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Johann Adam
Fishel
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(Johannes, Anna Maria) “John Adam” or “Johann Adam Fischell” ME8 was born on September 19, 1730 YO5, FR21, ME8 in the Palatinate RE17, ME8 or “Eisenheim, Palatinate” YO5.
The municipality of Eisenheim is in Würzburg, but Essenheim is in
Rhine-Palatinate, and the town of Essenheim was probably the birthplace of John
Adam, because the voyagers on the Loyal Judith were described as
“Palatines”. “Johann Adam”, the son of Johannes Fissel and Anna Maria
Elisabeth, was baptized on September 24, 1730 KR1.
He traveled to
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his family on the ship Loyal Judith,
captained by James Cowie on September 3, 1742 ST19, KR1. He and his parents were said to have arrived
in Philadelphia on September 19, 1742 ME8
and He
and his family settled in York, Pennsylvania, possibly in Hellam Township on
the Kreutz Creek YO5 or along the
Susquehanna River, of which Kreutz Creek is a tributary ME8. He may have been the “Johan Adam Fissel” who was a sponsor for the
grandson of Killian Fissel, whose name was Johan Adam Fissel and who was
baptized on May 2, 1756 DU10.
Killian Fissel may have been Johann’s paternal uncle. He became a member of the Brethren’s
Society in Yorktown, which was affiliated with the Moravian Church, and then
1757 he became a member of the Moravian Church ME8. Johann Adam Fischel married Ursula
Catharina Thomas on May 2, 1757 MC7, YO5, MA17 in Yorktown (York, Pennsylvania) in a ceremony officiated by
Brother Russmeier ME8, but
his memorial marker and the Marriage Register of The Moravian Church, Litiz
[sic] indicated that his marriage to Ursula C. Thomas occurred in the
Moravian Church, in Lititz, Pennsylvania MA17.
The marriage record stated “Thomas, Ursula Cathar., and Adam Fischel” MA17.
John (Johann) opened his home to soldiers
when the Continental Congress moved to York in September 1777 AL1. The Fischell and the Marschall families relocated to the Wachovia
Friedberg community in North Carolina in 1779 ME8, MC7, perhaps on October 15, 1779 YO5 or November 5, 1779, according to the
stone memorial markers for Johann and Ursula (he “came to North Carolina in
1779” RE17). On December 15, 1779, “Br. and Sr. Fischel” (brother and sister
were terms used in the Moravian Church and did not refer to a familial relationship)
were said to have recently relocated from Yorktown to Friedberg, North Carolina
“and have settled on their new farm near Tanner’s. They are content and settled
and like the manner of living in this part of the land” FR20. They “settled a few miles from the
Friedberg school house” ME8. The original Friedberg Moravian Church was
located south of Winston-Salem, and a memorial marker for the church is
positioned near the intersection of Friedberg Church Road and Highway 150. On May 26, 1782, a new committee for the
Moravian church in Friedberg was selected, and included J. Adam Fischel, Peter
and Christian Frey, and Martin Walk FR21. He was mentioned on February 21, 1793 in a Friedberg Moravian
church diary entry which stated that his residence was located near a bridge,
which indicates that he lived near a river FR23. On June 20, 1793 Johann Fischel was “very sick with fever” FR23. A diary entry for the following April
(April 1, 1794) stated “Old Br. Fischel was somewhat better; he has been ailing
all winter” FR23. Approximately five years prior to his
death, Ursula and Johann began living in the households of their various
children ME8. Johann Adam Fischel died at age
seventy-two on June 7, 1802 at Friedberg, North Carolina MC7, ME8 and was buried on Tuesday, June 8, 1802
ME8.
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1790
US Census: Probably enumerated as “Adam Fishell”, who lived in Stokes County,
North Carolina with four boys under the age of sixteen, another man over
sixteen, and three free white females (their age range was not noted). A man named John Fishell also lived in Stokes
County, North Carolina, with one boy under the age of sixteen and two free
white females.
