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Descendants of Adam Moses 09/02/2008

Generation No. 1

      1. Johann Adam² Moses (Johann Peter¹) was born 1709 in probably Amsterdam, Holland, and died Bef. March 22, 1792 in Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He married Maria Catharina Müller December 27, 1739 in Evangelisch, Ilbesheim, Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern, daughter of Johann Müller and Anna Stein. She was born January 26, 1713/14 in Ilbesheim, Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern (Germany), and died Bef. January 28, 1803 in Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for Johann Adam Moses:
1) From the records of the Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz at the Speyer Archives in Germany:

1722 - Johann Adam Moses was confirmed in Ilbesheim b. Kirchheimbolanden

2) From "A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776" by I. Daniel Rupp, p. 159:

1743, Sept. 2: Passenger on the ship "Loyal Judith", James Cowie, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes

3) From "Pennsylvania German Pioneers", Volume I, pp. 334-339, Lists 97A,B & C for "Loyal Judith", Qualified on September 2, 1743:

List 97-A (Foreigners imported), p. 335 --> Adam Moses, age 33
List 97-B (Palatines imported), p. 336 --> Johann Adam Moses
List 97-C (Took the oath), p. 338 --> Johann Adam Moses

[If Adam Moses was 33 in September 1743, then his birthday in 1709 must have fallen sometime after September 2nd]

4) From Colonial records:

1743: Philadelphia County records include entries for Adam Moses and Johan Adam Moses

5) From baptismal records:

1744: Acted as sponsor/witness to baptism of Johann Adam Stein, son of Johan Adam and Anna Catherina Stein, in May at Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe
1751: Acted as sponsor/witness to baptism of Anna Catherina Fiedler, daughter of Valentin and Catherina, on February 1st at Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe (first baptism in the new school house)
1759: Acted as sponsor/witness to baptism of Catherina Stein, daughter of Johan Adam and Anna Catherina Stein, on March 15th at Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe

6) From Futhey & Cope's "History of Chester County", p. 51-52:

May 10, 1756 - Adam Moses was among a group of men from St. Vincent Township, Pike Land, Chester County, who formed a militia unit to protect themselves during the French & Indian War.

7) From Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies, C. O. 5. 1276, p. 128:

Jurors' Names.: [p.128]       ADAM MOSES.
Township.:             Pikes.
County.:                   Chester.
Sacrament when taken.:       Oct. 12th, 1765.
Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies.
[The following certificales for this Colony have not been entered into the Entry Book.] C. O. 5. 1276.

8) From Tax Lists found in "Pennsylvania Archives", Series 3, showing lists of persons living in Chester County who were taxed the Pikeland Rate:

Volume 11:

1765 - Adam Moses taxed for 100 Acres, 1 Horse, 3 Cattle, 3 Sheep (p. 92)
1766 - Adam Moses taxed for 100 Acres, 2 Horses, 5 Cattle, 4 Sheep (p. 210)
1767 - Adam Moses taxed for 100 Acres, 3 Horses, 4 Cattle, 4 Sheep (p. 354)
1768 - Adam Mosses taxed for 100 Acres, 2 Horses, 4 Cattle, 6 Sheep (p. 444)
1769 - Adam Mosses taxed for 100 Acres, 3 Horses, 4 Cattle, 6 Sheep (p. 636)
1771 - Adam Moses taxed for 100 Acres, 2 Horses, 2 Cattle, 8 Sheep (p. 761)

Volume 12:

1774 - Adam Moses taxed for 100 Acres, 2 Horses, 2 Cattle, 2 Sheep (p. 88)
1779 - Adam Moses taxed for 135 Acres, 2 Horses, 3 Cattle (p. 173)
1780 - Adam Moses taxed for 135 Acres, 2 Horses, 3 Cattle (p. 272)
1781 - Adam Moses taxed for 135 Acres, 0 Horses, 1 Cattle (p. 420)
1785 - Adam Moses taxed 1 pound, 9 shillings, 10 pence (p. 785)

8) From other tax lists:

1780: PA -- Lived in Pikeland township, Chester County,
taxed 37 pounds
1783: taxed for 135 acres, 1 cow, 2 sheep

9) From Futhey & Cope's "History of Chester County":

1771: One of the founders of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Chester Springs, PA
      May 16th -- named in a deed, along with Peter Hartmann, George Emery, & Conrad Miller, for one to two acres of land to be used for the church and burying ground.
      Contributed 5 pounds for the purchase of the land (name listed as Adam Moszes).

