The John Adam Cruse and Rosanna Cress Family


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Johann Philipp Gruss (1722-1804) arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from his native Germany in 1754. He married Anna Catherina shortly after his arrival and they had five children. They eventually settled in North Carolina. One of their sons changed the spelling of his name from Gruss to Cruse. His name was John Adam Cruse (1761-1821) and he married Rosanna Cress in 1784. In 1818 John Adam moved his family to Union County, Illinois. Descendants live in Illinois, Colorado, California and other parts of the United States.




Genealogy of the Cruse Family, 1722-1993


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Johann Philip Cruse was born 29 December 1722 in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was the son of Philip Adolph Cruse and Maria Catharina (surname unknown). Johann immigrated to America aboard the ship "Henrietta" and arrived at the Port of Philadelphia 22 October 1754. He married Anna Catharina (surname unknown) ca. 1759 in Red Hill, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. They lived in Salisbury, Rowan Co., North Carolina and were the parents of five sons and five daughters. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, California and elsewhere.







The Descendents [sic] of Johann Nicholaus Heinrich Kress (Cress).


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Johann Nicholaus Heinrich Kress (1721- ) immigrated, with three brothers, from Steinau on the Road, Hesse-Nassau, Germany to America in 1752. By 1770, he settled at Mecklenburg (now Cabarrus) Co., North Carolina and died in 1783.




The Hull Family in America


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George Hull (1590-1659) and his family emigrated in 1630 from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, moving in 1636 to Windsor, Connecticut. Joseph Hull (1596-1665), his brother, emigrated in 1635 and died at York, Maine. Richard Hull (1599-1662), not a relative, immigrated before 1636 to Massachusetts, moving to New Haven, Connecticut in 1639. Descendants of these three immigrants lived mainly in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Tennessee and California.




Pennsylvania German Pioneers


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State and County Officers


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Anagram Solver


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Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.