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- Lived - Upper Saxony & Kirchensittenbach, Germany 1762 - 1780
German Valley & Sussex County (Hardwick Township), New Jersey 1780 - 1800
Grimsby, Upper Canada 1800 - 1820.
Palermo, Upper Canada 1820 - 1836.
. 1825 Trafalgar Twp. Assessment, Halton Co. Gore District Lot29 NDS Con 2.
Number in family 9, John S Teetsell, 40 cultivated & 60 uncultivated acres.
. John Solomon Teetzel was born in the city of Cobourg, Upper Saxony, Germany, 27 February, 1762. The record in his Bible, transcribed from the German by Francis Teetzel, Milwaukee, Wis., in1868, gives 1780 as the year he came to America. …The beautifully carved & lettered sand stones which mark the graves in early burying grounds & churchyards
in this district are part of his work. Many of them, standing the test of time & marked by there letter T, may be seen in St. Andrew's churchyard, Grimsby.
John Solomon was also active in the life of the community. He served on the Grimsby township council as one of 2 Assessors in 1803, as Assessor in 1805, as Collector in 1807, as Town Warden in 1810, as Assessor in 1811, 1812 & 1813, as Collector in 1814-15 & lastly as ASSESSOR in 1818. At about this time he sold his property in Grimsby & moved to Palermo, Halton County where he died in 1836.
Ref: Annals of the Forty, Vol 9, 1958.
John Solomon Teetzel was born in Saxe Cobourg Gotha, Upper Saxony, Germany on February 27, 1762. While attending college, being educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood, he ran away to America. Apparently for this action he was disinherited, as the family was later declared extinct. The family had long been associated with the Catholic Church. When he left Germany, he had 2 sisters still living at home & he was the youngest son of the family.
The trip to America was very rough & the ship was wrecked off the east coast. He eventually landed in New Jersey in 1780. He married Rachael Von Till on November 5, 1786, & they settled in German Valley, New Jersey. German Valley no longer exists, but was a village in Washington Township, Morris County on the south branch of the Raritan River & High Bridge Branch of the New Jersey Central Railway. It is near Vethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Rachael died in Grimsby on March 20, 1813 & is probably buried in the Grimsby cemetery, along with an infant daughter who died in 1805. At this time the family moved to Palermo, Ontario & John Solomon married Mary Campbell, widow of James Campbell. They had 6 children, but only 3 lived to see adulthood. John Solomon was 63 years of age when his last daughter was born & her Monument was hand carved by her father. It is still standing in the Palermo cemetery today in 1994.
When the Scottish merchant Hon. Robt. Hamilton died at the port of Queenston, a fascinating inventory was immediately taken of his goods & debts owning to him at Queenston, Ontario as at his death on March 14, 1809: John Sol. Teetzel owned £31. 7 shillings 3 pence.
. The detailed inventory includes seven pages of all the goods available for the rugged life on the Niagara frontier. Or perhaps the pioneer stopped by for a wee drop from the 37 barrels of whiskey & other spirits on hand. About 850 people from the Niagara area are listed in a clear hand as borrowing a grand total of £62,729 from Robt. Hamilton. - P J Ahlberg 2009.
Ref: Estate file of Late Hon. Robert Hamilton, Queenston MS 639. R 50.
. 1794 Feb 24 Kunkele /Cougle & Cunkle, John Jr. of Hardwick Sussex, New Jersey. Admr. Philip Kunke signs Philip Cougle.
Fellow bondsman Adam Kunke; both of the said place. Lib 35, p 181
1794 Feb 20 Inventory £69 made by Conrad Arwine & John S Teetzel
Ref: NJ File 589S.
. War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses
John S. Teetzell, Grimsby, Claim 443 & 1242. Arms taken by the Enemy £6.5s. Attendance on two wounded American Officers £6.5s. Amount claimed £12 10s. Remarks: The claimant has dehorsd? to this claim. Refection not of a nature to affect Claim. [No amount recommended.]
. Claim 1242. Claimed £12 10s. Paid £3.
. Voucher 35-1393, 15s Halifax currency, signed, John S Teetzel by this attorney, James Middleburg.
Statement of Loses during the War with the USA, remaining paid: dated at 1842 Sept 30 - John Teetzel, Grimsby, £1.19s. - - -
Ref: Journals of Legislative Assembly of Canada
GRAVE NOTES
Note1: 1827 Oct 28, John S Teetzel*, Wm. Kennedy, John T. Westfall, Stephen Clink were witnesses to the WILL of John McCutcheon, Lot 7, Con 5, Erin Twp., Wellington County.
*Note2: In 1827 John S Teetzel was living at Palemro, Halton County, which was quite a distance from John McCutcheon's home in Erin Township. The Will was signed, at Erin Township; two witnesses are also from Erin Twp., & Westall [of Elmira, Waterloo Co] was closer to Teetzel. Rev. Stephen Clink These 3 men were German.
The Irish men, Kennedy [of Lot 11, Con. 5, Erin Twp.] & McCutcheon were in-laws.
Was Teetzel also commissioned at the same time to make the monument for McCutcheon? If John McCutcheon's gravestone is ever located, it should be possible to determine John S Teetzel distinctive chisel markings. - PJ Ahlberg, 2017.
There is a book written on him:
John Solomon Teetzel & the Anglo-German Gravestone carving Tradition of Eighteen-Century Northwestern New Jersey. Markers. Written by Richard Veit in 2000.
Suggestion of the possibility of Teetzel's handwork: Charles Roszel, b 1740 died 1817, red sandstone monument most certainly imported from New Jersey.
. Monument of Charles Roszel, 1742-1817 Gainsborough, Ontario, buried St. Ann's Presbyterian Church cemetery. Notes on the monument: Typical style of a New Jersey monuments. The monument could have been chisel in New Jersey. The Monument is by stone carver John Solomon Teetzel, marked with his signature "T" on the bottom. Teetzel was a fellow German who left New Jersey for Palermo, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg 2013. Thank you. - - - [1, 2, 3, 4]
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1762 - 1836 (74 years)