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c 1678 Hans Jacob Brubacher was born at Ibersheim. [1]

1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. Jacob Brubacher has been named as being on one of the ships [2].

1717 Hans Jacob Brubacher arrived in Pennsylvania in August. [3]

"Jacob Brubaker and John Brubaker were brothers who came to America at the same time as did Hans and bought land at the same time and in the same general commmunity." [4]

1751 Hans Jacob Brubacher died at Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [5]

His brother warranted 700 acres in Hempfield Township and the land was adjacent to his brother "Hans Jacob Brubaker's land". [6]

1751 Jacob Brubaker was living at Hempfield Township in 1751 when he deeded his land in Hempfield Township to his sons Peter and Jacob. [7]

A history of Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County reports [8]

Among the early settlers on Mill Creek, were Conrad Beissel, a man of some notoriety in the religious history of the county, Joseph Shaeffer, Hans Meyer, Henry Hoehn, and several Landises.

The settlement near and around Lancaster, began to increase. Francis Neff, Hans Henry Neff, Doctor of Physic, who, and his descendants, are well known, Roody Mire, Michael Shank, Jacob Imble, and others, having settled here for some time. Lancaster was commenced about the year 1721, or 1722. "The settlements about the Indian villages of Conestoga were considerably advanced in improvements at this time; the land thereabouts being exceedingly rich; it is now (1721) surrounded with divers fine plantations, or farms, where they raise quantities of wheat, barley, flax and hemp, without the help of any dung."
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John Brubacher, a Swiss, and founder of the numerous Brubacher family, was one of the earliest settlers, and is said to have located in Hempfield Township, on the Little Conestoga, and to have built the first mill in Lancaster County. The family register, from which this notice is drawn, mentions neither the date of his arrival, nor the exact locality where he built the mill.


Footnotes:

[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1170, [Website].

[2] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 12, based on a tax record in 1718.

[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1170, [Website].

[4] Phares Brubaker Gibble, History and Genealogy of the Brubaker, Brubacher, Brewbaker Family in America (1951, reprinted 1971), 65.

[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1170, [Website].

[6] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1170, [Website].

[7] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1170, [Website].

[8] Jacob I. Mombert, An Authentic History of Lancaster County (1869), 421, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].