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Notes for John Schenk and Mary Meyer

Research Notes:

c 1695 John Shank was born. [1]

c 1704 Mary Meyer, daughter of Hans Mier and Anna Brubaker, was born. [2] [3]

1718 John Shank was taxed. [4]

Mary Meyer married John Shenk of Lancaster Township, Lancaster County. [5] [6]

1734 John Shank patented 150 acres in Lancaster County. [7]

1739 On 25 December, John Shank, and other heirs, deeded his father-in-law's 300 acres on Conestoga Creek to Casper Loughman. [8]

1748 John Shank deeded to son Christian, the land patented in 1734. [9]

1752 John Shank died. [10]

Mary Meyer's birth has been reported at Derschen, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Her death has been reported on September 11, 1744.


Footnotes:

[1] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC136.

[2] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC136.

[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 137, [Website].

[4] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC136.

[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 137, [Website].

[6] Dorothy Adams, Myers History: some descendants of Hans Meier of Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1987), 37, [GoogleBooks].

[7] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC136.

[8] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC136.

[9] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC136.

[10] Jane Evans Best, "Meyer Families Update," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (April, 1998), 31-36, at 33, family MC136.