STIEHL, Johannes Abraham

Male - Bef 1751


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  • Name STIEHL, Johannes Abraham 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 12 Dec 1751 
    Person ID I1452  Hans Georg Spang
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 

    Children 
     1. STEELE, Christopher,   b. Abt 1740,   d. 16 Oct 1782, , Frederick, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years)
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2015 
    Family ID F688  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • 1954 Biographical Sketch: [2522] "Stiehl, Abraham - of Steinbach (Kreis Simmern), 'has made up his mind to go to Pennsylvania;' is, with wife and four children, freed from vassalage on payment of 32 florins for manumission and 29 florins for tithe. (Johann Abraham Stiehl, Ship Patience, August 11, 1750)."

      Undated Biographical Sketch: [2521] "My research on the Steel family suggests that Christopher was the son of Abraham Stihl who arrived in Philadelphia 11 Aug 1750 aboard the Patience. Abraham was dead by 12 Dec 1751 when his widow, Anna Margaretha (then married to a second husband) filed proceedings on his estate. You state that Christopher was 'once a staunch Lutheran.' In my research I have never found him in any church records in Bucks Co. I do find other Stihls (Steeles) in the Reformed Church in Bucks County who I think are related to Christopher - brothers perhaps. There was a George Steele who settled in Frederick County, Maryland, "west of the Catoctin Mountains," by 1784 who was also from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where some of his children were baptized in a Reformed Church as were some of the children of one Abraham Steele, his brother. I am inclined to think that Christopher, Abraham, and George were brothers. Coincidentally, each named his first born son, Abraham."

      1750 Immigration: [2523] Johann Abraham Stiehl arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, on August 11, 1750, on the ship Patience, with Captain Hugh Steel. Of the 266 passengers, Johann Abraham Stiehl and 123 others took the oath of abjuration.

      1750 Notice in The Pennsylvania Gazette: [2524] 16 August 1750, "For Charles Town, South Carolina, directly, the ship Patience, Hugh Steel, commander; will certainly sail by the middle of September. For freight or passage, apply to Charles and Alexander Stedman, or said master, N. B. She has good accommodations for passengers."