Dominie John Jacob Ehle and His DescendantsEnterprise and News, 1930 - 51 էջ Johannes Jacobus (John Jacob) Ehle was born in Germany ca. 1690 and attended school at Heidelberg. His family emigrated from the Palentinate and went to England where John Jacob was ordained to the ministry in 1722. Shortly after his ordination he immigrated to New York and settled first at Albany. There he married Johanna Van Slyck in 1723. They migrated to Schoharie where he took up his pastorate. He died at age 97 and was buried in the Frey burial place, near the present Palatine Bridge, New York. Descendants of his only son, Petrus Ehle, to ca. 1900, lived in New York and elsewhere. Record chiefly follows male lines. |
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