DESCENDANTS OF NICOLAUS ROSENBERGER
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Don Norman
1.NICOLAUS ROSENBERGER
Nicolaus
Rosenberger was born in Germany about 1660. He married
Agnes Hoffer.
Known children of Nicolaus and Agnes (Hoffer)
Rosenberger.
2. (1). Christoffel b.mar 31 1683 d.Apr 10 1754
m.Anna
Catherina Ruffer May 15 1715
2.CHRISTOFFEL ROSENBERGER 1.NICOLAUS ROSENBERGER
Christoffel
Rosenberger, a son of Nicolaus and Agnes (Hoffer)
Rosenberger, was born March 31, 1683 in Niederzell
Germany. He died in
Niederzell April 10, 1754 and was buried there April 12,
1754.
Christoffel married Anna Catherina Ruffer May 15,1715 in
Niederzell
Germany. Anna, a daughter of Balthasar and Anna (Noll)
Ruffer, was born
in Hohenzell Germany November 14, 1692 and died April 2,
1767 in
Niederzell Germany.
Children of Christoffel and Anna Catherina (Ruffer)
Rosenberger.
3. (1). Johannes b. 1717
4. (2). Jacob b. 1720
5. (3). Erasmus b. 1723
d.c. 1794
m. Anna
Catherina (Keifer) Baumgartner 1756
6. (4). Johann Christoffel b.
1727
7. (5). Anna Catherina b. 1731
5.ERASMUS ROSENBERGER
2.CHRISTOFFEL ROSENBERGER
1.NICOLAUS
ROSENBERGER
Erasmus
Rosenberger, a son of Christoffel and Anna Catherine
(Ruffer) Rosenberger, was born November 21, 1723 in Niederzell,
Germany and died about 1794 in Shenandoah County VA.
Erasmus arrived
into the port of Philadelphia on the "Ranier"
September 26 1849 and signed the oath of allegiance to
the British king
is his own handwriting (Strassburger and Hinke, PA German
Pioneers, Vol
I page 411). By the following year he is recorded as a
resident of
Hanover Township Lancaster County PA and already had 100
acres of land
with six of it in corn. (Lancaster County PA Tax lists
1750-Lancaster
County PA). This area later became Dauphin County PA.
In 1756 Erasmus
was married to Anna Catherina (Keifer) Baumgartner
at the Hill Church in Lebanon PA by Rev. Johann Casper
Stover, a
reformed minister who served much of the Frontier
community, including
VA. She was most
likely the widow of Godfreid Baumgartner of Lebanon.
By the time of his marriage, Erasmus had settled on a 120
acre tract on
the Great Swatara Creek near Kittatany Hills in Hanover
Township and
applied for a patent to this land on December 26, 1761.
He indicated
that he had lived there for some time but he had been
prevented from
applying for the proper warrants and patents earlier
because his
property had been ravaged by Indians during the French
and Indian
conflict. The records state that they "burnt his
house and carried off
or destroyed all of his cattle, stock and goods"
(Pennsylvania land
office records Lancaster, Warrant R369) Erasmus received
patent to an
adjoining tract of 49 acres in May 1769.
Anna died by
1770 and Erasmus married Regina -------- about 1771 in
Shenandoah, Berkeley County VA.
Erasmus and his
family moved to VA about 1776 and in that year he
purchased over 300 acres on a branch of Opequon Creek in
Berkeley County
(now WV). This is evidenced in Berkeley County Deed book
4 pages 2 and
3. He purchased additional land in Berkeley County in
1785 which he then
sold to his two oldest sons Frederick and John as
evidenced in Berkeley
County Deed book 6 pages 395-397.
Erasmus appears
on the personal property tax list of Berkeley County
from the beginning of the Records in 1783 through 1789.
About this time
Erasmus and his family moved again, this time
further south to Shenandoah County and purchased 328
acres a short
distance west of Strasburg from Henry and Rosena Felkner.
(Shenandoah
County Deed book G pages 477 - 479) Their neighbors were
Philip Peter
Baker to the North, The Brubecks (Erasmus'son Jacob
married Elizabeth
"Betsy" Brubeck/Brodbeck) to the west and the
Funkhousers to the south.
Erasmus and Regina deeded this land to his sons Anthony
and Rudolph in
1794.
Erasmus is
listed on the personal property tax lists of Shenandoah
County from 1791 - 1794, and was apparently deceased by
the time the tax
lists were drawn up in June 1795. Regina is listed as the
"widow
Rosenberger" on a list of communications of the St
Paul's Lutheran
Church in Strasburg in October 1798. The ages of the
younger sons have
been estimated from appearance in the tax records. The
house in which
Erasmus and Regina are reputed to have lived in
Shenandoah County still
stands along the north Branch of "Brubecks Run"
(Tumbling Run) near St
Stephens church west of Strasburg.
