BIO:  John George Maisch, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Fairview Township, Pg 98

JOHN GEORGE MAISCH, the ancestor of a numerous family of descendants, was a 
native of Germany.  On the 16th of October, 1751, he set sail from the port of 
Rotterdam, Holland, with 106 passengers in the sailing vessel “Duke of 
Wellington,” which paid respects to England by stopping at Cowes, and two months 
later landed at Philadelphia with its load of emigrants.  He first settled in 
Chester County, Penn., but soon after arriving immigrated to the Quaker 
settlement in the northern part of York County, and purchased a tract of land in 
Fairview Township, now owned by George Lefever.  Some of his descendants joined 
the Society of Friends.  Joseph, his eldest son, married Barbara Leidy.  Their 
children were David, Samuel, Joseph, Frederick, Barbara and Martha.  The father 
died in Fairview; the sons all moved to Indiana.  David, the second son of the 
immigrant, married Sarah Stickel, sister of Hon. Jacob Stickel, who was a member 
of State Constitutional Convention of 1838.  Frederick, the youngest son of John 
George Maisch, was a soldier of the Revolution, and died of camp fever at Valley 
Forge, during the winter of 1777-78.  He left one son, who moved to New 
Philadelphia, Ohio, and was killed by accident.  Children of David Maish, son of 
John George Maisch:  Jacob, George, David, Susan, intermarried with John 
Spangler; Polly, intermarried with Michael Wollet; Hannah, intermarried with 
David Crone, of West Virginia; Sarah, intermarried with George Moser; Jacob, 
married Lydia Sibhart.  They had three daughters:  Mary Ann, Mrs. Zachariah 
Heindle; Ellen, Mrs. Benjamin Heindle; Susan, Mrs. Sebastian Stevens; George, 
married Lydia Moser, daughter of George Moser.  They had children:  David, George 
W., Thomas Jefferson, Sarah, Mary, Emma, Ellen and Amanda.  David married Salome 
Neiman, daughter of George Neiman, of Conewago Township, a man of large landed 
estates, who died a few years ago, at the age of eighty-nine years eleven months 
twenty days, leaving 184 lineal descendants.  David had three sons, George H., 
Levi and Lewis.