EARLIEST RECORDfor LAND UNDER NAME OF HAiSBARGER ON THE 18-19 NOV 1736 FROM JOHN WHITE OF PHILA. LAND BROUGHT FROM ENSMONGER
1748 WARRANT 18 SEPT 1745CHILDREN LISTED IN DEED FF P 86 CHRISTIAN,JACOB OF CHESTER CO. JOHN DECD ABRAHAM, ISAAC,DANIEL RESOR AND CHRISTINA HISWIFE JACOB HOOBER AND ANN HIS WIFE CHILDREN OF JACOB LATE OF LANCASTER. ALSOJACOB'S SON JOSPEH PAID OFF DEBT TO ABOVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS. DATED 10 MARCH1776 Daughters Susanna and Catharine not listed.
DEED BK K P 8 1763 LAND GIVEN TO DAVID H SON OF JOSEPH H WHO GOT THE LAND
FROM HIS FATHER JACOB H. JACOB H RECEIVED LAND FROM PATENT 1736 AND PATENT GRANTED 9 APR 1751.WILL:
JACOB HERSHBERGER SEN OF COCALLICO TWP LANCASTER PA
WIFE CATHARINA
SONS ABRAHAM AND ISAAC DIVID THE PLANTATION
SON JOSEPH HAVE FREE USE OF FIFTY APPLE TREE FROM 1761 AND DEED TO LAND SOLD
TO HIM ALL THREE SONS HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS TO SAW MILL ON LAND SOLD TO JOSEPH
SON JOHN SHARE IN MILL IF HE WORKS ON THE DAM
SONS JACOB AND CHRISTIAN HAVE IMPROVEMENTS SITUATED ON SWATARA CREEK IN
LEBANON TWP MONEY TO POOR OF OUR CONGREGATION AND A BURYING PLACE ON LAND DEEDED TO ISAAC
WRITTEN 3 NOV 1762 WIT JOHN BARE, JON RUSH AND PETER MILLER
PROBATED 20 DEC 1762It is possible that Jacob had a sister Catherine died abt 1812 in Lancaster County, married to Johannes Flickinger. Flickinger Family History in the United States of America Film#0966762
From Index to the 1750 tax records Beforfe the Federal Census
1756 Tax list for Lancaster Co.
Hirshberger Jacob conestoga listed as Weaver under name Hosbarger
Also a Jacob Hershberger Jr. in 1758 conestoga
PA MENNONITE HERITAGE VOL X # 3 JULY 1987 BY JASON MARTIN
IN 1728 HE AT AGE 27 WITH HIS WIFE ANNA OBERHOLTZER AGE 28 RENTED A FARM IN THE
KRAICHGAU REGION OF THE PALATINATE NOT FAR FROM THE TOWN OF BIEGELHOF. DURING
THE WINTER OF 1730-31 HE HAD A FIRE IN WHICH HE LOST ALL OF HIS CROPS. SO HE
IMMIGRATED WITH HIS PREGNANT WIFE AND 3 SMALL CHILDREN, 1 SON AND 2 SMALL
DAUGHTERS. HE ALREADY HAD A BROTHER DAVID AND JACOB IN PA.
1731 SHIP PASSENGER LIST KIDS WERE RUDOLF AGE 7, ELIZABETH AGE 6 ANGAU 3 1/2
BARBAR 2 YEARS. HE BUILT HIS HOME ON CONESTOGA CREEK AND EARNED THE NAME CREEK
HENRY MARTIN.
He died in 1784, Earl Township, Lancaster
County. He wrote his will 15 Oct 1771 and it was proved 4 Nov 1784. He lived at
Weaverland, Earl Township, Lancaster County. He sold with his wife Anna 202 acres
in Earl to Jacob Martin on 16 Nov 1764.2 He listed six of his children in his will, Jacob,
Henry, Elizabeth wife of Jacob Roland, Anna wife of John Meyer, Margaret wife of Jacob
Stauffer and Barbara wife of Jacob Gruber.
