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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 10 Oct 1703 prob Greenwich Twp / Berks / PA Death: 23 Nov 1787 prob Greenwich Twp / Berks / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Took Oath of Allegiance, Berks Co., PA, 03 Jul 1778
Additional References:
Oath of Fidelity to PA, pg 40
Spouse: Anna Margaret XX; Children: Johann Vincentz;
Johannes Dunckel, aka: Johannes Dunkel, was born on 10 October 1703 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. He arrived at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aboard the ship Thistle on 29 August 1730, with his mother Elizabeth Dunckel, and his first wife Anna Margaret (Diehl) Dunckel (1703-1781).
Johannes was the father of seven children: Kilian, Michael, Peter, Rosina, Eva Maria, Conrad, and a daughter who was the wife of John Graff. Johannes owned 100 acres of land prior to 1734 near Pennsburg in Hanover Township, Philadelphia County (now Montgomery County), Pennsylvania. he was an Elder of the Faulkner Swamp Reformed Church in 1742. He signed the letter of warning issued in 1742 by Reverand John Philip Boehm, father of the German Reformed Church in America, against the unity movement. In 1746 he was the Overseer of the Poor in Hanover Township. In the same year, he moved to Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
During the Revolutionary War, Johannes Dunckel took the Oath of Allegiance to the state of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778, in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
After the death of his first wife, he married Anna Catherine [surname unknown] on 2 September 1781. Johannes was a farmer in Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He died at his homestead in Greenwich Township on 23 November 1787. He and his first wife are buried at the Dunkel’s Church Cemetery, near Virginville, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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