Christian Seiberling

1731 - 1816

  • Born: 30 Jan 1731, Ellmendingen, Pforzhein, Baden, Germany

  • Marriage: Ernestine Louisa Holben about 1759 in Ellmendingen, Pforzhein, Baden, Germany 1

  • Died: 29 Dec 1816, Lynn Twp, Lehigh Co, Pennsylvania, USA at age 85

  • Buried: After 29 Dec 1816, Weisenberg, Lehigh Co, Pennsylvania, USA

  General Notes:

There is some debate on Christian's date of birth.

From Bob Holby on RootsWeb
1778 SERVED IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AS A PRIVATE IN CAPT. WYAND'S CO., OF NORTHHAMPTON CO. PENSYLVANIA, RANGERS ON THE FRONTIERS.

  Burial Notes:

Buried in the Weisenberg Church Cemetery

  Noted events in his life were:

• Burial Plot: Weisenberg Church Cemetery: Weisenberg, Lehigh Co, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Immigration: Ship Molly, 16 Oct 1741, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 2 According to David Mosier Miller - Mosier4640@msn.com
The ship that Michael (Christian's father) came to America on was named "Molly" - on Oct 16, 1741 Rotterdam, Holland > Deal,England > Philadelphia,PA. The record can be found at http://istg.rootsweb.com/1700/molly411016.html.

• Military: Served in Revolutionary War. 3 Christian was a Private from Pennsylvania.


Christian married Ernestine Louisa Holben about 1759 in Ellmendingen, Pforzhein, Baden, Germany.1 (Ernestine Louisa Holben was born in 1728 1 and died in 1824 1.)


Sources


1 Edward McKeown - edmckeown1@comcast.net, McKeown-Seiberling Family Tree at RootsWeb (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=yenrib&id=I2665), http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=yenrib&id=I278.

2 Ibid, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmpostem.cgi?op=show&app=yenrib¬ify=Y5ZpzCM0S0AdwUxdaBfQ5sDe9V95keEN&key=I2665&return=%3Ca+href%3D%22%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Figm%2Ecgi%3Fop%3DGET%26amp%3Bdb%3Dyenrib%26amp%3Bid%3DI2665%22%3EReturn+to+WorldConnect%3C%2Fa.

3 DAR Patriot Index Centenial Edition, Part 2, Page 2607.