Gottfried Orwig and Clara [Unk]

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Husband Gottfried Orwig ¹

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            AKA: Godfrey Orwig 2
           Born: 24 Aug 1719 - ? Brunswick, Germany 1
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Wife Clara [Unk] ³

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           Born: 26 Jan 1716 1
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           Died: 5 Jan 1788 1
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Children

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1 F Catharine Orwig ¹

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           Born: 4 Dec 1748 1
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2 M Peter Orwig ¹

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           Born: 8 Jul 1750 - Maiden Creek, Berks Co, PA 1
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           Died: Abt 1807 - Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co, PA
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         Spouse: Hannah Webb (      -      ) 1

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3 F Maria Orwig ¹

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           Born: 19 Dec 1751 1
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4 M Henry Orwig ¹

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           Born: 6 Dec 1753 - Maiden Creek, Berks Co, PA 1
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           Died: 18 Dec 1836 1
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Haring (      -      ) 1

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5 F Elizabeth Orwig ¹

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           Born: 8 Oct 1756 1
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6 M George Orwig ³

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           Born: 11 Mar 1758 - Maiden Creek, Berks Co, PA 3
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           Died: 2 Mar 1841 - Mifflinburg, Union Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Mifflinburg, Union Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Magdalene Gilbert (1758-1841) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Gottfried Orwig

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He was born, it is supposed, in Brunswick, Germany, and qualified at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1741, arriving from Rotterdam in the ship "St. Andrew," Charles Stedman, master. His age is given as twenty-two, which corresponds to the tombstone record at Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. He went to Germany, and brought his wife, Clara, over in 1843.

He and his wife settled in 1743 at Maiden Creek, near Reading, Pennsylvania, on lands purchased from the Iroquois Indians, but afterward removed to Sculp Hill, near Orwigsburg, in Schuylkill County. During the Revolutionary war a company of old men was organized (Germans), eighty in all. Their captain was nearly one hundred years old, and in a history of Pennsylvania the names of this company are given, and Gotfried is among them.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1073.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 856.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 856, 1073.