Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania

My cousin Ray Tombaugh was on a trip in June, and was able to visit the area near Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania. The Tombaugh family lived in this area since at least 1785, when George Tombaugh received a "land patent" for the Haw Bottom Tract. He was kind enough to send me the pictures below:


Pic 1: The entrance to the cemetery at the former site of the Dunkard Church.  Supposedly some old ladies from Ohio pay to have it taken care of by one of the local farmers.


Pic 2:  The Leattherman Covered Bridge - down the road from the cemetery.


Pic 3: Tombaugh Homestead


Pic 4: Headstone of Solomon and Lydia Letherman Tombaugh, Parents of Leon H. Tombaugh.


Pic 5: Headstone of Rachel Spohn Tombaugh, wife of Mathias Tombaugh. Mathias's stone was overturned.


Pic 6: Headstone of Eli and Rebecca (Wise) Tombaugh


Pic 7:  Headstone of John Tombaugh


Pic 8: Home of John Tombaugh


Pic 9: Lethermen Homestead: Original graves are up at the top of the hill.


Pic 10:  The Century Inn at Scenery Hill, owned by Tombaughs during the Victorian period.

Johannes Jacob Dambach

I'm confident from my research that our original immigrant ancestor was named Johannes Jacob Dambach, not Tannbach. This is based on a combination of immigration and church records. He is referred to by the later Anglicized version of the name as John Jacob Tombaugh in the "Tombaugh History" book.

I also believe that he was married twice. Immigration records show his wife as Maria Helena, and there is a record of marriage in 1738, after his arrival, to Maria Elizabetha Seyboldt, who was most likely form Holland. I'm guessing that his first wife, Maria Helena, was likely from the same area in Germany as Johannes Jacob. You'll notice how the records listed below have a variety of spellings of the names.

I would love to find out if there are any burial records for Maria Helena Dambach, around 1735 - 1738, at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster. My guess is that she died during or shortly after child birth with Jacob, at about that time.

I've also found this article on the Lancaster Historical Society website that seems to be a close match to the property records for our (Hans) Jacob Dambach. I think that they have the date wrong on this page, but if you follow the "Chain of Title" page its correct...

Paraphrasing from the "Tombaugh History" says: Our earliest known immigrant ancestor left Germany for Friesland, Holland for a few years before coming to the colonies on the ship Albany in 1728. He possibly lived in Philadelphia from 1728 until perhaps 1738. The marriage record below is from 1738 in Lancaster, and the Tombaugh history states that he owned property in Lancaster from 1742 until his death in 1758. The Lancaster Historical Society article shows that he was deeded the Duke Street property in 1745, so there was another property that he acquired in 1742.

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1728 Albany
[List 7 A, B] Albany
Captain: Lazarus Oxman
From: Rotterdam
By Way of: Portsmouth
Arrival: Philadelphia, 4 Sep 1728
30 Palatine men and their families, making in all about 100 persons.

Johann Jacob Dambach
Maria Helena
Johann Philip Adam, 7
Fridrich Marcell, 5
Frederica Elisabetha, 2
from: Ittlingen, Baden
To Lancaster, PA.
Bur1983
alternate spelling: Danbach
Departure: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Arrival: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Johann Jacob Dambach
Ship: Albany
Year: 1728
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Family Members:
Wife: Maria Helena Dambach
Daughter: Frederica Elisabetha;
Son: Johann Philip Adam;
Son: Fridrich Marcell
Source Publication Code: 1031.8
Primary Immigrant: Dambach, Johann Jacob
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of naturalization. Span indicates period between last mention of emigrant in country of origin and first mention of his residence in the New World. "Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname.
Source Bibliography: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. 461p.
Page: 86
Source Citation: Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1728; Page Number: 86.
Source Information: Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

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Church records show a marriage after his arrival, so presumably his first wife died early, and he remarried?

Pennsylvania Church Records - Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881
Marriage Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever
about Johannes Jacob Dambach and Maria Elizabetha Seyboldt Dambach
Name: Johannes Jacob Dambach
Date: 21 Mar 1738
Event: Marriage
Relation: Groom
LOCATION: Lancaster, Lancaster CO., PA
Church: Records of Rev. Stoever
Record_ID: 315756
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania Church Records - Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: Extracted from microfilmed transcriptions of the original church records. The microfilmed records are located at the Family History Library.


Data Source: Pennsylvania, Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages
May 20, 2008 10:18:52 PM MDT

Marriage Date: 21 Mar 1738
Groom: Johannes Jacob Dambach
Bride: Maria Elizabetha Seyboldt
Location: Lancaster
Early Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages in Southeastern Pennsylvania

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data: Early Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, USA: n.p., 1896.

Description:
Collection of some Lutheran Church records from southeastern Pennsylvania before 1896.

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Johannes Jacob Dambach’s will lists “Bernard Hubley” as an executor. Bernhard Hubley was listed as an elder of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1766

from: 200th anniversary corner-stone laying 1761-1961, the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

About this book

Source: Original data: 200th anniversary corner-stone laying 1761-1961, the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lancaster, Pa.?: unknown, 1980.

