1. JOHN ANDREAS1 RICHTER was born Abt. 1663 in Rhineland, Palitinate, Germany, and died Mar 1712/13 in Newtown, NY. He married ANNA MARIA Abt. 1681 in Rhineland, Palitinate, Germany. She was born Abt. 1665 in Rhineland, Palitinate, Germany, and died Unknown.
Notes for JOHN ANDREAS RICHTER:
Notes On The Rector Family Genealogy
by Paul Bullock - 18 Sep 1982
This story begins in the Electoral Palatinate in Germany in the years before 1709. The Palatinate was and is the area in Germany next to France and Belgium along the Rhine river and is presently called the Rhine-Palatinate or Pfalz. The War of the Palatinate in the late 1600's and the War of the Spanish Succession in the very early 1700's left this area ravaged and desolate. This caused many peasants and common people to be left homeless and destitute. Beginning in 1708, numbers of Palatines went to England in hopes to go on to the colonies. In 1709, thirteen thousand (13,000) families entered England.
According to a list taken in Walworth, England on May 27, 1709, one of these families was the John Andreas Richter family. Listed with John Andreas is his wife, a 14 year old son, and daughters of ages 17, 7, and 3. The list shows John Andreas to be 46 years old, his religion Lutheran, and his vocation husbandman or vinedresser. I have no information on from where in Germany the family came.
In England, the Board of Trade proposed that the Palatines go to the colonies to make naval stores. In 1710, three thousand (3,000) became British citizens and the British officials sent them to New York. The naval stores operation never prospered so most, of those who stayed in the new world, became farmers.
Andreas Richter name appears in Governor Hunter's New York subsistence list from the time of his landing in 1710 to September 1712. The list includes an Andreas Richter and with a family of 3 adults (over 10 years old) and 2 children in 1710. In 1712, a similar list shows 3 adults and no children. The Colonial Census of 1710 includes Andreas (age 47), his wife Anna Maria (45), son Andreas (16), and daughter Anna Barbara (9). So apparently the eldest daughter listed in England married and at least one younger daughter died in New York.
Probably the Richters moved up the Hudson in 1712 to the "West Camp" on the western bank of the river to Beckmansland. Beckmansland consisted of the towns of Elizabeth Town, George Town, and New Town. New Town is probably the present city of Newburgh, N.Y. In the Kocherthau Records, records of Pastor Kocherthau who was with the Palatine settlement, Anna Maria and Andreas were sponsors at the christening of Andreas Sutz on February 21, 1713. Then less than two months later, on April 7, 1713, the Kocherthau Records list the marriage of Johann Fuehrer to Anna Marie Richter widow of the late Andreas Richter of New Town. So Andreas Sr. died sometime in that two month period in 1713.
from the New York G&B April 1909
Pages 93 and 96
LISTS OF GERMANS FROM THE PALATINATE
WHO CAME TO ENGLAND IN I709
(Continued from Vol. XL, p. 54 of the RECORD.)
The following lists are copied from the original documents preserved in the British Museum Library, London, England, and should be of the greatest genealogical interest to those families in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, which claim descent from the so-called Palatine settlers. These lists have never before been printed to the knowledge of the Editor, and it should be noted that the word "son" or "sons" and "dau." or "daus." followed by figures denote that the heads of the family had as many sons or daughters, as there are figures, and that these sons and daughters were of the respective ages denoted by the figures. The word "wife" indicates that the head of the family was married and that the wife was living. The abbreviations "Ref.," "Luth.," "Bap." and "Cath.," mean that the family belonged to the Reformed, Lutheran, Baptist or Catholic Churches.
BOARD OF TRADE MISCELLANEOUS. VOL. 2 D. 64.
The second list of 1193 Palatines lately come over from Germany into this kingdom taken at Walworth, 27th of May, 1709, by Mr. John Tribbeko and Mr. Ruperti, German Ministers.
SECOND ARRIVALS.
NAME AGE WIFE SONS DAUS. CHURCH
HUSBANDMEN & VINEDRESSERS
NAME
AGE WIFE SONS DAUS. CHURCH
Richter, John Andreas 46 wife 14 I7,7,3 Luth.
