Johann Ludwick Seaman and Anna Magdalena [Unk]

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Husband Johann Ludwick Seaman ¹

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            AKA: Johan Ludwig Seaman 2
           Born: Cal 8 Feb 1723
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           Died: 12 Dec 1797 1
         Buried:  - St. Michael's Cemetery, Berks Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Catharine [Unk] (Abt 1728-1798) 1

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Wife Anna Magdalena [Unk] ¹

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1 M Eberhart Seaman ¹

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2 M John Seaman ¹

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           Born: 25 Nov 1753 - Bern Twp, Berks Co, PA 1
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           Died: 9 Sep 1820 1
         Buried:  - St. Michael's Cemetery, Berks Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth Schlabbig (1754-1824) 1
           Marr: Abt 1778

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3 M Ludwig Seaman ¹

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4 M Michael Seaman ¹

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5 M Jacob Seaman ¹

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6 F Anna Margueretta Seaman ¹

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7 F Maria Magdalena Seaman ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Johann Ludwick Seaman

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All efforts to find the exact locality whence the founder of the Seaman family in America came have been in vain, all evidence indicating Germany. The custodian of the division of public records of the Pennsylvania State Library, Luther R. Kelker, in 1905 wrote that the family is of Swiss origin, living in the Cantons of Aarau, Berne and Uri. Under the head, "List of Foreigners imported in the ship 'Patience and Margaret' from Rotterdam, October 25, 1748, John Govan Captain," occurs the name of "Johann Ludwick Seaman, aged twenty-six years," The founder of the family of Seaman, Seman, Sehman, Sayman, or Saymon, in America.
Johann Ludwick Seaman was probably accompanied by his wife, his brother or brothers, and his sister, Anna Margueretta Seaman. There is a tradition that he was a soldier in the fatherland, Germany, having served seven years in the famous body-guard of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, which, if true, establishes the fact that the immigrant was a man of commanding stature and appearance, for history tells that that monarch sought the tallest men in all Europe for his personal guard. Although he arrived in Philadelphia in 1748 he did not apply for land in Bern township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, until 1752, and the first national census, taken in 1790, has the following concerning him: "Free males over sixteen years of age, two, free females over sixteen years of age, two, free males under sixteen years of age, one, and no free females or slaves." [GPHWP, 182]

The progenitor of this family in America, he was a member of the body-guard of Frederick the Great, of Prussia. On account of his religious convictions, which were not viewed with favor in his native country, he sailed for the New World, arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1748. In "Rupp's Thirty Thousand Names," which gives an account of the names and dates of landing of the early immigrants, we find it stated that "October 25, 1748, there arrived in Philadelphia the ship 'Paliena and Margaret,' with John Govan as captain, from Rotterdam, last from Leith," and that among the passengers were Henry Seeman and John Ludwig Seeman. Later the name was spelled Seaman, as it is at the present time. "It is possible," says Rupp's, "that the signature in the ship's record was made by a clerk and not correctly spelled." However, it evidently referred to one and the same person, and that was the ancestor mentioned above. He married after his arrival in this country, and settled in Berks county, Pennsylvania. [GPHWP, 90]

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General Notes: Wife - Anna Magdalena [Unk]

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She died aged seventy-four years.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 183.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 90.