Alexander Mack Jr
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Alexander Mack Jr (1712 - 1803)

Rev Alexander "Sander" Mack Jr
Born in Schriesheim, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reichmap
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Died at age 91 in Germantown Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
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Biography

BIRTH
Based upon a Mennonite record, Alexander Mack [Jun.] was born on the 30th of January 1712. [1] His father. the notable Alexander Mack, Senior, founded the Church of the Brethren. He was born at Schrieshelm in the Palatinate in 1679 and married Anna Maria Kling of his native town. [2] His Find A Grave Memorial record "says" he was born the 25th January 1712, Schriesheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Wurttemberg [later in Germany].[3]

CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
Church historian Barnhart says "All German Brethren churches trace their lineage back to the fusion of Radical Pietist and Anabaptist themes present at the beginning of the Brethren movement in Schwarzenau [Germany] in 1708. Sander Mack's father, Alexander Mack, Sr. (1679-1735) is the progenitor of the Brethren family." [Barnhart, p.12] [4]

Alexander "Sander" Mack, Jr. became a minister and was a protege of Brethren minister Christopher Sower II.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ARRIVAL
In the year 1729 Alexander Mack, Jr. arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, traveling with his father and about 120 Brethren emigrants. [Barnhart, p.13] [4] Barnhart explains that their settlement, in the world of the English, was difficult but by 1770 their "evangelistic zeal" spread and congregations were to be found in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas. [Barnhart, p.13]

CENSUS RECORDS

  • 1790 United States Federal Census: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His household consisted of three members which included two males over the age of sixteen years.
  • 1800 United States Federal Census: Washington Twp., Franklin County, Pennsylvania. His household consisted of 7 members which included: 3 males under 10 years of age ; 1 male between 26-44 yrs ; 1 male over 45 yrs ; 1 female under 10 yrs ; 1 female 26-44 yrs.

DEATH
Alexander "Sander" Mack passed away on the 20th March 1803 at Germantown [1] [5] which bordered Philadelphia on the northwest boundary.

WILL
Alexander Mack, yeoman, Decedent, resident of Germantown Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Will dated 12 Mar 1803; Will Proved Date: 5 Apr 1803. [6]

Alexander Mack. Germantown Township, Co. of Philadelphia. Yeoman. Wife: Elizabeth. Son: William Mack. Daughter-in-Law: Agnes Mack. Children of dau. Sarah Zigler, decd. Daughter: Hannah Weaver, wife of Adam Weaver. Children of dau. Lydia Lentz, decd. Daughter: Margaret Fox, wife of Emmanuel Fox. The Will mentions land in Germantown and Springfield Townships, Cos. of Philadelphia and Montgomery, also woodland in Springfield Township joining lands of John Huston. Exec: Wife Elizabeth, son-in-law Emmanuel Fox and grandson William Weaver. Codicil dated March 15, 1803, revokes that part of will which appoints grandson William Weaver as one of the Exec.

