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From: mills <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] more on Heckman and Meyer
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:49:26 -0500
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Dwayne,

Thanks for sharing this resource with all of us.

Sharon Mills



At 07:15 PM 11/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Sharon,
>
>My source for the ancestry of Jacob Meyer, father of Barbara Heckman (and
>father-in-law of John Brubaker) is Richard Warren Davis, EMIGRANTS, REFUGEES
>AND PRISONERS, VOLUME II, 1997, pp. 279-309. Our Jacob Meyer is covered
>specifically on pp. 285-286. This book covers the Swiss Mennonite ancestry
>for Meyer, Brubaker, Zug, Hostetter, Frantz, Peffley, Hackman, Groh, Heisey,
>and lots of other families, many of which became Brethren after settling
>into Pennsylvania.
>
>Dwayne
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "mills" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 5:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [BRE] more on Heckman and Meyer
>
>
>>
>> Dwayne,
>>
>> Thanks very much. I had previously found the Meyer surname on a website.
>> The owner of the site couldn't find her notes but remembered that she had
>> found Barbara's last name "....from the will of her father, naming
>daughter
>> Barbara Heckman...." Now to locate the Eller book or the will.
>>
>> My Meyer notes are very scanty, but I copied a message that would be in
>the
>> archives of this list. Deb Wertz wrote about a Christian Meyer/Moyer
>> married to Barbara who emigrated from Amsterdam c 1700, and who located on
>> "Old Indian Creek." His will of 1748 shows sons Christian, Jacob, Samuel,
>> Elizabeth, Anna, and Barbara. Son in law was Henry Funck. Any idea of
>> Jacob would be a member of this family? I don't see a reference for this
>> group going to VA, but they did come to Montgomery Co OH.
>>
>> Deb also said there was no reference to a Heckman/Meyer marriage in this
>> 600 page book, which was written c 1900 and called "Myers Family History."
>> Deb didn't have proofs, just offered the information.
>>
>> Sharon Mills
>>
>>
>>
>> At 04:42 PM 11/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Sharon,
>> >
>> >The information about Barbara Meyer is from the Will of her father, Jacob
>> >Meyer, which is translated and written in full in Marwin E. Brubaker and
>> >Margaret Brubaker Eller, DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND ANNA MYERS BRUBAKER,
>> >1750-1995, published in 1996, pages A 17, A 18, and A 19.
>> >
>> >Dwayne
>> >
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "mills" <>
>> >To: <>
>> >Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 2:37 PM
>> >Subject: [BRE] Little Swatara: Heckman and Meyer
>> >
>> >
>> >> Dwayne,
>> >>
>> >> You wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "JACOB HECKMAN AND BARBARA MEYER
>> >>
>> >> Jacob Heckman (b. 1746), son of Elder Peter Heckman, was himself an
>active
>> >> member of the Little Swatara Congregation in 1770. So was his wife,
>> >Barbara
>> >> Meyer, who was the daughter of Jacob Meyer (b. c 1713). Jacob Meyer
>and
>> >his
>> >> wife, Magdalena, were also among the leading members of the
>congregation
>> >in
>> >> 1770.
>> >>
>> >> Jacob Heckman joined his brothers-in-law, Christian Meyer and John
>> >Brubaker
>> >> (who had married Anna Meyer), on a journey to Franklin County,
>Virginia,
>> >in
>> >> 1789, to buy land. Jacob Heckman died that same year in Virginia.
>Wife
>> >> Barbara survived him. John and Anna Meyer Brubaker stayed on in
>Virginia,
>> >> becoming the common ancestors of nearly all Brethren Brubakers."
>> >>
>> >> I would love to be able to add more marriages to your list from Little
>> >> Swatara, but I don't have them to add. I do find your listing
>intensely
>> >> interesting; in particular, the mention of Jacob Heckman and Barbara
>> >Meyer.
>> >> You are the second researcher that I know of to give Barbara a
>surname.
>> >> How did you find her surname and the surname of her father Jacob Meyer?
>> >Is
>> >> the source Morgan Edwards, or did you use civil records such as a
>probate
>> >> for Jacob Meyer?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sharon Mills
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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