Jannetjen Johannetta Mack nee Rauh

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1710, New York, Kings, New York, USA
• Married: 29 Nov 1718, Loonenburg, Greene, New York, USA

Notes:

HISTORY OF DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK, By James H. Smith, 1882
Chapter XXI. Part Three

John RAU, who emmigrated from Germany with the Palatines about 1712 or ‘15, built, it is supposed, about 1745, the original mill which stood on the site of what is known as the Phineas CARMAN mill. *(This property was sold at auction and bid in by Walter LOUCKS, for $2,520.00, November 1, 1879.) This is believed to be the oldest mill site in this locality. In 1740, if not earlier, John RAU, *(In old documents this name is written RAU, RAUGH, and ROW. It is now almost universally written ROWE.) Had a residence northeast from this mill, where Chauncy ROWE now lives. He was a carpenter by trade, and is said to have built the old portion of the house in which Chauncy ROWE, a descendant, now (1879) lives. The pine beams in the house, which were cut and hewn in the forest on the “pine plains,” over a century and a quarter ago, are doing duty now and are in a good state of preservation. Peter RAU, a son of John RAU, is the first positively known owner of the CARMAN mill. He sold it to his brother Mattice or Mottice, *(A name now known as Matthias.) And soon after the sale emigrated to Scaticoke, Rensselaer county, N. Y. One or two men, of the name of REYNOLDS, succeeded Mattice RAU in the ownership of the mill.

From the History of Little Nine Partners, of North East Precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess County, vol. 1, by Isaac Huntting, Pine Plains, New York, copyright 1897, pp. 134-135. Available at https://ia600301.us.archive.org/3/items/historyoflittlen01hunt/historyoflittlen01hunt.pdf

"Of these earliest settlers little is known to me in history except John Row, of whom I make personal mention. Johannes Rauh—Rau, now Rowe—was one of the Palatines who settled on the east bank of the Hudson. He was born in 1696 in Germany, and is supposed to have come to this country with his father, Nicholas, with the first immigrations of the Palatines in 1710 to 15, when he was yet a minor of fifteen or eighteen years, and located on the Hudson at Germantown, then a part of Livingston Manor, Columbia Co., N. Y. Richard Sackett, a native of New England, and enterprising, was appointed commissioner in 1711-15 to look after the Palatines at 'the camp' in Germantown on the Hudson River, in making pitch, tar and turpentine for the English navy. He had previously, in 1704, obtained a patent for a tract of land in the Oblong, and through his acquaintance and influence with the Palatines he induced some Palatines to settle on his tract in the Oblong. John Rowe appears in 1741 as purchaser of three quarters of 'Gore Lot, No. 3.' . 'The Gore,' a little strip of land between the Great and Little Nine Partners, was surveyed and divided into four lots in April, 1740, by Jacob Ter Bush (Judge Bush). Lot three was owned by Jacob Hoff and Isaac Germond of Crum Elbow, one quarter; Cornelius Van Wyck and Theodorus Van Wyck of Rombout, each one quarter, and the heirs of Jan DeGraff one quarter. August 15, 1741, 'Johannes Rau, of Crum Elbow, yeoman,' bought of Cornelius Van Wyck and Theodorus Van Wyck their interests, one quarter each, for fifty pounds, and the next day, August 10, bought of Jacob Hoff and Isaac Germond their undivided one quarter for fifty pounds. The other quarter interest in the heirs of Jan DeGraff was not purchased. The lot was bounded south by 'Lot No. 18' in the Great Nine Partners, east by the heirs of Col. Henry Filkins, 'being easterly part of the Gore,' north by the 'Upper Nine Partners,' — Little Nines—and West by Augustine Graham's assigns, containing seven hundred and fifteen acres, of which he owned the undivided three quarters. At the time of this purchase in August, 1741, he was living on the south part of the Silas Smith-Steger farm in the long house now gone—it was there in 1832 and later— which it is supposed he built. Here with him Christian Henry Rauch, the first Moravian missionary to this section after trials and exposures in many ways and no abiding place for the first year of his labors, commencing in August, 1740, found a home in 1741, and taught school and practiced medicine, the first 'schoolmaster' in the present town boundaries, His practice of medicine was limited and his knowledge of it not enough to have the dignity of 'Doctor.' Here, too, at 'Hannas Rowe's,' Charles Clinton, with his corps of surveyors, put up, Thursday night. May 5. 1743, when running his 'outline' boundary line of the Little Nine Partner tract, and wrote two letters the next morning, one to James Alexander, one of the then proprietors of the Little Nines, of New York, and the other to Robert Livingston, of Ancram."

