![]() ![]() Parliament passed a law making it possible for the courts to grant British citizenship to foreigners. This gave him all rights, privileges and advantages of natural-born subjects of the Province of Pennsylvania. He was naturalized by the act of March 29, 1735. His father was also ordained the same day. He was ordained on his wedding day, April 8, 1733. John Caspar Stoever (II) was the first ordained German Lutheran Minister in America. He went to Germany in 1735 to raise money for the church and died on the return voyage in 1738.īIRTH: 12-21-1707, Ludorf, Solingen Amt, GERMANYīURIAL: Hill Lutheran Church at Cleona, PA He was ministering to the needs of the German Lutheran Congregation in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He became an ordained Lutheran minister on April 8,1733, in Trapp, PA. The Stover's changed the family name to Stoever. Apparently, his wife had died before they left Germany, because there are no records of her on the ship and John Kaspar Stoever, (I) remarried shortly after arriving in this country. John Kaspar Stover, (I), his son John Caspar Stover, (II) and his daughter Elisabetha Carherina Stover left England the 15th of June 1728, aboard the ship JAMES GOODWILL and arrived on the 11th of September 1728. He left Germany in the spring of 1728 to go to the Land of Penn (Pennsylvania, USA). John Kasper Stoever, (I) was a Lutheran educator and pastor. He was a merchant.ĭEATH: 1738, at sea returning from Germany Lived in Frankenberg, Germany for at least 17 years before moving to Schwelm, Germany in 1700. Dietrich Stover is the earliest proven ancestor of this family. ![]()
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