Posted By:	Ed Wilson
	Email:
	Subject:	Re: PA Conrad Bloss in Revolution
	Post Date:	January 29, 2009 at 22:45:17
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/blose/messages/286.html
	Forum:	Blose Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/blose/

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