Ursula Catharina Thomas
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born on April 15, 1738 in the monastery district of Pfullingen in Württemberg,
Germany, to Lutheran parents MC7, FR15. A
christening record at Evangelische Kirche in Pfullingen, Württemberg for Ursula
Catharina had an earlier date, September 10, 1737 EV1. This record stated that her father’s name was Johannes Thomas
and her mother was Christina Catharina, and under her father’s name was a word
that may have been Schreiner EV1, which
means a joiner or a carpenter. The handwriting in this church book resembled a
cross between Kurrent and Sütterlin script, although Sütterlin was not created
until the twentieth century. The word in question was written carelessly and
quickly, and several of the letters were poorly formed, and because of this,
his profession as a schreiner is simply conjecture. According
to Ursula Catharina Fischel’s memoir which was written in 1815, she came with
her parents to Yorktown (York, Pennsylvania) MC7. Two men, named Peter Thomas and Jno Thomas, were included in a list of passengers who arrived on
January 8, 1738/9 in Pennsylvania from London in a bilander ship called the London,
under the command of Joshua Pipon ST19. An
almost identical second list of Palatine men who were passengers of the
bilander (a type of small merchant ship)
London under Commander Joshua Pipon was written two days later.
This list also included the marks of the passengers, and in this list, Jno Thomas became Johannes Thomas ST19, RU1.
There is a possibility that this was the ship on which she and her family
emigrated from Germany, if her father was Johannes Thomas.
On
June 11, 1757, “she was received as a member of the York congregation (i.e.,
First Moravian Church, York, Pennsylvania); and on the 16th of February 1760
was admitted to the enjoyment of the body and blood of Jesus in Holy Communion
for the first time [as a Moravian]” MC7.
She served as a midwife to the women within her congregation MC7. Her memoir stated that “because she knew by heart a lovely trove/selection
of verses from the Moravian Church’s hymnal, she liked to reply to questions
that were directed to her with the same, such as, “Nichts als Jesu Christi
Gnade…” or “Ich bin ein armes Würmelein…”” MC7.
Ursula
Catharina Fischel was the mother of seven sons and four daughters MC7. Catharina Thomas Fischel and John Adam Fischel were recorded as
the parents of Anna Maria, Christina Catharina, John, a stillborn son (born on August 6, 1763),
Jacob, John Adam, Eva, Anna Margaret, Henry, and Conrad YO5. She was also likely the mother of Daniel and Phillip, who were
called brothers of John Adam Fishell NO16.
Anna Maria Fischel was born on April 4, 1758 to John Adam and Catharina
Fischel, and was baptized two days later in the home of her grandfather YO5. Her
sponsors were Anna Maria Müller and her grandmothers YO5. Anna
Maria Fishel married Michael Rominger of “New England” on August 10, 1780 US24. According to a record copied from the Church Book in
Friedland, Stokes County, North Carolina on June 19, 1840 by Gottlieb Bighan
(or Byhan), the minister of that church, their children were Anna Catharina,
Juliana, John Philip, Anna Maria, John Martin, Verona, Eva, Benjamin, Maria
Elisabeth, George, Anna Susanna, and Conrad, who were born in the years 1781
through 1800 US24. Michael Rominger
died on June 5, 1818 in Stokes County, North Carolina US24. Ann Mariah Rominger was
mentioned in the will of her brother, John Adam Fishell, on October 7, 1839 NO16. Anna
Maria Rominger was said to have been “eighty-three years last April” and was a
resident of Stokes County, North Carolina in a pension statement given by her
on September 24, 1840 US24.
She and others gave detailed accounts of her late husband’s fifteen-month tour
of service during the Revolutionary War US24.
Her gravestone, located at Friedburg Moravian God’s Acre in Davidson County,
North Carolina, stated that she was born on April 1, 1758 and died on June 5,
1848 (a photo can be viewed on the Find a
Grave website).