1772: Elected trustee of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Chester Springs on December 21st, installed by Henry Muhlenberg, Jr. on March 4, 1773

10) From "Abstract of Wills and Administrations, Chester County, PA", Vol III, pp. 370-371, Abstract #4216:

Adam Moses, Pikeland Township
Dec 13 1786 (written), Mar 22 1792 (proved).

"Provides for wife Catherine. To son John. my Plantation in Pikeland. Paying £200 to my Exrs. to be equally div. between 6 chil. Jacob. Catherin Smith. John. Henry. Peter & Mary Angle King.

Sons in law Valentine Smith & Philip King. Exrs.

George Sneider. David John. wit."

Note: The complete text of this will is posted on the web at the following address:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/MOSES/adammoses_will_will.html

11) Letter written by Peter Allen Moses on 4/18/1902 to the wife of William Alexander Moses:

Note: This letter, along with additional notes, is also posted on the web at the following address:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/MOSES/peteramoses_letter.html

"Cornwallis, Oregon
April 18, 1902

Mrs. W. A. Moses:

Your letter of March 31st came to me in due time with desired information. I see by your letter that we are related. Adam Moses was born in Germany in the year of 1709 and came with his family to the Colonies about the year 1746. They settled in what is now Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a man of ample means, as I have heard my father say, but lost all during the Revolutionary War. Of his wife I have no knowledge. Here is his family:

Adam Moses born 1709:

1. Coty Moses born Oct. 29, 1744
2. Jacob Moses born Jan. 22, 1746 (He died on their way to America and was buried in Amsterdam.)
3. John Moses was born Aug. 18, 1747
4. Henry Moses was born April 28, 1749
5. Peter Moses was born Aug. 26, 1751 (This was my grandfather and the father of Monroe Moses).
6. Adam Moses was born April 9, 1754
7. Mary Engle Moses was born Feb. 16, 1759

These seven were the children of Adam Moses who came to America. Their names were taken from Adam Moses Bible by my father in 1804 when he went from Virginia back to Chester County to see his grandfather and family. The above Peter Moses married in Pennsylvania and my father, his son, was born October 3, 1779. In 1783 he moved with his family from Chester County to Buckingham County, Virginia. They were the first to bring coffee into that portion of the country. Peter Moses was married twice, by the first wife was Samuel Ferris Moses, my father and Peter Moses, from the second marriage were two children, Mary Moses and Monroe Moses. They were half sister and brother to my father. I have seen them both, Aunt Mary or Aunt Polly, as we called her, was married to a Mr. Wooten in Buckingham. I once visited them in Buckingham in about 1852 or 1853. I knew Uncle Monroe in the early forties when he lived in Cumberland County, not very far from Farmville. I knew his two sons or at least, two of his sons. I think one was named Peter, just my name, I forget the name of the other. My mother was born in 1789 in sight of the Old Rack Baptist Church which was then in Prince Edward County. They were married in 1808. Her name was Nancy Jennings. Her father's name was Allen Jennings. I was named after both of my grandfathers. My name Peter Allen Moses, after Peter Moses and Allen Jennings. I was with my mother when on or about 1835 to on a visit to see her folks at the Old Rack Church. My father moved to Charlotte County, where he raised his family, 13 children. My father died about 1860 and my mother about 1872. Nearly all the children are dead. One died in Tennessee, one in Cansas, one in Kentucky, one in Oregon, the others in Virginia I think, and a sister is living in Virginia. Two of us boys here, me here, I am now in my 74th year. I have a brother, William Henry, who married in Campbell County in the early fifties. He left a family, but I lost sight of them many years ago. I thought when I wrote to you, you might be of his line of the family. If you know anything of them or can give me any information, in regard to the family of Aunt Polly Wooten, or the family of Uncle Monroe, their names and where they live, I will greatly appreciate it.
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Peter Moses born Aug. 26, 1751
Samuel Ferris Moses born Oct. 3, 1779
Peter Allen Moses, myself, born Nov. 18, 1828

Here is your line of the family.

