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Notes for Michael Krehbiel

Research Notes:

c 1700 Michael Krehbiel was born. [1]

Michael Krehbiel married Mary. [2]

1727 Michael Krebil emigrated from Zweibrucken, Palatinate, Germany to Rotterdam to Deal to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the Ship Molley, which arrived on 30 September 1727. [3] Michael, Hans Erick, and Henry Graybill [various spellings] were also listed. [4]

1741 Michael Krehbiel was living at Earl Township when he bought 150 acres in Earl Township on 31 Aug 1741 from Christian Long. [5]

1746 Michael Krehbiel was the administrator of Jacob Eby's will in 1746. Jacob Eby had no issue but mentions his brothers and sisters, one of which was named Mary. In Michael's will which he wrote in 1771, he states that his son John Krebill had received his share already and his his Joseph had also previously gotten consideration. His son Michael was to receive the plantation in Earl Township and Shem was to receive the residue of his estate. His two daughters Elizabeth and Mary were both under age in 1771. [6]

1750 Michael Krehbiel was taxed at Earl Township in 1750. [7]

1771-1783 Michael Grebill wrote his will in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 1 May 1771 and it was proved on 7 Nov 1783. [8]

1792- 1793 Mary Graybill, widow and relict of Michael Graybill, late of Earl Twp, dated her will on 7 August, 1792. Probate 28 April 1793. she left everything to her only daughter Mary, wife of Christian Hole. [9]


Footnotes:

[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Krehbiel L132, [Website].

[2] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Krehbiel L132, [Website].

[3] 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), 52, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[4] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 12, citing list 3A and 3B, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Krehbiel L132, [Website].

[6] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Krehbiel L132, [Website].

[7] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Krehbiel L132, [Website].

[8] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will D-385, [FamilySearchImage].

[9] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Lancaster, Will F-467, [FamilySearchImage].