MELLINGER Melchior

Male Abt 1730 - 1806  (~ 76 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  MELLINGER Melchior was born in ABT. 1730 in Ruchheim, Germany (son of UNKNOWN, son of UNKNOWN, son of MELLINGER Jacob, Jr.); died in Nov 1806 in Salem Township, Columbiana Co, Ohio; was buried in Ohio.

    Notes:

    Melchior Mellinger migrated to America on October 16, 1772 along with his wife who died at sea, two nephews, and his sister Christine Mellinger Burkholder and her husband. The nephews were the sons of Melchior's brother, Johannes Jacob Mellinger.

    Melchior can be found on the 1790 Lancaster Co, PA census records and the 1800 census records where he is recorded as overseer of the poor house.

    Goshen Archives: That frontier settlements were not without certain cultural treasures is testified to in the recod of Melchior Mellinger's personal property. Mellinger's heirs sold on January 20, 1807 his library consisting of at least forty-four books. Many were in German. the books were on theology, the bible, geography, arithemetic, and history. There were Latin and German dictionaries, maps of South America and Asia, Barclay's Apology, Godfred (sp) Arnold's History and Menno Simons' Confession. The county probate Court Record, C.P. Dock 13, 1807, which records the sale is one of the earliest records of its kind in Columbiana County. A copy of a Devotional Book of the Swiss Mennonites that was owned by Melchior Mellinger and listed in his estate at time of his death, is housed in the Schwenkfelder Library at Pennsburg, PA. This writer was allowed to hold and look through the book, it is still in pretty good condition though the clasps have been broken and the cover is somewhat used. There was no

    The founding of Mennonite communities in Columbiana County, Ohio, began in 1801 or before. Melchior Mellinger settled in Salem Township in 1803, having come from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Melchior purchased section 24 with his son in law Martin Hoke.

    It seems likely that the ship they came over on was the Crawford which docked in Philadelphia on October 16, 1772. The ship had started out in Amsterdam and then stopped in Cowes, England, and then proceded on to Philadelphia, a normal route for those days.

    Melchior married UNKNOWN in ABT. 1766 in Germany. was born in ABT. 1740; died in 1772 in Died at sea. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. MELLINGER Anna was born on 11 Oct 1769.
    2. MELLINGER Benedict was born on 25 Oct 1770; died on 11 Aug 1851 in Plain Twnshp, Wayne County, Ohio; was buried in Reedsburg Cemetery, Ohio.

    Melchior married HAMILTON Margareta in ABT. 1777 in Lancaster Co, PA. Margareta was born in ABT. 1758 in York County, PA. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. MELLINGER Margaret was born in 1779 in Lancaster County, Pa; died in 1852.
    2. MELLINGER John was born in ABT. 1780.
    3. MELLINGER Catharine was born in ABT. 1782.
    4. MELLINGER Mala was born in ABT. 1785.
    5. MELLINGER Elizabeth was born in 1786 in Lancaster Co, PA; died in 1867.
    6. MELLINGER Jacob was born in ABT. 1787.
    7. MELLINGER Melichior was born in 1788 in Lancaster County, PA.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  MELLINGER Jacob, Jr. was born in ABT. 1660 (son of MELLINGER Jacob and UNKNOWN, son of UNKNOWN).

    Notes:

    Jacob lived first at Eppstein but was living at Freisenheim by 1717 and in 1724.

    Children:
    1. MELLINGER Johannes
    2. MELLINGER Johan Jacob died in 1762 in Wachenheim, Germany.
    3. 1. MELLINGER Melchior was born in ABT. 1730 in Ruchheim, Germany; died in Nov 1806 in Salem Township, Columbiana Co, Ohio; was buried in Ohio.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  MELLINGER Jacob was born in 1660 in Ruchheim, Germany (son of MELLINGER Benedict).

    Jacob married UNKNOWN in ABT. 1685 in Ruchheim, Germany. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  UNKNOWN
    Children:
    1. 2. MELLINGER Jacob, Jr. was born in ABT. 1660.
    2. MELLINGER Johannes was born in ABT. 1690 in Ruchheim, Germany; died in AFT. 1738 in Hemshof, Germany.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  MELLINGER Benedict was born in ABT. 1630 in Canton Bern, Switzerland; died in ABT. 1701 in Germany.

    Notes:

    According to Philip Mellinger, there are two distinct families....

    1. Ulrich Mellinger, Mennonite, and his descendeants, living in the Palatinate beginning in the late 1600s, some came to America later, and;

    2. Benedict Mellinger, whose son Johannes has a large family with four sons that came to Pennsylvania in the mid 1700s, most were Reformed/Protestent, and not Mennonite. Benedict, however, was a Mennonite.

    Benedict and Hans Ulrich Mellinger were possibly brothers. There may even have been a third brother, William, who left Switzerland in 1653 and came to VA, indicating that perhaps all of the Mellinger brothers left Switzerland at the same time, one to Virginia and two to Germany.

