He was married WFT Est. 1903-1935.^(22897) Children were: J.O. Sellers, W.W. Sellers, W.J. Sellers.

He was married WFT Est. 1795-1837. ^(22901) Children were: Major H. Sellers, Alfred R. Sellers, Mary Sellers, Dekalb Asea Sellers, Raymond Franklin Sellers, Hannah Sellers, Dewitt Clinton Sellers, Robert Randolph Sellers, William Pinckney Sellers(Sellears) .

He was married to Margaret Cogan on 4 Oct 1580.

She was married to Raymond Woehl WFT Est. 1847-1864. Children were: Anna Virginia Woehl, Minnie Amelia Woehl.

She was married to Walter Brandt Kettering Private. Children were: Walter Richard Kettering, Robert Dennis Kettering.

She was married to Nathaniel Downing on 6 May 1613 in England.^{(8) (6662)}

He was married to WFT Est. 1528-1563. Children were: John** Sealis.

He was married to Lora E. Owens after 1908.

He was married to Susan Vessey on 2 Aug 1585 in Little Baddow, Co. Essex, England.^{(8) (22907)}

He was married to Nell Eroserich Private. He Seal to Parents Private. Children were: Georgette Semick.

She was married to Erik Oliver Gjullin Private. She Seal to Parents Private.

She was married to Robert Prince Of France [I "THE OLD" DUK about 1033 in France. Children were: Constance Princess Of Burgundy .

She was married to Robert WFT Est. 1028-1059. Children were: Constance Of Burgundy.

He Private-Begin Private.⁽⁶⁰⁾ He was divorced from Deluvina Cordova Private. ⁽⁶⁰⁾

He was married to Alice Davis Taylor on 27 Mar 915.

She was married to Count Of Senlis Hubert WFT Est. 902-933. Children were: Sporte De Bretagne.

He was married to Martha Jane Plunkett WFT Est. 1854-1887. ^(20789)

He was married to Nancy Ellen Divine Private. Children were: Lisa Senneff, Mark Senneff.

He was married WFT Est. 1744-1766. ^(22912) Children were: Barbara Sensenig.

She was married to George Eby WFT Est. 1779-1786. ⁽⁷⁰³⁷⁾ Children were: Christian Eby, Samuel Eby, David Eby, George Eby, Joseph Eby, Anna Eby, Esther Eby, Elizabeth Eby, Susanna Eby.

She was married to George W. Pickard about 1859.

He was married to Elizabeth about 1630. Children were: Mercy Sention.

She was married to Ephraim Lockwood in 1665. Children were: Elipahet Lockman.

He was married to Diane DeMille Private.

She was married to *Christoffel Maul about 1710. From "The Palatine Families of New York", by Henry Z Jones, Jr, 1985:

"The background of the great 'Palatine' emigration of 1709 has been well-chronicled by such past scholars ... who broke new ground to give us 'the big picture' of this great exodus of Germans to the new world.... After generations of oppression and hardship, in 1709 they finally reached the limit of their endurance and 'took the risk' to find a better life in America....

The 1709ers' families had been living for generations in an area fraught with near-constant wars, which made battlefields of villages, towns, and whole regions. Besides being at the mercy of invading armies, many of these unfortunate Germans were taxed unmercifully by whatever local Prince had jurisdiction over their particular geographic region, and by 1709 many poor Palatines were bled dry financially.... But perhaps the straw that broke the camel's back was the devastating and bitterly-cold winter of the year 1709. Throughout southern Germany, Pastors abruptly stopped their normal recording of baptismal, marriage, and burial entries in order to mention the terrible weather conditions burdening their congregations....

Interestingly enough, religious persecution does not seem to have been a major factor in the exodus. Many of the Palatines seemed quite flexible in their religious affiliation; they attended whichever church was geographically convenient or even politically expedient....

The British government exploited the Palatines' dissatisfaction by waging an advanced and clever public relations campaign extolling the virtues of life in the new world which also fueled the fires of emigration. This was accomplished by the circulation throughout southern Germany prior to 1709 of the so-called 'Golden Book', which painted America (called 'The Island of Carolina' or 'The Island of Pennsylvania') almost as the promised land of milk and honey....

