His birth date is given in some sources as , which would make him Margaretha's son, but he didn't die until , and his children seem to be born in the s and s, suggesting that perhaps he too was one of Sarah's children. Coming to America on the ship, "Molly", witht heir infant son who died on the voyage, to Pennsylvania for a few years, moved on to Maryland for a short while and finally settling in North Carolina in Buried Martin Hauser Jr.
A chart of this Hauser ancestry is available here. They arrived in Philadelphia aboard the ship Molly on 30 September Their first child, an infant son named Martin, died on the voyage across the Atlantic. Their son Georg was born at Conshohocken in They then moved to near the Berkiana River, Pennsylvania, where another son Michael Hauser was born in After seven years,they moved again to Conewago now in York County, Pennsylvania , where they remained for six more years.
Two more sons were born there, Georg Peter in and Daniel in A daughter Barbara was probably born between and Around , the Hauser family moved a few milessouth into Maryland. In , the two oldest Hauser sons, Georg and Michael, started out in search of new land in western Carolina. In October , Georg and Michael began their journey back to Maryland just two months before a party of Moravians arrived in North Carolina to begin their settlement of Wachovia in what was to become Forsyth County.
They lived near the Moravian settlers for the next several years. By , the pressures of the frontier and the French and Indian Wars convinced Martin Hauser and most of his family to join the Moravians in building a newtown that was to be called Bethania.
Martin, his son Georg, and Georg's wife Margaretha were among the first outsiders received into the church. Martin Hauser died in Bethania in , followed by his wife 14 years later. Many of today's residents of that part of North Carolina can trace their ancestry to this Hauser family. A study of this family shows how the population of post-Revolutionary America increased so quickly.
Martin Hauser and Maria Margaretha Schaefer had 8 children, 64 grandchildren, and well over great-grandchildren. Here are listings of known descendants through six generations. His first son Martin died along the way. The ship had left Rotterdam in the summer of It is thought that Martin paid his way by working as a carpenter. He did not suffer indenture so he must have paid his way. He initially settled at Conshohocken to the Northwest of Philadelphia where Margaretha found her mother Barbara living with the Mennonites.
After 7 years he crossed the Susquehanna to the Conowago River, south of York. He stayed here for 8 years and moved south into the colony of Maryland and took up land from the agent of Lord Baltimore.
He was now 50 years old and tried farming. On October 22, the Hausers arrived in Yadkin Valley and settled on land his son Michael had bought earlier. Ancestors and History on Europe: Colmar, in Alsace, now France, is the oldest known town of origin for the family.
One of the ten imperial cities of Alsace, it had won the right of self-government under the protection of the Holy Roman Empire when Matthias Hauser was born there on September 10, Living fifty-three years and becoming the owner of a vineyard, he was well enough known in Colmar to be a member of the town government.
On January 25, , when he was thirty-two, his son Hans Georg, who was to become Martin's father,was born. Around , Hans Georg left Colmar and moved to Reichenweier, a smaller but fortified castle-town eight kilometers to the northwest.
There in , he married Martha Froehlich, who died within two years. In he was wedded again, but soon after suffered the death of his second wife. Finally, in , he married the young Susanna Burckhardt, the daughter of the castle warden. Through her, another significant family line was passed to their son, Martin, who was born on November 11, , in Reichenweier.
Known today as Riquewihr, Reichenweier, at the foot of the Vosges Mountains, fifteen miles from the Rhine, and in the heart of the Alsatian wine country, has a long and dramatic history. On the Schonenberg, a steep-rising hill immediately north of the town are remains of Roman construction, indicating that a garrison from ancient Rome maintained a watchtower in the vicinity on the road into Gaul France.
Studies of the symmetrical city plan lead scholars to believe that the town itself is built on Roman foundations. If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below.
Want to Read. Delete Note Save Note. Buy this book Better World Books When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. Share this book Facebook. October 13, History. An edition of Alsatian-American family Hauser Five years later they moved to a farm they named Hesperia, near Wadley, Jefferson County, where they remained for the rest of their lives and were buried. The couple had three children: Carolina Elizabeth m. While residing in Burke County, Ga.
Between and he contributed seven articles to the Oglethorpe Medical and Surgical Journal , serving as assistant editor for sixteen months during this period.
He had performed similar duties in for a humorous medical journal, the Georgia Blister and Critic. During the —60 school year, he was professor of physiology and pathology at the Oglethorpe Medical College in Savannah.
Hauser joined the Methodist church in He is said to have served as a local or supply preacher during much of his life. A Southern patriot, he enlisted in the Confederate Army at age fifty and served for ten months as a chaplain in the Forty-eighth Regiment of Georgia Volunteers, until he was severely wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville.
The physician-preacher is remembered, however, for his work as a musician. Though trained only in rural singing schools and spending most of his life as a country doctor, he built a sizable library of musical publications—journals, encyclopedias, treatises on musical theory, the scores of operas and oratorios, anthologies of songs, and instruction books for the violin, flute, and banjo.
This collection was the basis for a series of thirty-eight essays he wrote for publication in the Greens-borough N. Times from to More importantly, Hauser was a shape-note singing master and composer. His compositions are printed with those of many other rural musicians in two tunebooks he edited, The Hesperian Harp and The Olive Leaf These volumes were well known in the rural South.
In the United States, the name Hauser is the 2, nd most popular surname with an estimated 12, people with that name. Digital Products on Checkout, all other products filled in 1 business day. Wishlist To Cart Details. Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Hauser Settlers in United States in the 17th Century William Hauser, who arrived in Maryland in Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about , passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
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