When Johan Jost Wigandt Sr. was born on 24 October 1717, in Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire, his father, Johan Jacob Wygandt, was 38 and his mother, Anna Catharina Magsamen, was 32. He married Maria Barbara Schaffner on 14 April 1744, in Freinsheim, Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in 1750. He died in October 1761, in New Goshenhoppen Church, Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in At Sea.
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German: variant of Wiegand .
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