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The Tree - Person Sheet
NameJohan Pieter Overbagh
Birthca 1680, Wölferlingen, Westerwaldkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death14 Sep 1734, West Camp, Ulster, New York, USA
MotherAnna Margaretha (1655-1720)
Misc. Notes
Name, year and place of birth, date and place of first marriage to Anna, date and place of death, from research file54 in June 2019.

Entry in Family Data Collection, found in June 2019:
Name: Johann Pieter Overbagh
Death Date: 14 Sep 1734
City: Kingston
County: Ulster
State: NY
Country: USA

Country of marriage from the US and International Marriage records, found in June 2019:
Name: Johann Pieter Overbagh
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Ge
Birth Year: 1680
Spouse Name: Maria Christina Anthoni
Spouse
Birth Place: Ge
Spouse Birth Year: 1682
Marriage State: Ge [Germany]
Number Pages: 1

Three Overbagh brothers emigrated to America in the Palentine Emigration in 1709 - 1710 with their families. They arrived in 1710. Here is an extract from “Olde Ulster - An Historical and Genealogical Magazine”, 1906, Volume II:
Christian Meyer and his wife were from Wolferlingen, a village about six miles northeast from Coblenz in the Palatinate, on the west side of the Rhine. With them came Johan Jurge (George) Overbagh, Johan Pieter Overbagh, Peter Overbagh, Jurry (George) Snyder, John William Snyder and their familes.
The village of Wolferlingen on a present day map of Germany is found to be thirty kilometres (approximately 18 1/2 miles) to the northeast of Koblenz (Coblenz).

German Palatines in Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Palatines
The German Palatines were early 18th-century emigrants from the Middle Rhine region of the Holy Roman Empire, including a minority from the Palatinate which gave its name to the entire group. They were both Protestant and Catholic. Towards the end of the 17th century and into the 18th, the wealthy region was repeatedly invaded by French troops, which resulted in continuous military requisitions, widespread devastation and famine. The "Poor Palatines" were some 13,000 Germans who migrated to England between May and November 1709. Their arrival in England, and the inability of the British Government to integrate them, caused a highly politicized debate over the merits of immigration. The English tried to settle them in England, Ireland and the Colonies.
The Palatine settlements did not prove to be viable in the long term, except for those settled in County Limerick and County Wexford in Ireland and in the colony of New York in British North America. In Ireland, fewer than 200 families remained after the original settlement in 1709. Nevertheless, they maintained their distinctive culture until well into the nineteenth century and Palatine surnames are now diffused across the country.[1] The largest concentration of descendants of Irish Palatine residents lives around Rathkeale, Co Limerick.
The English transported nearly 3,000 German Palatines in ten ships to New York in 1710. Many of them were first assigned to work camps along the Hudson River to work off their passage. Close to 850 families settled in the Hudson River Valley, primarily in what are now Germantown and Saugerties, New York. In 1723, 100 heads of families from the work camps were the first Europeans to acquire land west of Little Falls, New York, in present-day Herkimer County on both the north and south sides along the Mohawk River. Later additional Palatine Germans settled along the Mohawk River for several miles, founding towns such as Palatine and Palatine Bridge, and in the Schoharie Valley.
Spouses
Birth18 Oct 1671, Germany
Death2 May 1707, Nordhofen, Biberach, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Marriage10 Jan 1704, Nordhofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Birthca 1682, Germany
Death1732, Catskill, Greene County, New York, USA
MarriageGermany
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