THE EARLY PALATINE EMIGRATION
by Knittle
Pages 282 and 288
E. THE NEW YORK SUBSISTENCE LIST
THIS LIST was compiled from the "journal" of Palatine debtors to the British government for subsistence given either in New York City or in the Hudson River settlements, from their landing in 1710 to September, 1712. The list was found in the Public Record Office, C. O. 5/1230 and was corrected from the accompanying "ledger," C. O. 5/1231. As it seemed advisable to include some indication of the number in each family and since limitations of space forbade the inclusion of the six notations at various times given in the journal, only two notations have been given here, that is, the first in 1710 usually and the last in 1712 normally. Thus, with "Abelman, Johann Peter 2-1, 2-0," the size of the family signified is two adults and one child under ten years of age; by 1712 the child had died for we have noted only two adults. All children over ten years of age were given the full allowance for adults and were therefore not distinguished from more mature members of the family. Where only one notation of family size appears, the presumption is of death, or in the case of women, of marriage.
Richter, Andreas 3-2, 3-0
THE EARLY PALATINE EMIGRATION
by Knittle
Pages 291, 292, 297
F. THE SIMMENDINGER REGISTER
THIS LIST contains the Appendix of Ulrich Simmendinger's pamphlet, Warhoffte und glaubwurdige Verzeichnuss jcnigcr Personen ruelche sich anno 1709 aU" Teutschland in Americam oder ncuc ruelt begcben. ... (Reuttlingen, ca. '7'7) A COPY is i" the rare book room of the New York Public Library. Another copy is in the possession of Dr. Gustav Anjou, West New Brighten, Staten Island, New York. Simmendinger, who was one of the immigrants himself, returned to Germany in 17'7 and there published this brief account of the emigration and the names of those Palatine families still living in New York. The family names were given by Simmendinger under fourteen locations. These lists have been brought together into one alphabetized list, but the locations are preserved by including after the family head's name the letter of the alphabet,denoting the location according to the following key.
Quiinsberg = (a)
Neu = Quiinsberg = (h)
Wormsdorff = (b)
Neu = Heidelberg = (i)
Hunderston = (c)
Neu = Heessberg = (i)
Heessberg = (d)
Neu = Ansberg = (k)
Becksmansland = (e)
Diese Menschen wohnen auf
dem Rarendantz = (l)
Neu = Stuttgardt = (f)
In Neu = Yorck = (m)
Neu = Cassel = (g)
Hackensack = (n>
The first four villages comprised East Camp on the land purchased from Robert Livingston on the east side of the Hudson River. These villages have been identified as Queensbury, Annsbury, Hunterstown, and Haysbury respectively, as they are named in the New York Colonial MMS., LV, 100. Beckmansland, judged by the identification of certain individuals in the list, comprised the three villages on the west side (West Camp), given in loc. cit. as Elizabeth Town, George Town, and New Town. However, it is possible that the families identified may have moved to the east side of the river south of Livingston Manor, and the location of Beckmansland may be the Rhinebeck area. The objection to this surmise is that it leaves us without any notation of families living in West Camp. The villages marked (f) to (l) are apparently German names for the seven Schoharie Valley settlements, probably used only in the pamphlet to impress the people in the Fatherland for whom the lists were prepared. Tentatively, by the identification of a few family names known to reside in the several villages, they appear to be as follows:
Neu = Stuttgardt (f) -- Weiserdorf
Neu = Cassel (g) -- Gerlachsdorf
Neu = Quunsberg(h) -- Hartmansdorf
Neu = Heidelberg (i) -- Brunnendorf
Neu = Heesberg (j) --- Fuchsendorf
Neu = Ansberg (k) --- Schmidsdorf
Auf dem Rarendantz -- Kniskerndorf
It is interesting to note in passing that neither John Conrad Kneskern nor Hartman Windecker lived in the villages named after them, as has been assumed by students of these settlements. Neu = Yorck of course is New York City. Hackensack is the present town of Hackensack, New Jersey. The entire Simmendinger pamphlet has been translated by Reverend Herman Vesper of Canajoharie, New York and published by Mr. L. D. MacWethy of St. Johnsville, New York in 1934.
Richter, Andreas (e) w. Catherine & 1 ch.
Notes for ANNA MARIA:
Anna Maria married again soon after John Andreas died.
Children of JOHN RICHTER and ANNA are:
