 1776 - 1868 (92 years)
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| Name |
Samuel Baer Bricker |
| Born |
25 Jul 1776 |
Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
15 Nov 1868 |
Ontario, Canada |
| Person ID |
I521096618 |
Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family |
| Last Modified |
30 Mar 2007 |
| Father |
Peter Bricker, b. 1 Apr 1735, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 1 Aug 1804, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Age 69 years) |
| Mother |
Mary E Baer, b. 1739, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 1821, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Age 82 years) |
| Married |
1760 |
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
| Family ID |
F557633959 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Rebecca Eby, b. 14 Apr 1781, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 04 Nov 1861, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 80 years) |
| Married |
1805 |
| Children |
| | 1. Sophia Bricker, b. 20 Dec 1812, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 04 Nov 1895, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 82 years) |
| | 2. Rebecca Bricker, b. 22 Sep 1819, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 11 May 1872, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario (Age 52 years) |
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| Last Modified |
25 Apr 2007 |
| Family ID |
F557633958 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- From Wampumkeepr.com. Ontarios Mennonite Heritage
It is difficult not to despise Richard Beasley. An early specimen of Upper Canada's notorious 'family compact', Beasley grew rich mixing business and politics. Well-educated, well-connected, Beasley was elected at an early age to the province's first parliament, where he was meant to represent settlers in what is now the Hamilton-Wentworth area. Instead, through his shady land dealings, Beasley cheated both the Six Nation Iroquois and the German-speaking Pennsylvania Mennonites who bought land from him in 1800.
Sam Bricker was the first Mennonite to hear of Beasley's swindle. In 1803, the red-haired hot-tempered Sam walked from York (Toronto) to the head of Lake Ontario and confronted the Colonel. Beasley confessed: his lands in Block 2 of the Indian Tract were heavily mortgaged and he was only part owner. The twenty deeds he had issued to the Mennonites were worthless. But Beasley was prepared to offer a bargain to Sam Bricker. If the settlers could raise 20,000 pounds Beasley would pay off the mortgage and give the Mennonites clear title to an additional 60,000 acres.
Sam Bricker raised 20,000 pounds. The Pennsylvania Mennonites were skeptical at first. Migration fever had certainly seized them, but most brethren were looking to Virginia and Maryland, not to the northern forests of Upper Canada. Sam's cousin, John Eby of the Hammer Creek congregation in Lancaster Country, turned the tables in his favor. Old Christian Eby contributed 2500 pounds and The German Company was formed with 26 stockholders. Mennonite women sewed up 200 canvas bags and placed a hundred silver coins in each. The next spring, Sam Bricker and John and Jacob Erb conveyed the treasure up to Canada. On June 29, 1805, Col. Richard Beasley signed his name to a legal deed.
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