Research Notes:
c 1680 Rudolph Meyer was born at Rudelsheim, Germany. [1]
1717 Rudolph Meyer arrived in Lancaster County. [2]
1717 Three ships arrived in Philadelphia with Mennonite passengers. Rudolph Meyer has been named as being on one of the ships [3]
1717 Rudy Moyer warranted land in Manheim Twp, Lancaster County, in 1717 near nephew John Meyer, son of Rudy's brother, Hans Meyer. There are also records for a Rudy Meyer who lived in Conestoga Twp (see below). I don't know if they were different persons. The proximity to nephew John in Manheim Twp, Lancaster County suggests Rudy may have lived there.
1718 Rudy Moyer 12 [pounds] £0.3.0 appeared on the tax list for Conestogoe Rate, Dutch Inhabitants, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [4] [5] [6] [7]
1719 Rudil Moyer value 21 pounds was taxed £0.7.0 in Conestogoe Twp. [8] [9]
1720 Rudith Mayer was taxed in Conestoga Twp for 16 pounds. [10]
1721 Rudie Mier was taxed in Conestoga Twp for 17 pounds. [11]
1722 Rudie Mire was taxed in Conestoga Twp for 20 pounds. [12]
1724 Rudy Myer was taxed in Conestoga Twp. [13]
1728 ruti meirer, 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. [14] [15]
1729 Rudolph Meyer was naturalized. [16]
1730 Land for a Lancaster County courthouse site was adjacent to land of Rudy Mire, Michael Shank, and Jacob Imble. [17] [18]
1752-6 Rudy Moyer was taxed in Bethel District, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [19]
1762-1767 Rudolph Meyer dated his will March 17, 1762. It was proved on February 9, 1767. In his will he left all his personal estate to his son Henry Meyer because his other children had already received their full share. The executor of his estate was his son Henry Meyer. The witnesses to his will were Thomas Krevor and Christian Frantz. Rudolph was married to Barbara. [20]
1767 Rudolph Meyer died in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [21]
1773-1775 He bought 700 acres in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County on 12 Jul 1735 from Thomas Freame of Philadelphia City. Swatara Creek ran through the middle of this 700 acres. The northern part of the land was in Bethel Township while the southern part was in Tulpehocken Township. His son John received 336 acres in the northern part of the tract in Bethel Township. His son Rudolph Meyer Jr., received 171 acres in the western part of the track partly in Tulpehocken Township and part in Bethel Township. His son Henry received his home plantation in the southern tract in Tulpehocken Township of 263 acres. On 28 Jul 1755 Rudolph and his wife Barbara transferred for "natural love and affection" to their son Henry his part of the 700 acre tract in Tulpehocken (Deed A-5-157, Berks). [22]
Research Notes:
1733 Rudolph Meyer reportedly owned land in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County next to John Meyer (perhaps his nephew), John Shank, Jacob Hostetter. Dated May 3. In 1760, the land owned in 1733 in Lancaster Township was still referred to as the land of Roody Meyer. [23]
DNA [24]
[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 18, [Website].
[2] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 18, [Website].
[3] Richard Warren Davis, "Swiss and German Mennonite Immigrants from the Palatine, 1704-1717," Mennonite Family History 13 (1994), 9-16, at 15, based on a 1718 tax.
[4] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[5] Henry Frank Eshleman, Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: 1917), 205, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[6] 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].
[7] 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].
[8] Chester County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[9] 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].
[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 167, [HathiTrust].
[11] 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].
[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 174, [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 180, [HathiTrust].
[14] Barbara L. Weir and Laurie A. Roffini, "German Qualification for Naturalization in Pennsylvania, 1728," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 37 (1991), 367-373, at 369, [AmericanAncestors].
[15] Marion F. Egge, Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean (2000), 35, [GoogleBooks].
[16] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 18, [Website].
[17] Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (1852), 381, [HathiTrust].
[18] Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (1852), 252, [GoogleBooks].
[19] Morton Luther Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (Chicago: Beers, 1909), 12, [InternetArchive].
[20] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 18, [Website].
[21] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 18, [Website].
[22] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 18, [Website].
[23] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Meyer D 18, citing Lancaster Deed A-32, which does not mention Meyer in the available transcriptions, that I have found, [Website].
[24] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert shows a lineage to Rudolph Meyer, son of Johannes Meyer and Anna Bauman, 9th cousin.