Rev. John George Bamberg, South Carolina Home Page

Surnames of Interest:BAMBERG/Bamburg/Bambergh/Baumberg/BaumbergerALLEN; BARNES; PICQUET; PRICE; ATTERBERY Rev. John George Bamberg (B. 1755-1760; D. 1800-1802),Born in Germany or Pennsylvania. Married Ann Mary Allen, Lexington District, SC in 1780's. Known children: Rose (?-Nancy); George; Anna Catherin; John Frederick. He served as a Sergeant in Capt. Bauer's Co. of the Corps recruited by Nicholas Dietrich, Baron de Ottendorff, 1777, in Pennsylvania. This continental corp merged into Armand's Legion in 1780. In 1781, served as a corporal in Capt. John Barbarie's New Jersey Volunteers, 3rd Regiment (Loyalist) at Ft. Ninety Six, SC. The British troops evacuated the fort in 1781, moving east to Ft. Granby, below present-day Columbia, SC. Ten miles above Fort Granby was Saxe Gotha, an established community of German speaking Lutherans. John George Bamberg was ordained in 1789, at the second meeting of the Unio Ecclesiastica of the German Protestant Churches in the State of South Carolina. His signature appears on the original constitution of this group in 1788. Rev. Bamberg served Zion Church, Lexington District from 1782 until his resignation in 1798. He moved to Barnwell District, SC on lands granted to him on the Big Salkchatchie River. His son, John Frederick Bamberg, remained in South Carolina. William Seaborn Bamberg, son of John Frederick, was one of the founders of the town of Bamberg, Bamberg County, SC, USA. I would like to communicate with others interested in the genealogy and history of John George Bamberg.