Tenth Generation

628. Johan Georg MOSIER¹⁸⁶ was born on 30 November 1684 in Rheinbischofsheim, Baden, Germany. They immigrated on the Adventure in 1732, together with Georg's brother Michael Moser, his wife Susanna and children Simon, Jerack (Georg), Anna Barbara and Anna Maria. Also on the Adventure was Leonard Moser (1718-1782). Most Moser family materials state that Leonard was the son of Georg and Eva, but there seems to be very little evidence to support this apart from arrival on the same ship. Adam and Martin Moser, who arrived on the James Goodwill in 1728, are also usually identified as sons of Johann Georg and Eva but are likewise questionable. Moravian records from 1773, as well as a Davidson County court deposition in 1837 by John Beck, age 77, do support the notion that Leonard and Adam were brothers.

629. Eva Mae ECKERSWEILLER¹⁸⁶ was born about 1685 in Rothenburgishen, Germany. She died on 5 October 1762 at the age of 77 in New Hanover, Montgomery Co., PA. Some say her name was Eva Ebert.

Children were:

i.
Tobias MOSIER was born on 6 August 1702 in Bavaria, Germany. He died in 1734 at the age of 32 in New Hanover, Montgomery Co., PA.
ii.
Magdalena MOSIER was born in 1704 in Germany. She died in PA.
iii.
Johann Martin MOSER was born in 1706 in Strassberg, Alsace, Germany.⁴²⁴ He died in 1742 at the age of 36 in Goshenhoppen, Montgomery Co., PA.⁴²⁴ One source says he died in New Hanover, Berks Co., PA.
Came to America on the ship "James Goodwill" on Sept 11, 1728. this is the same ship the Clapp's came on a year earlier.
iv.
Christina MOSIER was born about 1708 in Nordheim, Heilbronn, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. She died on 24 March 1761 at the age of 53 in Hereford, Berks Co., PA.
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v.
Johan Adam MOSER.
vi.
Paulus MOSIER was born about 1712 in Germany. He died about 1780 at the age of 68 in PA. He was considered an "Adventurer" in 1732.
vii.
Leonard MOSER⁴²³ was born about 1714 in Rheinbischofsheim, Baden, Germany. He signed a will in 1782 in Surry Co., NC.⁴²³ Leonard's will names sons Leonard, John, Peter, Jacob, Michael, Francis, Samuel, Christian, and Henry; daughters Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth and Christina. Leonard Jr. received only one shilling, probably consistent with his remaining in Maryland.
He died on 17 July 1782 at the age of 68 in Grassy Creek, Surry Co., NC. Leonard Moser lived in Lancaster Co. PA and Frederick Co. MD early on, and married Maria Kocher in 1744 at the Middletown Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick Co. (at the time part of Prince George's County). He and his second wife Sarah Binckele joined Graceham Moravian Church in Frederick Co. Leonard came to Wachovia in the summer of 1773 to look at land, and appears on the 1774 Surry County tax list, in the region that later became Stokes and eventually Forsyth County.
Leonard Jr. and Michael, and possibly some of the other older children, seem to have remained in Maryland when their parents moved to NC. After Leonard's death in 1782, his widow Sarah married Edward Nathaniel Bartley. Her rapid remarriage may have been prompted by a court order that she have her children bound out, and she seems to have sent the two youngest sons, Henry and John, to Maryland at this time. Henry testified on the pension application filed by Michael Moser's widow in 1856 that he married in Maryland before he and Michael left for NC in the autumn of 1790. John Moser was also back in NC by at least 1795, when he married Polly Smith.
viii.
Eva Barbara MOSIER was born about 1716 in Germany.
ix.
Hannah Margaret MOSIER was born about 1718 in Germany.
x.
Simon MOSIER was born about 1721 in Germany.
xi.
Hans Miere MOSIER was born about 1723 in Germany.