Brief Life History of Johannes
When Johannes Biehn was born in 1652, in Württemberg, his father, Johans Georg Biehn, was 25 and his mother, Margaretha Biehn, was 23. He married Gerdrut Kampes on 22 February 1700, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died in April 1747, in Providence Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Skippack Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Birth
- Marriage to Marieke "Mary" VanFossen
- Johanne Biehn, "Find A Grave Index"
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1683
"In 1683, thirteen families from the lower Rhine River arrived at Philadelphia aboard the Concord, on October 6, 1683. These families were primarily linen weavers, but also knew how to farm. These first German immigrants left their homeland of Germany because of persecution they experienced as religious Anabaptist Mennonite and Quakers from the Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed Churches. They settled on farms in the vicinity of Perkiomen Creek and Skippack Creek, up to a point where travel by boat became impossible because of shallow water. This point is where Skippack Creek crosses Skippack Pike in Skippack Township. The origin of the name ""Skippack"" came from early German settlers, they originally spelled it Schippach, named after a town of the same name in Bavaria. Skippack Township was originally named ""Van Bebber's Township"" after Matthias van Bebber, to whom the original land patent was issued in 1702 by William Penn. The name later changed to ""Skippack and Perkiomen Township"" until the township was split."
1722
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Name Meaning
German:
possibly a habitational name from any of several places called Bienen (Lower Rhine) or from Biene near Lingen.
variant of Bien .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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