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1. Conrath Thomas Lind died in Nov 1803 and is buried near Paint Creek, P aint twp., Somerset co., Pennsylvania. His wife Magdalena or "Mary Ann" w ho died in 1813 is supposedly buried nearby. A
Lint interviewed in Paint Creek [on a 1991 research trip] believes they a re buried on their old property,
where-ever that was. [this needs followup with someone familiar with prope rty title searches]
2. The sailing ship that Conrath, Johann and Georg came to Philadelphia f rom Rotterdam on was a "Snow Ketty" which is a classification of vessel a nd not a name as so many folks thought for a long time. The ship's Capta in was Theophilius Barnes and the manifest of foreign passengers qualifi ed at
the Court House in Philadelphia on the 16th of October 1752. The three ( 3) Linds on board signed their names as follows: Johann Michel Lind, Geo rg Philips Lind, and Conrath Thomas Lind. On this ship's
manifest the female passengers were not listed.
3. A History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton counties, Pa., publish ed in 1882 stated " the parents of Christian Lint Senior (ie., Conrath Tho mas Lind) came from Germany and were sold for their passage money. The mot her labored six years to pay, the father probably not so long". This do es not prove
that they came over on the same ship or that they were married before arri ving in America.
4. Per a letter by Mrs. Weigle (Lenore Hartig)(a descendant of John Li nt and Elizabeth Walters), our Conrath came to Somerset co., Pennsylvan ia between 1792 and 94. This is partially confirmed by the marriage of Chr istian Lind and Elizabeth Lichtenberger on 10 Dec 1793 in Berlin, Brothe rs Valley twp., Somerset co., Pennsylvania by the Reverend Giese. The att endance records of the same church show Melchoir Seese and his wife Soph ia Lint in attendance on 1 Jan 1788 [he as a Deacon]. This indicates th at the period of Conrath's family moved may have even been before 1792-9 4. Did they move at the
same time as a family or did the elders follow the younger ones who led t he way..?
5. Conrath shows up on the 1796 tax records for Somerset twp., Somerset c o., Pennsylvania, but some of his heirs remained in the Lancaster, Pennsyl vania area; reference an 1803 record of estate.
6. Recorded in 1806 Somerset co., deed book vol., 3 page 698, was an agr eement signed by all of Conrath's children and heirs which would grant Mag dalena or "Mary Ann" Lind their property for the remainder of her yea rs (a copy is in my files). The significance of this document is that thr ee (3) of the signers were illiterate and signed their names with a X (ie ., Henry Lind, Jacob Lind and Rebecca Lind). The lawyer or witness to t he signatures had written in their names next to their X's by spelling the ir names LINT. The other five (5) signers were literate and signed their n ames; John Bricker, Melchoir Seese, Conrad LIND, John LIND and Christi an LIND.
7. As in the previous example, the name LIND rapidly changed to LIN T. A reason for this is when the anglicized ear hears the letter "D" ( at the end of a word) spoken in German it sounds like a "T" or "DT". T he Swedes who came to America named LIND did not have the same problem, a nd kept the LIND spelling. Almost all the Germans who immigrated as LI ND changed to LINT within two generations.
8. Despite folklore about Lint families being descendant from Swiss or Sw edish stock and claims of Jenny Lind (from Sweden) being a cousin, all t he early LINDs who later became LINTs were from what
is now Germany and they spoke old german. Those who could read and wri te did so in old German.
9. The majority of Germans first migrating to America came from the Palat inate or Rheinland-Pfalz region to escape religious persecution, overcrowd ing, and economic chaos resulting from almost constant warfare in centr al europe. The Thirty Year War had a devastating impact on the Palatine.
Most imigrants were of the Protestant or Reformed Lutheran faith.
10. Conrath Thomas Lind took his oath of allegiance in Lancaster co., Penn sylvania 13 Jun 1777. It
has been asked if this was the Senior or Junior Conrath Lind. The Juni or Conrath (b. 1765) would have
only been 12 years old at the time, so we should assume it was the Seni or Conrath Lind.