Christina Catharina Fischel was born to John Adam
and Catharina Fischel on July 21, 1760 and was baptized on July 23, 1760; her
sponsors were Catharina Heckedorn and her grandmothers YO5. The Friedberg Moravian church
congregation diary indicated on December 20, 1780 that the “Fishels thought to
give their daughter in marriage to the younger Tanner” FR21. Jacob Tanner requested a certificate
for the publication of the Banns on January 2, 1781 FR21. Catharine
Danner was mentioned in the will of Jacob Danner of Rowan County, North
Carolina, which was dated June 18, 1795 NO16. This will indicated that they had no children of their own,
for Jacob Danner bequeathed five shillings to his nephew, George Danner, who
was the eldest son of his brother, George Danner NO16. The next bequest was to Catharine, “I
will & bequeath to my dear loving wife Catharine Danner, all the residue of
my estate, goods & cattles, lands & tenements, with all the advantages
arising there from, during her life & her children, in consequence she
should hereafter marry & have any.” NO16. This will was witnessed by Henry Fishel, Butler Stonestreet,
and Stark Boulmare NO16. She may have married Henry Kreuzfuesser. John and
Daniel Kriuzfüsur were called the children of John Adam Fishell’s deceased
sister in his will, dated October 7, 1839 NO16. The gravestone for
Catharina Kreuzfuesser is located at Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre in Davidson
County, North Carolina, and states that she was born on July 21, 1760 in York,
Pennsylvania, and died on June 21, 1833 (a photo can be viewed on the Find a Grave website). A gravestone for
Henry Kreutzfuesser in the same cemetery stated that he was born in 1761 in
York, Pennsylvania and died on March 15, 1836.
John Fischel was born on March 31, 1762 to John Adam and Catharina
Fischel and was baptized on April 3, 1762; his sponsors were Francis Beroth,
John Fischel, John Heckedorn, Marcus Hoens, and Henry Lindenmeyer YO5, FR21. He
may have been the Johann Fishel who was mentioned in a
Friedberg Moravian church diary entry dated September 30, 1787, which stated
that Johann Fishel’s family relocated to New River and “severed connection with
this congregation” FR22.
The diary entry further stated “several members of this congregation have been
talking about doing this, and Fischel has made the beginning” FR22. One month later, the family of Peter Schneider followed the
Fischel family to New River FR22. He was probably the John Fishel who was
enumerated in Davidson County, North Carolina in the 1840 US Census with one man
and one woman who were both between twenty and twenty-nine and one woman
between sixty and sixty-nine; this John was of seventy but younger than eighty UN9. He was probably the “John
Fishel Senior of Davidson County North Carolina” who wrote his will on
September 27, 1837 NO14. The will mentioned his wife, Maria Catharine Fishel, and
his children, Gotfried Fishel, Sarah Feidler, John Fishel, and Rosena Fishel,
and it mentioned a tract of sixty and one half acres of land in Davidson County
which John purchased from George Odom on July 16, 1794 NO14. His gravestone, located at Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre
Cemetery in Davidson County, North Carolina, stated that he was born on March
31, 1762 and died at age eighty-three on March 31, 1845 (a photo may be viewed
on the Find a Grave website).
Jacob Fischel was born on May 22, 1765 in York, Pennsylvania to John Adam
and Catharina Fischel, and was baptized on May 26, 1765; his sponsors were John
Fischel, John Heckedorn, Jacob Lanius, and Reverend Lindenmeyer YO5. Jacob
Fishel of Stokes County, North Carolina wrote his will on April 11, 1835, which
mentioned his sons, Solomon and David Fishel, a plantation of 105 acres, and
his unnamed widow NO16. His gravestone is located at
Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre Cemetery in Davidson County, North Carolina, and
it indicates that he was born on May 22, 17… in York, Pennsylvania, and died on
July 3 or 5, 1836 (a photo may be viewed on the Find a Grave website).
