Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County"page 258 # 1.
Bound with: Extracts from the Nottingham Monthly minutes concerning Eastland Meeting; Eastland Names: Names of Persons connected with Eastland with date of first appearance in the Men's Minutes; Officers of East[l]and Preparative Meeting 1803-1954; Information from the Minutes of Eastland Preparative Meeting and Little Britain Monthly Meeting on the Buckingham School in Little Britain Township; Marriages at Eastland under the care of Nottingham Monthly Meeting; and Marriages at Eastland under the care of Little Britain Monthly Meeting.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 258 #1.
Includes extracts from records of the Little Britain Monthly Meeting; Marriages at Little Britain under the care of Nottingham Monthly Meeting; Marriages under the care of Little Britain Monthly Meeting, 1804-1854; Removals from Little Britain Monthly Meeting 1804-1954; Clerks of Little Britain Monthly Meeting 1804-1954; and Extracts from the minutes of Little Britain Monthly Meeting relative to Ballance's Meeting.
456 p. : ill., maps, ports. facsims., geneal. tables ; 29 cm.
Notes
No. 71 of 400.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-432) and index.
Summary
"Part one of this work presents a history of the earliest Witwer family to settle in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It presents research regarding Hans Witwer, his son, Michael Witwer, and Michael Witwer's children and grandchildren. The line of descent is then followed through the descendants of Michael's son, Daniel, through to the present day and author Thomas Witwer Richards. In addition, the following related families are described: Krey, Sensenig, Graf/Groff, Reiff, Schneider/Schneder, and Weiler. Part two presents a history of the Richmond family from Moses Richmond to Lulu Catherine Richmond and the related families of Miller and Hornberger."--T.p. verso.
Land grant map of northeastern East Hempfield Township laid in.
Concentrates on the Moravian missionary work in a part of Lancaster County, generally the East Petersburg area. Includes activities of other groups such as the Methodists and the Mennonites.
xxii, 656 pages : illustrations (some color), coats of arms, facsimiles, genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 28 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-551).
Contents
Flash forward: Nora Musser (1881-1929) -- The Old World. The Swiss plateau ; Von Lunkhofen and Snewli ; Von Seedorf and Moser ; Du Ranc de Vibrac ; The Reformation ; Zürich: the Albis and the Oberland ; Bern: the Emmental and the Oberland ; Anabaptist exiles (the Kraichgau, Alsace, the Jura) ; The Protestants -- The New World. The Pequea Colony ; Eighteenth century Lancaster County ; Weaverland ; Musser migrations ; the Bowmansville Mennonites ; Henry Musser (1730-1805) ; Bowmansville kith and kin ; The churchmen ; Mathias Musser (1764-1834) ; Daniel Musser (1797-1869) ; David Musser (1829-1905) ; Samuel H. Musser (1858-1934) -- Afterward: the Mussers and the Hornings -- Appendices. Ahnentafels ; Revising the Rancks.
Summary
"This narrative history based on the ancestry of Nora Musser (1881-1929), who was born in Lancaster Co., Pa., follows the intertwined histories of about a dozen families from the Albis region in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and another dozen similar families from the Emmental and Bernese Oberland in the Canton of Bern, during the 15th and 16th centuries. The author traces the fate of these ancestors through the periods of persecution of Anabaptists in Zurich and Bern, and their forced exile and subsequent emigration to Lancaster Co., Pa., in the 17th century. It chronicles their relationship to the American society that grew up around them over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, including intermarriages with several Reformed and Lutheran families. Among the principal descent lines considered are: Musser, Good, Weber/Weaver, Musselman, Gehman, Bowman, Oberholtzer, Huber, Kendig, Rutt, Tschantz, Ranck, Messner, Schnader, Lied, and Frey. The author also takes a critical look at published claims that three particular lines of Nora Musser's ancestors might be traced as far back as the High Middle Ages."
An alphabetical listing of burials and gravestone transcriptions of Groffdale Mennonite Church Cemetery, West Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
