• General Notes

  Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
  
  Name: Johann Philip Kaufeldt
  Year: 1746
  Place: Pennsylvania
  Family Members: Wife Anna Maria Grundt; Child Ottilia Magdalena; Child Elias; Child Johann Valentin; Child Maria Catharina; Child Susanna Maria; Child Johann Philip
  Source Publication Code: 1031.9
  Primary Immigrant: Kaufeldt, Nicklas
  Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of naturalization. Span indicates period between last mention of emigrant in country of origin and first mention of his residence in the New World. "Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname.
  Source Bibliography: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 2: The Western Palatinate. 1985. 405p.
  Page: 193
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  REFN: 0188-
  Philip was seven years old when he came to America with his parents.
  He grew up in York Co., PA, and in 1756 following several of his brothers,went to Virginia, where he enlisted in the militia during the French and Indian War. A muster roll of Capt. David Bell's company, of Fauquier Co. militia, dated March 1756, lists Philip Coffelt...
  at age 17, five feet, five inches tall...fair with light blond hair, and "Deutsch".
  
  Shortly after he was married to Eleanor Ryan, they moved across the
  mountain to what is now Hardy Co., WV and took up property on the
  Lost River area, He is listed in the Hardy Co. tax and land records
  through 1790. A 1783 census lists him with a family of 10. In the following year he had a family of nine, and his son, Henry had a separate family of 2.
  
  By 1791 Philip was living in Grainger Co., TN and his children can be found in Tennessee from the 1790's onward.
  
  Source: "From the Rhine to the Shenandoah" - by Daniel Bly.
  
  Source: VIRGINIA MILITARY RECORDS, page 376, Virginia Troops in the
  French and Indian War:
  Muster Roll of Capt. David Bell's Company at Maidstone, May 12, 1756
  Philip Coffield - enlisted March 1756, age 17, 5'5", farmer, Dutch
  (Probably Deutsch - meaning German)
  
  Source: VIRGINIA'S COLONIAL SOLDIERS, by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, 1988
  Genealogical Publishing Company.
  
  Muster Roll of Capt. David Bell's Company, May 12, 1756
  Philip Coffield, March 1756, 17, 5"5", farmer, fair, Dutch
  
  Muster Roll of Capt. David Bell's Company, May 31, 1756
  Philip Coffield
  
  Muster Roll of Capt David Bell's Company, June 30, 1756
  Philip Coffield
  
  Muster Roll of Capt. David Bell's Company, July 13, 1756
  
  Philip Coffield, April 1756, Maidstown, 17, 5'5", planter, Dutch, fair
  with light hair.
  
  Military record in the George Washington papers in the National Archives:
  
  Phillip served with General Washington during the French and Indian War
  Philip failed to "muster in" with Captain McCay's company in February 1777 as required for men of his age in his county and section. As a result for not serving, he was Court Martialed and fined fifty shillings. Augusta was the only county which kept Court Martial Records. (Richmond VA State Archives Court Martial REcords Philip and Nelly sold land in Hardy Co,VA/WVA and are listed in Tax records after 1788. Eleanor and their children appear shortly after, in the early 1790s in East TN, Sullivan and Greene Counties TN. Deed records Hardy Co, VA/WVA 1783 Hardy Co., VA Personal Property Tax List Philip Coffelt - 10 people in household
  
  1784 Hardy Co., VA Personal Property Tax List
  Philip Coffelt - 9 people in household
  Henry Coffelt - 2 people in household
  
  1787 Hardy Co., VA Personal Property Tax List
  Philip Coffelt - 1 tithable; 0 males 16-21; 0 blacks16; blacks <16; 2 horses; 12 cattle
  
  Henry Coffelt - 1 tithable; 0 males 16-21; 0 blacks16; blacks <16; 1 horse; 4 cattle
  
  John Coffelt - 1 tithable; 0 males 16-21; 0 blacks16; blacks <16; 3 horses; 2 cattle
  
  1794 Hardy Co., VA Personal Property Tax List
  Phillip Coffel - 1 tithable; 5 horses
  Daniel Coffel, his son, is also listed.
  
  Source:  KAUFFELDT TO COFFEL WORLD TREE
  
  
  http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3121762&id=I601186952

Details of Johann Philipp 's family with Eleanor E.  "Nelly" RYAN