NameAnna Katharine KINDER 1498
Birth Dateabt 1675948
Death Dateabt 1740948
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 16701437,948
Birth PlaceEUROPE
Death Date28 Nov 17461498,948
Death PlaceGermantown, New Hanover Township, Montgomery Co, PA, USA
Death MemoNear Germantown on farm
Misc. Notes
There are Antes families in the Southern Rhineland-Pfalz area of Germany. Another variation of the name in the same village is 'Anthes'. This village is right on the German side of the French-German border. The village is named Oberotterbach. As far back as 1686 there are records of the Antes family living there. This is the wine region of Germany and very beautiful.1536
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The Antes ancestry goes back to the 'von Blume' family of the German Rhineland. ('Blume' is the German word for 'flower') Due to religious persecution during the Thirty Years’ War they changed their last name to the Latinized version of the Greek equivalent 'anthos' which also means flower. This name has come down through history in a variety of spellings: Anttos, Antos, Antis. The most common variant is Antes.1468,1504
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von Blume has no connection to Antes! I am well aware of the von Blume story and the many DAR records which are often inaccurate ... I have German Historian data back to 1450! My knowledge comes from Genevieve (Mitchell) Dudgeon and the significant research she's done on the Antes and related families. You really should get a copy of her book.1537
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There is still on record in the Reformed Church in the little town of Friensheim along the Rhine in Germany, a baptismal record of six children being born and baptized there to Philip Frederick and Anna Katharine Antos. Descendants of the family toured Germany in 1958 and others were privileged to see this ancient record which was still there.1437,1199
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Philip emigrated to Pennsylvania in about 1720.1504
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The earliest record found concerning the Anteses in this country is a deed, dated the 20th of February, 1723, for one hundred and fifty-four acres of land in Philadelphia County, purchased by Frederick Anttos, of Germantown, from Henerick Van Bebber, described as part of the "tract of twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-seven acres in Mahanitina," in the present township of New Hanover. Frederick Antes died in the latter part of the year 1746, leaving a wife and two children the son, Henry, and a daughter named Ann Elizabeth, who was the wife of John Eschbach.1519
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On February 20, 1722-3, Frederick Antos of Germantown, Pa., purchased 154 acres in Philadelphia County for 38 lbs. And 5 shillings legal money of Pennsylvania. He also bought another plot in 1724, indicating he did not come without some funds. So sometime between 1716 and 1722 Frederick Antes came to these shores, bringing along his eldest son, now in his early manhood, and the daughter of Maria Elizabeth.

On this first 154 acres plot that Frederick Antes bought he built a mansion house, which became the ancestral home later inherited by the son Henry, and was about 6 miles from Pottstown. It was in this mansion that Washington made his headquarters from September 18th to 24th, 1777, during his stay at Pottsgrove which was the most westerly point the Continental Army ever reached.

Frederick Antes was one of the principal founding officers of the Reformed Church near his home, then called Falkner’s Swamp. He was one of those to whom the body looked for guidance and counsel, and he brought up his children in that faith.52
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Now and Then, Volume XIV, April 1965 p 325 has the following: Immigrant Philip Frederic Antos naturalized at Philadelphia 12 Sept 1742 (PA Arch II Ser, Vol 2, pg 355), wife Anna Katharine Kinder, children born at Freinsheim, on Rhine, Germany, and baptized St. Reformed Church-record still there. It goes on to list their 7 children bapt. between 1701 and 1716. 1538 See also this source.1539
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Upon his death Philip was buried on the farm where he lived. His Will gave his farm to his eldest son John Henry [Johann Heinrich]. Source cites “On Frontier Col. Antes” pg. 475-4761199

[His son John Henry was later buried on the old homestead farm beside his Philip. (See John Henry Notes)].
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Wednesday, July 1 [1744]
Antes and his father left for home again; the latter, who has been an enemy of our congregation and has now visited it for the first time, spent his stay in the congregation of God in good spirits and, we hope, with blessing. [Is this diary entry referring to this Philip as the father?]1540
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WILL OF FREDERICK ANTES

The fifteenth day of August, in year of our Lord 1746, 1, Frederick Antes, of New Hanover Township, in county of Phila., yeoman, being aged & infirm in body, but through mercy & goodness of God of sound & well disposing mind and memory, do make this, my Last Will and Testament, of concerning my worldly estate, in manner following; That is to say,

first, it is my mind & desire that my just debts & funeral expenses shall be duly paid, & I do nominate & appoint my dear wife Eiizabeth Catbarine, & my son Henry, to be my executors . . .

And I do give & devise unto my said son Henry all that my messuage, Plantation, Tract of land, situate in said township, together with the appurtenances, to hold to my said son Henry & his heirs & assigns forever ...

Provided always, & my further i-nind is, that my said wife, shall have 8 bushels of wheat & 7 bushels of rye to her use yrly, & every year, at her request, & to have one cow & 2 sheep kept yrly on said plantation for her use, & privilege to raise a calf to her use till it be one yr. old . . . My said wife is only to help with her own labor to make hay for the keeping of said stock.