Church Register of Signau, Archives of Bern Switzerland
Will X-2-41 May have been his will but no proof that he even came to America
Written in German transcribed to English with errors
There is not solid proof of this relationship
Bought land from Penn May 7 1730 deed recorded in Recorder's office in Philad in Patent Bk A Vol II page 421 on Nov 30 1744 Couldn't have been 1730 he didn't come till after 1733
Think date is wrong when he bought land because children births from RothenfluhCloister record "Brother Jacob Keller slept away in the Lord in the year 1794, 10 March; his age was 87 and a few months. He wwas a special man in his doing and life, and led a life well-pleasing to God; he was already in young years seized by the spirit of Eternity, especially by God; but afterwards he came to woman and afterwards the same spirit drove him to move to this land and it did not lete up until he came to this community. He was thus a faaithful fellow worker who bore many cares in the house of God up to his advanced age. His venerable wife departed this world in her age through much misery and suffering in the year 1787, 24 Masy and afterwards he thus spent his life in silence, with much fasting and praying, in the seven years and therefore took an edifying and blessed end. 6 weeks he took no food."
In March between the 24th and 25th Sister Elisabet Keller died, namely, old Br. Jacob Keller's wife, her age 79 years, 3 months, 22 days. She was sick for 3/4 a year and at last had dropsy.
Will written in german not recorded
Known as Ephrata John to separate him from other Landis
CHILDREN WHO HAVE COMPLETE DATES ARE FROM TOMBSTONES.
IMMIGRATED 1732
NOT SURE THIS IS MICHAEL FATHER RIGHT TIME PERIOD AND LISTED IN CHURCH RECORDS
WITH MICHAEL.
THEY HAD TWO SONS WHEN THEY IMIGRATED TO US IN 1715. ARRIVED IN PHILA.
IN 1716. HE WAS A HUGENOTS THEY SETTLED 1 1/2 MILES NORTH WEST OF THE
CITY OF LANCASTER. HE BUILT A GRIST AND SAWMILL ABT 4 1/2 MILES NORTH WEST
OF LANCASTER NOW EAST HEMPFIELD.
HE WENT TO VIRGINIA WITH TWO OF HIS BROTHERES PREACHING AND
ESTABLISHING A CHURCH THERE. LATER THEY RETURNED TO EPHRATA BUT MICHAEL JR
WENT TO SOUTH CAROLINA TO ESTABLISH A CHURCH AND THAT IS THE LAST RECORD WE
HAVE OF HIM. Other records list him as not coming to America and also have him listed as Henrich. There is a Henrich Eberlee listed as immigrant in Rupp's book 1827.
BORN IN SWITZERLAND THEN DWELT FOR A WHILE IN THE PALATINATE ON THE RHINE
IN GERMANY FROM WHENCE THEY CAME TO AMERICA SEPT 17 1727 WITHOUT HER HUSBAND,
NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT HIM. FIRST SETTLED IN HICKORY TOWN PRESENTLY LANCASTER.
A FEW YEARS LATER SHE BOUGHT A TRACT OF LAND IN DURLACH ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF
EPHRATA ORIGINALLY BERKS CO. TOWN PROBABLY NAMED AFTER A TOWN IN BADEN SOUT OF KARLSRUHE THE CAPITAL OF BADEN. She lived with her son Jacob until her death.
WILL LANCASTER CO PA probated SEPT 12 1792 and written 1759 but from Deed Bk P page 412 between his sons Jacob and Mathias dated 1 Nove 1772 it says Jacob deceased.
!WIFE AND CHILDREN LISTED IN WILL
After moving from Berne Switzerland, settled on the french side of the Rhine River. Consequently the Blank name was there written the french way de la Plancke.
