Individual Details

Bartholomew RIBLET

(Abt Mar 1731 - Bef 23 Aug 1793)

According to family lore, Bartholomew moved to Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland about 1787 with his younger children and his son, John and his family. The 1787 date is supported by John Riblet's pension papers since he states "I was thirty one years old when I removed to the State of Maryland near Hagerstown..." The 1787 date is also supported by a baptismal record at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland dated 22 July 1787 for the baptism of Johannes, son of Michael and Margretha Kelchner. Henrich Riblet was the sponsor. Margaret is a daughter of Bartholomew Riblet and Henrich is his son. Margaret with husband Michael and Henry are named as two of Bartholomew's heirs in a deed dated 25 February 1800 and recorded in deed book E, page 479 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Bartholomew supposedly moved to Bedford County after a fire destroyed his home near Hagerstown, Maryland. Christian Riblet states in an affidavit for his Revolutionary War pension that his discharge paper for his second period of Revolutionary War service (1779) was destroyed in a fire in his father's house three years after it was received. This would have been about 1782 and Bartholomew supposedly moved to Maryland about 1787. Was this the same fire?

He entered into an article of agreement to purchase 144 acres in Hopewell Township, Bedford County on 31 August 1792. He died sometime before 23 August 1793 when his son, John Riblet, was appointed as administator of his estate.

According to Catharine's tombstone, she was the mother of 13 children but the names of only nine of them can be documented. Eight of the children are named in a deed for property that Bartholomew owned at the time of his death and a baptism record exists for Bartholomew and Catharine's daughter, Anna Elizabeth. This daughter is not named in the deed. Although Bartholomew's wife, Catharine, was living in 1800 (if the date of her death on her tombstone is correct), she is not named in the deed.

Undocumented family trees attribute the following children to Bartholomew and Catharine but no documentation can be found to support that they had these children: Reuben, Peter, Daniel, Casper, and Jacob.

There was an Abraham Riblet living in Lancaster County that received a Revolutionary War pension but he is not the son of Bartholomew and Catharine.

Events

BirthAbt Mar 1731Webenheim, Germany
Baptism18 Mar 1731Mimbach-Webenheim Reformed Church, Webenheim, Germany
Marriage26 Mar 1753Catharine LIVENGOOD
ResidenceFrom 1756 to 1776Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Residence1781paid taxes - Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
MiscellaneousFrom 1791 to 1795appears on the tax lists - Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Property31 Aug 1792144 acres from John Lee by an article of agreement - Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
DeathBef 23 Aug 1793Bedford County, Pennsylvania
ProbateFrom 23 Aug 1793 to 25 Feb 1800Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Alt nameJoh. Barthel RIBBLE

Families

SpouseCatharine LIVENGOOD (1734 - 1814)
ChildRegina RIBLET ( - 1800)
ChildJohn RIBLET (1756 - 1835)
ChildChristian RIBLET (1761 - 1844)
ChildHenry RIBLET (1763 - 1839)
ChildAnna ELIZABETH (1765 - )
ChildMary Ann "Polly" RIBLET (1767 - 1863)
ChildMargaret RIBLET (1768 - 1843)
ChildAbraham RIBLET (1771 - 1813)
ChildElizabeth RIBLET (1776 - 1870)
FatherChristian RIBLET (1706 - )
MotherMaria Catharina LELE (1708 - )

Notes

Marriage

Date of marriage has not been verified.

Residence

There are baptismal records for three of Bartholomew and Catherine Riblet's children between 1756 and 1776 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. His son, John Riblet, was baptized at Egypt Reformed Church in Whitehall Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania in 1756 and two of his other children were baptized at Zion Reformed Church in Allentown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania in 1765 and 1776.

Miscellaneous

Although Bartholomew died sometime prior to 23 August 1793 when his eldest son, John Riblet, was appointed administrator for his estate, he appears on the tax list for 1795 (probably his estate).

Property

Bartholomew Riblet died intestate before he received a deed from John Lee from whom he had entered into an article of agreement in 1792. John Riblet, his son, was appointed as executor of his estate and received a deed on 14 June 1794 from John Lee and Jane his wife which is recorded in Deed Book D, page 289 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. A deed recorded in Deed Book E, page 419 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania names Bartholomew Riblet's 8 heirs. John Riblet transferred/sold 7/8's of the above property to his siblings for $7 on 25 February 1800. The deed names the following heirs: Regena Smith, deceased (son John Smith); Chistian Riblet; Henry Riblet; Mary Such (husband John Such); Margaret Kelchiner (husband Michael Kelchiner); Abraham Riblet; and Elizabeth Swartz (husband Henry Swartz). John Riblet, as one of the heirs, reserved 1/8 of the property for himself.

Endnotes

1. Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants: Volume II: The Western Palatinate, 2 volumes (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1985), II: 268-269.

2. Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants: Volume II: The Western Palatinate, 2 volumes (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1985), II: 268-269.

3. Erie Cemetery (Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania), Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 June 2018), memorial page for Maria "Catherine" Livengood Riblet, Find A Grave Memorial # 7192320, memorial created by Sandy Burmaster, photograph by Alva Van Houten.

4. Charles R. Roberts , translator, Records of Egypt Reformed Church (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer, 1905; reprint, Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 2010), 11.

5. Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants: Volume II: The Western Palatinate, 2 volumes (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1985), II: 268-269.

6. John T. Humphrey, Pennsylvania Births Lehigh County 1734-1800 (Washington, D.C.: Humphrey Publications, 1992), 225.

7. "Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801," database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 January 2019), Bartholomew Ribblet; citing Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Northampton County, 1781.

8. Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Bedford County Deed Records, D:269-270, John Lee and Jane his wife to John Riblet, 14 June 1794; recorded 10 November 1794; Bedford County Courthouse, Bedford, Pennsylvania.

9. Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Bedford County Probate Records, Bartholomew Riblet (23 August 1793), Letters of Administration, inventory, and account, from 23 August 1793 to 25 February 1800; Bedford County Courthouse, Bedford, Pennsylvania.

10. Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Bedford County Probate Records, Bartholomew Riblet (23 August 1793), Letters of Administration, inventory, and account, from 23 August 1793 to 25 February 1800; Bedford County Courthouse, Bedford, Pennsylvania.

11. Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants: Volume II: The Western Palatinate, 2 volumes (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1985), II: 268-269.