Notes

[NI002] Lived near Milbank, Perth County, Ontario until 1925, then near Clarence Center New York until 1932 and near Strasburg PA. After marriage they lived near Cochranville on 2 different farms until he built a house in 1948 on Daleville Rd. They moved to Parkesburg along Rt10 near the top of State Hill in 1961 and then back to Cochranville along Rt 10 1 mile south in 1967. They moved to Landis homes retirement community in 1987.

[NI004] ELIA NAFZIGER
BY
Ephraim Nafziger (son)

This biography is not intended as a detailed biography. It is rather a study of his characteristics as requested by our son John. Elia's parents were Andrew and Katherine Schweitzer Nafziger. They were married May 2, 1880, in Ontario where both of them were born. All of Katherine's 5 brothers and her one sister apparently moved to Nebraska about the same time. The newlyweds went along. These Amish folks went to a very arid section of
Nebraska where Elia was born May 1,1885. All the Schweitzers later moved near Lincoln, Nebraska. It is reported that the Canadian Nafzigers sent Andrew train fare to come back to Canada in 1893, where there was also land to be homesteaded.

My mother said that Elia was too poor to own a buggy during the seven years of their courtship. He rode the 9 miles in a two wheeled cart. My Uncle Ezra said that by the time of their marriage in September 1909 he had saved 1,000 dollars which was considered a very large sum then. This was earned by working at railroading and also as a carpenter. They bought the Boshart farm from Jacob, my maternal grandfather. This is where my mother and all of her children except Andrew, were born. In 1925 they bought a farm near Corfu, New York. In 1932 they rented a farm near Strasburg, PA. In 1935 they lease purchased a farm near Christiana, PA. This he sold in 1943, and moved to Gap, where he died June 18,1964.

My father was considered a leader, and an entrepreneur. In Ontario he helped establish a creamery for farmers. Later he was one of the few farmers who shipped fresh milk to Toronto by train. His herd was one of the few that had registered Holstein cows. It was rated the seventh best in the county. He did some on farm bull judging in the county. In 1921 he got one of the first cars in the community where there were no paved roads and only a few gravel roads. He was among the few farmers who had their own threshing machines, which he powered by steam. He graveled his own half mile lane with gravel he dug out of the creek bed and hauled
with a team of horses. He also carried wet concrete up a ladder to make a safe, poured concrete chimney. There was no electricity except in the villages, so the neighbor called on him when their gas engines did not start. My mother had one of the few gasoline powered washing machine. His economic situation received a drastic change in New York due in part to the depression. He also lost a barn by fire in September 1926 with the seasons crops and all machinery. Probably only the barn was insured. It was not until years later I realized how well he coped with this change in lifestyle. After the fire he spent days designing a barn which was the first in the community with sheet metal siding, and a drive through for a manure spreader behind the cows.

In New York he was considered a leader in the church. It appears that he was in the lot for ordination in Ontario He gave testimony after the Sunday morning sermon. Active in Sunday School and Sunday evening meetings at which he would speak on occasion. I think he was better informed on church history, polity and Mennonite theology than most of the members. He also spoke at Sunday evening meetings in PA. He designed the first Mennonite church building at Alden. He was chairman of the building committee and also was considered
building foreman. He and his sons did most of the volunteer labor. My mother often spoke of Dad's failure to receive recognition for his abilities in PA in a larger church.

In our background it was considered proper to work at home or give your earned money to the family until one was 21. Emanuel was working on a farm in Ontario when we moved to PA. Dad insisted that he come to PA with us and paid him on the farm when he really could have done without him. Emanuel was happy, working on a farm in Canada and resented this to his last days. He and I were the only ones of eight sons that worked for Dad after we were 21. He was quite authoritarian and never got along well with his sons. In day to day work it always
needed to be done his way. Almost all of the carpenter, plumbing, electrical, or mechanical work on the farm was done without hiring a specialist. He had a rudimentary knowledge in all of these areas. At times he did not have the patience to let us do a job that he could do much more quickly.

He could bend his conscience when necessity almost required it. In New York a retired neighbor of the church watched him build the church. As a result he let him build a house for him. Then he built another house nearby. It was depression, there were enough boys to do the farm work, but that did not pay well. He had a large family to care for so an ad was put in the daily paper. Some city people had only Sunday to come and talk about building a house. We had orders to bring no one along from church for lunch. He spent the afternoon going over
house plans with them that I think came out of ready-built house catalogue. This was very foreign to his principles for Lord's day observance. He did not get the contract.

