Joshua
????-1761. Born in Nigeria, had been an enslaved servant of Timothy Horsfield. Worked as a butcher.
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1759 Distribution of the Brethren in Christiansbrunn (January)
Johann Anders
1748-1779. Born in Nazareth. Occupation unknown.
Lorenz Bagge
1732-1789. Born in Rosencranz in Holstein, Germany. Superintended some of the boys who arrived at Christiansbrunn in September 1757. Worked as a woodcutter. Left Christiansbrunn in 1762 for Lititz.
Stephan Blum
1734-1795. Born in Saucony, Pennsylvania. Worked as a smith at Christiansbrunn from 1758-1762.
Johannes Bonn
1719-1797. Born in Skippack, Pennsylvania. Worked as a deacon.
Andreas Broksch
1702-1790. Born in Bürgenwald in Upper Silesia, Poland. Worked as a farmer and a gardener.
Johan Stephen Bruce
1748-1777. Born in Bethlehem. Trained as a scribe. Worked as a locksmith in Bethlehem in 1762.
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.
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.
Joseph Bulitscheck
1729-1801. Born in Tumigad [modern equivalent unknown], Czech Republic. Worked as a carpenter/joiner/cabinet-maker.
Melchoir Conrad
1728-1762. Born in Zauchtenthal. Worked as a farmer.
Detlef Delfs
1723-1795. Born in Emkendorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Worked as a cobbler and a sick-nurse. Left Christiansbrunn in October 1767 for Lititz and returned to Christiansbrunn in 1769.
Christian Demuth
1740-1781. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a thresher.
Carl Jacques Dreyspring
1722-1794. Born in Bad Liebenzell, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Arrived at Christiansbrunn in September 1757 to superintend some of the boys assigned to various trades and moved to Bethlehem in April 1764. Worked as a tailor.
Johann Jacob Ernst
1730-1802. Born in Aarau, Switzerland. Worked as a farmer and laborer. Left Christiansbrunn in 1762.
Nicolaus Fleissner
1720-1801. Born in Asch, Czech Republic. Worked as a helper on the plantation and as a thresher, and attended to the cellar.
Martin Freyhube
1720-1813. Born in Olesnica, Poland. Worked as a waggoner, cobbler, a farmer, and in the distillery.
John Jacob Fries
1708-1793. Born in Odense, Denmark. Worked as a chaplain and a deacon.
Johann Nicolaus Funck
1720-1795. Born in Neuendorff, Germany. Worked as a plantation worker, a headmaster, and a cellar master.
Gottfried Greiter / Kreiter
1740-1769. Born in Lebanon county. Occupation unknown.
Anthony Hägen
1745-????. Birthplace unknown. Occupation unknown.
Georg Christoph Heppner
1713-1791. Born in Lindau, Saxony, Germany. Worked as a household helper. Seems to have moved to Nazareth Hall in 1765.
Joseph Hübsch
1707-????. Born in Tschittenitz. Worked as a shepherd in Christiansbrunn, later as a potter in Bethlehem.
Abraham Jorde
1747-1770. Birthplace unknown. Worked as a thresher. Moved to Bethabara in 1769.
George Jungmann
1720-1808. Born in Hockenheim, Palatinate. Worked as a missionary.
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.
Friedrich Leinbach
Birth and death years unknown. Birthplace unknown. Worked in the barn and in the store.
Christian Matthiesen
1712-1796. Born in Jutland, Denmark. Worked as a beer brewer and a distiller.
Ludwig Meinung
1743-1817. Birthplace unknown. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn agriculture. Worked as a thresher. Moved to Salem in 1771.
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.
David Micksch
1745-1793. Born in Nazareth. One of the first cohort of boys to be sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn agriculture. Worked as a plantation worker and a woodcutter.
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.
Johann Nixdorf
Information unknown. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a shoemaker. Later worked as a thresher.
Samuel Nixdorf
1745-????. Birthplace unknown. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a scribe. Later worked as a woodcutter.
Michael Pitzman
1726-1791. Born in Babenhausen, Germany. Worked as a waggoner and as a steward.
Jacob Priesing / Brüsing
1709-1773. Born in Rügen, Germany. Worked as a builder.
Philip Rancke
1734-1815. Born in Earlington, Pennsylvania. Worked as a farmer and a thresher.
Peter Rice
1743-????. Born in Bethlehem. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a tailor. Later apprenticed as a gunstocker.
Jacob Rubel
1725-1813. Diersdorf, Wittgenstein. Worked as a joiner or cabinet-maker.
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.
Johann Schaub
1744-1803. Birthplace unknown. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn agriculture. Later worked as a woodcutter. Moved to North Carolina.
Johannes Andreas Scheffler
1715-1791. Born in Niederbronn-les-Bains, France. Worked as a carpenter.
Martin Schenck
1733-????. Born in Suchdol nad Odrou, Czech Republic. Worked as a mason.
George Schindler
1727-1809. Born in Zauchtel, Moravia. Worked as a carpenter and linen weaver.
Christoph Schmidt
1714-c.1781.Born in Nuremberg, Germany. Worked as a tailor and Hexelschmitt. Came to Christiansbrunn in October 1767.
Johann Jacob Schoen [AKA Wuest]
1721-1760. Born in Switzerland. Worked as a locksmith. Returned to Christiansbrunn on 30 May 1757 [?] to live with and care for Jacob Rubel.
Gottfried Schwarz
1711-1762. Born in Denckendorf, Germany. Worked as a tailor.
Gottlob Sensemann
1745-1800. Birthplace unknown. Was one of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a scribe. Later worked as a missionary.
Joseph Shebosh | AKA John Joseph Bull
1721-1788. Born in Skippack. Worked as a missionary. Married Christiana, a Mahican woman, and the couple lived at Christiansbrunn.
Heinrich Steiner
1739-1820. Born at Warwick, Pennsyvania. Worked as a smith.
Johannes Daniel Sydrich
1727-1790. Born in Frankfurt, Germany. Arrived at Christiansbrunn in September 1757 to superintend some of the boys assigned to various trades. Worked as a teacher and a deacon.
Johannes Thomas
1711-1791. Born in Pomerania, Germany. Worked as a mason and a carpenter.
Matthaeus Witke
????-1761. Birthplace unknown. Worked with the livestock at Christiansbrunn. Lived with his wife and children at Christiansbrunn.
Jens Wittenberg
1719-1788. Born in Christiana, Norway. Worked with livestock at Christiansbrunn and later as master of the purse-making shop in Bethlehem.
David Zeisberger
1721-1808. Born in Herrnhut, Germany. Worked as a missionary.