BURIAL
He was buried in the Church of the Brethren Cemetery at Philadelphia township. [7]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lancaster [County], Pennsylvania, U.S., Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014" Card file record [current county of Montgomery] CHS VIII: 9. Surnames beginning McGilp, Andrew F. to Martin, Cerenus. Reprinted ($ online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 3 Dec 2023. Source text quoted verbatim: "Alexander Mack, born 30 Jan 1712 and who died 20 Mar 1803. Married Elizabeth Nice, dau. of William Nice, stocking weaver & Brett, Bishop in Germantown. Household included Elizabeth Nice, wife ; William Nice, Father-in-law ; William Mack, son ; Alexander Mack, 3rd, son ; Sarah Margaretta Mack daughter ; Hannah Mack, daughter ; Lydia Mack, daughter ; Elizabeth Mack, daughter ; Anna Mack, daughter ; Margaretta Mack, daughter"" Viewed at https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60592/images/44308_347512-00356
  2. ↑ Rupp, Prof. I. Daniel "Chronologildh geordnete Sammlung von mehr als 30,000 Nomen von Einwanderern in Pennsylbanien...1727-1776..." A Collection of upwards of 30,000 names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants to Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776. p.60. Pub. Philadelphia, Penn., USA: Leary, Stuart Co., 1927. Reprinted ($ online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 3 Dec 2023. Source text paraphrased.
  3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71012432/alexander-mack: accessed 04 December 2023), memorial page for Alexander Mack Jr. (25 Jan 1712–20 Mar 1803), Find A Grave: Memorial #71012432, citing Germantown Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Kathleen Delp (contributor 49874421). Entry includes image of grave marker with inscription : GOTT / DER UNS HAT / AUS STAUB GEMACHT / UND WIEDERUM / ZUM STAUB GEBRACHT / WIRD ZEIGEN / SEINER WEISHEIT MACHT / WANN WIR NACH SEINEM / BILD ERWACHT / ALEXANDER MACK / GEB. 1712 / GEST. 1803 / ALTER 91 JAHRE 1 MONAT 20 TAGE
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Barnhart, Jason "Brethren to America: Alexander Mack, Jr. (1712-1802) and the poetic Imagination of a Pilgrim People" Reprinted online from "The Anabaptist Witness", Vol. 6 (Dec 2019): p. 12. Jason Barnhart, Director of Brethren Research and Resourcing for the Brethren Church Natrional Office (Ashland, Ohio, USA). https://www.anabaptistwitness.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AW6.2_Barnhart.pdf
  5. ↑ "Death Notices Copied from the New York Evening Post from 1801-June 1808" Vol. 1 of 18 published 1933. Text copied by Gertrude A. Barber. New York, NY., USA: 1933. Original Source (pertinent to this profile): New York Evening Post, Wednesday, 23 March 1803. New York, New York. Reprinted ($ online db) "U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930" p.23. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.Source text: "At Philadelphia Sunday morning last Alexander Mack, [Jr.], 91 [years] Native of Germany came to America in 1729.
  6. ↑ "Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, U.S., Will Index, 1682-1819" Vol. 1: p.93 Reprinted ($ online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 3 Dec 2023. Source text quoted verbatim
  7. ↑ "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013" Reprinted ($ online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Source text: Alexander Mack Jr., age 91 yrs, 1 month, 20 days, died 1805, buried 1805 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Church Affiliation: Minister, Church of the Brethren, Germantown, Philadelphia County, Penn. Viewed at https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/2511351:2451

See also :

  • BOYER, CARL, 3RD, ed., "Ship Passenger Lists, Pennsylvania and Delaware (1641-1825)" Newhall, Calif.: the editor, 1980. 289p. 4th pr. 1986. Reprint. Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD, 1992. Reprinted ($ online db) "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s" Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Source text: Alexander Mack, Junior, Arrival 1729, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Original source Lists Palatines arriving in Pennsylvania between 1718 and 1742. Note that the first printing of vol. 3, 1840, has been used in no. 2048, Filby and Meyer. Also in no. 717, Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, Pennsylvania and Delaware, pp. 48-86. Reprinted Source Bibliography: PENNSYLVANIA (COLONY). PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, from the Organization to the Termination of the Proprietary Government. (Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, vols. 3-4.) Harrisburg, PA: State of Pennsylvania, Theo Fenn & Co. Vol. 3 (1840), containing the Proceedings of the Council from May 31, 1717, to January 23, 1735-1736, pp. 299-301, 303-305, 307, 346-348, 350-351, 390-392, 409-411, 414, 436-437, 440-442, 444, 457, 460-461, 483
  • 1790 United States Federal Census
  • 1800 United States Federal Census
  • Genealogy of the Brumbach families
  • Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Collection Name: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 631
  • Dick D. Heller, Jr., Dick D. Heller, Jr., The Sharpnack Family, (1997-Oct. 18, 1998 Mission TX), does not say which sister, Mary or Elizabeth, is Mack's wife.
  • Marriage date January 1, 1749 of Alexander Mack Jr. and Elizabeth Nice Mack- Alexander Mack the Tunker and Descendants - Freeman Ankrum
  • Brethren Historical Library and Archives: Church of the Brethren Online database "Prodigal Preacher-The live of Alexander Mack, Jr." by Keith S. Morphew, 7 Aug 2012. https://www.brethren.org/bhla/hiddengems/prodigal-preacher-the-life-of-alexander-mack-jr/

