Family Timeline

YEAR MONTH DAY PERSON PLACE EVENT REFERENCE
-- -- -- Hauß, Hauss, Haus, Hause, Hausz, Haussz, Haussen, Hausszen, Hauszen, Hausen, Hauser, Hausendorf, Hausmann, Hausermann, Hausler, Hausener, Haussenauer Rhine River, from Frankfort to Lowen Alsace

Various Dutch and German spellings for 'Haus' and 'son of Haus'. Versions of the Coat of Arms at right are to be found along this area. An early version of the shield, dating back to 1185, is in Die Wappen Rolle de Zurich (a roster of Heraldry by the Antiquarian Society of Zurich).

1558, 1559, 1565 -- -- Hauß, Peter Solms-Hohensolms & Königsberg Registered at offices in Königsberg in Eastern Prussia, and at Hohensolms castle in Lahn-Dill-Bergland, Hessen, 18 km from Wetzlar. Recorded in the Marburg Archives lists of Shrove Tuesday hens, garden taxes, and subject money (110 Acc. 1939/31, No. 167.)

1579 -- -- Haus, Jorg Groß Altenstädten, Solms Registered in 1579
1579 -- -- Hauß, Jacob Groß Altenstädten, Solms Registered in 1579 The Palatine Families of New York by Henry Jones, Jr. Page 349-352
1586 -- -- Hauß, Johannchen Groß Altenstädten, Solms Registered in 1586 Ibid.
1586 -- -- Hauß, Jürgen Groß Altenstädten, Solms Registered in 1586 Ibid.
1600 -- -- -- -- -- --
1618 -- -- -- Europe Start of 30 Years' War The Thirty Years War, by Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Anthony Grafton. New York Review of Books Classics, 2005.
1629 -- -- Captain John Smith Jamestown, Virginia, the oldest of the English colonies in North America Requests to London to send him some more "damn Dutch" (Germans and Dutch) Germans helped build America - and how has America repaid them? -- Heinrich Piebrock
163o -- -- -- Herzogtum (Duchy) zu Solms Falls to Hessen-Darmstadt, adopts Lutheran Faith. "The Nieder-Weisel Story," research by Kelvin Williams
1633 -- -- -- Palatinate King Gustavus Adolphus burns city of Spires "Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York," Vol. 111
1643 -- -- Hauß, Hanns Nieder-Weisel, Solms-Lich Tax rolls (family runs the Stag and the Swan Tavern) Ibid.
1648 -- -- -- Europe End of 30 Years' War The Thirty Years War, by Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Anthony Grafton. New York Review of Books Classics, 2005.
1653 -- -- Hauss, Johann Marburg-Altenstädt Church register (donation for a church organ)

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1666 -- -- Hauß, Johann Christian Groß Altenstädten, Solms (?) Approximate date of birth.