    Benedict Mellinge was living in Ruchheim, Germany by 1654, he was still there in the 1690s. Benedict was apparently a Mennonite and from Swtizerland. Benedict was one of seven Palatinate Ministers that signed the letter on 13 March 1694 against Jacob Ammann that served to form the split between the Amish and the Mennonites.

    From Goshen College:

    A major attempt at reconciliation was made in the second week of March 1694 at a meeting called at Ohnenheim in Alsace at the request of the ministers of the Palatinate, at which both sides were to be represented. Ten men came from Switzerland and seven from the Palatinate, but the number of "Amish" present is now known. When no agreement could be reached, the Amish left the meeting. On the following day the Swiss ministers decided to agree with the Palatines and drafted a joint statement giving the reasons why they could not agree with Jacob Ammann, dated March 13, 1694. The list of signers was as follows: For the Swiss, Hans Reist, Peter Habegger, Ulrich Falb, Niklaus Baltzli, Peter Geiger, Dursch Rohrer, Jakob Schwartz, Daniel Grimmstettler, Ulrich Blatzey: for the Palantines, Jakob gut, Hans Gut, Peter Zolfinger, Christian Holi, BENEDIKT MELLINGER, Hans Heinrich Bar, Hans Rudi Nageli.

    From Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of South-Eastern Pennsylvania by Frank Eshleman 1917:

    1693--Origin of the Amish Mennonites.

    "This year there was a division among the congregations of Mennonites in Berne. A faction of them followed Jacob Ammon, and the remainder remained under the leadership of Hans Reist. The factions were known as the Amish and Reist factions. The parting was quite bitter: each party putting the other under the ban.

    The Reist party were the Emmenthalers--that is, their stronghold was in the Thal or valley of the Emmen creek, which lies a short distance northeast of Berne. They held that there should be no emigration or at any rate that they should neither emigrate nor mix with the Amish, who were the Oberlanders (they lived on the Ober or upland regions in Switzerland.) "

    From Goshen College:

    "From the original documents which have been preserved, it is clear that Jakob Ammann's attempt to force the elders in the Emmental to accept the Meidung (the shunning or avoidance of excommunicated persons) was the chief if not full cause of the division."

    As a result of the disagreement, Ammann excommunicated Reist and others. At the end of the meeting, after refusal to accept the meidung by several others, the Ammann party left the building without shaking hands and started their own meeting nearby.

    From Goshen College:

    "Various attmept swere made by both ministers and lay members to persuade Jakob Ammann to recall his hasty action of excommunication but to no avail. The Palatinate ministers wrote a letter to the Amish asking them to seek a reconciliation.

    A major attempt at reconcilation was made in the second week of March 1694 at a meeting called at Ohnenheim in Alsace at the request of the ministers of the Palatinate, at which both sides were to be represented. Ten men came from Switzerland and seven from the Palatinate, but the number of "Amish" present is not known. The Palatines begged the Amish not to continue acting so rashly, but the Amish insisted that the opposing side accept their 3 major points of disagreement. When no agreement could be reached the Amish left the meeting. The following day, the Swiss ministers agreed with the Palatinates and drafted a joint statement giving their reasons for not agreeing with Jakob Ammann, dated Margh 13, 1694, it was signed by BENEDIKT MELLINGER among others. The opposing Palatine ministers were placed under the ban by Jakob Ammann, it is assumed that included among those who were excommunicated was BENEDICT MELLINGER.

    Various attempts at reconcilation were undertaken between 1694 and 1698, both by correspondance and in meetings, but all failed. The Amish finally decided they had been too rash with their use of the ban, and accordingly placed themselves under the ban (probably in 1698.)"

    From Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of South-Eastern Pennsylvania by Frank Eshleman 1917:

    "There are manuscripts upon the division and the discussion resulting from it at the time, in the library of the Reist Mennonites in the Emmenthal or valley. These documents among others, consist of:

    A declaration by the servants, elders and deacons from the Palatinate and from Switzerland, who adhered to the Reist faction and who called themselves, "such as can not be in accord with Jacob Ammon, and therefore, his opponents," containing considerable doctrinal controversy. This is signed by those Reist Mennonites who are mentioned in an earlier letter and also by Hans Reist, BENEDICT MELLINGER as well as 4 others from the Palatinate."

    Though Ruchheim was "in the Palatinate," it formally fell outside the jurisdiction of the ruler of the Palatinate. Therefore, there was no Mennonite census records that included Ruchheim. This means that many Mennonite Mellinger ancestors at Ruchheim were unaccounted for.

    Children:
    1. 4. MELLINGER Jacob was born in 1660 in Ruchheim, Germany.
    2. MELLINGER Johannes was born in 1660 in Ruchheim, Germany; died on 11 Mar 1743/44 in Ruchheim, Germany.


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