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| Mr & Mrs James Armstrong (Cristoph Embich & George Greiss decendants) |
Christoph Embich a
carpenter by trade, Lutheran by faith, settled in Lancaster where he married
and had 10 children with Mary Elizabeth Kriter. Christoph fought as a Patriot
in the Revolutionary War. His descendants followed in his footsteps as
carpenters and farmers, patriots serving their country in times of war in
Pennsylvania for many generations.
George Greiss’s path is much less defined until he appears
on the 1800 census in Cambria County with his wife and 9 children. Cambria
County in the early 1800s was an untamed wilderness that the Greiss/Krise
family set out tame. Active members in the Catholic Church, they participated
in establishing the religion in Cambria County including building St Augustine
Church.
Below is an excerpt from the "Pennsylvania Germans
Pioneers” listing the men on the Nancy:
[List 186 C] At the Court House in Philadelphia, Wednesday,
ye 27 September, 1752.
Present: Joshua Maddox, Esquire. The Foreigners whose Names
are underwritten, Imported in the Ship Nancy, Captain John Ewing, from
Rotterdam and last from Cowes, did this day take and subscribe the usual
Qualifications. No. 83.
Jacob Schweude
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Michael Eyroh
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Jacob Schmidt
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Joseph Steüdel
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Jonas (X) Bastian
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Johan Ludwig Seiler
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Jerg Hauher
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Christian Homberg
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Jacob Friederik (X) Danninger
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George (X) Grass
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Jacob Mussgenug
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Jacob Dietrich
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Carl Frich Siebert
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Joseph (X) Bernhart
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Philipp Jacob Wunder
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Joseph (X) Bernhart, Junior
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David Xander
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Hans (N) Kintz
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Johann Michale Haas
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Joseph ( ) Kintz, on board
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Samuel Musse
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Johannes (HIM) Herman
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Johan Philipp Bietighoffer
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Johanis (X) Shwitzer
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Philipp Mall
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Jacob Junchfer [?]
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Konradt Weiss
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Hans Georg Kautz
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Andres Bastian
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Jacob Kautz
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Adam Friederich Weiss
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Hans Jacob Lersch
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Johann Georg Friderich Bayer
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Jaque Peirot
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George (+) Wenig
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Jaque Molac
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Jacob Bauerschmid
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Frantz (X) Saltzman
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Jacob Bauerschmidt
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Lutwig Thüringer
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Gerg Friderich Jauss
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Peter (X) Heatteman
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Christoph Rothbaust
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Johann Martin Doser
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Matheas (X) Dywel
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Michael Doser
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Friderich Baisch
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Balthas Bauman
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Jacob ( ) Basich, on board
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Christoph Embich
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Johan Andereas (X) Rothe
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Christian Mühlheim
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Christoff Kreiser
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Israel Eberlin
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Johann Friderich Uhlandt
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Fillib Follen
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Jacob (X) Armbruster
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Joh. Jacob Ernst
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George Michael (X) Spatz
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Hans Jacob Neusterdt
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Johannes Butz
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Vallendin Hagner
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Jacob Stützmann
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Hans Jerg Heudekel [?]
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Ludwig Neitz
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Christoph ( ) Mast, on board
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Jerg Balthas Ernst
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Paul Waag
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Casper Underweg
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Hans Georg ( ) Krebs, on board
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Mardin Fromm
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Hans Paul Henrich
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Andreas Jäger
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Rudolph (+) Klarr
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Johan Max Klopfer
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Hans Stös
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Johann Martin Rädelmeyer
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Hans Michael (X) Weller
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Abraham Birkenber[g]
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Johann Georg Braun
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Henry (+) Shleghter
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Johannes Griess
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Herman (+) Matsh
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Jacob (HK) Kautz, Junior
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Georg Friederich Schwartz
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©1997 Beth Bostian
Source: Strassburger & Hinke,"Pennsylvania German
Pioneers", Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980, Baltimore, Volume I,
p.491.
