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From: "Robert H. Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Ancestor Arrivals/Hausell-Trimmer
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:22:04 -0500


Johannes and Matthias TRIMMER were naturalized on December 8, 1744.
Andrew TRIMMER was naturalized on August 20, 1755.

Best, Bob Smith
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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Ancestor Arrivals/Hausell-Trimmer


> Hi,
> I am also so interested as my Johannes Trimmer settled in Amwell and
lived
> near the Hausells (Hausscheilt). Let me know what you find.
>
> My Johannes (born ~1700) seems to have arrived ~1730 here as his
eldest son
> Matthias (b. ~1723) wrote in beautiful German script while the
younger son
> Andreas did not. If I remember correctly from Chambers' Early
Germans of NJ,
> he and son were naturalized in NJ in 1749. I always wished we know
which
> boat they came over on. The German group in Amwell there all seemed
to be
> German Reformed (Deutsche Reformierten)(later merged into Dutch
Reformed
> (Ref. Church in Am.) and Presbyterians). Our oldest Trimmer family
Bible only
> goes back to 1802; have never been able to find out who has the
Johannes
> Trimmer Bible.
> Jones' book mentions the probably location in Germany of the
Trimmers as
> Neuwied on the Rhine (Neuwied am Rhein).
>
> Merry Christmas
> Robert Trimmer
> Germantown, MD
>
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