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LANDIS Peter

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  LANDIS Peter was born on 27 Apr 1741 (son of LANDIS Felix and LOBAN Catharine).

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  LANDIS Felix was born in 1708 in Alsace, Germany (son of LANDIS Felix and WITNER Rosina); died on 25 Jan 1770 in Lancaster County, PA.

    Felix married LOBAN Catharine in 1727 in PA. Catharine was born in 1708. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  LOBAN Catharine was born in 1708.
    Children:
    1. LANDIS Ann was born on 11 Oct 1730 in Lancaster County, PA; died on 4 May 1798 in Lebanon Co, PA.
    2. LANDIS Catharine was born on 17 May 1732.
    3. LANDIS Elizabeth was born on 30 Jun 1734.
    4. LANDIS Henry was born on 10 Mar 1735/36 in Lebanon, Lancaster Co, Pa; died on 30 Apr 1785.
    5. LANDIS Barbara was born on 19 Mar 1737/38 in Lancaster Co, PA; died on 16 Apr 1812.
    6. 1. LANDIS Peter was born on 27 Apr 1741.
    7. LANDIS Felix was born on 6 Nov 1746.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  LANDIS Felix was born in 1672 in Near Mannheim, Germany (son of LANDIS Hans and SONRETER Maria); died in 1739 in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, PA; was buried in Mellinger Church Cemetery, Lancaster Co, PA.

    Notes:

    In The Mennonites of America by C. Henry Smith, pubished 1909:iled from Berne in 1710 and 1711. These refugees, as we saw, were scattered throughout the Palatinate and other parts of Germany. they were never in prospersous circumstances. The country was wasted by wars. The churches were poor. They hac to gain a livelihood as best they could, often by the help of their brethren in the Netherlands. At the same time came a special invitation from King George I to settle the lands west of the Alleghanies. Consequently, in February of 1717 a number of elders met at Mannheim and decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania. The Committee on Foreign Needs which had been organized some time before at Amsterdam for the purpose of helping their needy brethren in the Palatinate, and to whom these exiles now applied for assistance, discouraged the movement due to fear that they would be pressed for more s composed largely of Scotch-Irish and English. Most of Lancaster County was, as a result, mostly a Mennonite community. In the first list of tax payers taken in 1718, there was included the names of Jacob Landes, Felix Landes, and Jacob Landes Jr.erg, from whence they emigrated in 1717 to district Old Chester (now Lancaster) Co, PA, received a patent for 400 acres there in Creek near Witmer's Bridge (now East Lampeter): of Lampeter twp 1737. Mennonites. John settled in Bucks Co, PA but Felix and Jacob remained in Lancaster Co, PA.r the land. Felix sold 200 acres of the land to his son in law, Johannes Binkley, and his daughter Barbara for 100 pounds.

    Felix married WITNER Rosina in 1705 in Alsace, Germany. Rosina was born in ABT. 1675 in Germany or Switzerland; died in AFT. 1739 in Lancaster County, PA; was buried in Mellinger Cem, Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  WITNER Rosina was born in ABT. 1675 in Germany or Switzerland; died in AFT. 1739 in Lancaster County, PA; was buried in Mellinger Cem, Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, PA.

    Notes:

    It is possible that Rosina is from the Witner family in Switzerland.

    Children:
    1. LANDIS Fronica was born in ABT. 1706.
    2. LANDIS Barbara was born in ABT. 1707 in Germany; died in ABT. 1749 in Lancaster County, PA.
    3. 2. LANDIS Felix was born in 1708 in Alsace, Germany; died on 25 Jan 1770 in Lancaster County, PA.
    4. LANDIS Anna was born in ABT. 1710.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  LANDIS Hans was born in ABT. 1640 (son of LANDIS Felix and EGLI Adelheid).

    Hans married SONRETER Maria in ABT. 1665 in Switzerland. Maria was born in ABT. 1635 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  SONRETER Maria was born in ABT. 1635 in Switzerland.
    Children:
    1. LANDIS Jacob was born in 1667 in Zurich, Switzerland; died in 1730 in Lancaster County, PA; was buried in Mellinger's Cemetery, Lancaster Co, PA (Unmarked grave).
    2. LANDIS Margaritha was born in ABT. 1670.
    3. 4. LANDIS Felix was born in 1672 in Near Mannheim, Germany; died in 1739 in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, PA; was buried in Mellinger Church Cemetery, Lancaster Co, PA.
    4. LANDIS Johannes was born in ABT. 1673 in Near Mannheim, Germany; died in ABT. 1745 in Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA.


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