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Mock Family Historian
A CLEARING HOUSE FOR RESEARCH ON MOCK-MAUK-MACK FAMILIES
Volume 1 No. 6 November 1992
PHILADELPHIA MAAG FAMILY
Submitted by Steve Lapp
One family that has consistently spelled its name MAAG arrived in Philadelphia in the mid eighteenth century and remained there for well over a hundred years. An accurate account of this family appears in Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, by Jordan, written in 1911. Quoted verbatim, it reads:
"Henry Maag was born in Zurich, Switzerland, July 1722, and came to Philadelphia with his parents as a child. There were at least twelve male adults bearing the name of Maag, who arrived in Philadelphia between Sept. 11,1732 and Oct. 20, 1752. He was doubtless a minor son, under sixteen years of age, of one of the earliest of these arrivals. He is known to have had a brother Conrad Maag, born 1731, and a sister Barbara, who married Samuel Sivert on Jan.17, 1764.
There is a very interesting account of the migration of a large company of prospective emigrants to the Carolinas, from Zurich to Rotterdam, under the leadership of the Rev. Mauritus Goetschy. Among these was Hans Maag, of Hochfelden, with five in his family, and Johannes Maag of Hochfelden, with three in the family. They left Zurich on Oct. 5, 1734 and after many hardships reached Rotteredam, where they were stranded for some time,while Goetschy negotiated with the Holland synods for his own betterment in America. Some of them returned to Switzerland, some crossed over to England, and the residue eventually came to Philadelphia in the ship Mercury, which arrived May 29, 1735. The Maags were among those, who according to a circumstantial account of the expedition and the emigrants, went to England, and they probably came from there to Philadelphia some years later.
It is very probably that Heinrich Maag was a relative, if not one of this family. The first record we have of him is a purchase of 50 acres of land on Aug.18, 1749, from Thomas Livezly, in Oxford Township, Philadelphia Co. near Frankford, and on Oct.8, 1760, land adjoining Trinity church. His daughter Anna Elizabeth was baptized at the First Reformed church on Oct.16, 1759; and his brother Conrad's daughter, Barbara, was baptized at the same church on Dec.7, 1762. at the age of three weeks, the record of the latter baptism stating the Conrad Maag was of Zurich, and that the sponsors, or god-parents, were Heinrich Maag, a brother and Barbara Maag a sister of Conrad. Heinrich Maag.
Jacob Maag and a Hans Hendrick Maag arrived in the ship Royal Judith on Sept.2, 1743 and Jacob Maag was one of the signers of a letter from members of the German Reformed congregation at Market Square, Germantown, to the Holland Synod in 1744. It is possible and even probable that the Heinrich Maag, above mentioned as a passenger on the Royal Judith was the Henry Maag with whom this sketch is concerned. His brother Conrad, born 1731, would have been then under 16, and would not have been mentioned in the passenger list. Neither does this list give the name of women passengers, which would account for the absence of the name of his sister and mother.
Henry, or according to the German form of the name, Heinrich Maag purchased 55 acres of land in Passyunk township, Philadelphia, on May 6, 1761, it being part of an original grant by Gov. Richard Nicholls of New York, Jan. 1, 1667 to Dunkin Williams. Here he lived as a farmer until his death on Jan.10, 1787. His first wife Verena (Frances) died July 11, 1783, and he married (second) on Jan.20, 1784 to Elizabeth Brown, a widow,who survived him. By his first wife he had five children, Jacob, John, Solomon, Ann, and Verena (or Frances). His will directed that his plantation and tract of land in Passyunk and his house and lot at Third and Gaskell streets, where his son Jacob lived, be sold within one year. His estate amounted to 2,444 Lbs.; to his widow he devised his riding chair, horse, and harness and 400 Lbs.
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PHILADELPHIA MAAGS continued:
His son Jacob Maag married April 16, 1773 to Maria Peltz, daughter of John and Catherine Peltz, and they were the parents of Catherine Maag, (b.1774, d.1855) wife of Samuel Jarden and grandmother of Cynthia Ann (Jarden) Magee."
From the Philadelphia Reformed Church records, along with information found in Eighteenth Century Emigrants Volume II by Annette Burgert we learn:
Conrad Maag, from Zurich, married Anna Elizabeth Dauenhauer from Winzeln, Germany. Anna was born Aug 13, 1727. She arrived in Philadelphia with her family aboard the ship Muscliffe Galley in 1744. Conrad died Nov.16, 1767 at age 36. Anna Elizabeth remarried to Daniel Burghardt. She died and was buried Jan.18, 1773. Conrad and Elizabeth were married 16 years and had 10 children including the following six:
Margaret Maag born @Jan. 1757, died Jan.14 1763.
Jacob "Mog" bpt. Oct.2, 1757 at Market Spuare Presbyterian Church
George Conrad born @Apr 1759, died Sept.21, 1759.
Sybylla bpt. July 4, 1761, Phil. Reformed Church.
Barbara bpt. Dec.7, 1762 at three weeks old. She married Samuel Sevit Jan. 17, 1764.
Gertrude bpt. Feb.25, 1765 at 14 days old.
Jacob Maag (son of Henry), according to Philadelphia Reformed Church records, married Maria Peltz on April 6, 1773. Two children appear in records:
Catherine Maag born Feb.11, 1774, baptized Feb.27, 1774
Jacob Maag born Mar. 5, 1775, baptized Apr. 2, 1775.
The following burials appear in the Philadelphia Reformed Church records:
Anna Maag died Aug.19, 1759, age 61 years, wife of Jacob Maag.
Jacob Maag died May 18, 1767, age 61 years, 3 months
Anna Maag died Sep.20, 1768, age 75 years.
Catherine died Dec.15, 1770, age60 years.
Wife of Henry Maag died Sep. 18, 1774, age 54 years.
Wife of Henry Maag died July 13, 1783, age 55 years.
John Maag died Aug. 1, 1785, age 33 years, 7 months, 11 days.
Marriage record: Anna Maag to Jacob Feit on June 20, 1770.
According to Lists of Swiss Emigrants to American Colonies In the 18th Century, Hansz Jacob Maag, Alexander's son, along with his wife and 3 children, and Hansz Maag with his wife and 3 children, all journeyed from Bachenbulach in Parish Bulach, Switzerland, to Pennsylvania in 1738.
Junghans Maag with his wife Anna Herzog and 1 daughter journeyed from Hochfelden in Parish Bulach to Penn. in 1738.
Jacob Maag, his wife and 2 children, and Andreas Maag with his wife and 2 children journeyed from Bachenbulach to Penn. in 1743.
Jacob Maag, a resin scraper, with his wife, 3 sons and 2 daughters, journeyed from Eschenmosen in the Parish Bulach to Penn. in 1743.
Ship records for the "Loyal Judith", qualified Sep.2, 1743 in Philadelphia, include Jacob Maag age 42, followed by Henrich Maag age 15. Another Hans Henrich Maag, age 20, is listed separately.
Researchers are invited to draw their own conclusions regarding the relationship of these Swiss immigrants named MAAG.
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