I do not know that he ever acknowledged an error in his dealing with us. We only had one car. Saturday evenings was the high social point for 3 or 4 of us teenagers to attend a singing. At Christiana he caught us loafing on a Saturday afternoon when we should have been preparing ground for seeding. He angrily told us that the car would not leave the farm that evening, until that job had been finished. He with us knew that would be impossible as we had all the cows to milk by hand. He hardly ever drove a tractor after the boys were big enough to do that. While we were milking we heard the tractor finishing the field. That was the only way
he would tell that he was sorry for his rash act. No words were spoken by he or us. At the proper time we just took the car and left as we usually did.

An illustration of his kindness to his family. We never had homemade ice cream, and bought it by the pint only after the youngest ones were teenagers. Ice Cream was considered quite a luxury. One time he went on a business trip to Philadelphia with another farmer. When coming home he told my mother that the other man had eaten a whole pint of ice cream while his children at home had none. He might have had a five cent cone. I was the executor of his estate. He often mentioned that we should keep a roof over Emanuel's head after Dad could not.
There was to be no one homeless among his descendants. He also feared for mom's welfare because of her diabetic condition, after he would no longer be here.

When I was not more than 10 or 11 years old, Dad took Emanuel to work on the railroad each day. As with many of his jobs he did not have that job very long. Emanuel was learning to drive. Each morning I would go along. When we arrived at the job he would let me drive back. He laughed at my attempt to steer and remarked that I should learn from Emanuel how to steer. And maybe he could learn from me how to shift gears. He bought new cars in 1921 and 1927. Then not again until 1948. After we got a half decent car in PA he always left one of us drive. He always rode in the back seat on the right, maybe he was scared. He never corrected our driving. We remarked to each other how that in certain situations when we thought it necessary to race the engine through the gears he never objected. We would attempt to find such situations when crossing route 30 etc.

My Mother was born Nov.20,1883 near Millbank, Ontario in the same house in which she lived until 1925. Her father was Jacob Boshart and mother was Leah Erb Boshart. She only walked the three miles, by the road, to school for parts of three years. This could be cut almost in half by walking through the fields. Her older six children did the same walk. When there was too much snow or if there were potatoes to be picked up she just stayed home.

I probably did not realize the hard work load she had much of her life. Her mother died in 1922 after being bedfast for 7 years. Jacob and my mother took care of her in an apartment attached to our house. By the time of her death my mother had 7 children under 12. After she had 11 children, her only daughter over age 7 needed to work as a domestic in Buffalo for $10.00 a week to support her parents and siblings. This was a good wage then. Mennonite girls from other states came to Buffalo to work. Dad often said that Lovina supported the family even
after we moved to Strasburg and she worked in the garment factory.

All this while mother did the work in the garden and in the house with the help of some unwilling boys. Dad was a good help. He often prepared breakfast and hung out the laundry even when all the children were grown.

She was not a Susanna Wesley but had a concern for the spiritual welfare of her children. On Sunday afternoons even when we were in our early teens she would get the family together and read juvenile church papers to the small children. Dad encouraged us to sing as a family, but many times on a Sunday afternoon she would sing with us teenagers while dad slept. We all took our turns reading the German bible during family devotions. I don't remember mother's reading but this and the King James bible would have been very difficult for her to read. I remember as a small child she encouraged us to read in the Psalms.

She was not as articulate about her salvation experience as dad was, but during six years of widowhood she said she was not alone for Jesus was with her.

[NI006] In 1957 there were five ministers with the Kennel family name serving Mennonite (MC) churches in eastern Pennsylvania, and John A. Kennel serving as bishop in the Millwood congregation at Gap, Pa.
http://www.mhsc.ca/encyclopedia/contents/K4553ME.html

[NI010] Andrew moved to Holt, Co. Neb with his in laws soon after his marriage in 1880. Elia and Ezra were born there. They lived in a sod house at least part of the time and finally in 1893 they moved back to Ontario and farmed a swampy farm near Brunner.

[NI025] Other children are listed in the Boshart Genealogy http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/page3.html#B088

[NI028] he ships list shows her as being 22 years old; subtract 22 from 1819, and
we have her birth date as 1979. The 1860 census of Wilmot Township, Ontario,
Canada, shows Elizabeth as 63 years old; subtract 63 from 1860, and we have
her birth date as 1797.