Research by D. Deal

1676 -- -- -- Palatinate Invaded by Germanic Empire "Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York," Vol. 111
1677 Nov 4 Stadtholder Willem III van Oranje, grandson of Amalie Gräfin zu Solms-Braunfels Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic Marries English Princess Mary Stuart, his first-cousin and daughter of James, Duke of York.
1688 -- -- -- Palatinate Invaded by the Dauphin "Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York," Vol. 111
1689 -- -- -- Palatinate Restored to the German Empire by the Treaty of Reswish Ibid.
1689 Apr 11 Willem III van Oranje and Mary II of England Westminster Abbey Crowned King and Queen of all England; Grafen (Dukes) of Solms are now cousins to Britain's King & Queen.
1689? -- -- Hauß, Johann Christian Groß Altenstädten, Solms-Hohensolms (?) Weds Maria Catharine Research by D. Deal
1690 -- -- Hauß, Johannes Groß Altenstädten, Solms (?) A guess for approximate date of birth. Research by D. Deal
1693 -- -- -- Palatinate Land destroyed by the French, "who made a desert of 2,000 cities, towns and villages" "Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York," Vol. 111
1694 -- -- Hauß, Daniel Königsberg Registered. The Palatine Families of New York by Henry Jones, Jr.
1694 -- -- -- Palatinate Short period of peace! "Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York," Vol. 111
1695 -- -- -- Palatinate Peace over: Destroyed by the French (again) Ibid.
1700 -- -- -- -- -- --
1707 Aug 24 Johann Ludwig, Graf zu Solms-Hohensolms Solms-Hohensolms Death; Succeeded by son Friedrich Wilhelm (political instability in area leads to merging with Solms-Lich in 1712).
1708 March -- Rev. Joshua Kocherthal Palatinate Petitions Queen Anne to permit Palatines to sail for one of the British colonies in North America The Book of Names, Especially Relating to The Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley Compiled by Lou D. MacWethy. Published by The Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville, NY., 1933
1708 March -- Queen Anne England Agrees to send refugees from Paltinate and Solms to the British Colonies, to escape religious persecution
1708 Oct. -- Rev. Joshua Kocherthal & 53 Palatines London Set sail for North America. The Book of Names, Especially Relating to The Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley, Compiled by Lou D. MacWethy, 1933
1709 -- -- Hauß, Johann Christian ("Johan Kristhaus") Rotterdam In the sixth party of Palatine refugees; sails to London with wife and six children. The Palatine Families of New York by Henry Jones, Jr. - ISBN 096138882X - page 349-352
1709 Dec. 25 Haus, Mrs. (Mary Catharine?) London Death
1710 April 10 Hauß, Johann Christian & Family London Set sail for America with 2814 Palatines
1710 June 13 Palatines New York Begin landing in America, settled on the Hudson River as indentured servants Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, by Philip Otterness. Published by Cornell University Press, 2004
1710 Sept. 27 Hauss (sp), Christian New York Married to Anna Catherine, widow of the late Johann Becker of Durnberg near Deitz in Schomberg, by Rev. Joshua Kocherthal The Palatine Families of New York by Henry Jones, Jr. - ISBN 096138882X - page 349-352
1710 -- -- Hauß, Johann Christian and Anna Catherine Schoharie Valley, New York Move into a new settlement called Heessberg, later Haysbury [one of the "East Camp" settlements], Dutchess Co., NY Warhoffte und glaubwurdige Verzeichnuss jeniger Personen; welche sich anno 1709 aus Teutschland in Americam oder neue welt begeben. . . . (Reuttlingen, ca. 1717), by Ulrich Simmendinger, a Palatine refugee who returned to Germany.
1713 -- -- Palatines New York Discharged from indentured servitude Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, by Philip Otterness. Published by Cornell University Press, 2004
1715 Oct. 11 Hauß, Johann Christian New York Naturalized as Christian Houys
1715 / 1716 Jan. 10 Hauss, Johannes Rheinhardt New York Naturalized as "Rynier Hous" of Phillipsburg, yeoman Denizations, Naturalizations, and Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New York - Kenneth Scott and Kenn Stryker-Rodda
1716-1717 -- -- "Husz, Hanns Reinhard" (Johannes Rheinhardt Hauss) Hackensack, New York, New Jersey Registered with wife Anna Elisabetha and one child
1717 -- -- Hauß, Johann Christian Neu-Husberg, later called Fox Town, in Stone Arabia, Montgomery Co., NY Recorded as a resident Warhoffte und glaubwurdige Verzeichnuss jeniger Personen; welche sich anno 1709 aus Teutschland in Americam oder neue welt begeben. . . . (Reuttlingen, ca. 1717), by Ulrich Simmendinger, a Palatine refugee who returned to Germany
1721 July 27 Hauß, Johannes New York Naturalized as "Johannes Hausz" Colonial Laws of New York, Vol. II, by Lincoln, Charles Z.; Wm. H. Johnson; A.J. Northrup. Chapter: 418. Publisher: James B. Lyon, State Printer, Albany. 1894.
1725 Aug. 26 Hauß, Johann Christian

Harrison Patent, Albany County, New York. (650 acres of land along the Maquas River, to be divided equally, with one acre left over for a church.)

Harmonas Wendell transfers a parcel of land to Christian Haus and Hendrick Klock (Albany County Deeds, Volume 7, page 87). But Wendall dies; title then goes to his son, Jacob, and Anna Wendell, who release unto Hendrick Klock one undivided or moiety of the before recited Lott No. 13." History of St. John's

(Property was later deeded on Aug. 24, 1732 to Hendrick Walrat; On Apr. 8, 1745, Walrat deeded the one half part to Evert H. Wendell)

1726 May 29 Haus, Johannnes (son of Rheinhardt) New York Baptism Baptisms, Lutheran Church, New York City
1727 -- -- Hause, "Reindert" New York Subscribes £1 (via correspondence between NYC Luthran Church and Lutheran bodies in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Skara) Protocol of the Lutheran Church in New York City, 1702-1750, by Evangelisch Luthersche Kerk (Netherlands). English translation by Simon Hart and Harry J. Kreider (United Lutheran Synod of New York and New England, 1958)
1746? -- -- Hause, Johannes -- Weds Sarah Wheeler Research by D. Deal
1754 - 1763 -- -- -- -- The French & Indian War The Unredeemed Captive - A Family Story from Early America.  John Demos. ISBN 0-679-75961-1
1757 April 16 Klock, George Sr.

Harrison Patent, Albany County, New York.

Conveyed the land that Christian Haus tried to buy in 1825 as an Indenture from Evert H. Wendell, "together with all and Singular the Buildings thereon erected (to witt) house, outhouse, Barn, Stable, orchard and the Reversion etc. Consideration L- 300." (Probably English pounds) Threerivershms
1760 -- -- "Fort Haus" or "Fort House" New York, Palatine District, Mohawk Valley (Schoharie), near Crum Creek A stone in the southeast corner of the foundation bears the inscription CH or GK. - 1760 IBLT. Klock of the Mohawk

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1771 -- -- Haus, illegible first name New York Name on a petition sent to the New York provincial legislature supporting the split of Albany County, creating Tryon County, named after Governor William Tryon Rootsweb.com
1773 -- -- -- Boston Boston Tea Party Penguin Atlas of North American History to 1870 by Colin McEvedy
1775 Dec. -- Palatines New York Neutral under leadership of Sir John Johnson. Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, by Philip Otterness. Published by Cornell University Press, 2004
1776 July 4 -- 13 Colonies Declaration of Independence adopted
2011 Nov 1 Jeffrey Hause Napa, CA Finishes timeline (?) This web page.

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