New conneaions have been discovered between Kendig, Meylin, Miller, Meyer, Herr, and Witmer families of early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives by jane Evans Best

artin Kendig has been called "First settler of placed in the name of Kendig and Hans/John Herr for later Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." With five distribution. At this time they represented twenty-one new other Swiss Mennonites he signed the June Swiss pioneers to the land office for individual land grants. 1 M 27, 1710, letter from London to the His distinctive mark, MK, appears on the ship lists of the Amsterdam Mennonite Church, and arrived with them in Molly when it arrived in Philadelphia on September 30, Philadelphia on September 23, 1710, on the ship Maria 1727, with more immigrants who settled in what is now Hope. Over half of the first ten-thousand-acre tract was Lancaster County. 2 placed in his name for later distribution to new members of This article reconstructs the Peter Kundig (KA) family of the colony. He returned to Europe in 1715 and brought back Baretswil, Bauma, and Pfaffikon, Canton of Zurich, with him over three hundred new colonists, including friends Switzerland, of which I believe Martin Kendig (?KA342 and and relatives, when he arrived in Pennsylvania in the fall of ?ML2342) was a member. He was probably a first cousin of 1717. Approximately five thousand additional acres were Martin Meili (?ML2361), Jacob Miller (?MR1521 and ?ML2311), Christian Herr (?HH12 and ?KA362) and Hans Herr (?HH13 and ?KA363), all of whom also immigrated in 1710 on the Maria Hope. 3 Another first cousin, Hans Meyer (MB84 and KA334), was probably the Hans Mier, Senior, who immigrated by September 27,1717, and died in present Lancaster County by 1722. Outlines of the families of Jacob MUller (MR), Hans Meyer (MB), and Christian Herr (HH) are included below. On February 12, 1672, a letter signed by ten ministers of the Palatinate was sent to the Anabaptist community in Amsterdam, Netherlands, thanking them for their help and support.4 Included were Ours Abi (?A712), Petter Gutt (?C622), and Jor Licht, ministers west of the Rhine River, and Hans Weidmers, Kristen Her (HH), and Jost Angel, ministers below Heidelberg. 5 Because he was an Anabaptist leader the right age at the right place, I believe Kristen Her (HH) was probably the grandfather of the five Herr brothers

1Evelyn A. Benson, "Martin Kendig 1710 Mennonite Pioneer Leader," M ennonite Research journal 16 (Apr. and July 1975): 1, 15-17, 23, 27-28. 2Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William J. Hinke, Pennsylvania German Pioneers (Norristown, Pa. : Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), vol. 2, p. 3. 3Martin Hervin Brackbill, "New Light on Hans Herr and Martin Kendig," Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society 39 (1935): 73-102. 4George Frederick Newman and Clyde Lester Groff, Letters from Our Palatinate Ancestors 1644-1689 (Hershey, Pa.: Gary T. Haw­ baker, 1984), pp. 61-63. 5Jane Evans Best, "Guth Families of Ottenbach, Switzerland," Mennonite Family History, 8 (Oct. 1989):137 and 9 Oan. 1990):23. I now believe that Petter Gutt, the minister, was most likely to have been C622, and the father of Jacob Good (GA), who died in Lancaster This map shows the area west and south of Zurich, Switzerland, in Co., Pa., in 1730. which Anabaptist activity was noticeable in the sixteenth through the 6Hermann and Gertrud Guth, J. Lemar and Lois Ann Mast, seventeenth centuries. This includes the villages of Hedingen, Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, 1664-1793 (Elverson, Pa.: Stallikon, Mettmenstetten, Bonstetten, and Birmensdorf. Mennonite Family History, 1987), p. 15.

Pennsylvania M ennonite Heritage 2 january 1992 who immigrated to America between 1710 and 1719. In 1685 a Christian Herr was a Mennonite living at Mauer.6 Hans Weidmers from the 1672list may have been related to Heini Witmer (WS) of Hedingen, Zurich, or to Peter Widmer (WT113) of Richterswil, Zurich, who may have been ancestors of at least seven of the Witmer families of early Lancaster County. Outlines of the WS and WT families are included below. The 1718 tax assessment list of Conestoga Township, Chester (now Lancaster) County, mentions five different Kendig landowners. They are as follows: Martin Kendig (?KA342) (d. 1748); Henry Kendig (?KA343) (d.1725); Georg Kendig (?KA352) (d. 1755); Hans Jacob Kendig (?KA354) (d.1735); andJacobKendig (?KA371) (d.1727). One was the brother of Martin, and three were probably his first cousins.

Meylin Connection Between 1652 and 1749 descendants of Hans Meili (ML2), the Zurich Anabaptist leader/ were recorded as they claimed their inheritances, and included Kiindigs, Kauffmans, and Miillers. By Swiss law they had to be or become members of the Reformed Church. 8 Unfortunately for us, descendants who remained Anabaptist were not recorded. On April 8, 1689, Elisabetha Kindig, 21 year-old married daughter of Jacob Kindig, an Anabaptist at Ittlingen, was baptized at the Reformed Church in Rei hen, The broken and badly eroded gravestone of Barbara Meilin, wife of Germany. 9 An Anna Elisabeth Kundig was married to Martin Meilin (?ML2361), lies in the Tschantz Cemetery, West Anstett Volken, 10 who claimed in 1699 a share of the Hans Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was Meili (ML2) inheritance in the name of his wife. In 1708 probably the first cousin of Martin Kendig (?KA342 and ?ML2342). she lived in Ittlingen and was called "one time wife of It has the following text: "HIER LIEGT BEGRABEN BEl BARBARA EHRW DES AL TEN MARTN MELLI SEN EHEFRAU Anstett Volken, and whose mother had been a Meili." GELEBT 24 JAHR 1ST GESTORBEN 11 ABRILL 1742" which in They seem to be the same person, KA341, a daughter of English states: "Here lies buried Barbara, honorable wife of the old Hans Jacob Kundig (KA34). He probably was also the Martin Meilin for 24 years. She died on April 11, 1742." father of two of the five Kendigs in early Lancaster County. Hans Jacob Kundig (KA34) emigrated to the Palatinate Her brother Jacob (ML236) attended the illegal meeting from Auslikon, Pfaffikon, by 1657. I believe his wife was for worship in Steinsfurt, Germany, in 1661,12 and the Elsbeth Meili (ML234 and BA331), daughter of Martin Martin Meylin who was in the 1710 group of settlers of Meili (ML23), the his_torian of the Anabaptist persecution, Lancaster County was probably his son (ML2361). and Barbara Bar (BA33). While her parents were im­ Elsbeth's sister Verena Meyli (ML235), who lived with prisoned for their faith between 1641 and 1647, she and her her among relatives between 1641 and 1647, was married sister Verena (ML235) lived with relatives, including her to a Kauffman. He may have been Heinrich, son of Jacob aunt, Cathrina Meyli (ML26), and husband, Heinrich Kauffman and Sara Brunner, who were Anabaptists in Funk (FH1), in Mettmenstetten from 1645 to 1647.11 1633 in Edikon in the parish of Diirnten, Zurich. Jacob

7Jane Evans B~t, "A Bear Saga: The Birmensdorf Connection," 10Ruoff, Martin Meilis Herkunft, translation pp. ·7-8. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (Apr. 1988) : 33-38. 11Jane Evans Best, "A Bear Saga: Albis to America," Pennsylvania 8W. H . Ruoff, Martin Meilis Herkunft (Zurich: 1952). A typed Mennonite Heritage 9 (Oct. 1986):14-20. manuscript in German and the translation by Noah G. Good of a 12Clyde L. Groff, Walter B. Groff, and Jane Evans Best, The Groff portion of it are available at the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Book, vol. l:A Good Life in aNew Land. (Ronks, Pa.: Groff History Society, Lancaster, Pa. Associates, 1985), pp. 2-3, 6, 287-289. Also attending the Steinsfurt 9Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emmigrants meeting were: Hans Jacob Hess (?HB2); Hans Heinrich Landis from German-Speaking Lands to North America, vo!. 1: The Northern (?LS224); Hans Jacob Graff (GR5); Michael Mayer (MAl); Jacob Kraichgau (Breinigsville, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1983), p. Gurh (0352); Oswald Beer (BA12) and his wife (ML58); HansMeyle 425. Karl Diefenbacher, Hans Ulrich Pfister, and Kurt H. Hotz, (ML27) and his son (ML272); Heinrich Beer (?BA123); Rudolf Schweizer Einwanderer in den Kraichgau nach dem Dreissigiahrigen Landis (?LS326); Marx Oberholtzer (OA269); and Jacob Groff Krieg (Sinsheim: Heimatverein Kraichgau, 1983), p. 202, nos. (GR3). Mennonite Encyclopedia, s.v. "Hasselbach," by C. Hege, p. 5247-5249. 677.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 3 january 1992 Kauffman was a miller's servant, and they are not recorded The eldest son of Elsbeth Meili (ML20) was probably in Di.irnten after May 4, 1633, when Heinrich was the Hans Jacob Vollenweider who assisted the authorities baptized. 13 in evaluating the property of the Anabaptists after the The Mi.iller connection to the Kendigs may have been Steinsfurt meeting in 1661. He had converted from the through Elsbeth's half-sister Tryni Meili (ML231), who Anabaptist religion to the state Reformed religion, and was may have married Hans Jacob Mi.iller (?MR152), son of well acquainted with their homesY Hans Mi.iller (MR15) and his wife Anna Peter, Anabaptists Another son, Heinrich Vollenweider (ML204), was in 1633 in Edikon, Di.irnten. I believe he is the Hans Mi.iller baptized on September 1, 1644, at Pfaffikon with Barbel who, with Hans Meili (ML27), was invited by two Barons HoHenberger, wife of Jorg Kundig (KA3), as a sponsor. He of Venningen in January 1650 to move from Alsace to came into contact with the Anabaptist congregations in the settle in Di.ihren in the Kraichgau. 14 In 1693 a Jacob Mi.iller Manheim area and joined them there. In 1671 he came was living in Friedrichstadt, Germany, with a group of back to Auslikon ill, and died at his parents' home without Mennonites15 which included Martin Mayle (?ML2361) denying his Anabaptist faith. The minister at Pfaffikon and Hans Weber (?WB28). He may have been either the went to Zurich on January 5, 1672, to seek counsel on how husband of Tryni Meili (ML231), or the 1710 immigrant to perform the burial and whether a sermon could follow. 18 Jacob Miller (?MR1521 and ML2311) (Mar. 1, 1663- Apr. 20, 1739) who is buried in Tschantz Cemetery, West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, beside Barbara, Peter Kundig (KA) Family wife of Martin Meylin (?ML2361) on land warranted by Peter Kundig (KA) of Walenwyl, now Allenwil, had his Jacob Miller in 1710. son Adrian (KA1) baptized on August 22, 1591, at Elsbeth's half-sister Barbel Meili (ML232) was married Baretswil, about fifteen miles east of the city of Zurich, by 1661 to Ulrich Hauser (HD5), Anabaptist deacon who Switzerland. On January 22, 1598, Jorg (KA3), son of lived in Ohnenheim, Alsace, in 1661 when he signed the Peter Kundig of Auslikon and Ursula Mi.iller, was baptized Dordrecht confession. 16 The Barbara who married Hans at Pfaffikon, about three miles northwest of Baretswil. Weber (WB281) (d. 1755, West Lampeter Twp.), was Each baptism was one of the first in the church record book probably a granddaughter (?HD521 and ?ML2322.1). of that parish. Jorg Kundig (KA3) of Auslikon and his two Elsbeth Meyli (ML20), youngest daughter of Hans wives had seven children baptized at Pfaffikon between Meili (ML2), died in Auslikon on December 3, 1692, a 1626 and 1646. widow by 1678 of Jacob Vollenweider. She was a sister of The 1657 list of emigrants from Pfaffikon 19 included Hans Meili (ML27), who escaped from the prison at Hans Jagli Kundig (KA34) of Auslikon, who was in the Oethenbach in Zurich in April 1646. He was recaptured Palatinate. The 1663 list of emigrants included Hans that autumn in the home of Heinrich Ruegg in Felmis in the Heinrich Kundig (KA35), who was near Worms in the parish of Pfaffikon. On February 13, 1647, he was set free Palatinate. However, he returned to Pfaffikon by 1678, and banished for his lifetime from Zurich. He was living in when he is listed, including his baptismal date, in Auslikon Ittlingen, Germany, in 1661 when he attended the with a wife and five children. Two of his children, Jorg Steinsfurt meeting. He was probably the father of Hans (KA352) and Hans Jacob (KA354), are included in the Milan (?ML272), who lived in Germantown, Pennsyl­ 1683 census of Pfaffikon, but not in the 1707 census. vania, by 1689, and the grandfather of the Hans Myley Hans Jacob Kundig (KA354) was married on April24, (?ML2724) who died in present Lancaster County in 1728. 1703, at Dubendorf, Zurich, to Susanna Wymann of Altstetten near Zurich, according to Pfaffikon church records. I believe this is the Jacob Kendig listed with eight other Mennonite families in Ittlingen, Germany, on May

13LDS microfilms 0996833, DUrn ten Church Book 1540-1735. All LOS microfilms mentioned in this article are available at the LOS . Family History Center, 2100 Hollywood Drive, York, PA 17405. 14Hans Ulrich Pfister, Die Auswanderung aus dem Knonauer Amt, 1648-1750 (ZUrich: Verlag Hans Rohr, 1987), pp. 179-180. 15Sem C. Sutter, "Palatinate Mennonites in Schleswig-Holstein, 1693-1698," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 2 (Apr. 1979):19. 16Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Emigrants from Albis, Part II : Rifferswil and Mettmenstetten," Mennonite Family History (Apr. 1989) :48-49, 52-53. Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania M ennonite Heritage 13 (Apr. 1990):18. Ittlingen in the Kraichgau, Germany, was the home in 1687 of 17Pfalz Generalia 77I 4336, Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe, Ger­ Hofbauer (farmer) Jakob Kindig, Anabaptist, who was probably many, translated by Noah G. Good. Hans Jagli Kundig (KA34) and the father of Martin Kendig 1BPfister, Die Auswanderung, p. 182. (?KA342), leader of the Mennonite immigration to what is now I9LDS microfilms 1185179, item 1, p. 232 (1657), and 1185179, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. item 2, p. 303 (1663).

