Johann Adam Raudebaugh Reidenbach Radabaugh was born on December 4, 1725, in Otzweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Johann, was 28 and his mother, Anna Abolonia Riegel, was 25.<\/p>\n
In the decades before and after 1738, people from Europe were lured to America by transportation companies and land speculation.\u00a0 The Radabaughs came from what is known as the Palatinate, an area lying on the west side of the Rhine with its southern board resting on the part of France called Alsace-Lorrain.\u00a0 Many historian speculate that the Radabaughs originated as Huguenot of France.\u00a0 In 1738 many people of the Palatinate were leaving their homeland, traveling down the Rhine river some 300 miles to Rotterdam in Holland and embarking at that seaport on ships that would take them to America.\u00a0 The ship “Glasgow” departed Rotterdam and arrived in Philadelphia on\u00a09 September 1738 with 349 passengers on board.\u00a0 One passenger was Heinrich Radabaugh and was the first known Radabaugh on American shores .\u00a0 We don’t know if Henry was the father of Johan Adam Radabaugh but the fact that he named his first born son, Henry would lead us to believe that he was.<\/p>\n
Adam Johan Radabaugh Sr lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1744.\u00a0 The Radabaugh family settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.\u00a0 Berks County appears to be where Adam grew up, established himself, and married.\u00a0 He married Maria Barbara Fischer<\/a> on June 9, 1754, in Berks, Pennsylvania, when he was 28 years old.<\/p>\n There was a movement abroad among the Berks County colonists, to move further west.\u00a0 It is presumed that John Adam Sr and family decided to head for the vicinity of Lord Fairfax’ South Branch Manor in Hampshire County, Virginia and per census, Adam Johan Radabaugh Sr lived in Virginia in 1782.\u00a0 The census of 1782 was actually only a head count.\u00a0 The government wanted to know how many people it had and worked to get a count based on white and black.\u00a0 The rugged terrain of Hampshire County was no easy task.\u00a0 Adam Rodebaugh shows on the ‘Stump list’ as head of a family of nine.\u00a0 Those nine likely included Adam and Barbara<\/a> with the five youngest children, Catherine, 18; Peter, 17; Martin, 14; George, 12; and Adam, Jr., 10, plus daughter Mary about 20 with her Moyer husband.\u00a0 The other adult children can be located at other census counts.<\/p>\n They had land in Berks County, Pennsylvania that in 1786, after he and Barbara had moved to Hampshire County, Virginia, they wished to sell.\u00a0 Adam and Barbara<\/a> made a deed to John Rager for a tract of land and in 1789, they gave power of attorney to one Martin Fisher of Berks County to sell lands in Berks County.<\/p>\n Adam Sr and Barbara<\/a> settled two mountain ridges and one creek east of the Buzzard property.\u00a0 Their land was on the South Fork of the South Branch, 8 to 10 miles south of Moorefield and 7 or 8 miles east of Petersburg.\u00a0 Radabaugh Run in that vicinity was named for him.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Virginia’s Hampshire County was divided in 1786, the southern half, where the Radabaugh’s lived, became Hardy County.<\/p>\n Through the years, about 1758 to 1772 Adam and Barbara had eight know children.\u00a0 They were mentioned in Adam’s will as a daughter who married a Carshner and a daughter Barbara; Mary who married a Mawyers\/Moyers; a daughter who married Higher\/Hyer who had children Mary, Peter and Christian Hyer, and sons Henry, Peter, Martin, George and Adam<\/a>.\u00a0 Peter inherited the land or the South Fork on Adam’s death before 1806.\u00a0His will was drawn on 6 August 1802, probated on 10 September 1806 and the appraisal was recorded on 16 October 1806).\u00a0 His wife Barbara<\/a> was not mentioned in his will and so presumed deceased.\u00a0 Many descendants remain in the area.<\/p>\n Records in the DAR – A134371 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Johann Adam Raudebaugh Reidenbach Radabaugh was born on December 4, 1725, in Otzweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Johann, was 28 and his mother, Anna Abolonia Riegel, was 25. In the decades before and after 1738, people from Europe were lured to America by transportation companies and land speculation.\u00a0 The Radabaughs came from what is known … Continue reading Ancestor 144 Johann Adam Radabaugh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-745","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nService:
\nVIRGINIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
\nBirth:
\n12-4-1725 OTZWEILER GERMANY
\nDeath:
\nANTE 9-10-1806 HARDY CO VIRGINIA
\nService Source:
\nABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 2, P 452
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\n1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES<\/p>\n