Heirology

Ancestors

Rachel Steinmets

1760-1821
Born 1760
Died 1821
Children include Rachel

Rachel Steinmets married Frederick Fritts Jr., a son of Frederick Fritts and Cornelia Jewell. They lived at Lebanon in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and had nine children born between 1781 and 1799: Benjamin, William F., Margaretta, Fred. S., George, Rachel, Thomas, Morris and Jacob. Her daughter Rachel, born in 1791, married Jacob Terryberry in 1810.

Her husband made his will on 6 May 1812 and died that summer. He left her "her room, bed and bedding and whatever she needs with which to keep house" and "sole care of homestead farm, and stock during her widowhood." Their son Morris was to stay on the place with his younger brothers Thomas and Jacob, and when she remarried or died everything was to be sold and divided among the nine children. The will was proved on 15 September 1812.

She outlived him by nine years. She died on 15 April 1821, aged sixty, and was buried in the Spruce Run Cemetery at Glen Gardner, near her husband's parents. Her headstone gives her own name as Rachel Stymits, a spelling of Steinmetz.

Children

Rachel Fritts (b. 1791)

Sources

T. F. Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies (Dover, N.J., 1895), p. 385.
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc., vol. XII, 1810-1813 (New Jersey Archives, first series), p. 142; archive.org calendarofnewjer00unse_6. Original: File 2527 J.
Find a Grave memorial 9747879, Rachel Stymits Fritts, Spruce Run Cemetery, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, New Jersey; photographs.
Headstone of Rachel Stymits, widow of Frederick Fritts Jr., died 1821, Spruce Run Cemetery, Glen Gardner, New Jersey; photograph of the stone.
T. F. Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies (Dover, N.J., 1895), p. 385 (archive.org earlygermansofne00cham). Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. (New Jersey Archives, first series), vol. XII, 1810-1813, p. 142 (archive.org calendarofnewjer00unse_6); Find a Grave memorial 9747879, Spruce Run Cemetery, headstone photograph.

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