| Sources:
1. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:
IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).
Johannes KAPP
Birth: 18 Feb 1704, Munthenstein,
, , Switzerland
Death: 11 Nov 1757
Father: Mathis CAPP; Mother: Anna Margaret MASSMUNSTER
Marriage: About 1739, Of Munthenstein,
, , Switzerland
Spouse: Judith MASSMUNSTER
Source: patron submission |
Husband: Johannes KAPP
Birth: 18 Feb 1704, Munthenstein,
Switzerland
Christening: 26 Feb 1704, Muttenz, Basel, Switzerland
Death: 11 Nov 1757, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Marriage: Jan 1740, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Wife: Katharina ETTER
Christening: 23 Aug 1716, Kirchenthurnen,
Kanton Bern, Switzerland
Death: 26 Jun 1790, Milton Grove, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Burial: Moravian Burial Ground, Milton Grove, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Source: patron submission |
It's Münchenstein/Muenchenstein, not Munthenstein. Hans had
at least four children born by 1739, so unless Judith is his second wife
(and Kathrina his third), 1739 cannot possibly be the marriage year for
Hans & Judith. Hans cannot have married Katharina in January
of 1740 because he didn't arrive from Switzerland until Sep 1740.
This inconsistency may result from the problem of "old style" vs. "new
style" dates, that is, because in 1752 the date the New Year begins was
moved from March 25th to January 1st. If Judith died on the crossing,
then Johannes could have married Katharine in Jan of 1741.
2. A. Gerber. 1925. "Lists of Swiss Emigrants from
the Canton of Basel, 1734-94." Chap. VII, pp. 89-206 in Albert Bernhardt
Faust & Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, eds. Lists of Swiss Emigrants
in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies. National
Genealogical Soc., Washington, DC (Broderbund CD-267):
| p. 110 |
1737
Considerable time before the beginning of the year, some eighteen
subjects from Biel-Benken, Arisdorf, and other places had come to Basel
and expressed their desire to go to Carolina, but the Mayor had denied
them the Chancery order to their Obervögte, and the Council had upheld
his action (RP 108, Oct. 20, 1736). Still earlier, the Council had
learned of some "plotting" at the house of the "Lehnsmann," fief holder
or sub-tenant Lienert Heyer on the Rütihard, and ordered the Obervogt
to look into the matter. The result of his investigation, embodied
in his report of Sept. 4, 1736 (AA), was in substance as follows:
Lienert Heyer's brother and Antoni Rieger of Benken and Jacob Küntzlin,
a carpenter, and Hans Kapp, a wagon-maker, of Münchenstein
had discussed emigration to Pennsylvania. They had been actuated
to do so partly by the letter of Gondy1 in praise
1This letter of Antony Gondy was printed
for the first time in the American Historical Review (1916), Vol.
XXII, pp. 115-117, among the Documents in Swiss Archives relating to
Emigration to American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, contributed
by A.B. Faust.
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| p. 111 |
of Carolina, written Charleston, S.C., in 1733,
but only lately come into their possession through a man of Grenzach across
the Rhine, and partly by their own unfavorable circumstances. The
carpenter and the wagon-maker had complained of the growing competition
in their trades and all of them had arrived at the conviction that their
heavy debts and the 5 percent interest they had to pay in consequence of
the mandate (see Introduction) combined with the tithes of grain and wine
made it impossible for them to sustain themselves here any longer.
While Jacob Küntzlin and Hans Kapp gave up the thought
of emigration for the present and did not go till three years later, Lienert
Heyer and Antoni Rieger actively pushed their preparations and succedded
in obtaining the consent from the goverment... |
| p. 123 |
1740
This year there was once more a considerable number of applicants
and among them fewer poor and paupers than in 1738. They were examined
by the deputies to the "Landessachen" to whom henceforth all matters of
emigration not directly concerning the factories were referred. The
applicants complained of lack of sufficient work and a decrease of their
property in spite of their utmost efforts. Times were rather hard
and it was scarcely possible for them to find means to pay the 5 percent
interest which they had to give to their "honourable" creditors.
Since ruin was staring them in the face, they wished to seek homes and
sustenance in another part of the world while they still had some property
left. Their families were of the same mind as they were. Remonstrances |
| p. 124 |
and warnings on the part of the deputies were
in vain, all the more so because they talked disparagingly against Carolina,
while it was to Pennsylvania that at least the emigrants from Muttenz were
firmly resolved to go, so firmly that even the agent Hans Spring, who was
enlisting emigrants for Carolina, could not divert them from their purpose.
The Council therefore consented to the emigration of all who had applied
up to March 16. Those who had less than 100 pounds were released
from the payment of dues as they had been in 1736, but the others did not
obtain any material reduction in the computation of their ten percent tax
and had to pay five pounds for the manumission of each of their children.
In the absence of entries in MP we turn to the lists of emigrants
of March 5 and 16, found in CAM, and give them in our usual order of Aemter
and villages... Those who sailed for Philadelphia this time had a
very bad passage. According to Gerster, nearly sixty people from
the Canton of Basel died, mostly of hunger. "For they have had a very rough
voyage with storm so that they have lost their provisions and cooking-kettles."... |
| p. 125 |
List of March 16, 1740...
