Michael left Steffisburg around the year 1680 and possibly went to live at Schangnau as that is where his brother Isaac, the Anabaptist preacher took refuge when the authorities were trying to arrest him. Michael may well have been an Anabaptist as were his brothers.
65. Elsbeth Hirschi
She was of Schangnau when she married Michael Kaufman, son of Michael and Anna (Brandli) Kaufmann at Steffisburg on 26 Feb 1668. Michael's brothers were Anabaptists and he may well have been one also.
72. Hans Strickler
Adam Strickler - Says Abraham Came With 3 Brothers From Switz. P 1.
Went to Friedrichstadt in 1693 with his wife, without children. He married
secondly Anna and with her returned to the Pfalz in 1698. His second wife may
have been Anna Hiestand. He was a Mennonite Minister of the Ibersheim
congregation in 1732. He may have died by 1737, as that is when I believe his
wife and 2 daughters and 2 sons came with a large group of Mennonites to
Pennsylvania.
73. Unknown
Hans Strickler married first in about 1692 as he left the Ibersheim congregation 1693 with a wife and no children. SInce he had at least one child born at Friedrichstadt between 1693 and 1697 and had no children when he left in 1693, it would appear that he was probably a newly married young man when he left in 1693. His first wife died on 25 May 1697 at Friedrichstadt. - RWD
74. Hans Rufner
He was a wine grower. He was an Anabaptist, age 45 and was exiled in 1711 to Holland with his reformed wife, Elsbeth Thommen (age 39) and his three sons and four daughters. He died not baptizing his children at the Sigriswil Church.
He was an Anabaptist, age 42 of Schwarzenburg, Bern when he was exiled to Holland in 1711 with his wife Anna Glaus, age 44 and his son and daughter. Anna was probably baptised Nov 1667 at Guggisberg, the daughter of Hans Glaus and Anna Zbinden. Benedict was first called an Anabaptist in 1697 when his son Hans was taken to be baptized by his relatives. Benedict and family were living at Kampen, Holland after their exile in 1711.
90. Jacob Albrecht
Jacob and Magdalena arrived in Philadelphia, PA August 11, 1732. Palatinates (German immigrants) sailed from Rotterdam, via Cowes, England, to PA. They settled in Albany Twp., Berks Co., PA.
91. Magdalena ?
Ship Samuel arrived Philadelphia, PA August 11, 1732. These Palatinates sailed from Rotterdam via Cowes, England.They settled in Albany Township, Berks Co., PA.
100. John Harnsberger
Arrived With Wife & Son-Spotsylvania Co. Va. 1717
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From the eight hundred and third note in a series on the Germanna Colonies by John BlakenbakerFor a break, here is an early Germanna immigrant who did not come from the
same area as many others did. That is John Harnsberger with a name that
looks very German and simple but the name gave people fits in spelling it.
It turns out that he was from Switzerland where his immediate ancestors are
to be found in the village of Thurgau. The church was Evangelical which
usually means Lutheran (but I thought the dominant Protestant group in
Switzerland was the Reformed church). When one sees the spelling of the
family name, Heerensperger, one better appreciates the difficulty of
spelling it in the English language. First names in German speaking
Switzerland duplicate the names to be found in Germany judging by these
earlier names in the Harnsberger family: Susanna, Margaretha, Hans Cunrad,
Jacob, Hans Joachim, Ursula, Dorothea, Hannss Hansmann, Dorothea, Hanss
Caspar. Several of our Germanna people have an element of their ancestry in
Switzerland. (Thanks go to Pam Benckhuysen for some of the information here.)
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In about 1762, Daniel Mauck married first, Barbara Harnsberger, daughter of Stephen Harnsberger and his first wife Agnes. Stephen Harnsberger came to this county in 1717 with his parents John and Anna Harnsberger. (records of Spotsylvania County, Virginia)January 19, 1759 -- See will Book A., page 212 in Culpeper County records the will of John Harnsberger. In his will he mentions John Harnsberger, Barbara, Elizabeth, and Margaret as children of Stephen by his first wife, Agnes.
MAUCK-BRUBAKER Families of The Page Valley of Virginia by Mary S. Brubaker, p. 5.