Many emigrants originated in areas outside the boundaries of what we think of today as the Palatinate. Many New York settlers were found in the Neuwied, Isenburg, Westerwald, Darmstadt, and Nassau regions as well as the Pfalz - proving again that the term 'Palatine' was more of a generic reference (meaning 'Germans' in general) rather than a literal description of their precise, geographic origins....

The first trickle of German emigrants left for New York with Pastor Joshua Kocherthal in 1708 and settled near Newburgh on the Hudson River. Then, about February or March 1709, large groups began leaving their German homes for Rotterdam and thence to England.... The trip down the Rhine to Holland took anywhere from four to six weeks....

The Palatines encamped outside Rotterdam were in a miserable condition, and shacks covered with reeds were the only shelter they had from the elements. The Burgomaster of Rotterdam took pity on them and appropriated 750 guilders for distribution among the destitute. Meanwhile, the British government employed three Anabaptist Dutch merchants, Hendrik van Toren, Jan van Gent, and John Suderman, to supervise the loading and sailing of the emigrants to England (the five Rotterdam Embarkation Lists are a product of their labours); but the Palatines continued to arrive in Holland in increasing numbers at the rate of nearly a thousand per week. On 14 June 1709, James Dayrolle, British Resident at the Hague, informed London that if the British government continued to give bounty to the Palatines and encourage their migration, half of Germany would be on their doorstep, for they were flying away not only from the Palatinate, but from all other countries in the neighborhood of the Rhine!

...At first the London populace looked on the Palatines in a rather kindly way, but gradually the novelty of their presence wore off. As the poorer classes of Londoners realized the emigrants were taking their bread and reducing their scale of wages, mobs of people began attacking the Palatines with axes, hammers, scythes, and even the upper classes became alienated from the Germans, fearing they were spreading fever and disease....

Of the 13,000 Germans who reached London in 1709, only an estimated quarter came on to New York. The idea of sending the Palatines there sprang from a proposal sponsored by Governor-elect Robert Hunter of New York, probably made originally by the Earl of Sunderland. It was their thought that the 1709ers be used in the manufacture of naval stores (i.e. tar and pitch) from the pine trees dotting the Hudson Valley and thus earn their keep in the colony. It also was acknowledged that a strong Palatine presence in the new world would act as a buffer against the French in Canada and strengthen the Protestant cause in British America. No real time-limit to the length of service of the Germans was specified, but it was apparent they were to be employed until the profits had not only paid their expenses, but also repaid the government for their transportation and settlement. They allegedly signed a covenant to this effect in England which noted that, when the government was repaid, forty acres of land would be given to each person, free from taxes and quit rents for seven years.

Most of the Palatines boarded ships for New York in December 1709, but the convoy really never left England until April of 1710. The German emigrants sailed on eleven boats, and Governor-Elect Hunter accompanied the group. The voyage was a terrible one for the Palatines; they were crowded together on the small vessels, suffered from vermin and poor sanitation, and were forced to subsist on unhealthy food. Many became ill, and the entire fleet was ravaged by ship-fever (now known as typhus) which eventually caused the deaths of many passengers....

The Palatines who arrived in the summer of 1710 found that colonial New York was hardly the paradise propounded in the Golden Book back in Germany. The New York City Council protested the arrival of 2,500 disease-laden newcomers within their jurisdiction and demanded the Germans stay in tents on Nutten (Governor's) Island offshore. Typhus continued to decimate the emigrants. Altogether about 470 Palatines died on the voyage from England and during their first month in New York. Many families were broken up at this time; Hunter apprenticed children who were orphans as well as youngsters whose parents were still alive! The Governor's record of his payments for the subsistence of the 847 Palatine families 1710-1712 survives today as the so-called Hunter Subsistence Lists....

