Name: Johann Adam ROMIG

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Birth: 13 Feb 1688/89 Neidenstein, Palatinate, Germany

Death: 11 Jul 1768 Allemangel, Northampton, Pennsylvania

Father: Georg Wendel ROMIG (~1663-)

Mother: Margaretha HERNER (~1665-)

Georg Wendel ROMIG (abt 1663 - ) & Margaretha HERNER (abt 1665 - )

Johann Adam ROMIG* (13 Feb 1688 - 11 Jul 1768) & Agnes Margaretha BERNHARDT (1687 -1735)

Maria Margaretha ROMIG (18 Sep 1722 - 2 Jun 1804) & Andreas FULK Jr. (12 May 1722 - 16 Aug 1790)

Maria Magdalena FULK (30 Nov 1755 - 28 Aug 1849) & Johann Heinrich ARNEY (1755 - 1830)

Jacob ARNEY* (18 Mar 1778 - 19 Oct 1848) & Nancy Martha TRUITT (Feb 1781 - Feb 1819)

John ARNEY* (26 May 1816 - 22 Oct 1881) & Margaret Brown GRAFTON (1818 - 1854)

Jacob Sylvester ARNEY* (23 Mar 1839 - 13 Feb 1927) & Linia Ann BARNES (1840 - 1880)

Mary Ellen ARNEY (24 Apr 1861 - 9 Sep 1935) & Joshua Newton MACHLAN (1859 - 1936)

Linnie Ellen MACHLAN* (1884 - 1974) & Everett Elmer WALKER (1882 - 1948)

Elsie Maureen WALKER (1903 - 1983) & Leo Newton COFFEY (1901 - 1998)

Misc. Notes

BIRTH DATE NOTE: Using the Julian calendar, which was in effect when he was born, his birth date would have been 3 Feb 1688. However in 1752 Britain (and colonies) switched to Gregorian calendar, which also switched the start of the New Year from March 25 to January 1. Therefore on the new calendar his birth date was 13 Feb 1689.

FOLLOWING INFO IS FROM A VARIETY OF ONLINE SOURCES, APPEARS TO BE CONSISTENT AND VERIFIABLE:

European records from Ittlingen Lutheran Church, 6921 Ittlingen [Burgert, Northern Kraichgau, Germany]

Emigrated on ship Dragon (Charles Hargrave, Master), 1732, with wife and children. Nine children (4 girls, 5 boys) are named in Ittlingen church records, but in his memoir* (Allemangel records) he states that they had 5 sons and 2 daughters, of whom 2 sons have died. Had two daughters already died before they emigrated? Wife Agnes Margaretha died soon after their arrival in Philadelphia, and he remarried Maria Ursula Wanner, with whom he had 2 sons and 3 daughters. He joined the Moravian church at Allemangel, Burks Co., PA in 1762, prior to this having been a deacon in the Lutheran church. He suffered from asthma.

*NOTE RE "Memoir": If an individual died as a Moravian, there is often a memoir, or biography, (Lebenslauf) describing the life of the individual. The memoir may be less than a page in length, but is more likely to be four to six pages. The majority of these records, as well as other types of records that may be of interest, are written in German Script. The church of interest would be the Moravian Church at Allemangel. (The "Moravian Archives" in Bethlehem, PA, claim to have a large number of these Memoirs, and might have that one?)

Settled in what is now Macungie Township, Lehigh Co. PA. This area prior to 1812 was part of Northampton Co., PA, and prior to 1752 was part of Bucks Co PA. He is reportedly buried in the Allemangel Moravian Cemetery, in Lynn Township, Lehigh Co., PA.

Strassburger "Pennsylvania German Pioneers" lists a "Johann Adam Romich" and a "Johann Friedrich Romich" on board the ship "Dragon", arrived 30 Sep 1732 from Rotterdam, to Plymouth England, to America. Johann Adam and his son Frederick took the oath of allegiance to the King 30 Sep. 1732.

THE MORAVIANS:

This family tree crosses paths with the Moravians in both Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Several branches of the "Walker" family have people that were Moravian (or close), plus Albert Lehman on the "Lehman" branch attended Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. For background, here are a few paragraphs from www.moravian.org explaining their history:

"The name Moravian identifies the fact that this historic church had its origin in ancient Bohemia and Moravia in what is the present-day Czech Republic. In the mid-ninth century these countries converted to Christianity chiefly through the influence of two Greek Orthodox missionaries, Cyril and Methodius. They translated the Bible into the common language and introduced a national church ritual. In the centuries that followed, Bohemia and Moravia gradually fell under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Rome, but some of the Czech people protested.

"The foremost of Czech reformers, John Hus (1369-1415) was a professor of philosophy and rector of the University in Prague. The Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, where Hus preached, became a rallying place for the Czech reformation. Gaining support from students and the common people, he led a protest movement against many practices of the Roman Catholic clergy and hierarchy. Hus was accused of heresy, underwent a long trial at the Council of Constance, and was burned at the stake on July 6, 1415.

"After an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Moravian settlement in Georgia (1735-1740), the Moravians settled in Pennsylvania on the estate of George Whitefield. Moravian settlers purchased 500 acres to establish the settlement of Bethlehem in 1741. Soon they bought the 5,000 acres of the Barony of Nazareth from Whitefield's manager, and the two communities of Bethlehem and Nazareth became closely linked in their agricultural and industrial economy. Other settlement congregations were established in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. All were considered frontier centers for the spread of the gospel, particularly in mission to the Native Americans.

"Bishop Augustus Spangenberg led a party to survey a 100,000 acre tract of land in North Carolina, which came to be known as Wachau after an Austrian estate of Count Zinzendorf. The name, later anglicized to Wachovia, became the center of growth for the church in that region. Bethabara, Bethania and Salem (now Winston-Salem) were the first Moravian settlements in North Carolina.

Marriage 1: 1712 Germany

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Spouse: Agnes Margaretha BERNHARDT

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Birth: 2 Oct 1687 Ittlingen, Kraichgau, Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany

Death: abt 1735 PA

Father: Nicholaus BERNHARDT (~1666-)

Mother: Elisabetha

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Children

Johann Adam ROMIG (13 Feb 1688 - 11 Jul 1768) & Agnes Margaretha BERNHARDT (2 Oct 1687 - abt 1735)

Anna Eva ROMIG (27 Sep 1712 - )

Johann Friederich ROMIG (24 Apr 1713 - 6 Jul 1783)

Johann Bernhardt ROMIG (23 Nov 1716 - 1786)

Johann Martin ROMIG (23 Feb 1717 - 1751)

Maria Margaretha ROMIG (18 Sep 1722 - 2 Jun 1804) & Andreas FULK Jr. (12 May 1722 - 16 Aug 1790)

Anna Maria ROMIG (15 Jun 1724 - 10 Dec 1806)

Maria Elizabetha ROMIG (8 Nov 1726 - )

Johann Heinrich ROMIG (15 Feb 1728 - 29 Jun 1786)

Georg Wendel ROMIG (8 Sep 1731 - aft 8 Sep 1731)

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