1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. [1] [2] 58. Michael Kauffman, age 39, died 1717/18, Lancaster County, Wife, Anna Kneissley, has been named as likely being on one of the ships. [3]
Bible: "Anna Kneissle Kauffman fell asleep in the Lord, June 24, 1758, aged 70 years. Her sister, Christianna Holdiman, died in August 1758, aged 77 years.". [4]
[1] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), xvii, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (1852), 29, [HathiTrust].
[3] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 14.
[4] Marion F. Egge, Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean (2000), 123-124, [GoogleBooks].