On 29 September 1710, Governor Hunter entered into an agreement with Robert Livingston, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to purchase a tract of 6,000 acres on the east side of the Hudson for the purpose of settling Palatines there to manufacture naval stores. In October, many of the Germans began going up the river, clearing the ground, and building huts on the Livingston Tract. Gradually, small distinct settlements appeared at East Camp called Hunterstown, Queensbury, Annsbury, and Haysbury; the villages on the west side of the Hudson were Elizabeth Town, George Town, and New Town. Other 1709ers remained in New York City, and many of this group eventually made their way to New Jersey.

The Palatines grew increasingly dissatisfied with their status, which bordered on serfdom, and strongly demanded the lands promised them in London. Their rebellion was put down by the Governor, who disarmed the Germans and put them under the command of overseers and a Court of Palatine Commissioners, who treated them again as 'the Queen's hired servants'.... Hunter then lost financial backing in his efforts to support the Germans and had to withdraw the Palatine subsistences in September 1712. After all the British promises, the Germans were abandoned to suffer their own fate, although the Governor still attempted to keep some control over them by requiring the Palatines to obtain permits if they wished to move elsewhere in New York or New Jersey.... Having been left to their own resources, the more restless and adventurous of the Germans stole away in late 1712 to the Schoharie Valley, which at one time was a land considered for Palatine settlement. They bought lands from the Indians there, but also bought more trouble as the Native-Americans' title to this property was dubious and led to years of litigation. Slowly, the Palatines carved homes out of the frontier, and eventually seven, distinct villages were settled in the Schoharie region.... Neu-Heidelberg, Neu-Cassel, Neu-Heessberg, Neu-Quunsberg, Neu-Stuttgardt, New-Ansberg, and OberWiesers-dorf. The Palatines had not been permitted to bring their Hudson Valley tools with them to Schoharie, so they fashioned ingenious substitutes: branches of a tree for a fork used in haymaking, a shovel from a hollowed-out log-end, and a maul from a large knot of wood - examples of their determination and imagination.

By the time of their naturalization in 1715, the 1709ers were spread out in colonial New York to a large extent. About this time, Ulrich Simmendinger began gathering family data concerning his compatrious which he would eventually publish in 1717 upon his return to Germany....



Johannes Maul (now his widow) (Hunter Lists #483)
Christoph Maul (Hunter Lists #484):

As with #482 Johann Friderich Maul, the point of origin for this Palatine family was 6349 Driedorf (9 kilometers southwest of Herborn [Germany]; Churchbooks begin 1671). Paulus Maul, buried 2 April 1686, and Anna (Engen), buried 18 September 1689, were the parents of Johannes Maul.

Johannes Maul, son of the late Paulus Maul in Driedorf, married Anna Juliana, daughter of Niclas Theiss at Hohroth, 9 February 1687. Anna Julian, wife of Johannes Maul at Hochroth, died at Hohenroth and was buried 21 April 1693. Johannes Maul, widower at Hohenroth, married Elsbeth, daughter of Johann Georg Drisch there, 28 November 1693. Anursel, wife of Johann Gorg Drisch at Hohenroth, was buried 19 April 1677. Johannes Maul and family from Hohenroth in Amt. Driedorf petitioned to emigrate in 1709 (Nassau-Dillenburg Petitions). Johan Maul, his wife, and 7 children, were listed next to Philip Sargusch and his family in the 6th party of Palatines in Holland in 1709 (Rotterdam Lists).

Johannes Maul made his initial appearance on the Hunter Lists 4 July 1710 with 2 persons over 10 years of age and 4 persons under 10 years; the same entry was recorded 4 August 1710, but this time he listed next to Christoph Maul. The Johannes Maul family read 5 persons over 10 and 1 under 10 years 4 October 1710. On 24 June 1711, Johann Maul's Widow Elizabeth was recorded next to Christoph and Friderich Maul; she was registered with 4 persons over 10 years of age and 1 under 10 years. Anna Eliz Maulin, widow, aged 42, Anna Catharina Maulin aged 13, Anna Ursula Maulin aged 16, Catharina Maulin aged 12, and Anna Maria Maulin aged 5, were all in New York City in 1710/11 (Palatines in N.Y. City). Elisabetha Maunlin, a Widow with 4 children, was in Neu-Yorck about 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register). The children of Johannes Maul and his first wife Anna Juliana were:

