Conrad de Rahm and Maria Catherine Weiser

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Husband Conrad de Rahm ¹

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            AKA: Conrad Rahm,2 Michael Rahm 3
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       Marriage: 1754 1

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Wife Maria Catherine Weiser ^{1 2}

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           Born: 29 Jan 1733 - Pennsylvania 1
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         Father: Christopher Frederick Weiser (1699-1768) 1 4
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (1702-      ) 1

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Children

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1 M John Michael Rahm ¹

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           Born:  - Pennsylvania
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2 M John Jacob Rahm ¹

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           Born:  - Pennsylvania
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3 F Rebecca Rahm ^{3 5}

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           Born: 22 Nov 1773 - Hummelstown, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 3 6
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           Died: 31 Dec 1842 or 1843 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3 5
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         Spouse: Christian Henry Orth (1773-1816) 3 7 8 9
           Marr: 1794 or 1797 2 3

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4 M Melchoir Rahm ^{1 10}

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5 M Martin Rahm ¹¹

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           Born: 4 Oct 1776 - near Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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           Died: 6 May 1836 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Anna Maria Dorothy Anshutz (1788-      ) 11
           Marr: 20 Jan 1806 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1

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General Notes: Husband - Conrad de Rahm

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He was a native of Metz, Lorraine, and came to America aboard the "Europa" with a group of Palatinates and settled on a farm near Philadelphia in 1741. Through his abhorrence of class distinction he is said to have dropped the prefix "de" from his name. Brothers and at least one sister also came to America; they were Moravians. One brother was killed by Indians in Eastern Pennsylvania. One brother had a plantation in Dauphin County, and had slaves. Prior to the Revolutionary War, Conrad Rahm sold his farm and removed to a section near Harrisburg. When the war broke out he became a corporal in Captain Benjamin Weiser's Company and saw action in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey. He also fought against the Indians as a member of Sullivan's Expedition; and as captain of the Huntingdon Dragoons in 1780, helped protect the frontiers of Northumberland County.

1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 349.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 371.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 248.

4 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of Womelsdorf, Pa., and Community, Pg 119.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 200, 371.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 200.

7 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 523, 530.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 200, 370.

9 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 384.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 51.

11 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 348.