Johan Michael Vetter

Other Events:

• Occupation: wheelwright and farmer
• Baptism: 16 Mar 1704, Erpolzheim, Bavaria, Germany; Address:
  Evangelical Reformed Church
• Confirmation: 1719, Freinsheim, Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany
• Immigration: 10 Sep 1731, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; aboard the ship Pennsylvania Merchant with wife, children and sister
• Name: Oct 1736; Michael Fetter
• Property: 26 Oct 1736, Oley, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; was granted a warrant for survey of 100 acres of land
• Survey: 1 Apr 1738; Survey of 150 acres and 50 perches on Warrant granted Michael Fetter returned
• Religion: 1741

Notes:

...Emigrated to America aboard the 'Pennsylvania Merchant' from Rotterdam with his wife Katrina, his two children, young Michael and little Katrina, and two adults, Helena, believed to be his sister Maria Magdalena) and Katrina (relationship unknown)....Arrived in Philadelphia 10 September 1731, and Michael took the Oath of Allegiance to the crown of Great Britain and the Province of Pennsylvania the next day.
...On 26 oct. 1736 he purchased a land warrant for 100 acres in Oley, Philadelphia County. The survey was dated 1 Apr. 1738.
...Naturalized 7 apr. 1761. (Source: Mary Emma Curtis, The Michael Fetters Family : From Their German Roots in Direct Descent to Michael Fetters (1819-1875) of Burr Oak, Indiana and His Descendants. (Clearwater, Florida, 1998), pg. 9.)

Johan married Maria Catharina Weber on 2 Jul 1726 in Erpolzheim, Bavaria, Germany. Maria (daughter of Nicolaus Weber) was born about 1706 in Germany; died before 1788 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Johan Michael Fetter was born on 2 Dec 1727 in Freinsheim, Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany; died before 8 Dec 1789 in Frankstown Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
2. Anna Catharina Fetter was born on 9 Aug 1730 in Freinsheim, Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany; and died.

Other Events:

• Name: Nichol Vetter
• Name: Nickel Vetter

Notes:

The progenitors of many of the Fetters families residing in the United States today were Nicolaus (Nickel) and Maria Elisabetha Vetter of Freinsheim, Palatinate, Germany. Church records usually refer to Nicolaus by his nickname, Nickel or Nicol. Freinsheim church records were destroyed during the war of Orleans in 1688-89.

Children all born at Freinsheim.

Note: Veter in German means male cousin

Buried:
date unknown

Nicolaus married Maria Elisabetha _____ in 1693 in Freinsheim Pfaltz, Bayern, Germany. Maria was born on 18 Nov 1670 in Freinsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died on 4 Nov 1723 in Freinsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; was buried on 4 Nov 1723 in Freinsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Maria Elisabetha Vetter

Jakob married Anna Michel Bigery Rausmueller about 1644. Anna (daughter of Hans Jacob Rausmueller and Catharina Michel) was born in 1612 in Altenheim, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 8 Sep 1680 in Altenheim, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Konrad married Anna Maria Ronninger. Anna was born in 1590 in Dalsheim, Rhein, Hessen, Germany; died on 18 Nov 1650 in Dalsheim, Rhein, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 19 May 1590, Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, Deutschland

Hans married Catharina Michel in 1613 in Eppingen, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Catharina was born in 1597 in Eppingen, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 12 Jan 1667 in Mosbach, Baden, Preußen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]