1974 Miser reunion.
The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee, June 9, 1974. [8]
1709 Johan Jurg Meisser is listed in the sixth embarkation list of German Palatines who sailed from Holland for New York via England, on July 28, 1709, " with wife & 4 kinder," [1] [2] [3]
1710-12 Johan Jurg Meisser is recorded under the New York Subsistence List for 1710-1711 as, "MAUSER, Johann Georg, 2-2; 2-1." indicating first, those over ten and those under ten in 1710, and second, those over ten and under ten in 1712. [4]
1974 Descendants held a reunion in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Misers To Gather
MARYVILLE (Special) -Descendants of Johan Jurg Melsser will gather al Miser Station In Blount County Sunday June 19 Their 10th national gathering will be sponsored by the Blount County group In 1799 five Miser families came to this area from Pennsylvania seeking a place to live Two sisters and one brother George remained there A revised book on the descendants of Johan Jurg Meisser Is to bo out in September including over 30-000 names — all descentants or married to descendanta nf Johan, says Mra Jody Ballew of Maryville.
[1] Walter Allen Knittle, Early 18th Century Palatine Emigration (1937), 272, [InternetArchive].
[2] U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, right, 4 from top, [AncestryRecord].
[3] Palatine German Immigration to Ireland and U.S., Hank Z Jones collection, 1654-1878, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] Walter Allen Knittle, Early 18th Century Palatine Emigration (1937), 287, [InternetArchive].
[5] Joseph A. Meiser, A genealogy of the Meisser family (1975), [URL].
[6] Lloyd E. Mizer, A genealogy of the Meisser family (1986), [URL].
[7] Ella Kennard, Kennard Family, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee, June 9, 1974, page 15, [NewspapersClip].