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- BIOGRAPHY: Dennis Swick
November 26, 2005
Email: DennisASwick@yahoo.com
The Swick?s in America
BIOGRAPHY: First Generation
4.5 Mathys Zwick, b: 1674 in Erlenbach, Germany, d: 1710, married Veronica Wolle/Walen/Wulle (Zwickin) bef. 1697 ,b: 1672 in Erlenbach, Germany , d: 1716, m: in 1696 in Erlenbach - from Betty Ivanovich and Lawrence S. Coomber and The Palatine Families of New York-1710 by Henry Z. Jones. David F. Swick says to the Johannes Martin Swick was a farmer and a Lutheran. ?I located the 12 ships that brought our palatine forbears to Nutten Island in 1710: the frigates 'Herbert' [wrecked off block island 7-7-1710] and 'Tower' as well as ships 'Lion of Leath', 'Fame', 'Lowestoffe', 'Mary', 'Hartwell', 'Baltimore', 'James and Elizabeth', 'Sarah', 'Medford', and Berkle Castle'?. Rev. Jack Swick writes, ?Mathias and Veronica came to New York in 1710. Apparently Mathias died shortly after landing [or thereabouts-D.A.S.]. He is on the boat list, but Veronica is listed on the subsistence list. She later remarried?. Veronica married Ludwig Leicht, also listed on the Hunter List on Dec. 13, 1713 (N. Y. City Ref. Chbk.) about 3 years after Mathys died. She died in 1716.
(Sce. from Louise McConanchie, The House of Swick, Somerset County Historical Quarterly Between the Lakes Cemeteries, J.H. Finch Bassetts Notes on Coverts, L. Byran, Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson Co., Michigan, Detroit Society for Gen. Research Magazine, Vol 4, Vital Records of Seneca County, Sebring Family, VanVoorheis Family, Child's Directory of 1894/95, The Palatines Families of New York -1710, (1985) by Henry Z. Jones, 2 Vol., University City, CA.).
BIOGRAPHY: Pat Irvine writes, Passenger and Immigrants Lists Index, 1500-1900s; Name: Matthew Zwick; Year: 1709; Age: 35; Place: London, England; Family Members: Son 11; Son 6; Son 5; Daughter 13; Source Publication Code: 5013; Primary Immigrant: Zwick, Matthew; Annotation: Four London lists of Palatines from Germany, 1709, copied from a manuscript in the British Museum, London. .See also nos. 4772-4773, "Lists of Germans..."; no. 3990, Knittle; and no. 9214, Tribekko and Ruperti. Source Bibliography: MacWethy, Lou D. "List of Palatines in 1709." In The Book of Names. St. Johnsville [NY]: The Enterprise and News, 1933, pp. 75-111. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985. Page: 87.
Name: Veronica Zwick; Year: 1710; Age: 39; Place: New York, New York
Source Publication Code: 7820; Primary Immigrant: Veronica Zwick; Annotation: An index by Marvin V. Koger, Index to the Names of 30,000 Immigrants...Supplementing the Rupp, Ship Load Volume, 1935, 232p. is inferior to Wecken's index in the third edition (above). Page 449 contains "Names of the First Palatines in North Carolina, as Early as 1709 and 1710"; and pages 449-451 contain "Names of Males, Salzburgers, Settled in Georgia, 1734-1741." Contrary to some opinions, this work by Rupp does not duplicate nos. 9041-9042 by Strassburger, although there are thousands of names, which are duplicates. Strassburger's work, however, is more accurate and more reliable than Rupp's. See also no. 9330, Urlsperger. The Salzburgers mentioned above were immigrants from Salzburg, Austria. Source Bibliography: RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia, Chronologically Arranged, Together with the Necessary Historical and Other Notes, also, an Appendix Containing Lists of More Than One Thousand German and French Names in New York prior to 1712. Leipzig [Germany]: Degener & Co., 1931. 478, 89p. Reprint of the 2nd revised and enlarged ed., 1876, with index from 3rd ed. by Ernst Wecken, 1931, and added index of ships. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985. 583p. ; Page 444.