[NI037] Immigrated 1849 with Catherine Nafziger Jantzi a widow and his second cousin, daughter of John Nafziger, son of Jean "der Junge vom Steinbacherhof" Nafziger. They arrived in New York on May 7, 1849 on the ship Seme.

[NI068] According to the paper received from the Steckleys he died in Philadelphia. His name is not on the 1850 or 1860 Philadelphia Census. He is supposed to have immigrated in the 1840's before Samuel in 1848. This is also still to be proved.

He also apparently lived near Cirrey-sur-Vezouze when Samuel was born (1830).

[NI075] Took part in Amish assembly in 1759 at Essingen. (Organized by Christian Nafziger). He is called Hans the Elder in Amish Mennonites in Germany. He was also an elder in the Fronberg Congregation.

Around 1693 he is named as a resident of Echery near Markirch (Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines) in Alsace, and in 1695, together with Jacob Ammann, in the neighboring village of Kleinleberau (la Petite Liepvre). From "Amish Mennonites in Germany".

Also he was banned by Ammann in 1693.

[NI098] He apparently left Switzerland with his brother Ulrich. Their is no indication of Anabaptist origin or of banishment from Switzerland. They may have become Anabaptists through their wives. Herman Guth in Amish Mennonites in Germany.

[NI122] He became a citizen at Thun in 1621. Burger Buch #1 BAT 504 p109 Burgermeinde Thun

[NI129] J.C. Wenger "Glimpses of Mennonite History and Doctrine" page 103. Christian Ropp tells his history and how he immigrated as a 14 year old, having left Alsace in May of 1826. They traveled from Philadelphia to Lancaster where they joined some people heading for Canada. There traveling companions were John Erb, Christian Farni, Michael Swartz, and Zehr. It took them more than 3 weeks to make the journey. They settled in Waterloo township.

[NI133] LOREN E. MILLER
76 EAST 7570 SOUTH
MIDVALE UTAH 84047

This source gives the Marriage place as Mengeringhausen, Waldeck, Germany.

[NI136] http://www.gendex.com/~guest/geiser/hostetlr/d0139/g0000099.html#I69 This source gives wife as Anna_ no last name.

From Menno Hist library. He was orphaned at 3 or 4 years old and was "hired out" to Anabaptists. He became an Anabaptist, married an Anabaptist.

He settled in Spring township, Berks county.

[NI155] He was imprisoned in Schwarzneck, Switzerland and escaped in 1692. He then went to Alsace via Wittgenstein. (Guth p.116)

In 1698 he is mentioned as leaseholder with his grown son in Riedseltz. Then at Fleckenstein from 1708 to 1712 and then to Froensbourg.

[NI171] [9477] Gingerich-Kreider PH. Believed to be a sister of Christian Nisley(Rin 5853),
and of Magdalena Nisley, wife of Abraham King (Rin 4220.)
From family search genealogical records

[NI172] He was a bishop according to http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=lantz-b&id=I04029

[NI185] On the ship Francis and Elizabeth Sept 21, 1742 there is a Christian Jotter, Jacob Yoder and Christian Yoder. This is probably the Christian Yoder.

It is possible that he is not the father of Christian and Jacob.

[NI189] Indian John and his wife, Magdalena, are buried in a small family plot in Menno township, Mifflin County, near the back mountain above Belleville, PA. They are buried on the farm that they at one time owned.

Indian John came from Berks County, and it is thought that his father was the Peter Glick who arrived in America, September 15, 1748. - This has not been proved (Eldon).

John was born in Berks County, PA, during or shortly after the French and Indian War, 1754 - 1763. The Indians were fighting with the settlers. One day, when the settlement where John lived, was having church, the doors being locked, the Indians attacked! They broke down the door of the house, and beginning with the ministers, they massacred everyone in the house, including John's entire family; or so they thought, abut John's father had hidden him under one of the benches and told him to stay there. The Indians then set fire to the house; and while it burned, they danced and celebrated, outside. John had to escape from the burning building. the Indians saw him run from the burning building into the nearby woodland. He managed to find a hollow log and crawled into it to hide. The Indians, after hunting for him, sat on the very log and talked; and he was sure that they could here his heart beating and find him. However it grew dark and the Indians went away. Awhile later they went away, John crawled out of the hollow log and ran through the woods to another settlement, where a family who was childless raised him. This is one version of the story! Another version is that the Peter Glick family along with another family, were moving away from Berks County. The other family moved a day before the Glicks planned to move, and for some unknown reason they took little John along. the night after they moved, the Indians attacked and massacred little John's family! I have heard other versions as well, and knowing that for two hundred years the story was never put in writing, but orally passed from one generation to another, who today can claim to know all the facts concerning the massacre? It is not known how old little John was, but he knew his name and when asked how many children there were he would raise both hands and say "fiele, fiele!" The homeless and lonely orphan, John, finally found a home among the Amish in the Big Valley, Mifflin County, PA.