11. In the summer of 1994 we made an exciting discovery by connecting wh at was then refered to as
the "Peter Lind" branch of Lints in the US to their ancestors in Graben, G ermany. No connection has been made yet between that branch of Linds a nd Conrath Thomas Linds branch. This was the first
time (to my knowledge) though that a positive connection between the US a nd europe has been established with any early Lint branch. That "Peter Li nd" branch is now refered to as the "Valentine Lind" branch after it's pat ron who raised his family in Graben, Germany about the 1630 time frame.
12. In the summer of 1995 David Diehl of Jacobus, Pennsylvania proved t he connection between his "Henry Lind" branch of York co., Pennsylvania a nd Franz Josef Lind of Fachsenfeld, Wurttemberg, Germany. We follow ed up on this and have taken that particular branch back to about 1525.
13. As of this entry we do not have a positive connection between the thr ee Linds who got off a "Snow Ketty" in Philadelphia in 1752, but......aft er the Henry-Franz Josef connection was made, I plotted over 700 Linds [bo rn between1510-1850] on maps of Germany. The plottings revealed four dist inct groups
of Linds; in the Wurttemberg area, in the Pfalz-Rheinhessen area, in the M osel-Hunsruck area [where
I live six months out of the year], and in an area near Aachen just we st of Bonn. Name patterns are positive for the families in the Rheinhess en area but no positive connection has yet been made. The
research will continue during my summers in Germany and appropriate updat es made.
14. The "Jenny Lind connection" is folklore in several Lint branches. Pl us the Bishop Gillian Lint (as quoted in an 1850's newspaper article) clai med Jenny was a first cousin. I believe the "first cousin"
claim is a misquote or embellishment. Extensive queries have been made wi th the Swedish archives
in Stockholm both by myself and the Goldsmith (direct descendants of Jen ny Lind Goldsmith) family in Texas and no connection can be proven. Altho ugh it also cannot be disproven that maybe some connection might exist.
15. Conrath's military service has been confused by past researchers. If y ou consider that Conrath Thomas Lind was at least 45-50 during the revolut ionary war and his son Conrad was 16 the choice of which Conrad was who c an be confusing. If you studying the average ages of some of the early re volutionary war conscripts though it's easier to believe it was the son Co nrad that was active in the revolutionary war and not the father. It has a lso been argued that the 16 year old son probably stayed home and kept t he farm and family going while dad was off at war. However, there are mo re than one Conrad lind enumerated on the revolutionary war rolls which te lls us that they both possibly served in different capacities. I say poss ibly because periods served were often as short as six months or a
year and the same individuals have been found enumerated on several differ ent unit's rolls over the
span of the war.
16. A Conrad Lind served under Captain John Muller's 5th Company of the Pe nnsylvania 8th Battalion
in 1781 (Conrath would have been about 50 and the son about 16). Was it t he father or the son?
17. In 1966 Eber Cockley put together notes on the Somerset Lints bas ed on census reports, research done by Frank S. Lint and Emma Lint fisher 's family bible. In these notes he stated that Henry Lint born
prior to 1755 (found on the 1800 census of Somerset twp., Somerset co., Pe nnsylvania) having seven
(7) sons and four (4) daughters was evidently a brother of Conrad Lint S r. I want to put this to rest right
now...... This Henry Lint was in fact born on 5 Feb 1758 and christened t he next day in the 1st Reformed
Lutheran Church of lancaster, Pennsylvania. His parents Conrath and Mary A nn Lind were listed. This
Henry was in fact the eldest son of Conrath Thomas lind.
