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Descendants of MARTIN ZIRBE

Generation No. 2

2. MARTIN (2)² ZIRBE (MARTIN¹) was born 1671 in Kettenbach, Germany, and died 1739 in Hosts, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married ANNA ELISABETHA JUNGEL February 11, 1696/97 in Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany, daughter of JOHANNES JUNGEL. She was born Abt. 1674 in Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany, and died July 22, 1750 in Stochsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for MARTIN (2) ZIRBE:
Article by Henry Z. Jones, Jr. entitled "Finding the Ancestral Home of a Palatine Forefather: The Case of Martin Zerbe", published in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine:

"...The original, mss. Rotterdam [Embarkation] Lists (unlike published versions such as in Knittle) were broken down into the individual shiploads of immigrants within each "party". Martin Zerbe was listed near Georg Volpert Schmidt, Nicholas Michel and Henrich Bartel not only on one of the small ships sailing from Rotterdam in the 4th party ("Johann Marin Zerber & Wife, 4 children"), but also near them in the 4th arrivals encamped at London ("Martin Zerbst, 34, and wife, sons aged 11, 8, 4, and 2, Lutheran, Husbandman and Vine dresser"). Schmidt, Michel and Bartel all settled in New York: Bartel's home was named in Kocherthal as "Epstein, Duchy of Darmstadt," which is Eppstein, and area near Wiesbaden."

"...A 'Phillip Zerber' was found on the original Rotterdam Lists near Martin and also on the London Lists ("Phillip Zerbst, 25, Lutheran, Figure maker"). It was noted that the Kocherthal records [records in the USA showing early immigrants] show a "Johann Philipp Zerb of Kettenbach, commune of Minster" who was married to a "Maria Catharina Steiber of the commune of Hachenburg" on 9 Jul 1710. Maps showed that Kettenbach was north of Wiesbaden, near a town of Munster and but a few miles away from Eppstein. To cement the Bartel-Zerbe connection begun in Germany, Henrich Bartel appears near Martin Zerbe in the unalphabetized Hunter Subsistence Lists, and on "Maria Margaretha Barthel" sponsored Martin Zerbe's daughter baptized in 1715 by Rev. Kocherthal. Neighbors remained neighbors, even surviving a trip across the ocean."

"...That the ages of Martin Zerbe and his brother Johann Philipp Zerbe [on the Kettenbach church records] should be slightly different from those given on the London Lists is not surprising: the London Lists were somewhat erratic, sometimes agreeing to the month with German church books, ages given in lists of Palatines remaining in New York City in 1710-11, and American burial records, and other times being off by as much as thirteen years."

"Johann Martin Zirbe was confirmed at Kettenbach in 1682. He is listed as a communicant there in 1686, 1687, 1690, 1692, and 1693. On 11 Feb 1697 the marriage of Johan Martin Zirben to Anna Elisabeth, daughter of the late Johannes Jungel from the oil mill, was recorded. Their children were..."

From WFT Volume 4, Tree #4174
"...The Rotterdam and London Lists show Martin Zerbe emigrating with four children, while the Kettenbach church books record six children being baptized, with one buried. The burial of the missing child probably went unrecorded at Kettenbach, as my investigator there reported that the Kettenbach church books, 1643-1765, were 'very defective with gaps in the records."

"Martin Zerbe was enrolled on the Hunter Subsistence Lists for the period 1710-1712. He was 'of Annsberg' when a Palatine volunteer in the Canadian expedition of 1711. 'Marte Server' was naturalized at Albany on 17 Jan 1715/16. The Simmendinger Register, published in 1717 but actually drawn up as early as late 1715, calls him of Wormsdorff with four children and wife Maria Catharine: it seems that Simmendinger erred in Martin's wife's name being Maria Catharine and probably mixed her up with his son Jacob Zerbe's wife of the same name. He appears on several of the "Palatine Debtors Lists" found in the Livingston Papers, the last entry being in February 1722 after which Martin Zerbe and his family removed to Tulpehocken. Anna Elizabeth Zerbe, wife of Martin, died 22 Jul 1750, according to the Records of Christ Lutheran Church, Stouchsburg, Pa."

From WFT Volume 4, Tree #2029
Martin and Anna Elizabeth had been among the Palatinates on the ten ships which left London, England, 24 Dec 1709 and landed in New York, 13 Jun 1710, eighteen months since they had embarked from Rotterdam and even longer since they had left Kettenbach. They had endured much suffering and seen much death. Much remained to be suffered.
Martin Zerbe was among the volunteers from Annsburg, New York, one of the naval stores settlements, for the 1711 expedition against Quebec, Canada.
Apparently they did not move to Schoharie, as Ulrich Simmendinger's Register in 1717 lists Martin and wife with four children at Wormsdorff; Wormsdorff is the village of Annsbury in the East Camp on the land purchased from Robert Livingston for the naval stores project. Lutheran Pastor Joshua Kocherthal ministered to the family and specifically records that Anna Elizabeth received communion at Queensburg in Livingston Manor 25 Oct 1713.

