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American Pontius
Lines
William Pontius
(immigrated to Plymouth in 1633), descendents unknown
Johannes Pontius (b.
1717, immigrated September 9, 1738,
ship Glasgow)
Nicholas Pontius (b.
c1728, believed to have
immigrated 1738, ship Glasgow)
John Christian Puntzius
(estimated to have been born by 1740, took the Oath of Allegiance in
1762, was a tailor, lived in New York City, NY, listed in
census record of 1790)
Johann Adam
Pontius, immigrated 1747 to Pennsylvania from Birkenfeld.
David and
Marcus Pontzius
(immigrated October 1768, ship Pennsylvania
Packet)
John
Pontious
(born 1770-1780, resided in Ross County, Green Twp, OH;
apparent father of
Barbara
Pontious
born 1813 in Ohio, m. John Spees Ross County, OH in
1832)
Peter
Pontious/Punches (born c.1785, Pennsylvania)
Charles
(Johann Karl) Pontius (b. 1800, apparently a Great-Nephew of
immigrants Johannes & Nicholas Pontius, Immigrated August 1846
on Bark Paoli into Baltimore.)
Peter
Pontius (born c1812, immigrated from Prussia prior to 1850)
Jakob Pontius
(b. c1820 in Germany, immigrated 1854 with his family, resided in
Buffalo, Erie County, NY.
John Charles Pontius (b. 1838 in Alsace-Lorraine, immigrated
to Chicago in 1860)

Abraham Pontius
(b. Jan 1849 in Germany, immigrated 1881, resided and died in Shelby
County, Tennessee)
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According to the Chronik der Pontius-Familien,
Nicholas Pontius, b. 1784 married Anna Maria Weirich of
Landscheid. After the wedding the family lived in Landscheid.
Of the ten children born to this family, five of them - brothers
Johannes, Bernad, Jacob, Nicholas, and Cornelius - emigrated to
North America. They lived in Chicago, IL and Todd County, MN.
The eldest brother, Johannes Matthias Pontius, b. 1813, remained in
Landscheid and his descendants, through son Petrus (b. 1823), still
bear the name in that area. His son, Matthias (b. 1856),
however, went to Chicago like his uncles.
Johannes Pontius
(b. 1818)
Bernardus Pontius (born
1821, d. 1897)
Jacobus Pontius
(b. 1825,d. 1913), settled in Ramsey County, St. Paul, MN
Nicholas Pontius
(b. 1828, immigrated 1842, settled in Todd County,
Minnesota)
Cornelius Pontius
(b. 1835, d. 1876), settled in Stearns, MN
Matthias
Pontius (b. 1856, son of Petrus (b. 1823), Matthias married
Margaret Klein after moving to Chicago, IL.)
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Five European Pontius Lines
Below are the five European lines as identified by
Rudi Pontius in his book, Eine
Chronik der
Pontius-Familien, in which he traces these lines
forward to the current generation.
1 - Niclas, of Eborn, Germany,
from whom appears to have come the Johannes, Nicholas, Abraham & Charles
(Johann Karl) lines in America
2 - Franz, of Hoppstadten, Germany,
which is near Eborn; source of the Jakob Pontius family of Erie Co,
NY
3 - Matthias, who moved around the area
of Hunsruck and was a shepherd;
4 - Matthias, who sometimes had surname Pontzin, from Bettenfeld, Germany, from whom came the Nicholas
Pontius line of Todd County, Minnesota
5 - Velten, of Ostheim, which was in the
Alsace area
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