1) Christoph, baptized as 'a child' 15 January 1688, sponsors, Christoffel Theiss - single man, and Anna Julian Maul - also single (Driedoft Churchbook). Christoph married Anna Juliana Sergius, daughter of the Philip Sargusch listed next to Johannes Maul in Holland in 1709. Philip Sargusch, his wife, and 5 children, were noted in the 6th party (Rotterdam Lists). Philip Sargus with 6 in his family were returned to Holland on board the "John", John Chambers the Commander, in 1710 (PRO T1/125,203); the missing person in Sergius's family was his daughter Anna Juliana, who probably married Christoph Maul somewhere on the trip. Philippus Sergius married Maria Elisabeth, daughter of the Oberschultheiss Johann Wilhelm Andreas, 14 November 1682 at 5418 Nordhofen; their daughter Anna Juliana was baptized 24 March 1689 - sponsors: Anna Lovisa - wife of Hans Peter Hordts at Mogendorf, Maria Juliana - wife of Bertram Bergs, and Johann Thil Scheyer (?) from Selters (Nordhofen Churchbook). Sponsors strongly suggest that Philip Sergius was son of Pastor Wernerus Sergius, who married Anna Catharina Vieger Whit Tuesday: 1656 at 6208 Langenschwalbach. The family Sergius was documented also at 6348 Herborn and 5419 Ruckeroth (where Wernerus Sergius was Pastor), as well as 6300 Wetzlar.

Christoph Maul was #484 on the Hunter Lists, making his first appearance 4 August 1710 with 2 persons over 10 years of age; he was recorded next to Johannes Maul on this entry. Christoffel Moule was naturalized 8/9 September 1715 (Kingston Naturalizations). Christoffill Moull was in the company of Capt. Wittaker in the regiment of Jacob Rutsen in Ulster County in 1715 (Report of the State Historian, Vol. I, p. 557). Christoph Maul with wife and children was as Heessberg about 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register). Christoffel Moul was taxed 3 pounds in 1718/19 and 5 pounds in 1720/21 in Kingston (Ulster County Tax Lists). The Kingston Court Records show a reference to him in Book I, Part C, pp. 29 & 30. Stuffel Moll was in the Company of the Wall-a-kill in the Ulster County Militia in 1738 (Report of the State Historian, Vol. I, p. 608). He and Anna Juliana were alive as late as 1751 when they were sponsors [at a baptism] at Montgomery Reformed Church." Children were: *Dievertjen Maul , Margriet Maul, Anna-Catryna Maul, Johannes Maul, Elisabetha Maul, Maria Maul, Philip Maul, Anna Maul.

Children were: Christopher Stephen Ainsworth, Jason David Ainsworth.

He was married to Denise Bradley Private.

He was married to Yvonne Lemire Private. Children were: Leon Joseph Serre.

He was married to Kathy Ellen Jillson Private. Children were: Jeffery Joseph Serre, Sharon Ann Serre.

She was married to Mark Edmund Longbrake Private.

She was married to Amos Kimball on 23 Jun 1765.

He was married to Elizabeth Norton in 1823 in Williamsburg Co, South Carolina. Children were: Jacob Norton Sessions , Daniel Absolom Josiah Sessions.

She was married to Max Wright Humpherys Private. Children were: Helen Humpherys, David Russell Humpherys, Douglas Max Humpherys.

She was married to Clarence Willner Private. Children were: Merrial Willner , Elene Willner, Bertha A Willner, Doris M Willner, Caroline Willner.

He was married WFT Est. 1592-1639. Children were: Willempje Seubering.

She was married to Steven Van Voorhees WFT Est. 1632-1662. Children were: Albert Stevense Van Voorhees.

He was married to Hannah Tidd WFT Est. 1643-1649.^{(8) (22917)}

She was married to Lars Eskildsen WFT Est. 1770-1800. Children were: Metta Larsen.

She was married to John Church on 29 Nov 1664.⁽⁶⁰⁾

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