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- {geni:about_me} Came from Switzerland on the Francis and Elizabeth Sept. 21, 1742 with nine children
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[ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55838865/barbara-yoder]
"Jacob" and his wife Barbara sailed on the ship "Francis & Elizabeth," along with their four sons and five daughters to America. They traveled from Rotterdam, by way of Deal, to Philadelphia, arriving September 21, 1742. George North captained the ship. It is not certain why or how, but Jacob died enroute, and Barbara, along with her two grown sons, Christian and Jacob, were left in charge of the family once they reached America.
"Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia," by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, edited by William John Hinke, Vol. I, pages 327-330, published by Genealogical Publishing Company.
Further corroborating evidence of the family's immigration is contained in "A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776," by Prof. I. Daniel Rupp, Reprint of the Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1980.
Barbara died about 1751 and it has been surmised that she was buried in "Old Bishop Hertzler's cemetery in what is now Tilden Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. (Yoder Newsletter, Issue #2 (yodernewsletter.org)).
--Submitted by Dawn Needles
6th great-granddaughter of "Jacob" and & Barbara Yoder
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55838865/barbara-yoder
"Jacob" and his wife Barbara sailed on the ship "Francis & Elizabeth," along with their four sons and five daughters to America. They traveled from Rotterdam, by way of Deal, to Philadelphia, arriving September 21, 1742. George North captained the ship. It is not certain why or how, but Jacob died enroute, and Barbara, along with her two grown sons, Christian and Jacob, were left in charge of the family once they reached America.
"Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia," by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, edited by William John Hinke, Vol. I, pages 327-330, published by Genealogical Publishing Company.
Further corroborating evidence of the family's immigration is contained in "A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776," by Prof. I. Daniel Rupp, Reprint of the Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1980.
Barbara died about 1751 and it has been surmised that she was buried in "Old Bishop Hertzler's cemetery in what is now Tilden Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. (Yoder Newsletter, Issue #2 (yodernewsletter.org)).
--Submitted by Dawn Needles
6th great-granddaughter of "Jacob" and & Barbara Yoder[[]]
- Known as "widow Rupp" before her marriage to Jacob Yoder.
- REFN: 1367
Yoder Newsletter Online
Issue Number 30 - - - October 1997
http://www.genealogy.org/~yoder/YNL/vol30.html
Hamburg Christian Yoder (Article by Rachel Kreider and Chris Yoder)
For years the story was handed down that one Barbara Yoder, whose husband died at sea, landed in America some time before 1720, with nine small children-- eight sons and a daughter--and that they settled in the Oley Valley, where sons Hans and Yost became well-known. Eventually an alert descendant publicized a discrepancy in the story and family historians began to chip away at this garbled mixing of two lines of Yoder immigrants.
Although there has never been any documentation available about the
"Widow Barbara", it is agreed that she did exist. We know that "Widow
Barbara" arrived notprior to 1720, but on September 21, 1742, on the
Francis and Elizabeth. Three Yoder men signed the ship list upon their
docking in Philadelphia. Through the efforts of Dr. Hugh Gingerich, we
now know there were eight Amish Yoder men of the first generation, and we know that two of these 1742 signatories (Jacob and Christian Joder) were sons of "Widow Barbara" . We now know that Barbaradid indeed have nine children (see YNL 2, Oct. 83), but only four of those sons were hers. The other four belonged to the other Yoder family aboard ship. This second Yoder family was once said to have been that of "Strong Jacob" Yoder, but now we know the head of the second family was the Christian Jotter on the ship list . For some reason a clerk wrote Jacob's name for him and it appears directly above that of his older brother, who wrote his name Christian Joder (SeeYNL 20). It is interesting to see this mix of spelling---Joder, the spelling used by their Swiss forebears, and Jotter, a spelling adopted by some of the family in Alsace and also in Eppstein, Germany (YNL 10). The older Christian Jotter located in Berks County on land situated where the present day townships of Upper Bern, Center, and Penn come together,
but Barbara's family settled closer to the village of Hamburg, which is
no doubt the reason that her son was known as "Hamburg Christian" to
distinguish him from the others. As these sons became of age they took
farms of their own, Christian "on the twenty-ninth day of the eighth
month, 1743" and Jacob on October 28, 1747. One old diagram in the
archives at Harrisburg shows Christian's land bounded by the farms of
Isaac Kauffman, Stephen Kauffman, Hans Hertzler and vacant land. Soon
afterward the map shows that the farms of his brother Jacob, and
Christian Fisher (apparently a brother-in-law), adjoining his. The
Hertzler property was now inthe name of Jacob Hertzler.
By 1767 Jacob Yoder was living farther south, inLancaster County, but as far as we know, Christian stayed on his original farmas long as he
lived.
Hamburg Christian's wife was named Barbara. Dr. Gingerich felt it was
probable that Barbara was the daughter of Jacob Beiler and that her
sister married his brother Jacob Yoder. There is no proof of this, but it seems possible given the known connections and proximity of the families.
Christian and Barbara reared eleven children in this home, but as time
wenton most of them left the community. The chief reason was probably
the lure of more and cheaper land, but the tensions of the American
Revolution no doubtexerted an influence as well.
"Hamburg Christian" died in his fifties (probably in 1772, although some records say 1771). His will was dated December 10, 1771. The scribe wrote it out in beautiful English script. From the details in this will, in which Christian reflected his concern that his beloved Barbara be well-cared for after his death, we can get a glimpse of how the pioneers in his time were living.
- A son Peter, b. 2 Aug 1685; m. Barbara Gerber.
- A son Peter, b. 2 Aug 1685; m. Barbara Gerber.
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1698 - 1742 (43 years)