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 4 january 1992 14, 1715,20 and that he died intestate in Lancaster County in 1735. His son Heinrich was baptized at Pfaffikon on Abbreviation Key October 28, 1708, was listed as seven years old in 1715 in b ...... born d.s.p. . ... no surviving Ittlingen with seven sisters, and named in Jacob's estate bap...... baptized descendants papers in 1744. bu ...... buried dau...... daughter Margreth Kundig (KA33) of Auslikon was married on ca ...... about inv. . . estate inventory June 2, 1657, at Pfaffikon to Hans Jagli Meyer (MB8) of Cern...... Cemetery Twp ...... Township Bussenhusen, Pfaff ikon. Jacob Meyer (MB81) was recorded ch...... children w. dat. . ... will dated in the 1682 census of Bussenhusen, Pfaffikon, as living in Co...... County wp...... will proved the Palatinate with his mother's brother, probably Hans d ...... died Jagli Kundig (KA34). Hans Meyer (MB84) was recorded in the 1707 census as having been "wounded, since 1690 in the war," and probably lived in the Palatinate, also. I m.(2) Dec. 18, 1628, Baretswil, Barbel Tobel, widow of believe Hans Meyer (MB84 and KA334) was the Hans Hans Bulman of W aid, 1 ch. Mier, Senior, who died in present Lancaster County in m.(3) Apr. 20, 1630, Baretswil, Regel Walder, d. by 1649; 21 9 ch. 1722. Jacob Meyer (MB81 andKA331) was probably the KA2 Hans Kundig, bap. Oct. 20, 1594, Baretswil; d. by 1649; Jacob Maier with four sons who was a Mennonite living in lived in W alenweil, Baretswil. Gundersheim, Germany, in 1685.22 m. before 1649, Elsbeth Zupinger; 8 ch. Barbel Kundig (KA36) was seven years old in the 1650 KA3 Jorg Kundig, 29 bap. Jan. 22, 1598, Pfaffikon; d. after census of Pfaffikon. She may be the Kundig who, tradition 1650; from 1634 to 1650 lived in Auslikon, Pfaffikon; not says, married Hans Herr (1 and ?HH1).23 Her brother in 1678 census; 7 ch. Heinrich Kundig (KA37), aged 4 in 1650, was probably the m.(l) before 1626, Anna Meyer Anabaptist recorded in Grombach, Germany in 1691. 24 m.(2) before 1636, Barbel Huffellberg; d. after 1650; on The estate papers of Heinrich Kundig (?KA372),25 dated Sept. 1, 1644, was sponsor at bap. in Pfaffikon of Hans May 5, 1746, Grombach, Germany, provide a keen insight Heinrich Vollenweider (ML204), Anabaptist. of m.(1) into the problems faced by the family of a Mennonite rural Children KA31 Anna Kundig, bap. Dec. 19, 1626, Pfaffikon; aged 7 in teacher. His brother Jacob (?KA371) had died earlier in 1634, Pfaffikon, 13 in 1640, 16 in 1643, 23 in 1650. Pennsylvania and left him a small inheritance. Elisabeth, KA32 Jagli Kundig, bap. July 11, 1630; d. Aug. 5, 1694, the daughter of the first marriage, was married to Conrad Pfaffikon; lived in Auslikon; aged 4 in 1634; 10 in 1640; 13 Hildebrand and lived in Pennsylvania. Barbara, the in 1643; 20 in 1650; 42 in 1678; 9 ch. daughter of the second marriage, was married to Martin m. Mar. 17, 1657, Pfaffikon, Adelheit Meyer of Bussen­ Kreiter, who requested the rights to the home and land in husen; [?bap. Dec. 4, 1636, Pfaffikon; dau. of Hans Jagli Grombach from the Countess of Reichenstein, spokes­ Meyer and Barbel Klaus of Bussenhausen ). person for the Count of Venningen. KA33 Margreth Kundig, bap. Aug. 4, 1633; d. Mar. 5, Family tradition26 says the second wife of Hans Groff 1701, Pfaffikon; aged 1 in 1634; 8 in 1640; 11 in 1643; (E) was Susanna Kendig, but I can find no documentation. 18 in 1650; 8 ch. She may have been a daughter of Hans J agli Kundig (KA34), and has been included below as ?KA344. 20Jane Evans Best, "European Roots of the Bear Families of All outlinesin this article are intended as clues for further Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: An Update," Pennsylvania research, not as proof of lineage. Additions, corrections, or Mennonite Heritage 7 (Jan. 1984):26. questions should be sent to Jane Evans Best, 5 Kutz Avenue, 21 Th is is a correction of my placement of this Hans Mieras MA41 New Holland, PA 17557-1225, telephone (717) 354- in Best, "Birmensdorf Connection," p. 40. 22 2316. The question mark within bracketed material refers Ibid. This is a correction of my placement of this Jacob Mieras MA4. to a question concerning placement of that material at that 23Theodore W. Herr, Genealogical Record of Reverend Hans Herr location in the outline and is not a question concerning the andHisDirect Lineal Descendants (Lancaster, Pa.: author, 1908 and 1980), internal validity of the material within brackets. I wish to p. 1. express a special thanks to Phillip E. Bedient for his kind 24Burgert, Northern Kraichgau, p. 424. 25 assistance with the Herr and Witmer family information Genealogical Archives, Kendig file, Lancaster Mennonite His­ torical Society, includes a typed transcription and translation by Noah included in this article. G. Good. 26Groff, Groff, and Best, The Groff Book, pp. 29-30. KA Peter Kundig, 27 b. ca. 1565; d. after 1601; in 1591 and 27LDS microfilm 0996804, Baretswil Church Book, 1590-1722. 1594 lived in Walenweil/Allenwil, Baretswil; in 1598 and 28LDS microfilms 1185149, item 2, p. 32 (Baretswil1649 census); 1601 lived in Auslikon, Pfaffikon; probably a brother of 1185150, item 1, p. 1031 (Bauma 1652 census). The parish of Bauma was formed about 1652 from parts of Pfaffikon and Baretswil, Jacob, Heinrich, and Fridli Kundig, who lived in Walenweil. 2 including Walenweil. KA1 Adrian Kundig, B bap. Aug. 22, 1591, Baretswil; in 1618 29LDS microfilms 0996947, Pfaffikon Church Book 1597-1699; called schneider (tailor) of Baretswil; in 1649 lived in 1185139, item 3, p. 194 (1634); 1185144, item 2, p. 91 (1640); Walenweil, Baretswil, widower; in 1652lived in Walenwyl, 1185146, item 2, p. 295 (1643); 1185150, item 2, p. 539 (1650); Bauma, widower. 1185158, item 1, p. 115 (1678); 1185159, item 2, p. 3 (1682); m.(1) by 1618, , 1 ch. 1185170, item 1, p. 910 (1707).

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 5 january 1992 m. June 2, 1657, Pfaffikon, Hans Jacob Meyer (MB8); bap. m.(1) Hill Apr. 19, 1618, Pfaffikon; d. between 1669 and 1678; m.(2) Ann Witmer (?WS2261), 39 b. 1739; d. lived at Bussenhausen. 1809; bu. Conestoga Center; dau. of John Children of m. (2) Witmer and Fronica Roland; 4 ch. KA34 Hans Jagli Kundig. 30 bap. Mar. 13, 1636, Pfaffikon; KA3421.12 Esther Kendig, b. Oct. 4, 1756; d. July aged 4 in 1640; 7 in 1643; 14 in 1650 in Auslikon; in 1657 1831. lived in the Palatinate; [?in 1687 hofbauer (farmer) in m. Jan. 21, 1774, Lancaster Episcopal, David Ittlingen, Germany, with 156 morgens of land]. Witmer (?WS2266); b. Dec. 15, 1752; d. m. by 1666, Meili; [?Elsbeth Meili (ML234 and Aug. 15, 1835; founder of Paradise, Pa. BA331), 31 b. 1636; in 1637 census of Stallikon, aged 2, in Children of m. (2) der unyngesagneten Ehe geziiget (generated in unconse­ KA3421.13 Martin Kendig, b. before 1763 crated matrimony); in 1640 aged 4; in 1641lived with KA3421.14 Elizabeth Kendig, b. Aug. 22, 1768; Hans Hochstrasser of Landikon; in 1643 and 1644lived in 1784 chose Jacob Kendig of Strasburg Twp. with Jacob Hochstrasser of Landikon; from 1645 to 1647 her guardian. lived with Heini Funk (FH1) and Cathrina Meyli m. David Herr (?HH1216), widower (ML26) in Mettmenstetten; dau. of Martin Meili KA3421.15 David Kendig, b. by 1770; above 14 (ML23) and Barbara Bar (BA33)]. in 1784, when he chose Abraham Hare of [?KA341 Elizabeth Kundig, b. ca. 1668; bap. Apr. 8, 1689, Strasburg Twp. his guardian. Reihen Reformed, Germany, a married woman aged 21, m. Elizabeth Witmer (?WS2264.4) dau. of Jacob Kindig, Anabaptist at Ittlingen]; [?in 1708 KA3421.16 Francis Kendig, b. after 1770; d. after lived in Ittlingen, called one time wife of Anstett Volken, 179 3; in 1784 court appointed Jacob Kendig of and whose mother had been a Meili. Strasburg his guardian; "went west." m. by 1699, Anstett Volken; 32 d. by 1708; in 1699 KA3421.2 John Kendig, d. 1771 claimed share of Hans Meili (ML2) inheritance in the m. Ann Herr (?HH1221), dau. of Christian Herr name of his wife, Anna Elisabeth Kundig]. and Barbara Ann . She m. (2) Michael [?KA342 Martin Kendig, 33 b. ca. 1670; wp. Mar. 10, 1749, Wedder. Conestoga Twp.; land agent; in 1710 warranted land in KA3421.21 Christian Kendig, b. after 1754; d. present Lancaster Co. after 1775; d.s.p. KA3421.22 Ann Kendig, b. after 1754; d. after m.(1) [[?before 1708, Elizabeth/Els Bar (BDll); b. ca. 1775. 1675; d. between 1729 and 1736]]. m. George Withers, son of George Withers m. (2) by 1736, Barbara ; d. after Oct. 20, 1748; KA3421.3 Isaac Kendig, d. ca. 1820, Lampeter; widow of brother Heinrich Kendig (?KA343)]. blacksmith; owned tavern in Columbia. 34 KA3421 JohnjacobKendig, b. ca. 1693; wp. Mar. 24, m. Esther/Elizabeth--- 1775, Lampeter Twp. KA3421.31 Isaac Kendig, d. 1816; tavernkeeper in m.(1) by 1739, [?Onela/Annali Meyer (?MB844),35 Columbia; 2 ch. dau. of Hans Mier (d. 1722)] KA3421.32 David Kendig, b. between 1799 and m.(2) Prudence--- 1806 KA3421.1 Martin Kendig, 36 b. ca. 1715; d. 1783, KA3421.33 Hannah Kendig, b. between 1799 and Lampeter T wp., intestate. 1806 m.(1) ; 2 ch. KA3421.34 Susan Kendig, b. 1809, aged 11 in m.(2) by 1769, Elizabeth Neff (?NF1313.418);37 1820 40 d. 1787; dau. of Francis Neff (d. 1739); 4 ch. KA3421.4 Abraham Kendig, d. 1789, Conestoga She m. (2) John Herr (?HH1212) (1740-1788) Twp. of Strasburg, widower. m. Mary Lane (LB44), dau. of Cornelius Lane (d. Children of m.(1) 1780) and first wife KA3421.11 John Kendig, 38 b. ca. 1740; d. 1810. KA3421.41 Abraham Kendig

