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JOSEPH FLORY (1682 / 1741) IMMIGRANT FATHER FROM ZWEIBRUCKEN, (PALATINATE) GERMANY. (POSSIBLY BORN IN LANGNAU, OR, JURA REGION OF SWITZERLAND) M - ANNA MARIA BUGH (BUCH / PUGH ?) (1693 / )

NOTES: AMONG JOSEPH’S DESCENDANTS INCLUDE OVER 200 MINISTERS, 10 MISSIONARIES, 5 COLLEGE PRESIDENTS.

THE PIONEER FAMILY WAS PROBABLY A PART OF A GROUP OF MENNONITES WHO LOCATED IN THE REGION AS A "STAGING" AREA TO MOVE TO THE NEW WORLD. ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS, KATHERINE, WAS APPARENTLY BORN SEPTEMBER 8, 1733. SHE WAS BORN ON THE SHIP WHILE CROSSING AND LANDED IN PORT ON AUGUST 28, 1733.

THE CONESTOGA AND WHITE OAK CHURCHES WERE "TAUFERS" OR "DUNKERS" AND WERE ANABAPTISTS. THEY WERE OPPOSED TO INFANT BAPTISM AND BAPTISM OF MINORS--THOSE UNDER AGE 21. THE OLDEST IMMIGRANT SON, JOSEPH, WAS BAPTIZED INTO THE CONESTOGA CONGREGATION IN 1741 AT AGE 27 AND HIS BROTHER JOHN IN 1747 AT AGE 29.

SINCE THE TWO OLDEST BROTHERS BELONGED TO THE NEW CHURCH, IT IS ALSO LOGICAL TO BELIEVE THAT THE YOUNGER BROTHERS AND SISTERS JOINED AS SOON AS CONVENIENT AFTER THEY REACHED 21 YEARS OF AGE.

THE IMMIGRANT FAMILY REACHED THE VICINITY OF THEIR NEW HOME (IN WHAT IS NOW RAPHO TWP. IN NORTHWESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY) IN THE LATTER PART OF SEPTEMBER OR EARLY OCTOBER, 1733. (THE CURRENT RAPHO TWP. SPLIT FROM WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY OLD DONEGAL TWP. IN 1741 AND FROM HERE ON ALL REFERENCES WILL BE NOTED AS RAPHO TWP.).

THEY WERE NO DOUBT TAKEN IN BY VARIOUS BRETHREN IN THE GERMAN REFORMED OR LUTHERAN CHURCH UNTIL THEY HAD QUARTERS OF THEIR OWN.

THE FIRST SETTLEMENT WAS NORTHWEST OF OLD LINE CLOSE TO THE PRESENT LOCATION OF UNION SQUARE. HERE THE LAND IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF PALATINATE, GERMANY; WHICH THEY LEFT. THE PALATINATE WAS A RICH AGRICULTURAL STATE BOUNDED ON THE EAST BY A SISTER STATE, BADEN, AND ON THE SOUTH BY NORTHEASTERN FRANCE INCLUDING THE STATES OF MOSELLE, LORRAINE, AND THE ARGONNE SLIGHTLY TO THE WEST. THE VOSGES MOUNTAINS ARE DUE SOUTH.

SOME OF JOSEPH FLORY’S DESCENDANTS RETURNED TO THIS SECTION ALMOST 200 YEARS LATER AND FOUGHT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND OTHERS IN THE SECOND.

HE WAS A SHREWD SETTLER TO SELECT A PLACE IN THE NEW WORLD SO SIMILAR TO THE PALATINATE WHERE SIMILAR CROPS COULD BE GROWN. THIS AREA ALSO DEVELOPED INTO ONE OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL SPOTS IN THE WORLD. RAPHO TWP. HAS ABOUT 10 INCHES MORE ANNUAL RAINFALL AND IS SOMEWHAT WARMER THAN THE PALATINATE.

JOSEPH WAS A SQUATTER FOR A TIME AND BUILT HIS DUGOUT AGAINST A HILLSIDE LIKE SO MANY OTHER SETTLERS, NEAR A SUPPLY OF SPRING WATER. WOLVES AT NIGHT TIME, ATTRACTED BY THE SMELL OF HUMANS, SCRATCHED DIRT DOWN THE CHIMNEY. IT WAS NECESSARY THEN TO THROW BLAZING BITS OF WOOD UP THE CHIMNEY TO FRIGHTEN THEM AWAY.

