Michael Weigand

Michael Weigand was born in the Palatinate area of Europe. It is a section of the continent that laid upon the Rhine River. He was in the party of one of the first groups to immigrate to the American soil. Michael came to this country through England where information about him and his fellow travelers was recorded. In England they heard our plight and upon recommendations by council on May 10, 1708 Queen Anne issued an order that our little group would be removed to America at her expense. The letters for our travel were issued August 25 and we set sell with the understanding the group would receive supplies of 9p a day per head for twelve months and land on which to settle. Their leader was the clergyman Joshua Kuckerthal. There were 41 of them; ten men, ten women, and twenty-one children. Three of those children were Michael's. Anna Maria who was 13 when they came, Tobias who was 7, and George who was 5. He and his wife, Anna Cahterine were one of the ten couples that came. His occupation was a husbandman or farmer. These are the people that came with them:

Joshua Kuckerthal, Sibylle Charlotte his wife, and Christian Joshua, Benigna Sibylle and Susanna Sibylle, their children; also, Lourentz Schwisser, husbandman, Anna Catherine his wife and Johannes their son; Henrich Rennau stocking-maker and husbandman, Johanna his wife, Lourentz and Heinrich, their sons, and Susanna and Maria Johanna Liboschain, sisters-in-law; Andries Volck, husbandman, Anna Catherine his wife, Heinmemus, Maria Barbara and Anna Gertrude, their children; Jacob Webber, husbandman, Anna Elizaberh his wife; and Eve Maria and Eve Elizabeth, their children; Johannes Jacob Plettel, husbandman, Anna Elizabeth his wife, and Margaret, Anna Sarah, and Catharine, their children; Johannes Fischer, smith and husbandman, Maria Barbara his wife, and Andrics his son; Melchior Gulch, carpenter and joiner, Anna Catharine his wife, and Heinrich and Margaret, their children; Isaac Turck, husbandman; Peter Rose, cloth-weaver, and Johanna his wife, Mary Wiernarm, husbandwoman, his mother-in-law and Catherine her child; Isaac Feber husbandman, Catharine his wife, and Abram their son; Daniel Fiere, husbandman, Anna his wife, and Andrew and Johanues, their sons; and Herman Schuneman, clerk."

Once he arrived with his family in 1708 He had to sign an Oath of Allegiance to England. Their little colony asked for tools to help us in the settlement of their community of Quassaick. His tools were: 1 great file, 1 smaller file, 1 mortising chisel, 1 Joyster, 1 Agor, besides several pieces more. He was the sponsor with my wife Anna Catherine to a child of Jacob Webber and Anna Elizabeth in 1710 and to George and Elizabeth Lockslides child as well as the illegitimate daughter of Catherine Birgis of in 1711 in Quassaick. They were still there in 1718 when they sponsored a child of Andreas and Anna Catherina Volek. and in 1721 for another Webber child.

He received land the promised land grant of 250 acres in what is now Newburgh, Orange County, New York in 1719. His lot was numbered 2. It was a long time in coming and the ten years seemed forever in this New World They carved out new lives and ways of doing things. After several years of trying to make a living he sold the lease in 1725 and went to Pennsylvania where his daughter and her husband also went.

He was a sponsor along with my wife to a baptism in Oley, Pennsylvania after their move. This was in 1732. His passing on was not recorded so he left this earth unnoted.

His surname is spelled many ways in the records Weygand and Wygant are some of them.

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