30LDS microfilm 1185179, item 1, p. 232. Diefenbacher, Pfister, Dec. 25, 1739), Chester County Courthouse, West Chester, Pa. and Hotz, Schweizer Einwanderer, p. 202, nos. 5247-5249. Burgert, 36Deeds DD-147, NN-281, and R-70, Lancaster; Miscellaneous Northern Kraichgau, p. 425. Book 1784-1787, pp. 55, 80, 179-180. 31 Ruoff, Martin Meilis Herkunft, chart. 37John F. Murray, "The Doctors Neff of Lancaster County, 321bid, translation pp. 7-8, Pennsylvania," Mennonite Family History 3 (Apr. 1984): 69, 71. Jane 33Notebook of Friedrich Baer of Nurnberg, p. 31a, copy available at Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, states that a Martin Konig Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (Oct. 1990) :26. m. before 1708 in Ittlingen, Elisabeth Bar, dau. of Martin Bar (?BD1). 38Dr. Benjamin S. Kendig, "Genealogy of the Kendig Family so far I believe this was Martin Kundig (KA342), and that Elisabeth was a as can be learned at the present time, September 22, 1909," sister of Martin Barr (BD12), Mennonite minister who d. 1758 in manuscript in the Genealogical Archives, Kendig file, Lancaster Lancaster Co. County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pa. 34Wills B-1-697 (dat. Feb. 3, 1775), J-1-115, and Deeds W-522, 39Phillip E. Bedient, "Descendents of Benjamin Witmer of FF-139, Lancaster County Courthouse, Lancaster, Pa. Benson, Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Part 2," "Martin Kendig," p. 17; according to Theodore Herr, his first wife's Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 14 Ouly 1991):22. name was Alice Wade. 40Joan G. E. Wiese to Jane E. Best, May 24, 1991, and July 11, 35Best, "The Birmensdorf Connection," pp. 40-43. Deed 90 (dat. 1991.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 6 january 1992 m.(1) Ann Forrer, dau. of Christian Forrer of Conestoga Twp. m. (2) Mary Hackman/Hagman KA3421.53 Elizabeth Groff (N23), moved to Jefferson Co., Ohio m. Jacob Nissley, lived in Brooke Co., Va. KA3421.54 Abraham Groff (N24), 3 ch. m. Barbara Hare (?HH1212.3), dau. of John Hare and Mary Groff (N4). Children of m.(2) KA3421.55 Christian Kendig, lived in Conestoga Twp. KA3421.56 Anna Kendig, b. Jan. 2, 1765; d. July 9, 1796. m. May 14, 1782, Lancaster Lutheran, Jacob Barr (BD1236); b. Mar. 22, 1755; d. Sept. 8, 1841. He m.(2) Elizabeth Bare (BD1225). KA3421.6 Henry Kendig, not mentioned in grand­ father's 1748 will m. Barbara Herr (?HH1222), dau. of Christian Herr and Barbara Ann ___ KA3421.7 George Kendig, d. Nov. 17, 1823, Lampeter Twp. m. Elizabeth - -- KA3421. 71 John Kendig, d. before 1823; left 6 ch. KA3421. 72 George Kendig KA3421. 73 Abraham Kendig KA3421. 74 Fannie Kendig m. Martin Brenneman KA3421. 75 Elizabeth Kendig Elisabetha (?KA341), a married woman aged twenty-one, daughter of m. John Forrey jacob Kindig, an Anabaptist at Ittlingen, was baptized on April 8, KA3421. 76 Benjamin Kendig 1689, here at Reihen Reformed Church in the Kraichgau, Germany. KA3421. 77 Polly Kendig Her mother was a Meili. In 1699 she was the wife of Anstett Volken, KA3421. 78 Martin Kendig who claimed a share of the inheritance from Hans Meili (ML2) in her (Eiisabetha) name. KA3421. 79 Daniel Kendig KA3421.8 Esther Kendig m. before 1775, John Miller of Conestoga Twp. KA3421.42 Tobias Kendig [?KA343 Henry Kendig,43 b. ca. 1672; d. 1725, present KA3421.43 Samuel Kendig Lancaster Co., Pa.; in 1718 tax list of present Lancaster KA3421.44 George Kendig Co. KA3421.45 Prudence Kendig, 10 ch. m. Barbara , d. after 1748 . She m. (2) Martin 41 m. John Good (GB222), b. Nov. 16, 1759; d. Kendig (?KA342).] Apr. 6, 1820. KA3431 Henry Kendig, b. ca. 1700; d. 1736. KA3421.46 Catherine Kendig, d. 1833, Lancaster m. Katherine . She m. (2) Hieronimus Miller. Co., Pa. KA3431.1 Henry Kendig, 44 b. 1735; d. 1787; 12 ch. m. Samuel Seitz, b. Aug. 5, 1769; d. 1814, m. Aug. 1755, Anna Groff (04); b. Dec. 1735; d. Lancaster Co.; son of Andreas Seitz and June 10, 1811; dau. of Michael Groff (0 and Susanna Muller. ?GR3111.1) and Elizabeth Herr (?HH123). KA3421.47 Mary Kendig, single [?KA344 Susanna Kendig, 45 b. ca. 1678; d. after 1746. KA3421.48 Elizabeth Kendig m. ca. 1700, Hans Groff (E and ?GR343), b. ca. 1674; m. Michael Harnish wp. May 7, 1746, Earl Twp.; widower. KA3421.5 . Els/Elsbeth Kendig, 42 b. June 1, 1734; d. 1823. m.(1) John Groff (N2 and ?GR3122.2), b. July 4, 1730; d. 1758, Martie Twp. 41Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis, "Six Good Families of m.(2) ca. 1760, Adam Kendig (?KA3711.1); b. July Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite 8, 1735; d. Sept. 10, 1807, Conestoga Twp.; w. Heritage 12 (July 1989):16. 42Groff, Groff, and Best, The Groff Book, p. 164. dat. Sept. 4, 1804, wp. Sept. 23, 1807. 4 Children of m.(1) 3Benson, "Martin Kendig," p. 27. 44Genealogical Archives, Kendig file, Lancaster Mennonite His­ KA3421.51 Jacob Groff (N21), b. 1752; d. 1825; torical Society, contains a family record taken from a Martyrs Mirror 6 ch. printed in Ephrata, Pa., in 1748. m. Anna Graft (P2), b. 1755; d. 1835. 45Groff, Groff, and Best, The Groff Book, pp. 29-30. Land (1419 KA3421.52 John Groff (N22), b. 1755; d. 1821; acres) in Earl Twp. originally warranted by Martin Kendig (?KA342) bu. New Providence Cern.; 7 ch. in Nov. 1717 was warranted in Oct. 1718 by Hans Groff.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 7 january 1992 KA35 Hans Heinrich Kundig,46 bap. June 6, 1641; d. Apr. 6, Alstetten near Zurich; d. after Jan. 1, 1714. 1720, Pfaffikon; aged 2 in 1643; 10 in 1640; in 1663lived in [?m. (2) by 1715, Elisabeth ] the Palatinate near Worms; in 1678, 1683, and 1707lived in KA3541 Magdalena/Maudlin Kendig, b. 1702 or 1703; Auslikon. d. after 1744; in 1715lived in Ittlingen, aged 12. m. (1) Mar. 30, 1663, Pfaffikon, Dorothea Scharer; d. by m. ca. 1730, Henry Weaver (WB283); b. 1690; d. 1680; 6 ch. 1745. m.(2) Oct. 26, 1680, Pfaffikon, Barbel Weynner; d. by KA3542 Veronica Kendig, b. 1703 or 1704, in 1715 1707; 3 ch. lived in Ittlingen, aged 11; [?d. by 1769. Children of m.(1) m. Jacob Lichty,50 d. by 1751, intestate; executors KA351 Jacob Kundig, bap. May 7, 1665; in 1678lived in were Christian Hare and Henry Kendrick.] Pfaffikon. KA3542.1 Jacob Lichty, b. 1735; in 1769 released m. May 15, 1688, Anna Sayler; d. after 1707. land. KA3511 Hans Peter Kundig, bap. Feb. 24, 1694; d. after KA3542.2 Mary Lichty, b. after 1730; in 1756 court 1707. appointed David Longenacre, the younger, her KA3512 Anna Kundig, bap. Feb. 15, 1696; d. after guardian. 1707. KA3542.3 Henry Lichty, in 1756 court appointed KA3513 Anna Maria Kundig, bap. Aug. 14, 1698; d. Henry Light and Peter Swarr guardians of after 1707. KA3542.3 through KA3542.6 47 KA352 Jorg Kundig, bap. Nov. 29, 1668; in 1678 census; KA3542.4 Elizabeth Lichty not in 1707 census; [?wp. May 21, 1755, Conestoga KA3542.5 Fronica Lichty Twp.; in 1718 tax list of present Lancaster Co.] KA3542.6 Barbara Lichty m.(1) Apr. 20, 1697, Pfaffikon, Ursula Miiller of KA3543 Anna Kendig, b. 1704 or 1705; in 1715lived in Dubendorf; b. ca. 1679, aged 3 in 1682; dau. of Hans Ittlingen, aged 10. Heinrich Miiller and Lisabeth Pfister. KA3544 Barbara Kendig, b. 1705 or 1706; d. after 1744; [?m.(2) Barbara d. after 1754] in 1715 lived in Ittlingen, aged 9; 3 ch. [?KA3521 George Kendig, b. ca. 1700; wp. Aug. 7, m. by 1744, Abraham Burkholder; wp. 1776; 9 ch. 1770, Manor T wp. KA3545 Heinrich Kendig, 51 bap. Oct. 28, 1708, m.(1) by 1752, Barbara Witmer (?WS211); b. ca. Pfaffikon; wp. Feb. 9, 1756, Strasburg, Pa.; in 1715 1715. lived in Ittlingen, aged 7. m. (2) Magdalena d. after 1770] m. Mary Wolf, d. after 1756 Children of m.(1) KA3545.1 Elizabeth Kendig KA3521.1 Jacob Kendig, single in 1770 m. by 1765, Christian Forrer of Lampeter; clock­ KA3521.2 Henry Kendig maker. KA3521.3 Daniel Kendig KA3545.2 Mary Kendig Children of m. (2) m. by 1765, Benjamin Brackbill KA3521.4 George Kendig KA3545.3 Jacob Kendig, b. before 1735; d. 1814; KA3521.5 John Kendig eldest son. KA3521.6 Elizabeth Kendig m.(1) Catherine Neff (?NF1313.417), b. July 5, KA3521. 7 Abraham Kendig 1729; d. Dec. 5, 1802. KA3521.8 Samuel Kendig m.(2) Ann ___ KA3521.9 Maria Kendig Children of m.(1) KA3522 John Kendig, ca. 1770 patented 500 acres at KA3545.31 Jacob Kendig, 4 ch. Turkey Hill KA3545.32 Henry Kendig, 4 ch. m. Mary ___ KA3523 Kendig m. Valentine Miller, lived at Safe Harbor 46LDS microfilm 1185179, item 2, p. 303 (1663). KA3524 Kendig 47Benson, "Martin Kendig," p. 27. Will B-1-95 (dat. May 7, m. John Frantz 1754), Lancaster; Deeds C-254, F-252, G-156, G-158, G-173, G- KA3525 Barbara Kendig, her share from her father went 176, Lancaster. Martin Hervin Brackbill, "The Manor of Conestoga to her ch. in the Colonial Period," Papers of the Lancaster County Historical m. before 1754, Henry Eshleman Society 42 (1938):36, 41, 42, 45. Phillip E. Bedient, "Descendants of John and Catherine Witmer of Manor Township, Lancaster County, KA3526 Henry Kendig, willed £10 more than his Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (Oct. 1988):16. brothers by his father 4BBest, "European Roots," p. 26. Martin H. Brackbill, "Family KA353 Barbel Kundig, bap. Jan. 14, 1677; in 1678 census; Data in Some Pennsylvania Land Patents, 1760-1761," National not in 1707 census. Genealogical Society Quarterly 64 (Dec. 1976): 279-283 mentions KA354 Hans Jacob Kundig, 48 bap. July 2, 1671; in 1678 Patents AA-1-314, AA-1-320, Harrisburg; Deeds K-191, L-91, and lived in Auslikon, Pfaffikon; not in 1707 census of N-3-162, Lancaster. 49Probably listed on 1689 census of Alstetten as b. 1674, a dau. of Pfaffikon or 1710 census of Dubendorf; [?inv. Nov. 28, Jacob Wyman and Regel Waber. On 1700 census she was 24 years old 1735, Strasburg Twp., intestate; in 1715 Mennonite and a servant in Zurich. LOS microfilm 1185164, item 1, p. 395 living in Ittlingen, Germany; in 1718 tax list of present (1689); and item 2, p. 535 (1700). Lancaster Co.; in 1725 land leased to him by Martin 50Miscellaneous Books 1750-1754, p. 24, and 1754-1759, p·. 51, Kendig (KA343) and wife Elizabeth]. Lancaster. m.(1) Apr. 24, 1703, Dubendorf, Susanna Wymann49 of 51Will B-1-118 (dat. Jan. 20, 1756), Lancaster.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 8 january 1992 KA3540 Eva Kendig, b.1714or 1715; in 1715 aged 1/2. KA354a Mary Kendig, d. after 1751 m. Christian Herr (?HH134), b. Feb. 20, 1717; wp. Aug. 24, 1772, Lampeter Twp. He m.(2) by 1762, Veronica Groff (N3). KA354b AbrahamKendig,52 b. between 1723and 1740; wp. 1782; in 17631ived in Strasburg Twp., Pa.; before 1768 moved to Frederick Co., Va. m.