28, 1756.  David Shultze, the surveyor, entered uponhis notebook the following under date of December 28, 1756:  "Der alte DielmanKolb zu Shippack is auch gestorben d. 28th xbr."  And then on December 30:"Went to Shippack to the burial."  While there is no doubt that he was buriedin the graveyard adjoining the church in Lower Salford, which he so long andfaithfully served, there is no stone standing today to mark his last restingplace.  He was in his sixty-seventh year, not quite having reached the alottedthree score and ten.  "Few men, even in that day of heroic characters, can layclaim to a nobler life, and while no monument marks his last resting place, hisname for all time will be indissolubly linked with that great historical workof the Pennsylvania Mennonites, the most durable monument of the denomination.Child of Dielman Kolb and Elizabeth Schnebli:1.  Elizabeth Kolb, born about 1715; married Andrew Ziegler, Sr.; resided onthe farm near Lederachville.

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