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Pioneer Jacob Beiler, a native of Switzerland, emigrated to America on October 8, 1737. He was accompanied by his wife Veronica (or Feronica) and five children Barbara, Anna, Christopher, Maria and Elizabeth. They travelled on the ship "Charming Nancy" which sailed out of Rotterdam, Holland. They settled in Berks County, Pa. where they embraced the Amish way of life. His wife died soon after reaching America, 1737-1738. He then married Elizabeth Kallen, the daughter of Hans and Anna Kallen. They were the parents of Jacob, John (Johann), Sarah, Joseph, and David. This family did not live the Amish way of life. Pioneer Jacob died in 1771.
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Jacob Beiler (d.1772) and his son, Christopher, emigrated from Switzerland to Philadelphia in 1737. They settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Jacob Byler (1799-1867), a great-grandson, married Nancy Kauffman and lived in Mifflin and Lawrence Counties, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, the Midwest, Delaware and elsewhere.
This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive, comprehensive, and scholarly work on Amish genealogy that has ever been attempted. It is easy to understand why it required years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850). Covers all known Amish in the first settlements in America and shows their lineage for several generations. (955pp. index. hardcover. Pequea Bruderschaft Library, revised edition 2007.)
Some ancestors and many descendants of Eli D. Mast (1825-1896), who married Rebecca D. Miller and lived in Charm, Ohio. Ancestry and descendants lived chiefly in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
This Amish and Mennonite genealogy traces 8,757 families descended from 1703 Jacob Hertzler of Berks Co., Pa. Also provides background history and statistical information on the Hertzler-Hartzler families. (733pp. index. hardcover. reprint of 1952 edition. Higginson Book Co.) Please visit www.HigginsonBooks.com to purchase this title.
Elias A. Yoder (1834-1921)--great grandson of Henry Yoder, and grandson of Yost H. Yoder (one or both were Swiss immigrants)--married three times and lived near Summit Mills, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, Texas and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in Switzerland and in Germany.