Adam Moses born 1709
Peter Moses born Aug. 26, 1751
Monroe Moses
Charles Thomas Moses born Sept 14, 1844
William Alexander Moses born Oct. 17, 1868

By this you will see that my grandfather, your husband's great grandfather was the same person.

Very respectfully yours,

antient kinsman,

P. A. Moses

I live at Cornwallis, Oregon."

[Given that Jacob is named in his father's will, he did not die on the way to America.]

Notes for Maria Catharina Müller:
1) From the records of the Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz at the Speyer Archives in Germany:

1/26/1714 - Maria Catherina Mueller was born to Philip Mueller and his wife Anna Elisabetha Stein, who were married on 01/24/1708. The marriage took place at Evangelische, Ilbesheim, Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern (Germany), and the birth took place in Ilbesheim as well.

Marriage Notes for Johann Moses and Maria Müller:
1) From International Genealogical Index (IGI) - Germany:

Johann Adam Moses married Maria Catherina Muellerin on 12/27/1739 in "Evangelisch, Ilbesheim Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern".

The -in is a German suffix denoting a female, and the 'e' after the 'u' is an alternative way to spell a name which includes an umlaut, therefore Mueller and Müller are really equivalent forms of the surname.

Children of Johann Moses and Maria Müller are:

Johann Peter³ Moses, born Bef. September 29, 1740 in Ilbesheim, Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern (Germany); died Bef. 1751 in ?.

Notes for Johann Peter Moses:
1) From the International Genealogical Index (IGI) - Germany:

Johann Peter Moses was christened on September 29, 1740 in "Evangelisch, Ilbesheim Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern". His parents are listed as "Johann Adam Moses" and "Mariae Catharinae".

This child does not appear in the list of Adam's children as taken from the family bible and quoted in the letter written by Peter Allen Moses. Perhaps this is the child who died on the way and was buried in Amsterdam (rather than Jacob as the letter falsely indicates).

This child appears to have died at a young age, sometime before his brother Peter was born in 1751. We know from the letter written by Peter Allen Moses that the Peter born in 1751 is the Peter who was mentioned in the will of the father Adam Moses.

ii.

Maria Friederica Moses, born January 15, 1741/42 in Ilbesheim, Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern (Germany); died Bef. December 13, 1786.

Notes for Maria Friederica Moses:
1) From the International Genealogical Index (IGI) - Germany:

Maria Friederica Moses was christened on January 21, 1742 in "Evangelisch, Ilbesheim Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bayern". Her parents are listed as "Johann Adam Moses" and "Mariae Cath.".

This child does not appear in the list of Adam's children as taken from the family bible and quoted in the letter written by Peter Allen Moses. Perhaps this is the child who died on the way and was buried in Amsterdam (rather than Jacob as the letter falsely indicates).

This child appears to have died at a young age, as she is not mentioned in Adam's will.

+	4	iii.		Anna Catharina 'Caty' Moses, born October 29, 1744 in Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Aft. January 31, 1816 in ?.
	5	iv.		Jacob Moses, born January 22, 1745/46 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Bet. May 30, 1821 - August 22, 1822 in near St. Clairsville, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Heilman May 05, 1767 in St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church / Germantown, Pennsylvania; born December 03, 1742 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Unknown.

Notes for Jacob Moses:
1) Pennsylvania German Church Records, 1729-1870

Section : Pennsylvania German Church Records I
Page # : 369

Moses, Johan Jacob, s. Johan Adam and Catharina;
b. Jan. 22; bap. Feb. 19, 1746;
sp. Johan Jacob Kittelmann.

