Johann Adam Walborn1,2

M, #3702, d. after 1727
Last Edited: 27 Aug 2023
Charts:
Descendants of Johann Adam Walborn

Family:

Anna Elisabetha Zietz b. c 1668, d. a 1710

Children:

Anna Susanna Walborn15 d. a 1764
Christian Wilhelm Walborn1 d. 1769
Maria Elisabetha Walborn1 b. 25 Oct 1696
Christina Elisabetha Walborn1 b. 29 Jul 1703
Johann Hermann Walborn+1 b. Aug 1707, d. 10 Jan 1747
Maria Catarina Walborn1 b. c 1709

Notes

  • Confirmation*: 1680; Mosbach-Biebrich, Germany5
  • Immigration*: 1710; New York3
  • Note*: 1709 Palatines:

    Johann Adam and Anna Elisabetha Walborn were among the fifteen-thousand German speaking refugees, called the Palatines, who came down the Rhine River in 1709, motivated by poverty, an especially severe winter and the unfounded promise of free land and transportation to America. Twelve thousand or more immigrated to London creating a humanitarian crisis. In 1710 ten ships carried about three thousand to New York; a quarter died on route. Settled in camps along the Hudson River, indentured for several years, they were to produce naval stores. The Walborns were among those who resettled in the Schoharie Valley, a tributary to the Mohawk River, probably about 1712-1713.

    In 1723 fifteen families famously traveled from the Schoharie, New York to the Tulpehocken region of what is now Berks and Lebanon counties Pennsylvania, traveling by canoes down the Susquehanna River. A second group of fifty family followed in 1728. The Walborns were in the 1723 group.

    The Walborns are found in German church records, in New York Palatine records, and in the earliest Tulpehocken records.

    The Walborns were from Mosbach-Biebrich, a village or parish along the Rhine River below the city of Wiesbaden, which is about six miles north of Mainz, and about twenty five miles west of Frankfurt.

    There is a good biography of Johann Adam Walborn on FindaGrave at URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33593156/johann-adam-walborn

    No records have been published about Johann Adam Walborn's death, burial or probate. Nor have any land records been found for him.

    Author Herman Walborn states without evidence that Johann Adam Walborn died after 1741. The lastest document this compiler found find was 1727.
  • Note: New York records:

    "Johann Adam Walborn" appears in the Subsistence Lists submitted by Governor Hunter of New York, who provided food for the Palatines in the naval stores project camps, and later invoiced the government:
    1 July 1710, 4 persons over 10 years, 3 persons under 10
    4 Oct 1710, 5 persons over 10 years, 2 persons under 10

    On 19 July 1710 one of the children, "Maria Elisabetha Walbuer", was confirmed (Rev. Kocherthal Records).

    "Jno. Adn Walbourn" was listed by Henry Mayer in "Volunteers for Canadian Expedition 1711" among the men from Annsberg. Annesbury was a village within the East Camp settlement, Governor Hunter's first settlement in the naval stores project, on the east bank of the Hudson River.

    In 1717 Ulrich Simmendinger upon returning to Germany published a list of the German families in New York, including "Wallborn, Hans Adam and his wife Anna Elisabeth with 6 children", living in New Annesbury. New Annesbury was a village in the Schoharie Valley, a tributary to the Mohawk River. The families who removed to Pennsylvania in 1723 came from the Schoharie Valley.6,7,8,9
  • Note: Pennsylvania, earliest Tulpehocken records:

    The earliest list of names of the residents of the Tulpehocken area is the signers of a petition addressed to Gov. William Keith requesting the right to purchase land, written in the year after their removal to the Tulpehocken, so 1724.

    The last name on the list is "Andrew Falborn". Historians have interpreted this name differently, as "Andrew Walborn" and as "Adam Walborn".

    The authors of "The Colonial Records of Pennsylvania", which published the petition, noted "The names being mostly in a deep German hand could not be read, but by one skill'd in their writing, they are given here...".

