1. Some basic information on the Pickle surname:
In the late 1720s, the Pickel family settled in areas of Hunterdon County, including Readington and Whitehouse. Descendents of the Pickels still reside in Hunterdon County. . . . ancestor, Johan Balthazar Pickel, coming to the United States from Germany.. . . Pickel, Pickell or Pickle, it was all in the family."
2. Specific family history on Baltus Pickle:
Transcribed from the MILLER - MOOK FAMILY HISTORY written by Larry & Judy Miller - 2005:
"Somerset County, New Jersey was the location of the birth of Baltes Pickel II on December 8, 1723 to Baltes Johan Balthazar Pickel I and Anna Gertrude (Charity) Reiterin. Sophia (Phidia) Van Horne became his wife on November 10, 1746 in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey.
We don't have a lot of information on this family. We do know that Sophia (Phidia) died May 17, 1764. Baltes was said to have married Anna Gerhart after Sophia died and had three more children with Anna. Baltes died November 25, 1786 in Germantown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He is buried in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery in [New]Germantown (now Oldwick), New Jersey. It has been said he is buried near his parents. When the church was expanded they moved the headstones but not the bodies to a new location in the cemetery. Therefore, Baltes Johan Balthazar and Anna (Charity) Pickel still lie beneath the new addition of the Zion Lutheran Church. "
Balthazar (Baltis) Pickel The following comes from pages 95 and 96 of the 1957 reprint of "Traditions of Hunterdon" by Lequear. It was originally published in 1869-70.
"Baltis Pickel, son of the first Baltis, was born in 1720 ten years after his father and mother came to America. He grew up amid the first experience of the colony and knew all of its sufferings. When he accumulated property, after his father's death he gave $100 to the church. He was an active member, and his handwriting appears in different places upon the old church record. It is a fair, bold hand, such as the best business man might be proud to imitate. The Lutherans have always been liberal educators, for education is a part of their religion. It was because the Roman church then refused the Bible to the people that Martin Luther cut loose from them and spread the gospel over the world. When Baltis Pickel died, he was buried at the foot of his father's grave, and his wife, 'Suffah,' was buried there beside him."
"Somerset County, New Jersey was the location of the birth of Baltes Pickel II on December 8, 1723 to Baltes Johan Balthazar Pickel I and Anna Gertrude (Charity) Reiterin. Sophia (Phidia) Van Horne became his wife on November 10, 1746 in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey.
We don't have a lot of information on this family. We do know that Sophia (Phidia) died May 17, 1764. Baltes was said to have married Anna Gerhart after Sophia died and had three more children with Anna. Baltes died November 25, 1786 in Germantown, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He is buried in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church cemetery in [New]Germantown (now Oldwick), New Jersey. It has been said he is buried near his parents. When the church was expanded they moved the headstones but not the bodies to a new location in the cemetery. Therefore, Baltes Johan Balthazar and Anna (Charity) Pickel still lie beneath the new addition of the Zion Lutheran Church. "
Balthazar (Baltis) Pickel The following comes from pages 95 and 96 of the 1957 reprint of "Traditions of Hunterdon" by Lequear. It was originally published in 1869-70.
"Baltis Pickel, son of the first Baltis, was born in 1720 ten years after his father and mother came to America. He grew up amid the first experience of the colony and knew all of its sufferings. When he accumulated property, after his father's death he gave $100 to the church. He was an active member, and his handwriting appears in different places upon the old church record. It is a fair, bold hand, such as the best business man might be proud to imitate. The Lutherans have always been liberal educators, for education is a part of their religion. It was because the Roman church then refused the Bible to the people that Martin Luther cut loose from them and spread the gospel over the world. When Baltis Pickel died, he was buried at the foot of his father's grave, and his wife, 'Suffah,' was buried there beside him."
3. A search of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church from the previous search where I found that Baltus Pickle was a member of this particular church:
Most of the charter members of the Zion Lutheran Church were from the Palatinate area of Germany near the Rhine River. They had fled their homeland and its long series of wars and severe tax burdens for the promise of America's colonies. In 1710, over 2,000 Palatinates were resettled in the Hudson Valley. When their intended work project failed, most of them sought prospects elsewhere. Some came into the Raritan Valley of New Jersey.
4. And two other google searches of the church:
New Jersey's Oldest Lutheran Congregation's first service was conducted on August 1, 1714. Baltes Pickel, who attended the first service, built the first church and contributed generously to construction of the current church in 1749.
New Jersey's Oldest Lutheran Congregation's first service was conducted on August 1, 1714. Baltes Pickel, who attended the first service, built the first church and contributed generously to construction of the current church in 1749.
Johann Balthazar Pickel (1687-1765). He was christened on 2 September 1687 in Bad Durkheim, Pfalz Bayern, Germany, as the son of Hans Balthazar Bickel and his wife Anna Eva; the sponsors names are unreadable in the record. He died on 5 December 1765 in Oldwick, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Johann Balthazar Pickel and Anna Gertrude Reiterin were married on 16 August 1718 in the Lutheran Church on Staten Island, New York, by Rev. Rosscher, recorded by Rev. Justus Falckner. Anna Gertrude Reiterin was born in 1694 in Germany, and died on 4 December 1761 in Oldwick, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Early services of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hunterdon County, New Jersey were held in the home of Baltus Pickel. He built at his own expense the Racheway Church (located today at Potterstown) in 1729 and the Leslysland Church about 1735. In 1749, when the Zion Lutheran Church was built at Oldwick, Baltes Pickel contributed money to its constructiion. In his will of 1765 he bequeathed the Zion church 1000 pounds.
Now this last search was a big "dill" to me. I was able to go back one generation further because it listed the names of Baltus Pickle's grandparents! Not only can I add these names to the family tree, but I also know a little more about the Pickle family history. Try your own google search by typing in the name of your ancestor, using quotation marks around the name and then adding a location. You never know what you may find.
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