John Adam Fischel was born to John Adam
and Catharina Fischel in York, Pennsylvania on November 4, 1768 and was
baptized two days later YO5, FR15. His sponsors were John Fischel,
Michael Fischel, and John Heckedorn YO5. Johann Adam Fischel married Catharina Zimmermann on February 28,
1797 in Friedberg, North Carolina FR23. Adam Fischel’s home was the wedding venue for Sara Zimmerman
to Johann Beroth on March 18, 1806 FR23. He may have been the Adam
Fishel who was enumerated in the 1840 US Census in Southfork District, Stokes
County, North Carolina; this Adam was of seventy, but younger than eighty, and
he lived with a woman who was of sixty but younger than seventy UN9. His will, written on
October 7, 1839 mentioned his wife, Catharina “formerly Zimmerman”, as well as
his then living brothers, John, Henry, Conrad,
Daniel, and Phillip Fishel, his
deceased brother, Jacob, and his
sister, Ann Mariah Rominger NO16. Further, his will mentioned the sons of his
deceased brother, Jacob, who were Solomon and David, and it mentioned the children
of his deceased sisters, who were John and Daniel Kriuzfüsur, Catharina Beuthes (the spelling of this surname
is uncertain), Jonathan and Daniel Miller, Tobias Beckel, Mary Rotherok,
Margareth Rothrock, and Thomas Shore NO16. He made a codicil to his will which
was dated June 2, 1841 NO16. A record for Johann Adam Fischel stated that
he died on July 30, 1843 FR15, and his gravestone at Salem Moravian God’s
Acre in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina stated that John Adam
Fischel was born at York, Pennsylvania on November 4, 1768 and died on July 30,
1843 (a photo is located on the Find a
Grave website).
Eva Fischel was born on July 15,
1770 to John Adam and Catharina Fischel, and was baptized the following day;
her sponsors were Maria Elizabeth Fischel, individuals with the surnames
“Heckedorn” and “Schank”, and Eva Weller YO5. Reverend Valentine Beck wrote in the diary for the Friedberg
Moravian congregation that on April 12, 1784, Eva Fischel was among five girls
who joined the Society FR22. A marriage
record for Eve Fishel and Felby Miller in Rowan County, North Carolina stated
that their marriage on August 10, 1795 was witnessed by Jacob Fishel and George
Miller NO12. She was probably the mother of Jonathan and Daniel Miller,
who were mentioned in the will of her brother, John Adam Fischel NO16. Her gravestone,
located at Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre in Davidson County, North Carolina,
stated that Eva Miller died in 1803 (a photo of this gravestone can be found on
the Find a Grave website).
Anna Margaret Fischel was born to John Adam and Catharine Fischel on December 2,
1772, and was baptized on December 6, 1772 YO5. Her sponsors were Juliana Fischel, Maria Elizabeth Fischel,
and Eva Weller YO5. She was probably the mother of the children mentioned in
the will of her brother, John Adam Fishell: Tobias Beckel, Mary Rotherok,
Margareth Rothrock, and Thomas Shore NO16. The gravestones of Mary Catherine (Beckel) Rothrock, Tobias
Beckel, and Anna Margaret Rothrock are all located at Friedberg Moravian God’s
Acre in Davidson County, North Carolina (photos of which may be viewed on the Find a Grave website). The gravestone of
Mary Catharine Rothrock “late Beckel” stated that she was born on February 28,
1794 and died on May 27, 1863; that of Tobias Beckel stated that he was born on
April 14, 1799 and he died on June 19, 1849, and the gravestone of “Anna Marg.t Rothrock”
stated that she was born on November 28, 1802 and died on July 6, 1861. Thomas
Shore was probably the same Thomas Shore whose gravestone at Friedberg Moravian
God’s Acre in Davidson County (which can be found on the Find a Grave website) stated that he was born on February 28, 1811
and died on February 20, 1880. Her first husband was probably Tobias Bockel, who
died in 1807, and her second husband was probably Henry Schore of Bethany, who died
in August 1826; both were buried at Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre Cemetery in
Davidson County, North Carolina (a photo of their gravestones can be found on
the Find a Grave website). The
gravestone for Anna M. Shore is located at Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre
Cemetery in Davidson County, North Carolina, and it indicates that she died in
1825 (a photo may be viewed on the Find a
Grave website).
Henry Fischel was born on July 25,
1774 in York County, Pennsylvania to John Adam and Catherine Fischel, and was
baptized on July 31, 1774 at the First Moravian Church in York, York County,
Pennsylvania YO5. His baptismal
sponsors were Michael Fischel, Henry Lanius, and John Fischel YO5.
