Menu Items

 

415. Johannes "Hans" Emig (Emich) (Married Eva Dorothea Rotter (#416). [Source for the gray information is research done by Michael Cavenaugh (Glass family genealogist denoted on the Guilford County Genealogy Association Website)(Source for the orange information: e-mail from Marie Prosser on September 13, 2019. )

 

Born: ? of Unknown Father (#829) and Unknown Mother (#830).

Died: ?

[His siblings, if any are unknown]

 

Miscellaneous:

According to Marie Prosser' research "It appears that Hans & Dorothy EMICH and three of their children, Nicholas, Johannes, and Jacob EMICH-may have been passengers on the ship John & William along with Hans Philip Glais (#201) and Anna Maria Glassen (#202)."[Note: Both the Emich family and the Glais family are ancestors of the webmaster] [Prosser's citation source is"Strassburger, Ralph Beaver (1934 ) Pennsylvania German pioneers; a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 (Volume 1, 1727-1775). Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society. pp. 101-105 (ship John & William).]"

The 1732 Pennsylvania Gazette Newspaper reported the ship's arrival and the mutiny that occurred on board. According to this newspaper article, there were 220 Palatines and 44 had died in transit. (Click on "ship's arrival" to read the article and transcript of same).

Click on this link to see facsimiles of Hans Emich and Hans Philip Glais' signatures.[Note: Neither man could write his name, so he left his mark] (Source: Strassburger, Ralph Beaver (1934) Pennsylvania German pioneers; a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. (Volume 2, Facsimile signatures, 1727-1775). Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society. pp. 92-97 (ship John & William). Retrieved from Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniagerm43stra/page/94)

"In addition, Hans EMICH had not paid for his passage five months after his arrival as documented in the Pennsylvania Gazette in both German and English. Others could pay it off or he could be indentured as a servant." (Source: The Pennsylvania GAZETTE, March 8, 1733, p. 2, printed by Benjamin Franklin.)

Johannes "Hans" and Eva Dorothea had 6 children: Nicholas Amick, Johannes Amick, Anna Maria Amick (#208), Jacob Amick, Henry Amick, and George Amick. [Michael Cavenaugh note: Information on the children came from Vicki Meith <merlyn@goodnet.com>.][Note: at some time during the generation of "Hans" and Eva's children the last name was changed from "Emig" to "Amick."

 

Contact person for this website is Susan Snyder: susanleachsnyder@gmail.com