Excerpts... About the Original 13 Settlers & Related Families

From "William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania", by William I. Hull, Ph.D., F.R. Hist.S., Genealogocal Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1970 (no longer in print) Submitted by Susan Hunsicker.  

THE KRISHEIM QUAKER PIONEERS

        Reviewing the story of the Dutch Quaker leaders in Krisheim, the co-founders (with those in Krefeld) of Germantown, Pennsylvania, we find that Jan Hendriks, Jakob Jansen, Hans Philip Laubach, Christopher (Christoffel, or Stoffel) Morett, Jorg Schumacher, and Peter Schumacher the Elder were the pioneers who were "convinced" of Quakerism by William Ames, and suffered for their faith as early as 1658, 1659, and 1660; that Hendricks, Laubach (or Laubeck), Morett (or Morell, or Murrett), Hendriks Gerrits, Gorg (or Jorg) and Peter Schumacher, Agnes Jecobsen (the widow of Jan or Jakob Jansen), and the wife of Velter Eberten were the sufferers in 1663 and 1664; that Henriksen, Morett, Jorg and Peter Schumacher, were the sufferers in 1666; that Morrett, Laubach, Jorg and Peter Schumacher and Gerrit (or Gerhardt) Hendricks signed the rhymed defiance of 1670, and helped to distribute copies of James Parnel's "Warning to all Men", in 1679; that Peter Schumacher, Gerhardt Hendricks, and Hans Peter Cassel petitioned for a passport to Pennsylvania in May, 1685; that Peter Schumacher (with his children, Peter, Mary, Frances and Gertrud, and his cousin Sarah), Gerhard Hendriks (with his wife Mary, his daughter Sarah, and his servant Heinrich Frey of Altheim, Alsace) and Heivert Papen, arrived in Philadelphia in October 1685; and that Hans Peter Cassel (with his children Arnold, Peter, Elisabeth, Mary and Sarah), and Sarah, the widow of Jorg Schumacher (with her children George, Abraham, Barbara, Isaac, Susanna, Elizabeth and Benjamin) arrived in Philadelphia in March, 1786.