Conrad Fischel was born on August 26, 1777 to John Adam and Catherina Fischel,
and he was baptized on August 31, 1777; his sponsors were John Fischel, Elizabeth Lanius, Henry Lanius, and Salome
Neisser YO5. Conrad Fischel married Elizabeth Spach, the daughter of Adam
Spach, in her parents’ residence in Friedberg, North Carolina in a ceremony
officiated by Martin Schneider on December 13 or 14, 1802 FR23. He was probably the Conrad Fishell who was enumerated in Davidson County,
North Carolina in the 1840 US Census with two young men of fifteen but younger
than twenty, one woman and one man of twenty but younger than thirty, and one woman
of fifty but younger than sixty; his age was between sixty and sixty-nine UN9. His
gravestone, located at Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre in Davidson County, North
Carolina, stated that he was born on August 26, 1777 in York, Pennsylvania and
died on August 15, 1846 (a photo of which may be viewed on the Find a Grave website).
According
to his gravestone located at Friedberg Moravian God’s Acre in Davidson County,
North Carolina, Daniel Fishel was
born on April 10, 1780 and died at age seventy-nine on December 8, 1859 (a
photo of the gravestone can be viewed on the Find a Grave website). Daniel Fishel
may have married Elisabeth Zeigler NO13; this was probably Sarah Elizabeth Zieglar; a
gravestone at the same cemetery stated that Sarah Elizabeth Fischel was born to
Georg Jacob and Maria Basch Zieglar on December 24, 1778 in Virginia, married
Daniel Fischel on April 12, 1803, was the mother of Jacob and Maria, and then
died on April 22, 1806. A photo of this gravestone is located on the Find a Grave website. Daniel Fishel
signed a marriage bond and applied for a marriage license between himself and
Magdelena Shnider in Stokes County, North Carolina on January 30, 1808 ST31. Magdalena was probably the “Maria Magdalina Fishel (late
Snider)” whose gravestone at the same cemetery indicated that she was born on
September 21, 1781 and died at age seventy-one on January 15, 1853. Daniel
Fishel, age seventy, and Magdelena, age sixty-eight, lived in the north
subdivision of Davidson County in 1850 with Rebecca, Sophie, and Jesse Fishel,
whose ages were forty-two, thirty-eight, and twenty-six, respectively UN10. The 1860 US Federal Census Mortality Schedule for Davidson County, North
Carolina recorded that Daniel Fishel died at age seventy-nine in the month
of December from a “complicated” cause of death; he had been ill for twenty-one
days before his death US7.
John Philip Fishel was born on September 2, 1782 FR15. Philip
Fishel and Valentine Miller signed a marriage bond on July 29, 1802; Philip’s
intended bride was Rachel Miller NO13,
ST31. Philip Fishel, age sixty-seven, was
enumerated in the north subdivision of Davidson County, North Carolina in 1850
with Rachel Fishel, age sixty-six, and Lucretia Mock, age twenty-three UN10. He died
on November 15, 1850 FR15.
Two
people with the surname “Fishell” were enumerated in Stokes County, North
Carolina in 1810, Adam Fishel and Jacob Fishell, but neither of these men had
an elderly woman residing with them in their household. Because she was not
listed by herself in the 1810 census for Stokes County, North Carolina, this
implies that she may have lived with the family of a son-in-law. Her
memoir (written in 1815) stated that two of her daughters had already died MC7; one of these was Eva Miller, who probably died in 1803, but
the other daughters allegedly lived past the year 1815. It is unclear which
other daughter had died by 1815. In 1815, Ursula had fifty-seven grandchildren
(of whom eleven had died) and fifteen great-grandchildren MC7. Ursula Catharina Fischel suffered from a fever for an
unidentified period of time and ultimately died at age seventy-seven years, six
months, and fourteen days sometime after 3:00am on October 30, 1815 in
Friedberg, North Carolina MC7, FR15. Her memorial marker is located at the Friedberg Moravian Church
cemetery near Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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The memorial stones of Johan Adam Fischel and Ursula Catharina (Thomas) Fishel were photographed by Kathy Merris Mills and used with her permission.
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