(1) by ca. 1750, Mary Weaver (WB2827); d. after 1769. m.(2) Barbary , d. after 1779. She m.(2) Christian Stover. Children of m.(1) KA354b.1 Jacob Kendig, b. ca. 1752 KA354b.2 Abraham Kendig, b. ca. 1754 KA354b.3 Benjamin Kendig. b. ca. 1756 This is the Rathaus (town hall) in Ittlingen, Germany, where a letter KA354b.4 Christopher Kendig, b. ca. 1758 dated May 14, 1715, to the Barons of Gemmingen there listed nine KA354b.5 Catharine Kendig, b. ca. 1760 Anabaptist families, including Jakob Kindig (?KA354) and Jacob Miiller (?ML136c). KA354b.6 Elizabeth Kendig, b. Feb. 26, 1763; d. by 1795; illegitimate dau. of Mary Weaver and Abraham Beachea. m. Anna Rush m. John Smith, blacksmith KA3545.33 Magdalena Kendig KA355 Anna Kundig, bap. Apr. 18, 1675; in 1678 census; m. Jacob Resh not in 1707 census. KA3545.34 Francis Kendig, b. Apr. 23, 1766; d. KA356 Elsbeth Kundig, bap. Mar. 3, 1678; in 1678 and Nov. 25, 1840. 1707 census. m. Anna Neff (?NF1313.4162), b. Oct. 21, Children of m.(2) 1767; d. Apr. 15, 1844; bu. Tschantz Cern., KA357 Regula Kundig, bap. Nov. 3, 1681, Pfaffikon; not Lancaster Co.; dau. of Rev. Jacob Neff and in 1707 census. Anna Brackbill. KA358 Barbara Kundig, bap. Jan. 27, 1684; in 1707 KA3545.35 Elizabeth Kendig, b. May 17, 1767; census. d. Jan. 13, 1825. KA359 Hans Kundig, bap. Dec. 5, 1686, in 1707 census. m. Christian Musser, b. 1760; d. 1831. KA3545.36 Esther Kendig KA36 Barbel Kundig, b. ca. 1643; aged 7 in 1650. m. John Harman [?m. ca. 1670, Hans Herr (1 and ?HH1),53 b. Sept. 17, KA3545.4 Henry Kendig, b. after 1735; d. 1772, 1639] 54 leaving 7 minor ch. under guardianship of Jacob KA37 Heinrich Kundig, bap. Jan. 25, 1646, Pfaffikon; aged Neff and Benjamin Brackbill. 4 in 1650; [?Anabaptist, in 1691 and 1693 in Grombach, m. Ann . She m.(2) Jacob Fritz. Germany, forced to have children baptized]; [?in 1717lived in KA3545.41 Henry Kendig Grombach when he was a guardian of the 5 ch. of John Baer KA3545.42 Susanna Kendig, d. before 1819 (BA5183) and his first wife.] 5 m. Jacob Miller [?KA371 Jacob Kundig, 5 b. ca. 1680; [?d. 1727, present KA3545.43 Barbara Kendig, d. before 1819 Lancaster Co.] m. Samuel Shrey of Baltimore, Md. [?m. Apr. 22, 1704, by Anabaptist leader, Sinsheim, KA3545.44 Mary Kendig Germany, Maria Oberholtzer (?OA2611.2)] m. Michael Wise of Huntington, Pa. KA3711 Jacob Kendig, b. ca. 1705; d. after 1764; in KA3545.45 Elizabeth Kendig 1747 patented 150 acres in Conestoga Twp. m. Michael Kloepfer KA3711.1 Adam Kendig, b. July 8, 1735; d. Sept. 10, KA3545.46 Christiana Kendig 1807; 2 ch. KA3545.47 Anna Kendig m. ca. 1760, Alice/Eis Kendig (?KA3421.5); b. m. Martin Groff of Augusta, Va. June 1, 1734; d. 1823; widow of John Groff (N2 KA3545.5 Martin Kendig, b. Aug. 3, 1750; d. Mar. and ?GR3122.2). 1, 1826, Waterloo, N.Y.; 2 ch. KA3711.2 Christian Kendig, d. by 1766; estate m.(1) Mar. 31, 1768, Lancaster Episcopal, Mary Brenneman m.(2) 1797, Leah Bear (BA5182.932) 52Will A-467, Shenandoah Co., Va. Joan G. E. Wiese to Jane E. KA3546 Elizabeth Kendig, b. 1709 or 1710; in 1715 Best, July 11, 1991. Lyman Chalkley, "Circuit Court Cases Ended," lived in Ittlingen, aged 5. The Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, val. 2. Robert K. Weaver to Jane m. by 1736, John Longenecker E. Best, Oct. 31, 1991. 53Herr, Hans Herr, pp. 1, 786-791. Newman and Groff, Letters, p. KA3547 Verena Kundig, bap. May 11, 1710, Pfaffikon; 63. d. Dec. 10, 1711, Pfaffikon. 54Burgert, Northern Kraichgau, p. 424. KA3548 Ester Kendig, b. 1712 or 1713; in 1715 aged 2. 55 Administration 317, West Chester; Benson, "Martin Kendig," p. KA3549 Jacob Kundig, bap. Jan. 1, 1714, Pfaffikon; 27. Diefenbacher, Pfister, and Hotz, Schweizer Einwanderer, p. 202, not in Ittlingen in 1715. no. 5249. Best, "Swiss Origins," p. 24.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 january 1992 administrator was Adam Kendig. m. before 1764, Maria Elizabeth ___ KA3711.3 Henry Kendig, in 1764 deeded land from his father Jacob. KA372 Heinrich Kundig, 56 b. ca. 1683; d. Mar. 28, 1746, Grombach, Mennonite rural teacher; in 1731 Anabaptist minister living in Grombach; in 1716 and 1741 was a guardian of the 5 ch. of Johann Baer's (BA5183) first wife; w. dat. June 28, 1744. m.(1) ca. 1704, Elisabetha ; d. ca. 1705 m.(2) ca. 1706, Anna ; d. Apr. 5, 1746 KA3721 Elisabeth Kundig, b. 1705; d. after 1759; moved to Pa. ca. 1729; in 17 46 represented by Samuel Bechtel and Jacob GrehbulY m.(1) Henry Grebill, 58 b. ca. 1700; d. 1738, guardians of his ch. were Christian Sensenig of Earl Twp. and George Kendig (?KA352 or ?KA3521) of Strasburg Twp. m.(2) by 1744, Conrad Hildebrand; son of Conrad Hildebrand of Weiler, Germany. KA3721.1 John Grebill, b. 1734; d. 1797; in 1759 lived in Earl Twp.; 6 ch. m. Sarah Carpenter, b. 1741; d. 1813. Hans MUller (MR15) and his wife, Ana Peter, were Anabaptists in KA3721.2 Barbara Grebill, b. Jan. 14, 1739, Cocalico 1633 in Edikon, shown here, in the parish of Diirnten, Canton Zurich, Twp.; d. Jan. 28, 1815. Switzerland. They emigrated before 1650 to Alsace and probably to m. ca. 1756, Abraham Eby (EY25); b. Nov. 24, Diihren, Germany. 1735, Earl Twp.; d. Jan. 8, 1815, Leacock Twp.; in 1759 lived in Leacock Twp. KA373 Philippus Wilhelmius Kindig, bap. Dec. 5, 1691, husband of Barbara Herr (?HH113) may have been his son. Grombach Catholic The Henry Miller who died in 1757 at the Ephrata KA374 Mar. Magdalena Kindig, hap. Jan. 9, 1693, Cloister, Lancaster County, may have been MR136c.2, Grombach Catholic who may have been the Heinrich Muller aged 17 in 1714 in KA4 Elsbet Kundig, bap. Oct. 11, 1601, Pfaffikon Ittlingen. The 1640 census shows four Miller families in the four Miller Connection households of Edikon, each with a Bible. By 1709 no On November 2, 1544, Hans Hotz was recorded as an family named Miller lived in the five households of Ed ikon. Anabaptist in the church book of the parish of Durnten, MR Jacob Muller, b. ca. 1525; 4 ch. Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, when he and his wife, m. before 1553, Maria Helbing; d. after 1556 Cathrina, had five children (Regula, Anna, Barbel, MR1 Heinrich Muller, bap. Nov. 19, 1553, Di.irnten; d. after Johannes, and Urich) baptized on the same day with five 1613; in 1597 called Hauptman; lived in Lockli, Edikon, pairs of sponsors. 59 This is the earliest Anabaptist record I Di.irnten; 7 ch. have seen in all of the Zurich church books I have studied, m. by 1596, Maria Buler; b. ca. 1570; d. after 1613. and the only one with multiple children baptized the same MRll Hans Heinrich Muller, hap. Jan. 4, 1596, Durnten; in day, except for twins. 1618 called Hauptman; of Edikon; in 1640 aged 44 in Hans Muller (MR15) and his wife, Anna Peter, were Edikon, called Ampt Richter; 47 in 1643, called Land listed as Anabaptists in 1633 in Edikon, Durnten. The Richter; 54 in 1650. Reformed pastor in the 1640 census mentions that Anna Peter was "more in error than her husband, was unbridled, 56Ernst Miiller, Geschichte der Bernischen Taufer (Frauenfeld, J. but otherwise very commendable." They received official Hubers Verlag, 1895), p. 209. Estate Papers 229/111183, Generallan­ permission to emigrate with their six children several years desarchiv, Karlsruhe, Germany: Other guardians in 1716 were Martin before 1650. The 1663 emigrants list for Diirnten shows Beer of Ittlingen, Samuel Mayer of Diihren, and Michel Krehbiel of they had moved to Alsace, and that his wife had since died. T reschklingen. 57 A Jacob Muller moved with a group of Mennonites to Jacob Grehbui!Grebill from Treschlingen, Germany, represented the ch. in Pa. of his cousin Henry Krebuhl, who is probably the Friedrichstadt, Germany, in 1693. He may have been either Hendrick Kryebiel on the Molly in 1727. The Michael Krebiel on the MR152 or MR1521. The Jacob Miller who immigrated in same ship was probably the Michel Grebill (d. 1783) who was 1710 to present Lancaster County was probably MR1521. executor of the will of Jacob Bear (?BA1231.4) of Earl Twp., Pa., in Jacob Miller, Junior, and Jacob Miller, "black," were 1769, also a shipmate. 58 naturalized in 1729, and had immigrated by 1718. Either James C. Landis to Jane E. Best, Aug. 17, 1989. He traded his land between Stevens and Denver, Pa., for the land in West Earl Twp. one may have been MR136c. The Rudolph Miller of of Hans Rudolf Nageli, Mennonite minister who joined the Ephrata Conestoga Township whose will was proved in 1732 may Cloister community. have been MR 1367. The Heinrich Miller who was the first 59LDS microfilms 0996833, Diirnten Church Book 1540-1735.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 10 january 1992 m. Oct. 10, 1613, Diirnten, Adelheit Egli of Schuffelberg; m. Jan. 17, 1702, Gauangelloch, Germany, Anna b. ca. 1602; in 1640 aged 38; 41 in 1643; 48 in 1650. Ursula Lammler MR111 Barbel Muller, hap. Jan. 18, 1618, Durnten; not in MR134 Barbara Muller, hap. Feb. 26, 1626, Diirnten; not 1640 census. in 1640 census. MR112 Hans Muller, b. ca. 1626; in 1640 aged 14; 17 in MR135 Margret Muller, hap. July 10, 1627, Diirnten; not 1643; 24 in 1650. in 1640 census. MR113 Vrena Muller, b. ca. 1633; in 1640 aged 7; 10 in MR136 Hans Jacob Muller, hap. Feb. 15, 1629, Diirnten; 1643; 17 in 1650. d. after 1650; sponsors Hans Jacob Gubelmann and MR114 Maria Muller, b. ca. 1636; in 1640 aged 4; 7 in Barbel Ffenninger; in 1640 aged 12; 15 in 1643; 22 in 1643; 13 in 1650. 1650. MRllS Hans Heinrich Muller, hap. May 16, 1641, m.(1) Nov. 25, 1647, Diirnten, Vreneli Gubelmann; Diirnten; in 1643 aged 1; 8 in 1650. bap. Apr. 26, 1629, Diirnten; d. by 1662; aged 22 in MR12 Verena Muller, hap. Mar. 3, 1597, Diirnten 1650; dau. of Hans Gubelman and Barbel Krautter; 8 MR13 Rudolph Muller, hap. Oct. 12, 1598, Diirnten; d. after ch. 1650; in 1622 lived in Edikon; in 1630 called Fandrich m.(2) Oct. 3, 1662, Diirnten, Madalena Wismer; b. ca. (standard bearer); in 1640 aged 39, called Ampt and 1629; aged 53 in 1682; 5 ch. Luttinampt; 42 in 1643; 49 in 1650; 11 ch. Children of m.