Andreas Volck Sr (1678 - abt. 1747)

Born 1678 in Heppenheim, Heppenheim an der Wiese, Worms, Hessen, Germany

Husband of Anna Catharina (Merckel) Volck — married 1702 in Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died about Sep 1747 at about age 69 in Lynn Township, Lehigh, Pennsylvania

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Biography

b. 1678, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany^[1][2][3][4]

Christening: Place: Lutheran

Andreas was a Lutheran vintner and farmer from Heppenheim. ^[5]

Migration

New York^{[6] [7][8]}

Worked as a Vinedresser and husbandman, per MacWethy, Lou D., The Book of Names Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley, Baltimore: Clearfield 1933/2007 (reprint).

ca. 1702, m. Anna Catharina Meckel, Germany^[9]

d. 7 Sep 1747, Lynn, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States^[3][9]

History & Notes

Came to America in 1708-09 with the Reverend Joshua Kocherthal. They had been promised land in New York, but the settlement failed. About 1/3 of the NY immigrants came down to PA via the E branch of the Susquehanna River, down to Swatara Creek and up it to the head of Tulpehocken Creek that flows E down to Reading PA. Others, like HOLDER, appear to have come to PA by another route, since they appear in Montgomery Co. rather than at Tulpehocken in Berks. VOLCK could have come either way; Barbara (Boring) Bauer [2003] thinks he came with Conrad WEISER to Tulpehocken 1723.

After about 10 years in the Oley Hills, Andreas moved his family to the Allemängel area in PA, just east of what is now Hawk Mt. His warrent for land in what is now Lehigh Co was issued 1735. Andreas’s land seems to have overlapped the county line, being in both Lynn Tp of then Northampton Co. and Albany Tp of what became Berks Co. His property was next to the land on which the Jerusalem church was built in Albany Tp. But 1755 the Moravians built a small log church on what was probably his land, later called the Old White Church, with cemetery a hundred yards farther north -- now Friedens Union Church -- Andreas’s son Georg had a marker still there in 1997.

See Nein, Jacqueline et al., Epitaphs: Handbook of Historic Family Graveyards, Berks Co PA, Berks Co Assn for Graveyard Preservation 1999.

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The family name becomes Fulk among many of the descendants.

This source says he came to America in 1709, and "moved to Lynn twp, now Lehigh Co. PA, about 1735, where he warranted 150 acres of land in 1738, affiliated with the Moravian Church and died Sep 1747, leaving 8 children, 64 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren." His wife Catharina Merkel's memoir states that she died 2 Jan 1762, survived by 9 children, 64 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, and that 2 daughters and 1 son preceded Andreas Volck in death. This author favors the premise that there were 9 children.^[9]

Foulke Lupfer genealogy names 10 children altogether, but does not give death dates for most. I have listed all here.

Carmichael history cites translation in August 1973 by Raymond Hollenbach of Moravian Church Records from Allemengel and Gnadenhutten.

Foulke Lupfer genealogy says that the party arrived in New York harbor on December 18, 1708, on the "Globe", but did not reach Newburgh on the Hudson until New Year's Day 1709. This explains the apparent discrepancy in various 1708 or 1709 arrival dates. Also see notes on his son Carl, who was born on shipboard Nov. 18, 1708 and is clearly documented thus. Carl's tombstone reads 1709, source of some confusion in some records.

Rupp, Thirty Thousand NAmes of Immigrants in Pennsylvania, appendix IV. Names, Age and Occupation of Those who Accompanied Rev. Joshua Kocherthal, who settled on lands on Quassick Creek, then Dutchess County, N.Y., in the spring of 1709.

In 1710, April 20, these were furnished by Queen Anne, through Melchior Guelch, a Palatine joiner, with implements, etc. Doc. His. N.Y., V. pp.52, 53

Andreas Volck, aged 30, husbandman and vinedresser; his wife, Anna Catharina, 27; their children, Maria Barbara, 5; Georg Hieronymus, 4; Anna Gertrauda, 1. He received 1 cross cut saw, 1 smoothing plane, 1 whipping saw, a set of gouges, besides several pieces more.