INDIANS WERE A MENACE UNTIL THE MASSACRE OF THE INDIANS BY THE PAXTANG BOYS AT CONESTOGA AND LANCASTER IN 1763.

EIGHT YEARS AFTER ARRIVING IN THE NEW WORLD, THE PIONEER FATHER, JOSEPH DIED SUDDENLY IN OCTOBER 1741. DYING WITHOUT A WILL, HIS WIDOW, MARY, ALONG WITH HIS 2 OLDEST SONS, (JOSEPH, NOW 27, AND JOHN, NOW 23) APPEAR ON A BOND IN WHICH SHE PROMISES TO BRING TO COURT A TRUE INVENTORY OF HIS GOODS WITHIN 6 MONTHS AFTER HIS DEATH. THE INVENTORY ON THE BOND IS AS FOLLOWS:

NOVEMBER 2, 1741 - - INVENTORY OF JOSEPH FLORY

86 LB. 0 SHILLINGS 2 HORSES

1 YOUNG MARE 1 YOUNG STALLION

1 OLD HORSE 1 COW WITH BELL

1 YOUND BOAR 1 BULL

1 SPOTTED COW 2 CALVES

1 HEFFERS / 1 STEER 8 SWEIN

6 SHEEP 2 GROBEN HOHS & HOGHET

1 DUTCH CARPENTER BROAD AX LUNDAY

1 SHOFFEL (SHOVEL) 1 PLAIN WINJ & LUNDAY OF

LUNDAY AGE TOOLS HOUSEHOLD LINEN & BEDDING

HOUSEHOLD GOODS & GOODWENDER CARPENTERS AX & A TOEP AND CAGE

KETTLES & PAANS (PANS) & IREN PATTS 20 BUSHELS WHEAT

(IRON POTS) 43 BUSSHELS OATS

SOME WOODEN WEAR SPOONS

SUNDRY LOTS OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS

BOOKS & HALF BUSSEL

20 SUSSHELS RYE

LARGE BRAAVEN ROOPE

TOTAL AMOUNTING TO ABOUT 190 LBS. ($33.00) DEBTS PAID OUT OF ABOVE, 30 LBS., 7 SHILLINGS, 8 PENCE (ABOUT $53.00)

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Descendants of Joseph Flory

Generation No. 2
2a MARY2 FLORY, b. 1712.
A Mary Florey, whose age was 21, appears on the ship list of "The Hope." Nothing else is known about her. Because her age is 21, she may have been born to a mother other than Anna Maria Bugh (whose age is listed as 40 on the ship lists of "The Hope"), who would have to have been no older than 18 when she was married to have a child at 19.
2b JOSEPH FLORY, b. 1714; d. 1785.
2c HANLIEY FLORY, b. 1716.
A Hanliey Flory, age 17, appears on the ship list of "The Hope" in 1733. The name of "Hanliey" is unknown in Germany, and this may be an affectionate name for her by the members of the family or it could be the result of faulty transcription by an English recorder on ship.  There is a Swiss name of Anneli, which roughly means "little Anna."  This could be Hanliey's actual name, indicating that the family was ultimately Swiss.
2d. JOHN FLORY, b. 1718; d. November 1781.
2e JACOB FLORY, b. Abt. 1727; d. 1796.  Jacob's grandson, JOHN FLORA, constructed the first settlement in Monroe Township, Indiana, near where the town of Flora, so named in his honor, stands today. 
2f BARBARA FLORY, b. Abt. 1732.
Barbara Flory was baptized at the Conestoga Congregration in 1754. This is the only time her name appears on public record. While there is nothing to directly link her to Joseph, Walter Bunderman in his 1948 study assumes that she is his daughter. The congregation was a short distance from Joseph's place of residence in Rapho Township, and there was no other Flory family in the immediate area from which she could have come. There are several alternative explanations, but since Barabara has been accepted by tradition as being Joseph's daughter, she will be placed so here.  Roxann Rhea notes that there are two possible references to Barbara elsewhere.  A Barbara Flohr of Rapho Township married and Adam Bach, Jr., of Lebanon Township on May 2, 1769.  A Maria Barbara Florin married a Johan Bartolomaeus Shuh in Philadelphia on September 19, 1757.  This latter record is from an Evangelical Lutheran Record, and the former from a Reformed Record from the Pastoral Records of John Casper Stoever.  The existence of Rapho Township Barbara Flohr opens up a number of possibilities, one of which is that a Flohr family and a Flori family could have become confused. Was it a Flohr and not a Flori who was baptized at Conestoga?
2g KATHRINNA (EVA)  FLORY, b. September 08, 1733; d. 1821. Bunderman in his study on the family calls her Katherina or Kathleen, although evidence from Naff family (reference to her in an unpublished autobiography by her grandson, Isaac) suggests that her name may have been Eva.
2h ABRAHAM FLORY, b. 1735, Rapho Township, Lancaster Co., Pa; d. 1827, Madison Twp., Montgomery Co., Ohio.
 

