Adam Dietrich 11740 - 1817
General Notes: Patriot - Sergeant in Captain Jacob Baldy's Company, Sixth Battalion Adam married Anna Barbara Steinbruch, daughter of Jacob Steinbruch and Maria Margaretha Unknown. (Anna Barbara Steinbruch was born on 13 Mar 1741 in , , Pennsylvania,2 died on 6 Jun 1821 in , , Pennsylvania 2 and was buried on 6 Jun 1821 in Moselem Church, Kutztown, Berks Co, Pennsylvania 2.) Adam Dietrich was married before his emigration to America, and two of his children, Johann Adam and Johann George, were born in the Fatherland. He married Maria Barbara Steinbruch, who was born March 13, 1741, daughter of Jacob Steinbruch. She died on the homestead in Greenwich township, June 6, 1821, aged eighty years, two months, and twenty-four days. He died in Greenwich township March 1, 1817, aged seventy-six years, four months and three days. Both Adam Dietrich and his wife were staunch Lutherans, and were members of the Moselem Church (which was established in 1742), of which he was an official, and they are both buried in the cemetery adjoining this church. To this couple were born seven sons and five daughters, all but one of whom lived to old age. All the sons were named Johann, but each was known by his second name with the exception of the sixth son, who had no second name. These children were: (1) Johann Adam, born Dec. 11, 1765, died Aug. 19, 1823, aged fifty-seven years, five months, twenty-seven days. (2) Johann Georg, born May 7, 1767, died Nov. 4, 1845, aged seventy-eight years, five months, twenty-seven days. (3) Maria Barbara, born 1769, m. Johannes Zimmerman, of Albany township, where their descendants still reside. (4) Maria Catharine, born 1771, m. Rev. Johann Michael Schmidt, mentioned elsewhere. (5) Johann Jacob, born June 25, 1773, died Sept. 1. 1857, aged eighty-four years, two months, six days. (6) Johann Michael, born April 6, 1775, died June 19, 1861, aged eighty-six years, two months, thirteen days. (7) Johann Heinrich, born 1777, died 1857. (8) Johann, born Jan. 7, 1779, died July 28, 1830, aged fifty-one years, six months, twenty-one days. (9) Maria Elizabeth, born 1781. (10) Johann Christian, born Jan. 13, 1783, died Nov. 21, 1873, aged ninety years, ten months, eight days. (11) Maria Magdalena, born 1785, was known by the name of Polly. She m. a Becker. (12) Anna Margaret, born January, 1787, died July 14, 1838, aged fifty-one years, six months. She was called Beckie, and she m. Jacob Heffner (1781-1867), of Virginville, Pennsylvania. 3 |
Sources
1 Kenneth William Fraser, Jr, The Ruchs and the Kistlers (Self Published Manuscript 2004), pg 75.
2 Kenneth William Fraser, Jr, The Ruchs and the Kistlers (Self Published Manuscript 2004).
3 Morton Montgomery Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County Pennsylvania (1909), pg. 552; digital images, PA-Roots (www.pa-roots.com : downloaded 24 May 2008).