Family/Spouse: CARPENTER, Mary. Mary was born in 1778; died in 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. CARPENTER, Lucy
2. CARPENTER, Sarah
3. CARPENTER, Levi was born in 1797; died in 1846.
4. CARPENTER, Israel was born in 1801; died in 1851.
5. CARPENTER, Mary was born in 1802; died in 1826.
6. CARPENTER, Gabriel was born in 1809 in OH; died in 1841.
7. CARPENTER, Paul was born in 1810; died in 1880.
8. CARPENTER, William was born in 1812; died in 1875.
9. CARPENTER, Elizabeth
10. CARPENTER, Francis

Christian + HERR, Susanna. Susanna (daughter of HERR, Emanuel and BRACKBILL, Magdalena) was born on 24 Jan 1727; died on 26 Sep 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gabriel + HERMANN, Apollonia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"On November 11, 1725, Martin Kendig sold the northern half of his 1711 patent to Emanuel Herr. The tract contained a house, a gristmill, and 530 acres of land. Emanuel Herr died intestate in possession of this land. On September 12, 1745, the Orphans' Court ordered appraisal of the property of Emanuel and on September 6, 1748 ordered the oldest son, John Herr, to hold the land." (Taken from the 1994 Supplement to the Third Edition of Genealogical Record of Hans Herr, by Theodore W. Herr, originally published 1908, p.789.)

Emanuel married BRACKBILL, Magdalena in 1720. Magdalena (daughter of BRACKBILL, Benedict and MEISTER, Verena) was born in 1702 in Strasburg, Lancaster County, PA; died on 26 Mar 1760 in Wheatland Mills, PA. [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

Benedict + MEISTER, Verena. Verena (daughter of MEISTER, Ulrich) was born about 1675 in Kursenei-tal, Bern, Switzerland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]