 1694 - 1743 (49 years)
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| Name |
I George Eby |
| Title |
I |
| Born |
1694 |
Kraichgau, (Upper Palatinate) Germany  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
27 Apr 1743 |
Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
| Buried |
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| Person ID |
I525577031 |
Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family |
| Last Modified |
30 Jan 2014 |
| Father |
Theodorus or Durst Eby or Aebi, DD, b. 25 Apr 1663, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland , d. 11 Dec 1727, Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Age 64 years) |
| Mother |
Unknown Unknown, b. 1664, Probably Germany , d. Bef 1705 (Age 41 years) |
| Married |
1687 |
Kraichgau, (Upper Palatinate) Germany |
| Family ID |
F509225104 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Barbara Neff, b. 1715, Germany , d. 17 Oct 1760 (Age 45 years) |
| Married |
1733 |
Earl, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
| Children |
| | 1. Christian Eby, b. 1734, Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 1793, Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Age 59 years) |
| | 2. George Eby, b. 1738, Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 17 Jul 1779, Stony Point, Rockland County, New York (Age 41 years) |
| | 3. John Joseph Eby, b. 1741, Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 29 Nov 1783, Windsor, York County, Pennsylvania (Age 42 years) |
| | 4. Barbara Eby, b. 1742, Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 1765 (Age 23 years) |
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| Family ID |
F547036842 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- There was no mention of George in Ezra Ebys book. The following information is from The Eby Report. It states that in 1694 he was born in Emmental, Bern, Switzerland.
- Dieter Eby Newman(166)(231)
"His records in this country begin in 1724, when he is mentioned on the 1724-1725 assessment for Conestoga Township, along with is father Durst Eby, and his brothers John and Peter. He was living at home at the time of his father's death in 1727, and remained there until about 1732. The next reference found for Georgfe eby was on 01 Mat 1733 when he was required to appear before the Quarter Sessions to give eveidence against a black man named Robert Black."
"........George decided to build his mill some distance from his brothers, John and Peter Eby's mill, located in Earl Township. He chose a place at the junction of Cocalico and Hammer Creeks, which is known today as the village of Millway. On 08 jan 1733, he applied for a survey of 150 acres of land in this area and by 24 Jan 1733 the survey was accomplished."
"....he was most likely buried in the eby Family Cemetery located behind the property of his brother, Christian Eby."
- Dieter Eby Newman:
"A muster roll of Captain Barnard Zimmerman's Company of Militia of Colonel Militas Slough's Batallion as Associators Lancaster County- destined for the Camp in the Jerseys. Septr. 10th 1776
Private, George Eby
Mustered and passed before the Committee of Observation & Inspection in Lancaster on the 23rd and 26th of August and 2d & 10th September 1776. And the above ninety two pounds and ten Shillings paid to Captain Barbard Zimmerman to enable him to pay the advance of 50 Shiilings each to his men above mentioned Test. Willie. Atlee, Chaitman of Committee & Barbard Zimmerman, Capt."
- From "The Eby Report" Volume II, Number 1 The First Four Generations in America by Clyde L Groff and George F Newman, O.S.J.
George Eby 2
01/29/2014
From Denise LAHR:
This is a tale of three neighboring families in Old Warwick Township: the Erismans, Habeckers and Ebys.
Melchior Erisman?s wife, Edith, followed through on a survey her deceased husband had obtained in 1728 for 204 acres and bought the rights to an adjacent warranted and surveyed parcel of 334 acres. On Feb. 20, 1740 she obtained patents for both parcels, making her a landed woman with 538 acres that included Pine Hill and lands on both sides of the Hammer Creek.
Meanwhile, George Eby, son of Theodorus, obtained his warrant for 150 acres southeast of the Erisman parcels along the same creek in 1733. In 1760 it was patented to Christian Eby, his eldest son.
Edith Erisman died. Daughter Magdalena had married Christian Eby, son of George. Her sisters, Anna, Barbara, and Elizabeth had married Jacob and Joseph, and John Habecker, respectively.
Anna (Erisman) and Jacob Habecker got 207 acres, consisting of most of the Pine Hill section of the warrant
Barbara (Erisman) and Joseph Habecker resided in Manor Township.
Flash forward to 1789 when Jacob Habecker died. He left a very controlling will (F-1-105) dated 1784: His only son, Jacob Habecker Jr. was given 170 acres. Daughter Elizabeth was to get the other 100 acres together with ?a locked chest with all its contents and no one else is allowed to search the same. She also got the remaining 100 acres and a good ?bed.? By the time of probate, Elizabeth was married to Jacob ?Old Jock? Eby. The children had the land resurveyed and found an additional 80 acres!
Meanwhile, in 1890, Christian Eby, sold the Eby 150 acres to Jacob Shaeffer, and that land passed out of the family. Son? Old Jock? didn?t need it because he had land from his wife.
Old Jock and Elizabeth had three sons: Abraham, Daniel and Jacob (Grobschmeid). The boys appointed a group of trusted neighbors to divide up the land ?according to the places where they now live.?
Here?s where Hannes Eby saved the day. Abraham?s only son, Jacob (what else), died young in 1841. He left a widow, Susanna (Grube), and a daughter, Fianna, 11 months old when he died.
After that, Abraham gave his share to brother Jacob (Grobschmeid) and moved west to Sugar Creek, Ohio. His wife was called Catherine in the deed, which threw me a bit, because her gravestone says Maria C. It turns out that she was literate and signed her name in Old German ?Catarina Maria.? Thank goodness I learned to read that stuff.
Daniel, I believe, went to Allen County, Indiana. Fortunately, I am going to Indiana in March and can research there.
Anyway, by 1845, all but Jacob had skedaddled west. Jacob remained behind and died in 1858. The property went to his son, John. [I believe there was another son, David, who went west to Sugar Creek and Uncle Abraham.] John left a son, Jacob who died in 1935.
That?s the broad strokes. It needs a lot more work.....
.....I will be putting it into a much more formal format with sources. Maybe even a paper for the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. Meanwhile you have the gist of it.
When working on Hannes Eby, I was dreadfully afraid of making mistakes. And I'm sure I did make some, but I always tried to say only what I was pretty darn sure of......
....In my work on this, I have also been forced to look at Jacob Eby's family, and I will be trying to sort out more of what happened to George Eby's other descendants.
I can't wait to get to Indiana and Ohio now.
Denise
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