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Stubbs Nelson Hart Pickett Home Tervort Wride Davis Bradshaw
Since the
majority of persons in this country today with the name of Roose came from one
family, there should be considerable interest in the details of the immigration
and subsequent developments with the family.
Emigration
of Roose Family to America. John
Frederick Roose arrived in the Port of Philadelphia, 29 September 1750, aboard
the ship, Osgood. He signed the Oath of
Allegiance to the King of England, writing his name as Fridrich Ruoss. His family consisted of his wife, Christina,
his two daughters, Barbara and Rosanna and his son, Andrew. When the Rooses left Rotterdam some three or
four months earlier, there may have been more of them because 32 children and
infants died on the ship crossing. We
know so much about their voyage because the famous book by Gottlieb
Mittelberger, “Journey to Pennsylvania, 1750,” was the account of their
trip. Mittelberger’s signature in
taking his Oath of Allegiance to the King was the fourth one above that of
Fridrich Ruoss. Recent research
suggests that the name, Ruoss, originally may have been Swiss, but it is still
probably that the Rooses were living in Germany, most likely Wurttemberg, when
they emigrated.
In
presenting this story of the earliest Rooses, it should be mentioned that in
November 1980 their gravestones were removed from the unprotected Bentz Burial
Ground and in 1981 they were erected in the Quaker Cemetery in Wellsville,
Pennsylvania, alongside the Quaker Meeting House that was built in 1769. The Cemetery and Meeting House as well as
the town, itself, have been designated as a part of the National Heritage
program. The town of Wellsville is
slightly less than two miles from the original Roose land grant.
Hier
liegtbeg Raben Fridrich Ruse
Gestorbenden 24 March 1785 Sein lhralter
War
73 jahr 2 Wochen 5 Tage (Here lies body of Frederick Ruse, died 24 March 1785
being 73 years 2 weeks and 5 days old).
Hier Liegtbeg Raben Christina Rusen Gestorbenden 28 March 1785 lhralter
War 69 jahr 2 Monat 2 Wochen 5 Tage (Here lies the body of Christina Rusen,
died 28 March 1785, being 69 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 5 days old.)
