General Notes

REFN: 701AN
REFN: P701
Biographical Sketch (1976):3120 "In March 1971 the National Genealogical Q
uarterly3139 published a list of emigrants from Bischweiler, Alsace, whi
ch was found in an old published history of that community. The list inclu
ded the names of John Michael and Samuel Moser. This information prompt
ed Mary K. Meyer of the Maryland Historical Society, a descendant of Micha
el Moser, to engage a researcher in Alsace to search the church records th
ere. From the records of the Protestant Reformed Church it has been establ
ished that the emigrants Michael and Samuel were brothers, that is, so
ns of the marriage of Samuel Moser, Sr. to Catharina Weiss which occurr
ed on May 14, 1714. Samuel Moser Sr. was the son of Hans Moser who was dec
eased when his son married. Catharina Weiss was the daughter of Hans Micha
el Weiss. A Samuel Moser, probably the same one, died there on February 2
2, 1755 at the age of 75."
1755 Death:3488 Translated and transcribed from the Bischwiller Reformed C
hurch records: "1755 22 February died Samuel Moser once citizen and farm
er who died from a hot fever on the 20th in the evening at the age of 7
5, at the domicile of his son Aron."