Immigrant Ships
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Ship Thistle

List of Foreigners Imported in the Ship Thistle of Glasgow, Calvin Dunlap, Master, from Rotterdam. Qualified Aug. 29, 1730.

Columns represent: given name, surname.

 1 Loudwick       Has
 2 Hans Jacob     Tell
 3 Christopher    Bader
 4 Leonard        Grass
 5 Pete           Grisimer
 6 Casper         Feman
 7 Rudolph        Draugh
 8 Willem         Heim
 9 Johan Hendrick Smith
10 Cristoph       Angubrant
11 Michel Thomas  Seek
12 Mathias        Thais
13 Irik           Reimer
14 Jacob          Nagoll
15 Geo.           Sumger
16 Philip         Groscost
17 Paulus         Fitenhaver (Dittenhafer)
18 Justice        Sherer
19 George         Hofman
20 Philip         Hants
21 Abraham        Fransu
22 Thos.          Hammon
23 Jacob          Sterfell
24 Fredrick       Peifer
25 Johannes       Caplinger
26 Tilde          Bydleman
27 Ellias         Bydleman
28 Bernard        Sighmond
29 Johannes       Dunkell
30 Peter          Oler
31 Jerrimias      Hess
32 Cristian       Leman
33 Steven         Remer
34 Johannes       Hun
35 Loudwick       Ditman
36 Gerard         Zin
37 Hendrick       Fortne
38 Hans           Minigh
39 Peter          Biswanger
40 Nickell        Fiser
41 Jan Casper     Smith
42 Ulrick         Shever
43 Casper         Bittner
44 Johannes       Sherer
45 Nickel         Kinser
46 Johannes       Hofman
47 Laurence       Hoft
48 Casper         Hartman
49 Cristian       Shram
50 Rudolph        Andres
51 Leonard        Caplinger
52 Wolfer         Sperger
53 Tetrick        Bydleman
54 Jacob          Ammon
55 Ulrick         Styner
56 Hendrick       Hess
57 Hendrick       Gutt
58 Peter          Wavinger
59 Bernard        Ren
60 Loudwick       Hurtzell
61 Peter          Tederolph
62 Peter          Moller
63 Valantine      Michell
64 Geo.           Undertenerd
65 James          Moree
66 Thos.          Hess
67 Johan Ekel     Luckenbill
68 Casper         Criger
69 Loudwick       Moler
70 Tetick         Cover
71 Geo.           Hurtzell
72 Leonard        Hoogenunk
73 Fedrick        Lenkenberger
74 Cristoph       Hendrick
75 Cristian       Thomas
76 Hendrick       Luckenbill

Transcriber's Notes:

* Some of the names above are abbreviated.
* It is possible that the name "Loudwick" is the equivalent of today's "Ludwig".

Correspondence 08/28/01 (updated 07/11/2005) passenger #13 REIMER
The ship Thistle on it's 1730 voyage to Philadelphia, brought my 6th great 
grandparents, and their first seven children including their first child, 
Elisabetha, my 5th great grandmother. His name, as stated on page 63 of Rupp's 
"30,000 Names of Immigrants in Penna." was "Frederick Reimer" but more correctly 
was Dionysius Friederich Reimer. He was also written about in the Penna. 
Genealogical Society's Magazine Volume XX page 115, in which his relationship 
to my family is mentioned. In January 1731, he bought a 100 acre farm from 
Henry Pannybacker (Pennypacker) in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, 
(then part of Philadelphia County) Penna. and in 1736, added 41 acres to it. 
He was naturalized on March 29, 1735. His wife's name was Elisabetha Weinacht 
sometimes spelled Weynacht, and they were both from Mutterstadt, Pfalz. Their 
first daughter, Elisabetha (their last child was also named Elisabetha and 
neither died as a child) who was born in Mutterstadt  Dec. 24, 1716, 
d. March 18, 1802, would marry Francis Shunk sometime in 1735 or early 1736. 
Their daughter Anna Barbara would marry Simon Sweitzer on March 21, 1770. 
Fritz Reimer, as Friederich was known, was an elder in the Falkner Swamp 
Reformed Church. He died in Dec. 25, 1757, and he and his wife are buried 
in Old Goshenhoppen Churchyard, Upper Salford, PA. Fritz and his daughters, 
Susanna and the eldest daughter Elisabetha, were involved in what has been 
called the "First Ghost Story in America" supposedly in 1738, but more likely 
in the early 1730's. It was written about in many contemporary publications of 
the time both in America and Germany and has been included in at least two more 
recent books including the Montgomery County Historical Society Bulletin of Oct. 1955.
James H. Lawrence, Mullica Hill, NJ