John died some time during year 1859. He was a very old man. John's wife Magdalena Miller, preceded him in death. His last will and testament is dated March 10th, 1858.

The above was copied from "Glicks in America" by Allen R. Glick, Mifflintown, PA.

[NI190] Magdalena Fisher Miller may be the wife of a different John Glick. John Glick was married to a Magdalena, may not this one. There are 2 John Glicks in the Gendex.

[NI196] On passenger list of Princess Augusta Hans Siber is listed, only possible Siever.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/imm13a.htm

[NI204] From Rotterdam,Netherlands to Philadelphia,Pennsylvania on Ship Francis & Elizabeth

[NI209] He had 12 children to Elizabeth Zug and then 4 to Veronica Yoder

John Kauffman, presumed to be his father immigrated on the ship Virtuous Grace to Philadelphia on Sept 24, 1737.

This contradicts his presumed immigration on Sept 30, 1754. There are several possibilities- He is not John Kauffman's son. He was left behind, perhaps with his mother. No women are on the list from the Virtuous Grace. Or the information about his immigration in 1754 is wrong. The information showing him as a 1754 immigrant comes from the Fisher Book and the work of Hugh Gingerich. More recent research seems to agree that he immigrated in 1737.

Jacob Kauffman, Christian Kauffman, Isaac Kauffman appear on a tax list in Bern Township, Berks County 1752. Also on this list are Zoogs and Yoders, possible relatives of Jacob Kauffman's wives. http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/bbern1.htm

There is a Carl Heinrich Jacob Kauffman listed on the ship "Brothers" on Sept 30, 1754. Is this the same Jacob Kauffman? With the tax list of 1752 above it is probably not.

[NI211] From Rotterdam,Netherlands to Philadelphia,Pennsylvania on Ship Virtuous Grace. Found ship list at http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/imm13e.htm. Lists Kauffman as Koffman. Three are listed Hans(24), Isaac(55), Isaac Jr.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/imm14c.htm
There is also a Hans Jacob Kauffman on the Charming Nancy of London that arrived Oct 8, 1737. On the same ship are Anna Maria Kauffman and Barbara Kauffman. This is probalbly not our ancestor Jacob Kauffman because the Amish only used one name. On the same list but listed as the original list is Hans Jacob Hauffman and no Hans Jacob Kauffman, probably an error. This proves that there were 2 Hans Kauffmans that arrived in Philadelphia in 1737.

See notes on his son Jacob and on his father Issac.

[NI212] From Rotterdam,Netherlands to Philadelphia,Pennsylvania on Ship Virtuous Grace. Found ship list at http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/imm13e.htm. Lists Kauffman as Koffman. Three are listed Hans, Isaac, Isaac Jr. Isaac is 55 years old on ship's list (1737).

Many Kauffmans (also spelled Coffman) came to America in the 1700s. If the introduction to the Kauffman-Coffman Lineage by Charles F. Kauffman is correct, the families were distantly related. Our Kauffman line in America begins with Isaac Kauffman and his wife Anna Streit, daughter of Hans Streit. They lived in Homberg, Switzerland until 1714 and then moved out of the country.

The court records in Switzerland show that Isaac’s father was also named Isaac Kauffman. He was an Anabaptist teacher and often in trouble with the law. He was banished from Switzerland for his teaching but sneaked back in a couple of times. On Nov. 15, 1715 Isaac’s mother died. Then his brothers, Jacob and Christian, and a brother-in-law Ruchti placed claims for their share of the estate and related that their brother Isaac had brought debt on the family, left the country and ought to be deprived of any part of the estate. (Kauffman Lineage page xvii.)