Andreas and Anna Catharina received 300 acres of land on 18 Dec 1719 through the issuance of 9 plots near Quassaick Creek in Newburgh, New York. Three children are listed in the patent: George Hieronymous, Maria Barbara and Anna "Jertruyd."

Map of the Glebe with surrounding lots

The document also states that "The Glebe was granted to Andries Volck and Jacob Webber during their lives and to their successors in trust, for the maintenance and support of a Lutheran Minister.^[11]

Click to enlarge

Andreas didn't retain this land for long. It was sold on 20 Feb 1722 to Zacharias Hoffman.

Andreas Volck - Bethania Cemetery - 30 Oct 08

In 1754, his widow is listed as a member of the Allemangel Moravian parsonage:

Volck, Catherine, m. n. Meckel, widow. (Relict of Andrew Volck Sr.,of "the Meadows" near Worms. With him she immigrated to New York in the autumn of 1709, and settled at the Dans Kammer, near Newburgh. Thence the couple removed to Allemiingel, cir. 1735. Old Andrew Volck d. there in Sept. 1747. His widow united with the Moravians in 1749, and d. in Jan'y, 1762,'in the 82nd year of her age.)^[9]

Records show Andreas arrived in New York on the ship "Globe" in 1708. Arriving were Andreas, age 30, his wife Anna Catherine, age 29, and three children: Maria Barbara, age 5, George Hieronemus, age 4, and Anna Gertruda, age 1. A fourth child was born while on the ship.

From the records of Rev. Joshua Kocherthal who served as a Lutheran minister for the family in NY and later in PA, we learn that Andreas Volck, his wife Catherine and children moved from NY to Allemaengel, PA in 1735, an area where upper Berks and Lehigh counties meet. After moving to PA, some of the family waited with the Moravian Church there although they held their membership in the Lutheran Church while in NY. Among those joining the Moravian Church in PA were the 3 sons, Carolus (Carl), Jacob and Andreas II (Andrew).^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Near Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
2. ↑ Lovell, Rosemary (Faulk). Owen County Cousins (J. G. Hauser, Inc., 1977) For repository information see: WorldCat, p. 1
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Ancestry Millenium File, Millennium File. Heritage Consulting. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
4. ↑ Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Gale Research; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Filby, P. William, ed.. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
5. ↑ Mielke, Andreas. Who Was Kocherthal and What Happened to His Party of 1708? Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Vol. 31, no. 4, October, 2008, citing "several Lutheran church book entries."
6. ↑ Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.
7. ↑ Ancestry Family Tree
8. ↑ The Documentary history of the state of New-York. Albany, N.Y.: unknown, 1849-1851. Original data: Vol. 4 has imprint: Albany, C. Van Benthuysen, public printers.|||Includes bibliographical references and index.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4} Moravian Historical Society: Page 394
10. ↑ The Book of Names: Especially Relating to The Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley. Compiled and Arranged by Lou D. MacWethy; Published by The Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville, NY., 1933 (http://threerivershms.com/nameslondon.htm)
11. ↑ Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands. Historical Papers, Issues 7-10. Publisher: Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands (1900). Original from: Cornell University. p. 48, "Balmville".
12. ↑ Fulk - Volck Family at Rootsweb.

• Graybill, Sylvia Ann Moyer, Moravian Church Records at the Allemengel, Jnl of the Berks County Genealogical Society, vol. 20 nr. 1, Fall 1999.

• Knittle, Walter A., Early 18th Century Palatine Emigration, Bowie MD: Heritage Books 1937/2001.

• Jerusalem Church Historical Committee & John L. Kistler, The Two Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary 1747-1997, Kempton PA: Jerusalem (Red) Lutheran & United Church of Christ 1997 [mimeo].

See also:

• Moravian Historical Society. Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society. Nazareth, Pa. [etc.]: [s.n.], 1876.

• New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920. Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data.

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases.