c 1666 Hans Meyer, son of Hans Meyer and Annali Bauman, was born about this time. [1] [2] [3]
c 1669 Anna Brubacher was born about this time. [4]
Hans Meyer and Anna Brubaker were married. [5] [6] [7]
1693 Hans Meyer, perhaps this one, signed a letter as the leader from Rudelsheim, for Mennonites going to Friedrichstadt. [8] [9]
c 1695 John Meyer, son of Hans Meyer and Anna Brubaker, was born about this time. John Meyer later married Mary Lenhardy. [10]
1700 Hans Meyer's brother, Christian arrived in America.
1710-17 Hans Meyer arrived in America in August 1717. [11]
1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. [12] [13] 79. Hans Meyer, age 52, died 1722, Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County, Wife, Anna Brubacher, has been named as likely being on one of the ships. [14]
Oral tradition. Arthur Henry Meyers (1895 - 1972) liked to relate stories that were told to him by his Uncle Mike and Sam Myers. One story was that when the first family members arrived, there was not time to build a structure before winter. The family lived in a cave for months till the land could be cleared and a home built. One of the Meyer homes was located near what is known as "Gravel Hills" in Rapho township. There in the valley the house was built over a stream so that in times of stress with the Indians, the family would be able to get water without going outside. The owner of the property reported that the house had survived until tropical storm Agnes came through the area in 1972. All was destroyed and the rocks scattered.
1717 "Signed a patent to Hans Moyer for 700 acres of land at Strasburg, granted him for £10 p. C't, dated the 30th, 6 mo., 1717." [15]
1717 On September 27, Hans Moyer received a warrant for 350 acres of land on the Conestoga Creek, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The tract was surveyed the 19th October 1717 by a warrant ... dated 27 September 1717 unto Hans Moyer, a certain tract ... of land on Conestogoe Creek in the County of Chester, .. corner of Melker Brenneman ... John Ferrer ...230 acres [16] A survey dated 1717 showed the land belonging to Conrad Moyer. [17] William Penn granted a patent for the land "unto Hans Moyer late of the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany but now of the township of Strasburg in the said province … by Conestogoe Creek" The patent was issued on November 30, 1717. [18] [19] The land was on the south shore of the Conestoga River southwest of the present city of Lancaster. It was a promontory of land with the meandering river on three sides, known in modern times as Cane's Point. The land was in Strassburg, part of the Pequea Valley settlement [20]. [21] [22] [23].
1719 On 30 December, Hans Meyer [Meier] purchased 400 acres of land in Groffdale, Earl Twp, Lancaster County, from Hans Groff. He paid half in cash and the remainder with a note.
1719/20 On 10 of month 12 (February), Hans Meyer purchased an additional 150 acres from John Farrer for cash, in Strasburg in the Pequea settlement on the Conestoga River, to whom the land had been warranted on August 2, 1716. The land adjoined a 350 acre tract purchased in 1717 by his son, Hans Conrad Meier. [The two land purchases were adjacent records in the Journal of the Surveyor General, suggesting they were by the same person.] [24]
Hans Brubaker sold to Hans Meier, a triangular tract of 18-½ acres, the south-eastern corner of his 500 acre tract. In 1729, Hans Brubaker sold to Christian Stoneman a tract of 150 acres, just west of the tract previously sold to John Mier. [25] [26]
1719 Hance Mayres value 26 pounds was taxed £0.8.8 in Conestogoe Twp. [27] [28] [29]
1720 Hance Moyer Sen was taxed in Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County for 50 pounds [30] [31] Hance Mayer Jun (perhaps a son) was taxed for 30 pounds. [32] [33]
1721 John Meyer [Mire] was taxed in Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County for 18 pounds and another John Mire was taxed for 8 pounds and another for 12 pounds. Possibly, one was John Conrad, one was John Jr, and the other was John Sr. [34]
1722 Was this the will of Hans Meyer Sr, or son Hans Conrad Meyer?
1722 The will of John Conret Meyer [Miers] was dated January 30, 1721/22 and was in probate court in 1721/22. The wife is to have the estate as long as she please and then to the children. Witnesses were John Burkholder, Christian Hare, and Hans Myer. [35]
1721/22 Hans Meyer [Meier] signed a will written in German on 30 Jan: "Today on January 30, I, Hans Meier, made over to my wife Ana Brubacherin (Brubaker) my plantation (blan dasche), of above 150 acres with grain farm buildings and belongings to use what she needs". An English version was submitted to the court at Upland (Chester County) "Firstly it was his will that his wife should have the plantation a hundred and fifty acres of land to keep with all the moveable estate. Secondly when she will throw it of land she shall give it to the children.". The translated will was signed by the signers of the German will. The estate was sold in 1739, but the deed and sellers (two sons and three daughters) were not recorded.
