c 1690 Hans Conrad Meyer, son of Hans Mier and Anna Brubaker, was born about this time. [1]
1717 Hans Conrad Meyer received a warrant, dated September 27, for 350 acres of land on Conestoga Creek, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He received patent A-5-297, issued to Hans Conrad Meyer, on November 30 1717. 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 Strasburg, part of the Pequea Valley settlement. [2] [3] [4]
1718 Hans Currick Moyer 26 [pounds] £0.6.6 appeared on the tax list for Conestogoe Rate, Dutch Inhabitants, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [5] [6] [7]
1719 Hans Carak Mayres value 37 pounds was taxed £0.12.4 in Conestogoe Twp. [8] [9]
1720 Hans Curick Moyer was taxed in Conestoga Twp for 20 pounds. [10]
1721 The will of Hans Konret Meyer [Miers] Senior was dated June 1721 and was probated 1721. Witnesses were John Burkholder, Chris't Hare, Melchior Brenneman, John Lowman, Hans Hare, and Jacob Myer. [11]
1721 Hans Conrad Meyer's will stated "First, his wife should have the plantation, 350 acres, to keep for her own. Second, she must pay the children the money he brought to her when he married her, which was two hundred and fifty (Dutch) guilders, or thirty-seven pounds, ten shillings, Pennsylvania money. Third, she should give the children the four books he brought her: a Bible, two New Testaments and a Hymn book."
1722 The six signers of the 1721 will prepared a marriage agreement for Anna and Hans Groff, written in German. The agreement set forth Hans Groff's obligations to Anna and the two children of Hans Conrad Meier. [12] [13]
Daughter Barbara Meyer inherited the land that Hans Conrad Meyer had warranted in 1717. [14]
Research Notes:
1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. Hans Conrad Meyer has been named as being on one of the ships [15] [16]
Hans was born about 1698. Hans Conrad Meyer and Anna Lichty were reportedly spouses. [17]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC131.
[2] 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 11, left column.
[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D131, [Website].
[4] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC131.
[5] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, 1718, Conestogoe, bottom left, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[6] 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 163, [HathiTrust].
[7] 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].
[8] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, 1719, right of middle, top third, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[9] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, 1719, left of middle, top third, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[10] 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 169, [HathiTrust].
[11] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will I-324, FHL film 21358, image 177, [FamilySearchImage].
[12] Clyde L. Groff, Walter B. Groff, and Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, A good life in a new land, Vol. 1 (Ronks, Pennsylvania: Groff History Associates, 1997), 8, [FHLCatalog].
[13] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC131.
[14] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed U-553 to 556, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[15] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 15, based on a 1719 tax.
[16] 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, refers to father, Hans Mier.
[17] Dorothy Adams, Myers History: some descendants of Hans Meier of Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1987), 41, 37, [GoogleBooks].