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Johann Nicholas TREBER
and
Anna Maria HOFFMAN

Johann Nicholas was christened 16 June 1660 in Wollstein, Rheinhessen, Hessen, Prussia and Married 2 July 1693 Anna Maria HOFFMAN, the daughter of David HOFFMAN and Agnes SCHRAMS. She was christened 16 June 1672 in Wollstein, Rheinhessen, Hessen, Prussia. He died about 1710 at sea en rout to New York.

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Walter Emery Foster
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The TRAVER family from Wollstein, Germany: Niklas Treber was born in the late 1500's in Wollstein. His grandson, Johann Nicholas Traver, was a wheelwright in Wollstein prior to leaving for America. He apparently died at sea before he arrived. His widow, Anna Maria Hoffman, and two sons, Sebastian and Peter, were reported settled at the West Camp in Ulster County, New York in 1710. Decendents are known to currently reside primarily in New York, California, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois. I am looking for information on Johann Nicholas' father, Petrus, c. 5/21/1620, and his father, Niklas, and their ancestors.

Note from gedcom file at Family Trees At Ancestry.com
Submitted by
Lorraine Travers <calorra@netzero.net>

Johann Nicholas Treber and his wife, Anna Maria, along with their two sons, Sebastian and Peter were among the refugees from the Palatine region of Germany. In 1710, through the intervention of the Reverend Joshua Kocherthal, who persuaded Queen Anne of England to sponsor the sorely persecuted Palatine people as workers in the New World. It was intended that they should make pitch and tar for the Royal Navy, but since few, if any, of the Palatines had knowledge of the process, it was doomed to failure. Eventually, they left the camps and set off on their own, settling in what is now Germantown and Rhinebeck, NY.

Johann Nicholas Treber, a wheelwright, died during the arduous journey to America and was buried at sea. His widow, Anna Maria, later married Joseph Reichhart, another Palatine. They had two sons, Johann Bernhard, and Johann David (Half-brothers to Sebastian and Peter).

CHILDREN of Johann Nicholas TREBER and Anna Maria HOFFMAN:

    1. ANNA APOLLONIA     chr: 12 Dec 1694; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                            d:    Bef 1710; probably at sea.
 +  2. SEBASTIAN          chr: 23 Sep 1696; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                           md:        1718; , , New York.
                                            Anna Christina ULH
    3. SUSANNA MARGARETHA chr: 26 Sep 1698; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                            d:    Bef 1710; probably at sea.
 +  4. JOHANN PETER       chr: 18 Jul 1699; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                           md:        1720; , , New York.
                                            Anna Catharine Dorothea ROU/ROW
                            d:        1744; , , New York.
    5. ELISABETH          chr: 30 Jul 1702; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                            d:    Bef 1710; probably at sea.
    6. ANNA CATHARINE     chr: 31 Aug 1704; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                            d:    Bef 1710; probably at sea.
    7. JOHANN NICOLAUS    chr:  5 Sep 1706; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                            d:    Bef 1710; probably at sea.
    8. ANDREAS            chr: 25 Nov 1708; Wollstein, Rheinhessen Hessen,
                                            Prussia.
                            d:    Bef 1710; probably at sea.

CHILDREN of Joseph REICHART and Anna Maria HOFFMAN:

    9. JOHANN BERNARD       b: 30 Dec 1711; West Camp, Ulster, New York.
   10. JOHANN DAVID         b: 17 Apr 1714; West Camp, Ulster, New York.
                            d:        1784; Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York.

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