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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Pluck: Birth: ABT 1768 OR 1786 in Norriston, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.

  2. Joseph Pluck: Birth: 1774 in Pennsylvania.

  3. Magdalene Mary Pluck: Birth: 10 JUN 1774 in Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Death: 4 SEP 1838 in London Britain, Chester, Pennsylvania

  4. David Pluck: Birth: 1778 in Pennsylvania.

  5. Daniel Pluck: Birth: ABT 1780 in Montgomery, Bucks, Pennsylvania.

  6. Sarah E. Pluck: Birth: 1780/1784 in Montgomery County, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

  7. Phebe Pluck: Birth: ABT 1782 in Montgomery, Bucks, Pennsylvania.

  8. Pauline Pluck: Birth: ABT 1787 in Montgomery, Bucks, Pennsylvania.

  9. Hattie Krissman Pluck: Birth: ABT 1792 in Montgomery, Bucks, Pennsylvania.

  10. Catherine Ann many DNA matches Pluck: Birth: 19 JUN 1795 in Montgomery, Bucks, Pennsylvania. Death: 5 MAY 1878 in Salem, Utah, Utah


Notes
a. Note:   k families lived in Montgomery County, Pennsylania, moving between the townships there were Jesse Dehaven and his immediate family lived. Those were the families of George Adam Pluck, and Hans George Pluck. These families had children in the same age ranges in the 1790 - 1810 census. Either could have brought along a child who was born before they left the Rhineland. Dehavens loosely had things to do with both families, and were neighbors to both families.
  Two things support placing Mary Magdaleine as a child of George Adam Pluck. George's son Daniel moved to London Britain township, as did Jesse Dehaven. This could be coincidence. Mostly but not entirely family bought items that were sold at Jesse's and Mary Magdaleine's estate sales. Daniel bought items from both, and didn't buy a whole lot.
  Second, my Ancestry DNA matches find in this order; when searching for matches with Pluck in their family trees, a whole lot of matches descended from Catherine Pluck and her husband Jacob Cloward, a number of people descend from Jesse Dehaven and Mary Magdalena Pluck, and maybe a half dozen people share descent from William Smith and Mary Dehaven.
  That proves that I'm descended from George Adam Pluck or someone related to him, but it actually doesn't actually rule out recent common ancestry of George Adam Pluck and Hans George Pluck. Hans George Pluck is not showing up in my matches' trees, and neither are the other children of George Adam Pluck. The Clowards ARE showing up in great number because they quickly became Mormons and went to Utah. The chance exists that descendants of Hans George Pluck are among my matches but don't know they're descended from him. Half my matches who match Smith DNA and prove to be descended from William Smith and Mary Dehaven, who would be their 3x great grandparents, don't know they're descended from them or even one of their children.
  There were also several strays, listed toward the bottom of my notes on Mary Magdalen. All born in wider Philadelphia area between 1786 and 1802. None have parents. Mary Magdaleine could have been associated with one of them.
  In the 1790 to 1810 censuses it is often impossible to figure out which Montgomery County Pluck is which, and only one "George" appears in 1800. In 1790 George Adam Pluck had three sons and five daughters. The known information for him gives him a total of three sons ever, all born before 1790, but I have one son in my records and the other two without Daniel appear in LDS's version. I have David as a stray, and they have him as a son of George Adam aka William. The 1790 census has five daughters, and my data and the LDS's each list the same four girls born by 1790. Mary Magdalene could have been the fifth girl. There should have been atleast one boy and one girl born after 1790, by the census. LDS and my data both list the same two girls. Perhaps the boy is another of the strays.
  Hans George, according to all information, had just three children all born by 1790, though location leads one wondering if one of the strays are his, either in addition to or among those three. None of the children are followed forward so their names and dispositions are unknown.
  The two boys added by the LDS historical pages could have been added just to fit two of the strays in somewhere. They've got every single Pluck in the wider Philadelphia area as "Jacob Cloward relatives". This doesn't mean anything at all except that, to Mormons, any reason to think they might be related at all is reason to baptize them into Mormon heaven. There is very little documentation on ANYTHING beyond historical stories about the Cloward family, of which I found several.
  https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/M1JG-WRX/jacob-cloward-sr-1790-1851 Jacob and Catherine Cloward were early Mormons; LDS has data on this family.
  One gets the idea he migrated from the German Rhineland to Pennsylvania, between 1774 when Mary Magdaleine Pluck was born, and about 1780 when Daniel was born.
  There seems to be confusion about what county Adam Pluck and his family really lived in. Montgomery was a town in northern central Pennsylvania; not in the picture. It was a county made from Philadelphia County . Bucks County was one of the original 3 counties of Pennsylvania.
  Norritonville is a few miles from Norristown. Norriton, Skippack and Worcester were townships. Norriton a little vlilage.
