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Descendants of Jorg Martin Dallenbach

Generation No. 1

1. JORG MARTIN⁶ DALLENBACH (NICHOLAS⁵, CHRISITEN⁴, CHRISTEN³, NICKLAUS² TELLENBACH, PETER¹) was born Abt. 1690 in Lauperswil, Switzerland, Nebern, The Alps ¹, and died 1767 in Stone Arabia,Montgomery, NY. He married (1) SARA CATHARINE BAUMANN Abt. February 24, 1710/11. She died Unknown. He married (2) ANNA ELISABETHA CASSELMAN February 24, 1712/13 in St. Paul Luth. Church, West Camp, NY, daughter of HANS CASSELMAN and ANNA RINDERIN. She was born June 19, 1690 in Eppingen, Germany, and died Unknown.

Notes for JORG MARTIN DALLENBACH:
Apparently lived in Adelshofen, Germany, went to Walworth, England in 1709, listed in a group of Palatines there. In 1710 the ration list of Gov Hunter lists them as living in West Camp, NY. Elisa Greta and Anna are to believed to have died on shipboard on trip to NY. The Simmindinger List which was published in Germany in 1717 but taken 1713 shows Dietrich and wife, Anna living in Stuttgart (Weiserdrof, now the Schoharie, NY area with 2 children. They would be Johann Dietrich and John Wilhelm. Andreas was 15 and considered an adult and Anna Elizabeth was married in Feb 1713. Hans D. was one of the original Patentee's of the Stone Arabia Patent in the Mohawk Valley in MY. The family was brought to NY as indentured workers to make tar for the British Navy. There is an unconfirmed story that some Indian Chiefs were in England and after seeing the Palatine Camps felt worry for them and offered land in the Schoharie Valley if the Palatines would come to NY. Due to mismanagement , the tar project was not successful and rations were stopped. In the middle of winter, 1712, the Palatines left for the Schoharie Valley. After building several villages and cultivating their farms, it became clear that there was a problem with the land titles. A period of riots, running the High Sheriff out of town on a rail and general disorders followed. As a compensation, the Palatines were offered land in the Stone Arabia area. Some took the land offered, Hans Dietrich was one, some went to PA and some made arrangements to stay on the land in Schoharie, Christia was one. And took oath of naturalization 17 Jan 1716 at Albany, NY
NOTES FROM DON DILLENBACH:
Jorg served in Capt. Weiser's Co of Col Nicholson, Queen Anne's War in 1711/ The Birth dates of all the children except the first are uncertain. The names Dillenbach first appear in the American History of the year 1712, in records of The Reverend Joshua Kocherthal, the 1st pastor of the German Lutherans in the colony of NY. The name Jorg Dillenbach is connected with the baptism of his daughter, Ann Margretha, six months later in the same records, the name of the same man appears a Joerg Martin Dillenbach in connection with his second marriage.

Jorg Martin Dillenbach, called Martin thereafter in the report, came to America in 1710. He was in the 2nd migration of Palatines from the Rhine Valley with his wife and mother, He was born about 1690 at Laupersville, Switzerland, a few miles NE of Bern. The Palatines subsistence list of debt due the British Government contains this item " Barbara Dillenbachin and her son, Martin, 32:2:8-- This list made up late in 1712 or early 1713. This appears to be the last record of her and she probably died in the awful struggle the Palatines had in the Hudson Valley--many perished in the cold and hunger of the area living in huts made of boughs and withes.

In a list of Palatine immigrants made between 1710-1717 by Ulrich Simmendinger, we find Martin Dielenbach and his wife, Elizabeth with 2 children living in New Castle (located in West Camp across the Hudson River from Germantown, NY.
In a Bern record, it says that Martin Dallenbach of Laupswill is at Schaggarill in America and that he send his brother, Johannes, a paper giving him power of attorney to send or to bring his money amounting to 130 kronen, which he still had in the country. At the same time he waives his citizenship in the canton of Bern. The authorities there agree to this and the town of Lauerswill also agrees. The constable in Trachselwald court is authorized to collect a fee out of this money. The brother, Johannes, who gave up his citizenship of Lauperwil and became a citizen of Zweibruecken, Germany, aid the same constable 13 Kronen removal fee==the government called his Mathys Dallenbach, which the constable called him Martin.