1722 John Meyer [Meir] was taxed in Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County for 20 pounds (p. 174). Anna Mire was taxed for 16 pounds (perhaps this was the widow of John Sr. or John Conrad). A John Mire was taxed for 24 pounds and a John Mire was taxed for 12 pounds. [36]
1723 John Meyer [Moyer] was taxed (perhaps a son). [37]
1739 On 25 December, the land which Hans Meyer had warranted in 1717 was transferred by son-in-law John Shenk and others to Caspar Lowman. [38]
Research Notes:
Alternatively, Anna Brubaker's father has been reported to be Hans Heinrich Bruppacher (shown here as an uncle) and her mother to be Elisabeth Rusterholz.
Alternative descendants: Other possible children for Hans Meier include: Michael, found on the 1721 tax roll and Rudy Moyer, found on the 1718 list; however, there is no proof of a family link.
Early research suggested, apparently incorrectly, that Hans Meyer, husband of Anna Brubaker, was the son of Jagli Meyer (baptized 1622 in Birmensdorf). [39]
See also Meyer genealogy: [40]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, MC13.
[2] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D13, [Website].
[3] M. Robert B. Klinger and Jacqueline O. Klinger, "The Ancestry and Some Descendants of Henry E Meyers (1813-1901)," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 10 (October 1987), 12-16, at 13, person 1, left column, suggests c 1660.
[4] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC13.
[5] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, MC13.
[6] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D13, [Website].
[7] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1176, [Website].
[8] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, MC13.
[9] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer/Moyer D13, [Website].
[10] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, MC133.
[11] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer/Moyer D13, [Website].
[12] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), xvii, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[13] Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (1852), 29, [HathiTrust].
[14] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 15.
[15] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 19. (Minutes of the Board of Property, Volume 1) (1890), 624, [InternetArchive].
[16] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D73-53, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].
[17] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D78-11, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].
[18] Bureau of Land Records, Pennsylvania Land Patent Books, A5-297, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[19] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A5-297, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[20] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 19. (Minutes of the Board of Property, Volume 1) (1890), 622, [InternetArchive].
[21] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 19. (Minutes of the Board of Property, Volume 1) (1890), 622, [InternetArchive].
[22] Pennsylvania Archives, Township Warrant Map (large download), Tract 56, [PATownshipWarrantMaps].
[23] Henry Frank Eshleman, Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: 1917), 203-204, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[24] M. Robert B. Klinger and Jacqueline O. Klinger, "The Ancestry and Some Descendants of Henry E Meyers (1813-1901)," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 10 (October 1987), 12-16, at 13, person 1, left column, citing Dorothy M. K. Adams, Myers History, 35-36.
[25] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book G, 139-142, [139], [140], [141], [142], [FHLCatalog].
[26] Phares Brubaker Gibble, History and Genealogy of the Brubaker, Brubacher, Brewbaker Family in America (1951, reprinted 1971), 39.
[27] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, 1720, right of middle, top third, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[28] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, 1719, left of middle, top third, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[29] H. Frank Eshleman, "Assessment Lists and Other Documents of Lancaster County Prior to the year 1729," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 21, No.7 (1916), 155-194, at 165, [HathiTrust].
[30] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, 1720/21, Conestogoe, second column, bottom third, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[31] H. Frank Eshleman, "Assessment Lists and Other Documents of Lancaster County Prior to the year 1729," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 21, No.7 (1916), 155-194, at 168, [HathiTrust].
[32] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, left column, top, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[33] H. Frank Eshleman, "Assessment Lists and Other Documents of Lancaster County Prior to the year 1729," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 21, No.7 (1916), 155-194, at 167, [HathiTrust].
[34] H. Frank Eshleman, "Assessment Lists and Other Documents of Lancaster County Prior to the year 1729," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 21, No.7 (1916), 155-194, at 172, [HathiTrust].
[35] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will I-324, FHL film 21358, image 177, [FamilySearchImage].
[36] H. Frank Eshleman, "Assessment Lists and Other Documents of Lancaster County Prior to the year 1729," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 21, No.7 (1916), 155-194, at 175, [HathiTrust].
[37] H. Frank Eshleman, "Assessment Lists and Other Documents of Lancaster County Prior to the year 1729," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 21, No.7 (1916), 155-194, at 180, [HathiTrust].
[38] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer/Moyer D13, [Website].
[39] Jane Evans Best, "A Bear Saga: The Birmensdordf Connection," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (April, 1988), 31-45, at 40, Person MA41.
[40] Dorothy Adams, Myers History: some descendants of Hans Meier of Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1987), 35-39, [GoogleBooks].