• General Notes

  Dielman Kolb was born in 1648. He resided in Wolfsheim in Baden, Germany. He died in 1712, aged 64 years. He is buried at Manheim, Germany. Dielman married Agnes Schumacher, daughter of Peter Schumacher who came to America in 1685. Peter Schumacher was a Mennonite, but later united with the Friends. He came from Kriesheim and died in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1707. Agnes (Schumacher) Kolb died in 1705, aged 53 years and is buried at Wolfsheim. Dielman and Agnes had at least seven children, perhaps ten. A 1685 census in Wolfsheim shows them with 5 sons and 2 daughters. Five or six of the sons came to America and at least two grandsons. Children:
  
  More About Peter Schumacher:
  Immigration: 1685, to America92
  Religion: Mennonite, later united with the Friends (Quakers)92
       
  Children of Peter Schumacher and Sarah Hendricks are:
    5937 i.   Agnes Schumacher, born 1652 in Wolfsheim, Pfaltz, Germany; died February 17, 1704/05 in Wolfsheimin, Pfaltz, Germany; married Dielman (Thielman) Edward Kolb Abt. 1680 in Wolfsheim, Baden, Germany.
     ii.   Unknown Schumacher, born Abt. 1655 in Wolfsheim, Baden, Germany92; died Unknown in Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Maryland92; married Reyneir Hermans Van Burklow; died Unknown.
     iii.   Peter Schumacher, Jr., born Abt. 1657; died Unknown.
     iv.   Mary Schumacher, born Abt. 1658; died Unknown.
     v.   Fronica Frances Schumacher, born Abt. 1661; died Unknown.
     vi.   Gertrude Schumacher, born Abt. 1664; died Unknown.
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       After converting to the Quaker faith about 1659, Peter and brother George and others known as the Kreigsheim Quakers resisted a religous tax.  Seven men were jailed with heavy confiscations made on their property.  Eight cows were taken. George and Peter each lost a bedstead, possibly the main furniture they had brought up the Rhine when expelled from their ancestral home.
       - "Maintaining the Right Fellowship"  by John L. Ruth -
  
       "Peter Schumacher sailed for Pennsylvania in the "Francis and Dorothy" from London, October 16, 1685, with his son Peter and daughters Mary, Frances and Gertrude and his niece Sarah, daughter of his brother George.  Both he and his son, Peter, Jr., were prominent in the affairs of Germantown [PA], and the latter has many descendants in Bucks and Montgomery Counties and elswhere."
       - "Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsyvlania, Vol. I" by
         John W. Jordan -
  
       "Quaker persecution in Kreigsheim during the years 1663-1666 included fines amounting to 250 Guilders besides the annual tithes of about 1/5 of their yearly produce which were forcibly collected from the Kreigsheim Friends."  The victims mentioned include Peter Shumacher.
       - "William Penn and the Dutch Quakers" by William I. Hull -
  
       In Osthofen, "The conversion [to the Quaker faith] of seven or eight families alarmed the clergy and incited the rabble 'disposed to do evil, to abuse those persons by scoffing, cursing, reviling, throwing stones and dirt at them, and breaking their windows.'"
       In Germantown, PA: "December 30, 1703 Peter Schumacher and Isaac Schumacher shall arrange with workmen that a prison house and stocks be put up as soon as possible."
       -  "The Settlement of Germantown, Pennsylvania" by Samuel Pennypacker -
  
       Peter served as Baliff, Burgess, and Clerk of the Court in Germantown.  He owned two lots, one in town "on the west side of Main Street" and a "side lot towards Schuykill."  In the "History of Old Germantown" there is a copy of his signature.
  
       Birth order of children approximate.

Details of Peter's family with Sarah Hendricks

Details of Peter's family with Sarah Hendricks