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Notes for John Meyer and Barbara Landis

Research Notes:

Barbara Landis was a daughter of Mennonite parents. [1]

John Meyer lived at Erlingen (?Ittlingen) in the Palatinate. [2]

1709 John Meyer married Barbara Landis. [3]

1720 John Myer with his family of three children came to America and settled at a fine spring in the wilderness, but now a fine farm in Lancaster County, near New Holland. [4] [5]

1721 another son was born whom they named Vincent, after his grandfather in Switzerland. [6]

1727 On 16 October, Vincent Moyer was listed in the Philadelphia Council minutes, among Palatines who came on the ship Friendship. [7]


Footnotes:

[1] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 25, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].

[2] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 35, person MS3341.

[3] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 35, person MS3341.

[4] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 25, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].

[5] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 35, person MS3341.

[6] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 25, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].

[7] Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (1852), 290, [HathiTrust].