 

2b. JOSEPH2 FLORY (JOSEPH1) was born 1714, and died 1785. He married CATHERINE ZOLLINGER.

Children of JOSEPH FLORY and CATHERINE ZOLLINGER are:

3a. ABRAHAM3 FLORY, b. Abt. 1739, Rapho Township, Lancaster Co., Pa; d. January 19, 1796.
3b. DAVID FLORY, b. Abt. 1739, Lancaster Co., Pa; d. 1795; m. EVA.  Click on the above link for a listing of all known descendants.
3c. JOHN FLORY, b. Abt. 1743, Rapho Township, Lancaster Co., Pa; d. 1797; m. MARY APOLLONIA.
3d. MARY FLORY, b. Abt. 1744. Married Michael Bomberger (b 1737) in 1762. They moved to Maryland and had at least two sons. There is no Michael Bomberger (or any Bomberger) in the 1790 federal census in Maryland. Michael was the brother of John Bomberger, who married Mary's sister,
Katherine. Nothing else is known about Mary, including the names of her descendants..
3e. KATHERINE FLORY, b. Abt. 1745.
3f. JOSEPH FLORY, b. February 06, 1751/52; d. January 10, 1795, Middletown, PA; m. EVA CATHERINE TOOT, June 23, 1777.
3g. PETER FLORY, b. Abt. 1755; d. 1830-1839; m. (1) CHRISTINA GERTRUDE; m. (2) ?.

2c. JOHN2 FLORY (JOSEPH1) was born 1718, and died November 1781. He married ANNA MARIE DANKERS.

Children of JOHN FLORY and ANNA MARIE DANKERS are:

3a. ELIAZABETH3 FLORY, b. May 1741.
3b. ANNA FLORY, b. April 1744.
3c. BARBARA FLORY, b. August 21, 1745.
3d. ABRAHAM FLORY, b. June 02, 1749.
3e. CATHARINA FLORY, b. May 10, 1750.
3f. FANNY FLORY, b. July 31, 1751.
3g. JOHANNES FLORY, b. May 03, 1753.
3h. DANIEL FLORY, b. August 08, 1754.
3i. MARIA FLORY, b. March 02, 1756.
3j. MAGDELENA FLORY, b. July 13, 1757.
3k. CHRISTINA FLORY, b. July 20, 1758.
3l. SALOME FLORY, b. October 24, 1759.
3m. ESTHER FLORY, b. January 26, 1750/51.
3n. JUDITH FLORY, b. February 11, 1762.
3o. ROSINA FLORY, b. March 13, 1763.
3p. REGINA FLORY, b. March 09, 1764.
3q. JOSEPH FLORY, b. July 18, 1765.
3r. MICHAEL FLORY, b. December 18, 1766.
3s. HEINRICH FLORY, b. October 25, 1768.
3t. RACHEL FLORY, b. February 18, 1771. For a complete listing of Rachel's descendants, click on the above link.

2d. JACOB2 FLORY (JOSEPH1) was born Abt. 1727, and died 1796.

