We are researching Elizabeth Herr, married to Jacob Baltzly. We suspect that Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Herr and Anna Bär, named as the wife of Jacob Batzell in deeds regarding the estate of this Abraham Herr, was the same person.
We are also researching Elizabeth Herr, wife of John Stoner. We suspect that grand-daughter Elizabeth, daughter of son Abraham, was that person.
1717 Abraham Heer, of Strasburg Twp, was authorized, on July 27, to take up 600 acres acres in Chester County, Pennsylvania not already surveyed or appropriated or seated by Indians. [1] [2]
1717 Abraham Heer received a survey for 600 acres in Chester County, Pennsylvania on August 12. [3] [4] [5]. [Photocopy, Survey Record.]
1717 Abraham received a patent, on November 30, for 600 acres in Manor Township, Chester (now Lancaster) County, Pennsylvania for land he had warranted on September 27. [6] [7]
1718 Abraham Herr was taxed in Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 35 pounds. [8]
1718 Abraham Heer was taxed 8 shillings, 9 pence, Conestogoe Rate. [9]
1719 Abraham Herr and his brother Hans petitioned for 400 acres for their brother Isaac.
1719 Abraham Heere was taxed in Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 60 pounds. [10]
1715-1729 Large land tracts were held in the Manor by Christian, Abram, Rudy, and John Herr. Abram was listed twice, perhaps this Abraham and his sons. [11]
1718 Abraham Heer 35 [pounds] £0.8.9 appeared on the tax list for Conestogoe Rate, Dutch Inhabitants, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [12]
1719 Abraham Heere value 60 pounds was taxed £1.0.0 in Conestogoe Twp. [13]
1725 Letters of administration were issued, on December 16, for the estate of Abraham Herr in Conestoga Twp, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [14]
1736 Descendants of Abraham Herr Senior, including Elizabeth wife of Jacob Batzel, were parties to a deed. Abraham (eldest son), Rudy, and John Hare (all sons of Abraham Herr Senior) and Barbara wife of David Martin, and Elizabeth wife of Jacob Batzel, yeoman of Lancaster County (daughters of Abraham Herr Senior), granted a 150 acre tract in Lancaster County, to Christian Hare (son of Abraham Herr Senior). David and Samuel Herr were not named in the text of the deed, but witnesses attested to their signatures. A subsequent deed, dated 1800, indicates that David and Samuel were parties to the deed and were also sons of Abraham Herr, Sr, and identifies many other heirs and descendants of Abraham Herr. The deeds involved parts of a 600 acre tract of land in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania which was granted to Abraham Hare Sr, by land patent dated November 30, 1717. [15]
1736 Several descendants of Abraham Herr, including Elizabeth wife of Jacob Batzol, were parties to a deed. Abraham's sons: Abraham, Rudy, and John Hare and daughters: Barbara wife of David Martin, and Elizabeth wife of Jacob Batzol, yeoman of Lancaster County, granted a 150 acre tract in Lancaster County, to son Christian Hare. Abraham Herr Senior had died and divided the land into 150 acre tracts. Some of Abraham's heirs, named in this deed, sold their shares to Christian for 10 pounds each. The deed was dated May 18, 1736. Abraham, Rudy, and Hans Herr signed the deed in German script. Jacob and Elizabeth Batzol signed with their marks. Two other signatures of Samuel and David Herr were attested to by witnesses. Signatures were affirmed by witnesses on March 25, 1738. The deed was recorded on May 19, 1798. [16]
1756 Abraham Senior (the son of this Abraham) and Anna Herr of Lancaster County sold land, on January 30, to their son Abraham Herr Junior. The 600 acre tract of land on the north west side of Conestoga Creek in Conestoga Manor had been patented on November 30, 1717, to Abraham Herr, deceased, father of Abraham Herr Senior. When Abraham Herr died, the land descended to Abraham Hare (senior), Rudy Hare, Christian Hare, John Hare, Barbara Hare, and Elisabeth Hare, the sons and daughters of Abraham Herr. On May 18, 1735, the other heirs: Rudy Hare, Christian Hare, John Hare, David Martin and wife Barbara, and Jacob Batzel and wife Elisabeth sold their shares for 295 acres of the tract to Abraham Senior. Abraham Senior sold 246 acres of the land to Abraham Junior for 700 pounds lawful money. [17] [18]
1800 Abraham Herr Jr and wife Feronica sold three tracts of land to Henry Kauffman, on March 6. One of the tracts was the land described in the 1736 deed. This 1800 deed repeated many of the facts of the 1736 deed. The first tract, originally in the township of Strasburg, was now in the township of Lancaster, Lancaster County. A 600 acre tract had been patented by Abraham Herr, Sr, who had died leaving issue 8 children, to wit, Abraham Herr (his eldest son), Rudy Herr, Christian Herr, John Herr, Barbara the wife of David Martin, Elizabeth the wife of Jacob Batzel, Samuel Herr, and David Herr. The other heirs granted their rights, to 295 acres of the land, to Abraham Herr (eldest son), in a deed dated May 18, 1736. Abraham Herr (eldest son) and wife Anna, then by the name of Abraham Herr Sr, granted 246 acres of the 295 acre tract to Abraham Herr Jr (party to this deed). Abraham Herr (eldest son) and wife, alias Annely, had sold 36 acres of the 295 acre tract to Peter Musselman on April 4, 1746, which was the second of the three tracts described in the current deed. The deed includes a description of a third tract, which descended through heirs of Peter Musselman to Henneberger, who died and whose heirs sold the tract to Abraham Herr Jr. The deed was witnessed by Henry Dering and Christian Herr. [19]
Research Notes:
1660-1675 Different birthdates have been reported for Abraham Herr. [20] [21] [22]
The wife of Abraham Herr was named Anna [23]. "Abraham Herr, 1660-1725, is thought to have been first married to Anna Bare." [24] Jane Best identifies Abraham Herr married to Anna Bar, perhaps the daughter of Heinrich Bar and Verena Mayer, in her research. [25] [26] [27] Herr Lineal Descendants revised reports [28]:
Abraham Herr, 1660-1725, is thought to have first married Anna Bare. A recent discovery in Peter Musselman's deed confirms the fact that Abraham was married the second time to Frena Musser, a sister of Peter Musselman. Abraham and Frena had two sons, David (15) and Samuel, not included in the proper places in the 1908 edition. Abraham Herr owned 600 acres in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pa. (Deeds D-375; SS-62; C3-633, 641; L3-583; M3-542).
