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• m. Anna Demuth Schumann; b. Sep. 14, 1698, Eichen, Germany; d. 1773, Frederick County MD, buried in the Libertytown Chapel Cemetery.

• Zachariah and Anna Demuth had 9 Children:
  • ___? Ahlbach; b. Apr. 20, 1721, Flammersfeld, Germany; d. 1721, in infancy.
  • William Ahlbach; b. Mar. 7, 1724, Flammersfeld, Germany; d. Jan. 13, 1794, Frederick County MD.
    • m. Magdelena ___?
  • Anna Margaretha Ahlbach (1726-c1785)
    • m. John Arnold (c1726-c1785), in about 1750.
  • George Gerhard Albaugh; b. Mar. 8, 1728, Flammersfeld, Germany; d. Feb. 13, 1789, Bedford MD.
    • m. Anne Marie Pittenger; in about 1760.
  • Peter Albaugh; b. Feb. 24, 1734, in NJ; d. before Sep. 9, 1811, Frederick County MD.
    • m. Anna Charity Schmidt; on Jan. 20, 1761.
  • Charity Albaugh; b. after 1734, probably in NJ; d. after 1782, Frederick County MD.
    • m. Reinhard Waltz; in about 1752, in Frederick County MD.
  • Zachariah Ahlbach, Jr.; b. about 1737, in NJ; d. 1782, Frederick County MD.
    • m. Susanna ___?; in about 1763.
  • John W. Albaugh; b. Apr. 1, 1740, in NJ; d. 1811, Frederick County MD.
    • m. Mary Catherine ___?; in about 1755, in Frederick County MD
  • Eve Albaugh; b. about 1744, in NJ
    • m1. Phillip Danner; on Feb. 17, 1760
    • m2. Johann Bihmer; on June 12, 1787

Brief Biography:

Zachariah was a "Sendschoffen at Ahlbach", which may be a form of Jury Dispatcher, or Jury Clerk of some kind.

The Ahlbach family lived in the town of Flammersfeld (21 km West of Hachenburg), Germany, which is located in an area known as the Palatinate. At the time of the Ahlbach's emigration, the Palatinate had been devastated by the French in the War of the Grand Alliance during the late 1600s and was subsequently administered by conflicting authorites until the unification of Bavaria in 1777. During this long period, many German farmers and craftsmen emigrated to America to avoid various confiscations of property and economic persecutions. Many of these immigrants settled in the PA-MD border areas, and became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, where "Dutch" is a linguistic distortion of "Deutsch" - meaning "German".

Once in America, many of Zachariah's children assumed the name, Albaugh.

References:

• Genealogical work of Maurice Neverman of Watertown WI.