Martin Stupp ²

   Another name for Martin was Martin Stuep.

  General Notes:

He is likely related to Adam Stupp who appears as Adam Stump is the list of founders at Christ Lutheran Church. Adam Stupp was a landowner near Martin in Berks County.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Issue: Genealogist Henry Z. Jones in his book, 'Palatine Families of New York, 1710, reports Stupp had 10 children with Anna Catharine Schultz. ⁴

• Immigration, 14 Jun 1710, Schoharie Valley, New York. ⁵

• Moved, After 1725, Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Church, 12 May 1743, Stouchsburg: Christ Lutheran Church, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁶ Martin Stupp is listed as one of the founders of the Christ Lutheran Church. Also on the list are others whose families intermarry with Stupp descendants: Christian Walborn, Daniel Schneider, Heinrich Gruber, Johannes and Jacob Zerb.

• Will, 1753. ³ An abstract of the will on file at the Berks County court house reads:

STUPP, MARTIN, Tulpehocken.
July 20, 1753 - March 19, 1755.
To sons Martinus and Abraham, my plantation where I now live containing 200 acres. Paying £400 to Exrs.
Provides for wife Susanna.
All my children, viz, Frederick Martinus, Abraham, Elizabeth WAGONER, Anna Kinyjontia GRUBER, Catrine ZERBEN, Magdlena SCHNEYDER, Gertraut PFAFFENBERGER, Marialis NEFF, Margred Christina and Dorothea STUPP, shall have an equal share in remainder of estate.
Exrs: wife Susanna and friend Abraham LAUCK and Martin BATTORFF.
Wit: Conrad WEISER, Peter STEIN, Saml. WEISER.
Translation by Conrad WEISER.

Martin married Anna Susanna Walborn, daughter of Johann Adam Walborn and Unknown, in 1715 in Schoharie Valley, New York. (Anna Susanna Walborn was born in 1687.)

Martin next married Anna Catherine Schultheis, daughter of Johann Georg Schultheis and Anna Kunigunda Weidman, on 28 Dec 1741 in Stouchsburg: Christ Lutheran Church, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹ (Anna Catherine Schultheis was born in 1687 in Weilburg, , Hessen, Germany.)

  Marriage Notes:

He was probably married twice. His second marriage was to Anna Susanna
Walborn as recorded in the records of Rev. John Caspar Stoever. Many genealogists show his first marriage was in 1715 in New York to Anna Catharine Schultheis b. 1687 of Livingston Manor, Columbia County, New York.