8520 Individuals in our Database | | | WURTZ - 6 Individuals Found | Name / Spouse | Born/Died | Father / Mother | Notes | Jacob Wurtz | b.1760 Middletown, Frederick, Maryland d. | Father: Phillip Peter Wurtz Mother: Christina Nee | | Maria Elizabeth Wurtz Spouse1: John Michael Runner | b.1733 May 27 Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg d.1803 Apr 24 Frederick County, Maryland | Father: Wilhelm William Wurtz Mother: Anna Catharina Kohl Bahlmann | | Phillip Peter Wurtz Spouse1: Christina Nee | b.1738 d.1798 | Father: Wilhelm Wurtz Sr Mother: Anna Catharina Kohl BAHLMANN | | Wilhelm Sr Wurtz Spouse1: Anna Catharina Kohl | b.1703 Baden Germany d.1782 | Father: Mother: | Wilhelm Arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the boat the Neptune , John Mason, Master, on September 23, 1753 from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Wilhelm"s trip originated in Tauberbischofsheim, Baden Germany. The ships log shows Wilhelm Wurtz, Sr., Wilhelm Wurtz, Jr., and Peter Wurtz. Wilhelm arrived in Loudoun County, Virginia around 1767 according to Loudoun County, Virginia Tax List.
On November 27, 1772 Wilhelm leased 100 acres from George William Fairfax near Dutchmans Run called Piedmont in Shelburne Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia, Deed Book 71-73. 1782 Applied for relief from taxes and levies due to age and infirmities, Loudoun County, Virginia. Order Book G, page 397 - RDV RNOTES.
Buried in the Old Lutheran Cemetery also known as New Jerusalem Cemetery, Lovettsville, Virginia, Row KK4. He was buried at NJLC, Lovettsville, VA Wilhelm Wurtz was born about 1703 in the Tauberbischofsheim, Baden area of Germany. Arrived on the ship Neptune in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on September 23, 1753, and settled in the Lovettsville, Loudoun County Virginia area in 1772. He died in 1782 in Lovettsville, Loudoun County Virginia. Many of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren moved to the Roanoke area of Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio. Over the years the spelling of the last name has taken on many variations such as Verts, Vertz, Virts, Virtz, Werts, Wertz, Wirtz and Wirts. Database: Pennsylvania Foreign Oaths of Allegiance IMMIGRANTS INTO PENNSYLVANIA: Volume 1 Name: William Wertz Sr, Ship: NEPTUNE Captain: JOHN MASON Place: ROTTERDAM Date: SEPT. 24, 1753 Names of Passengers who Arrived in Philadelphia on Ship "Neptune" from Rotterdam, last from Cowes on 24 Sept 1753 (abbreviated) Wilhelm Wurtz Jr. Wilhelm Wurtz Sen. Peter Wurtz1 | Wilhelm Jr Wurtz "Wertz" | b.1730 Tauberbischofshe, im Baden, Germany d.1753 Sep 24 Germany | Father: Wilhelm William Wurtz Mother: Anna Catharina Kohl Bahlmann | | Wilhelm William Wurtz Spouse1: Anna Catharina Kohl Bahlmann | b.1703 Tauberbischofsheim, Stuttgart, Baden-W�rttemberg, Germany d.1782 Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Virginia | Father: Mother: | | | | | |