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c 1710 Hans Huber came to Pennsylvania and settled around Mill Creek [Earl Twp, Lancaster County, see 1747 Musselman land deed] between 1710 and 1715. This area in Pennsylvania was still a wilderness and the farthest point of western settlements in Pennsylvania.

1717 Martin Kendig and Hans Herr obtained 5000 acres of land along the Conestoga River, on November 22. Hans Huber settled on 200 acres of this land in the Pequea settlement. [1] [2] [3]

1717 Martin Kendig received a warrant, dated November 22, for 200 acres of land in Earl Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which was later settled by Hans Huber. [4] [5] A survey was made on March 20. [6] Hans Huber located near New Holland, Earl Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and received a patent for the land dated August 8, 1735. [7] The land was next to land of Jacob Joner [Yoner] Hans Musselman, and Casper Staver. [8] [9] [10] [11] This land gives a link to grandson John, son of Jacob, who had a disputed claim for it with Yoner, perhaps on the basis of this patent. [Photocopy] Musselman and Hans Huber [12] [Photocopy] Map of patents of (grandson?) Martin Hoover, Hans Musselman, and Martin Kendig in Earl Twp, Lancaster County, circa 1750 [13].

1721 John Hoober, perhaps this one, was taxed as a Palatine at Conestoga (Lancaster County). [14] Jacob and John Jacob were also listed.

1722-23 John Hoobber, perhaps this one, was taxed in East Conestoga (Lancaster County). [15]

1729 Lancaster County was established and was divided into 17 townships including Earl Twp, New Holland, Blue Ball, Union Grove, and Weaverland. The Hubers settled in East Earl Twp. Christian and Joseph Huber had a farm and a pond for water, in a swampy area known as Hog Swamp.

1735 Hans Hoober received a patent for land dated August 8, 1735. Hans had purchased the land from Martin Kendig and Hans Herr on February 24 last past. [16] Hans later sold part of that tract to son Jacob in 1745. [17] In 1754 On January 7, Hans' son Jacob and Jacob's wife Anna, of Martic Township, sold 50 acres of the tract to Hans' grandson, Martin Hoover, of Earltown and the land was described as being next to lands of Hans Musselman, John Hoover and Martin Hoover. [18] The land had been surveyed in 1721. [19]

1737 Hans Hoober surveyed 150 acres land in Earl Twp, Lancaster County. The warrant was dated March 22, 1737. [20]

1745 Hans Huber wrote his will, dated February 17, 1746, and proved on October 23, 1750. He left money to the "poor of the people called Mennonists in Pennsylvania" and money to the poor of the "Mennonists at the place in Germany called Ibersheimerhof". He left money to his wife's sister's children Valentine and Margareth Borg who were still in Germany, only if his wife was to die before him. The executors of his estate were Christian Sensenig and Charles Christopher. Each of his six children; Jacob and five daughters; got a share of his estate. [21] [22] [23]

1745 Hans Huber and wife Margaret sold part of a tract to Jacob Hoover. Hans Huber had received a patent for the tract in 1735. Deed dated September 21. [24]

1747 Hans and Margaret Musselman of Earl Twp sold land; originally patented on May 21, 1735; to their son Christian. The land was adjacent to Mill creek, land of Hans Hoober (perhaps referring to prior ownership by this Hans or to son Hans), and Hans Moyer. [25]

Research Notes:

Our genealogy research leads to Hans Huber whose will was dated in 1745 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The notes above are plausibly all related to this family.

The ancestry of Hans Huber is uncertain. The notes below, for Hans Huber in Europe, might refer to the same Hans Huber in Pennsylvania, whose notes are above.

1662 Barbel Lier, daughter of Hans Luyer and Elsbeth Naf, was baptized on April 20, in Uerzlikon, Kappel. [26]

1663 Hans Huber, son of Hans Jacob Huber and Barbara Buman, was baptized in September, perhaps on the 7th or 8th, 1663, in Hausen. [27] [28] [29] [30]

1670 Hans Huber was reported to be aged 7. Barbel Lier was age 8. [31]

1682 Hans Huber was reported to be age 19. [32]

1685 Hans Huber and Barbel Lier; of Uerzlikon, Kappel; were married on September 2. [33]

1686-1700 Children Anna, Hans Heinrich, Barbara, Hanseli, and Jacob were baptized in Hausen. [34]

1689 Hans Huber was reported to be aged 27 in the census. [35]

1693 Hans Huber and his wife (Barbara Lier) were Mennonites without children when they went to Friedrichstadt, Germany to escape the war. They left with a Mennonite group from Baden. [36]

1696 Hans and his wife left for the Pfalz on April 9, 1698. Hans Huber lived in Wesenmatt. [37] Hans Huber apparently lived at Ibersheim, Hesse, Germany after his return from Friedrichstadt. [38]

1700 Hans Huber lived in Hausen. Wife Barbel was alive. Hans Huber was not in the 1710 census. [39]

Hans Huber married Margaretha Koch. [40] They married prior to 1700 [41]

Hans Huber lived in Switzerland and was a follower of Menno Simon and was forced to flee Switzerland due to persecution. Hans Huber then moved and lived a few years in the Palatinate near Strasburg before coming to America. The Mennonites did not swear an oath of allegiance to England but did affirm their allegiance.