The following from Faust's List of Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century to the American Colonies "1732, May 12 Trachswlwald, Amtsrechnung, Martin Dallenbach of Lauerswill has emigrated to America and resides in Schaggarill. He commissions his brother, Johannes Dallenbach who has settled in Zweibrucken to withdraw the property which he has in this country, amounting to 13 Crowns, 10 BTSJ, from which 10 percent emigration tax is deducted. Note: the name Dallenbach is sometimes written Tellenbach in the district of Trachselbach.

Apparently, Martin's father Nicholas, died before 1698 for on October 15 of that year, a certain farm in Lauperswill was bequeathed them and thew oldest son, called Hans Johannes was permitted to go to Lauperswill to obtain his share of the inheritance. The share of the son, Martin, a minor, is to remain under supervision of the parish until he has reached majority. He is to decide at that time whether he wishes to retain or surrender his citizenship--he apparently delays claiming his inheritance because he was of age in 1711At the time the family received the legacy, they were living in Gollheim in Nassau, Germany. It is possible that Barbara and all her children moved there. If they did it would help to account for their presence in the group of 3000 Palatines who left Europe in 1709 for America. They had left Switzerland temporarily. After Barbara and her son Marin left Europe, Johannes or Hans moved to Zweibruecken, Germany. Schaggarill may be a corrupted form either Stone Arabia or Schoharie, NY, as in 1732 Martin was living in Stone Arabia, NY.

Martin had been a member of the Expedition under Col. Nicholson in 1711 against Canada, then held by the French. Martin married Anna Elizabetha Casselmann (now Casselman). Pastor Kocherthal performed the rite and in the records, names Martin a "Widower"

In 1722 Martin takes a leading part in procuring the Stone Arabia Patent. His name appears on the license to purchase, 9 Mar, 1722 , in the Indian Deed, 10 May 1723, in the warrant for patent 14 Sept., 1723 in various joint deeds, quit-claim deed given to the Reformed group of Stone Arabia, 17 Mar 1744. On 17 Mar 1754, Martin and his son, Henrich, signed a quit-claim deed. In 1764, he was witness to the will of Hendrick Dillenbach, where he signed his name as Mardenes Dillenbach. Death date of Martin is unknown. He was dead in 1767 for that year Anna Maria, wife of Christian was assigned his portion of the undivided land in the patent.

Martin was 1 of the 27 men to receive a grant of land from Kind George after they had brought it of the Indians for 300 pounds in Indian Goods. In the grant his name is Mardan Dallinback. It contained after the last survey in 1793--nearly 13,---- Acres. Lot No 10 is a part of the present old homestead, to which was added in a late division. Lot no 19 was directly across the road from the Stone Arabia Churches. In the Second division, Martin drew lots # 1 and 2. These adjoined the old Homestead on the east and Lot # 1 with Lot # 10 of the 1st division was part of the old homestead.

In the History of Montgomery Cty, P. 152, Mardan Dillenbagh (now Dillenbeck) was also one of the Stone Arabia Patentees, settled as early as 1725 on Lot # 10 of the patent where John A. Dillenback. a descendant now resides. His eldest son, Andrew, occupied these premises at the commencement of the Revolution. He became a Captain in the militia and lost his life at the Battle of Oriskany, where he defended himself against the attack of 3 of Johnson's Greens, who attempted to take him prisoner. His widow, whose maiden name was Catharine Fink, a Sister of Major Fink--afterward remarried to Capt. John Zeilley, who live in Revolutionary times where Jerome Van Wie Resides, near the sprake r's station.

