Johannes Christmann
(b.1668 in the Rhein/Palatinate d.abt 1757)

Anna Gertraud Sixt
(b.1678 d.abt 1757)

Johannes Christmann and his family lived in Dalsheim, Germany, before immigrating to New York in 1710. The family endured the horrific voyage from London to New York City, they suffered as indentured servants in Annsbury (East Camp) at Livingston Manor, they lived among the Indians at Hartman's dorf in the Schoharie Valley, and then they spent a year in Olney, Pennsylvania, before returning to the Mohawk Valley where they bought 300 acres of land from the Oneida Indians on Nov. 7, 1728, on Mounts Creek above modern day Herkimer, New York, where Johannes and Anna Gertraud likely died in the massacre of Palatine Village on Nov. 12, 1757. If they had not died before the massacre, they almost certainly did not live beyond it.