According to The Palatine Families of New York - 1710, University City, Ca. 1985, Vol. 1-2, by Henry Z. Jones. Matthew Zwick, aged 35, in 1709 (in the London lists). His wife is known as Veronica Wolle ?Zwickin?. On page 850 of Vol. 2, when Mathys Swik died in 1710 after arriving in New York, Veronica Wolle married Ludwig Leicht on Dec. 7, 1713 (N.Y. City Ref. Chbk.). Ludwig Leicht as well as Mathy Swik appears on the ?Hunter Lists?. Ludwig appears next to Henrich Leicht (listed Aug. 4, 1710 w/ 2 persons over 10 yrs. of age in the household). Henrich Leicht is probably Johan Henrich Leicht, age 24,whose father was George Ludwig Leicht, age 66 (who appears as Jurgen Ludwig of Happenheim auf der Wiesen im Amt Frensheim) from the 1710/11, ?Palatines in New York?.
In 1709 , some 847 German families sailed for the New World and arrived in New York in 1710. Mathys Zwick/Swik is on the Hunter List as 4 August 1710. He sailed down the Rhine River and then to Rotterdam, Holland (second party in Holland, 1709 - Rotterdam Lists) and then sailed to England in the same year (London Lists). The Germans migrated to the New World because of wars that destroyed Germany (1635 the Swedish and Emperor?s armies; the Mainz-Lothringian invasion); because of the poverty (many could not feed themselves because of the wild animals who ate what was grown or poor harvests of crops); and lastly, the British government who exploited the German?s dissatisfaction by using a clever public relations campaign extolling the virtues of life in the New World. Prior to 1709, the so-called ?Golden Book? was circulated in southern Germany and painted America (called ?The Island of Carolina? or ?The Island of Pennsylvania?) as the Promised Land. Many ? Palatines? were found with these books. From England, they sailed to New York. Mathys died shortly after landing in 1710. Veronica remarried Ludwig Leicht on 7 Dec. 1713 in New York. Ludwig was also a passenger on the ship with Mathys. After Mathys died, Veronica Zwickin had to care for Anna Margaretha, Johann Georg (Hans Jurig), Marcus and Johann Martin. Johann Martin Zwick was only 5 when they arrived in New York and would have been 8 when his mom married Ludwig Leicht. Now Barbara Egie Coevert/Covert, who Johann Martin Zwick (Zwick became Swick) married, was born 26 Aug. 1709 in Somerville, Somerset Co., NJ.
Now Barbara Egie Covert?s father was Hans Teunissen Covert, b. 1658 in Brooklyn, NY. Her mother was Jannetje Jane Brokaw/Bourcard, b. 1667 in Germany. They married in Newtown, Queens Co., NY. In the early 1700?s (according to the ?Somerset County Historical Quarterly?, pg. 32), the Coverts and Brokaws divided a 2,000-acre piece of property near Weston, NJ (The ?Franklin Lotts? of Franklin Township, NJ). Margaret Wright Covert writes, ?On 5-2-1702 Borgon Broucard (Brokaw) and his son-in-law Jan (John) Covert (Barbara?s father) bought 2,000 acres of land in Somerset Co. bounded on the North and Northwest by the Raritan and Millstone Rivers for 400 pounds - (NJ Deed Book Lib. C.P.447).? In the ?New Jersey Index of Wills?, Vol. 3, 1969, in Somerset County, NJ they list: Abraham Covert, Burgun Covert, Cornelius Covert, Isaac V.N. Covert, Jane Covert, John Covert, Luke Covert, Minna K. Covert, Peter Covert, and Tunis Covert - 1735. Then they list 70 Brokaws. A few are Abraham Brokaw, Adeline Brokaw, Alexander Sr. Brokaw, Bergun Brokaw, Bergon Brokaw, and Bergen Brokaw- 1780. In Hunterdon Co., NJ, Vol.2 of ?Wills? they list 9 Brokaws, the first two being Burgun Brokaw - 1802 and Isaac Brokaw - 1806. In the ?New Jersey in 1793?, 1793 Militia Census by James S. Norton, 1973, they list in HillsboroughTownship, NJ.: Caleb Brokaw, Isaac Brokaw, Abraham Brokaw, Abraham C. Brokaw, Evert Brokaw, Isaac Brokaw, Isaac I. Brokaw, John Brokaw, Hendrick Brokaw, Bragun Brokaw, Ferdinand Brokaw with Brogun Coevert and Tunis Coevert.. So it appears that the Coverts/Brokaws had acres in New Jersey but so did the family Bird.
