1685-1703, Various Ships

After the initial settlement of Germantown in 1683 many Dutch and German emigrants joined the new colony. Some of these may have been from further north and had come over to the New Netherlands settlement, but others came directly from Germany (see below). A large number of these emigrants  were from the area around Krefeld and Mülheim in the Rheinland Province and near the border to Netherlands. They used a form of patronymics, taking the father's given name as a surname both in Germany, Netherlands, and Pennsylvania during the late 17th century.

In Mülheim (Ruhr) Theodor Undereyck, who had studied in England among the Presbeterians, Baptists, Quakers, and others, was the pastor during the 1660s. His successor, the reformed pastor Arnold Siebel visited William Penn in Duisburg in 1677. Four years later (1681) Penn was granted Pennsylvania by King Charles II. The teacher Labadie from Holland also taught new doctrines in Mülheim. There was a group of dissidents in Mülheim as a result of exposure to these new ideas which included the schoolmaster Backhaus and the tailor Verfohren of Styrum. Among the people here Jacob Telner and offers from the Frankfurt Company were able to entice emigration of many to Germantown in 1684, 1687, and 1696, including at east 33 emigrants. [From "Die auswanderung der Mülheimer nach Pennsylvanien" (The Emigration of Mülheimers to Pennsylvania) in Zeitschrift des Geschictesvereins Mülheim a.d. Ruhr (Periodical of the Mülheim a.d. Ruhr History Organization), Vol. 32, Dec 1938 No. 3 by Karl Broermann. Translated by Rosalie N. Castleberry; FHL 974.811/G1 W2b]

Most of the people listed below may have actually come to Pennsylvania by way of New York. In 1701 there were 60 families besides single persons in Germantown.

[nat. = naturalized]

Notes

John Rebenstock - I have just found that John Rebenstock is my ancestor. Other records indicate that Henry Tibben /  Tübbe / Tübben's wife was Sibilla "Revenstock," who is believed to be a sister to John/Johannes. Now if I could just locate them in European records. Rick Saunders fzsaund-at-ix.netcom.com