The Palatine lies in the Southwestern portion of Germany three thousand were transported in 11 ships to America under Queen Anne's of England and landed on Nutten, or what is now Governor's Island, in NY. The first ship arrived in 13 June 1710. Approximately 470 died on the way over or once ashore and the remainder established 2 camps on the Hudson River, East Camp and West Camp. Columbia and Ulster Counties respectively. The British government employed them making tar and pitch; however, 1000 left the camps in 1712 for settlement in the Schoharie Valley where they might practice husbandry. On 19 Oct 1723 the "Stone Arabia Patent" comprising 12,700 acres of land was granted to John Christian Garlock. Marden Dillenback and 25 others. In 1744, 2 church were erected in Stone Arabia, a Lutheran and a Calvinist. The Lutheran was represented by 10 men, of which Martines Dillenback was one. Generally speaking, a "Palentine" is someone who came from the region of Germany called the "Palatinate". Germany as a country has not existed very long. Prior to 1871, what is now Germany was a number of separate states, such as Wurttemberg, Prussia, Bavaria, etc., whose boundaries changed frequently as the result of war and other causes. The Palatinate was one of these states, and was located along the Rhine River, roughly where the modern German state of Rhineland-Pfalz is located. In the 18th and early 19th century, the term "Palatine" was used in America to describe immigrants from the "Palatinate" and other adjoining German-speaking areas. Finding an American reference to someone being from the "Palatinate" may not point to a specific place or origin but rather an approximate location near western or southern Germany.

Pal Palatinate or German PFALZ in German history, the lands of the count palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Geographically, the Palatinate was divided between 2 small territorial clusters, The Rhenish or Lower Palatinate, and the Upper Palatinate. The Rhenish Palatinate included lands on both sides of the Middle Rhine River between its Main and Neckar tributaries. Its capital until the 18th Century was Heidelberg. The Upper Palatinate was located in northern Bavaria, on both sides of the Naab River as it flows south toward the Danube and extended eastward to the Bohemian Forest. The boundaries of the Palatinate varied with the political and dynastic fortunes of the counts palatine. During the War of Grand Alliance (1689-97), the troops of the French monarch Louis XIV ravaged the Rhenish Palatinate, causing many Germans to emigrate. Many of the early German settlers of America (the Pennsylvania Dutch) were refugees from the Palatinate. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Palatinate's lands on the west bank of the Rhine were incorporated into France, while its eastern lands were divided largely between neighboring Baden and Hess. After the defeat of Napoleon, (1814-15) , the Congress of Vienna gave the east bank lands to Bavaria. These lands together with some surrounding territories, again took the name of Palatinate in 1838.

Jones, p 168: He was a soldier in 1711, Palatine Volunteers to Canada. With wife and 2 children were at Gerlachsdorf in 1716. Patentee at Stone Arabia in 1723. In 1732 he commisioned his brother Johnannes, in Zweibrucken, Germany, to withdraw his Swiss property amounting to 13 crowns, 10 btz, from which 10% emigration tax was deducted. Martin's family was listed by Pastor Sommers in the Mohawk country in 1744: 10 children

Child of JORG DALLENBACH and SARA BAUMANN is:

ANNA MARGRETHA⁷ DILLENBACH, b. August 01, 1712; d. Unknown.

Children of JORG DALLENBACH and ANNA CASSELMAN are:

2.	ii.	JOHANNES⁷ DILLENBACH, b. 1714; d. Unknown.
3.	iii.	HENRICH DILLENBACH, b. 1716, the "Camps" Stone Arabia, Palatine, Montgomery, NY; d. June 13, 1795, the "Camps" Stone Arabia, Palatine, Montgomery, NY.
4.	iv.	JOHANN CHRISTIAN DILLENBACH, b. 1718, Stone Arabia, Montgomery, NY; d. 1797, Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada.
	v.	ANNA MARIA DILLENBACH, b. 1720; d. Unknown.
	vi.	WILHELM DILLENBACH, b. 1722; d. Unknown.
5.	vii.	ELISABETHA DILLENBACH, b. 1725, Stone Arabia, Montgomery, NY; d. Unknown.
6.	viii.	MARTINUS DILLENBACH, b. November 12, 1726, Stone Arabia Montgomery, NY; d. Bef. 1808.
7.	ix.	JOHN DIETRICH (RICHARD) DILLENBACH, b. 1731; d. Abt. September 08, 1814.
8.	x.	JOHN BALTASAR DILLENBACH, b. 1733; d. Unknown.
	xi.	JOHN DAVID DILLENBACH, b. 1735; d. Unknown.

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