    Henry Jones, Palatine historian, argues "I strongly believe that Johann Adam was the mysterious Andrew Falborn/Walborn listed on the Tulpehocken petition dated 1723; there is no further reference to this Andrew Walborn that has been found, and the written forms of Adam and Andreas may easily be mistaken for each other in 18th century handwriting (HJ)."

    Johann Adam Walborn appears in three early other Tulpehocken documents:
    - List of Assessments in Tulpehocken Township, January 10 & 11th 1725/26 "Adam Wallpun (Walborn) 2.6"
    - Assessment List of Tulpehocken Township, January 2.3.4th, 1726/27 "Adam Wallpum (Walborn) 2.6"
    - Petition for Tulpehocken/Oley Road, September, 1727 "Adam Walbornn"10,11,6
  • Note: Henry Z. Jones, the authority on the Palatine immigrants wrote:

    "Johann Adam Walborn (Hunter Lists #778)
    The German home of this Tulpehocken family was 6200 Wiesbaden (6 km. n. of Mainz; Chbks. begin 1688), entries on this family also at Mosbach-Biebrich/Wiesbaden (Chbks. begin 1674). The father of the emigrant was undoubtedly Joachim Waldborn, bur. as Jochim Wallbrun 10 Sept 1689, aged 60 yrs.; Anna Maria, wid/o the late Joachim Walborn, d. 30 Dec 1693, aged 57 yrs. (both Mosbach-Biebrich Chbk.) The ch. of Joachim Waldbrunn/Walborn as found in the registers at Mosbach-Biebrich were:
    Johann Philipp, bur. as eldest s/o Joachim 21 Dec 1674, aged 15 yrs.
    Maria Clara, conf. 1677, with no parents mentioned.
    + Johann Adam, conf. 1680, with no parents mentioned.
    Elisabetha, conf. 1680, with no parents mentioned.
    Martin Jacob, conf. 1686, with no parents mentioned.

    Johann Adam Waldbrun md. Anna Elisab(etha) Zietz (Gietz?) - hard to read) 15 Feb 1691 (Mosbach-Biebrich Chbk.) Anna Elisabeth Zietz (Gietz?) was conf. in 1681 (Mosbach-Biebrich Chbk.) Johann Adam Waldborn was called a day-labourer at Wiesbaden in 1696, and a Hoffman in Schützenhof in 1703 (Wiesbaden Chbk.).

    Johann Adam Walborn made his initial appearance on the Hunter Lists 1 July 1710 with 4 pers. over 10 yrs. and 3 pers. under 10 yrs. of age. The family was recorded with 5 over 10 and 2 under10 yrs. on 4 Oct 1710. Jno. Adn Walbourn of Annsberg was a soldier in 1711 (Palatine Volunteers To Canada). Hanss Adam Walborn and his wife Anna Elisabetha with 6 ch. were at Neu-Ansberg ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register). I strongly believe that Johann Adam was the mysterious Andrew Falborn/Walborn listed on the Tulpehocken petition dated 1723; there is no further reference to this Andrew Walborn that has been found, and the written forms of Adam and Andreas may easily be mistaken for each other in 18th century handwriting (HJ). Johann Adam Walborn was on the Tulpehocken tax list dated 1725 (The Hub of the Tulpehocken, by Earl W. Ibach, p. 12)."6,12
  • Note: List of children:

    This database uses the list of children published by Palatine researcher Henry Jones. It different from the list published by Walborn family researcher Herman Walborn. Herman Walborn's list includes a son Andrew whom Henry Jones' list excludes as explained above. Also Jones' list includes, with a question mark, Anna Susanna Walborn, based on her 1741 marriage at Tulpehocken; Herman Walborn does not list her.3,12
  • Note: Wife's maiden name:

    Researcher Henry Jones states that Johann Adam Walborn's wife was Anna Elisabetha Zietz or Gietz, citing the church marriage record. Researcher Herman Walborn states, without any supporting evidence, that the wife was "Anna Elisabetha nee Feg of Idar, Germany". This database follows Henry Jones.

