Research Notes:
c 1682 Hans Good was born. [1] Hans Good was born in Shriesheim. [2] [3]
1693 Hans and Jacob Good signed a declaration with the Reist Mennonite indicating that they were not in accord with Jacob Ammann. [4]
1717 Hans Good, may have been the Han Guth who was a Mennonite living at Schaarhof, Baden, Germany in 1717. [5]
1719 Jonanness Guth [6] and Jacob Guth [7] were listed as arriving in Lancaster County. [8]
1717 "John and Jacob Good came over about 1717 and settled on Proprietary land between Lancaster and the Susquehanna, being on the 1718 Conestoga Assessment list." [9]
1728 In February, Hans Good was naturalized, by mark "HG", signing next to Gabriel Zimmerman. [10]
1734 Hans Good, who was probably born 1675-85, took out warrants for land in Lancaster County for 150 acres on February 28, 1734, and for 200 acres on March 3, 1734. [11]
1738 Hans Good lived on the old "Horse Shoe Road" in Leacock Township of Lancaster County, just before one crosses into Earl Township. [12]
1740 Hans Good warranted 2 parcels of land in Leacock Township, Lancaster County: 216 acres and 225 acres. Dated June 25. [13]
1748 Hans Groff of Earl Township and his wife Susan sold 200 acres. Dated May 14. The tract was part of the two tracts of land that Hans Good originally patented in Leacock Township in 1740. [14]
1749 Hans Good sold 239 acres to his son-in-law John Bear. Dated December 19. [15]
1748 Hans Good made out his will, dated January 23, 1747/48, in Leacock Twp, Lancaster County, and it was proven and recorded on March 26, 1750 [16]. The will was written in German and some items are not clear. There was no mention of a wife, but named Jacob, Fronica (wife of Abraham Bear), Catharine (wife of John Bear), Ann (wife of David Bear), Barbara (wife of Henry Baer), Christina, Anna (wife of John Landis), and Peter Good. The executors of his will were Abraham Bear and John Bear. [17] [18] [19] He signed by mark "HG". [20]
We have followed only those descendant lines which may have married into lines that we are researching.
Marvin Brubaker has studied the descendants of John Good. [21]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 13, GA2.
[2] Dale Kenneth Weber and Verlene Vaughn Weber, Peter Good, 1530-1995, Family Book (1995), 2, [FHLCatalog], [FHLBook].
[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, suggests year 1685, [Website].
[4] Ira D. Landis, "Our Good Brethren," Mennonite Research Journal 1 (1960), 11-12, at 11.
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[6] 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), 438, left column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[7] 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), 437, right column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[8] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 13, based on a 1729 naturalization list.
[9] Ira D. Landis, "Our Good Brethren," Mennonite Research Journal 1 (1960), 11-12, at 11.
[10] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[11] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 310, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[12] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 310, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[13] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[14] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[15] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[16] USGenWeb, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Will Abstracts (Gateway website), I-157, [USGenWeb].
[17] Ira D. Landis, "Our Good Brethren," Mennonite Research Journal 1 (1960), 11-12, at 11.
[18] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 13, GA2.
[19] Dale Kenneth Weber and Verlene Vaughn Weber, Peter Good, 1530-1995, Family Book (1995), 2, [FHLCatalog], [FHLBook].
[20] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Good C3, [Website].
[21] Marvin Brubaker, Good family, person 4, [FHLCatalog].