Johanna Margaretha Elizabetha Bernhardten

Notes:

From her toombstone:



Here Rests in God

Margaret Elizabeth Windemuth, born 1721, (Aug. 5) in the Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa, Came to America with father, mother and two sisters in the year 1731. Died Febry 15 1800 aged 78 years 6 months and 10 days.

Johanna married The Emigrator Johann Georg Windemuth in 1739 in Sussex County, New Jersey. Johann (son of Johann Christoph Windemuth and Maria Margarethe Kleppinger) was born on 11 May 1711 in Pfungstadt Kreis Darmstadt Hessen, Europa; died on 19 Dec 1782 in Stillwater, Sussex County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maria Catharina Windemuth was born on 11 Nov 1740; died on 29 Jan 1747/1748.
2. Elizabetha Wintermute was born in 1742; died in 1800.
3. Maria Juliana Windemuth was born on 27 May 1744; died on 31 Jan 1747/1748.
4. Maria Margareta Wintermute was born on 9 Jul 1746 in Stillwater, New Jersey; died on 19 Feb 1800 in Fairmount, New Jersey.
5. George Wintermute was born on 8 Jul 1748; died on 8 Jan 1837; was buried in 1837 in Buried in Redstone Baptist Church cemetery.
6. Catharina Juliana Wintermute was born about 1750; died after 4 May 1800.
7. Peter Windamute was born on 20 Mar 1751/1752 in Stillwater, Sussex County, New Jersey; died on 18 Mar 1830 in Stillwater, Sussex County, New Jersey; was buried in 1791 in Built large stone house at Big Spring..
8. Johannes\John Windemuth was born on 8 Jun 1757 in Old stone Stillwater house built by father; died on 28 Jul 1810 in Old stone house where born.

Notes:

He was the first person buried in the Stillwater cemetery, where the old German Church was years after erected. The inscription reads as follows:



" Here Rests

The John Peter Bernhardt who was born in the Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa (Rhenish Bavaria). Came with his frau and children to America in the year 1731 and died December 28, 1748."





From the history of Sussex county we are told that John Peter Bernhardt first settled in Philadelphia in 1730, and in 1742 located in the wilderness where the village of Stillwater now stands. (The above dates are evidently wrong, as the
inscription on the tombstone of Bernhardt and his daughter, Margaret Elizabeth, who married John George Windemuth, both say they emigrated in 1731, and it seems to be as evident that he made his settlement at Stillwater at an earlier date than
that given, we think not later than 1736.) Sussex history also says that Peter Windemuth came about the same time, an inexcusable error, as there was no Emigrator by the name of Peter.





Johan Peter Bernhart

Date of arrival: 26 Sept 1741

Ship: St. Mark

Port of destination: Philadelphia