Old note: We know he came from Europe on a ship out of Bremerhaven, but we have no idea if he was really from Germany.
From "Eighteenth century emigrants from German-speaking lands to North America. Vol. I, The Northern Kreichgau" by Annette Kunselman Burgert. page 212
295. KOBERSTEIN, JOH. GEORG 6921 Zuzenhausen
Osgood, 1750
S-H'446Gauangelloch Lutheran KB:
Hans Jacob Koberstein, apprentice tile-maker, and wife Maria Magdalena had: Hans
Georg b. 3 Apr. 1726Daisbach Lutheran KB:
m. 17 June 1749 at Zuzenhausen Georg Koberstein, son of the late Joh. Jacob Koberstein, master tile-maker in Zuzenhausen, and Anna Catharina Glassbrenner from Daispach [=6923 Waibstadt].Krebs, Palatine Emigrants . . . ,"p. 36
Johann Georg Koberstein of Zuzenhausen (Kreis Heidelberg) applied in 1750, along with Johann Georg Ludwig of the same place, to go to the so-called New Land with his wife Anna Catharian. He had to pay 3 florins.American records:
Georg Koberstein nat. Baltimore 7 Sept. 1768, having received Communion in the Lutheran church of "Baltimore Town."