Phillip Jacob Ashenfelter

Philip was born about 1716 in Germany. He married Anna Margaretha Moses there about 1741. He immigrated from Rotterdam to Philadelphia (on the ship Robert and Alice with Captain Martley Cusack, from Rotterdam by way of Cowes) about September 1742 and took his Oath of Allegiance Sept 24,1742. His first child, Johann Thomas, was born onboard ship on 14 Sep 1742. On arrival, they went to Montgomery Township where he had leased 125 acres of farmland. (another son, John Ludwig Eschenfelter , held 100 acres there in 1785) He later purchased land in Philadelphia.He passed away about 1773 in what is now Montgomery County, PA. Further notes state that Philip was one of three brothers who came to America. They were all millers.

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Note : The arrival of this particular voyage of the Robert and Alice is found in https://ia803007.us.archive.org/26/items/pennsylvaniagerm03penn_2/p...

[List 95 C] At the Courthouse Philada, Sept1" 24th 1742.
Present: The Honble George Thomas, Esqr, Governor,
Samuel Hassel, William Till, ] _Abraham Taylor, Robert Strettell,J MJoseph Turner,
The Foreigners whose names are underwritten, imported in the Ship Robert & Alice, Martley Cusack, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, did this day take the foregoing
Oaths or Qualifications to the Government, viz., Phillips (sic) Jacob Eschenfelter

• ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Name: Phillips Jacob Eschenfelter, Arrival year: 1742, Arrival Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Primary Immigrant: Eschenfelter, Phillips Jacob, Source Publication Code: 9041; Source Citation; Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1742; Page Number: 331; Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.
• ↑ Strassburger, Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Pennsylvania Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia 1727-1808, 1934, V. 1 pp. 330-331
• ↑ Pennsylvania, U.S., Land Warrants, 1733-1987, Name: Philip Ashenfeller, Acreage: 115, Warrant Date: 27 Feb 1761, Warrant Location: Philadelphia. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Land Warrants, 1733-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Index of Early Pennsylvania Land Warrants, 1733–1987, from the Pennsylvania State Archives. Stevens, Pennsylvania: Ken McCrea, 2010.
• ↑ Pennsylvania Births and Christenings 1709-1950, baptism 3 Oct 1742, Johann Thomas, son of Philip and Anna Margaretha Eshenfelder
• ↑ New Hanover Lutheran Church, marriage of Thomas Ashenfelder to Anna Hennrichs on 12 Feb 1769, father named as marriage witness, Ancestry.com, Source Information: Lineages, Inc., comp.. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1748-1854: New Hanover Lutheran Church [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: Transcribed from LDS Family History Library microfilm copies of church records for this locality. For more information, see the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) for FHL 20351.
• ↑ Montgomery County PA 1748-1854, Falckner Swamp Reformed Congregation, Elizabeth Rieser, bride, married Peter Eschenfelder, groom, on 2 Apr 1769; groom's father listed as Philip Jacob Eschenfelder
• Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993
• Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952; Pennsylvania, Land Warrants, 1733-1987.
• Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Note: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree Ancestry Family Tree 119923183
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