Immigrant Ships
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Ship James Goodwill

A List of Foreigners Imported in the Ship James Goodwill, D. Crocket, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Portsmouth. Qualified Sep. 30, 1727

Columns represent: given name.

  1 Michael      Sigrist
  2 Joseph       Schurgh
  3 Jurgen       Miller
  4 Hans         Longeneker
  5 Raynard      Yung
  6 Wm.          Wygart
  7 Hans Michael Kunts
  8 Ulrich       Stoupher
  9 Peter        Zug
 10 Abraham      Abersolt
 11 Adam         Kiener
 12 Hans         Kiener
 13 Christian    Webber
 14 Hans Michael Fiedler
 15 Hendrick     Wolfe
 16 Joseph       Clap
 17 Jurgh        Clap
 18 Christian    Miller
 19 Michael      Tanner
 20 Hans         Haggy
 21 Hans         Leaman
 22 Hendrick     Aberlee
 23 Jacob        Wygart
 24 Dewalt       Leatherman
 25 Jung Michael Kunts
 26 Ulrich       Zug
 27 Barthol      Sigrist
 28 Jacob        Fritz
 29 Wm.          Kiener
 30 Hans         Toster
 31 Margaret     Heistern
 32 Philip       Schaberger
 33 Jurgh        Steiniger
 34 John Adam    Philple
 35 Ludowigh     Clap
 36 Jurg         Coch
 37 Jacob        Wacter, Senir*
 38 Christopher  Kirchhofe
 39 Jacob        Gass, Senr*
 40 Frederich    Gass
 41 Joseph       Miller
 42 Jacob        Arnet
 43 Hans         Hein
 44 Michael      Lybert
 45 Jacob        Gangwyer
 46 Jacob        Wacter, Junr*
 47 Jacob        Siegel
 48 Jacob        Gass, Junr*
 49 John         Miller
 50 Hans         Miller
 51 Paul         Hein
 52 Bastian      Merree
 53 Jurgh        Zeugh
 54 Hendrich     Schultz
 
Transcriber's Notes:
 * #37 "r" is superscript - possibly "Senior"
 * #39 "r" is superscript - possibly "Senior"
 * #46 "r" is superscript - possibly "Junior"
 * #48 "r" is superscript - possibly "Junior"


Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. XVII
Names of Foreigners who took the Oath of Allegiance to the Provice and
State of Pennsylvania 1727-1775, With the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808.
Edited by William Henry Egle, M. D.
Harrisburg: Edwin K. Meyers State Printer, 1892

Correspondence 6/12/00
Thank you so much for this site.  I was able to locate, signer 
Christopher Kirchhofe, (Kirchoff) who sailed with his family of 
five from Rotterdam.  Sandra Ritenour

Correspondence 08/02/01
I am Web Host for the Ellis Keener Connections, URL is listed below.  We 
know that Adam Kiener (12), Hans Kiener (13) and Ulrich Kiener(?) were 
all passengers on the Goodwill along with 6 other members in their party. 
There was no William Kiener listed as a passenger.

I believe that Wm Kiener (#29) should actually be Ulrich Kiener. I have 
seen the name written in many wills and deeds from some of the other 
Ulrichs in this hugh family and the "Ul" could easily be misread as W and 
their scolled "rich" as an m.

May we from his family ask that this be re-evaluated because it is causing 
some of the 100 or more Keener Researcher to refer to him as William Ulrich. 
No where else is there anything to suggest that his name might have been 
William.  Lynda Ellis Gibbs Ellis Keener Connections

Correspondence 08/03/01 passengers #39,40 & 48 GASS
I am writing to identify and claim 3 passengers on the ship James Goodwill 
9-30-1727. 
Jacob Gass, Sr.  b. 12-15-1667 in Rithenfluh Switzerland; son of Heinrich 
and Anna M. Gass. Jacob married to Anna Wyss in 1692 in Switzerland. They 
had a total of 6 children; Heinrich, Jacob, Martin, Frederick, Jakob and 
Maria. 
Only two of those children made the trip to America with them. 
Jacob Gass Jr. b. 12-7-1704 married unknown 
Frederich Gass b. 4-9-1701 married unknown. 
These dates and the fact of immigration is found in the church records of 
Rithenfluh.  It is believed that the total number of 6 in this party are 
the men and their wives. 
Jacob Gass Sr. took the oath in Philadelphia as did the other two men. The 
families migrated to York county PA and in 1740 to Rowan county NC. At least 
Frederick did as I have lost trace of Jacob Jr. Frederick appears in the 
courts in Rowan county in 1766. The elder Jacob Gass Sr is thought to have 
died in PA as there has never been anything found in Rowan county, NC. 
Frederick born in 1701 had 4 known children: Frederick I born in 1720; 
Ephraim b. 1740-1747; Joseph born 1740-1747; Catherina b. unk  d. 2-13-1789. 
She married a Von Huffen. Frederick's children resided in Rowan county NC, 
by 1810 most of his descendants had migrated to Washington county IN. 
Debbie Jennings 

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