HOCHSTRASSER Barbara Margaretha

Female Abt 1555 - Abt 1642  (~ 87 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  HOCHSTRASSER Barbara Margaretha was born in ABT. 1555; died in ABT. 1642 in Switzerland.

    Notes:

    There were either two sisters named Barbara and Margaretha Hochstrasser that Hans married in succession, or the same woman had both names. It is not clear if he had two spouses or one.

    Archives in Zurich contain the following document: "In the matter of the widow of the beheaded Hans Landis and their children of Horgenberg. Confiscation of the household of Hans Landis...When the head governors of Horgan met with Margaretha Hochstrasser, the widow of the late Hannsen Landis of the Horgenberg, after long imprisonment (they) admonished her to leave her beliefs and return to the church. Although these men spoke kindly and gently with her, she would not reconsider...It is to be considered what to do. She cannot be talked to or interviewed. She will not be converted and it would not be good to let her stay single. That is why she shall be taken to the Spital (hospital) in the death room and bound and only the most necessary provisions given. No one will be allowed to speak to her or enter the room, in hopes that she may in this wise be listening and converted." Sources for this information: date: Abt 1554 (Ref: Bittinger LANDIS p 29)

    Barbara married LANDIS Hans in ABT. 1578 in Switzerland. Hans (son of LANDIS Johannes (Hans) and SCHINZ Katherina) was born in 1553; died on 30 Sep 1614 in Zurich, Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. LANDIS Margaret  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 May 1580 in Switzerland.
    2. 3. LANDIS Hans  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Dec 1581 in Switzerland.
    3. 4. LANDIS Heinrich  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 Jan 1584/85 in Switzerland.
    4. 5. LANDIS Verena  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Feb 1586/87 in Switzerland.
    5. 6. LANDIS Adeli  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 May 1588 in Switzerland.
    6. 7. LANDIS Felix  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Jun 1589 in Switzerland; died in ABT. 1642 in Switzerland.
    7. 8. LANDIS Jacob  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1591 in Switzerland.
    8. 9. LANDIS Jagli  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Feb 1590/91 in Switzerland; died on 16 Jan 1635/36 in Switzerland.
    9. 10. LANDIS Margreth  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Dec 1594 in Switzerland.
    10. 11. LANDIS Welti  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Dec 1597 in Switzerland.
    11. 12. LANDIS Rudolph  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1603 in Switzerland.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  LANDIS Margaret Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 29 May 1580 in Switzerland.

  2. 3.  LANDIS Hans Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 21 Dec 1581 in Switzerland.

    Notes:

    In 1637, "Hans Landis the second, a steadfast minister of the church in Horgerberg and his daughter Margaretha" were confined for more than a year at Othenbach, during which time the authorities confiscated their property selling it for 7000 florins. Hans was an ordained minister.

    Hans married ERTZINGER Elsbeth. Elsbeth (daughter of ERTZINGER Uli) was born in 1593 in Eggersburg, Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 13. LANDIS Casper  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1614.
    2. 14. LANDIS Hans  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1615.
    3. 15. LANDIS Heinrich  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1621.
    4. 16. LANDIS Margaretha  Descendancy chart to this point

  3. 4.  LANDIS Heinrich Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 27 Jan 1584/85 in Switzerland.

  4. 5.  LANDIS Verena Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 12 Feb 1586/87 in Switzerland.

    Notes:

    Another incident of interest, recited in the Martyr's Mirror, is the presecution and death of Verena Landis in 1643. The name Verana is no doubt a variant of Veronica, or Fronica, the latter being a family name carried by the Landis and intermarried branches in America through many generations.

    "The house of Verena Landis, an elderly sister, was attacked in the night with such a noise and tumult, that being greatly alarmed, she grew faint and sick, and in consequence of which could not go with the beadles. As she could not accompany them, she was compelled to make a promise that she would remain a prisoner in her own house, which promise she accordingly fulfilled. However, as they treated her very harshly, and supplied her with very bad provisions, death was, in a very short time, the consequence: thus she departed her life, full of hope and joy; and because she suffered this for the name of the Lord, he will reward her hereafter with a crown of everlasting bliss, and free her from eternal death."

    Verena married SUNER Jacob. Jacob was born in 1583 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 17. SUNER Hans  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 18. SUNER Rudolph  Descendancy chart to this point

  5. 6.  LANDIS Adeli Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 29 May 1588 in Switzerland.

  6. 7.  LANDIS Felix Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 1 Jun 1589 in Switzerland; died in ABT. 1642 in Switzerland.

    Notes:

    Imprisoned at Othenbach, he was not given anything to eat for many days, so that even some criminals that were confined near him in another place, took pity on him and managed to get some food to him...But when the doorkeeper perceived this, he was put into another prison. Finally, however, they gave him some food: but he was so impaired in his body that he could not bear food any more. Yet in his greatest distress he was carried to church, during the sermon, where he, O dreadful inhumanity! was thrown under a bench; but he soon after gave up the ghost, which he had commended into the hands of God.

    His wife Adelheid Egli, who was also imprisoned in Othenbach, was kept there almost four years...she afterwards, with a good conscience, escaped from her bonds. But in the meantime the authorities had broken up their family, put out the children among strangers, and then sold house and furniture.

    Felix was an Anabaptist minister at Horgenberg, Switzerland.

    Felix had been married 3 times, first to Margareth Streler, then to Magdalene Hess, then to Adelheid Egli. It is assumed that his first 2 wives predeceased him.

    Felix married STRELLER Margareth. Margareth was born in ABT. 1585 in Switzerland; died on 11 Jan 1628/29 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Felix married HESS Magdalene in 1629 in Switzerland. Magdalene was born in ABT. 1600 in Switzerland; died on 1 Aug 1629 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Felix married EGLI Adelheid in ABT. 1625 in Switzerland. Adelheid (daughter of EGLI Uli and BANWART Anna) was born in ABT. 1590 in Fischenthal, Switzerland; died in 1646 in Zurich, Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 19. LANDIS Hans  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1640.
    2. 20. LANDIS Anna Maria  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Jan 1632/33.
    3. 21. LANDIS Hans Heinrich  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Feb 1634/35.

  7. 8.  LANDIS Jacob Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born in 1591 in Switzerland.

  8. 9.  LANDIS Jagli Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 11 Feb 1590/91 in Switzerland; died on 16 Jan 1635/36 in Switzerland.

    Jagli married SCHAPPI Barbara. Barbara was born in ABT. 1595 in Switzerland; died on 17 Jan 1631/32 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Jagli married TRINCKLER Elsbeth on 29 May 1632 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]


  9. 10.  LANDIS Margreth Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 1 Dec 1594 in Switzerland.

    Margreth married BAUMANN Rudolph Hans in 1634 in Switzerland. Rudolph was born in 1593 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

    Margreth married BRUPPACHER Ulrich. Ulrich was born in 1568 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]


  10. 11.  LANDIS Welti Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born on 15 Dec 1597 in Switzerland.

  11. 12.  LANDIS Rudolph Descendancy chart to this point (1.Barbara1) was born in ABT. 1603 in Switzerland.

    Rudolph married BAUMANN Anna. Anna was born in ABT. 1603 in Switzerland; died on 14 Feb 1640/41 in Switzerland. [Group Sheet]



Generation: 3

  1. 13.  LANDIS Casper Descendancy chart to this point (3.Hans2, 1.Barbara1) was born in 1614.

  2. 14.  LANDIS Hans Descendancy chart to this point (3.Hans2, 1.Barbara1) was born in 1615.

  3. 15.  LANDIS Heinrich Descendancy chart to this point (3.Hans2, 1.Barbara1) was born in 1621.

    Heinrich married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 22. LANDIS Hans Heinrich  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 23. LANDIS Barbara  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 24. LANDIS Jacob  Descendancy chart to this point

  4. 16.  LANDIS Margaretha Descendancy chart to this point (3.Hans2, 1.Barbara1)

    Margaretha married CASSON Joseph. [Group Sheet]


  5. 17.  SUNER Hans Descendancy chart to this point (5.Verena2, 1.Barbara1)

    Notes:

    Went to Amsterdam about 1639.


  6. 18.  SUNER Rudolph Descendancy chart to this point (5.Verena2, 1.Barbara1)

    Notes:

    Escaped prison in 1641 but was recaptured.


  7. 19.  LANDIS Hans Descendancy chart to this point (7.Felix2, 1.Barbara1) was born in ABT. 1640.

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

    Children:
    1. 25. LANDIS Jacob  Descendancy chart to this point 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. 26. LANDIS Margaritha  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1670.
    3. 27. LANDIS Felix  Descendancy chart to this point 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. 28. LANDIS Johannes  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1673 in Near Mannheim, Germany; died in ABT. 1745 in Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA.

  8. 20.  LANDIS Anna Maria Descendancy chart to this point (7.Felix2, 1.Barbara1) was born on 15 Jan 1632/33.

  9. 21.  LANDIS Hans Heinrich Descendancy chart to this point (7.Felix2, 1.Barbara1) was born on 1 Feb 1634/35.


Generation: 4

  1. 22.  LANDIS Hans Heinrich Descendancy chart to this point (15.Heinrich3, 3.Hans2, 1.Barbara1)

    Notes:

    Weaver in Strassburg and Colmar.

    The father of Ephrata John Landes is said to have been Hans Heinrich.

    He was one of the Anabaptists who attended the Steinsfurt meeting.

    Hans married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 29. LANDIS Hans Landes (Ephrata John)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 May 1746.
    2. 30. LANDIS Jacob  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Oct 1742; died on 20 Aug 1804.

  2. 23.  LANDIS Barbara Descendancy chart to this point (15.Heinrich3, 3.Hans2, 1.Barbara1)

  3. 24.  LANDIS Jacob Descendancy chart to this point (15.Heinrich3, 3.Hans2, 1.Barbara1)

  4. 25.  LANDIS Jacob Descendancy chart to this point (19.Hans3, 7.Felix2, 1.Barbara1) 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).

    Notes:

    Hans (or John) Jacob Landis has sometimes been confused with Benjamin Landis who was believed to be one of the three brothers who came to Philadelphia in 1717. Benjamin was actually the son of Jacob Landis. Jacob died at lampeter Township in 1730, he left no will and there is no record of his children. He was taxed at Lancaster County as Jacob Landis or sometimes John Jacob Landis. He warranted land in Lampeter Township in 1718 which was later patented by Benjamin Landis (his son.) Jacob lived near his brother Felix in Lampeter.

    Jacob married WITMER Anna in ABT. 1693 in Germany. Anna (daughter of WITMER Jacob and MUGGENLOCH Catharina) was born in Nov 1671 in Pfalz, Germany; died in 1725 in Lancaster County, PA. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 31. LANDIS Jacob  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1694 in Germany; died in in PA.
    2. 32. LANDIS Hans  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1696 in Germany; died in 1756 in Cocalico Township, Lancaster Co, PA.
    3. 33. LANDIS Benjamin  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1699 in Steinsfurt, Germany; died in 1781 in Lancaster County, PA; was buried in Mellinger Cem, Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, PA.
    4. 34. LANDIS Henry  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1702 in Germany; died in 1760 in Mannheim, Germany.
    5. 35. LANDIS Barbara  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1706 in Germany.
    6. 36. LANDIS Anna  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1708 in Germany.

  5. 26.  LANDIS Margaritha Descendancy chart to this point (19.Hans3, 7.Felix2, 1.Barbara1) was born in ABT. 1670.

  6. 27.  LANDIS Felix Descendancy chart to this point (19.Hans3, 7.Felix2, 1.Barbara1) 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.

    Notes:

    In The Mennonites of America by C. Henry Smith, pubished 1909:

    "The settlers (in PA) from 1711 to 1717 came as individuals and in small groups. But in the later year there was another wave of immigration including many of those who had been exiled 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

    The Mennonite settlement occupied at this time the southern half of what was then Conestoga Township. the northern part of the township was 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.

    These early ships bearing the settlers arrived usually in the fall during the months of August, September, and October."

    Three brothers, Felix, Jacob and John Landis were driven by persecution from Mannheim on the Rhine in Baden Wurttemberg, 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.

    Records in the Register's Office in Lancaster evidence the fact the Foelix Landis purchased two 400 acre tracts from the London Company under dates of February 19 and 20, 1718. He paid 75 pounds for the land. Felix sold 200 acres of the land to his son in law, Johannes Binkley, and his daughter Barbara for 100 pounds.

    1929 Naturalized (Ref: Best Swiss Origins p 22.)

    1723-From the book "East Lampeter Township" on page 893 is the following:

    "Felix Landis was an old patentee under the London Company, having acquired four hundred acres of land by patent in 1723. He granted part of this property to John Binckle, as then written who appears to have been a relative. John Binckely died intestate in 1757, leaving three sons, Felix, Henry and Christian Binckley. At the divisiion of the property Felix Binckley took the water right and land adjoining, and in 1767 built the mill. Felix died in this county, and as there are many graves of Binckleys at Mellinger's graveyard, it is fair to suppose that he was buried there also, although no stone bearing his name can be found. After the death of Felix Binckley his immediate family moved to Dauphin County and bought a farm at the junction of the Swartara and Spring Run, where their descendants still reside. This property remained in a collateral branch of the family for some time after the movement of the family of Felix, the builder of the mill. there is a stone dwelling house upon this mill property,

    1731- From the book History of Lancaster County, PA by Ellis and Evans in 1883, pgs 899-900. "Graff's Mill. Felix Landis, in 1719, received a patent from the sons of Penn, Proprietors of the province, for four hundred acres of land situated on a branch of Conestoga River, county of Chester, (note that in 1719 the land around Lancaster, PA was in Chester Co., that land did not become Lancaster Co., until 1727.) This land was on Mill Creek, farther south than the tract of Boughwalter, and separated from it by the tract of Michael Danner. In 1731 he transferred part of this tract to John Binkley, also a Palatine, who died intestate in 1760, and his son, Felix Binkley, took one hundred and thirteen acres and ninety-six perches at the settlement of the estate and in 1767 built the mill at Millport, on Mill Creek. This mill remained, as far as can be learned, in the hands of the Binkley family, but not the immediate descendants of Felix, SR., until about the year 1820, when John Binkley sold it to Jacob Ch

    There are some apparent errors in the above description as John Binkley died in 1749 with a will.

    Will of Felix Landis, born 1672 and died April, 1739.

    In the name of God Amen: I, Felix Landis, of the Township of Lancaster, in the County of Lancaster, in the Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, being of perfect memory and sound judgment, thanks be to God for it, but weak and frail, and being satisfied to settle my affairs before it shall please God to call me hence. I do hereby give my soul to God who gave it to me, and my body to be buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my executors hereinafter nominated and: Item, I do leave and bequeath to my beloved wife, Rosina, One full third of all my real and personal estate that I shall die possessed of, Item, I do leave and bequeath unto Abraham Miers, the sum of five shillings currance to be paid immediately after my decease by my executors hereinafter nominated in full of all demands he shall or may have against my estate, real or personal, for or on account of being married to my daughter, Fronicka, Item, I leave and bequeath all the residue and remainder of my estate to my only son, Felix, to be u

    Felix's land was next to that of Jacob Landis, his brother.

    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]

    Children:
    1. 37. LANDIS Fronica  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1706.
    2. 38. LANDIS Barbara  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1707 in Germany; died in ABT. 1749 in Lancaster County, PA.
    3. 39. LANDIS Felix  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1708 in Alsace, Germany; died on 25 Jan 1770 in Lancaster County, PA.
    4. 40. LANDIS Anna  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1710.

  7. 28.  LANDIS Johannes Descendancy chart to this point (19.Hans3, 7.Felix2, 1.Barbara1) was born in ABT. 1673 in Near Mannheim, Germany; died in ABT. 1745 in Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA.

    Notes:

    Three brothers, Felix, Jacob and John, immigrated from Mannheim to PA in 1717. Felix and Jacob stayed in Lancaster Co, PA, but John moved to Bucks Co.

    1730 - Signed a petition to form the township of Richland from M ilford Township.
    1730 - Signed a petition for a road in Richland, Penn. (Bucks C o. website)
    1734 - Petitioned for naturalization in Bucks County
    1743, Dec 21 - Bought 125 acres in Richland Twp. from Wm. Alle n next to Jacob Musselman.*
    1747, Sept. 26 - Wrote will Probated May 1, 1751 (Phila. Co., W ill Book 1:397, File #255).

    *"Allen acquired his land holdings in many different ways. Afte r his return from England in 1725, young Allen purchased ten-tho usand acres of land from William Penn, the son of the founder o f Pennsylvania, for £741.15. [40] These lands, located above t he forks of the Delaware at Easton, had not as yet been purchas ed from the Indians. [41] James Logan, the proprietary secreta ry, objected to the sale. He believed that once the Indians fou nd out that Allen had claimed the area, they would raise the pur chase price. Penn had wasted the colony's money in order to rew ard Allen with prime real estate without any competition from ot her colonists, since the colony did not even own the land yet. Allen profited quickly from the sale, surveying the land, the n dividing and selling it in small lots. [42] "William Allen an d the Search for Economic Security in Eighteenth Century Pennsyl vania" by Augustine Nigro. http://earlyamerica.com/review/2001

    Johannes married MUSSELMAN Ann. Ann (daughter of MUSSELMAN Jacob) was born in ABT. 1695; died in AFT. 1748 in Earl Twp, Bucks Co, PA. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 41. LANDIS Veronica  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1716.
    2. 42. LANDIS Barbara M.  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1718.
    3. 43. LANDIS John  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Nov 1720 in Bucks Co, PA; died on 9 Dec 1796 in Douglas Twp, Montgomery Co, PA.
    4. 44. LANDIS Jacob  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1722 in Montgomery Co, PA.
    5. 45. LANDIS Samuel  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Jan 1723/24; died in 1771 in Lower Milford Twp, Bucks Co, PA; was buried in East Swamp Mennonite Church, Quakertown, Bucks Co, PA.
    6. 46. LANDIS Martin  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Jan 1728/29.
    7. 47. LANDIS Elizabeth  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1732.
    8. 48. LANDIS Frances  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1733.
    9. 49. LANDIS Eva  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1736.
    10. 50. LANDIS George  Descendancy chart to this point was born in ABT. 1740 in Richland Twp, Bucks Co, PA; died on 5 Feb 1801 in Colebrookdale Twp, Berks Co, PA.


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