Isaac and Anna had three children christened in Switzerland, Hans, Sept 15, 1710; Barbara, April. 1, 1714 and Isaac May 29,1718 who was baptized at Aigle im Waahland im Rhontal near Genfersee. They lived in Germany a number of years before coming to Pennsylvania on Virtuous Grace arriving on Sept. 24, 1737. The ship list has Isaac Kauffman age 55, Hans Kauffman age 24 and Isaac Jr. age 19. The women and younger children were not listed. Only men over 16 signed the ship list. They were no doubt other children with perhaps a daughter or two between Isaac Jr. and Stephen. The following is an incomplete listing.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/kauffman/messages/262.html

[NI214] A Christian Zug is listed on the passenger list of the brigantine Catherine arrive Phila July 27, 1738. could be this one. Apparently not.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/imm14e.htm

three Zug brothers, Johannes, Christian and Moritz, arrived from Rotterdam, Holland in Philadelphia September 21, 1742 on the Ship Francis and Elizabeth.

[NI219] Dec 9, 2000 I am not able to find the source for Fisher's immigration in 1742. That is the date his wife immigrated and that may have led to an assumption that he also immigrated. However they were not married until 1749.

There is a Jacob Fisher listed on the list for the Adventure Galley in October of 1727. Christian would have been a minor at this time and would not be listed. This may be his father. A Jacob Fisher's death in Phila is recorded later in the 1700's. This Jacob was reformed (not Amish). this may well have been the Jacob Fisher of the Adventure Galley. If so it is not likely that he is Christian's father.

Also a source on Gendex list his immigration as 1750. No source given. Probably not correct since Magdalena Yoder immigrated in 1742 and they married about 1749.
There is a Christen Fischer on the Phoenix arriving Sept 15, 1749. Perhaps the marriage date is a little early. Several sources give a daughter Veronica born April 3, 1750. this would make it impossible for him to have arrived in Sept of 1749.

Ulrich Fisher is listed as his father in the Martin Genealogy, No sources are given.

[NI221] According to Union Hall Article by Dorothy Lapp, Moritz Zook settled in Whiteland
Township near the 25th milestone of the Lancaster Turnpike. Michael Lapp settled in East
Whiteland Twp. about 1765 (28 Years old). Michael and Mary's first child
(registered) was John, born 12/9/1764). The 1751 Assessment for Bern Township includes
Mickal Lobe (Lapp), and Molliz Zoog.

[NI222] http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/a/p/Steven-J-Lapp/GENE6-0002.html

This source gives Mary's last name as Zook. No indication is given of who Mary's parents are but Moritz Zook is also mentioned here as living in the same area. I have have not found a Mary among Moritz's children but several web sites have a unnamed daughter listed. This research was done by Steven Lapp of Hondo, Texas.

[NI228] He lost the 2 youngest of 8 children on the voyage to Philadelphia, and his wife died in Philadelphia. He himself died the following year.

[NI242] Her name is given as Holly Yost at http://www.gendex.com/~guest/geiser/hostetlr/d0092/g0000077.html#I7658

[NI244] He was probably not married to Barbara Gerber as noted here.

[NI245] Probably not the wife fo Christian Joder

[NI257] Isaac KAUFMANN - bap. Nov. 20, 1653, probably at Zullhalten, Switzerland. Son of Michael KAUFMANN and Anna BRENDLI. He became a Mennonite teacher by 1680, and was constantly on the move to avoid arrest. In 1694 he was said to be living in some Alp pasture near Schangnau; in 1699 he was a Mennonite teacher of Homberg, District of Thun, and was sent to Berne, where the authorities desired to banish him to Amsterdam for deportation to the East Indies; in 1700 he had returned to Berne, and was again hunted; he was at Steffisburg in 1701; and in 1709 he was still being pursued by the authorities, now at Grindelwald, Canton or Berne. Married Feb. 18, 1676.

This is from the Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia on line.

He also signed the letter from Jacob Amann to Reist asking for forgiveness. Letter dated 2/17/1700

[NI259] Michael KAUFMANN - bap. Oct. 1, 1620, Steffisberg, Thurnen Parish, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Son of Niklaus KAUFMANN and Elsi BLANK. Lived at Zullhalten, east of Steffisburg and adjacent to Homberg. Married on Oct. 2, 1646, Steffisberg, Thurnen Parish, Canton Bern, Switzerland.
http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/ruchty.htm#JKaufmann

[NI265] Jacob KAUFMANN - Probably the son of Jacob, as his great grandson is said to have been the fifth having the name Jacob.
Church records indicate he was from Schopfen in the vicinity of Basel, Switzerland. He appears on the 1613-1614 muster roll of Thun, in Steffisburg Parish. Married first by 1580 Christini RABER, who was the mother of three children, and died by 1584. Jacob married second May 11, 1584 in Steffisburg Parish. Either he or his son married Verena BARB on Dec. 13, 1613.

