| Posted By: | Sharon Cook Briggs |
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| Subject: | Two Struncks on "Rowand," 1753 |
| Post Date: | March 15, 2000 at 18:09:23 |
| Message URL: | http://genforum.genealogy.com/strunk/messages/248.html |
| Forum: | Strunk Family Genealogy Forum |
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I did a locality search on the web for Daaden, Germany, which is where my GLOECKNER/KLECKNER family came from, and wound up on the Strunk Family Genealogy Forum. This is NOT my line so please don't email me for further information--I'm posting the sum total of what I know. One of the queries on the Strunk forum said she had heard her Strunks came from Daaden around 1750. Well, she may very well be right since I find two Strunks (brothers?) on the manifest of the "Rowand" in 1753, the same ship that Johannes Steffan GLOECKNER of Daaden arrived on. They were Johan Engle STRUNCK and Johann Henrich STRUNCK/STRANCK. If you trace your lineage back to one of these men, you are amazingly lucky because the only ship contract I'm aware of which has survived from these early days contains the name Johannes STRENG (and the GLOECKNERs); see #40. Phonetically, the G sounds like a K in German, so the STRUNCK/STRENG names would be pronounced the same. The following is the ship contract: Shipping Contract of 1753 The following is verbatim from Brigitte Burkett's translation in "Emigrants from Baden and Wurttemburg in the 18th Century" of a shipping contract made 23 March 1753 between Daniel Havart of Rotterdam and 44 [sic] Germans who with their families were emigrating to Pennsylvania. Perhaps 60% of these families came on the Rowand, but some came on other 1753 ships and some not until years later: "We, the undersigned, acknowledge to have agreed and contracted, according to the terms and conditions herein set forth, with Daniel Havart of Rotterdam, in the following manner. First The above named Daniel Havart shall provide and hold ready, a good, comfortable and well appointed ship, to take us, the undersigned, across the sea from Rotterdam to Philadelphia. To this end, the ship will be provided with permanent sleeping places between decks for each & every full grown person, that is to say, a so-called full freight, six feet long and one and one half feet wide, on both sides of the ship, made private & comfortable. Second The ship shall be provided with good provisions, that is, good bread, meal, meat with peas, rice, groats, peas, butter, cheese and everything else of such things, and they shall be provided to the undersigned from the day that we board the ship in Rotterdam until we arrive in Philadelphia, in the following manner, that is: Sundays, a pound of meat with pease, rice or beans. Mondays a pound of meal. Tuesdays a half pound of bacon with peas, rice or beans. Wednesdays a pound of meal. Thursdays a pound of meat with peas, rice or beans. Fridays a pound of butter, and a half pound salt cod with peas, rice or beans. and Saturdays six pounds of bread, a pound of cheese and a pea soup. Further, a measure of beer per day, so long as it remains good, and also a measure of water, but after [the beer goes bad] two measures of water per day. Also in the mornings at [6 bells?], a fire shall be provided until evenings at six o'clock, for cooking, and to warm the sick and the small children, insofar as wind and weather will allow. Also, for the care of the thirsty sick, two vats of vinegar & one vat of brandy will be included, as also spices, so that they will not be robbed of their health or their lives because of the lack of these things, as also the necessary [medicines?] The persons shall be charged according to their age; small children under the age of four are free; from four to fourteen years of age, they must pay half fare, and all those who have reached an age over fourteen years must pay the full fare in the following manner: All those who pay their entire, or at least half their fare in Rotterdam, may pay 7 1/2 Pistole. Those, however, who can pay nothing, must pay a comparable fare of 8 Pistole for their care. In order to deliver the passengers, with their baggage without further charges free to Philadelphia. [The balance of the contract has not been translated. The list of names appended to the contract follows. The number following each name indicates the number of "freights" for which the head of family is being charged. The names marked with an * came on the Rowand, Arthur Tran, Master, which qualified 29 Sept 1753.] 23 March 1753 1* Johann Martin Buchner 5 freights 2 Johann Christ. Schmitt 3* Johann Henrich Kühnem 2 1/2 4* Johannes Schäfer 2 5* Johann Peter Meyer 2 6* Johann Philippus Steinebach 1 7 Johann [Primes?] Schmitt 1 8 Maria Elisabetha Gläsnerin 1 9 Anna Catherina Gläsnerin 1 10* Johannes Sehlbach 2 1/2 11 Johan Peter Humerich 1 12* Johann Henrich Böhmer 2 13* Johannes Wilhelm Jung 2 14* Johannes Stefan Klöckner 1 15* Johann Martin Diehl 2 16 Johann Andönges [?} Klockner 2 1/2 17* Johann Peter Braun 1 18* Philippus Schumann 3 1/2 19 Johannes Weytmann 1 20 Johann William Schoester 1 21* Sophia Christina Wisthövörin 1 22 Peter Stahl 1 23 Johann Jost Ludwig 4 1/2 24 Johann Jacob Klein 2 25 Johannes Betz 1 26* Johann Wilhelm Becker 2 1/2 27* Johann Christ Stahl 2 1/2 28 Görg Gotthardt 1 29 Johann Christoffel 1 30 Johann Jacob Gotthardt 1 31* Johann Best Heun 1 32 Anna Catrina Gendermannin 1 33* widow of Hennrich Weinbrenner 3 34* Johann Best Schneider 2 1/2 35 Marialies Schneiderin 1 36 Anna Catharina Schneiderin 1 37* Johannes Christianus Bentz 6 38 Johann Gerlachmeier 2 39 Johann Michael Sauer 1 40 Johannes Streng 1 41 Johann Peter Klöckner 2 42 Johann Michel Andres 1 |
