Descendants of Nicolaus Adam

First Generation

1. Johannes Nicolaus ADAM. Born ca 1695 in Eichtersheim, Cannstatt, Baden, Germany.1 Johannes Nicolaus died in Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co., PA, ca 1748; he was 53.
Some sources give name as Johan Nicholas Adam or simply Nicholas Adam. In most early records he is just Nicholas Adam.

Genealogical Records: Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600s-1800s1
Foreigners Who Took The Oath Of Allegiance, Names of Foreigners Who Took The Oath Of Allegiance, 1727-1775, Page 7-8: Immigrants into Pennsylvania, 1727. A List of the passengers imported on the ship “William and Sarah”, Will’m Hill, Master from Rotterdam, arrived Philadelphia 18 September 1727. Among the 108 names is Nicholas Adam. A list of the ship’s passengers can be found at:
http://www.palproject.org/pa/1727w&s.htm

Nicholaus Adam emigrated from Eichtersheim in the Kraichgau area of what is now Germany. This family has been traced by Annette Burgert in “Eighteenth-Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America” Vol. 1:The Northern Krachgau (Breinigsville, PA, The Pennsylvania German Society, 1983), 34-35, Nicholaus was a passenger on the ship “William and Sarah”, in 1727. Arrived in America on 18 September 1727.

Pennsylvania Vital Records, Volume I, Genealogical Gleanings from Orphans Court Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Page 359; March 1754 Orphan Docket arranged guardians for Susanna, Dorothea and Christine. Nicholas died in 1754. Susanna chose her older brother Bernard to be her guardian, the other two sisters chose a John Gehr as their guardian

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EMIGRANTS FROM GERMAN SPEAKING LANDS TO NORTH AMERICA. Vol 1: The Northern Kraichgau, Annette Kunselman Burgert 1983, pages 34-35

INDEX TO THE INTESTATE RECORDS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. 1729-1850 Elanore Fulton and Barbara Mylin, 1981

Records of PASTORAL ACTS AT THE LUTHERAN AND REFORMED CONGREGATIONS OF THE MUDDY CREEK CHURCH, William Hinke and Frederick Weiser, 1981, pages 17, 18, 29, 43, 48, 53, 72, 117 and 118.

Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series
Names of Foreigners who took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province
and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775,
With the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808.
Edited by William Henry Egle, M. D.
Harrisburg: Edwin K. Meyers, State Printer
1892

Nicolaus Adam found in:

Passenger and Immigration Index, 1500s-1900s
Place: Pennsylvania Year: 1727
Primary immigrant: Adam, Nicolaus
Accompanying family members: Wife Juliana Schweickhardt; son Jonas Paul
Permanent entry number: 575265
Accession number: 9993934
Source publication code: 1031.8
Source publication page number: 34
Source publication: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants
from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania
German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol.
1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. 461p.
Source annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of
naturalization. Span indicates period between last mention of emigrant in
country of origin and first mention of his residence in the New World.
"Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname.
Source: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index

Nicholas Adam purchased 200 acres of land in Lancaster Co., PA on 28 Feb 17342

On 23 Nov 1719 when Johannes Nicolaus was 24, he married Juliana Bernadina SCHWEIKHARDT, daughter of Johannes Phillip SCHWEIKHARDT (ca1670-) & Susanna, in Eichtersheim, Baden, Württemberg, Germany. Born on 5 Oct 1701 in Eichtersheim, Germany. Juliana Bernadina died in Lancaster Co., PA, aft 1740; she was 38.
Juliana Bernhardina Schweickhardt found in:1

Passenger and Immigration Index, 1500s-1900s
Place: Pennsylvania Year: 1727
Primary immigrant: Schweickhardt, Juliana Bernhardina
Permanent entry number: 1016599
Accession number: 7866171
Source publication code: 1031.8
Source publication page number: 34
Source publication: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants
from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania
German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol.
1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. 461p.
Source annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of
naturalization. Span indicates period between last mention of emigrant in
country of origin and first mention of his residence in the New World.
"Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname.
Source: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index

They had the following children:

2i.

Jonas Paul (1722-1790)

3ii.

Johannes Schweickhardt (1729-1792)

4iii.

Johannes Bernhardt “Bernhard” (1731-1810)

5iv.

Juliana Margaretha (1733-ca1813)

6v.

Susanna Schweickhardt (1736-)

7vi.

Christena Schweickhardt (1736-1814)

8vii.

Dorothea (ca1737-)

9viii.

Sybilla