An American Family History

Anna Maria Bauman Seybert was the daughter of John Dietrich Bauman and Eva Elizabeth Beil. She was born July 5, 1741 in Marlborough Township, Montgomery (was Philadelphia) County, Pennsylvania.

About 1755 she moved with her family to Northampton County, Pennsylvania which is now Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.

She married Johann Sebastian Seybert (Sibert) about 1764 in Northampton County. He was born 1740 in Germany. His parents were John William Seibert and Anna Eva Klein.

He arrived at the Port of Philadelphia, on the ship "Chance" on September 13, 1764. He served in the Revolutionary War, as a private, corporal and sergeant, in Captain Peter Roth's Company, Northampton County Militia during 1780-1781-1782.

The family lived in Salem Township, Luzern County, Pennsylvania. They

settled about 1780 near the mouth of Seybert or Varner's creek, about a mile west of Beach Haven, and built a gristmill, sawmill, clothiery and distillery. The gristmill was of logs, had one run of stones, and could grind only from four to six bushels of grain a day. The sawmill was of the old "flutterwheel" style, and would cut about 1,000 feet of lumber in twenty-four hours. The clothiery was of the most primitive kind, and the distillery was the best that could be built at that day.

Sebastian and Maria's children were Henry Seybert (1765), Michael Seybert (1767), Margaret (Margaretha) Seybert (1772),
Sebastian Seybert (1773), John (Hans) Dieter (Honeter, Honteter) Seybert (1776), Bernard Bauman Seybert (1779), Nicholas Seybert (1780), and Eva Elizabeth (Polly) Seybert (1782).

Sebastian died January 10, 1809 in Salem Township and Anna died May 26, 1826 in Salem Township. They are buried together at the Seybert Farm Cemetery in Luzern County.

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Aged 84 yrs; wife of Sebastian Seybert
(she shares the tombstone with other family members)

Sebastian Seybert
1740-1809
Sgt. Co. 4, Northampton Co. Militia, 3rd Battalion

Wallace Seybert. . .was born in Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pa., February 16, 1817, and is the son of Honteter Seybert, a native of Lehigh County, Pa. The grandfather of our subject, Sebastian Seybert, was a native of Germany, and when a young man emigrated with his brother to this country and served their time to pay for their passage on a sailing vessel across the Atlantic. After paying their passage, they located in Lehigh County, Pa., where Sebastian was married to a Miss Baughman, who was of German parentage. The young couple settled in what is now Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pa., where they were among the first settlers, and there improved a homestead from the timber land. He was a successful farmer until his death, which occurred when he was more than seventy years old. His wife also died in Luzerne County at an advanced age. They were members of the Lutheran Church and helped organize a church of that denomination in Salem Township.

The grandparents of our subject had a family of six sons and two daughters, namely: Henry, Michael, Sebastian, Jr., Honteter, Barney, Nicholas, Elizabeth and Margaret. All lived to mature years, married, reared families and died between the ages of fifty and eighty years. They were farmers by occupation in Pennsylvania, and were members of the Lutheran Church. Honteter [Seybert], father of our subject, was the fourth son and fifth child in the family, and was reared mostly in Luzerne County. His wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Zimmerman, was born and reared in Northampton County, Pa., and was descended from German ancestors, who were early settlers of Schuylkill County.

After his marriage, Honteter Seybert lived on a farm in Salem Township, Luzerne County, where he died at the age of eighty. His wife departed this life when three-score years of age. Through industry they built up a good home and gained a comfortable competency. Religiously, he was a Lutheran, while she belonged to the Presbyterian Church, which was the faith of her ancestors. They were the parents of six sons and three daughters, namely: George, Honteter, Jr., Reuben, James, Wallace, Baughman, Nancy, Polly and Savilla. George was drowned in his father's mill race, and Baughman died when eighteen years old, but the other children lived to mature years. Our subject is the only member of the family now living, and he passed his boyhood upon his father's farm.

Portraits and Biographical Lee County Illinois 1892