These notes are by:
George B. Lint 116 Rockywood Way Niceville, Florida 32578 [850] 678-85 07 edited: [24 Dec 97]
The following notes entered by :
Patsy Hardesty-Sutton
29500 West 109th Street North
P. O. Box 516
Mount Hope, Kansas 67108
In the book : " PENNSYLVANIA BIRTHS, LANCASTER COUNTY 1723-1777 by Jo hn T. Humphrey on Page 211 is found the information on some of the childr en of Conrad and Ann Maria Lind and one Conrad and Magdalen Lind with Hen ry listed as a child of the latter. The other children, Cath. Eliz., Con rad, and Sophia are listed as the children of Conrad and Ann Maria Lin d. This indicates to me that Conrath Thomas Lind was married at least t wo time's and that Henry was the only issue from the first union.
In the book " PENNSYLVANIA BIRTHS OF LEBANON COUNTY 1714-1800 " by Jo hn T. Humphrey , are found the birth's on the following children of Conr ad and Anna Maria Lind. John Lind, born 21 February 1771 and Margaret Li nd, born 08 June 1784. This information came from "RECORDS OF KLOPP 'S REFORMED CHURCH IN BETHEL TOWNSHIP". The Baptismal register was beg un in 1755.
This information is found on page 139 .
Information received from Richard Hayden in September 2000.
Placed in my files are the following copies.
1. Copy of a chart showing the lots with their numbers, found in the cent ral part of Lancaster Borough in its earliest days. This was obtained fr om Lancaster County Historical Society. This shows lot# 475 owned by Con rad Lind and lot#479 owned by Michael Lind. The property owned by Conr ad Lind and his wife Anna Maria was at the Southwest corner of Orange a nd Shippen Street.
2. A copy of a portion of a Publication entitled "A SPECIAL PUBLICATI ON OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY" Special Publica tion, number 17, January 1982. ( Richard's note: 1786-1794-Lind's presen t) RECORDS OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN SHIPPENSBURG,PA. CUMBERLAND CO. 17 70-1842. Translated and copied from the original inscriptions of the Ref ormed Church Graveyard (corner of Orange and Queen St.) Shippensburg,PA. ( copied from list of graveyard inscriptions made by Rev. J. Zeamer in 190 5) and a Surname/See Also Index.
Page 5- child, Anna Maria, parents Melcher Siess Sophia (Richard's note: c onrad Lint's daughter) born 31 Mar 1786,baptised 20 May 1786 Sponsors Conr ad Lind and wife Anna Maria.
Page 7- child, Christian, parents Heinrich Lind and Catharina born 15 J an 1788 baptised 17 Feb 1788 Sponsor Christian Lind, Jr.
Page 12-child, Catharina, parents Jacob Frey Susanna, born 14 May 1794 bap tised 14 Sep 1794 sponsors Conrad Lind Catharina.
Page 29- CATECHUMEN- Names of Children Confirmned 26 May 1787 Received Ho ly Communion First Time.
#2- Conrad Lind 21 years old (Richard's note: 6 1766)
#3 -Christian Lind 18 years old (Richard's note: 1769)
CATECHUMEN Confirmed 29 March 1788
#2- Johannes Lind 17 years old (Richard's note: b 1771)
Page 30- COMMUNICANTS-Names of Communicants 27 May 1787
#12- Conrad Lind
#13-Heinrich Lind
#38- Maria Lind (married)
#40- Catharina Lind (married)
COMMUNICANTS 14 Oct 1787
#7- Conrad Lind,sen.
#8-Heinrich Lind
#14- Christian Lind-Single
#15- Conrad Lind, Jr.-Single
COMMUNICANTS-30 Mar 1788
#3- Conrad Lind
#4 Heinrich Lind
#28- Anna Maria Lind
#31- Catharina Brucker Conrad Lind's daughter (Richard's note: m John Bric ker)
#33- Catharina Lind (Richard's note:nee Bricker)
3. A four (4) page working draft of a genealogical record of Conrad Lind/ Lint and including some information on his brother, Johann Michael , wi fe Juliana and their children. Both Conrad and Michael attended the Fir st Reformed Church of Lancaster according to the documentation of Richard.
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