"Immigrants: we get the job done" -- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
Johann Jacob Reck, the son of Anna Catharina and Davidt Reck, was christened in Freinsheim 15 Jul 1714.
On 12 Jun 1736 he married Anna Maria Seltzer, the daughter of Nicolaus Seltzer.
I don't have a birth record for her, but she was probably born between 1715, when Nicolaus Seltzer married
Anna Briscilla Magsamen, and 1718.
Anna Maria and Johann Jacob had eight children, one of whom died young:
- David born 24 May 1737, christened 26 May 1737.
Married Maria Elisabetha Besch, the daughter of Johann Jacob Besch, 03 May 1762;
- Johann Jacob born 18 Apr 1741, christened 23 Apr 1741, deceased by June 1750;
- Johann Henrich born 04 Jun 1743, christened 09 Jun 1743.
Married Anna Christina by 1765;
- Maria Elisabetha born 27 Dec 1744, christened January 1745.
Possibly the Maria Elisabetha Reck
who married Wilhelm Ehrhardt in June 1775;
- Rosina Catharina born 15 Oct 1748;
- Johann Jacob born 14 Jun 1750, christened 17 Jun 1750;
- Jacobaea Charlotta born 15 Sep 1752, christened 17 Sep 1752; and
- Maria Catharina born 20 Oct 1753, christened 21 Oct 1753.
Married Georg Weilbrenner in April 1776.
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