Heirology

Ancestors

Nicholas Riehm

Father: Johann Eberhard Riehm
Mother: Elizabeth Schwab
Children include Abraham

Nicholas Riehm was a son of Johann Eberhard Riehm, the Palatine settler of 1717 on the Muddy Creek in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County. He grew up on his father's land near the place his brother Tobias later laid out as Reamstown. In 1749 he and his brother John Eberhard were counted among the people of the Muddy Creek who were attached to the Moravian Brethren, although their father had turned against them the year before. Beside his name on that list stands that of a Sarah Elizabeth Riehm, probably his wife.

Two of his sons married within four months of each other. On 14 September 1767 Abraham, son of Nicholas Riehm, married Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Neidig, both single. On 18 January 1768 his son John married Anna Maria Kramer.

His first wife was dead by 1769. On 15 August that year the Reformed pastor John Waldschmidt married Nicolaus Riehm, widower, to Anna Catharina, widow of Heinrich Hartmann. He died before the end of 1778, very probably in 1774, the year a family genealogy gives. On 22 November 1778 Waldschmidt married Catharina, wife of the late Nicolaus Ruhm, to Jacob Dritsch, a widower.

Parents

Johann Eberhard Riehm 1687-1779

Elizabeth Schwab (1692-1761)

Children

Abraham Ream 1749-1817

Sources

Marriage of Abraham, son of Nicholas Riehm, and Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Neidig, both single, 14 September 1767, in the church record of the Riehm family's congregation near Reamstown, as printed in D. Elmer L. Denniston, A Genealogy of the Stukey, Ream, Grove, Clem and Denniston Families (Harrisburg, 1939), the Riehm family chapters, pages 238 to 239, 254 and 326 to 327, which print the Riehm entries of the family's church record (FamilySearch full text, Genealogies collection, images 3:1:3QHK-93RT-74T3, 3:1:3QHV-B3RT-74V2 and 3:1:3QHV-B3RT-74BQ).
The Little Minister, a history of the Muddy Creek congregation, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1919), quoting Reincke's history of the Moravian Brethren, pages 395 to 397 (FamilySearch full text, image 3:1:3QHK-MQTK-S8PK).
Rev. John Waldschmidt's pastoral records of the Reformed congregations of Cocalico, Muddy Creek, Weiseichenland and Zeltenreich, 1752 to 1786, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, volume 6 (Harrisburg, 1906), marriages and the communion lists, archive.org 6thpennsylvaniaarch06harruoft.
Marriage of Abraham, son of Nicholas Riehm, and Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Neidig, both single, 14 September 1767, in the church record of the Riehm family's congregation near Reamstown, as printed in D. Elmer L. Denniston, A Genealogy of the Stukey, Ream, Grove, Clem and Denniston Families (Harrisburg, 1939), the Riehm family chapters, pages 238 to 239, 254 and 326 to 327, which print the Riehm entries of the family's church record (FamilySearch full text, Genealogies collection, images 3:1:3QHK-93RT-74T3, 3:1:3QHV-B3RT-74V2 and 3:1:3QHV-B3RT-74BQ). Rev. John Waldschmidt's pastoral records of the Reformed congregations of Cocalico, Muddy Creek, Weiseichenland and Zeltenreich, 1752 to 1786, Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, volume 6 (Harrisburg, 1906), marriages and the communion lists, archive.org 6thpennsylvaniaarch06harruoft. The Little Minister, a history of the Muddy Creek congregation, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1919), quoting Reincke's history of the Moravian Brethren, pages 395 to 397 (FamilySearch full text, image 3:1:3QHK-MQTK-S8PK).

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