What Is All This Nonsense?
Lately, I have been reading a lot of nonsense. I’m not talking about social media posts or news stories. Rather, I keep running across information about our Hagenbuch family that makes no sense to...
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Meet the “Charming” Captain
A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is to be the unquestioned ruler of that world and requires all of the leadership skills of a prince...
Andreas Hagenbuch Sails Aboard the Charming Nancy
1737 is an important year for the Hagenbuch family. It was the year Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715) and his first wife, Maria Magdalena (Schmutz), landed in Philadelphia to begin a new life in the...
