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As far as the progenitor of the family in PA, we know that in 1737 Wilhelm Kraft Rabenalt and Magdalena Bauer Rabenalt (she was the daughter of a baker from Lichtenberg) settled in PA. They had been married may 30, 1730. They arrived on August 30, 1737 on the ship SAMUEL, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes. The ship landed in Philadelphia with some 318 immigrants from the Palatinate. Wilhelm was 35 and apparently had some education as his signature is in his own handwriting. He arrived from the province of Lichtenberg. He was born December 15, 1696 in Ichstedt (east Germany) and died about 1749 at age 47. Wilhelm was the youngest son of Hans Nicholas Rabenalt, a tailor, and Maria Sophia Schuder. At least two sons came with he and his wife – Johannes Peter and Johannes Frederick. There had been another son, Johann Nicholas (b. March 29, 1731; d. Feb. 15, 1732). From the PA Archives, we learn Wilhelm took out a warrant in Long Swamp Township, Philadelphia County for 100 acres. It was surveyed September 6, 1738, but the patent was not granted. The next record we have for Wilhelm is of his daughter, Anna Margaretha, who was baptized February 19, 1744 at Jordon Lutheran Church in So. Whitehall. She was born 2/10/1744. Considering that was 7 years after their arrival, there may have been a couple of children before her. Her sponsors were: George Ernst & Adam Tescheler and Apolonia Zimmer & Juliana Margaret Diehl. In 1749, the widow, Magdalena, took out a warrant for a 50 acres of land in Lowhill, Northampton County. It was patented on November 17, 1753 by Nicholas Fisher, who on October 9, 1750 has (as a widower) married Maria Magdalena Rabenold on the same day her daughter, Maria Catherine married George Jacob Fisher, the son of Nicholas. That same year, 1750, saw Nicholas Fisher and Magdalena Rabenold as sponsors to a Rieffel child. In 1754, they were sponsors to another Rieffel child.
There may have been other sons than Peter and Frederick. There's a John and Andre in the Rev. War who were contemporaries of Peter, but no information available.
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