Susanna Agnes Bechtel

TM Note - Context

• The timing of beginning their immigration in late august is based on arrival date and an average journey time as established in Durnbaugh's Brethren in Colonial America.
• Departure location listed as the closest major city to Lambshiem on the Rhine at the time which was Mannheim, where the family likely boarded a riverboat to travel to Rotterdam. Overland routes at the time were cumbersome, time consuming, and unlikely with a large family of small children.
• According to the immigration records in Philadelphia, Michael and Susannah arrived with their 5 children, as well as, Jacob Stutzman, Jacob Bauman, Johannes Ullerich, Christian Ullerich, and Peter Rool (Ruhl) which likely means they departed with them as well.

TM Note - Context

Rotterdam was listed as the departure location on the manifest for the ship, "Adventure," where we also find Johann Michael Miller & Jacob Stutzman's names. Disambiguation: This ship is also listed some places, incorrectly, as the "Adventure Galley," which was a popular 17th century pirate ship of a similar name. According to the immigration records in Philadelphia, Michael and Susannah arrived with their 5 children, as well as, Jacob Stutzman, Jacob Bauman, Johannes Ullerich, Christian Ullerich, and Peter Rool (Ruhl) which likely means they continued their journey with them and departed together from Rotterdam.

TM Note - Context

This was a stopover for English customs and tax prior to the final & departure for British Colonial America. The passengers likely did not disembark as the ship likely remained anchored but not docked in port.

TM Note - Context

The ships arrival manifest indicates that Johann Michael Miller, Jr. signed his own name and was thus very likely to have been literate.

Detail

Modern address (as of 2019) is 2301 Frizzelburg Road, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, United States of America

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