Wollery (Ulrich) Meng

Wollery Meng was born in Germantown, PA on June 11, 1731 and died in Culpeper Co., VA in 1796. He married Margaret Jones in 1757. He married for a second time to Sarah Colliday on January 10, 1760 at the German Reformed Church in Philadelphia.

Sarah was the daughter of Jacob Colliday, 'a Burger's son of Manheim in Pfalz' who 'came to this country with his mother very young.' Before he died, Sarah's step-father Daniel Mackinet wrote:

The Account Written by Blasius Daniel Macknet

Whereas our Daughter Sarah Meng living in Germantown is desirous of knowing her line of Nativity, I therefore, through this make known unto her the same, so far as I have Knowledge of it. Her Father was a Burger's Son of Manheim in Pfaltz (a Place so called) and came to this Country with his Mother very young; his Name was Jacob Colladay; his father died crossing the Ocean. His Mother's Name is Catharina Juliana, Father's Name Ribenkam, was born in 1703 in Wasinfried in Hessia where her Father named Jn Philip Ribenkam was Preacher and preached the Gospel 19 years and his Father was Preacher at Eschwig (a Place so called) Her Mothers Name was Magretta (sic) Caatharine, a Ministers Daughter of Saxone in Hessia, her Fathers Name Sattorin, Her Mothers Name Anna Juliana of Luninburgh in Holstein. This may serve as a Memorendom, if perhaps sooner or later some of the Relations should come to this part of the World. Your Grand Mother , a Widow, came over with six grown children in 1726, Viz. 3 Sons and 3 Daughters the eldest Daughter she left in Germany in Berlinburgh, where her Father died she is married to a Merchant of that Place, named Holtzklaus who is marryed & lives in the [undecipherable] Mother died. Her Husband's name, is I believe, Reuschell. Here follows a List of Your Mothers Children born in this Country Viz ­ 1st Margaret Catherine born 1728 Sept 23 dead 2 Anna Maria 1731 April 23 3 Jacob Colladay 1733 December 15 4 Catharine 1735 May 30 5 Sarah 1737 December 12 6 William 1738 Sept 16 7 Susanna 1741 April 17

And Whereas I was well acquainted with your Grand Mother, I can give her the Testimony that she was a pious good Woman, led a Virtuous life & was an Ornament to her Sex. The follies and pleasures of this World, she despised & took upon her the [undecipherable] Cross of Christ [rest of line undecipherable] Blasius Daniel Macknet