Children of Erasmus and Anna Catherina (Keifer)
[Baumgartner]
Rosenberger.
8. (1). Anna Barbara b. 1758
9. (2). Frederick b. 1760
d. 1835
10. (3). John b. 1761
d. 1831
11. (4). Elizabeth b.c. 1763
d.c. 1838
12. (5). Henry b.c. 1765
d. 1847
13. (6). Eva b.c. 1767
14. (7). Erasmus b.c. 1768
d. 1838
Children of Erasmus and Regina Rosenberger.
15. (1). Anthony b. 1771
d. 1853
16. (2). Rudolph b. 1774
d. 1846
17. (3). Michael b.c. 1775
d. 1817
18. (4). Jacob b.c. 1777
d. 1815
m.Elizabeth
Brodbeck Aug 31 1799
19. (5). Abraham b.c. 1779
d.c. 1847
18.JACOB ROSENBERGER
5.ERASMUS ROSENBERGER
2.CHRISTOFFEL
ROSENBERGER
1.NICOLAUS ROSENBERGER
Jacob
Rosenberger, a son of Erasmus and Regina Rosenberger, was born
about 1777 and died in 1815 in Frederick County VA. He
married Elizabeth
Brodbeck August 31, 1799 in Shenandoah County VA.
Elizabeth, a daughter
of Johannes and Margaret Brodbeck, was born about 1778 in
Shenandoah
County Virginia and died there after 1860.
Jacob
Rosenberger purchased land in Frederick County near Fawcetts
Gap in 1809. He established a flour mill which he
operated until his
death a few years later. The "Account of the
Personal Estate of Jacob
Rosenberger, deceased" dated April 1815 was recorded
in Frederick County
on May 5 1817. In the account were items for
"boarding" and "tuition"
for his children and item for "translating Dutch to
English" The
appraisement noted a "Number of Dutch Books".
Jacob died in
the Spring of 1815. (Frederick county will book 10
pages 589 - 590). Elizabeth lived as a widow for many
years. She was
living with her son William in 1860 at age 84.
Children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Brodbeck) Rosenberger.
20. (1). William b. 1800
d. 1880
m.Elizabeth Larrick
21. (2). Regina b.c. 1801
d. 1878
m.Henry
Clowser Jan 15 1820
22. (3). Margaret b. 1803
d. 1877
23. (4). John B. b. 1814
d. 1880
20.WILLIAM ROSENBERGER
18.JACOB ROSENBERGER 5.ERASMUS
ROSENBERGER
2.CHRISTOFFEL
ROSENBERGER 1.NICOLAUS ROSENBERGER
William
Rosenberger, a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Brodbeck)
Rosenberger, was born in 1800 and died in 1880. He
married Elizabeth
Larrick.
Known children of William and Elizabeth (Larrick)
Rosensberger.
24. (1). Jacob
m.Eliza
Milhoan
21.REGINA ROSENBERGER
18.JACOB ROSENBERGER 5.ERASMUS
ROSENBERGER
2.CHRISTOFFEL
ROSENBERGER 1.NICOLAUS ROSENBERGER
Regina
Rosenberger, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Brodbeck)
Rosenberger, was born about 1801 and died August 22, 1878
in Clowser
Gap, Frederick County VA. She married Henry Clowser
January 15, 1820.
Henry, a son of Henry and Sarah (Frye) Clowser, was born
about 1800 in
Clowser Gap, Frederick County VA and died there October
10, 1870.
Children of Henry and Regina (Rosenberger) Clowser.
25. (1). Jacob b.
1822 d. 1887
26. (2). Henry b. 1825
27. (3). Mary b. 1827
d. 1911
28. (4). Rebecca Jane b. 1829
d. 1920
29. (5). Louisa Catherine b.
1833 d. 1908
30. (6). Andrew Jackson b. 1836
d.Dec 31 1903
m.Sarah
Moss
m.Sarah
Elizabeth Dennison Nov 25 1879
31. (7). Martha Ann b. 1837
d. 1904
32. (8). Margaret Virginia b.
1841
33. (9). George Washington b.
1842 d. 1901
34. (10). Sidney
Frances b. 1845
d. 1918
35. (11). Amanda
Regina b. 1848
d. 1911
36. (12). Harriet
Ann b.c, 1843
d. 1915
24.JACOB ROSENBERGER
20.WILLIAM ROSENBERGER 18.JACOB
ROSENBERGER
5.ERASMUS ROSENBERGER
2.CHRISTOFFEL ROSENBERGER
1.NICOLAUS
ROSENBERGER
Jacob
Rosenberger, a son of William and Elizabeth (Larrick)
Rosensberger, was born about 1830. He married Eliza
Milhoan.
Known children of Jacob and Eliza (Milhoan) Rosenberger.
37. (1). Gertrude
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Martin, Alison D., "Ancestors of Andrew Jackson
Clowser"
Slonaker, Yvonne Stone, email to HCPD