Johann Christian Ruth1,2

M, #614, b. 7 November 1728, d. 24 August 1793
Last Edited: 18 Dec 2021
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Ancestors of Elmira Seltzer

Parents:

Father: Johann Peter Ruth1 b. c 1704, d. 14 Sep 1771
Mother: Anna Sophia Lauer1 b. 4 Mar 1703, d. a 1733

Family:

Maria Barbara Epler b. 16 Aug 1732, d. 5 Oct 1809

Children:

John Adam Ruth+3 b. 10 Oct 1759, d. 24 Dec 1824
Susanna Ruth7 b. 29 Oct 1761, d. 12 May 1821
Mary Magdalena Ruth8 b. 3 Jan 1764, d. 14 May 1845
Anna Maria Ruth+ 9 b. 28 Dec 1768, d. 4 Mar 1836
Daniel Ruth10 b. 25 Oct 1774, d. 13 Sep 1827

Notes

  • Note*: Military service:
    "Christian served in the Revolutionary War as a Private in Captain Miller's 1 Company, 6 Bn, Berks County Militia, commanded by his step-son Col Joseph Hiester, May 31 1781."3
  • Note: Church land:
    "Christian Ruth bequeathed one and one half acres of land for a new Reformed Church and church yard (St. John’s) in Sinking Spring, PA."3
  • Note: Will:
    RUTH, CHRISTIAN, Cumru.
    No date - Probated October 30, 1793.
    To son Daniel my plantation in Cumru containing 323 acres, also stock and farming utensils, paying therefor £1500, at 21, to other children, viz: John Adam, Susanna and Maria.
    Provides for wife Maria Barbara.
    Devises 1 1/2 acres of land for the new Reformed church and churchyard.
    To son John Adam the mortgage against Peter KAMERER for his birthright. Exrs: Son John Adam and Joseph HEISTER.
    Wits: George ROOT and Sebastian MILLER.
    Translation.
    (Note: The "new Reformed Church" is St. John's Church in Sinking Spring.)5
  • Note: Probate:
    Will was signed by mark.

    Inventory taken October 1794, totaling £2153.10.6.6

Citations

  1. [S156] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994. Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, Pennsylvania. URL: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1999196 Berks Co., file: "Estates 1752-1799 Resher, Gabriel-Seitzinger, Nich."; folder: "Ruth, Peter CU 1771", images 1501-1577. Eldest son's petition for real estate partition names Peter Ruth's widow and fourteen surviving children, image 1523.
  2. [S2] Akerboom, Jack and Anna Ruth Salzman, compilers, The Descendants of Peter and Sophia (Lauer) Ruth (Elverson, Pa.: Mennonite Family History, 1994), p. 3-4, 527.   Akerboom--Descendents-Of-Peter-and-Sophia-Lauer-Ruth.pdf
  3. [S2] Akerboom, Jack and Anna Ruth Salzman, compilers, Descendants of Peter Ruth, p. 527.
  4. [S64] FindAGrave.com, online , Memorial ID 29737199.
  5. [S161] Pennsylvania, various counties. Abstracts of wills and administrations. Posted on the web by USGenWeb Archives Pennsylvania. Presumably transcriptions of those 'abstracted under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s'. Berks County, Abstract of will of RUTH, CHRISTIAN. URL: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/berks/wills/willabs06.txt
  6. [S156] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994. Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, Pennsylvania. URL: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1999196, Berks Co. file: "Estates 1752-1799 Resher, Gabriel-Seitzinger, Nich."; folder: "Ruth, Christian CU 1793", images 1422-1437.
  7. [S2] Akerboom, Jack and Anna Ruth Salzman, compilers, Descendants of Peter Ruth, p. 527, 708.
  8. [S2] Akerboom, Jack and Anna Ruth Salzman, compilers, Descendants of Peter Ruth, p. 527, 731.
  9. [S2] Akerboom, Jack and Anna Ruth Salzman, compilers, Descendants of Peter Ruth, p. 527, 750.
  10. [S2] Akerboom, Jack and Anna Ruth Salzman, compilers, Descendants of Peter Ruth, p. 527, 805.