Daughter of: Johann Christopher SCHWEITZER (b. 1686, Assenheim1, Germany, d. 1775, Court Matrix, County Limerick, Ireland) m. Catherine Elizabeth (RUTTLE or RUCKLE) (b. Assenheim, Germany, d. Court Matrix, County Limerick, Ireland).
1A few miles north-east of Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, Germany.
2Born: 1728 in Ireland. Died: 1773 in Camden Valley, NY, near current Bennington, Vermont
3Born: 1742, Ballingrane, Ireland. Died: 1822, Augusta Township, ON.
- Information from:
Denis Jones, Carol-Anne Eldridge, Doug Norman, Kenneth Engle.
- Picture from:
http://www.drew.eedu/books/200years/gallery/gallery.htm
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In 1709 the Schweitzer family fled the religious persecution and wars that had plagued the Rhine valley. They and other German refugee families were placed on the Thomas Southwell estate at Rathkeale near Limerick, Ireland by the British and Irish Parliaments. After the lease period ended many of the young descendants left for North America. 1(Forty passengers in the ship "Pery" under Captain Hogan sailing from Balingrane, Ireland to New York, NY, arriving August, 1760. Among the passengers were Ruckle, Embury, Switzer and Lorentz(Lawrence)). Margaret (Switzer) Embury was one of the 1760 group.
A portion of the Switzer lineage originated in south west Germany, then spent fifty years in Ireland before appearing in North America.
Margaret's first husband Philip Embury was one of the founders of the Methodist church in North America before he died in 1773. She married John Lawrence in 1775. They were Loyalists and moved to Montreal during the American Revolution, then settled near Prescott, Ontario.
-From Denis Jones
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1Source: "To Their Heirs Forever" by Eula C. Lapp
FROM: http://www.genealogy.org/~palam/ia_index.htm
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Corporal Philip Switzer of Jessup's Loyal Rangers, son of Peter and nephew of Margaret Switzer Embury Lawrence, received land grants at Ernesttown in Addington County: Lot 14-Con 2, Lot 3-Con 3, Lot 11-Con 6 and Lot 17-Con 3, totalling 400 acres.
Sergeant David Emberry(Embury), brother-in-law of Margaret Switzer Embury Lawrence, received land grants at Fredricksburg in Lennox County: Lots 1 and 5-Con 5 additional and Lot 5-Con 2 additional, totalling 300 acres.
WEB HUNTING
PALATINE NAMES, NY:
http://www.fortklock.com/names.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/history/pala.html
IRISH PALATINES, 1720:
http://www.local.ie/content/28303.shtml
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hartrickclan/article1.htm
http://www.teskey.org/palhist.html