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Straub-620 Florian Straub
Where does the birth place come from?
posted by Florian Straub
Johnson-43462 Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear
Florian, apologies for the late reply. The profile as originally uploaded, uses the birth date 30 Jan 1712 which was obtained from a secondary source (Mennonite Card Index records]. This 2ndary source, reprinted by Ancestry.com, consists of an extensive number of index records for the Mennonites through several centuries. The record collection is similar in nature to the extensive Hinshaw compilations for the Quakers. Unfortunately this 2ndary source doesn't cite the primary vital record it used and his tombstone only refers to his birth year as being 1712.

I just completed a quick reformat of the original upload in order to improve its readability. I left the birth date as is because I wanted to check with the Palatine Project people before making specific data field changes although I think using just his birth year is probably warranted.

posted by Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear
Olsen-10349 Julia Olsen
Leigh Anne re: your email. I cannot recommend removing a birth date and month entirely because of a few days difference. I can think of a number of reasons the day may be off a few. I would personally create a "Research Notes" section and provide the explanation as you did above. Additional sources may be uncovered in the future which support one date over the other and (I believe) it would be most unfortunate if the current Date/Month was expunged entirely from this profile.

Link for research notes info: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Research_Notes

posted by Julia Olsen
edited by Julia Olsen
Meyers-3406 Gina Meyers
The newspaper article dated Wed 23 Mar 1803 gives that Alexander died "Sunday last", i.e. Sunday 20 Mar 1803. His grave marker (image at Findagrave) gives that he was aged 91 years, 1 month and 20 days. This gives a birthdate of 28 Jan 1712. It's always possible that the newspaper reports were wrong, or that the inscription on the grave marker is wrong, but this is perhaps the best estimate around, absent a baptism record.

Lancaster Mennonite Vital Records give a birth date of 30 Jan 1712, but that appears to be quoting something called "Montgomery CHS VIII: 9" which is of dubious reliability. The Ancestry record for transcription of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Church and Town Records gives that he was buried in 1805, which is clearly a transcription error. I think both these records should be noted, but the date calculated from contemporaneous records (newspaper and grave marker) is to be preferred.

Of course, this doesn't address the question of the place of birth ...

posted by Gina Meyers
Rutherford-448 Dave Rutherford
Agreed. Florian was asking about the place not the date. It appears that this man's father was the original minister of the German Baptists with his own Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mack

Wikipedia identifies the father's birth place as Schriesheim, so this man's birthplace is based on that.

posted by Dave Rutherford
Straub-620 Florian Straub
Nice to see some feedback. Thanks everbody.

The printed Schriesheim family book only mentions his two oldest brothers. German Wikipedia mentions that Alexander senior found a new home in the County of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Alexander Jr's FamilySearch profile links to an older version of this page on brethren.org, which states that he was born in Schwarzenau in 1712. The German Wikipedia article on Schwarzenau mentions the father as founder of Schwarzenauer Brüder in 1708.

Unfortunately the Lutheran church books from Schwarzenau start only in 1854 at FamilySearch, same goes for Archion. Before that the Lutheran parish belonged to Elsoff. FamilySearch has those books indexed, but I don't find Alexander there. Question is if he's only missing from the index, or if Alexander Sr. was so focused at his own church that he wouldn't have his son baptized at the Lutheran church there. Maybe somebody could check the books at Archion?

posted by Florian Straub
Entrikin-5 Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
Alexander Mack would not have had his infant son baptized anywhere because the German Baptist Brethren did not practice infant baptism. Looking for a baptism record is a fruitless effort. My grandfather was raised German Baptist Brethren. None of his 4 siblings were baptised as infants. That is one of the primary tenets of their faith. My great grandmother's uncles were Brethren ministers.
posted by Kie (Entrikin) Zelms
Straub-620 Florian Straub
Sounds likely, yes. We should still consider updating the birth places of most of his siblings, since Schriesheim is rather unlikely with the father being in Schwarzenau by 1708 already.
posted by Florian Straub
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Straub-620 Florian Straub
Maybe the German research center can help: https://www.mennoniten.de/werke/forschungsstelle/
posted by Florian Straub

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