Anna Maria Magdalena Schweinhardt was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on January
8, 1725 to the parents of Johan (Hanss Jurg) "George" Schweinhardt (1681-1756) and Anna
Marie "Margaretha" (maiden name unknown) (1691-1776). They were married in July 1718 in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania and had nine children. One of their children was baptized on
November 8, 1730 at Fa1ckner Swamp Lutheran Church in New Hanover, Pennsylvania. Shortly
afterwards, they moved to Maryland. Prior to any settlement in Frederic County, parties of
Germans passed through Maryland on their way to Virginia. The principal route was over an
Indian road that led through an area that became the first German settlement in Maryland, called
Monocacy, which was formed in 1729. Here, around 1732, the first German church, known as
the Log Church, was built in Maryland. Johan's name is found in the first official record of the
German settlement. They were naturalized in October 1743 and anglicized their names to
George and Margaret Swinehart. Following the death of her husband, George, on May 19, 1756,
she married Adam Miller, and when he died, she married Philipp Grindler. She died on May 19,
1776, twenty years after her first husband. Interesting, four of her children also died in 1776.