Correspondence 04/18/02 passenger #17 Dittenhafer
Paul Dittenhafer came from the town of Hassloch, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
Paul is my 8th Great Grandfather He was baptized on 3 October 1706, the 
son of Hans Georg and Maria Diedenhofer, showing he was about 24 years of 
age when he came to America. His marriage is not found in the Hassloch 
records, but he and his wife Anna Marie's oldest child, Christopher, 
was baptized at Hassloch on 3 August 1729. By March 1734 Paul was in 
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  He was naturalized by an Act of the 
Provincial Council of Pennsylvania on 19 May 1739.  Prior to 23 April 
1746 Paul purchased a tract of land in what was then Lancaster County, 
but is now York County, Pennsylvania. Paul, who is identified as either 
a joiner or a fuller in documents, died prior to 16 January 1748.  His 
children were: Christopher; Sophia married Jacob Haible (Hively); 
Elizabeth married Michael Valentine; Michael married Rachel Wilkins; 
George; Julianna married Jacob Wissman, and Catharine.
Contact David P Hively or Donna Jackson 

Correspondence 05/16/02 passenger #36 Zin
Gerhart Zinn was my 5th g grandfather. Arrived Pennsylvania, 1730. 
His wife was Margretha Guth and they were from Palatinate, Germany.  
They settled in North Carolina and were members of the Moravian Church 
near Winston-Salem.  They are buried in Bathabara, N.C. in the Moravian 
Church Cemetery.  Their son, Heironomous/Cromonious Zinn was father of 
Jacob Zinn, father of Harriet Selina Zinn, who married Simeon Freeman.  
Simeon was father of Thomas Hamilton Freeman, who was my grandfather
 Kenneth C. Freeman

Correspondence 10/03/02 passenger #25 Caplinger
Johannes Kepplinger listed No. 25 on the Thistle (Aug 29.1730) is possibly 
a gggggrandfather of my wife.  Her father Samuel Miller Keplinger was born 
in Franklin, PA in 1894.  I am trying to fill in the pieces in between.
L Kasari

Correspondence 3/13/2003 passenger #48 Hartman 
My 7th great grandfather, Casper Hartman, listed as passenger #48,
immigrated to the US from Maudach Germany on board The Thistle.  They 
settled in Pennsylvania for a time and his grandaughter Barbara (by 
son George) married Jacob Hauser, and by that time was settled in 
Rowan County NC.  Jacob's daughter Rebecca married Joshua Deaver, 
whose descendants settled in Arkansas. Jennifer Russell

Correspondence 03/01/2005 passenger Dunckel
Johannes Dunkel (also spelled Dunkell or Dunkle) was born 23 Nov 1703 
presumably in the Palatinate, Germany. He brought with him on the Ship Thistle 
in 1730 his wife, Anna Margaret (Diehl) Dunkel, his mother, Elizabeth Rosina 
(Diehl) Dunkel, and at least one son, Michael Dunkel, who was born 1725 in 
Germany. Johannes was naturalized 24 Sep 1741 in Philadelphia. The family 
settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. On 6 Dec 1746 he purchased 125 acres 
of land from Conrad Koch. Five more children are known to have been born to 
Johannes and Anna Margaret: Conrad, Peter, Rosina, Eva Maria and John Kilian. 
After the death of his first wife on 28 Feb 1781, Johannes second married 
Anna Maria Catharina Leiby. Johannes Dunkel died 23 Nov 1787 in Greenwich 
Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He is buried at Dunkel's Church, 
Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Johannes and Anna Margaret were 
my 7GGrandparents, through their son, Michael.
[Sources: Johannes Dunkel's Bible; Will of Johannes Dunkel; Records of Dunkel's 
Church (Reformed), Lenhartsville, PA]  
Contact: Vicki Klein, Davis, CA

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