1798 Martin Musser, son of David Meyer and Elizabeth Rohrer, was born on April 3. [1]
1804 Elizabeth Musser was born on March 15. [2]
1822 Martin Musser and Elizabeth Musser were married on January 5. [3]
1825 On 1 April, David Moyer and administrators of the estate of his father, Jacob Moyer, sold land in Manheim Twp, Lancaster County, to Peter Johns. The deed cites the 1738 patent by John Moyer, the 1759 sale by John and Mary to son Jacob Moyer in deed N-341, and the 1793 XX-122 of sale by Jacob and Ann to sons Jacob, Christian, and John Moyer. [4] On 2 April, Peter Johns and wife sold the land to son Martin Meyer. [5]
1825 Peter Johns sold land to Martin and Elizabeth Meyer. Previously, Martin Meyer married Elizabeth Musser, daughter of Henry Musser Jr, who died about 1805, when Elizabeth was a minor. Elizabeth reached age 21 in 1825 and received her inheritance, by deed dated April 8, 1825. [6] [7]
1830 Martin Meyer (age 30-40) lived in Manheim Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [8]
1832 Martin Meyer was a Mennonite minister in Landis Valley District, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [9]
1873 Martin Meyer died on October 4 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [10] [11]
1870-1873 Martin Meyer dated his will on March 21, 1870, with probate date on October 16, 1873. [12]
1891 Elizabeth Musser died on October 6. [13]
[1] Amy Carol Jameson, "The Mayer Family: Three generations of a Farming Family in Manheim Township," Pennsylvania Mennnonite Heritage 12 (January, 1989), 11-15, at 12, family 11.
[2] Amy Carol Jameson, "The Mayer Family: Three generations of a Farming Family in Manheim Township," Pennsylvania Mennnonite Heritage 12 (January, 1989), 11-15, at 12, family 11.
[3] Amy Carol Jameson, "The Mayer Family: Three generations of a Farming Family in Manheim Township," Pennsylvania Mennnonite Heritage 12 (January, 1989), 11-15, at 12, family 11.
[4] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book E5, 88-92, [88], [89], [90], [91], [92], [FHLCatalog].
[5] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book E5, 92-95, numbering error, [92], [93], [94], [95], [FHLCatalog].
[6] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book E5, 79-83, [79], [80], [81], [82], [83], [FHLCatalog].
[7] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book E5, 84-88, [84], [85], [86], [87], [88], [FHLCatalog].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1830, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[9] Martin G. Weaver, Mennonites of Lancaster Conference (1931), 173.
[10] Martin G. Weaver, Mennonites of Lancaster Conference (1931), 173.
[11] Amy Carol Jameson, "The Mayer Family: Three generations of a Farming Family in Manheim Township," Pennsylvania Mennnonite Heritage 12 (January, 1989), 11-15, at 12, family 11.
[12] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will B2-88, FHL film 940807, image 52, [FamilySearchImage].
[13] Amy Carol Jameson, "The Mayer Family: Three generations of a Farming Family in Manheim Township," Pennsylvania Mennnonite Heritage 12 (January, 1989), 11-15, at 12, family 11.