THE MAKING OF A MYTH: Margaret Ann Rau
From the myth's inventor, Franklyn Bearce:

"Margaret Ann Rau, wife of Gideon Noble Bearce born July 9th I794 on the Eligha Rau Farm Dutches Co N.Y. She was a 3/4 blood Schagticoke Indian with mostly Mohican Wappanger, and Manhattan Indian strains; Her mother was Ann May full blood dau of Sampson May, Sagamore at She ko me ko N.Y. and Indian Mohican Moravian Preacher. And Johanna full blood dau of Prince Mannessah of She co me co N.Y. Johannas mother was a Warrups, and Prince Mannessah a famous Indian medican man; Many Indians and white men bitten by chuck-heads and rattlers, owed their lives to the skill in Indian Medican of Prince Mannessah the Mauwee; Who with his sons and others of my May and Mauwee anscesters, migrated to Pine Plains North Allegan Co Michigan, where they lie sleeping on the banks of Swan Creek , near where I was born and played and caught speckled trout and frogs when a boy, and was nearly bit by a massasagur snake while walking the banks of that narrow but deep stream at the old Indian Villiage of the Pottawatimie hunting stone arrow heads and other Indian relicks. I was I9 at the time. Anna May wife of Eligha Roe was bornI772 Wequandauch New York Side; She was both a Warrups and a Mauwee; The Indian family of May were full blood Mohicans of She co me co N.Y. Margaret Ann Roe,s father Eligha Roe married Anna May at Bethel Church I786 She was only I4 years of age and just at puberty;

Eligha Roe was born on the Mattice Rau farm Dut Co N.Y. I754. He was a 5/8th blood Schagticoke Indian, and son of Mattice Rau, born I735 on the John Rau farm , Pine Plains Dut Co N.Y. and married by a Moravian Brother at We-qu-an-dau-ch Mission I753, to his wife Caroline, 3/4 blood Mohican Indian dau of Sullivan 1/2 blood squater of Dover N.Y. and his wife Margaret , full blood Mohican and dau of Josuah a Mauwee,a son of Gideon Mahu wee hu, or Mau-wee; Josuah was a brother of Chuse Mauwee, and a famous Indian Preacher of the Moravian Church; Then there was , Josuah Mau-wee Ist a brother of Gideon Mauhuweehu, who was baptized by the Moravians in I742 at old She ko me ko , and also an Indain Moravian Brother and Josuah Mau-wee 2nd sonof Josuah Ist born I74I at She co me co., was educated to preach for the Moravian Church by the Brothers; Mattice was a son of Moravian John Rau a german carpenter of the Palintates, settled at Pine Plains Dut Co N.Y. I7I5 married I72I under pagan Indian rights , his wife Cathern full blood Piquot and Mohegan woman born at She co me co N.Y. and a dau of Isaac Siem, Sachem at She co me co , and sister of Gideon Mau-hu-wee-hu and his brother Josuah Mau-wee Ist; Isaac,Siems wife was a Piquod woman and a grandaughter of Tot-ban or Sascusus; The Moravians say a daughter, it should be a grandaughter; The son of Sow-he-ag, Mo-ko-me-ce married a daughter of Sassacus n a daughter of this union was the squaw of Isaac Seim, and the Mother of Gideon Mau-wee,and Josuah Mau-wee Ist but not the mother of Siems other Children; Siem had more Catherin 1/2 sister of Gideon and Josuah Ist and wife of Moravian John Rau, had Mohican mother, dau of a Mohican Sagamore."

John/Johannes Rowe/Rau was indeed a friend of the missionaries. His daughter even married one, later dying during missionary duty, and another daughter and son were being considered for acceptance into the missionary ranks. His wife, Cathrina Magdalena Salbach, however, was also of the New York germanic palatine families, not a native. They were a very pious family, welcoming the Moravian brothers into their home, agreeing with their mission, and even joining in that mission...not pagans, to be converted. John Rau stood in court and defended the Moravian brothers. He wasn't some outsider pagan. He was a respected man in his community. He was one of the first settlers and his family built the first mill.

Matthias (Mattice), then, was a full blooded Germanic Christian Palatine who, according to records, "Rowe, Catherine, wife of Mathias Rowe and daughter to Philip Rowe, died Nov. 29, 1786, in her 39th yr. With her infant in her arms.", possibly married a cousin, through her father Philip Rowe. She was not an Indian princess.

Like Rebecca Baldwin, when we come to Margaret Ann Rowe, there is little documentation. Likewise for Elisha Rowe. If he is the son of Matthias, however, we do know that he's a 8/8 blood European Immigrant stock. There's not much to go on, to identify Rebecca's parents. What we do know, is that the rest of Franklyn's native heritage, for her, is totally fabricated. We also know that he already fabricated a native marriage for Margaret, at another point in his story. There's absolutely no reason to believe her mother was a native princess. Franklyn continues to prove himself a charlatan and a fraud, building a family of lies, just so he could play Indian, and try to win some land and casino rights.

Johannes married Anna Catherina Magdalena Salbach in 1718 in Loonenburg, Greene, New York, USA. Anna was born on 21 Apr 1695 in Erbenheim, Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany; died on 28 Nov 1747 in Amenia, Dutchess, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Gertraud Steinkopf on 3 Jan 1696 in St. Sebastian's Lutheran Church, Oppenheim, Pfaltz, Germany. Gertraud was born on 8 Mar 1674 in Oppenheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died in 1742 in Amenia, Dutchess, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]