Notes:
Cover title.
Flor Peeters organ recital program tipped in.
Preface signed: Wallace E. Fisher.

Subjects:
Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity (Lancaster, Pa.) -- Anniversaries, etc.
Lancaster (Pa.) -- Church history.
Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County -- Lancaster

Location:
Lancaster (Pa.) -- Church history.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Hans Jacob Donbach
Name: Hans Jacob Donbach
Year: 1728
Place: Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 1330.1
Primary Immigrant: Donbach, Hans Jacob
Annotation: Date of arrival or date of oath of allegiance and port of arrival. Name of ship and other historical information may also be provided.
Source Bibliography: COUSINS, ELIZABETH. Immigrants Into Pennsylvania, September 1727-September 1732. np: Pathfinders, nd. 51p.
Page: 7

Source Citation: Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1728; Page Number: 7.
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Hans Jacob Donbach
Name: Hans Jacob Donbach
Year: 1728
Place: Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 1804
Primary Immigrant: Donbach, Hans Jacob
Annotation: Taken from original manuscripts in the state archives. Names given throughout pages 1-677. Foreigners arriving in Pennsylvania named on pages 521-667. No. 3776, Kelker, supplements this.
Source Bibliography: EGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, editor Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2, vol. 17.) Harrisburg [PA]: E.K. Meyers, 1890. 787p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967.
Page: 14

Source Citation: Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1728; Page Number: 14.
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Hans Jacob Donbach
Name: Hans Jacob Donbach
Year: 1728
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 7820
Primary Immigrant: Donbach, Hans Jacob
Annotation: An index by Marvin V. Koger, Index to the Names of 30,000 Immigrants...Supplementing the Rupp, Ship Load Volume, 1935, 232p. is inferior to Wecken's index in the third edition (above). Page 449 contains "Names of the First Palatines in North Carolina, as
Source Bibliography: RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia, Chronologically Arranged, Together with the Necessary Historical and Other Notes, also, an Appendix Containing Lists of More Than One Thousand German and French Names in New York prior to 1712. Leipzig [Germany]:
Page: 57

Source Citation: Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1728; Page Number: 57.
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Hans Jacob Donbach
Name: Hans Jacob Donbach
Year: 1728
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 9041
Primary Immigrant: Donbach, Hans Jacob
Annotation: Contains 29,800 names, with annotations written by Krebs (see no. 4203). Various references to the names in Strassburger will be found in other listings, mostly where authors have attempted to line up their information with that in Strassburger. This work
Source Bibliography: STRASSBURGER, RALPH BEAVER. Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Edited by William John Hinke. Norristown [PA]: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1964. Repr. 1983. Vol. 1. 1727-1775. 776p.
Page: 21

Source Citation: Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1728; Page Number: 21.
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Jacob Danbach
Name: Jacob Danbach
Year: 1728
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 6665
Primary Immigrant: Danbach, Jacob
Annotation: Lists Palatines arriving in Pennsylvania between 1718 and 1742. Note that the first printing of vol. 3, 1840, has been used in no. 2048, Filby and Meyer. Also in no. 717, Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, Pennsylvania and Delaware, pp. 48-86; and printed in pa
Source Bibliography: PENNSYLVANIA (COLONY). PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, from the Organization to the Termination of the Proprietary Government. (Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, vols. 3-4.) Harrisburg, PA: State of Pennsylvania, Theo Fenn & Co. Vol. 3 (1840), containing the Proceedings of the Council from May 31, 1717, to January 23, 1735-1736, pp. 299-301, 303-305, 307, 346-348, 350-351, 390-392, 409-411, 414, 436-437, 440-442, 444, 457, 460-461, 483
Page: 348

Source Citation: Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1728; Page Number: 348.
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Jacob Danbach
Name: Jacob Danbach
Year: 1728
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 717
Primary Immigrant: Danbach, Jacob
Source Bibliography: BOYER, CARL, 3RD, editor Ship Passenger Lists, Pennsylvania and Delaware (1641-1825). Newhall, Calif.: the editor, 1980. 289p. 4th pr. 1986. Reprint. Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD, 1992.
Page: 54

Source Citation: Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1728; Page Number: 54.
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

Some Updates for the New Year

OK, so I've realized that its been a long time since I've posted anything...

Many of my last posts were reviews of wines, and I haven't posted any of those for a long time, either... While I've continued to enjoy German Rieslings, I have generally been buying the same ones that I have already reviewed. I have continued to see variations in the Saint M -- some have been good, some have been not so good... I've seen some variation in the Schlink Haus as well, but not as much. Also, we've been able to see that the Schlink Haus has changed the into on their label when they are different. Of all of the inexpensive German Rieslings, it seems that the Schmitt Söhne is the most consistent.

I also had a long post about our experiences with eBay and their collection agency. After sending all of the documentation that I could find to both of them, I have heard nothing. From either party... I'm assuming that no news is good news, and that they will be leaving us alone now.

I have also been thinking that the blog might be a good venue for sharing some of my genealogy research. A few months ago, I found some information on someone else's blog, and thought it was an interesting idea. I've just emailed a few things to some family members, and thought that it would make a good start here as well.