(1) m.(1) Dec. 5, 1619, Diirnten, Verena Streuli; d. by 1629. MR1361 Hans Muller, hap. May 18, 1649, Durnten; in 60 m.(2) Dec. 14, 1629, Diirnten, Anna Hotz; b. ca. 1601; d. 1650 aged 1; 33 in 1682 in Alsace. after 1650; in 1640 aged 39, widow with son Hans m. by 1682, Ursula Baurin Baudard, b. ca. 1624, aged 16 in 1640. MR1362 Cathrina Muller, hap. Oct. 20, 1650, Diirnten Children of m.(1) MR1363 Verena Muller, hap. June 6, 1652, Diirnten MR131 Maria Muller, b. ca. 1621; in 1640 aged 19; not in MR1364 Hans Jacob Muller, hap. Apr. 9, 1654, 1643 census. Diirnten; in 1682 aged 28 in Alsace. MR132 Cathrina Muller, hap. Oct. 15, 1622, Diirnten; not m. by 1682, N.N. ein papstin. in 1640 census. MR1365 Hans Heinrich Muller, hap. July 8, 1655, MR133 Hans Thoman Muller, hap. Oct. 26, 1623; d. after Diirnten 1682; in 1640 aged 17; 20 in 1643; in 1650 lived in MR1366 Regula Muller, hap. Dec. 21, 1656, Diirnten Dalmatia; in 1652 lived in Edikon, called fandrich; in MR1367 Rudolph Muller,62 hap. May 8, 1659, 1656 called miller of Edikon, Leutenampt; 59 in 1682. Diirnten; in 1682 aged 23; [?in 1717 Mennonite living m.(1) May 26, 1646, Diirnten, Anna Schnider; d. after in Eppingen]; [?wp. Feb. 1, 1732, Conestoga Twp., 1654. Lancaster. m.(2) Mar. 6, 1656, Diirnten, Elsbeth Werndlin; b. ca. m. Barbara , d. after Nov. 27, 1731] 1633; in 1682 aged 49. MR1367.1 Henry Miller, b. ca. 1690; [?letters of Children of m.(1) administration Mar. 9, 1728, Chester Co.; 3 ch. MR1331 Hans Jacob Muller, hap. Jan. 30, 1648, m. Barbara Herr (?HR113),63 b. ca. 1702; d. ca. Diirnten; not in 1682 census. 1742. She m.(2) David Martin, b. 1691; wp. MR1332 Hans Jacob Muller, hap. May 2, 1652, Dec. 4, 1784; widower.] Diirnten; not in 1682 census. MR1367.2 Jacob Miller, [?executor of father's will, MR1333 Hans Jacob Muller, hap. Aug. 6, 1654, lived in Conestoga Twp.] Diirnten; not in 1682 census. MR1367.3 Anna Margaret Miller Children of m.(2) m. Apr. 1720, Manheim, Baden, Germany, MR1334 Regula Muller, hap. Aug. 31, 1656, Diirnten; Michael Springle; in 1724-25 tax list of in 1682 aged 26. Conestoga Twp.; son of Michael Sprenckel and MR1335 Hans Jacob Muller, hap. Oct. 18, 1657; in Elisabeth ___ 1682 aged 25 in Alsace. MR1368 Elsbeth Muller, hap. Mar. 4, 1662, Diirnten; MR1336 Esther Muller, hap. Mar. 31, 1659; in 1682 in 1682 aged 20. aged 23, servant in Zurich. Children of m. (2) MR1337 Anna Muller, hap. Nov. 22, 1660, Diirnten; MR1369 Madalena Muller, hap. Apr. 11, 1664, not in 1682 census. Diirnten; not in 1682 census. MR1338 Elsbeth Muller, hap. Mar. 27, 1662, Diirnten; MR1360 Catharina Muller, hap. Oct. 22, 1665, Durn­ in 16/l2 aged 20. ten; in 1682 aged 17. MR1339 Hans Thoman Muller, hap. Dec. 11, 1664, Diirnten; in 1682 aged 18. MR1330 Madalena Muller, hap. Jan. 20, 1667, Diirnten; in 1682 aged 15, servant in Meilen. MR133a Dietegen Muller, hap. Feb. 6, 1670, Diirnten; 60She may have been a granddaughter of Hans Hotz, the not in 1682 census. Anabaptist. Two Annas were baptized in Feb. 1601, one the dau. of MR133b Cleopera Muller, hap. Jan. 29, 1671, Diirnten; Hans Hotz and Elsbeth Muller, and the other of Oswalt Hotz and Anna Hurliman. in 1682 aged 11. 61Diefenbacher, Pfister, and Hotz, p. 61 Schweizer Einwanderer, 126. MR133c Felix Muller, hap. Nov. 16, 1675, Diirnten; 62Esther Sprenkel Segel to Jane E. Best, July 27, 1991. master miller; in 1682 aged 7; in 17081ived in Leimen, 63J ason S. Martin, "Christian and Ells Martin: Immigrant Germany; in 1721 lived at Wersauer Hof near Patriarch and Matriarch," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 10 (July Reilingen. 1987):13-16.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 january 1992 MR136a Hans Bernhardli Muller, bap. June 26, 1667, Diirnten; in 1682 aged 15. MR136b Jacobli Muller, bap. Oct. 13, 1668, Diirnten; not in 1682 census. MR136c Hans Jacob Muller, bap. Apr. 19, 1670, Durnten; in 1682 aged 11; [?in 1714 was Anabaptist in Ittlingen64 with wife and 3 ch.] m. by 1714, Barbara --- MR136c.1 Katharina Muller, b. ca. 1692, aged 22 in 1714. MR136c.2 Heinrich Muller, b. ca. 1697, aged 17 in 1714; [?d. 1757, bu. Ephrata Cloister;65 in 1740 lived in Ephrata, Pa. m. Clara , d. 1748] MR136c.3 Barbara Muller, b. ca. 1700, aged 14 in 1714. Eppingen, Germany, was the home in 1707 of Jacob Miiller Children of m.(2) (ML1522.1), who had been a member of the Reformed Church for MR137 Barbel Muller, bap. Aug. 29, 1630, Diirnten; in three years, and was a descendant of Hans Meili (ML2). He was a 1640 aged 10; 13 in 1643; not in 1650 census. former Anabaptist who had been baptized on February 1, 1705, at MR138 Vreneli Muller, bap. May 4, 1632, Durnten; in Kloster Lobenfeld at age eighteen, renamed Johannes Miiller. 1640 aged 8; not in 1643 census. MR139 Anna Muller, bap. May 9, 1634, Durnten, in 1640 m. Henry Haines/Hohn,69 d. 1744, Ephrata, aged 6; 9 in 1643; 16 in 1650. intestate; on Nov. 12, 1724, he and his wife bap. MR130 Hans Rudolf£ Muller, bap. Feb. 12, 1637, Durn­ in Pequea Creek at his home by Peter Becker ten; in 1640 aged 3; not in 1643 census. with 5 others, including Conrad Beissel; on Oct. MR13a Kly Annali Muller, bap. Nov. 10, 1640, Diirnten; 24, 1732, purchased 200 acres from Jacob in 1640 aged 0; not in 1643 census. Miller, sold it Oct. 30, 1739, to Rudolph Hain]; MR14 Maria Muller, bap. Mar. 8, 1601, Durnten 66 [?son of Henry Hein (b. ca. 1669), who in 1709 MR15 Hans Muller, bap. July 23, 1603, Durnten; in 1633, was in England]. 1637, 1639, 1640, 1642 called Anabaptist in Edikon, [?MR1522 Hans Jacob Muller/0 b. ca. 1668, d. 1703, Durnten; in 1640 aged 36; 39 in 1643; before 1650 Dammhof, Germany, aged 35, Anabaptist, "since 5 emigrated from Edikon; before 1663 moved to Alsace; [?on years in Eppingen. "] Jan. 22, 1650, invited with Hans Meili (ML27) by Barons of [?MR1522.1 Jacob Muller/1 b. ca. 1687; bap. Feb. Venningen to move from Alsace to Duhren, Germany]. 1, 1705, Kloster Lobenfeld, Germany, aged 18, m. before 1630, Kly Anna Peter; b. ca. 1607; d. by 1663; in renamed Johannes, former Anabaptist from 1633 Anabaptist; in 1640 aged 33, "Anabaptist more in Ittlingen, recorded Epfenbach Reformed; in 1707 error than her husband; unbridled, but otherwise very lived in Eppingen, a member of Reformed Church commendable"; in 1643 aged 34. for 3 years, a descendant of Hans Meili (ML2).] MR151 Johannes Muller, bap. Feb. 27, 1630, Durnten, MR153 Hans Rudolf Muller, bap. Aug. 13, 1637, Durnten; twin, father called Anabaptist; aged 10 in 1640; 13 in aged 2 in 1640; 5 in 1643; [?in 1669 called former 1643; [?in 1706 Mennonite living in Mannheim, Anabaptist. Germany]. m. before 1669, Verena Meyer] 7 MR152 HansJacobMuller,6 bap. Feb. 27, 1630, Durnten, MR1531 Anna Marie Muller, bap. Nov. 15, 1669, twin, sponsor Marx Furrer; aged 10 in 1640; 13 in 1643; Steinsfurt, Germany, Reformed [?in 1693 lived in Friedrichstadt, Germany]. MR154 Anna Muller, bap. Mar. 24, 1639, Durn ten; aged 0 [?m. ca. 1660, Tryni Meili (ML231); bap. June 18, in 1640; 3 in 1643, ist zu staphen. 1631; in 1634 census of Stallikon, Zurich; not in 1637 or 1640 census of Stallikon; between 1641 and 1646 lived with her mother's brother, Jakob Wintsch.] 68 64Best, "European Roots," p. 26. . . [?MR1521 Jacob Miller (ML2311), b. Mar. 1, 1663; 65Genealogical Archives, Miller file, Lancaster Mennomte Hts­ d. Apr. 20, 1739; bu. Tschantz Cern., West Lampeter torical Society. Twp., on land patented to him; immigrated 1710]; 66LDS microfilms 1185140, item 1, p. 705 (1633); 1185144, item [?in 1693 was Mennonite living in Friedrichstadt, 2, p. 430 (1640); 1185146, item 1, p. 461 (1643); 1185179, item 1, p. Germany]. 83 (1657), item 3, p. 23 (1663). Pfister, Die Auswanderung, pp. MR1521.1 Jacob Miller 179-180. MR1521.2 Samuel Miller, b. Jan. 22, 1711; d. 1739; 67His name at baptism was recorded as Marx, but in 1640 and 1643 first white child b. in present Lancaster Co. census lists as Hans Jacob Miiller. 68Genealogical Archives, Miller file, Lancaster Mennonite His­ MR1521.3 John Miller, b. Dec. 9, 1713; d. 1802; 3 torical Society. Sutter, "Palatinate Mennonites," p. 19. sons, 3 dau. 69Probably a son-in-law. Deeds M-232, M-233 and XX-117, m. Mary Brubaker, b. June 8, 1719; d. July 8, Lancaster. Martin H. Brackbill, "Origins of the Pequea Settlers 1798. (1710)," Mennonite Quarterly Review 45 (Jan. 1971):87. [?MR1521.4 Christina Miller, wp. 1752; follower of 70Burgert, Northern Kraichgau, pp. 423-424. Conrad Beissel; 3 ch. 7tRuoff, Martin Meili's Herkun(t, translation pp. 7-8.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 january 1992 MR155 Hans Heinrich Muller, bap. Sept. 11, 1642, m. June 2, 1657, Pfaffikon, Margaretha Kundig (KA33) of Durnten, twin; [?in 1717 Mennonite living in Eppinen, Auslikon; bap. Aug. 4,1633, Pfaffikon; d. Mar. 5, 1701, Germany]. Pfaff ikon. [?m. Verena b. 1636; d. Mar. 26, 1693, Weiler, MB81 Jacob Meyer (KA331), 73 bap. Jan. 19, 1658; in 1682 Germany, aged 57.] lived in the Palatinate with his mother's brother, probably [?MR1551 dau. Muller, b. 1674; d. Sept. 16, 1678, Hans J agli Kendig (KA34); in 1707 lived in the Palatinate; Weiler, aged 4.] [?in 1685 lived in Gundersheim, Germany, with 4 sons.] [?MR1552 Veronica Muller, b. Nov. 1674; d. June 12, MB811 [?Christian Mayer/4 b. ca. 1680; wp. June 6, 1751, 1675, Weiler, aged 30 weeks, father Henrich Muller, Franconia Twp., Philadelphia Co.; yeoman; Mennonite; Anabaptist.] [[?on July 30, 1717, lived in Langenzell, Germany]]. MR156 Verna Muller, bap. Sept. 11, 1642, Diirnten, twin m. Barbara , d. before Jan. 18, 1748] MR16 Hans Jacob Muller, bap. July 3, 1608, Durnten MB8111 Christian Moyer, b. ca. 1705; w. dat. Apr. 26, MR17 Barbara Muller, bap. May 17, 1612, Diirnten 1782, Franconia Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.; 9 ch. MR2 Anna Muller, bap. Apr. 20, 1556, Diirnten m. Magdalena --- MR3 Verena Muller, bap. Sept. 11, 1558, Diirnten MB8112 Jacob Moyer, d. after 1763 MR4 Blasius Muller, bap. Oct. 25, 1562, Diirnten, sponsor MB8113 Samuel Moyer, d. ca. 1766, Lower Salford was Blasius72 aus der Stralegg. Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa. m. by 1609, Verena Schumacher m. Barbara --- MR41 Hans Jacob Muller, bap. Apr. 9, 1609, Diirnten MB8114 Elizabeth Moyer, d. 1766, Lower Salford MR42 Margreth Muller, bap. May 19, 1611, Diirnten Twp. MR43 Hans Muller, bap. Dec. 19, 1613, Diirnten m. Nicholas Oblinger, Jr. MR44 Elsbeth Muller, bap. Oct. 15, 1615, Durnten MB8115 Ann Moyer, b. ca. 1707; d. July 8, 1758, MR45 Cleopha Muller, bap. Mar. 9, 1617, Diirnten Franconia Twp.; 10 ch. m. Heinrich Funk (?FH1412), b. ca. 1690; wp. 1760, Philadelphia; lived in Salford Twp., Montgomery Meyer Connection Co. On February 13, 1603, Hans Heinrich Meyer (MB1) MB8116 Barbara Moyer, b. ca. 1705; d. ca. 1773; was baptized at Pfaffikon, son of Hans Meyer (MB) and moved from Salford Twp. Montgomery Co. to Barbel Egli of Bussenhausen in that parish. His wife died, Chester Co.; in 1740 moved to Lancaster Co.; 7 ch. 5 and on February 24, 1605, he married Barbel Frey of m. Abraham Reiff (?RF632),7 b. ca. 1692; wp. Dec. 10, 1763, N. Coventry Twp., Chester Co.; pur­ Kempten, Pfaffikon. They had seven children in eleven chased Samuel Evans farm in present Upper Lea­ years. cock Twp. The youngest, Hans Jacob Meyer (MB8), was married MB812 [?Rudy Mire/6 b. ca. 1682; wp. Feb. 9, 1767, in 1657 to Margreth Kundig (KA33) of Auslikon. In 1678 Reading, Berks Co., Pa.; immigrated by 1718; in 1751 Margreth Kundig was a widow living in Bussenhausen with moved to Lebanon Twp.] five children aged nine to eighteen. In the 1682 census of MB813 [?Hans Myer, b. ca. 1684; d. 1769, Ephrata, "der alt Pfaffikon her oldest son, Jacob (MB81), was listed as living bruder"; on Nov. 12, 1724, bap. in Pequea Creek by Peter in the Palatinate with his mother's brother. The 1707 Becker; on Nov. 15, 1724, instrumental in electing census of Pfaffikon shows that the deceased Jacob Meyer's Conrad Beissel as leader; in July 1740 was one of four son Jacob, baptized January 29, 1658, was living in the housefathers who "went away."] Palatin'ate, and son Hans (bap. Mar. 27, 1665) had been m. [?Magdalena Meyer, d. 1750, Ephrata] MB8131 Barbara Mayer, b. ca. 1712; d. Jan. 14, 1786, wounded, and since 1690 was "in the war." If my Ephrata, aged 74; called Sister Jael; dau. of assumptions are correct, Jacob (MB81 and KA331). Hans/ johann Mayer. Anabaptist in Gundersheim, Germany, in 1685 with four [?MB8132 Lawrence Myer,77 b. ca. 1715; d. before sons, and Hans (MB84 and KA334), immigrant of 1717, 1759. were first cousins of Martin Kendig (?KA342). m. Anna Margaret Janson. She m.(2) by Sept. 2, 1759, Philip Sprecher and had more ch.] MB Hans Meyer, b. ca. 1580; in 1603 lived in Bussenhusen, Pfaffikon. m.(1) before 1603, Barbel Egli 72A Blasius Peters had children baptized between 1552 and 1556 at m.(2) Feb. 24, 1605, Pfaffikon, Barbel Frey of Kempten Fischenthal, where Stralegg is located. A Blasius Peter was married in Child of m.(1) 1579 at Fischenthal to Barbara Brendlin. Some members of the Peter MB1 Hans Heinrich Meyer, bap. Feb. 13, 1603, Pfaffikon family of Stralegg were Anabaptist. Children of m. (2) 73Guth and Mast, Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, p. 21. MB2 Anna Meyer, bap. Aug. 21, 1607, Pfaffikon 74R. Kent Stuetz to Jane E. Best, ca. 1987. Best, "The Birmensdorf MB3 Heinrich Meyer, bap. Apr. 17, 1609, Pfaffikon Connection," p. 44. 75 MB4 Margret Meyer, bap. Oct. 25, 1610, Pfiiffikon Eli E. Reiff, Jr., Reiff Family History, 1735-1982 (Gordonville, Pa.: Pequea Publishers, 1982), p. 53. Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Reiff MBS Margret Meyer, bap. Dec. 26, 1611, Pfaffikon and Hiestand Families," M ennonite Family History 11 (Jan. 1992). MB6 Ursel Meyer, bap. Apr. 22, 1614, Pfaffikon 76"The Mey.er Family: Ten Generations," Meyer Family (1959) : MB7 Regel Meyer, bap. Aug. 11, 1616, Pfaffikon pp.2-7. This corrects my inclusion of this family as MA431 in Best, MBS Hans Jacob Meyer, bap. Apr. 19, 1618, Pfaffikon; d. "Birmensdorf Connection," p. 44. between 1669 and 1678. 77Miscellaneous Book 1768-1772 (June 7, 1768), Lancaster.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 january 1992 MB8132.1 Bernard Myer, b. ca. 1748 MB8512 John Meyer MB8132.2 Barbara Myer, b. ca. 1750 MB8513 Barbara Meyer MB8132.3 Margaret Myer/8 b. Mar. 22, 1752; bap. MB8514 Jacob Meyer Mar. 27, 1752, New Holland Lutheran. MB8515 Elizabeth Meyer m. by 1768, Michael Rein; son of John Michael MB8516 Anne Meyer Rein. MB8517 Hester Meyer MB8132.4 John Myer, b. Nov. 15, 1753; bap. Dec. MB86 Anna Meyer, bap. Feb. 4, 1669; in 1678 and 1682lived 2, 1753, New Holland Lutheran. in Bussenhusen. MB8132.5 Wendel Myer, b. Apr. 22, 1755; d. May 16, 1778, hanged for stealing horses for the British; Herr Connection bap. Apr. 27, 1755, New Holland Lutheran. In a genealogy of Martin Kendig based on the work of MB814 Son, b. by 1685 Theodore Herr and Milton B. Eshleman, Martin Kendig's MB82 Elsbeth Meyer, bap. Oct. 26, 1660; in 1678 and 1682 parents were given as John Jacob Kendig and Jane My lin, lived in Bussenhusen. whose daughter Elizabeth married Hans Herr (?HH1). MB83 Regula Meyer, bap. June 27, 1665; in 1678 and 1682 lived in Bussenhusen. Frederick Kendig was given as a brother of John Jacob 89 MB84 Hans Meyer (KA334), 79 bap. Mar. 27, 1665; in 1678 Kendig. Six sons of John Jacob are listed: Jacob, John, and 1682 lived in Bussenhusen; in 1707 recorded as George, Martin, Henry, and William. I believe these are: "wounded, since 1690 in war"; [?Hans Mier, Sr., 80 w. dat. Jacob (KA371), John Jacob (KA354), George (KA352), Jan. 30, 1722; probably the Hans Mayer in Langenzell, Martin (KA343), Henry (KA342), and William (KA373). Germany, on July 30, 1717, with Christian Mayer Jane Mylin was probably a distortion of Jan Mayle, who (?MB811) and Daniel Eschelmann; on Sept. 27, 1717, I believe was ML2722.1 and also Brother Amos (1702- warranted 350 acres on Conestoga Creek; on Feb. 10, 1719, 1783) at the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster County, Pennsyl­ purchased 300 acres on Conestoga Creek from John Farrer, vania. The wife of Hans Jacob Kundig (KA34) and mother to whom it was warranted Aug. 2, 1716. of Martin Kendig (KA342) was probably Elsbeth Meili m.(1) (ML234), daughter of Martin Meili (ML23), the historian m.(2) Anna Brubaker, 81 d. after 1722) of the Anabaptist persecution, and his wife, Barbara Bar MB841 Hans Konret Mier, 82 b. ca. 1692; w. dat. Jun. 23, 1721; on Nov. 19, 1717, patented 350 acres in Conestoga (BA33). Twp.; 1 ch. John Jacob Kundig (KA34) had a sister Barbara (KA36), m. Anna Lichty. She m.(2) by 1722, Hans Graf (?B or who fits very well as a possible wife of Hans Herr (?HH1). ?C). She was seven years old in the 1650 census of Pfaffikon. I MB842 Jacob Myer83 b. ca. 1694; wp. Mar. 13, 1755, believe Elisabeth (KA 341), daughter of Hans Jacob Kundig Conestoga Twp. (KA34), was the one married to Anstett Volken, and that MB843 John Meyer, 84 b. ca. 1696; wp. Dec. 27, 1760, this eliminates her as a wife of Hans Herr (?HH1). Lancaster; yeoman; on June 10, 1734, patented 262 acres A Frederick Ki.indig of Walentwyl, now Allenswil in the in Lancaster Twp.; on May 28, 1735, patented 500 acres in Earl Twp. m. Mary Lenhardy, d. after 1759 78A. Hunter Rineer, "A House Divided. The Rein Family of Earl M.B844 Onela/Annali Moyer, b. ca. 1700; 8 ch. Township," journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 87 m. John Jacob Kendig (?KA3421), b. ca. 1700; wp. (no. 1, 1983), pp. 10-31. 79 Mar. 24, 1775, Conestoga Twp. He m.(2) Prudence LDS microfilm 1185170, item 1, p. 862 (1707 Census), states: "Wundung, seit anno 1690 im Krieg." 80Will 1-1-324 (2) (nuncupative), Lancaster. Deed 90, West MB845 Elizabeth Moyer, b. ca. 1702 Chester. 85 m. Henry Musselman, wp. June 2, 1752; son of 81 Dorothy M. K. Adams, Myers History (Houston, Tex.: author, Christian Mosiman (d. 1734); 5 ch. 1987), p. 37. MB846 Mary Moyer, b. ca. 1704; d. after Sept. 11, 1744; 3 82Will 1-1-324 (1) (nuncupative), Lancaster. This is a correction ch. concerning his wife in Best, "Birmensdorf Connection," pp. 40-41. 86 Apparently there was another Anna Lichty, widow of Yost Lichty m. John Shank (SA3), b. ca. 1690; wp. Dec. 4, 1744, with son Henry. She later m. Peter Leaman. Lancaster Twp.; on 1718 tax list; on June 4, 1734, SJWill B-1-77, Lancaster. patented 150 acres in Lancaster Twp.; on Dec. 25, B4Will B-1-340, Lancaster. 1739, he and other heirs deeded for £75 his father-in­ sswill Y-2-479, Lancaster. law's 300 acres on Conestoga Creek to Casper 86Will X-2-23, Lancaster; Deed D-494, Lancaster; Patents A-6- Loughman. 342, A-10-187, Harrisburg. [?MB847 Abraham Meyer, 87 b. ca. 1690; d. between 1726 870ld Original Road Papers, vol. 2, no. 6, West Chester, Pa. This and 1739; immigrated by 1718; signed 1726 road road connected Conestoga Creek near Oregon with Compass in petition). Chester Co., and included part of Peters Road. 88 MB85 Heinrich Meyer, bap. Feb. 17, 1667; in 1678 and 1682 Rev. A. ]. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans Meyer (Harleysville, Pa.: News Printing House, lived in Bussenhusen. 1896), pp. 332-333. 88 [MB851 Hans Meyer, b. ca. 1700; d. ca. 1748, Upper 89Dr. Benjamin S. Kendig, "Genealogy of the Kendig Family so far Salford Twp., Montgomery Co.; immigrated ca. 1725. as can be learned at the present time, September 22, 1909," in the MB8511 Henry Meyer, b. ca. 1725; d. ca. 1800. Genealogical Archives, Kendig file, Lancaster County Historical m. Barbara Miller Society.