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arriving in Philadelphia, 09 Oct 1747 aboard the ship "Restoration"
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Author: Richard L. Wenner
Johann Christian Dracker/Trauger was born March 30, 1728, in Bickenbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, the son of Johann Adam Dracker (or Drocker?) and his wife, Maria Catherina.
The original German last name, Dracker/Drocker, was eventually Americanized to Drauger and later to Trauger.
He immigrated to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in America, arriving in Philadelphia on October 9, 1747, aboard the ship "Restoration." Christian settled in Shippack in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and about 1767, he bought a farm in Nockamixon Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Circa 1750, he married his wife, Anna Barbara Stein (1729-1821). Some researchers have her maiden name as Lumborn or Lamborn, but this may have been confused with their daughter, Elizabeth Barbara Trauger Laubenstein.
Christian and Anna Barbara were the parents of 10 children, six sons four daughters: Anna Barbara, John, Ludwig William, Elizabeth Barbara, Christopher, Philip, Catharina, John Frederick, Anna Maria and John Christian Trauger.
He fought in the American Revolution serving as a private in the Nockamixon Company (Bucks County, PA) under Captain Jacob Shoope.
Christian passed away January 11, 1811, in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and was buried in St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Ferndale, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Compatriot Richard L. Wenner is the seventh generation of the Trauger family in America. My great grandmother, Mary Jane Trauger, who married William Trauch, produced a daughter, Mary Trauch. Mary Trauch married John George Wenner and their second son, Robert Lawrence Wenner, Sr., is my father.
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