Joseph
1715-1781. Born in Guinea. Lived at Christiansbrunn with his wife Hannah and daughters on tax lists from 1773-81.
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1774 County Tax Return
Jacob Arie
1745-1817. Born in Berbice, Guyana. Seems to have arrived in Christiansbrunn in 1762, where he lived with his family until they moved to Nazareth in 1774. Identified with his wife as "Molattos" and "free" on 1771-1773 tax lists.
Johann Beutel / Johann Beitel
1740-1840. Born in Pilgerhut, Surinam. Left Christiansbrunn for Bethlehem in September 1757 with six other boys. Seems to have lived at Christiansbrunn, with his wife and children, in 1803.
Johann Biefel
1746-1780. Born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Occupation unknown.
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.
Andreas Broksch
1702-1790. Born in Bürgenwald in Upper Silesia, Poland. Worked as a farmer and a gardener.
Johann David Brucker
1742-1790. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn, assigned to learn to be a shoemaker. Later worked as a master shoemaker. Went from Christiansbrunn to Lititz in 1769. Left Christiansbrunn again when he married on August 21, 1782.
Christian Demuth
1740-1781. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a thresher.
Joseph Demuth
1748-1827. Born in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania. Occupation unknown.
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.
Samuel Flex
1751-1782. Born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Worked as a linen weaver. Entered, and crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
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.
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.
Johannes Hanke
1750-????. Born in Gnadenthal, Pennsylvania. Worked as a cook and as cobbler master. Moved to Salem in 1786.
Adolph Hartman
1744-????. Worked as a smith. Moved in 1775 to Hope, New Jersey.
Andreas Holder
1731-1779. Born in New York. Worked as a linen weaver.
Daniel Kamm
1715-1782. Born in Würtemberg, Germany. Worked as a cobbler. Identified as infirm on 1773 tax list. Entered, and crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
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.
William Lister
1715-1807. Born in Yorkshire, England. Worked as a master tailor and a headmaster.
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.
Johann Christian Oerter
1747-1777. Born in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania. Worked as a gunstocker.
Michael Ruch
1718-1790. Born in Bad Heilbrunn, Germany. Worked as a butcher, but also helped out within the households as he could.
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.
Johannes Andreas Scheffler
1715-1791. Born in Niederbronn-les-Bains, France. Worked as a carpenter.
Christoph Schmidt
1714-c.1781.Born in Nuremberg, Germany. Worked as a tailor and Hexelschmitt. Came to Christiansbrunn in October 1767.
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 Friedrick Steinman
1739-1808. Born in Epstein, Germany. Worked as a brewer and a farmer.
Christian Stotz
1711-1791. Born in Lauffen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Lived as a widower after 1773 at Christiansbrunn.