[Amt] Mönchenstein
Mönchenstein:
Johannes Kapp, the waggon-maker, & f.
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| p. 128 |
Amt MUENCHENSTEIN
Münchenstein
From Hans Kapp, of Mönchenstein, (son of the
Untervogt, wagon-maker, 37 years of age).
Ten percent tax on lb. 180 worth of property.... 18.__
Pro manumissione for him and his wife............ 20.__
Ditto for their 4 children a 5 lb................ 20.__
58.__
Judith Massmünster, his wife, 35 years of age.
Their children:
1. Hans Jacob, bapt. Jan. 1, 1730
2. Johannes, bapt. Febr. 20, 1735
3. Leonhardt, bapt. Nov 3, 1737
4. Benedict, KB Benedichy, bapt. March 1, 1739
In 1750 he was in Pennsylvania and sold an inheritance, which turned
out to be worth over 330 pounds, to Jacob Joner for 100 florins (RP 124,
271 and 281). |
| CAM = "Concepte Abgegangener Missiven" (official
commucations); KB = "Kirchenbücher" (parish register); MP = Manumisionsprotokoll
(Manumission Register); RP = "Ratsprotokolle" (council minutes) |
An "untervogt" is a civil official, equivalent to "mayor." Benedict
is the English spelling of the name; the German spelling is Benedikt.
I don't know what "Benedichy" was a stab at — the Latin form is Benedictus
and the French is Bénédicte — unless this child was a female,
in which case "Benedichy" could have been a diminutive of the female German
name, Benedikta. Or maybe "Benedickie" was a nickname. I would
suspect this latter to be the case, except that baptismal records usually
give the gender of the child.
3. Israel Daniel Rupp. 1876. A Collection of Upwards
of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants
in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776... Philadelphia, PA (repub.
1931, Leipzig; repub. 1965ff by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD;
in 2000 as Broderbund CD-267):
| p. 139 |
75) Sept. 23, 1740. Palatines and Switzers imported
in the ship Friendship, William Vittery, Commander, from Rotterdam,
last from Cowes.--120 passengers...
Johannes Kapp... |
4. William Henry Egle, ed. 1890. Names of Foreigners
Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania,
1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. Pennsylvania
Archives, Vol. XVII, Second Series, Harrisburg, PA (reprinted 1967ff
by Genealogical Publ Co., Baltimore, MD; in 2000 as Broderbund CD-512):
| p. 195 |
LIST OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED IN THE SHIP FRIENDSHIP,
WILLIAM VITTERY, COMMANDER, FROM ROTTERDAM. QUALIFIED SEPT. 23, 1740...
Johanes Cop... |
5. Ralph Beaver Strassburger (William John Hinke, ed.).
1934.
Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a Publication of the Original Lists
of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. 2
vols. Norristown, PA (reprinted 1966ff by Genealogical Publ. Co.,
Baltimore, MD; Broderbund CD-267):
| p. 274 |
[List 75A] [Palatines & Switzers imported
in the Ship Friendship, William Vettery, Comr from Rotterdam.
Qualified Sept. 23, 1740.]...
Johanes Cop... |
| p. 275 |
The foregoing is a true & compleat List of
the Male Palatines of the age of Sixteen years & upwards imported in
the Ship Friendship to the best of my knowledge.
Willm Vettery.
Sworn Sepr 23d 1740. Before Thos Lawrence
& William Allen, Esqrs. |
[List 75C] At the Court House of Philadelphia,
Septr 23d 1740.
Present: Thomas Lawrence, William Allen, Esqrs.
The Palatines & Switzers whose names are underwritten, imported
in the Ship Friendship, William Vettery, Commander, from Rotterdam, but
last from Cowes, did this day take & subscribe the Oaths to the Government,
viz...
Johannes Kapp... |
6. A. Gerber. 1925. "Lists of Swiss Emigrants from
the Canton of Basel, 1734-94." Chap. VII, pp. 89-206 in Albert Bernhardt
Faust & Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, eds. Lists of Swiss Emigrants
in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies. National
Genealogical Soc., Washington, DC (Broderbund CD-267):
| p. 213 |
Münchenstein
Catharina Banga, daughter of the cooper Jacob B. and Cathrina
Kapp (deceased Nov. 20, 1750), bapt. Oct. 26, 1717.
RP 124, March 6, 1751, it is stated that she emigrated to Pennsylvania
in 1739 and had not given sign of life. Apr. 3, 1751, her four brothers
and sisters, Barbara, Hans Jacob, Johannes and Anna Margreth, were allowed
the 80 pounds which she had inherited from their grandfather Matthis
Kapp, deceased, in 1743, on giving joint security (CAM). She
must have been related to Hans Kapp, emigrant
of 1740. |
| CAM = "Concepte Abgegangener
Missiven" (official commucations); RP = "Ratsprotokolle" (council minutes) |
Cathrina (KAPP) BANGA is our subject's sister.
7. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).
8. The
Current Names and Cantons of Switzerland: since the split
of Canton Basel in 1833, Münchenstein and Muttenz are in Canton Basel-Landschaft
(Basel-Country).
9. Communes
of Basel-Landschaft Canton: Münchenstein and Muttenz
are, today, in District Arlesheim. |
