Wilhelm Ludwig from Sunday

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Wilhelm Ludwig von Sonntag (born July 18, 1745 in Pforzheim , † 1818 in Philadelphia ) was a German-American officer and businessman in the United States.

Life

Wilhelm Ludwig von Sonntag (also von Sonnentag or William L. Sontag) came from an old Swiss noble family. His father was Johann Friedrich von Sonnentag (born July 27th, 1708), Baden-Durlachscher Hofrat and Obervogt zu Pforzheim , Stein and Langenstein. His mother was Maria Barbara von Rhaw, daughter of Friedrich Balthasar von Rhaw.

Wilhelm Ludwig von Sonntag served in the French army in the Royal Bourbonnais or Deux-Ponts cavalry regiment . This regiment was by Louis XVI. sent to help the Americans. Wilhelm Ludwig embarked in Brest on May 2, 1780 . The French ships entered the port of Newport on July 12, 1780. As an officer, Sonntag took part in the American Revolutionary War. He stayed in the United States and married in Philadelphia on August 11, 1782 Hannah Wright, daughter of Samuel Wright of Wrightstown, New Jersey. The marriage gave birth to ten children, the eldest a daughter Mary (born May 23, 1784) and the second a son, George Sykes(born March 5, 1786). Wilhelm Ludwig settled in Philadelphia and ran a business. He lived on Carters' Alley (attested in 1790), later at 28 5th North Street (attested in 1810). According to his great-grandson, he died in 1818. His descendants still live in the United States. The sister of Wilhelm Ludwig was Luise Friederike von Jäger, the wife of the Württemberg personal physician Christian Friedrich von Jäger .

literature

  • N. Gutmannsthal: The life of Georg von Sonntags, 1786-1841. - Laibach: Ig printing press. v. Kleinmayr and Hed. Bamberg, 1903. - 101 pp. [6]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "As far as the orthography of the name of this family is concerned, in the most ancient times one can find Sunday, Sunday, sunny day and sunny day. The latter is probably the most correct spelling. - SN Gutmannsthal, pp. 3-4.
  2. ^ Siebmacher, Johann; Fürst, Paul: The renewed and enlarged Teutsche Wappenbuch: In which of the H. Roman Empire high potentates, princes, counts, lords, lords, noble estates and cities ... Coats of arms, shields, helmets, jewels . Nuremberg, 1656. - p. 190. [1]
  3. ↑ The original nobility of his family was confirmed in 1707 by Emperor Joseph I in a renovation diploma. RAA Sonnentag, Georg Daniel, royal Prussian cavalry captain, Jeremias, jur. practices and advokatus Ordinarius juratus, confirmation of nobility and re-award of the knightly nobility, "von", privilegium denominandi (Vienna, September 21, 1707). Austrian State Archives. General administrative archive, finance and court chamber archive. A-1030 Vienna, Nottendorfer Gasse 2.Signature: AT-OeStA / AVA Adel RAA 398.47. [2]
  4. ↑ American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States ..., vol. 2, 1832. p. 445. [3]
  5. ↑ 1790 Census: Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790. P. 243. [4]
  6. ^ The Philadelphia Directory. 1810. p. 264. [5]
personal data
SURNAME Sunday, Wilhelm Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American officer and businessman in the USA
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 1818
Place of death Philadelphia