http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/ruchty.htm#JKaufmann

[NI266] Anni BRUCKI - Recorded as being "of Trimstein," which is in Munsingen Parish, just north of Steffisburg.

http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/ruchty.htm#JKaufmann

[NI279] Professor Don Yoder, who has done considerable research in Steffisburg, said that most of the Anabaptist Joders seen to have come from two families--that of Jost, born 1607 and his brother Nicholas, 1609, who on the same day (October 14, 1642) married cousins of the same name (Anna Trachael).

[NI285] According to the Yoder newsletter list (Issue 2) his wife is Anna Jost.

[NI293] On a 1384 tax register for the small village of Huttwil, Ulli Joder and his son, Heini Joder, are recorded as the highest taxed families. According to various Gaman knights' records, Elsi Zaugg, daughter of
Blacksmith Peter Zaugg of Sumiswald, gave a large tract from her estate to the Gaman knights. Because of an unusually hard plague that probably caused the death of several of Ulli's and Elsi's children, tradition states that this gift of land may have been a token of gratitude for sparing one of her children.

Ulli's and Elsi's only known son, Heini Joder, moved about 1385 to Steffisburg, Switzerland.

[NI295] On a 1384 tax register for the small village of Huttwil, Ulli Joder and his son, Heini Joder, are recorded as the highest taxed families. According to various Gaman knights' records, Elsi Zaugg, daughter of
Blacksmith Peter Zaugg of Sumiswald, gave a large tract from her estate to the Gaman knights. Because of an unusually hard plague that probably caused the death of several of Ulli's and Elsi's children, tradition
states that this gift of land may have been a token of gratitude for sparing one of her children.

Ulli's and Elsi's only known son, Heini Joder, moved about 1385 to Steffisburg, Switzerland.

Taken from Yoder Newsletter Issue 2

[NI360] according to "http://www.gendex.com/~guest/geiser/kidron/d0189/g0000070.html#I110026" it was Martin's older brother Hans married to Elsbeth Buser who was the father of Henry. They also say that Barbara's last name was Chammen. They have no children listed for Martin

[NI368] On passenger list of Princess Augusta Hans Siber is listed, only possible Siever.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~GENHOME/imm13a.htm

[NI375] This may be the father of a different John Glick. see Gendex

[NI379] Gerber name is not certain

[NI380] He was called an Anabaptist of Graht when his daughter was baptized in1657. He was not called an Anabaptist at the baptisms of his children in 1654 and 1659. His second marriage has not been found in Signau or the surrounding areas which may indicate an Anabaptist marriage. He was called the Anabaptist Hans Zug of Signau when he was in prison at Bern on 10-24-1659. He was to be exiled on 9-6-1660 to Holland , but was not. He was called a tauffer of Graht when he baptized his son Peter at Signau in 1661. At the time of the baptism in 1661, Daniel Schenk is mentioned as the custodian of the wife, which probably means Hans was out of the country or hiding out. He was again in jail in Bern in 1662 and taken away. He and his follow prisoners were back in Switz. by 9-20-1663 and were ordered recaptured. His fate is unknown but in 1693 there was a Hans Zug who lived in the Emmenthal Valley who was an Anabaptist leader.
http://www.gendex.com/~guest/geiser/kidron/d0042/g0000078.html#I334849

[NI386] according to http://www.goshen.edu/~adammt/d0000/g0000065.html#I742" he is shown as Baltahsar's father. dates do line up for him.

He is not listed in the Yoder newsletter list in issue 2.

[NI390] death certificate obtained by John Nafziger in France gives death date and age of 73. It also lists her husband as Jean Kassa or Kasser.

[NI449] From Rotterdam,Netherlands to Philadelphia,Pennsylvania on Ship Francis & Elizabeth
On the ship Francis and Elizabeth Sept 21, 1742 there is a Christian Jotter, Jacob Yoder and Christian Yoder. This is probably the Jacob Yoder, although this would seem to contradict the statement that he died at sea. He also has a brother Christian and his father is Christian.

On this same ship the Zug brothers Moritz, John and Christian arrived in Phila.

[NS17511] Some of the information came from the book Jantzi genealogy with Lorraine Roth as a major contributor.

[NS17513] Internet

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