All children came from a articles by John F. Murray located in Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster
Bishop John Blank and family by Sadie Mast says the following
This home was broken up by his death and four small brothers were parted and grew up in different homes. the children she lists are:
Peter born 1745 came to Morgantown and later ordained Bishop
Melchior or Michael later went out West
Jacob lived near Ephrata
John born abt 1755 came to Lancaster Co
DEED BK 6 FILM #020765 GIVE COMPLETE LIST OF CHILDREN AND THEIR SPOUSES
The levan book says he was married to Anna Maria Wink but that Jacob Levan was the son of Jacob and Catharine and they moved to Somerset county and buried there.Leon Borst’s NOTES (26 July 2009):
Henry Siegfried, b. 17 Apr 1751 in Maxatawny Twp., the son of Joseph and Anna Maria (Romig) Siegfried and d. 9 Aug 1822. He m.(1) Elizabeth Kutz, b. 5 Mar 1760 in Maxatawny Twp., the daughter of Nicholas & Eva Catherine (Brobst) Kutz. Elizabeth was the mother of all of Henry’s children. She died 17 Apr 1816.
At the age of 65, Widower Henry Siegfried of Maxatawny Township m.(2) on 18 Nov 1816 his widowed Cousin Magdalena Levan, b. 23 Oct 1756 the daughter of Daniel & Susanna (Siegfried) Levan. Magdalena was m.(1) to Jacob Levan, the son of her cousin Sebastian Levan. Jacob died in 1812. Magdalena (Levan) Siegfried died 9 May 1830. (NOTE: W.P. Coon’s book is in error. Jacob DID NOT marry Magdalena Wink.)Jacob was born in 1702 in Amsterdam, Holland and died in 1768 inMaxatawny Township, Berks Cou nty, Pennsylvania (Kutztown). (Source:"Annals of Oley Valley in Berks County, Pennsylvania " by Rev. P.C. Croll.) Jacob LeVan settled at Eagle Point, Maxatawny Township, BerksCounty, Pennsylvania. He w as one of the first settlers of that region,and an extensive land owner, the present flourish ing Borough of Kutztownbeing built on part of his estate. He erected the first grist mill in this section of the country. The mill is still standing (1927), aninteresting and romantic s ymbol of bygone industry. He and his familyused the front part of the mill as their home unt il their massive mansionwas built, patterned after Jacob LeVan's ancestral home in NorthernFr ance. On the inside lintel of the door leading into the great hall wascarved "1740", the dat e of its erection. The building was razed in 1844. The cellar, containing a spring ofwater, was arched, th e masonry of the arch being so firm that it was onlywith difficulty it could be demolished . What a pity that this splendidexample of colonial architecture was destroyed! The hospita lity of itsowners was famed far and wide and under its roof were entertained manynoted men o f (unreadable) and Revolutionary periods. It was from thebalcony of the mill that Count Zinz endorf, of the Moravian Church inAmerica, preached to the settlers in the fall of 1742, and a lso that Rev.Michael Schlatter, the organizer of the Reformed Church and the firstSuperintend ent of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvaniapreached to a large multitude of people , June 28, 1747. The LeVan home was the stopping place for the Moravian missionarieson their journeys t o the various German settlements in Pennsylvania andadjoining colonies and to the Indians, th e most noted of whom were CountZinzendorf, Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenburg, Bishop JohnC hristopher, Frederick Cammerhoff, and Rev. Leonard Schnell. In 1756,the period of the Frenc h and Indian war, the Indians began to makeincursions into the County, and massacred many o f the settlers inHeidelberg and Albany townships in Berks County, and Lynn and Heidelbergtown ships in Lehigh County. Jacob LeVan was instrumental in organizing avolunteer company to pro tect the settlers so they "could plant theircrops and repair their fences". It was called Th e Maxatawny andAllemangle Independent Guard, and consisted of 24 men, who served fromApri l 3 to May 11. In 1758 Jacob LeVan was Commissary for the followingfrontier forts: Peter Do ll's Block House, Fort Lehigh, Fort Allen, ABlock House and Fort Evert. (See Pennsylvania Ar chives.) He was judgeof the County Court from 1752 to 1762.
