Johann Pieter LICHT

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Johann Pieter LICHT

Subject: Johann Pieter LICHT / John Peter LICHT / Peter LEIGHT
Birth: 1715/6, Europe
Migration: 30 Aug 1737, arrived Philadelphia on the ship Samuel from Rotterdam, via Cowes

Sources:

1. I. 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. 104 Aug. 30, 1737. Palatines imported in the ship Samuel, Hugh Percy, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes.— In all 318...

p. 106 Johann Peter Licht...

2. 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. 131 LIST OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED IN THE SHIP SAMUEL, HUGH PERCY, MASTER, FROM ROTTERDAM.
QUALIFIED AUG. 30, 1737...
Johann Peter Licht...

p. 134 Peter Leight [age] 21...

Passengers are on two lists, the second one including their age.

3. 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. Vol. 1. Norristown, PA (reprinted 1966ff by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; issued 2000 in Broderbund CD-267):

p. 170 [List 44 B] Palatines imported in the Ship Samuel, Hugh Percy, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes. Qualified the 30^th Day of August 1737...

p. 171 Johann Peter Licht...
[List 44 C] At the Courthouse of Philad^ia August 30^th 1737. Present the Hon^ble James Logan, Esq^r, President, Clement Plumsted, Ralph Assheton, Thomas Laurence, William Allen.
The Palatines whose Names are underwritten, imported in the Ship Samuel, Hugh Percy, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, did this day take & subscribe the Oaths to the Government...

p. 173 Johann Peter Licht...

4. Annette Kunselman Burgert. 1985. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Vol. 2: the Western Palatinate. Pennsylvania German Society, Birdsboro, PA (Broderbund CD-354):

Year Name Age Place

1737 Licht, Johann Peter 21 America

5. Moses Light. 1896. The Light Genealogy in America. Self-published, Manheim, Lancaster Co., PA (facsimile online at the Light Family web site [link died]). This book contains substantial errors and should not be relied upon, for which reason, I'm not going to quote any part of it.

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