Baptism took place at the Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church in Trappe, PA, currently known as the "Old Trappe Church". [This information conflicts with the letter from Peter Allen Moses, which indicates that Jacob died on the way to America and was buried in Amsterdam.]

2) Birth Index: Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1680-1800

Moses, Johan Jacob Child's Birth/Baptism Date : 22 Jan 1746
Location : Trappe Lutheran Church, Upper Providence Township
County : Montgomery
State : Pennsylvania
Father : Johan Adam Moses
Mother : Mrs. Catharina Moses

3) From Tax Lists found in "Pennsylvania Archives", Series 3, volume 11, showing lists of persons living in Chester County who were taxed the Pikeland Rate:

1766 - Jacob Moses taxed as a Freeman (p. 212)
1768 - Jacob Moses taxed as Inmate (p. 447)
1769 - Jacob Mosses taxed as Inmate (p. 638)
1771 - Jacob Moses taxed for 0 Acres, 0 Horses, 0 Cattle, 0 Sheep (p. 761)

4) From Futhey & Cope's History of Chester County:

1771: One of the founders of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Chester Springs, PA
Contributed 3 pounds towards the purchase of the land (name listed as Jacob Moszes)

5) Entries for Jacob Moses in Chester County, PA census (need to be checked - may or may not be for the same person):

1790: East Nantmill Township (page # not known)
1810: Pikeland Township, p. 357
1820: East Nantmeal Township, p. 207 (entry shows Jacob C. Moses, probably not the same person)
1830: East Nantmeal Township, p. 186
1840: Willistown Township, p. 383 (entry shows Jacob L. Moses, probably not the same person)

6) Entries for Jacob Moses in PA Census (County & Township not known, entries need to be checked)

Pennsylvania Census -- 1790, p.63
Name of head of family: Moses, Jacob
Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1
Free white males under 16 years: 3
Free white females, including heads of families: 2
Pennsylvania Census -- 1790, p.286
Name of head of family: Moses, Jacob
Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 2
Free white males under 16 years: 1
Free white females, including heads of families: 4

7) There is some speculation that the Jacob Moses who married Elizabeth Heilman/Holman/Hohlman and moved to Bedford County, PA, is in fact the son of Adam Moses. At this time, this is only speculative and has not been proven. Some of the facts fit and some don't. The Jacob Moses who moved to Bedford County, PA, is said to have been born 1739 in Germany. This Jacob was born 1746 in America. This is the part that doesn't fit. The part that does fit is that Adam's son Jacob was married about the same time as the Jacob who ended up in Bedford County. Also, the Jacob who ended up in Bedford County named his first-born son Adam. Also, Elizabeth Hohlman was confirmed the same day at the same church as Jacob's sister Anna Catherina Moses.

+	6	v.	John Moses, born August 18, 1747 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Abt. April 05, 1820 in Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
+	7	vi.	Henry Moses, born April 28, 1749 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Aft. 1792 in ?.
+	8	vii.	Peter Moses, born August 26, 1751 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died March 13, 1830 in Virginia.
	9	viii.	Adam Moses, born April 09, 1754 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died Bef. December 13, 1786 in ?.

Notes for Adam Moses:
1) I do assume that Adam's name was actually Johann Adam Moses, but I have not found any record of this name being used for him.

2) From tax lists and other records:

1799: taxed as an Inmate (renter),
a mason with 1 cattle
1800: PA State Census -- listed as an Inmate

[It is quite likely that these entries actually refer to someone else -- most likely one of the nephews of this Adam who were also named Adam (i.e. the sons of Johannes Moses and Heinrich Moses).]

3) Entries for Adam Moses in Chester County, PA census (need to be checked):

1810: Vincent Township, p. 372
1830: Vincent Township, p. 157
1840: West Vincent Township, p. 295

4) Entries for Adam Moses in PA Census (County & Township not known, entries need to be checked)

Pennsylvania Census -- 1790, p.286
Name of head of family: Moses, Adam
Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1
Free white males under 16 years: 1
Free white females, including heads of families: 1

ix.

Maria Engel Moses, born February 16, 1759 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; died April 08, 1848 in West Pikeland Township, Chester County, PA.

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