According to PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN PIONEERS, in which the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia were published, Johan Frederic's name is listed as a passenger on the ship "Polly", which arrived into the port of Philadelphia in the year 1764. This date is also re-confirmed in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pa., 1896, by Runk & Company, pgs. 734 and 735. In a biographical "sketch" it notes, "John Frederic Zimmerman was born in Wolluria, Germany, and came to America in 1764, landing at Philadelphia."
"There is a warrant date of July 6, 1772 Paxtang Township, Lancaster County 125 Acres. Later Frederich moved north and settled in Armstrong Valley, southeast of Halifax, at a place later known as Yeager's Mill. Family history notes that Frederich and his wife were buried in a cemetery at Guy Rutters farm, near "Rudy's Creek", known as Rutter's Farm Cemetery. Their graves were marked on rough stones on which place large oak trees have now grown up. Mr. Zimmerman and family had in the early days great trials with roving bands of indians, who burned three times their cabin and took or destroyed their possessions. To escape the indians the family took refuge in a cave nearby on the banks of the Armstrong Creek."
John Frederic(h) Zimmerman was a founder and active member, as well as the rest of his family, of St. Peter's (Fetterhoff's) Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Church, as indicated from extracted church records.
A URW (unrecorded will not registered), dated 1790, can be found at the Dauphin County Courthouse, Harrisburg, PA, in a WILL INDEX for the period 1785-1860, where Frederich's wife's first name is indicated as Anna Maria.
"There is a warrant date of July 6, 1772 Paxtang Township, Lancaster County 125 Acres. Later Frederich moved north and settled in Armstrong Valley, southeast of Halifax, at a place later known as Yeager's Mill. Family history notes that Frederich and his wife were buried in a cemetery at Guy Rutters farm, near "Rudy's Creek", known as Rutter's Farm Cemetery. Their graves were marked on rough stones on which place large oak trees have now grown up. Mr. Zimmerman and family had in the early days great trials with roving bands of indians, who burned three times their cabin and took or destroyed their possessions. To escape the indians the family took refuge in a cave nearby on the banks of the Armstrong Creek."
John Frederic(h) Zimmerman was a founder and active member, as well as the rest of his family, of St. Peter's (Fetterhoff's) Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Church, as indicated from extracted church records.
A URW (unrecorded will not registered), dated 1790, can be found at the Dauphin County Courthouse, Harrisburg, PA, in a WILL INDEX for the period 1785-1860, where Frederich's wife's first name is indicated as Anna Maria.
According to PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN PIONEERS, in which the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia were published, Johan Frederic's name is listed as a passenger on the ship "Polly", which arrived into the port of Philadelphia in the year 1764. This date is also re-confirmed in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pa., 1896, by Runk & Company, pgs. 734 and 735. In a biographical "sketch" it notes, "John Frederic Zimmerman was born in Wolluria, Germany, and came to America in 1764, landing at Philadelphia."
"There is a warrant date of July 6, 1772 Paxtang Township, Lancaster County 125 Acres. Later Frederich moved north and settled in Armstrong Valley, southeast of Halifax, at a place later known as Yeager's Mill. Family history notes that Frederich and his wife were buried in a cemetery at Guy Rutters farm, near "Rudy's Creek", known as Rutter's Farm Cemetery. Their graves were marked on rough stones on which place large oak trees have now grown up. Mr. Zimmerman and family had in the early days great trials with roving bands of indians, who burned three times their cabin and took or destroyed their possessions. To escape the indians the family took refuge in a cave nearby on the banks of the Armstrong Creek."
John Frederic(h) Zimmerman was a founder and active member, as well as the rest of his family, of St. Peter's (Fetterhoff's) Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Church, as indicated from extracted church records.
A URW (unrecorded will not registered), dated 1790, can be found at the Dauphin County Courthouse, Harrisburg, PA, in a WILL INDEX for the period 1785-1860, where Frederich's wife's first name is indicated as Anna Maria.
"There is a warrant date of July 6, 1772 Paxtang Township, Lancaster County 125 Acres. Later Frederich moved north and settled in Armstrong Valley, southeast of Halifax, at a place later known as Yeager's Mill. Family history notes that Frederich and his wife were buried in a cemetery at Guy Rutters farm, near "Rudy's Creek", known as Rutter's Farm Cemetery. Their graves were marked on rough stones on which place large oak trees have now grown up. Mr. Zimmerman and family had in the early days great trials with roving bands of indians, who burned three times their cabin and took or destroyed their possessions. To escape the indians the family took refuge in a cave nearby on the banks of the Armstrong Creek."
John Frederic(h) Zimmerman was a founder and active member, as well as the rest of his family, of St. Peter's (Fetterhoff's) Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Church, as indicated from extracted church records.
A URW (unrecorded will not registered), dated 1790, can be found at the Dauphin County Courthouse, Harrisburg, PA, in a WILL INDEX for the period 1785-1860, where Frederich's wife's first name is indicated as Anna Maria.
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