1720 Elizabeth Kauffman was born on January 10. [1] [2]
1724 Christian Meyer came to America and settled in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [3]
Elizabeth Kauffman, daughter of Andrew, married Christian Meyer. [4] Christian might be the son of Hans Moyer, whose 262 acre tract bounded the kauffman-Erisman-Tuber grant. [5] [6]
Christian Meyer "a native of Switzerland came to America in 1724 and settled in Strasburg Township Lancaster County Pennsylvania He was a Mennonite in faith and was married to Elizabeth Kauffman who was born January 15th 1720 They had a family of eight children." [7]
"Elizabeth Kauffman (Jan. 10 1720 - ) md. Christian Meyer (Dec. 10, 1708-1778) Shrewsbury, York Co., Pa. Farmer. Likely a son of Hans Moyer whose 262 acre tract bounded the Kauffman Erisman Tuber grant." [8]
1747 Andrew Kaufmann's daughter, Elizabeth Kauffman, "was the first Kaufmann to permanently settle in York County during 1747 when she moved there with husband Christian Meyer." [9]
Research Notes:
"Elizabeth Kaufmann, the second child of Andrew and Elizabeth, was born 10 January 1720 in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. At the age of 22 (during 1742), Elizabeth married Christian Meyer of Lancaster County. Christian and Elizabeth had two children while still in Lancaster County: Elizabeth and Maria. During 1747, Christian obtained a plot of land in York County, Pennsylvania. This land was located in the northeast corner of Springfield Township: bounded on the northeast and northwest by the East Branch of the Codorus Creek (just before it flows into current day Lake Redman), and on the south the boundary was about at the current day Ridge View Road. Christian and Elizabeth had 7 more children after moving to York County: John, Christian, Andrew, Michael, Martin, Henry, and Abraham. Christian Meyer died 13 March 1779, at the age of 70 years, and Elizabeth Meyer died 22 March 1798, at the age of 78 years—they were married for 37 years. [10]
" A Meyer Family Bible lists "Deaths: Christian Meyer died March 13, 1798 [1798 was transcribed incorrectly—see MEYER Family for details]; His wife died March 22, 1798; (They were somewhat over 70 Years of age)". This was transcribed from a 1805 Bible in the possession of Mr. Willard Strayer, York, Pennsylvania on December 1964 and found in the 2738 Family File at the Historical Society of York." [11]
[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Kauffman 13152, [Website].
[2] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 84, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 84, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Charles Fahs Kauffman, A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America, 1584 to 1937 (1940), 1, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[5] Charles Fahs Kauffman, A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America, 1584 to 1937 (1940), 8, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[6] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Kauffman 13152, [Website].
[7] Ezra E. Eby, A Biographical History of Waterloo Township, Vol. 2 (1896), 84, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Charles Fahs Kauffman, A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America, 1584 to 1937 (1940), 8, A2, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[9] Stephen Harold Smith, Barshingers in America (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc, 2001), 553, [GoogleBooks].
[10] Stephen Harold Smith, Barshingers in America (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc, 2001), 555, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Stephen Harold Smith, Barshingers in America (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc, 2001), 555, [GoogleBooks].