Children of JACOB FLORY are:

3a. JACOB3 FLORY, b. 1760; d. 1838.
3b. JOSEPH FLORY, b. 1761; d. 1841.
3c. SAMUEL FLORY, b. Abt. 1768; d. 1843.
3d. ELIZABETH CHRISTINA FLORY, b. March 24, 1774, Frederick County., MD; d. 1809, Franklin Co., VA.  Married Henry Brubaker on March 19, 1795 in Franklin Co., VA.  Elizabeth had 9 children, one of whom was Jonathan Brubaker.  One of these lines proceeds from Jonathan to Jacob Brubaker to Elizabeth Brubaker (married George Shull) to Peter Shull to Ann Marie Shull (married Daniel Forney) to Ruth Elizabeth Forney (married Harlan Jesse Brooks) to Betty Jeanne Brooks (married Glen Campbell) to Philip Campbell to Christopher and Colleen Campbell.
3e. ABRAHAM FLORY, b. 1776; d. 1858.

2e. KATHRINNA2? (EVA?) FLORY (JOSEPH1) was born September 08, 1733, and died 1821. She married JACOB NAFF 1755.

   If Joseph and his wife had a daughter on ship when they crossed the Atlantic, her name may have been Eva and not Katherine.  This is the name by which her grandson, Isaac Naff refers to her. The name "Katherine" comes from a reading  of a birth document that Walter Bunderman had access to in his research of the family for his 1948 book.  For a discussion of this issue, click on the mysteries section and read the second entry.  You may also wish to read a discussion of the Zodiac signs on this document.  If so, click on Roxann Rhea's article at  Zodiac Signs and Family History.

Children of KATHRINNA? (EVA?) FLORY and JACOB NAFF are:

1.7.1. MARY3 NAFF, b. 1756.
1.7.2. ABRAHAM NAFF, b. February 22, 1758.
1.7.3. SARAH NAFF, b. 1762.
1.7.4. ISAAC NAFF, b. 1763.
1.7.5. ELIZABETH NAFF, b. 1765.
1.7.6. JACOB NAFF, b. Abt. 1768.
1.7.7. JOSEPH NAFF, b. 1769.
1.7.8. JONATHAN NAFF, b. 1771.
1.7.9. SUSANNAH NAFF, b. 1773.
1.7.10. CATHERINE NAFF, b. 1777.
1.7.11. DAVID NAFF, b. 1780.

2f. ABRAHAM2 FLORY (JOSEPH1) was born 1735 in Rapho Township, Lancaster Co., Pa, and died 1827 in Madison Twp., Montgomery Co., Ohio. He married ANNA CATHERINA BLOCKER circa 1759.

Children of ABRAHAM FLORY and ANNA CATHERINA BLOCKER are:

                              3a. CATHERINE 3 FLORY, b. November 25,1761; d. July 25,1846)  m. 
                              FREDERICK BLOCHER  (1765--1844)

3b. RACHEL FLORY, b. December 6, 1763; d. July 19, 1841. m HENRY MILLER SR.. (ca1750--1812)
3c. MARY FLORY, b. ca 1765; d. April 11, 1856; m. ca1789 MICHAEL MILLER, SR d. ca1817
3d. JOHN FLORY, b. August 28, 1766, Rockingham Co., VA; d. February 20, 1845; m. CATHERINE GARBER.
3e. SUSANNA FLORY, b. March 14, 1768, Franklin Co., PA; d. November 21, 1856, Somerset Co., PA; m. JOHN BEEGHLY.
3f. JOSEPH FLORY, b. December 29, 1769, Franklin Co., PA; d. October 30, 1823; m. ELIZABETH BEEGHLEY.
3g. ABRAHAM FLORY, b. 1774, Somerset Co., PA; d. March 14, 1796.  m. Mary .........
3h. EMANUEL FLORY, b. July 13, 1776, Franklin Co., PA; d. March 09, 1849; m. (1) SARAH KEAGY; m. (2) ELIZABETH BLOCKER ROYER, December 16, 1823.
Emanuel  was a Dunker minister and farmer.
3i. HENRY FLORY, b. Abt. 1777, Franklin Co., PA; d. November 24, 1824, Montgomery Co., OH; m. ANNA KEAGY.
3j.  SARAH FLORY/FLORA (1780--1810) m. ca1805 ABRAHAM HORNER

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