More About MARTIN (2) ZIRBE:
Baptism: December 17, 1671, Kettenbach, Germany

More About ANNA ELISABETHA JUNGEL:
Fact 1: July 11, 1750, possible date of death

Children of MARTIN ZIRBE and ANNA JUNGEL are:

HEINRICH³ ZERBE, b. 1687, Kettenbach, Germany; d. Unknown.

More About HEINRICH ZERBE:
Baptism: October 12, 1687, Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany
Fact 1: October 1687, Twin sister died apparently at birth

ii.

TWIN DAUGHTER ZERBE, b. October 1687, Kettenbach, Germany; d. October 1697, Kettenbach, Germany.

More About TWIN DAUGHTER ZERBE:
Fact 1: October 1697, twin of Johann Heinrich
Fact 2: October 1697, apparently died at birth

4.	iii.	JACOB ZERBE, b. 1698, Kettenbach, Germany; d. August 15, 1776, Bethel Twp., Berks County, Pennsylvania.
5.	iv.	GEORG PETER ZERBE, b. February 1700/01, Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany; d. 1780.
	v.	JOHANN JAPHET ZERBE, b. February 17, 1703/04, Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany; d. February 22, 1703/04, Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany.
6.	vi.	JOHANNNES JAPHET ZERBE, b. 1705, Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany; d. Unknown.
	vii.	PHILIPP ZERBE, b. 1707, Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany; d. 1790, Berks County, Pennsylvania or New York; m. SUSANNA SCHAMAR, Unknown; b. Abt. 1708; d. Unknown.

More About PHILIPP ZERBE:
Baptism: February 12, 1707/08, Kettenbach, Nassau, Hessen, Germany

7.	viii.	ELISABETHA MARIA ZERBE, b. 1712, Livingston Manor,Columbia County, New York; d. Bet. 1749 - 1750, New Ringgold, Schuykill County, Pennsylvania.
8.	ix.	MARIA MARGARETHA ZERBE, b. February 03, 1714/15, Livingston Manor,Columbia County, New York; d. Abt. 1787, Berks County, Pennsylvania?.
	x.	BARBARA ZERBE, b. 1720, Livingston Manor,Columbia County, New York; d. Unknown; m. GEORGE MEYER, April 04, 1738; b. Abt. 1720; d. Unknown.

3. PHILIPP² ZERBE (MARTIN¹ ZIRBE) was born 1682 in Kettenbach, Germany, and died Bet. 1722 - 1723 in New York. He married MARIA CATHARINA STEIBER July 09, 1710 in Tappan, New York. She was born 1689 in Hachenburg, Germany or Wiltserlingen, Netherlands, and died August 09, 1768.

Notes for PHILIPP ZERBE:
Johann Philipp Zerbe was known as Philipp or Phillip and known spellings for his last name include Zerwe, Zerbst, Zirbe, Zerber, and Serven.

From WFT Volume 4, Tree #4174
Article by Henry Z. Jones, Jr. entitled "Finding the Ancestral Home of a Palatine Forefather: The Case of Martin Zerbe", published in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine:

"...A 'Phillip Zerber' was found on the original Rotterdam Lists near Martin and also on the London Lists ("Phillip Zerbst, 25, Lutheran, Figure maker"). It was noted that the Kocherthal records show a "Johann Philipp Zerb of Kettenbach, commune of Munster" who was married to a "Maria Catharina Steiber of the commune of Hachenburg" on 9 Jul 1710. Maps showed that Kettenbach was north of Wiesbaden, near a town of Munster and but a few miles away from Eppstein..."

See notes of brother Johann Martin...

From WFT Volume 6, Tree # 4527: Phillip may also have been known as Philip Serven, married to Katrina Stypers (who died 9 Aug 1768), resided in Commune of Munster in Holland; child Johan Jeurrien Serven born 23 Dec 1717

Children of PHILIPP ZERBE and MARIA STEIBER are:

JACOB³ ZERBE, b. Abt. 1713, Tappan, New York?; m. CATHERINA BYER.

More About JACOB ZERBE:
Baptism: January 12, 1713/14

ii.

SUSANNA MARIA ZERBE, b. Abt. 1716, New York; m. JACOB EKESEN.

More About SUSANNA MARIA ZERBE:
Baptism: February 11, 1715/16, New York

9.	iii.	GEORG URI SERVIS, b. December 23, 1717, Tappan, New York?; d. 1768, Hopewell Township, New Jersey.
	iv.	ABRAHAM ZERBE, b. September 27, 1718, Tappan, New York?; d. Unknown; m. BREGHJE SMITH.
	v.	PHILIPP ZERBE, b. Abt. 1722, New Jersey.

More About PHILIPP ZERBE:
Baptism: February 19, 1721/22, New Jersey.

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