1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. [1] [2] 29. Melchior Erisman, age 25, died 1740, Lancaster County, Wife, Edith, has been named as likely being on one of the ships. [3]
1718 Melchior Arisman was taxed 2 shillings, 6 pence, Conestogoe Rate. [4]
1760 On 25 July, yeoman Jacob Meyer of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and his wife Anna, Christian Meyer and his wife Mary, and other heirs of Melchior Erisman, sold their shares of the land to Jacob Erisman. Jacob was an heir due to his prior marriage to Melchior's daughter, Addey Erisman. (Lancaster deed G-277).
Research Notes:
Melchior Erisman and Edith Odey were reportedly spouses. [5]
[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 13.
[4] William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries Historical Biographical and Genealogical Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Reprint First and Second Series in two Volumes, Vol. 2 (1895), 132, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Dorothy Adams, Myers History: some descendants of Hans Meier of Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1987), 59, [GoogleBooks].