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From: "Janet Hall" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] John Zug, White Oak Congregation
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:41:42 -0600
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Michael Zug - Mar. 21, 1832 - 1910 is an early source of info on Royer
family history and also a Royer descendant. I would be interested in
knowing the connection, if any, with Ulrich Zug ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwayne Wrightsman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [BRE] John Zug, White Oak Congregation


> Phil,
>
>
>
> Your John Zug was probably the son of Ulrich Zug.
>
>
>
> Ulrich Zug and three family members arrived in Philadelphia on the Ship
> James Goodwill on September 27, 1727. Assuming that one of the family
> members was Ulrich's wife Barbara, the other two were probably their
> children. After their arrival in Pennsylvania, they had six more
children.
> The names of the eight children are known, but not their dates of birth.
> One can only speculate as to which two were born in Europe and which six
> were born in the New World.
>
>
>
> The eight children of Ulrich Zug and wife Barbara Bachman are listed in
the
> Zook book, compiled by Harry D. Zook, in an order "suggested by events in
> their lifetimes" as follows:
>
>
>
> (1) Peter Zug
>
> (2) Henry Zug
>
> (3) Magdalena Zug
>
> (4) Michael Zug
>
> (5) Johannes Zug
>
> (6) Jacob Zug
>
> (7) Christian Zug
>
> (8) Christina Zug
>
>
>
> This order is the same as that in Richard Warren Davis, Emigrants,
Refugees,
> and Prisoners, Vol. II, 1997, pp. 429-432, where the Swiss Mennonite roots
> of the Ulrich Zug family are traced back four generations to an Ulrich
> Zaugg, b. c1580, of the parish of Signau. The Ulrich Zug family that
> immigrated to Pennsylvania was believed to have been Mennonite. In the
Zook
> book, Ulrich's ancestral family is described as Swiss Brethren, a term in
> the literature that seems to be nearly synonymous with Mennonite.
>
>
>
> In 1741, the family started to join the Conestoga Congregation of German
> Baptist Brethren. This congregation was divided into two communities, one
> being the Cocalico community in old Cocalico Township, Lancaster County,
and
> the other being the White Oak community in old Warwick Township, Lancaster
> County. The Zugs lived in that part of Old Warwick Township that is now
> Penn Township, so they affiliated with the White Oak Brethren community.
>
>
>
> Barbara Bachman Zug was baptized in 1741, and her husband Ulrich in 1742.
> Interestingly, Ulrich Zug's name appears in the list of Conestoga
> Congregation baptisms published in Martin Grove Brumbaugh's, A History of
> the Brethren, in 1899, as George Hog (with an umlaut). In an old
> unpublished and undated memorandum of Christian Bomberger, which also
lists
> the baptisms, the name appears as George Zug. Both Brumbaugh's and
> Bomberger's lists were transcribed from German script into English. One
> wonders about the name George. Did Ulrich's name become George in the
> transcriptions, or did Ulrich also go by the name of George?
>
>
>
> The order of Ulrich Zug's children listed above from the Zook book
> corresponds fairly well with the baptism dates for the six Zug children
who
> joined the Conestoga Brethren. As listed in Brumbaugh, pp. 307-317, the
six
> were baptized as adults on the following dates:
>
>
>
> (1) Peter Zug, 1747
>
> (2) Magdalen Zug, June 12, 1748
>
> (3) Hannes Zug, August 6, 1749
>
> (4) Michael Zug, June 28, 1752
>
> (5) Jacob Zug, 1763
>
> (6) Christian Zug, 1769
>
>
>
> As for the other two children, there is no record of Henry having been
> baptized into the Conestoga Congregation. Nonetheless, from all accounts,
> he was probably Brethren. Christina, probably the youngest sibling,
married
> John Musselman, a Mennonite, when she was only 14 years old. She seems to
> have remained Mennonite.
>
>
>
> The Zugs, typical of the Swiss-German Anabaptists, were farmers. The
family
> settled, on or before July 20, 1743, on 345 acres in Warwick Township,
> Lancaster County. The family was active in the White Oak community of the
> Conestoga congregation. Sons John, Christian, and Jacob were still active
> at White Oak in 1770, when the preacher-historian Morgan Edwards listed
the
> members of the White Oak community. By that time, both parents had died,
> Ulrich in early 1748, and wife Barbara about 1759. Ulrich was buried on
his
> farm in a cemetery located about one mile north of Penryn, Pennsylvania.
>
>
>
> Dwayne Wrightsman
>
> Lee, NH
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philip Morphew" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:50 PM
> Subject: [BRE] John Zug, White Oak Congregation
>
>
> > "John Zug and wife" are listed in the 1770 list of members of the White
> > Oak Congregation, German Baptist Brethren. Any information about
ancestry
> > or descendents appreciated.
> >
> > Phil Morphew
>
>
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