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202. Anna Maria ___/Mary___/Maria___ (Married John Philip Glass/John Phillip Kleesz/Philip Gless/Hans Philips Glais: (#201) before 17 October 1732.) [Source for the gray information is research done by Michael Cavenaugh (Glass family genealogist denoted on the Guilford County Genealogy Association Website).[Source of orange information is research done by Marie Prosser.][Source of brown is the passenger list on the ship John & William]

Born: ? of Unknown father (403) and Unknown mother (404)

Died: after 17 February 1773 in Guilford County, North Carolina.

 

[Her siblings, if any, are unknown].

Miscellaneous:

According to Marie Prosser' research "It appears that Hans Emich (#415) and Dorothy (Eva) Rotter Emich (#416) and three of their children, Nicholas, Johannes, and Jacob EMICH-may have been passengers on the ship John & William along with Hans Philip Glais and Anna Maria Glassen."[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).]"

Maria Glassen and her husband John Philip Glass arrived in America on 17 Oct 1732 in Philadelphia on the ship John & William, from Rotterdam via Dover. John was one of 61 Palatines, who with their families totaled 169 passengers on the ship. [Source for the gray information is research done by Michael Cavenaugh (Glass family genealogist denoted on the Guilford County Genealogy Association Website)] [Note: the boat listing shows Hans Philips Glais and Maria. Other spellings of Glais are Kleas and Glassen.][Note: the suffix to a German female name ..."in"... means "wife of." Perhaps "en" means the same. Thus, Maria Glassen was the wife of Glass. ]

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).

Anna Maria and John were early settlers of Opequon, near Winchester, Orange County [Virginia], which became Frederick County in 1738, part of the Northern Neck of Shenandoah valley.

John had 400 acres surveyed in Frederick County VA on the west branch of John Funk's Mill Run on July 21st 1749. On January 14th 1763 he had 113 acres surveyed on the North Run of the Shenandoah River adjacent his own land, and the lands of Barnet Seaver, Christopher Windall, and John Mauk. On January 15th 1763 he had 114 acres surveyed adjacent to his own land and the lands of Jacpb Bowman, Jacob Funkhauser, and Barnet Seaver. These three parcels of land, 627 acres, were sold to Jacob Rieffe on 3 May 1763.

John was granted a deed for 327 acres in Orange County NC, (which part became Guilford County), on 14 Feb 1764 from Andrew Campbell.

Anna Maria and John had seven children: Christian "Crisley" (#101) , Maria Barbara, John George, Paul, Catren, Philip, and Anna Maria (Mary).

The 1790 Guilford County census shows Widow Glass with one male under age 16 and one female other than herself.

Philip Gless' will states "Item: I bequeth to my wife Mary Glass all the ready money I now have and one bay mare called Hutch and one brown horse named Jack and two cows, and to have a free and feaseble poretian of my dwelling house so long as she shall live." Another item in the will states "reserving twenty bushels of wheat and one hundred waight of beef and ten pound of
sugar and one baril of [?] licquer fiveteen [?] of flax and twenty shilings in money al to bee paid to my wife Mary yearly while she lives for her suport by my son Philip [?]"

 

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