Anna Dorothea Schwab

1740 - 1818  (78 years)

• Name	Anna Dorothea Schwab
  Birth	4 Jan 1739/40	Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
  Gender	Female
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	102279717
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102279717
  _UID	9D69884DEE3D46B6BDF3896E2A8B429D3D8C
  Death	10 May 1818	Williamsburg Twp, South Dundas County, Ontario, Canada
  Burial	St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Riverside Heights, Stormont, Dundas & Glengary United Counties, Ontario, Canada
  	ote: This surname is spelled in many ways in the records. However, this was the original spelling. Note: Rev. Samuel Schwerdtfeger and his wife were not interred in this cemetery, but this stone was moved here when the original Lutheran Church was flooded by the Seaway in the 1950s. Plaque at Lutheran Church, Riverside Heights, ON THE REV. JOHANN SAMUEL SCHWERDTFEGER The first Lutheran minister to settle in this province, Schwerdtfeger was born in Burgbernheim, Bavaria, and studied theology at the University of Erlangen. Emigrating to America in 1753, he served as pastor of congregations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York. Much persecuted for his allegiance to the Crown during the American Revolution, Schwerdtfeger moved to Canada in 1791. He settled here in Williamsburg Township and became pastor of a congregation of German Loyalists, which had been established in 1784, and by 1790 had constructed the first Lutheran church in what is now Ontario. Its site now lies beneath Lake St. Lawrence. Within a few years he had organized Lutheran congregations in neighbouring townships. He died in 1803 and was buried in the old church cemetery. Erected by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Archives of Ontario
  Person ID	I32568	Lanark County Origins
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2019

  
  

  Family	Johan William Samuel Schwerdtfeger,   b. 4 Jun 1734, Burgheim, Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany d. Oct 1803, Williamsburg Twp, South Dundas County, Ontario, Canada (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	1759	New Holland Evangelical United Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
  Children	1. John Frederick Schwerdtfeger,   b. 1765   d. 1849 (Age 84 years)   2. Jacob Schwerdtfeger,   b. 1771   d. 1851 (Age 80 years) + 3. Elizabeth Virgine Schwerdtfeger,   b. 4 Sep 1780, Brunswick, Rensselaer, New York, United States d. 5 Feb 1847, Williamsburg Twp, South Dundas County, Ontario, Canada (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F11098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2024

  
  

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  Marriage - 1759 - New Holland Evangelical United Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States Death - 10 May 1818 - Williamsburg Twp, South Dundas County, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth