These notes are intended to be for Andrew Hershey, son of Christian Hershey and Adelheit [Oade] Scholi. There were two men named Andrew Hershey in Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania alive in the same era: Andrew Hershey of East Petersburg (1698-24 December, 1754) and Andrew Hershey of Salunga (c 1702-1792). One of these was likely the son of Christian Hershey and Adelheit [Oade] Scholi. The other may have been the son of Hans Hershey. One of them was also likely the husband of Maria Snaveley, named in her father's will as wife of Andrew Hershey of Hempfield. David R Johnson [1] states that the parents of Andrew Hershey of East Petersburg (1698-1754) "appear to have been Christian and Oade Hershey, citing as evidence the History of York County, Pennsylvania by Gibson [2]. Scott Funk Hershey [3] also identifies Andrew Hershey (1698-1754) as the son of Bishop Christian Hershey. Richard Warren Davis has suggested that Andrew of East Petersburg (1698-1754) was the son of Hans Hershey [4] and that Andrew of Salunga (1702-1792) was the son of Christian and Oade Scholi Hershey [5] [6]. Henry Hershey [7] reports that Andrew Hershey of Salunga (1702-1792) was the son of Andrew and Anna Geunder Hershey. We don't know which, if any, is correct. We note that Andrew of Salunga (1702-1792) named a daughter Oti [Oade?]. With little other justification, we show the notes below for Andrew Hershey of Salunga (1702-1792).
1702 Andrew Hershey was born at Friedelsheim, Germany to parents Christian Hershey and Adelheit Scholi. [8] [9]
1717 Andrew Hershey arrived in Philadelphia in August. [10]
1718 Anderas Hirschi was naturalized as a Mennonite at Lancaster in February. [11]
1721 Andrew Heirse, perhaps this Andrew Hershey, was on the Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County tax list, value 6 pounds. He did not appear on the 1720 or earlier list. [12]
1722 Andrew Hoerse, perhaps this Andrew Hershey, was on the East Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County tax list, value 16 pounds. [13]
1724 Andrew Hershey was on the Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County tax list. [14]
1726 Andrew Hershey was on the Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County tax list. [15]
1728 Andreas Hirschi, perhaps this one, signed the oath of allegiance to King George of England to be naturalized in Pennsylvania, which allowed him to hold land as a citizen. He was on the list of Mennonites. [16]
1733 Andrew Hershey [Hersey] warranted 500 acres on Br[anch] of Conestoga on January 19, returned 15 January, 1735 and patented by Andrew Hersey. [17] [18] [19]
1733 Some of the heirs of Christian Hershey, late of the county of Chester, sold land to Christian's eldest son Benjamin of Lancaster, Lancaster County. Dated December 21. The heirs were youngest son Andrew (perhaps this Andrew, as shown here), daughter Ann wife of Herman Long, and widow and relict Ode Hersey [sic]. [20]
1738 Andrew Hershey warranted 200 acres on Codorus Creek in Lancaster County on October 24. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]
1738 Andrew Hershey Jr warranted 288 acres in Lancaster County on January 18, and received the patent in 1741. [30] [31] One survey returned in 1738 reported 88 acres. [32] Another survey dated 1731 reported 424 acres on Shickasolungo creek; 300 acres in right of Martin Kendrick and John Herr and 124 acres by consent of the Commissioners of Property. The whole quantity contained 388 acres. [33] On 18 January, 1738, Andrew Hershey patented 300 acres in Lancaster that Martin Kundig had warranted on 2 November 1717. [34]
1739 Andrew Hersey was the tax collector for Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County. [35]
1741 Andrew Hershey Sr (warranted on May 29) and Benjamin Moore (warranted on September 20, 1738) warranted 283 acres of land in Lancaster County. [36] The survey in Hopewell Twp, Lancaster County was made for Benjamin Moore and was assigned to Andrew Hershey. [37] Andrew Hershey Sr received the patent in 1741. [38] Adjacent landowners were George Hildebrand, Abraham Endloss, and Urich Chadwick.
1742 Andrew Hershey warranted 300 acres on the West Susquehanna River in Lancaster County on April 13. [39] [40] [41]
1746 Andrew Hershey warranted 356 acres in Lancaster County on 28 Oct. He received the patent on 18 July 1747. [42]
1753 Andrew Hershey and wife Mary of Hempfield Twp with Henry Bostler of Philadelphia and wife Anna Maria, sold land to Christopher Grafford. Dated April 5. The land was on Queen Street in the borough of Lancaster. Peter Warral and wife Sarah sold the land on 8 October 1746 to Andrew Hershey and Henry Bostler. [43]
Andrew Hershey, brother to Bishop Christian Hershey, was clergy at the churches in Rohrerstown and Millersville, 1757-1792. [44]
1771 Andrew and Andrew Jr Hershey were taxed in Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County.
1772 Andrew and Andrew Jr Hershey were taxed in Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County.
1779 Andrew and Andrew Jr Hershey were taxed in Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County.
1782 Andrew Hershey was taxed in Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County.
1792 Andrew Hershey of Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County, wrote his will, dated March 22, naming his 12 children, with no mention of a wife [45]. On 26 and 27 June, 1792, the will of Andrew Hershey, late of Hempfield Twp, yeoman, was affirmed by witnesses Daniel Welty and Bentz Hershi. Sons Christian and Andrew were named executors [46]. He was age 90 at death [47] [48] [49].
Research Notes:
Andrew Hershey (1702-1792) has been named as an ancestor of Milton Hershey (1857-1945), founder of the Hershey Chocolate Factory.
A history of Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County reports [50]
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."
Andreas, Benjamin and Christian Hershey, were early settlers in this County. They were natives of Switzerland and went with their father to Friedensheim, in the Palatinate, who, with his two sons, Andreas and Benjamin, emigrated to America and settled in Lancaster County in 1719; Christian, the third brother, had to stay on the farm in the Palatinate until 1739, when he also came hither. These three brothers were preachers among the Mennonites. Andrew, born in 1702, died in 1792, leaving twelve children. Christian, Andreas, Johannes, Benjamin, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Ilcinrich, Peter, Catharina, Maria and Odti.
DNA These cousins are likely descendants of a different Andrew Hershey (1697-1754). Both of these cousins might have Henry Neff, born 1685, as a common ancestor: [51] [52]
[1] David R. Johnson, "The Early East Petersburg Area Hershey Family," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 1 (January, 1978), 6-16, at 8.
[2] John Gibson, ed., History of York County Pennsylvania, Part II Biographical Sketches (Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1886), 109, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Scott Funk Hershey, History and Records of the Hershey Family from the Year 1600 (New Castle, PA: The Petite Book Company, 1913), 59, names Mary Miller as the wife of Andrew, [InternetArchive].
[4] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B31, [Website].
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B24, [Website].
[6] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 598, reports that Andrew Hershey, born 1702, was the son of Christian Hershey, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[7] Henry Hershey, Hershey Family History (Mennonite Publishing House, 1929), 15, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B24, [Website].
[9] Alexander Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (1879), 006862-306, [AncestryImage].
[10] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B24, [Website].
[11] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Hershey B24, perhaps same as 1728 note, [Website].
[12] 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 172, [HathiTrust].
[13] 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 175, [HathiTrust].
[14] 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 180, [HathiTrust].
[15] 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 190, [HathiTrust].
[16] Barbara L. Weir and Laurie A. Roffini, "German Qualification for Naturalization in Pennsylvania, 1728," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 37 (1991), 367-373, at 371, [AmericanAncestors].
[17] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, H33, [PALandWarrantLinks].
[18] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C76-52, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[19] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A7-405, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[20] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed R-187 to 190, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[21] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, H195, [PALandWarrantLinks].
[22] Pennsylvania Land Patent, AA13-193, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[23] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A27-188, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[24] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A27-189, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[25] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A27-190, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[26] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D64-52, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[27] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D64-53, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[28] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D64-54, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[29] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D55-263, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[30] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, H199, [PALandWarrantLinks].
[31] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A9-432, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[32] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D88-128, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[33] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D88-133, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[34] Pennsylvania Land Patent Index, Commission Book, A1, [Pennsylvania_Archives_Patent_Index].
[35] Minute books and tax notes, 1729-1844 (viewable only at FamilySearch libraries), [FamilySearchImage], [FSCatalog].
[36] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, H243, [PALandWarrantLinks].
[37] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C76-246, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[38] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A9-430, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[39] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, H273, [PALandWarrantLinks].
[40] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A17-21, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[41] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, B5-178, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[42] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A12-518, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[43] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book G, 351-352, [351], [352], [FHLCatalog].
[44] Frederick Lewis Weis, The colonial clergy of the middle colonies, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania 1628-1776 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1978), 72, [GoogleBooks].
[45] Henry Hershey, Hershey Family History (Mennonite Publishing House, 1929), 16, transcription of his will, [GoogleBooks].
[46] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will F-368, FHL film 21356, image 434, Letters of administration, [FamilySearchImage].
[47] Frederick Lewis Weis, The colonial clergy of the middle colonies, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania 1628-1776 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1978), 72, [GoogleBooks].
[48] Daniel K. Cassel, History of the Mennonites (1888), 299, [InternetArchive].
[49] Alexander Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (1879), 006862-306, [AncestryImage].
[50] Jacob I. Mombert, An Authentic History of Lancaster County (1869), 421, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[51] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert suggests a lineage to this family, descent: Jacob Hershey (spouse of Anna Newcomer), Abraham Hershey (spouse of Mary Seigrist), Peter Hershey (spouse of Ann Landis), Landis Hershey (spouse of Elisabeth Leaman), Ruth Hershey (spouse of Chester Neff), Clarence Neff (spouse of Ellen Irene Rutt).
[52] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert suggests a lineage to this family, descent: Jacob Hershey (spouse of Anna Newcomer), Abraham Hershey (spouse of Mary Seigrist), Peter Hershey (spouse of Ann Landis), Landis Hershey (spouse of Elisabeth Leaman), Ruth Hershey (spouse of Chester Neff), Clarence Neff (spouse of Ellen Irene Rutt).