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1A. Georg Conrad BLOSS 0 @I3684@ INDI b. 1728 Mannheim, Germany (?) d. 1774 Rockingham Co.,VA buried: Assumed he is buried on the homestead
There is a Bloss/Blose cemetery near Elkton, VA. The first buried there are believed to be Georg Conrad Bloss b-1728 d-1774 and his wife.
NOTE: Georg Conrad was a protestant (Lutheran) and Mannheim was and is a Catholic region of German, That may have been a reason for leaving The trip from home to Rotterdam took 13 weeks. Travel from there to America took them 6 weeks and 3 days. They arrived Philadelphia on 13 Oct 1749 aboard the ship Lydia commanded by Ca p t. John Randolph. The move to Virginia took place around 1753 Georg Conrad received a land grant of 160 acres on Naked Creek, Augusta (Rockingham) County , VA dated 15 Aug 1764 (Record in Patents 36,1764-67, Reel 36, page 602, VA State Library Richmond. He never served in the Revolutionary War. A different Georg Conrad from PA served and died in the Revolutionary War.
m. about 1748 Germany
+Magdelene Catherine FOSTERCLINGER or FATZCHDLINGER 0 @I3687@ INDI b. 1730 Germany d. 1787 Rockingham Co.,VA
buried: Assumed she is buried on the homestead
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