s/o Johann Philipp Mack / Christina Philbrunn
Sailed to America on the ship "Allen" - James Craigie Master. From Rotterdam, last from Cowes. Sailed 7 July 1729 and landed in Philadelphia, PA. 15 Sept 1729 - with fifty-nine Palatines and their families totaling one hundred and twenty-six persons aboard.
Allexander, Johannes, Velten, Allexander junior Mack
Founder of the Church of the Brethren in America - First Leader and Minster of the Schwarzenau Brethren [German Baptists] in the Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein community of modern-day Bad Berleburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He founded the Brethren along with seven other Radical Pietists in Schwarzenau in 1708. Mack and the rest of the early Brethren emigrated to the United States in the mid-18th century, where he continued to minister to the Brethren community until his death.
married 18 Jan 1701 Germany Anna Margarethe Kling - d/o Velten Kling, a councilor of Schriesheim, near Heidelberg, then in the Palatinate [now Baden], Germany. Anna and their 2 daughters did not sail to America.
They had 2 daughters 3 sons - Johannes, Valentine "Veltin", Alexander, [Jr.]
Originally buried in Axe's Burial Ground. A small tomb-stone was placed over the body in the centre of the grave bearing the inscription:
Hier Ruhen
die gebeine
A. M.
geboren 1679
gestorben 1735
Alt 56 Yahr
Here his remains rested until 1894 when they were carefully removed along with his field stone to the God's Acre in the rear of the Brethren church, where they now repose beside those of his son, Alexander, and family.
Contributed by: BluMoKitty & JudiAlice
Sailed to America on the ship "Allen" - James Craigie Master. From Rotterdam, last from Cowes. Sailed 7 July 1729 and landed in Philadelphia, PA. 15 Sept 1729 - with fifty-nine Palatines and their families totaling one hundred and twenty-six persons aboard.
Allexander, Johannes, Velten, Allexander junior Mack
Founder of the Church of the Brethren in America - First Leader and Minster of the Schwarzenau Brethren [German Baptists] in the Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein community of modern-day Bad Berleburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He founded the Brethren along with seven other Radical Pietists in Schwarzenau in 1708. Mack and the rest of the early Brethren emigrated to the United States in the mid-18th century, where he continued to minister to the Brethren community until his death.
married 18 Jan 1701 Germany Anna Margarethe Kling - d/o Velten Kling, a councilor of Schriesheim, near Heidelberg, then in the Palatinate [now Baden], Germany. Anna and their 2 daughters did not sail to America.
They had 2 daughters 3 sons - Johannes, Valentine "Veltin", Alexander, [Jr.]
Originally buried in Axe's Burial Ground. A small tomb-stone was placed over the body in the centre of the grave bearing the inscription:
Hier Ruhen
die gebeine
A. M.
geboren 1679
gestorben 1735
Alt 56 Yahr
Here his remains rested until 1894 when they were carefully removed along with his field stone to the God's Acre in the rear of the Brethren church, where they now repose beside those of his son, Alexander, and family.
Contributed by: BluMoKitty & JudiAlice
s/o Johann Philipp Mack / Christina Philbrunn
Sailed to America on the ship "Allen" - James Craigie Master. From Rotterdam, last from Cowes. Sailed 7 July 1729 and landed in Philadelphia, PA. 15 Sept 1729 - with fifty-nine Palatines and their families totaling one hundred and twenty-six persons aboard.
Allexander, Johannes, Velten, Allexander junior Mack
Founder of the Church of the Brethren in America - First Leader and Minster of the Schwarzenau Brethren [German Baptists] in the Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein community of modern-day Bad Berleburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He founded the Brethren along with seven other Radical Pietists in Schwarzenau in 1708. Mack and the rest of the early Brethren emigrated to the United States in the mid-18th century, where he continued to minister to the Brethren community until his death.
married 18 Jan 1701 Germany Anna Margarethe Kling - d/o Velten Kling, a councilor of Schriesheim, near Heidelberg, then in the Palatinate [now Baden], Germany. Anna and their 2 daughters did not sail to America.
They had 2 daughters 3 sons - Johannes, Valentine "Veltin", Alexander, [Jr.]
Originally buried in Axe's Burial Ground. A small tomb-stone was placed over the body in the centre of the grave bearing the inscription:
Hier Ruhen
die gebeine
A. M.
geboren 1679
gestorben 1735
Alt 56 Yahr
Here his remains rested until 1894 when they were carefully removed along with his field stone to the God's Acre in the rear of the Brethren church, where they now repose beside those of his son, Alexander, and family.
Contributed by: BluMoKitty & JudiAlice
Sailed to America on the ship "Allen" - James Craigie Master. From Rotterdam, last from Cowes. Sailed 7 July 1729 and landed in Philadelphia, PA. 15 Sept 1729 - with fifty-nine Palatines and their families totaling one hundred and twenty-six persons aboard.
Allexander, Johannes, Velten, Allexander junior Mack
Founder of the Church of the Brethren in America - First Leader and Minster of the Schwarzenau Brethren [German Baptists] in the Schwarzenau, Wittgenstein community of modern-day Bad Berleburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He founded the Brethren along with seven other Radical Pietists in Schwarzenau in 1708. Mack and the rest of the early Brethren emigrated to the United States in the mid-18th century, where he continued to minister to the Brethren community until his death.
married 18 Jan 1701 Germany Anna Margarethe Kling - d/o Velten Kling, a councilor of Schriesheim, near Heidelberg, then in the Palatinate [now Baden], Germany. Anna and their 2 daughters did not sail to America.
They had 2 daughters 3 sons - Johannes, Valentine "Veltin", Alexander, [Jr.]
Originally buried in Axe's Burial Ground. A small tomb-stone was placed over the body in the centre of the grave bearing the inscription:
Hier Ruhen
die gebeine
A. M.
geboren 1679
gestorben 1735
Alt 56 Yahr
Here his remains rested until 1894 when they were carefully removed along with his field stone to the God's Acre in the rear of the Brethren church, where they now repose beside those of his son, Alexander, and family.
Contributed by: BluMoKitty & JudiAlice
Inscription
ALEXANDER MACK, SR.
THE FIRST MINISTER
AND ORGANIZER OF THE
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
IN THE YEAR 1708
BORN AT SCHRIESHEIM,
GERMANY, 1679.
CAME TO GERMANTOWN,
1729. DIED 1735.
REMOVED FROM
AXE'S BURYING GROUND
1894.
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