Husband:
Rudolph DRACH (c. 1699-1771)
Wife:
Maria Elisabetha DIEFFENBACH ( - )
Children:
Marriage:
Oct 28, 1727
Fussgonheim, Germany
Name:
Rudolph DRACH
Sex:
Male
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
c. 1699
Gross-Umstadt, Germany
Immigration:
1730 (age 30-31)
to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1
Burial:
1771
Hamilton Church Cemetery, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death:
Aug 19, 1771 (age 71-72)
Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA2
Name:
Maria Elisabetha DIEFFENBACH
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
Assenheim, Germany
Death:
Name:
Elisabetha DRACH
Sex:
Female
Birth:
Aug 14, 1728
Dannstadt, Pfalz, Germany
"Familien in Dannstadt und Schauernheim," by Winfried Seelinger
Death:
Name:
Maria Magdalena DRACH
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
c. 1730
Unknown3
Death:
aft Jun 3, 1796 (age 65-66)
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Name:
Henry DRACH
Sex:
Male
Death:
Name:
Adam DRACH
Sex:
Male
Death:
Name:
Margaret DRACH
Sex:
Female
Death:
Name:
Ann Margaret DRACH
Sex:
Female
Death:
Name:
Ann Mary DRACH
Sex:
Female
Death:
Name:
Susannah DRACH
Sex:
Female
Death:
Notes obtained from database on worldconnect.rootsweb.com 6/02:
1) from: Finley-McFarling Database, rootsweb.com WorldConnect by Carmen J. Finley
(http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=finleyc&id =I2684)
Vital dates from "Familien in Dannstadt und Schauernheim," by Winfried Seelinger, p. 158.
Also in Ralph B. Strassburger,"PA German Pioneers of 1727-1808."
Took oath of allegiance 25 March 1744.
Had 300 acres in Rockhill Twp., Bucks Co., PA in 1763
2) from: Canney/Peckman Geneaology, rootsweb.com WorldConnect, by Susan P. Canney
"Rudolph arrived in Philadelphia, PA on 29 August 1730 aboard the ship "Thistle. "Palatines imported in the Thistle of Glasgow, Colin Dunlop, Mr., from Rottr, but last from Dover. Clearance June 19th (qualified 29 Aug. 1730.)" He took the Oath of Allegiance on 24 March 1744. He had 300 acres granted him from William Penn in Rockhill Twp., Bucks Co., PA in 1763 but he appears in Bucks Co., PA as early as 1750 when his daughter Anna Maria was born and baptized. He and his family settled in Bucks County, PA and on 4 June 1763, he received by patent from the Proprietors full title to approximately 300 acres of land in the northeastern corner of Bedminster township on Tohickon Creek extending across into Nockamixon township.
They were members of the Tohickon Lutheran Church and appear frequently in the published History of Tohickon Union Church (1745-1854), by Rev. William J. Hinke, Ph.D.,D.D. This book was issued in 1924 by the Pennsylvania German Society, but, as stated in the preface, it was published with the financial aid of the descendants.
In 1753 he named as one of the trustees in the deed for the purchase of a church site for the Tohicken Church.
Familien in Dannstadt und Schauernheim by Winifred Seelinger, p. 158 shows that Rudolf Drach b. 1699, son of Peter Drach (1666-15 September 1738 amd Christina Metzger as the 1730 immigrant and his nephew Rudolf Drach, born 29 December 1721, son of Peter Drach, 27 November 1694-5 December 1773 and Anna Barbara Vesper, 1697 - 18 February 1735, as the 1754 immigrant.
Page 112 of Heimat-Jahrbuch 1990; 6. Jahrgang; Herausgegeben vom LANDKREIS LUDWIGSHAFEN by Verlag Kiliandruck Grunstadt and Erwin Dinges indicates that while Rudolf Drach and his wife Maria Diefenbach emigrated in 1730, their nephew, Rudolph Drach emigrated in 1754 with the younger Rudolf's sister, Anna Maria."
His family is named fully in the various legal papers concerned with the division of his estate. In 1770 Rudolph divided his property among his children. He did this by means of an agreement whereby each daughter was to receive 40 pounds (except Susanna who only received 5 pounds.) This money was to be paid by the two sons who in their turn were to divide the farm between them and furnish maintenance for their parents as long as they should live. This support included "a hogshead of good cider yearly."
Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL.D., Pennsylvania German Pioneers A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals In the Port of Philadelphia From 1727 to 1808 Second Printing, Volume I, 1727-1775 Edited by William John Hinke, Ph.D., D.D (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1975).
[List 11 A, B] Thisle of Glasgow
Captain: Colin Dunlap
From: Rotterdam, By Way of: Dover
Arrival: Philadelphia, 29 Aug 1730
Seventy-seven Palatines, who with their families, make about two hundred and sixty persons.
Bucks County, PA. Will Book 3, page 242, Will of Rudolph Drach of Township of Rockhill, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Dated Jan. 5, 1770 Probated Oct. 1, 1771. (Bucks County, PA. Will Book 3, page 242).
Wife Merilas all personal estate except 5 pounds which I will to my son Henry Drak as his full share and legacy of all my estate. After decease of my wife Merilas all personal estate in her custody to be divided between the surviving children of me and my wife Merilas. Appoints Peter Drak and Philip Shryer Exrs. who shall make my two sons Henry Drak and Adam Drak deeds for the land I gave them by articles of agreement, they paying legacies to my six daughters 40 each as per agreement.
Witness'd: Abraham Landed
John Philip Schryer
John Jemison.
Will of Rudolph Drach of Township of Rockhill, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Dated Jan. 5, 1770 Probated Oct. 1, 1771.
Deed Book No. 18 p. 274 Office of Recorder of Deeds Doylestown, PA, AGREEMENT made January 5, 1770 between Rudolph Drach of Rokhill Township, County of Bucks, and Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, of the one part, and his sons Henry Drach and Adam Drach of the same place, of the other part.
WITNESSETH: That the said Rudolph Drach grants unto his said sons the trace of 300 acres of land in Bedminster Township, the said County, which he, the said Rudolph, had purchased of the Right Honorable the Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania by their patent bearing date the 4th day of June 1763. To the said Henry 100 acres, and to Adam 200 acres thereof.
Henry shall give yearly and every year from the date hereof on the 27th of November to his said father at his house where he now lives 8 bushels, the halfe of wheate and the halfe of rey, in the hole, 8 bushels; and shal plow and harrow in one half acre with Buckwheat each year and find the seed, thresh and kline the same and deliver same at the same time when he delivers the wheat and rey in Rockhill Township, Bucks County.
And Adam Drach shall likewise give each and every year to his father Rudolph Drach and mother Merilas Drach as long as they or either of them live, 20 bushels the ne half wheate and one half rey, and shall sew one half acre of Buckwheat in like manner as Henry, and deliver the same together with one hogset of good cider. And said Henry and Adam shall pay 40 pounds each to my five daughters Elizabeth, Madalenck, Margaret, Ann Margaret, and Ann Mary, and the said Henry to pay unto my daughter Susannah Drack 5 pounds. Ten acres are excepted from Rudolph's 200 acres during the lifetime of the said Rudolph.
Signed by the three contracting parties in German
Witnessed by Johann Philip Schryer and Peter Drach
And said Henry and Adam shall pay 40 pounds each to my five daughters Elizabeth, Madalenck, Margaret, Ann Margaret, and Ann Mary, and the said Henry to pay unto my daughter Susannah Drack 5 pounds.