PATENT OF LAND OLEY TWP BK A VOL 6 P 334
DEED 1780 FILM #020767COLONIAL AND REV. FAMILIES VOL II P. 1645 SAY HE CAME OVER ON SHIP HARLE
PHILA PORT SEPT 1 1736 I DISAGREE WITH THAT AS FIRST PATENT OF LAND SAYS 1734.
There was a Hans Schneider from Trachselwald Switzerland in 1711 in prison as a mennonite to be deported to Holland. A Hans Snyderof Trub left the ship at manheim.
The oldest tombstone in Oley Township is for Johannes Schneider. Johannes is the immigrant ancestor who came to America in 1717 and took the Oath of Allegiance to King George in 1725. He secured a land warrant for 300 acres in the Oley District in 1717. Area is now Limekiln, lies on the border between Oley and Exeter Townships. From Ancestry
Daniel and Marie marriage doesn't say anything else but the posting of the banns said where they were living in Netherlands. They lived in different places, so not previously married. Thery were not received into the church until after they were married Feb 1698. Says he was married to Le Boue? They left the church in Netherlands in 1699 say to go to Germany.
1. Incoming record #113406 1680-1726
Feb 1698
Daniel Levant married to Le Boue
(admitted to the parish after he married, why not listed before he was married? Because he was married in this church. This record is written in French so why wasn’t her name spelt correctly?)
2. Marriage record #113402 of Daniel Levant and Marie Le Baue 17 Nov 1697 (I think this is an e not an X)
3. Posting of Banns #113400 2nd Nov 1697 (They had to do this before marriage in case someone objected to the marriage) Daniel Levant ? ? resided Rook shart and Marie Le Baue resides Lauriers shart. (I think this is proof that they were not previously married but lived separately) These were actaully names of Streets in Amsterdam
4. Departure record #113405 July 1698 Daniel Levant to Allem (Germany)
5. Departure record #113405 July 1698 Marie Le Beau to Allem (Germany)BIOGRAPHY: Nantes, Edict of, decree giving partial religious freedom to the Huguenots (Frenc h Protestants), proclaimed by Henry IV, king of France, in 1598 and revoked by Louis XIV in 1 685. The Edict of Nantes ended the series of religious wars between Catholics and Protestants tha t ravaged France from 1562 to 1598. During these wars, several ineffective treaties were conc luded, embodying privileges for the Huguenots. The Edict of Nantes included the religious pro visions of these treaties and added a number of others. By the terms of the edict, the Huguenots were granted liberty of conscience throughout France . They were allowed to build churches and hold religious services in specified villages and t he suburbs of any city except episcopal and archiepiscopal cities, royal residences, and with in a 5-mile radius of Paris; Huguenot nobles were permitted to hold services in their homes . Followers of the faith were granted civil rights and the right to hold official positions . Four universities or schools (at Montauban, Montpellier, Sedan, and Saumur) were permitte d to be Huguenot. A special court, composed of ten Catholics and six Protestants, called th e Chambre de l'Edit (Chamber of the Edict) was established for Huguenot protection in the par liament of Paris; subsidiary chambers were established in the provincial parliaments. Hugueno t pastors were paid by the government, as were Catholic priests. As a guarantee of protection , 100 fortified cities (places de sûreté) were given to the Huguenots for eight years. The provisions of the Edict of Nantes were never fully carried out, even during the reign o f Henry IV. Its political clauses were abrogated by Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of Kin g Louis XIII, in 1629. Persecution of the Huguenots resumed during the reign of Louis XIV, pa rticularly after 1681. When the edict was revoked four years later, hundreds of thousands o f Huguenots were forced to flee France and take refuge in Protestant countries.
