There are several Adam Ribbles with an assortment of spellings. This one was not married to Agnes or Catherine Stahl. Nor did he die in 1798.
Not much is known about Adam - even if Ribble was his birth name. He probably was born in the Alsace-Lorraine area, probably Strasbourg, and came to America a little before the Revolutionary War.
Neither family stories nor sources know whom he married, but they had eight children, 2 dying in childhood. He is on a tax list from 1779 in Passyunk. Philadelphia. His son, Joseph. has a birthdate of 1781, but no date or place is given. Family stories state that it is probably in Philadelphia. In 1797, he was in Shelby County, Kentucky, and all his children were born there. In 1815, he sold his land in Shelby County, Kentucky. He appears on the 1820 census in Washington County, Indiana. No further censuses have been found that included him. He has a mostly illegible will filed in Washington County, Indiana.
Not much is known about Adam - even if Ribble was his birth name. He probably was born in the Alsace-Lorraine area, probably Strasbourg, and came to America a little before the Revolutionary War.
Neither family stories nor sources know whom he married, but they had eight children, 2 dying in childhood. He is on a tax list from 1779 in Passyunk. Philadelphia. His son, Joseph. has a birthdate of 1781, but no date or place is given. Family stories state that it is probably in Philadelphia. In 1797, he was in Shelby County, Kentucky, and all his children were born there. In 1815, he sold his land in Shelby County, Kentucky. He appears on the 1820 census in Washington County, Indiana. No further censuses have been found that included him. He has a mostly illegible will filed in Washington County, Indiana.
There are several Adam Ribbles with an assortment of spellings. This one was not married to Agnes or Catherine Stahl. Nor did he die in 1798.
Not much is known about Adam - even if Ribble was his birth name. He probably was born in the Alsace-Lorraine area, probably Strasbourg, and came to America a little before the Revolutionary War.
Neither family stories nor sources know whom he married, but they had eight children, 2 dying in childhood. He is on a tax list from 1779 in Passyunk. Philadelphia. His son, Joseph. has a birthdate of 1781, but no date or place is given. Family stories state that it is probably in Philadelphia. In 1797, he was in Shelby County, Kentucky, and all his children were born there. In 1815, he sold his land in Shelby County, Kentucky. He appears on the 1820 census in Washington County, Indiana. No further censuses have been found that included him. He has a mostly illegible will filed in Washington County, Indiana.
Not much is known about Adam - even if Ribble was his birth name. He probably was born in the Alsace-Lorraine area, probably Strasbourg, and came to America a little before the Revolutionary War.
Neither family stories nor sources know whom he married, but they had eight children, 2 dying in childhood. He is on a tax list from 1779 in Passyunk. Philadelphia. His son, Joseph. has a birthdate of 1781, but no date or place is given. Family stories state that it is probably in Philadelphia. In 1797, he was in Shelby County, Kentucky, and all his children were born there. In 1815, he sold his land in Shelby County, Kentucky. He appears on the 1820 census in Washington County, Indiana. No further censuses have been found that included him. He has a mostly illegible will filed in Washington County, Indiana.
