Nicholas Carper (1701-aft1758)/notes

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Name: Nicolaus (Nicholas) Carper Birth: feb 14 1702/03 in Unterostern, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany Death: ABT 1758 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania or Feb 1754

Arrived Philadelphia from Palatine11 August, 1732 on ship "Samuel" of London, Hugh Percy was the Master: from Rotterdam last from Cowes Spelling Variants: Nicholas Corber, Niklas Korper, Niklas Kerper.

As Nicholas Corber, age 22 on the captain's list Niklas Kerper on the clerk of courts list when passengers took the oath of allegiance to the King of England & American Colonies.

Nicholaus Corper and Margaretha Masteller, of Skippach, married 3 December 1734. Skippach is west of Trappe Church, then in Philadelphia Co., now Montgomery Co.

Johann Casspar Stoever performed the marriage. Iextensive land owners in Pennsylvania, a blacksmith at Coventry Forge on French Creek, South Coventry Township. Nicholas Kerper was listed on the tax list as late as 1758

lived in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, PA by 1753. one of the first elders of the First Reformed Church of Coventry, East Coventry, Chester County, PA on 19 May 1743 when Rev. Jacob Lischy became pastor and started keeping records. In 1740 they were 'of Plymouth in Philadelphia County.'

Father: Hans Jörg Körper b: 6 DEC 1669 in Unterostern, Hesse-Darmstadt, Parish Of Reichelsheim, Germany Mother: Elisabeth (Körper) b: 1672 in Germany

Marriage 1 Anna Margaretha Barbara Marsteller b: feb 12 1708/09 in Pfungstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany Married: 3 DEC 1734 in Trappe Lutheran Church, Skippach, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church

"Skippach" by "Rev." John Caspar Stoever. Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Trappe, Pennsylvania. Margaretha Emigrated on same ship as Nicholas and was listed as Gretha Marstelen, age 19 Her baptism is on tape #1,195,494 at FHC. She called herself Margaret or sometimes Anna Margaret in U.S.A.

Jacob Carper b: ABT 1730 Frederick Carper b: 8 JUL 1736 in Pennsylvania Nicholas [Corper] Carper b: 1738 in Maryland John Andreas [Corper] Carper b: 27 APR 1746 in Pennsylvania John Jacob [Corper] Carper b: 8 APR 1748 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Maria Margaretha [Corper] Carper b: 28 DEC 1750 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Margaret Carper b: 1751?