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On June 24, 1726, John Harnsberger was granted 400 acres jointly with John Motz near the Robinson River (Spotsylvania County Grants, Book 12, p 475). This joint grant probably indicates a relationship between the two men, who also proved their importation on the same day...His wife Anna Purva (or Anna Barbara), died after some years, and John Harnsberger married (2) Anna Magdalena Aylor, the daughter of the 1717 immigrant, Henry SNyder, who was still a widow when Henry Snyder wrote his will November 30, 1742. John Harnsberger died in 1760. The will of John "Harrensparger", dated January 15, 1759 and probated in Cupleper County, March 20, 1760, mentions his wife Anna Magdalene; leaves his land to his grandchildren: John, Barbara, Elizabeth, and Margaret Harrensparger, children of his son Stephen by the latter's first wife, Agnes; leaves a small bequest to the son Stephen; and mentions "my wife's children", Henry Aylor and Elizabeth Tanner (Dorman "Culpeper County WIll Book A:, p. 56)
THE GERMANNA RECORD Number 6, Second Germanna Colongy of 1717, June 1965, B. C. Holtzclaw, page 27.
Arrived With Husband And Son-Spotsylvania Co. Va. 1717
104. Dietrich Bieber
Hirschland in County of Saarwerden once belonged to the Principality of Nassau-Saarbrucken, now Lower Alsace.
Dietrich Bieber, b 1651, d. 1715, aged 64 years; married twice; first to Eva Lentz, born about 1652.
After 1698 Johann Jacob Lucius was minster at Hirschland, Germany, 3 years prior deacon at Ottweler, and in 1698 also steward at Pisdorf parish. He was born at Lich in Oberhessen and died in Hirschland in 1754. So he knew the whole family Bieber, who are occupying our thoughts, and had also met the different emigrants. He must have been a very remarkable man, according to his whole church record, who, after all, did not get on very well with his flock - about which several documents of the Saarbrucken government give accounts in the State archives of Coblentz. In his keeping of the church records he had a very odd custom. Almost a third of his entries in the church books is stricken out, indeed to such an extent that one can't decipher them any more at all. Many christenings and weddings are stricken out, because they later left Hirschland. Underneath is usually given the reason, for example, "the whole family are gone to America," "are all gone to America," "These two married couples have gone to Littaunen (Russia)," (Whoever goes away is stricken off," etc. Presumably the emigration of many of his flock had therefore seemed a personal sorrow or grievance, because among the emigrants to America was also his fourth daughter, Anna Regina, widow of a country squire, Mrs. Simon Konrad Grimaeus of Postdorf. On the second page of the church record of Hirschland is the christening of a Johann Georg Bieber, who was the son of a townsman of Hirschland, Dietrich Bieber (property owner of Hirschland, 6 Oct. 1715, 64 years dying this date), and his wife Eva ... born and christened March 9, 1698. God - parents were Theobald Bieber (dying a burger of Hirschland 1713) and Agnes Bieber, apparently the wife of Hans Bieber (died 1704 or 1706). The entry of the christening of Johann Georg Biber is crossed out and after it is written, "he has gone to America." his Johann Georg Bieber was a tailer and in 1720 married Anna Magdalena Schaffer at Hirschland... p 19, 917
Note - I. M. Beaver is now (1939) of the opinion that Johannes Bieber 1695-1748 as given in Chapter VII was a brother of the above Thobald (Dewalt) Bieber and John George Bieber; since Dewalt and Johannes resided in the extreme southeastern corner of Richmond twp, Berkes County, Pennsylvania.
From the Lutheran Church books at Hirschland we learn there was a Peter Bibler who had a son Peter. The Peter Biber, Sr. was evidently a brouther of the above Theobaald (Dewalt) Bieber. On the ship Robert and Alice, Sept 3, 1739, there came Lorentz Bieber and Peter Biever. These two were evidently cousins.
-----------------p. 920 - HISTORY AND GEENEALOGY OF THE BIEBER-BEAVER FAMILY by Rev. I. M. Beaver.
108. Jacob Kneisley
pioneered into Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1729
116. Heinrich Bar
He was an Anabaptist living at Streichenberg (near Ittlingen), Germany in 1661 when he attended an illegal Anabaptist meeting at Steinfurt. He married the daughter of Anabaptist Michael Meyer of Reihen in 1662 (probably Verena Meyer or Elsbeth Meyer). On 23 Apr 1662 he petitioned the elector to excuse him from paying a fee for the public proclamation of his marriage to the daughter of Michael Meyer, a Mennonite of Reihen, stating that his mother had died and that her family had provided 1/3 of the employed help in the House of Streichenberg and he needed a companion. He was denied on 29 Apr 1662 and had to pay the fee. He may have been the Heinrich Beer who moved to nearby Richen in 1662 (probably after his marriage) and then moved back to Streichenberg. He is probably the father of the five Mennonite Bars associated with Streichenberg, Anna, Annali, Hans Jacob, Heinrich and Hans as well as Mennonite Hans Heinrich Bar of Treschklingen.
120. Jacob Hersperger
He went to Ohnenheim, Alsace. He may have been a Mennonite and the father of Jacob and Christian who both were Mennonites in Germany and Pennsylvania.