    Excerpt from Palatine Immigrant vol 3, #4 (1978): There is no evidence whatsoever that Anna Elizabeth [mother of Herman Walborn] was a Feg, as has been reported elsewhere. A footnote to an article, "The Registers of Reed's Church, by Frederick S. Weiser and Vernon Nelson, appearing in the Historical Review of Berks County, Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (Winter, 1965-66), gives a possible source for this assumption. Footnote 5, page 27, begins: "Herman Walborn was a son of Johan Adam Walborn, who is listed as a Hoffman of the Schutzenho±' near Wiesbaden in the records there. His wife was a daughter of Johannes Feg and wife, who were from Idar." The words "his wife" refer to the wife of Herman Walborn, not Johann Adam, but have perhaps been misunderstood. (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Walborn-60)

    Note that Ancestry's much cited "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900" contains both wife's names, with no supporting detail; and note that that database is not considered reliable (WikiTree).13,12
  • Note: This Johann Adam Walborn is numbered (1) in the Herman Walborn book.14

Citations

  1. [S236] Jones, Henry Z., The Palatine Families of New York : A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, 2 volumes (Universal City, Calif.: 1985), Vol. 1, p. 1051-1054..   Jones--Palatine-Families.pdf
  2. [S518] Walborn, Herman W., Walborn (Walburn) Genealogical History Of America : Descendants From The Settlement Of 1710, Including Data On Allied Families And Other Associated Connections (Printed 1975 Piqua, Ohio. FHL microfilm 928196, ), (1-) p. 73..   Walborn--Genealogical-History.pdf
  3. [S236] Jones, Henry Z., Palatine Families, #408 bk Jones - Palatine Families     Vol. 1, p. 1051-1054.
  4. [S44] Burgert, Annette K., A research guide to the Tulpehocken Region, Lancaster (now Berks and Lebanon) County, PA (Myerstown: Masthof Press, 1994), p. 8-9, 1727 petition..
  5. [S236] Jones, Henry Z., Palatine Families, Vol. 1, p. 1052, citing registers at Mosbach-Biebrich.
  6. [S236] Jones, Henry Z., Palatine Families, Vol. 1, p.1051-1052.
  7. [S430] Simmendinger, Ulrich and Herman F. Vesper, translator, Simmendinger, Ulrich. True and authentic register of persons still living by God's grace who in the year 1709, under the wonderful providences of the Lord journeyed from Germany to America or new world : and there seek their piece of bread at various places... (unknown original date; reprint n.p., 1934), p. 18..
  8. [S270] MacWethy, Lu D., The Book of names, Especially relating to the early Palatines, and the first settlers in the Mohawk Valley (Publ. 1985 Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. Orig. publ. 1933., ), p. 39, 72, 126..
  9. [S248] Knittle, Walter Allen, Early eighteenth century Palatine emigration : a British government redemptioner project to manufacture naval stores (Publ. Cayuga Press, N.Y. 1937. FHL microfilm 1320677, item 1, ), p. 290, 292, 300..
  10. [S301] "Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. III", Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, Volume III. p. 323.
  11. [S44] Burgert, Annette K., Research guide to the Tulpehocken Region, p. 6 & 7, tax lists. citing The Gibert Cope Hist. & Genealogical Collections, Historicl Society of Pennsylvania; p. 8-9, 1727 petition.
  12. [S518] Walborn, Herman W., Walborn, p. 73.
  13. [S236] Jones, Henry Z., Palatine Families, Vol. 1, p. 1052.
  14. [S518] Walborn, Herman W., Walborn, p. 73.
  15. [S558] Wright, F. Edward, Berks County Church Records of the 18th Century, Vol. 4 (Colonial Roots, 2009), Selected Pastoral Records of John Casper Stoever, p. 84..