The Genealogical Society
PUBLICATIONS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Vol. VII. MARCH, 1919. No. 2. MEMORIALS OP THE KNEASS FAMILY OF PHILADELPHIA.* CONTRIBUTED BY MISS ANNA J. MAGEE. JOHAN CHRISTIAN 1 KNEASS,t the first of his name in Penn¬ sylvania, doubtless a native of the Palatinate, arrived at Phila¬ delphia, on the ship Richard and Mary from Rotterdam, John Moore Commander, about 17 September, 1753,J on which day he took the required oath of allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain and the Province of Pennsylvania. He settled in Philadelphia and was a resident of Mulberry Ward until his death in 1801. In signing his name he invariably omitted the “Johan,” which is believed to have been the Christian name of his father. His wife Christina, who died or was buried, 30 July, 1803,|| joined him, as early as 1785, in sundry conveyances of land, and both were members of St. Michael and Zion’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, where their children were baptized. She * Compiled by .T. Granville Leacli. •fr Name indifferently written Kniess, Kneass, Niess. £ Pcnna. Archives, second series, vol. xvii, p. 390. || Buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Publications of The Genealogical Society, vol. 1, p. 239. 108 Memorials of the Kneass Family of Philadelphia. was the sister of one of the wives of William Englefried who also came to Philadelphia in the Richard and John in 1758, and whose will * of 3 December, 1781, left legacies to three of his children then living near Carlsruh in Baden, Durlach, Ger¬ many, and to ‘‘late wife’s sister, Christine Kneass.’’ Children, born in Philadelphia : i.
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