  Pennyslvania archives calls George Pluck Gluck Pluck. (You can't make this stuff up.)
  1790 census Adam Pluck. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Males under 16 3 Male 16 and over 1 all females 6
  Several of his daughters were born after 1790. One would expect 2 sons and 5 daughters living in 1790. There are 1 son, Daniel, and 4 daughters living in 1790 if you count Mary Magdalene, and 5 if you also count Mary born in 1786, who is generally known to have existed and is occasionally placed in this family. It is important to note that Mary Magdalene is NOT usually listed in this family, and there are also several stragglers who aren't known to belong to any of the Pluck families in the area (including one that evidently lived in Philadelphia).
  No Dehavens appear on the same page that may contain a hundred or so people listed.
  In 1800 Adam Pluck is not found; only George Pluck of Whitpain is found. looks like 1 daughter, one son.
  1810 census Norriton, Montgomery County PA 1 Male 45+ 1 Female 16-25 1 female 45+ 3 people
  In the 1810 census Adam Pluck lived in Norriton, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 1 male over 45, 1 female over 45, 1 female 16-25.
  In 1810 census, the names are alphabetized by 1st letter. John Pluck is also listed. He is in the 26 to 44 age group, as is his wife. Three boys under 10, so must have been atleast 30. Born before 1780.
  In 1818, one of his children, Ann, age 11, born abt 1807, appears on the Poor School Children's index for Chester County. This makes no sense for Catherine Ann the daughter of Adam, who was born in 1795. Also it was for London Britain township. I think more likely this was a child of Daniel Pluck, don't know why Adam is listed as the father.
  Looking at the Poor School Children's indexes on the Chester County web site instead of Ancestry, I find a number of Pluck records.
  1817 Ann (10) 1816-1825. No parent's name. But in 1818 Adam is given as the parent of Ann (11) for 1816-1825. Pluck Joseph (9), Angeline (5) 8131 for 1830-1831 Joseph (10) Angeline (7) 1832 Angelina (8), Mary Jane (5) 1833 Angelica (10_, Mary Jane (6) 1834-1836 Mary Jane, Elizabeth 1836 Mary Jane (9), Elizabeth(6) 1837 Mary Jane, Elizabeth (1838) Elizabeth (8), Jacob (5) 1839 Daniel Pluck for Joseph (7) 1826-1829 in 1829 Daniel Pluck for Joseph (7), Angeline (5) 1830 - for 1830 -1831.
  The Poor school childrens' bills index complicates the picture. Ann, middle name Jaline, was billed in 1830. ????
  The children variously attended the North Bank School and the London Britain School, both in London Britain. It looks as though they attended the London Britain school in earlier years and then the North Bank School.
  I think what we have here is the education of the children of Daniel Pluck. Adam Pluck would have been elderly at that point and might have lived with Daniel? Also, he wasn't still living after 1820.
  So here are the children of Daniel: Ann b 1807, Joseph b 1822, Angeline b 1825, Angelica may have been born 1824 or may have been Angeline, Mary Jane b 1828, Elizabeth born 1831. There is a long gap between the birth of Ann and that of the other children; perhaps Daniel was married twice. Since Adam already had a child named Ann (call name) it seems unlikely he had another even if he had remarried.
  In 1798, he is in the tax lists for Whitemarsh, Montgomery County.
  He occupied or possessed a log house owned by John Lentz, his next door neighbor (next to William Lentz). The loghouse was 20 by 16, which was a bit larger than the houses of his neighbors, most of which were log but some were stone. This property is listed together with that of John Lentz, which gets all the valuation, and seems to have been 60 acres. He had a stone barn 25 x 18. It does not however mention a house that Jonathan Lentz lived in.
  A similar picture comes from another tax list, same place and year. Ditto the third listing.
  Adam Pluck was evidently not a prosperous man. There seems to be no clue what he did for a living, though he may have farmed the 60 acres. That he lived on the land of others and was poor may account for the way this family seems to have moved around.
  There are two entries for select births and baptisms for Johann Adam Pluck, in Germany.
  In 1793, the Pennsylvania Septennial Census, George Pluck is found in Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, but Adam is not.
  In 1788, George Pluck was apparently taxedon 48 acres. Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
  Christopher Pluck had a land warrant for 25 acres, 3 Oct 1751 in Bucks County.
  Thomas B. Evans, ex-burgess of Norristown, son of Francis B. and the late Martha (Pluck) Evans, born February 12, 1851, near Fairview, Lower Providence township, Montgomery County. Martha Pluck was the daughter of Jesse Pluck of Whitpain.
  1850 census of Whitpain.
  Margaret Pluck age 6 in household of John Styer, 53, farmer, wife Hannah 54, and six grown children.
  William Pluck, 25, laborer, eg born about 1825. Mary Pluck 20 nee Kerper. Henry Pluck 9 mos.
  Patrons of the Whitpain school. David DEHaven, Daniel Levering, John Pluck, Jr. 1814. 1813 received of John Pluck by the hands of John Wentz. 1.53 for tuition.
Note:   Mary Magdaleine Pluck is not proven to belong to this family. Two Pluc


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