Note: The date of immigration is unclear, due to multiple persons with the same name. There are records in Pennsylvania for Hans Huber and (son) Jacob Huber as early as 1710. A Hans Huber, perhaps this Hans, came to Lancaster County in 1710. [42] Hans Huber and Jacob Huber immigrated on the Molly in 1727, perhaps the ironmaster Hubers, noted in son Jacob's notes. Hans Huber immigrated on the ship Mortonhouse in 1728.

The abstraction of Hausen, Zürich, Switzerland church records for Hans Huber+Barbara Leir by Billeter reports [43]:

311 Hans Huber (son of 164 page 12) 17 Sept. 1663 - marr. 1685
491 Barbara Lier married 1685 Uerzlikon
Children:
492 Anna 21 Feb. 1686
493 Hans Heinrich 11 Dez. 1687 - married on page 34 md. 1727
494 Barbara 1 Jan. 1692
495 Hans 17 May 1696
496 Hans Jakob 5 Sept. 1700

See Mennonite card file: [44]

Other undocumented secondary sources: [45] [46] [47] [48] [49]


Footnotes:

[1] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 19. (Minutes of the Board of Property, Volume 1) (1890), 622, lists Hans Tuber (Huber?), Isaac Coffman, and Melkerman (Musselman?) as warrantees, [InternetArchive].

[2] Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Our Hoover Ancestors (Chillicothe, Missouri: 1971), 3.

[3] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D74-32, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].

[4] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 15, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].

[5] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[6] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D74-32, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].

[7] Bureau of Land Records, Pennsylvania Land Patent Books, A7-222, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[8] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C182-186, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].

[9] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, C089-170, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].

[10] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, A-46-79, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].

[11] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D82-2, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].

[12] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D82-3, [PA Survey Map], [PASurveyBooksIndex].

[13] Pennsylvania Archives, Township Warrant Map (large download), Lancaster County, Earl Twp, [PATownshipWarrantMaps].

[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 172, [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 176, [HathiTrust].

[16] Bureau of Land Records, Pennsylvania Land Patent Books, A7-222, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[17] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Deed O13-5, [FHLCatalog].

[18] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book D, 102-103, this deed provides a three generation link for this Huber family, [102], [103], [FHLCatalog].

[19] Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Our Hoover Ancestors (Chillicothe, Missouri: 1971), 3.

[20] Pennsylvania Land Warrant, Lancaster County, H116, no other records, [PHMC Warrant].

[21] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 21, transcription, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].

[22] Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Our Hoover Ancestors (Chillicothe, Missouri: 1971), 3-4, transcription.

[23] USGenWeb, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Will Abstracts (Gateway website), A-193, [USGenWeb].

[24] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed D-102, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[25] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed M-378, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[26] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30, spouse of HR244.

[27] Kirchenbuch, 1577-1892, Hausen am Albis, Zürich, Switzerland, (Viewable only at FamilySearch libraries), image 48, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[28] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30, person HR244.

[29] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Huber B2, [Website].

[30] Karte des Horgerberges, Map of the Horgerberges area in Switzerland, FHL film 1181532, item 10, image 206, [FamilySearchImage].

[31] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[32] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[33] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[34] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[35] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[36] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Huber B2. This is inconsistent with the baptism dates reported above, [Website].

[37] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[38] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Huber B2, [Website].

[39] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[40] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Roots of the Neff, Weber, and Huber Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (October, 1990), 16-31, at 30.

[41] Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Our Hoover Ancestors (Chillicothe, Missouri: 1971), 3, inconsistent with PMH.

[42] Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Our Hoover Ancestors (Chillicothe, Missouri: 1971), 3.

[43] Julius Billeter, Genealogy of the Huber and Naef Families of Hausen, Switzerland, 1550-1908, page 21, image 705, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearch FSCatalog].

[44] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].

[45] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, [AncestryRecord].

[46] Geneanet Community Trees Index, reports birth and baptism on December 5, 1633, [AncestryRecord].

[47] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[48] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, [AncestryRecord].

[49] Harry M. Hoover, Hans Huber and his numerous descendants: a brief genealogical sketch giving the generations of Hans Huber down to the present day (1904), [FamilySearch FSCatalog].