My said wife shall have 1/4 A land sowed with flax on the sd plantation to be her use yearly, & every year; & my said wife shall have 1/3 part of the fruit of the orchard & 1/4 part of the ground in the garden to be to her use yrly, & every year; &. (she) shall have my lodging room to dwell in, & her necessary use of the fireplace, during the term of her natural life, is she so long continue sole & unmarried. To which end I would have the plantation let to farm from yr to yr, or otherwise to the best advantage in the discretion of my sd son Henry, or his heirs. BUT, if my sd wife shall marry again, then within 6 months after such her future marriage, I do give unto her, my sd wife, the sum of £10, in lieu of her dower, or any other part of my estate.

And I do give unto my laughter, Anna Elizabeth the sum of £50 to be pd. her in 12 months after my decease.

As for & concerning all the cattle & live stock, with the corn that shall be found on sd plantation at time of my decease, whether in field or barn, I give the one ful moyety thereof unto my sd wife, Elizabeth Catharine, & the other moyety to son Henry.

Moreover, I give unto my sd wife the bed whereon we lie with the furniture belonging to it; my round table, my brandy still, my great iron kettle, my great German Bible & Great hanging press.

And I give to sd son Henry all my implements of husbandry whatsoever, & my great copper kettle, & as for & concerning all the rest of my houshold goods & all other goods, chattels, effects & estate whatsoever, I give & bequeath one full moyety to me sd wife Elizabeth Catharine, & the other moyety thereof unto my said son Henry Antes, . . . & I do declare this to be my last will & Testament, hereby revoking all others. In witness thereof, the said Frederick Antes, have thereunto set my hand & seal the day & year first within mentioned. FREDERICK ANTES. Signed, sealed & published & declared by the above & within named Fred’k Antes . . in presence of witnesses: Josh Bitting, Jacob Bauman. (Will Probated 11.26.1746)1541
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Other Rheinland Pfalz towns with an Antes connection are Freinsheim, Breitenheim, and Meisenheim.... Philip Friedrich Antes ... came from Freinsheims to the Germantown area near Philadelphia ... Some Antes families from the Rheinland Pfalz ancestry are reported to go back before 1450, but I have not yet obtained good evidence to link my line to them.

There seem to be several Antes lines in this country that cannot quite be linked to each other. Most go back to Rheinland Pfalz, but I have seen one that appears to orinate in Prussia, and have seen a recent post of another family that seems to have come to Germany, shortened a name to Ante, and then changed it to Antes.1542
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The "Antes" name has been connected to people who were also, at different times, listed as Anthes, Ante, Antis, Anthis, Antos, Anthos, Anthon, Andes, Andos, Andis, Antheis. I am starting to think that it is very unlikely that all of these variations come from one common ancestral line.

The largest group of Antes descendants are the line of Philip Friedrich Antes, born around 1675 to 1680 in Germany, died in 1746, who came to Pennsylvania about 1720 from Freinheim, Palatinate, with his son Johann Heinrich (Henry) Antes, 1701 to 1755. Henry had about 12 children and now has thousands of descendants. One daughter became the mother of Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of the Capitol. Three sons, at least, gained the title of Colonel during the Revolutionary War period. One of them, Col. John Henry Antes, 1736 to 1820, also had about 12 children, and was one of my ancestors. i have seen his name listed in contemporary records as Anthes, Anthis, and Antis.

Another line, which might (or might not) be related if the German connection can ever be proved, is that of Wilhelm Antes,born about 1713, who came from Rotterdam to Philadelphia on the ship Friendship in 1741, and settled near Frederick, Maryland. I have seen his name listed as Andes, Andos.

Among both these lines there is a story that "Antes" is derived from the Greek "Anthos" for flower, which name was adopted by an ancestor named von Blume (German for flower) when he had to give up land and a title of nobility and a clerical career when he became a Protestant during some of the Reformation wars.

A variation that is a little like your story is that a Greek ancestor married into German nobility, transforming a Greek name into German for a few generations, after which some descendants went back to a derivative of the earlier name. I have not seen good evidence for this story.

An earlier post on this board describes an account of how "the name went from VON BREIDENAU to VON CALLBACH to ANTHES to ANTES." I have several second hand versions of this account, and am trying to get copies of the documentation that was shared with some people around 1975.1543
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The Antes burial-place, in the western corner of the township [Frederick] is invested with historical interest, owing to the fact that Henry Antes, a man known and respected all over Pennsylvania in the colonial times, once owned this property, and is buried here. It is inclosed with a post and rail fence, and it is overgrown with voting trees and wild flowers. Frederick Antes, the father of Henry Antes, was buried here in 1740, and Henry Antes himself in July, 1755. Other members of the family also rest here. The only stones remaining are those of Henry Antes and of a member of the Schoelkop family.1506
Family ID990
ChildrenJohann Heinrich (1701-1755)
 Johann Jacob (1703-)
 Konrad (1709-)
 Maria Elizabeth (1711-)
 Johannes (1716-)
 Philip Frederic (1716-)
Last Modified 17 Mar 2009Created 17 May 2017 Rick Gleason - ricksgenealogy@gmail.com