1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. Abraham Herr has been named as likely being on one of the ships. [29] [30]
1725 Abraham Herr built a house in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on the land surveyed in 1717.
1725 Abraham Herr divided his 600 acres among his sons Abraham, Rudy and Christian.
Mennonite vital records incorrectly report Abraham's death date as 1735 or 1738. [31] [32]
A summary reports: Born c 1672. Letters of administration 16 December 1725 in Conestoga Twp, Chester Co, intestate. Settled in Manor Twp. Warranted land in 1717. Married Anna Bare (BA 1235) perhaps and married Frena Mosiman. [33]
A biosketch reports [34]:
Abraham Herr was the oldest [son], and came with his father in 1710. He was married in Europe, and had a large family, some of his children being grown and married. He settled near Wabank, on the west side of the Conestoga creek. He was the only one of the family that settled in Manor township, and having several children grown when he came there, the family became very numerous.
Mennonite Research Journal, Vol. 1, October 1960, "For A Faith's Pure Shine". Transcription of 1710 letter from Christian and Hans Herr to benefactor in Rotterdam.
[1] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D65-138, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[2] Pennsylvania Records of the Land Office, RG-17, Old Rights index, Chester County, 1682-1740. (series #17.78), page 44, item 103, [PAHistoricalMuseum].
[3] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 19. (Minutes of the Board of Property, Volume 1) (1890), 622, [InternetArchive].
[4] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D65-151, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[5] Pennsylvania Records of the Land Office, RG-17, Old Rights index, Chester County, 1682-1740. (series #17.78), page 40, item 62, [PAHistoricalMuseum].
[6] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A5-358, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[7] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed 3M-542 to 557, at 543, Deed dated 1800, cites the patent and reports the land was in Strasburg Twp, now in Lancaster Twp, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[8] 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].
[9] 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].
[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 165, [HathiTrust].
[11] A. K. Hostetter, "English and Scotch-Irish Pioneers of Old Conestoga and their Descendants," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 19 (1915), 255-299, at 280, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[12] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[13] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[14] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 15, HH11.
[15] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A5-358, recorded on January 13, 1718/19, [Patent Index Entry], [Patent Indices].
[16] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed 3C-641 to 644, at 644, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[17] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed D-375 to 377, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[18] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book D, 375-377, [375], [376], [377], [FHLCatalog].
[19] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed 3M-542 to 557, at 544, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[20] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 15, HH11, suggests birth c 1672.
[21] Theodore Herr, Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr and his direct Lineal Descendants, Revised (1980), 786, reports Abraham, son of Hans Herr and Elizabeth Kendig, was born 1660, [GoogleBooks].
[22] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Herr, person 21, suggests Abraham, son of Hans Herr and Elsbeth Lotscher, was born in 1675, [Website].
[23] Theodore Herr, Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr and his direct Lineal Descendants (1908), 1, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[24] Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, A Continuing Saga, Vol. 2 (Ronks, Pennsylvania: Groff History Associates, 1997), 35, person HH21, [GoogleBooks], [FHLCatalog].
[25] Jane Evans Best, "Bear Saga Update, Part 1," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 21 (July, 1998), 11-26, at 15, BA1232.
[26] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 15, first spouse of HH11.
[27] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[28] Theodore Herr, Genealogical Record of Rev. Hans Herr and his direct Lineal Descendants, Revised (1980), 786, Addenda II, [GoogleBooks].
[29] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 13, based on land warrants, tax records, and a naturalization list.
[30] Steve Friesen, A Modest Mennonite Home (1990), 36.
[31] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[32] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[33] Jane Evans Best, "Martin Kendig's Swiss Relatives," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 15 (January, 1992), 2-18, at 15, person HH11.
[34] Alexander Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (1879), 281, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].