Leinbach Genealogy
    Maria Barbara Leinbach (1722-1810)
 
  
 

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

Birth
< 1.1.7 > Maria Leinbach was born on September 11, 1722 in Hochstadt, Wetterau, Germany.

Spouse
Frederich Martin (    -1750)

Children
< 1.1.7.1 > Joanna Elisabeth Martin (1746?-1747?)
< 1.1.7.2 > Agnes Martin / Cruickshank (1749?-    )

Spouse
David Nitschmann (1695-1772)

Children
< 1.1.7.3 > Anna Maria Nitschmann / Heckwelder (1746?-1747?)

Life
Maria Barabara Leinbach came to America with his parents in 1723. On December 13, 1742 she became the third wife of Frederich Martin, a Moravian missonary to the slaves in the Danish West Indies. On a visit to Herrnhaag in Germany during 1747, her young daughter, Johanna Elisabeth Martin, died of small pox at the Children's Institue there. When returning to the West Indies, Maria Barbara and her fellow passengers were captured by a "French Caper" and imprisoned for several weeks before being released with only the clothes on their back. In 1750, while living at Herrnhut, the Moravian settlement on St. Croix, her husband died suddenly. Upon returning to Bethlehem in 1752, she "served the children" until she married David Nitschmann, the widowed Moravian bishop, on September 7, 1754. They moved to Gnadenhutten, Pennsylvania but returned after about half a year to Bethlehem, just two days before the Indians burned the Moravian settlement there. Late in life, Maria Barbara suffered a facial injury which never properly healed and caused her a great deal of suffering for many years until her death.

Death
Died on January 20, 1810 and was buried in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Genealogy
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