Leinbach Genealogy
    Johannes Leinbach (1712-1766)    North Carolina Branch
 
  
 

Ancestors
< 1 > Johannes Heinrich Leinbach (1649-1714) & Anna Barbara Lerch (1652-    )
< 1.1 > Johannes Leinbach (1674-1747) & Anna Elizabeth Kleiss (1680-1765)

Birth
< 1.1.4 > Johannes Leinbach was born on February 18, 1712 in Hochstadt, Wetterau, Germany.

Spouse
Anna Catharina Riehm (1716-1803)

Children
< 1.1.4.1 > Elisabeth Leinbach / Ranche(1736-1821)
< 1.1.4.2 > Frederich Leinbach (1737-1821)
< 1.1.4.3 > Maria Barbara Leinbach (1739-1788)
< 1.1.4.4 > Johann Gottlieb Leinbach (1740-    )
< 1.1.4.5 > Ludwig Leinbach (1743-1800)
< 1.1.4.6 > Abraham Leinbach (1744-1790)
< 1.1.4.7 > Benjamin Leinbach + (1746-1794)
< 1.1.4.8 > Joseph Leinbach + (1746-1746)
< 1.1.4.9 > Johanna Leinbach (1748-1749)
< 1.1.4.10 > Anna Johanna Leinbach /Schaub (1750-1833)
< 1.1.4.11 > Joseph Leinbach (1752-1824)
< 1.1.4.12 > Anna Catharina Leinbach / Peter (1755-1803)

Life
Johannes Leinbach came to America with his parents in 1723. On August 6, 1735, he married Anna Catharina Riehm. Johannes and Catharina became associated with the Moravians when they met Count Zinzendorf and his daughter Begigna in the early 1740's as they visited the Oley Valley. In 1746, they moved to the Moravian town of Bethlehem. Later they were sent by the Moravians to Germantown (near Philadelphia) to take care of the children's institution there. They returned to Bethlehem a year later. Upon returning to the Oley Valley sometime after 1748, they lived on a farm inherited from his father. (The stone house in which they lived, known today as the Leinback-Knabb House, still stands in a modified form.) Following his mother's death in 1765, Johannes decided to move to the new Moravian settlement of Wachovia in North Carolina. He died there after a stay of less than ten months.

  Please see also the Prologue for more about the life of Johannes Leinbach and his family.

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Death
Died on March 14, 1766 and was buried at a spot of his choosing, on a hill above his house. A modern tombstone containing much misinformation marks the spot in the Wolf Family Cemetery off the Mizpah Church Road in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

Genealogy
The generalogy by Donald J. Lineback includes considerably more detail and an extensive list of other related genealogies.

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