David married HERSHEY, Barbara in 1738. Barbara (daughter of HERSHEY, Christian and EGLE, Esther) was born in 1718 in Lancaster County, PA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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 + MUSSELMAN, Feronica. Feronica was born about 1692; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

During the first Town of Amherst Board Meeting, April 6, 1819, Christian Hershey was elected one of three Assessors. Christian Hershey was 1 of 3 Commissioners of Common Schools.

He became probably the largest land holder in the early days of Amherst. Within 50 years, his descendents owned 17 plots, totaling hundreds of acres within Williamsville alone.

Christian married EGLE, Esther in 1712. Esther was born in 1690; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"HANS HERR was born in 1639, in Switzerland, at or near Zurich. He became a member of the Mennonite religious society and a prominent minister of that denomination. When persecution became unendurable, many of his congregation emigrated with him to the Palatinate in Germany, which was then governed by a ruler who promised protection and religous freedom. This was satisfactory until the Palatinate fell into the hands of other rulers, when the Mennonites were again subject to persecution. When this occurred, a number of them visited William Penn in London, in 1707, and arranged terms with him to colonize a portion of what is now Lancaster county. In 1709, Hans Herr, John R. Bundely, Hans Mylin, Martin Kendig, Jacob Miller, Hans Funk, Martin Oberholtzer, Wendel Bowman and others bought 10,000 acres of land on the south side of Pequea creek. A warrant was issued for the land October 10, 1710, and it was surveyed October 23, 1710. In the meantime, Martin Kendig traveled to Europe and returned with members of the families of those who had come over in 1709. Hans Herr settled near Lampeter, and later lived with his son, Christian Herr, near Willow Street, where the latter built a large stone dwelling in 1719, which is still standing. Here the venerable Hans Herr died in 1725." (Taken from Genealogical Record of Hans Herr, by Theodore W. Herr, originally published 1908, pp. ix-xi; available from the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society for $40.)

"A memorial in the Willow Street Mennonite Cemetery, where Hans Herr is presumed to have been buried, was erected by a Herr reunion group. It gives September 17, 1639 and October 11, 1725 as his respective birth and death dates, and May 1, 1639 and June 9, 1730 for Elizabeth Mylin Kendig Herr. Theodore Herr [compiler of the 1908 Herr genealogy] gives 1644 for her birth date and 1730 for her death. The reunion group's, Theodore Herr's, and Martin G. Weaver's sources for all these dates are currently unknown. In response to this situation, numerous researchers within the past 50 years have attempted to document the existence of Hans Herr. The tradition of his being the aged father of his Herr family in America stems from oral history recorded in 1844 by I. Daniel Rupp (History of Lancaster County), who in the course of his research interviewed 'Pequea' Christian Herr, a Mennonite bishop and Herr descendant. Rupp's version of the Hans Herr story was repeated with variations by many later historians." (Taken from the 1994 Supplement to the Third Edition of Genealogical Record of Hans Herr, by Theodore W. Herr, originally published 1908, p.787.)

Facts about this person:

Immigration September 1710
arrived in Philadelphia, w/wife & kids, from Switzerland

Hans married KENDIG, Elizabeth Mylin in 1660. Elizabeth (daughter of KENDIG, John Jacob I and MYLIN, Jane) was born on 1 May 1639 in Manor, Westmoreland, PA; died on 9 Jun 1730; was buried in Willow Street Mennonite Cemetery, West Lampeter Township, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

May be the daughter of JORG Kundig and BArbel Huffellberg

Christian married GEUNDER, Anna Ode in 1688. Anna was born in 1667; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]