Johann Angermann
1733-1775. Occupation unknown. Seems to have arrived in Christiansbrunn in 1764. Left in 1771 for mission work in Jamaica. Said to have died in Jamaica, but listed on 1775 tax list.
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1775 Northampton County Tax List (February)
Johannes Bonn
1719-1797. Born in Skippack, Pennsylvania. Worked as a deacon.
Johann Brandmüller
1736-1812. Born in Basel, Switzerland. Seems to arrived in Christiansbrunn as an assistant in the washhouse. Worked as a baker. Identified as infirm on 1773-1775 tax lists.
Heinrich Brunner
1739-1818. Born in Alsace, France. Worked as a thresher. Lived as a single man and then later with his wife, Rosina, and their children at Christiansbrunn.
Christian Demuth
1740-1781. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a thresher.
Henrich Feldhausen
1721-????. Born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Worked as a shoemaker. Traveled with 12 others to found the town of Bethabara in 1753, which he left by 1771.
Martin Freyhube
1720-1813. Born in Olesnica, Poland. Worked as a waggoner, cobbler, a farmer, and in the distillery.
Johann Nicolaus Funck
1720-1795. Born in Neuendorff, Germany. Worked as a plantation worker, a headmaster, and a cellar master.
George Glatt
1746-1773. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a blacksmith.
Georg Wenzeslaus Golkowsky
1725-1813. Born in Cieszyn, Poland. Worked as a carpenter, an accounting officer, and a land surveyor.
Christian Ludwig Grunwalde
1721-1793. Born in Priegnitz, Germany. Worked as a plantation worker.
Jacob Hafner
1709-1773. Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Worked as a stocking weaver. Identified as a married man on 1766 & 1771 tax list.
Andreas Holder
1731-1779. Born in New York. Worked as a linen weaver.
Samuel Lauck
1713-1786. Born in Anspach, Germany. Worked as a shirt tailor and a barber ("employed in House-Work" in 1756). Identified as inform on 1773-1775 tax list.
Phillip Jacob Meyer
1722-1782. Born in Würtemberg. Arrived at Christiansbrunn in September 1757 to superintend some of the boys assigned to various trades. Worked as a cobbler.
Nathaniel Micksch
1743-1827. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn, assigned to agriculture. Later worked as a thresher, a miller, and a farmer. Entered, but crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
Lorenz Nielsen
1715-1785. Born in Calstrup, Denmark. Worked as a carpenter. Identified as infirm on 1773 tax list.
Jacob Priesing / Brüsing
1709-1773. Born in Rügen, Germany. Worked as a builder.
Anton David Rohner
1744-????. Birthplace unknown. Occupation unknown.
Martinus Roleder
1724-1797. Born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia. Worked as a farmer and took care of the pigs. Moved to Nazareth Hall on 30 May 1757 and later to Christiansbrunn. Left Christiansbrunn for Bethlehem in 1796.
Michael Ruch II
1727-1797. Born in Eckendorf, Alsace. Worked as a farmer and as a brewer. Listed as a married man on 1771-1781 tax lists, living with his two daughters (1781).
Jacob Rüssler
1714-1781. Born at Hessen-Cassel. Worked as a cook.
Franz Seiffert / Seyfert
1728-1795. Born in Kraliky, Czech Republic. Arrived in Christianbsrunn on 14 March 1767 to oversee the weaver's shop (Leinweberey).
Matthias Spohn
1711-1781. Born in Würtemberg, Germany. Occupation unknown. Identified as married man on 1766-1781 tax lists.
Christian Stotz
1711-1791. Born in Lauffen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Lived as a widower after 1773 at Christiansbrunn.