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called the "London List". In this census, Conrad is shown to be age 31 with wife and three children. Approximately a year later, on July 1, 1710 Conrad with wife and three children immigrated to America where they appear in New York on the "Hunter Lists" #597 (Jones, "Palatine Families", Vol. 2, p. 779). Johann "Conrad" Rickert was born in Hailer, Hessen, Germany on February 4, 1680 and baptized on March 17, 1680 in Nieder-Mittlau, Hessen, Germany. He first married Kunigunda Fischer on January 25, 1700 in Nieder-Grundau, Hessen, Germany. She was born in 1681 and died in September 1703 at age 22 in Nieder-Grandau, Germany. She was the daughter of Johann Fischer and Maria Liese. Conrad Rickert (1680) and Kunigunda Fischer had three known children in Germany:
I.	Johann Ludwig Ehrenhard Rickert - baptized November 7, 1700. He married Anna Catherine Conrad and died in New York in 1780.
II.	Elizabeth Rickert - born around 1702
III.	Johann "Conrad" Rickert - born 1703 and married Anna "Elizabeth" Hauss
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After Kunigunda Fischer's death in 1703, Johann "Conrad" Rickert (1680) married Sara Catharina Schiefer on January 8, 1704 in Germany. She was the daughter of Alexander Schiefer. She was baptized, as an adult, on November 22, 1695 in Nieder-Grundau and died on May 25, 1759 in Schoharie, NY. While in Germany, they had:
IV.	Ferdinand Maximilian Rickert - born around 1704 and baptized on October 1, 1704 in Nieder-Grundau, Germany.
To help understand the next major event in the life of our Johann "Conrad" Rickert (1680) , we will give a little background on what was happening in Germany in the early 1700's as explained on the web site "pittsburgdiary.com".
Until about 1871, Germany was made up of sovereign states which were constantly at war. All of the men were subject to draft. Beyond this, they were heavily taxed and were forced to follow the religion of the ruler. Inheritance laws were unfair, property was to be equally divided among all sons which resulted in the fragmentation of farms into lots too small to support a family. Daughters were left with little to contribute to their support. The land bordering the Rhine River was known as the Palatinate, and the people known as Palatines. In 1709, thousands of these Palatines left their homes and went down the Rhine River to Rotterdam. They petitioned the English Crown for sanctuary. The English granted this petition.
In the third sailing of the Palatines, June 5-10, 1709, were "Conrad Rickert" and his wife and three children. After reaching England, a census was taken of the immigrants, called "The London List". That census shows "Conrad Rickert", age 31, a baker, with his wife Sara and three children. The family was listed as Lutheran.
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