{"id":1853,"date":"2012-01-12T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/?page_id=1853"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T19:49:37","slug":"martin-ritter-c1718-1789","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/ritter\/martin-ritter-c1718-1789","title":{"rendered":"Martin Ritter c1718 Germany &#8211; 1789 PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Martin Ritter<\/strong>, born in <a title=\"Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/locations\/germany\">Germany<\/a>, crossed the ocean with his brothers, arriving in Philadelphia, <a title=\"Pennsylvania\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/locations\/pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> on 11 September 1732. His wife was Anna Margaret. They were married c 1746. Their eight children were born in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_Toc289445979\"><\/a>Martin Ritter was the third of the four brothers. He and his wife, Anna Margaret, also lived in Lower Milford. They had eight children: Caspar, Anna Barbara, John Henry, Valentine, George Adam, Johannes Martin, Maria Magaretha and Johannes.<a name=\"_ftnref1\"><\/a>[1]Martin Ritter was among the first members of the Western Salisbury Church, founded in 1741. He is buried in the church yard.<a name=\"_ftnref2\"><\/a>[2]<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a>[1]Ibid.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn2\"><\/a>[2]Hauser, James J. <em>A History of Lehigh County Pennsylvania<\/em>. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Jacks, 1902.<\/p>\n<p>1 Martin Ritter b: Abt. 1718 in Germany, d: 1789 in Pennsylvania<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230; + Anna Margaret Ritter m: Abt. 1746<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 Johann Caspar Ritter b: 20 June 1744 in Lehigh, PA<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 Anna Barbara Ritter b: 10 November 1749 in Lehigh, PA<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 John Henry Ritter b: 09 April 1751 in PA<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 Valentine Ritter b: 1748 in PA<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 George Adam Ritter b: 1756 in PA<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 Johanne Martin Ritter b: 1760 in PA<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 Maria Magaretha Ritter b: 1765 in PA<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;2 Johannes Ritter b: 1767 in PA<\/p>\n<p>Selected Sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Roberts, Stroudt, Krick, and Deitrich, THE HISTORY OF LEHIGH COUNTY,PENNSYLVANIA AND A GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IT&#8217;S FAMILIES; 1732-1914.<\/li>\n<li>Passenger List; 1732; Port of Entry, Philadelphia, PA, 11 Sept., 1732, &#8220;The Pennsylvania Merchant&#8221;, Sailed from Rotterdam; Obtained Photocopy from Pennsylvania Archives, P.O.Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108-1026. This lists Martin, his brothers and sisters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Ritter, born in Germany, crossed the ocean with his brothers, arriving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 September 1732. His wife was Anna Margaret. They were married c 1746. Their eight children were born in Pennsylvania. Martin Ritter was the third of the four brothers. He and his wife, Anna Margaret, also lived in Lower<i class=\"ppop-icon ppop-icon-more-horizontal\"><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4545,"parent":38,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1853","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1853\/revisions\/5079"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}