1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. Hans Brubacher has been named as being on one of the ships [1].
1717 Hans Pupather and Christian Hershey warranted land in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Dated September 27. He patented tracts of 1000 acres and 700 acres on November 28. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
"... Whereas by virtue of a warrant from my present Commissioners of Property bearing date the seven and twentieth day of September last past there was surveyed and laid out on the fourteenth day of October then next ensuing unto Hans Pupather and Christian Hearsey late of the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany but now the Township of Strasburg in the said Province of Pennsylvania a certain Tract or Parcel of land situate in the said Township.
Beginning at a Hickory Tree at a corner of a Tract laid out to Hans Hubert Isaac Coffman & Melker Erisman thence by the same West North West Four hundred and Eighty Perches to another Hickory Tree thence North North East three Hundred and Fifty-four Perches to a third Hickory tree, thence East South East by Hans Pupather's other land Four Hundred and Fifty-four Perches to the place beginning, containing One Thousand Acres with the usual allowance of six acres on every hundred for Roads and Highways. ... for 100 pounds ... paid by the said Hans Pupather and Christian Hearsey the receipt whereof is acknowledged" [7]
"Hans Brubacher, born c1674, Ibersheim. died 1725, Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He arrived in Pennsylvania in August 1717. He warranted 700 acres in Conestoga Township in 1717. This land was later partly in Manheim Township and partly in Hempfield Township adjoining his brother Hans Jacob's land. His three children Elizabeth, John and John Jacob signed a deed in 1743 which named Jacob Brubaker the elder as the brother of their father. Hans apparently had other children who died by 1743." [8]
"The first land record is in 1717, when John Brubaker and Christian Hershey jointly took out a warrant for 1000 acres in Hempfield Twp, Lancaster county, about three miles west of the present city of Lancaster. The next year they divided their purchase by running a line east and west, John Brubaker taking the southern 500 acres. On this tract of land he built perhaps the first grist and saw mill in Lancaster county, the mill being on Little Conestoga Creek, now Abbeyville. On May 13, 1728, John Brubaker and wife Anna conveyed 150 acres of the tract to Christian Stoneman. John and Anna Brubaker were the parents of nine sons and a daughter: John, Jacob, Abraham, Peter, Daniel, Henry, Joseph, David, Christian, and Anna, who married Abraham Buckwalter." [9]
"John Brubaker ... died in the year 1725, about eight years after he came to these shores. He had but two sons, and only three grandsons. He lived east of the Little Conestoga Creek in the southwestern corner of Manheim Township." [10]
Research Notes:
1717 Land records for John Brubaker, born 1692 [11] and Hans Jacob Brubaker [12], might be confused with records for this Hans Brubaker [13].
A history of Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County reports [14]
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."
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John Brubacher, a Swiss, and founder of the numerous Brubacher family, was one of the earliest settlers, and is said to have located in Hempfield Township, on the Little Conestoga, and to have built the first mill in Lancaster County. The family register, from which this notice is drawn, mentions neither the date of his arrival, nor the exact locality where he built the mill.
1725 Hans Brubaker died in Manheim Twp, Lancaster County. His origin was in Wadenswil, Zürich, Switzerland. He was haplogroup R1b1b2a1b4. [15]
[1] 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 land warrant in 1717.
[2] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 19. (Minutes of the Board of Property, Volume 1) (1890), 622, [InternetArchive].
[3] Pennsylvania Land Patent, A5-268, [PAPatentBookLinks].
[4] Pennsylvania Records of the Land Office, RG-17, Old Rights index, Chester County, 1682-1740. (series #17.78), page 70, item 25, 27, [PAHistoricalMuseum].
[5] Pennsylvania Records of the Land Office, RG-17, Old Rights index, Chester County, 1682-1740. (series #17.78), page 72, item 43, [PAHistoricalMuseum].
[6] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Christian Hershey, [JRWolfeGenealogy].
[7] Phares Brubaker Gibble, History and Genealogy of the Brubaker, Brubacher, Brewbaker Family in America (1951, reprinted 1971), 37.
[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1178 and F, [Website].
[9] H. M. J. Klein, ed. and E. Melvin Williams, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, a History, Vol. 4 (1924), 351, [GoogleBooks].
[10] Phares Brubaker Gibble, History and Genealogy of the Brubaker, Brubacher, Brewbaker Family in America (1951, reprinted 1971), 65.
[11] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1152 and D, [Website].
[12] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1170 and G, [Website].
[13] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Brubaker B1178 and F, [Website].
[14] Jacob I. Mombert, An Authentic History of Lancaster County (1869), 421, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[15] Darvin L. Martin, "Unveiling the Deep Ancestry of Swiss Anabaptist Forebears," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 33 (July, 2010), 2-17, at 17.