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As far as I know, no research has proven the exact relationship between Gerhart and Johann Frederick Fiscus. By this time, someone must have conducted accurate research in Germany, but I am unaware of it. It would be lovely to learn that the families of Gerhart and Johann Frederick continued to communicate after completing their journey to Philadelphia aboard the Loyal Judith in 1743.
Was Gerhart in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and when did he remove to western PA? I know bits and pieces of the story, but I'd love to hear more.
According to my information, the family of Johann Frederick and Anna Elisabetha (Schwind) Fiscus lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania for a time before removing to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Johann's younger son, John Adam, with 2nd wife, Eva Maria [Unknown], stated in his Revolutionary War pension application that he was born in Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania.
There is a record of a financial contract between Johann Frederick Fiscus and Peter Youngblood (who owned land in Pennsylvania and Maryland), and Johann also purchased land called "Cattail Marsh" in northern Maryland (This area was called "High Germany."), but I know of no research that conclusively shows that Johann's family lived in Maryland. Later, Johann and Anna Elisabetha's daughters, Anna Cunnigunda and Eleanora Margaretha, marry two Hauser brothers (apparently in Maryland...possibly near Frederick). This may sound contradictory, but I don't know when or where the Fiscus and Hauser families met. The Hausers appear to have moved several times in Pennsylvania, and even though one of Johann Frederick's other daughters’ mention Moravians in her Moravian "death memoir," it does not indicate they she ever lived in Maryland.
All members of Frederick's family eventually removed to land near present-day Winston-Salem. There is much more to this because a son-in-law is unaccounted for until later, and I don't know which daughter he was married to.
Known children and their known spouses: (Note: Researchers have varied spellings for these individuals.)
Maria Margaretha Fiscus
Anna Cunnigunda Fiscus and Michael Hauser
Maria Barbara Fiscus and Philip Christof Vogler
Maria Fiscus and 1) John George Baumgarten
2) John Peter Schreyer
Eleanora Margaretha Fiscus and Jacob Hauser
Jacob Frederick Fiscus and 1) Magdalena Schmidt
2) Rebecca Arney
Elisabeth Fiscus and Martin Walk
John Adam Fiscus and Maria Elisabeth Spainhower
Eva Maria Fiscus and Jacob Henry Hilsabeck
There is a man on the Internet who gives a spouse for Maria Margaretha, but he only lists the individual’s name that supplied the information. After communicating with him, I learned that he cannot provide a source to document the inclusion of this spouse. In the translation of the Moravian records, it states that “the son-in-law of the elder Fiscus, with his father and a cart” (loose paraphrase) arrived in the NC/Bethania area and told of losing land because of the redrawing of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Was he the husband of Maria Margaretha? Was she deceased?
Because I was born a Fiscus and retained the surname for half of my life, I feel a strong "ownership" to the name. I would love to have time to conduct more and better research, and I would appreciate any corrections/clarifications to what I have posted here.
[It was my mother, Colleen Fiscus, who provided us with the knowledge of a contract between Johann Frederick Fiscus and Peter Youngblood and of the christening information of his children in Ober-Saulheim, Germany. Other researchers have likely discovered this same information on her own, but my mother was a tireless and accurate researcher of the Fiscus family beginning in the 1970's.] I hope to hear from other wonderful Fiscus researchers who can add valuable information.
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