10. | HERR, Abraham was born in 1660 in Canton Zurich, Switzerland (son of HERR, Hans and KENDIG, Elizabeth Mylin); died in 1725 in Manor Township, Lancaster County, PA. Notes:
"ABRAHAM HERR (who came with his father HANS HERR in 1710), Bishop Hans Burkholder and Melchior Brenneman (who came with the Brubakers, Hostetters, Greiders, Hersheys, Stinemans, Leamans, Swarrs, Kauffmans), having fled from the Palatinate, formed a settlement in 1717 along the Conestoga. Services were held in private houses. Congregations were organized and ministers appointed in Lampeter, Strasburg, Manor, Hempfield, Leacock and Earl townships by the Mennonites before Lancaster had changed its name from Hickory Town and before the county was separated from Chester county." (Taken from Mennonites of Lancaster Conference, by Martin G. Weaver, 1931, pp. 37-38.)
"On October 12, 1719, ABRAHAM HERR and his brother, Hans, petitioned James Steel for a grant of 400 acres for their brother, Isaac, who had recently arrived. In the 1720s, according to the estimates of architectural historians, he built a house that still stands at 25 Bentley Lane in Lancaster Township near Millersville on land that went to his son, Rudy." (Taken from the 1994 Supplement to the Third Edition of the Genealogical Record of Hans Herr, by Theodore W. Herr, originally published 1908, p. 788.)
Immigration 1710
arrived in Philadelphia, w/family, from Switzerland, via the Palatinate
Abraham married BARE, Anna in 1699. Anna (daughter of BAR, Heinrich and MAYER, Verena Anna) was born in 1672 in Canton Zurich, Switzerland; died in PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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