Ulrich Simmendinger and his wife had been among those Palatines coming to New York in 1710. IN the year 1717 he returned to Germany and there published a small pamphlet, in which he described the emigration of the Palatines and their life in New York province. He also gave as complete a list as he was able to obtain of all those Palatines who were then living in the Province, including the names of the wives and locating the families in the different towns or "dorfs"
This pamphlet is now very rare. A copy in the New York Public Library is probably the only one in this country. It has been reprinted in pamphlet form by Lou Macwethy at St. Johnsville N.Y. in recent years, and the list of names from the original copy has also been printed in Knittle's book, from which most of the following notes are taken. The names of the localities are not all as Simmendinger gives them, as Knittle has identified the various different towns in the Schoharie region, to which Simmendinger gave names different from those commonly known.
This was published in 1717 by Ulrich Simmendinger. The location of the people named is given by a key:
a. Queensbury
b. Annsbury
c. Hunterstown
d. Haysbury
e. Beckmansland (probably West Camp)
f. Weisersdorf
g. Gerlachsdorf
h. Hartmansdorf
i. Brunnedorf
j. Fuchsendorf
k. Schmidsdorf
l. Kniskernsdorf
m. New York
n. Hackensack
The list includes the following selected names of familiar families:
Anspach, Balthasar, (c) wife and children
Badtdorff, Anna, (?) widow and 2 children
Bartel, Heinrich, (c) wife Anna Catherine and 2 ch.
Bauch, Christian, (f) wife Anna Dorothea and 5 ch.
Becker, Jacob, (b) wife and child
Becker, Johan Jacob, (g) wife Maria Elizabeth
Becker, Peter, (c) wife Elizabeth
Cuntz, Jacob, (c) wife Susanna and 1 ch.
Cuntz, Johannes, (k) wife maria Catherine and 4 ch.
Christman, Hanss, (k) wife Elizabeth
Dieffenbach, Conrad, (k) wife Maria Barbara and 5 ch.
Emrich, Johann Michael, (k) wife Elizabeth and 2 ch.
Emrich, Johannes, (e) wife Anna Margaretha and 5 ch.
Feck, Johannes (Jr.), (f) wife Anna Maria Margaretha(Becker) and 2 ch.
Feck, Leonard (son of above), (f) and wife Catherina(Anna Catherina Schultz)
Feck, Peter, (k) wife Anna Maria (Risch) and 4 ch. (also in f)
Fischer, Sebastian, (g) wife Susanna and 5 ch.
Frey, Heinrich, (h) wife Maria Margaretha and 1 ch.
Frey, Anna Barbara, (j) widow and 2 ch.
Goldman, Conrad's widow, (k) and 5 ch.
Hauss, Christian, (j) wife Maria Catharina and 8 ch.
Heyd, Peter, (e) wife Maria Elizabeth and 1 ch.
Heyd, Nicholas, (i) wife and 2 ch.
Hoenner, Johannes, (a) wife and ch.
Hornig, Johann Rudolph, (j) wife.
Hornig, Nicholas, (i) wife Anna Maria and 4 ch.
Kayser, Johannes, (j) wife Margaretha and 2 ch.
Kayser, Martin (l)
Klob, Peter, (k) wife Magdalena and 2 ch.
Kobel, Jacob, (i) wife Anna Maria and 2 ch.
Lauck, Abraham, (d) wife and ch.
Lauer, Peter, (c) wife Anna Catherine and 2ch.
Lascher, Sebastian, (b) wife Elizabeth and 6 ch.
Lorena, Johannes, (l) wife Anna Margaretha and 6 ch.
Ried, Leonard,(son) (m) 5 brothers and mother
Ried, (Johann)Leonard, (father) (f) wife Elizabeth Catherine and 2 ch.
Schaeffer, Nicholas, (f) wife Maria Catherine and and 4 ch.
Schmidt, Hans George, (k) wife Anna Catherine and 3 ch.
Schutz, Conrad, (j) wife Anna Maria Margaretha
Schutz, Hans Adam, (k) wife Anna Catherine and 1 ch.
Sech, Heinrich, (k) wife Christina and 1 ch.
Stup, Martin, (k) wife Anna Catherine and 1 ch.
Stumpf, Johann George, (j) wife Anna Margaretha and 3 ch.
Viedler, Gottfried, (l) wife Anna Elizabetha and 2 ch.
Wallborn, Hans Adam, (k), wife Anna Elizabetha (Feg) and 2 ch.
Weiser, Conrad, (f) wife Maria Margaretha and 8 ch.
Zeh, Johannes, (f) wife Magdalena and 4 ch.
Zerben, Jacob (b) wife Maria Catherine
Zerben, Hanss Heinrich,(k) wife and 3 ch.
Zeller, Hanss Henrich, (k) wife and 3 ch.
Zeller, Johannes, (k) wife Anna Catherina and 2 ch.
(The records of Zion Evan. Lutheran Church of Loonenburg, now Athens, in Greene Co., New York, up to 1723 are copies of the entries made by Mr. Justus Falckner in the New York Lutheran book as they relate to the Albany-Loonenburg congregation, made after Falckner's death, probably by Mr. Berkenmeyer)
Baptisms
1713
"on the fast paschel", at the church in Albany, Elisabeth, b. at Norman's Kill in Albany, dau. of Johan Pieter FUYCK(FEG) and wife Anna Maria (Risch). Sp. Michael Becker and Elisabeth Schmid
April 7, 1713
In the house of Evert Janssen in Albany, Christ, son of Hans Juergen HAYN and wife Veronica. Sp. Johan Christ. Gerlach, Joh. Jacob Becker and Maria Margareta ____
April 1720
At Claverack in the house of Hannes van Husum, Elisabeth, b. Feb. 1, dau. of Michael SCHAUER and wife Catharina. Sp. hannes van Husum and Elisabeth Schauer
Aug. 1720
At Hunterstown, John Matthias, son of Jurgen MAURER and wife Maria
In 1725 the records of Rev. Berkenmeyer begin:
July 19, 1727
Johann Peter b. June 20, son of Peter BECKER and wife Anna Elisabeth. Sp. Johann Peter Sachs, Hermanus Behr and Annetje Scheyd