Now I believe the Covert/Coeverts, Brokaws/Brocaws and the Bird/Burds knew each other. And somehow Johann Martin Swick met Barbara Covert and was involved as well with these families. Gene Brierly, of the ?Bird? family, writes, ?Johannes Swick and Barbara Covert are named as witnesses to the christening of George Bird, b. 8/11/1731, son of Thomas and Catherine Bird, at the DRC of Harlingen?. And Jack Swick says, ? From research done in 1743, New Jersey ( Cases Before and After the Revolution) it was discovered that Thomas Bird owed John (Johannes) Swick some money. George Bird is also mentioned.? Now Barbara Covert?s parents were Hans Covert and Jannetje Brokaw/Bourcard and their first child was Catherine Covert, born 1684 in Dutch Kills, Queens Co., NY; married Thomas Burd/Bird in Somerset Co., NJ. The brother of this Thomas Bird, b. 1697 was George Bird, b. 1673 and they knew Johann Martin Swick .
So it appears that Mathys Zwick died sometime around 1710. Veronica remarries Ludwig Leicht in 1913 and they must have Johann Martin Swick with them. They could have lived in Brooklyn ,NY (where Barbara Covert?s dad was born), or Dutch Kills, Long Island, NY or Newtown Queens County, NY (the first place where Barbara?s dad was christened or the second place where the Birds were born), and then later moved to Somerset Co., NJ where Barbara was born and there was a Dutch Reformed Church there. Then Johann Martin Swick married Barbara Covert and lived in this area of Somerset, NJ.
BIOGRAPHY: Second Generation
4.5 Mathys(1674) and Veronica Zwick?s children:
5.2 Anna Margaretha Zwick (Zwickin), b: 1696/7 in Erlenbach, Germany. Ludwig Leicht
-----married Veronica, Anna?s mother in 12/13/1713, 3 years after her father Mathys died -----in 1710. St Paul's Lutheran Church at West Camp: 1708-1906 was located in Town ------of Saugerties, Ulster County - Denomination: Lutheran. The baptism was for Johann -----Eberhard Leicht, Reference ID: 158, b. 9/4/1712 and baptized 10/26/1712. His -----------parents were Ludwig Leich and Maria Martha. The sponsor was Johann Erberhard --------Jung .Baptism occurred in the upper German Colonies. Source: Baptism Record, St -----Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp: 1708-1899. According to the Hunter Lists of -------NY, 1710-1713: Ludwig Leicht paid 2 Pounds for 2 adults on 8/1710. And on 6/1711 -----he paid 7 Pounds for 1 person. And 9/1711 he paid 4 Pounds for 3 adults. And on ---------12/1711 he paid 6 Pounds for 2 adults. If the baptism occurred 9/1712 and Ludwig --------was married to Maria Martha, she must have died giving birth on 9/1712 and the ----------dates on the Hunter?s list aren?t right. And if Ludwig married Veronica in 1713, it --------makes sense that Maria died. Next we have recorded St Paul's Lutheran Church at --------West Camp: 1708-1906, the same as above, but Anna Margretha Maurer, b. ----------------8/13/1712, baptized: 8/17/1712, parents were Peter Maurer and Anna Catharina -----------Maurer. Sponsors were: Henrich Mann (father-in-law of Anna Margaretha Swick?) -------and Anna Margretha Mullerin (sister of Peter and wife of Heinrich?) Baptism --------------occurred in the upper German Colonies. Source: Baptism Record, St Paul's ---------------Lutheran Church, West Camp: 1708-1899. Anna Margaretha Swick would be 15.
-----Now on the Hunter?s list, Veronica paid 6 Pounds for 3 adults, 10/1710; 22 Pounds -------for 3 adults 12/1711; 13 Pounds for 2 adults 3/25/1712 in New York. So Johann -----------Georg (Hans Jurig) was gone but Anna Margaretha was still there. Anna would have -----been 15. Then Ludwig Leicht in the Highlands was with his Stepdaughter, Mrs -----------Mann (Anna Margaretha?) as Sponsor of Engel Hoef in 1716. Anna must have ------------marrried Mr. Mann and she was the sponsor of Engel Hoef baptism in 1716. This ---------was probably in a Lutheran Church and Anna would have been 19.
Below is from Charles William Mann, #57716, pt. 323.
1. Earl Jay Mann, b. 1883 in Campton, Bedford, PA .
Parents: Philip Jay Mann and Clara E. Bump.
2. Enos Mann, b. 1882 in Mt. Bethel Twsp., Northampton Co., PA.
Parents: Ferdinand Mann and Elizabeth Emery m. in Passaic, NJ 11/5/1891.
(Sce. Jacoby Family Genealogy by Henry Sylvester Jacoby).
3.Levi S. Mann, b. 1849 in Books Co., PA.
Parents: Nicholas Mann and Mary Ann Humphrys in Mousehole, Corn., England
4.Johan Christian Mann, b. 1843 in Amsterdam, Holland
Parents: Carl Christian Mann and Elsing Lubbers.
5.Theodoro Donald Mann, b. 1900 in Buffalo, Erie, NY
Parents: Paul Mann and Lee Kleinschmidt.
(Sce. Even More Palatine Families, Vol. 1-3, by Henry Z. Jones and Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, Picton Press, 2002; Pat Irvine, and compiled by Dennis A. Swick
BIOGRAPHY: 5.3 Johann Georg (known as Hans Zurig (Jurig) Zwick, b: 1698/9 in Erlenbach, ---------------Germany. On the Apprenticeship Lists, he was listed as Han Jerick Livisten, age 12,
----s/o Ffrawick Swieter, who was bound to Derk Philips Conine (Oct. 19, 1710). His --------mom, Veronica, was on the subsistence list on the ship and it shows on Aug. 4, 1710
----3 persons over 10, and 2 under 10. So that would be Veronica, Anna and Johann Georg
----the 3 over 10. And Mathy?s Swik died shortly after arrival in NY (and he would be ------on another ship list). But on September 29, 1711, the Swik household has 2 over 10 ------and 2 under 10 yrs. So Mathy?s died and Johann Georg is not on the list. But on Oct. -----19, 1710, he is listed. So he probably arrived in NY on August, 1710; he was still ---------around on October 1710, bound to Derk Philips Conine, and then gone from the -----------Swick household on September 1711. And he would have been 13 yrs. old in 1711.
Palatine Children Apprenticed by Gov. Hunter in New York 1710-1714
y.. Oct. 18 Frederick Pather, 7, parent Margt Otteene bound to Harman Rutghert of NY
z.. ditto Anna Catrina Haver, 10, parent Margt Otteene bound to Jacob Goelet of NY
aa.. ditto Maria Elizath Negilzin, 11 parent Margt Otteene bound to Joseph Latham NY
ab.. ditto Han Jerick Livisten, 12, parent ffrawnick Swieter bound to Derk Philips ------------Conine - NY
ac.. Oct. 19 Peter Pyfrin, 6, orphan, bound to John van Horne of NY
ad.. ditto Willm Pyfrin, 10, orphan, bound to John van Horne of NY
ae.. Oct 23 John Conrad Petre, 12, orphan, bound to Robt Livingston of Livingston ------------
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1674 - 1710 (36 years)