MARGRETHA BRANDT
THE STORY AS I KNOW IT
Margretha Brandt was born about 1730 to Philip
Brandt
and Elizabeth
maiden
name unknown.
She was the third of six known children, from The Brandt family files of
Montgomery County PA.
Philip Brandt
immigranted to Pennsylvania before 1734,
probably with his wife and young children.
They settled
near New
Hanover, now
Montgormery County just north and west of
Philadelphia. She was raised on a farm near
Swamp Creek
and was
part of the Lutheran Reformed Congregation.
Margretha married
Cassimer
Missimer in
1751. Records are
from the Trappe Lutheran
Church in Trappe PA.
Cassimer owned a farm in what
became Lower
Pottsgrove
Township. For four years, 1762 to
1766 he
rented two lots on York St. in Pottstown. It
is not known
what use he put them to. There is also another
record that Casper
Mesmer had a Deed AA2,
Lancaster
County Page 118, dated Dec. 11, 1760 for 270
acres in Brecknock
township, which is about
20 miles west of Pottstown.
This needs to be checked. Did he actually own 2
farms or was
there another man with a similar name at the same time in
history.
Margretha and Cassimer had the following children: from Bulletin of
Historical Soceity
of Montogmery County, vol 9, page 135, "Early Residents
and Land
Transfers in Pottstown."
1. John born
July
11,1752 - wed
Elizabeth Yost,
and died Dec 10, 1807
2. Henry born Aug
16,
1754 - wed Susannah
Schultze
and died May 16, 1837
3. Jacob
born Jan 10,
1757 - wed Magdalena,
maybe Yost and
died Nov. 9, 1812
4. Maria Catherine
- wed
Johannes Leidner
5. Elizabeth
6. Benjamin,
born Sept
16, 1764 - wed Elizabeth
and
died Sept 16, 1840
7. Frederick
born Feb.
23, 1766 - wed Elizabeth
Kreider
8. Hannah born
June 4,
1772
9. John
George
born May
30, 1777 - wed Elizabeth
Thomas and
died Jan 17, 1853
10. Margaret it
was believed
she never married.
I have copies of portraits of Cassimer
Messimer and Margaretha
Brandt
Messimer. It is possible they are wedding
portraits.
Each person stands on their own. Maragetha has a
flower in her
hand. Both are neat, perhaps small people, well
dressed and they
look quite elegant. They have been in the colection
for a long
time. It is not known where they came from. That
needs to be
found. If you would like a copy. CONTACT US The
quality is not
good, but they are easy to get the features.
Margaretha Brandt
Missimer
died Oct. 26, 1806. She would have be 76 years
old. She is
buried in the Zion
Reform
Cemetery on North Hanover st., Pottstown.
She has a marker
in German script. There are many graves of the Missimer
family here. Cassimer
died in 1812. It is
assumed he is also in this cemetery but I don't have
record of
that. There is now a large memorial plaque on a
brick wall, that
lists the known people buried there, 18 Missimers are
listed, Cassimer
is not one of them.
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