Daniel was baptized in 1672 and married in 1697 in Picardy, France. He died in 1768 in Amsterd am, Holland. (where on earth did I get this) "The Huguenots were French Protestants, who following the protests ofLuther the German, and C alvin the Frenchman against conditions,traditions and outworn dogmas of the Roman Catholic Ch urch, formed thereformed Church of the great Reformation. John Calvin, the earliest greatspir itual leader of the Huguenots was born in 1509 at Noyon, France, inthe Province of Picardy, t he native province of our progenitors, DanielLeVan and Marie Beau." - "Our branch of the LeVan family (through Grandfather Benjamin Goodman'smother, Ruthana LeVa n Goodman) fled to Amsterdam, Holland. They wereprobably among the refugees to Holland, afte r the Revocation of the Edictof Nantes (1685)." - As so many Huguenots did, the LeVans affiliated themselves with theAmsterdam Refugee Churc h of the Walloons who had preceded the Huguenotsto Holland. We learn this from the baptisma l records of this church, inwhich it appears that Abraham, son of Daniel LeVan and Marie Beau , bornMay 20, 1698, was baptized by Monsieur H. Colviens in the presence ofAbraham Fabre an d Susana LeVan as witnesses. A baptismal certificate withthe above record was made out at Ams terdam, September 18, 1751, by JosiasBelieargne, 'ancien' or clerk of said church and was evi dently sent bypost from Holland to Abraham LeVan, son of Daniel LeVan and Marie Beau,who in 1 751 was located in Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Theoriginal Transcript is now ( 1927) in the possession of Miss Hester MoyerLeVan, 1030 Chestnut Street, Reading, Pennsylvani a, a great-great-greatgranddaughter of said Abraham LeVan." (1) - "An old French family of Knights and Nobles, who originally came fromNorway and Sweden, fro m whence they spread themselves through France,Germany and England. - The first of the name, Kuebach LeVan, a leader of a Norwegian band,which he conveyed by shi p to France, where they landed in the mostnorthern coast of Normandie. He conquered the earl y inhabitants and madethem submissive and tributary to him. Later he stormed the castle ofCou nt DeBonneville, when all the inhabitants of the castle were slainexcept Beatrice DeBonnevill e, the beautiful daughter of the Count, whowas spared and was married to Kuebach LeVan agains t her will. He diedA.D. 952 and left a son, Hugo LeVan. - Several of the descendants joined Norman Grand Duke William, theConqueror, and after the co nquest of England, returned to Normandie.Nothing is known of them, only Bertram LeVan marrie d in France, that isin Normandie. This descendant flourished and was held in high esteemdurin g his lifetime. - Louis LeVan was a physician who lived in La Rochelle in 1695. FromFrance he went to Pfalz a nd studied at Heidelburg. He married MarieKremer, and afterward finished his medical course . Soon after, the Frenchinvaded the Pfalz region, and Louis moved away from the Rhine. Wher e hewent to, and where his descendants settled, is not known. - The Coat of Arms was borne by the first ancestor. In the shield is alion. The crest is als o a lion. The LeVan genius is a lion. The crown inthe crest is that of one of the family wh o won the first prize in atournament. (See Vienna Heraldry, Vol. III, p. 177)." (3, Pages 6-7 )
Daniel was baptized in 1672 and married in 1697 in Picardy, France.Hedied in 1768 in Amster d am, Holland. (Source: "Annals of Oley ValleyinBerks County, Pennsylvania" by Rev. P.C. Cr o ll).
FROM HISTORY OF BERKS CO THERE IS A GEORG KLEIN BORN ZWEIBRUCKEN IN BAVARIA 9
OCT 1715 EMIGRATED TO AMERICA 1738 SETTLED FIRST IN NEW JERSEY AND THEN MOVED
TO NORTH-KILL TWO MILES NORTHWEST OF BERNVILLE BERKS HE WAS A MINISTER.There were Peter in Weyer age 28, 2 kids, (b. 1714)
There was a Hans Peter in Harskirchen age 70 (b.1672)
There is a Peter Henbitzheim age 46 with 5 kids (b.1692)