1719 Christian Hershey was born in Lancaster County [1]. A summary report says that Bishop Benjamin Hershey (1696-1789), son of Christian, lived on the late Landis B Herr farm on the Marietta Pike. Bishop Benjamin Hershey was the father of Christian Hershey (1719-83). [2] [3]
Christian Hershey married Barbara Hostetter. [4] [5] [6]
1746 Christian Hersey, perhaps this one, patented 70 acres of land. Patent dated June 4. [7] The warrant was dated May 30, 1746. [8] The survey, dated May 20, 1736, showed 70 acres in Manheim Twp, adjacent to lands of Jacob Slough, Henry Grebill, John Snevely, and Martin Mire[9]
1754 Christian Hershe was taxed in Warwick Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [10]
1756 Christian Hershe was taxed in Warwick Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [11]
1758 Christian Hershey and wife Barbara, of Rapho Twp, sold land in Manheim Twp to Christian Kerver, wagonmaker. Dated September 10. The land was part of the 1746 patent and was next to land of Abraham Stoner and Henry Landis. [12]
1759 Christian and Barbara Hershey of Lancaster County granted to (Christian's sister) Maria Hershey, spinster, a 100 acre tract in Hempfield Twp, which was part of a larger tract previously granted to Christian Hershey in 1736. Dated July 4. The land was next to land of Jacob Liter, Anna Elizabeth Hershey, and this Christian Hershey. [13]
1760 Wife Barbara reportedly died about this time.
Christian Hershey married, second, Anna Hernly. [14]
1762 Abraham Steiner, blacksmith, and wife Salome of Bethlehem Twp, Northampton County, Pennsylvania sold 200 acres of land in Manor Twp, Lancaster County to Christian Hershey, perhaps this one. Dated May 7. The land in Conestoga manor, Lancaster County had been patented to Abraham's father, Abraham Stoner in 1740 [15]. Abraham Senior died intestate and was an alien born out of the dominions and allegiance of the crown of Great Britain at the time of the patent, and eldest son Abraham (of Northampton) inherited the land [16]. [17]
1771 Christian Hershey was taxed in Manor Twp, Lancaster County for 250 acres. [18]
1776 Christian and Anna Hershey of Warwick Twp sold land to Christian Kauffman of Manheim Twp. Dated December 5. The land was part of the 1746 patent. [19]
1780 Christian Hershey, perhaps this one, was on an assessment list for Manor Twp, Lancaster County. [20]
1780 The will of Christian Hershey was dated November 1 and with a probate date of January 18, 1783, in Warwick Twp, Lancaster County. The will named wife Anna and children Maria, Jacob, Barbara, Anna, Christian, Catharine, Magdalena, Feronica, Benjamin, Esther, Isaac, John, and Peter. Executors were Jacob and Isaac Hershey. [21]
A biosketch reports [22]:
Christian Hershey was the first minister of the Church known to have located here (Habecker Masonville and Mountville churches). He was a brother of Bishop Benjamin Hershey mentioned in the beginning of this chapter, but Christian Hershi also a minister arrived at the port of Philadelphia September 3 1739 [23] and it is likely that his brothers who were already well established in the new world found this fertile section near their own homes for him, His remains repose in the cemetery belonging to Masonville meetinghouse, His grave is marked but has no inscription to indicate the time of his death or his age. His wife was Barbara Hostetter, a daughter of Bishop Jacob Hostetter who lived in Lancaster township south of the present site of Lancaster from 1712 to the time of his death in 1761.
1853 Benjamin Hershey, of Rapho Twp, wrote his will. [24]
Research Notes:
[1] John F. Meginness et al, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania (Beers: 1903), 1326, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[2] Ira David Landis, The Lancaster Mennonite Conference: History and Background (1956), 70.
[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B221, [Website].
[4] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B221, [Website].
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hostetter 21813, [Website].
[6] Lawrence Berger-Knorr, The Relations of Milton Snavely Hershey (2005), 11, persons 16 and 45, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A13-81, [Patent Index Entry], [Patent Indices].
[8] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, Lancaster, [PHMC Warrant].
[9] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C067-261, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].
[10] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[11] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[12] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed R-328, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[13] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book DD, 210-211, [210], [211], [FHLCatalog].
[14] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B221, [Website].
[15] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A10-140, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[16] Pennsylvania Land Patent, AA3-197, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[17] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed M-252 to 253, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[18] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 17 (Lancaster Taxables) (1897), 111, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[19] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed R-326, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[20] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 953, Lancaster County 1780 assessment list, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[21] F. Edward Wright, Abstracts of Lancaster County Pennsylvania Wills 1732-1785 (2008), 108.
[22] Martin G. Weaver, Mennonites of Lancaster Conference (1931), 97.
[23] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 135, of 134-5, upper right, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[24] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will V-356, FHL film 21364, image 191, [FamilySearchImage].
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