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 14 january 1992 parish of Baretswil, Switzerland, had children baptized at m. Barbara Hershey, wp. Mar. 4, 1805 Baretswil in 1596 and 1599. He may have been a brother of HH12 Christian Herr (3), 98 b. 1680; w. dat. Jan. 23, 1749/50, Peter Kundig (KA) of Walenwyl. Generations are often Lampeter Twp.; Mennonite minister; signed London letter compressed or skipped in oral family traditions. June 27, 1710; warranted 530 acres in Strasburg Twp. Oct. 10, 1710; built 1719 house; signed Dortrecht Confession in Between 1554 and 1565 two men named Christian Heer 1725. were recorded in the parish of Toss, near Winterthur, m. Anna , letters of administration Dec. 9, 1767 Zurich. Unfortunately, baptismal records between 1565 HH121 John Herr (16), b. ca. 1702; wp. Oct. 19, 1773, and 1594 are missing. In 1634 there were eight families Lampeter Twp.; yeoman; deeded 125 acres Feb. 4, 1745; named Heer/Herr living in the parish of Toss, 90 but I have lived between Willow Street and Strasburg. been unable to find a record of anyone who may have been m. Annie Witmer (?WS224), d. after 1781; dau. of the father of Kristen Her, Anabaptist minister in the Benjamin Witmer. Kraichgau in 1672. The Christian Herr living in Mauer in HH122 Abraham Herr (18), b. ca. 1704; wp. May 28, 1685 may have been either the minister or the son. 1756, Lampeter Twp.; inherited home tract. Christian Herr (?HH12) was the earliest Mennonite m. Fronica Hostetter, b. ca. 1720; dau. of Oswald minister in present Lancaster County, and it is reasonable to Hostetter. She m.(2) by 1761 Henry Stoner. HH123 Elizabeth Herr (19), b. ca. 1708; wp. Mar. 19, assume that his father and grandfather were also Anabaptist 1790; 11 ch. leaders. m. 1727, Michael Graff (0 and ?GR3111.1); b. Oct. 15, 1707; d. Sept. 22, 1771, Martie Twp.; son of HH Kristen Her/Christian Herr,9 1 b. ca. 1610; in 1672 an Christian Groff (I and ?GR3111) and Susanna Anabaptist minister in the Kraichgau; [?in 1685 a Mennonite living at the Hohenharter Hof at Mauer, Germany). HH124 Anna Herr (20), b. ca. 1710; d. 1787. [?HH1 Hans Herr (1), 92 b. Sept. 17, 1639; probably came to m.(1) ca. 1727, Martin Mylin (ML2361.1), b. 1715; America with his son Abraham in 1717.) Aug. 16, 1751, Lampeter Twp., intestate; 6 ch. m. ca. 1679, [?Barbel Kundig (KA36); b. ca. 1643; aged 7 in m.(2) before 1760, Abraham Newcomer 1650]. HH125 Susanna Herr (22), d. after 1784; lived in Quarry­ HHll Abraham Herr (2), 93 b. ca. 1672; letters of adminis­ ville, Lancaster Co. tration Dec. 16, 1725, Conestoga Twp., Chester Co., m. George Graff (K1 and GR3411), 99 b. before 1713; d. intestate; settled in Manor Twp.; warranted land in 1717. between 1765 and 1784; son of Michael Graff (wp. m.(1) [?Anna Bare (?BA1235 and ?ML5835), 94 b. ca. 1676) 1760). m. (2) Frena Mosiman, d. before 1766; dau. of Christian HH126 Barbara Herr (23), d. June 15, 1772 Mosiman (d. 1734). She m.(2) Joseph Gochenauer m.(1) John Miller, d. after 1756 (GJ3952.4) and had 2 dau. Children of m.(1) HH111 Abraham Herr (9), b. June 25, 1700; wp. Sept. 15, 90LDS census microfilms: 0923500, Toss Church Book, 1550- 1785, Manor Twp.; yeoman. 1875; 1185139, item 2, p. 252 (1634); 1185146, item 1, p. 144 m. Anna Miller (1643); 1185149, item 1, p. 498 (1649). Brackbill, "Family Data in 95 Some Pennsylvania Land Patents, 1760-1761," pp. 282-283. HH1112 John Herr (12), b. June 26, 1726; wp. Apr. 91 18, 1796, Manor Twp. Newman and Groff, Letters, pp. 61-63. Guth and Mast, Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, p. 15. m. Mary Myer, b. Nov. 6, 1731; d. Oct. 20, 1807. 92Herr, Hans Herr, pp. 1, 786-791. Christian Herr (?HH1356.3) HH112 Rudolph Herr (10), b. 1701; wp. May 23, 1777, wrote a biography of the Herr family in Biographical History of Manor Twp.; yeoman. Lancaster County (1872), by Alexander Harris, p. 281: "Abraham m.(1) Barbara Brubaker Herr was the oldest, and came with his father in 1710." Since m.(2) Ann--- Abraham and Emanuel Herr obtained land warrants in 1717, the HH113 Barbara Herr (13), b. ca. 1702; d. ca. 1742. immigration date is thought to be 1717, rather than 1710. Numera ls m.(1) Henry Miller (?MR1367.1), letters of adminis­ in parentheses immediately following names in this section entitled tration Mar. 9, 1727/28, Chester Co.; tailor; lived in "Herr Connection" refer to Genealogical Record of Reverend Hans Earl Twp.; 3 ch. Herr ... by Theodore Herr. 9JCiyde L. Groff, "Oral History and Hans Herr," Lancaster m.(2) ca. 1730, David Martin; 96 b. 1691; d. Nov. 10, County Connections (1983-July 1986). Wenger, The Wenger Book, 1784; wp. Dec. 4, 1784; widower; 9 ch. Hem. (3) and pp. 1065-1067. had 3 more ch. He m.(4) after 1759. 94Herr, Hans Herr, p. 786 [Addenda II in 1980 reprint]. Best, HH114 Elizabeth Herr (14), d. 1735 "Aibis to America," p. 19; she may have been a daughter of Heinrich m. Jacob Bartzell Bar (BA123) and Veronica Meyer (?MAll). HH115 Christian Herr (11), wp. May 17, 1763 95Deed A-3-286, Lancaster. Phillip E. Bedient to Jane E. Best, Mar. m. Barbara Hershey 4, 1981: This John Herr has been confused with HH116. HH116 John Herr,97 b. before 1715; wp. Mar. 25, 1775; 96Will X-2-442, Lancaster. 97 on May 21, 1736, warranted land in Rapho Twp. Deeds C-3-641, H-1-15, 0-1-185, U-1-372, Lancaster. Will Children of m. (2) B-1-683, Lancaster. Phillip E. Bedient to Jane E. Best, Mar. 4, 1991: Bedient and Martin Hervin Brackbill agreed that this John Herr was HH117 Samuel Herr, b. Feb. 1722; wp. June 12, 1787, the son of Abraham Herr (HHll), but the evidence is circumstantial. Manor Twp.; Mennonite; farmer; minor when father's 98 Will 1-1-192, Lancaster; Brackbill, "New Light," p. 93; and estate was settled. Brackbill, "Origin of the Pequea Settlers," pp. 84-87. HH118 David Herr (15), b. 1722; wp. Feb. 29, 1772, 991 believe this George Graff is the one mentioned in the will of Manor Twp.; minor when father's estate was settled. Michael Graff (K). Best, "Swiss Origins," p. 12.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 january 1992 m. (2) Henry Shaub HH146 Mary Herr (38), Wheatland Mills HH127 Christian Herr (17), b. ca. 1717; wp. Jan. 13, m.(1) Daniel Carpenter; b. 1732; d. 1764; son of Gabriel 1764; deeded 125 acres Mar. 4, 1745. Carpenter and Appalonia Herman; 1 son. m. Barbara Herr, d. Apr. 2, 1768 m.(2) by 1765, Peter Good (?GA28) HH15 Isaac Herr, 102 w. dat. Oct. 4, 1747, Martie Twp.; HH13 John Herr (4), 100 b. ca. 1681; wp. Nov. 6, 1756, warranted land 1719. Lampeter Twp.; land agent; on June 24, 1710, signed HH151 Henry Herr, wp. May 2, 1777, Martie Twp.; lived London letter; warranted 530 acres in Strasburg Twp. on at New Providence. Oct. 10, 1710; patented this June 30, 1711. m.(1) by May 15, 1759, Anna Kreider; dau. of Jacob m. Frances Brackbill, d. after 1756 Kreider (d. 1758) and Elizabeth ; 3 ch . HH131 John Herr (24), b. Apr. 23, 1702; wp. Oct. 11, m.(2) Shultz, 3 ch. 1783; bu. Willow Street (Brick) Mennonite Cern.; HH152 Anna Herr, b. ca. 1715; d. before 1760; 3 ch. Mennonite minister; lived in Lime Valley; deeded 2 tracts m. John Graffts (P and ?GR3111.2), b. ca. 1715; wp. June 11, 1746, which were conveyed to Christian Herr May 2, 1777. He m.(2) and had 6 more ch. (HH135) on May 16, 1761. HH153 Elizabeth Herr, 103 b. ca. 1717; d. by 1747. m. Elizabeth Brubaker, b. 1713; dau. of Jacob Brubaker. m.(1) ca. 1738, Hans Brubaker (BKA21); b. 1710; d. HH132 Veronica Herr (25), b. Oct. 14, 1705; d. May 20, 1743; son of Jacob Brubaker; 2 ch. 1780. m.(2) ca. 1745, Peter Witman/Witmer (?WT1132); m. Oct. 21, 1722, Ulrich Brackbill; b. 1702; d. 1739 in wp. July 28, 1792, Lancaster; immigrated 1744 on wagon accident near Philadelphia; Mennonite Muscliffe Galley; 2 ch. Hem. at least 2 more times and minister; ·son of Benedict Brechbuehl. had 16 more ch. HH133 Anna Herr (26), b. Dec. 20, 1711; d. before 1756; [?HH2 Christian Herr, 104 b. ca. 1650; in 1710 Mennonite 2 ch. farmer at the Hof, Mauer, Germany. m. John Burkholder HH21 Johannes Herr, b. ca. 1680 HH134 Mary Herr (28), b. Oct. 13, 1714; wp. July 26, m. Aug. 1710, Mauer Lutheran, Elisabetha Mair; dau. of 1803, Lancaster. Johann Mair, Mennonite farmer at the Hof]. m. Christian Furree/Forrer, wp. Feb. 23, 1786 [?HH22 Christian Heer, 105 in 1715 and 1739 tenant of 114 of HH135 Christian Herr (27), b. Feb. 20, 1717; wp. Aug. 24, Venningen lands in Diihren] 1772, Lampeter Twp.; deeded 250 acres June 11, 1746; [?HH3 Martin Heer, in 1687 lived in Ittlingen] remained on homestead. m.(1) Mary Kendig (KA354a), 3 ch. m.(2) 1762, Veronica Groff (N3 and ?GR3122.3), b. Widmer Connection Mar. 10, 1732; d. Feb. 25, 1826; bu. Willow Street; wp. Aug. 22, 1826; dau. of Jacob Groff and Barbara Jakob Widmer (WS2), the eleven year-old son of Heini Brackbill; 3 ch. Widmer (WS) and Margareth Bentz, was recorded in 1634 HH136 Elizabeth Herr (29), b. Aug. 10, 1719; d. Aug. 9, in the census of Hedingen, southwest of the city of Zurich, 1807; bu. Brackbiii-Neff Cern.; 7 ch. as working in Birmensdorf nearby with his sister Anna, m. Martin Barr (A12 and BD122), b. ca. 1715; wp. aged fifteen. The 1637 census shows they worked at the Mar. 23, 1784, Strasburg Twp.; son of Martin Barr mill for Jakob Bentz. The household included Hans Benz (BD12) and Anna Elisabeth Groff (A1 and ?GR3311). and his wife, Verena Meylin (ML41), niece of Hans Meylin HH14 Emanuel Herr (6), 101 b. 1689; d. 1740, Wheatland Mills, intestate; warranted land 1717. (ML2), the Anabaptist minister. Her brother Hans m. 1720, MaudliQ Br~chbuehl; b. 1702; dau. of Benedict Heinrich Meili (ML42) was miller of Oberembrach and Brechbuehl (d. 1720). later of Basserdorf, and was married in 1634 to Barbara HH141 John Herr (33), b. 1720; wp. Aug. 30, 1797; Diibendorfer. minister, started Strasburg Mennonite Church; lived 1 The 1657 and 1663 lists of emigrants from Hedingen mile sw. of Strasburg in 1740 house. included three single sons of the deceased Heini Widmer, m.(1) 1744, Esther Neff (?NF1313.415); b. ca. 1724; d. Jagli Oakob), Kasper, and Uli Widmer, who had gone to ca. 1750; dau. of Dr. Frances Neff and Barbara Bohm; Eppingen in the Kraichgau. Jakob Widmer married there in 2 sons. 1653, Uli in 1655, and Kasper in 1658. 106 m.(2) E~ther Shenk, dau. of Henry Shenk and Margaret Because of his connections with the Anabaptist Meylin ___ ; 7ch. family, his age, and the places in which he lived, I believe HH142 Emanuel Herr (34), b. 1722; d. 1798, intestate. m. Nov. 16, 1747, Mary Smith this Jakob Widmer (WS2) was the Jakob Wittmer HH143 Martin Herr (35), wp. Apr. 27, 1810, Lancaster m. Elizabeth Bowman 100 HH144 Elizabeth Herr (37), b. ca. 1725; d. Mar. 26, 1760, Patent AA-1-334, Harrisburg; Will B-1-144 (dat. Feb. 20, Wheatland Mills, Lancaster Co. 1756), Lancaster, signed HH as his mark; Patent AA-1-327, Harrisburg. m. May 12, 1746, Jacob Carpenter; b. Apr. 3, 1726; d. 101Patent AA-3-1 (dat. Oct. 17, 1761), Harrisburg. Dec. 3, 1772; son of Henry Carpenter and Salome I02Will A-1-134, Lancaster; Patent AA-3-293, Harrisburg. Ruffner. tOJPatent AA-4-439, Harrisburg; Deed Y-19-519, Lancaster. HH145 Susannah Herr (36), lived in Enterprise, Pa. t04Burgert, Northern Kraichgau, p. 424. m. Christian Carpenter, son of Gabriel Carpenter and t05Diefenbacher, Pfister, and Hotz, Schweizer Einwanderer, p. 201. Appalonia Herman !06Jbid., p. 187.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 january 1992 m. by 1781, John Herr (?HH121); wp. Oct. 18, 1773. WS225 Magdalena Witmer, d. before Apr. 13, 1785 m.(1) Daniel Eshleman, wp. Apr. 26, 1749; widower of Elizabeth Brubaker with 6 ch.; 1 ch. m. (2) Christian Oberholtzer, wp. Aug. 17, 1789; miller; 4 ch. WS226 John Witmer, b. 1719, Pa.; wp. Nov. 13, 1794; 8 ch. m. Fronica Roland (RH1}, b. 1720; dau. of John Roland and Anna Maria ___ WS3 Heinrich Witmer, b. 1625; in 1634 aged 9; in 1637 aged 12; [?emigrated by 1663, single. m. 1669, Eppingen, ] WS4 Caspar Witmer, b. 1628; in 1634 aged 6; in 1637 aged 9; Richterswil, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, was the home of Heinrich by 1657 emigrated to Eppingen. Witmer (WT11), who married Margreth Hiestand·in 1653 and had m. 1658, Eppingen, _ _ _ eleven children, some of whose descendants may have come to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. WSS Uli Witmer, b. 1630; in 1634 aged 4; in 1637 aged 7; by 1657 emigrated to Eppingen. recorded as a Mennonite in Reihen in the Kraichgau in m. 1655, Eppingen, --- [?WS51 Michael Witmer, b. ca. 1668; wp. May 25, 1746; 1685, and probably the father of the John and Benjamin Warwick Twp.; immigrated 1733 on Hope, aged 65.] Witmer, Mennonites, who immigrated to present Lan­ WSSll Ulrich Witmer, b. ca. 1702; wp. 1768, Rapho caster County in 1717. John Witmer's daughter Barbara Twp.; in 1733 aged 31. (WS211) married George Kendig, probably (?KA3521). WS512 Peter Witmer, b. ca. 1712; wp. 1794, Lebanon Uli Widmer (WS5) was probably the father of the Michael Twp.; in 1733 aged 21. Witmer who immigrated in 1733, aged 65, on the Hope m. Anna Catharine Baughman, dau. of Michael with sons Ulrich, Peter, and Hans. Baughman WS513 John Witmer, b. ca. 1713; wp. 1782, Warwick WS Heini Witmer, b. ca. 1590; d. by 1663; called Bentz, lived Twp.; in 1733 aged 20. in Hedingen, Switzerland. WS6 Verena Witmer, b. 1634; infant in 1634; in 1637 aged 3. m. Margareth Bentz, 107 b. ca. 1590; d. after 1637. WS1 Ann Witmer, b. 1619; in 1634 aged 15, servant in In 1634 Jacob Widmer (WT1) lived in Richterswil on Birmensdorf; in 1637 aged 18 serving in Birmensdorf with Jakob Bentz, miller. Lake Zurich with his wife and two children, and two WS2 Jakob Wittmer, 108 b. 1623; in 1634 aged 11, servant in children of the deceased Hans Widmer, probably his Birmensdorf; in 1637 aged 14 serving in Birmensdorf with father. 111 Heinrich Widmer (WT11) and Margreth Jakob Bentz, miller; by 1657 emigrated to Eppingen, Hiestand had a son Peter Widmer (WT113), who may be Germany; [?in 1685 a Mennonite living in Reihen, the father of the Hans and Peter Widmer recorded as Germany]. Hausvatters (housefathers) in the same household in m. 1653, Eppingen, - - - Hasselbach, Germany, in 1731. Hans Widmer (WT11a) [?WS21 John Witmer, 109 b. ca. 1665; administration bond and Johannes Widmer (WT1192) may have been the two Dec. 17, 1728, Manor Twp.; Mennonite; immigrated in Hans Wittmers, Anabaptists, recorded in 1731 in 1717. Zimmerhof, Germany. 112 Four of the early Witmer m. Catharine , d. after 1735. She m.(2) Christian immigrants to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, may have Vity, d. 1733.] been members of this family. WS211 Barbara Witmer, b. ca. 1715; 3 ch. m. George Kendig (?KA3521}, b. ca. 1700; wp. Aug. 7, WT Hans Witmer, b. ca. 1560; d. by 1634. 1770, Manor Twp. WT1 Jacob Witmer, b. ca. 1590; in 1634 and 1637 lived in WS212 Michael Witmer, b. ca. 1718; inv. Sept. 18, 1789; Richterswil. bu. Witmer Cern., Manor Twp.; 5 ch. m. by 1634, Regula Hausler; d. after 1637 m. Anna Long, inv. Mar. 26, 1792; dau. of Herman WT11 Heinrich Witmer, bap. Sept. 19, 1630; in 1634 aged 4; Long and Anna Hershey. WS213 Elizabeth Witmer, d. after 1756 m. Christian Swartz I07She may have been a younger sister of Hans Bentz, miller of [?WS22 Benjamin Witmer, 11 o b. ca. 1670; d. Dec. 5, 1756, Birmensdorf, who had 9 ch. bap. at Birmensdorf between 1601 and Lampeter Twp.; Mennonite; immigrated by 1718.] 1619. WS221 Benjamin Witmer, b. 1705; d. Aug. 5, 1769, 108Guth and Mast, Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, p. 15. 9 Frederick Co., Md.; 8 ch. I0 Bedient, "John and Catherine Witmer," pp. 13-23. 110Bedient, "Descendants of Benjamin Witmer, Parr II," pp. 18-33. WS222 Barbara Witmer, d. before 1781; 10 ch. 111 LDS census microfilms 0996960, Richterswil Church Book, m. Henry Bear (?BA1231.3}, wp. July 18, 1750 1650-1700; 1185139, item 1, p. 113 (1634); 1185141, item 2, p. 161 WS223 Abraham Witmer, d. between Sept. 29, 1781 and (1637); 1185153, item 1, p. 220 (1671); 1185159, item 1, p. 306 Mar. 25, 1783; d.s.p. (1682); 1185164, item 2, p. 258 (1695); 1185169, item 1, p. 846 m. Feronica Nissley, d. by 1781; dau. of Jacob Nissley. (1708) . WS224 Anna Witmer 112Miiller, Geschichte der Bernischen Tiiufer, p. 209.

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 17 january 1992 in 1637 aged 7. m. Nov. 29, 1653, Richterswil, Margreth Hiestand; b. Nov. 10, 1633; d. after 1689; [?in 1637 aged 2; 5 in 1640; 16 in 1650; dau. of Conrad Hiestand113 and Anna Glatman]. WT111 Conrad Widmer, bap. Dec. 12, 1654, Richterswil; d. Dec. 28, 1660, Richterswil. WT112 Heinrich Widmer, bap. Feb. 1, 1657, Richterswil; in 1671 census. WT113 Peter Widmer, bap. Dec. 13, 1659, Richterswil, sponsor Peter Wild; in 1671 census; not in 1682 or 1695 census. [?WT1131 Hans Widmer, b. ca. 1690; in 1731 Mennonite living with Peter Widmer in Hasselbach.] [?WT1131.1 Peter Witmer, b. ca. 1730; wp. Nov. 3, 1810, Cocalico Twp.; immigrated by 1756. m. by Nov. 1, 1759, Elizabeth Bear (?BA5362.1); 114 dau. of Jacob Bear of Earl Twp. (d. 1736) and Barbara Hiestand (?HE1154); 5 ch.] [?WT1132 Peter Witmer, b. ca. 1710; in 1731 Mennonite living in Hasselbach]; [?immigrated in 1744 on Muscliffe Galley]; [?d. 1792; 18 ch. m.(1) ca.1745,EiizabethHerr(HH153);b.ca.1717; d. ca. 1750; 2 ch. She was widow of Hans Brubaker (BKA21) with 2 ch. m. (2) by 1754, Magdalena Shellenberger; 115 b. ca. 1722; d. ca. 1762; dau. of Ulrick Shellenberger; 3 ch. m.(3) ca. 1763, Catherine Engle; b. ca. 1739; d. after 1792; dau. of Ulrick Engle and Anna Breckbill; 13 ch.] 116 WT114 Conradt Widmer, bap. Dec. 26, 1661; in 1671 Jakob Widmer (WS2) had emigrated from Hedingen, Canton Zurich, census of Richterswil; in 1689 in the Palatinate; in 1695 Switzerland, to Eppingen, Germany, shown here, where he married in census of Richterswil; in 1708 in Alsace. 1653. He is probably the Jakob Wittmer, Anabaptist, living in WT115 Hans Heinrich Widmer, bap. Nov. 8, 1663; in Reihen, Germany, in 1685, and father of John and Benjamin Witmer, 1671, 1695, and 1708 census of Richterswil. immigrants to present Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by 1718. WT116 Caspar Widmer, bap. Feb. 12, 1667, Richterswil; not in 1695 census. WT13 Barbel Witmer, b. 1636; in 1637 aged 1. WT117 David Widmer, bap. Sept. 5, 1670; in 1682 and WT2 Barbel Witmer, b. 1606; in 1637 aged 31, lived in 1695 census; not in 1708 census. Richterswil with Jacob Widmer (WT1). WT118 Anna Widmer, bap. May 13, 1672; in 1682, 1695, WT3 Heinrich Witmer, b. 1612; in 1637 aged 25, lived with and 1708 census. Jacob Widmer (WTl) and Barbel Widmer (WT2). WT119 Jacob Widmer, bap. Jan. 18, 1674; in 1682, 1695, WT4 Heinrich Widmer, b. 1620; in 1634 aged 14, son of the and 1708 census. deceased Hans Widmer (WT), lived with Jacob Widmer m. by 1708, Elsbeth Switz; bap. July 8, 1683, (WT1). Richterswil WTS Barbel Widmer, b. ca. 1624; in 1634 aged 10, lived with brother Heinrich (WT4) in household with Jacob Widmer WT1191 Catharina Widmer, bap. Nov. 11, 1702 (WT1). o WT1192 Johannes Widmer, bap. June 15, 1704; [?in 1731 Mennonite Hausvater living at Zimmerhof]; [?immigrated 1732 on Dragon]; [d. 1749, Manor 11 3He may have been a brother of Heinrich Hiestand (HE) in Best, Twp.; Mennonite. "Swiss Reiff and Hiestand Fa,milies," p. 6. m. Margaret ] 114Jane Evans Best, "A Bear Saga: Lancaster County and Beyond," WT1193 Esther Widmer, bap. Jan. 31, 1706 Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 10 (Jan. 1987) :23. This corrects her WT110 Barbara Widmer, bap. Nov. 17, 1678; in 1682, number as 114291. Her grandfather was "Old" Henry Bear (d. 1731), 1695, and 1708 census. who may have been BAS 36. He was probably the Heinrich Bar serving WTlla Hans Widmer, 117 bap. May 9, 1681; in 1682 and at Ober Albis, Hausen, in 1670, and not the minister in Elsenz in 1695 census; not in 1708 census; [?in 1731 Mennonite 1682. See Best, "Albis to America, p. 22. 11 5Evelyn Rosemary Frantz to Jane E. Best, Oct. 13, 1982. Hausvater living at Zimmerhof]. 116LDS microfilm 1185164, item 1, p. 157 (1689). [?WT11a1 Michael Witmer, b. ca. 1715; w. dat. 1763, 117Burgert, Northern Kraichgau, p. 421. Miiller, Geschichte der Manor Twp.; warranted land 1743 in West Hemp­ Bernischen Taufer, p. 209: Among the Hausvaters of the congregation field and Manor Twp.] at Zimmerhof in 1731 were 2 men named Hans Wittmer, and Jakob WT12 Barbel Witmer, b. ca. 1634; not in 1637 census. Kaufmann, Mich. Neukomm, and Ulrich Neukomm.

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