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• Name: Jacob MUSSER
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1728 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: Dec 1755 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^d
• Burial: Jacob Musser Family Cemetery, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John MUSSER Birth: 1695 in Ittlingen, Germany Death: Apr 1752 in Lancaster Borough, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Veronica (MUSSER) Death: Before 1752

Family:
Marriage:

• Maria HERSHEY on 1747 .^m1
  
• Maria HERSHEY Death: 1780

Children:

1. John MUSSER Birth: 6 Feb 1748 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: Dec 1804
2. Benjamin MUSSER Birth: 13 Jun 1749 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 25 Nov 1820 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
3. Anna MUSSER Birth: 18 Aug 1751 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 8 May 1823 in Hespeler, Waterloo Co, Ontario, Canada
4. Jacob MUSSER Birth: 20 Apr 1753 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1784 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
5. Maria MUSSER Birth: 26 Jan 1755 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

1728 [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p183, WengerSS WENGER p1087]

abt 1720 [Ref: Davis Emigrants v1p261]

abt 1728 [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14, MusserEA MUSSER p11],

place:

[Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p162, Stoltzfus WANNER p183],

parents:

Hans MUSSER & Frony ___ [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14]

Hans MUSSER & Veronica ___ [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p162]

John MUSSER & Veronica ___ [Ref: Mott MUSSER p151, MusserEA MUSSER p11, Recker PeopleMarsh I#9p1, Stoltzfus WANNER p183, WengerSS WENGER p1087],

father:

[Ref: Brackbill Conestoga p40, Davis Emigrants v1p261, LancasterCoPA Deeds TT-486, LancasterCoPA Wills 2X-126]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14]

1755 [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p11, Sider MARTIN p37, Stoltzfus WANNER p183]

1756 [Ref: Brackbill Conestoga p40, Davis Emigrants v1p261],

place:

[Ref: LancasterCoPA Deeds TT-486, Sider MARTIN p37]

Lancaster Co Pennsylvania [Ref: Stoltzfus WANNER p183]

Lancaster Twp [Ref: Davis Emigrants v1p261]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

1766 [Ref: Mott MUSSER p151]

1855 [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p1087],

place:

Hanover Twp, Pennsylvania [Ref: Mott MUSSER p151]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p12, Stoltzfus WANNER p183]

Sources with Information about marriage to Maria HERSHEY

date:

[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p11, Sider MARTIN p36, Stoltzfus WANNER p183]

first marriage of Jacob [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p1087]

first marriage of Maria [Ref: Davis Emigrants v1p210, Mason HERSHEY p10],

names:

[Ref: Mott MUSSER p151]

Jacob MUSSER & Mary ___ [Ref: Davis Emigrants v1p261],

child:

[Ref: Davis Emigrants v1p261, Kriebel MUSSER p395, Landis EarlyMussers p14, Musser MusserPlantation p183, MusserEA MUSSER p12, MusserEA MUSSER p14, MusserEA MUSSER p16, Sider MARTIN p37, Stoltzfus WANNER p183, Stoltzfus WANNER p20, Stoltzfus WANNER p25, WengerSS WENGER p1087]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

names:

Jacob MUSSER & Elizabeth HERSHEY dau of Benjamin famed Mennonite bishop [Ref: Brackbill Conestoga p40],

children:

(of Jacob and Mary Hersey, but Jacob d 1766 Hanover Twp PA) Catherine m. Capt Thomas Copenhaver, Rachel m. Adam Gutman, Elizabeth, Jacob, Eva, Christine [Ref: Mott MUSSER p151]

Research Notes:
1752: received a deed for 167 acres of land in Manor Twp from father (who has purchased it 8 years earlier) [Ref: Sider MARTIN p37]

1752: received his father's land in Manor Twp [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p183, Recker PeopleMarsh I#9p1]

inherited his father's 167-acre tract of land in Manor Twp, Deed U-493 [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p183]

1752: purchased the home on Turkey Hill, Manor Twp [Ref: Eshleman RiverBrethren p208]

will dated Dec 1754 [Ref: Sider MARTIN p36]

recorded with children John, Benjamin, Jacob, and Ann, in deed TT-486 [Ref: LMHS Cardfile MUSSER Jacob, LancasterCoPA Deeds TT-486]

will dated 27 Dec 1754, pro 13 Dec 1756. mentions wife Mary (her second marriage); son John; son Benjamin; Executors brother Peter and brother-in-law Jacob Hostetter [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills 2Y-448]

will dated 1756, mentions sons John, Benjamin, and wife Mary [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh I#9p1]

Jacob Hostetter has been identified as Jacob's brother-in-law [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh I#9p1]

claimed to have m(2) ___ (MELLINGER), widow of Benedict, and died 1855 [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p1087]

will pro 13 Dec 1756 [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills B-150]

------ Lancaster County PA Wills B-150, pro 13 Dec 1756:
The Last Will and Testament of Jacob Mofser deceased being wrote in the German language could not be recorded but thereon is indorsed as follows viz,
Lancaster County SS. December the 13th Before me the Subscriber came Benjamin Hershy, Christian Marti and Abraham Hostetter the Witnesses to the foregoing Will and on their Solemn Affirmations according to Law did declare and say that they were present and saw and heard Jacob Mosser the Testator above named Sign Seal publish pronounce and declare the foregoing Writing as and for his last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of sound and disposing Mind Memory and Understanding to the best of their Knowledge Observation and Belief. Edward Shippen.
Be it Remembered that on the 13th day of December 1756 The last Will and Testament of Jacob Mosser deceased was proved in due form of Law and probate and Letters Testamentary were granted to Jacob Hostetter and Peter Mosser the Executors in the said Testament named they being first duly Qualified well and truly to Administer the said Decedents Estate and to bring an Inventory thereof into the Registers Office at Lancaster on or before the thirteenth Day of January next and also to render a true and just Account of their said Administration when thereto lawfully required. Given under the seal of the said Office, Edward Shippen, Dep Register. [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills B-150]

Will dated 27 Dec 1754, pro 13 Dec 1756, translated from German and recorded in Lancaster County Court House in Book Y-2 p448 (note confusion regarding X-2 and Y-2 -- when these books were photocopied the covers were put on the wrong books, so indexes based on the original filings are wrong when compared to the County Courthouse):
Whereas the Lord God have appointed for all men once to dye and I Jacob Mosser being very sick and weak of Body But of perfect mind memory and understanding Thanks be given unto God therefore and if the Lord should call from this world I praying out Grace for an everlasting Life and make and ordain this my Last will and Testament how it shall bedin(?) with all my estate and with my wife and children after my decease in the following manner and form. First it is my will and I do order that after my decease all my just debts and funeral charges shall be paid and satisfied. Item it is my will and I do order that my beloved wife Mary Musser shall have after my decease all and singular what she brought to me and shall be paid to her as Reasonable and shall be all her own again. Further it is my will and order that my wife shall have in forehand for the time she kept house with me from just what use again together the sum of eighty five pounds and she shall sleep in the place as long as she remains a widow and to bring up the children in the Laws of God and to do with the Plantation how she pleases as long as she remains a widow and the children shall have no power to Master or Humble her and the Children shall be brought up and clothed and be sent to school from my estate and Plantation. Further it is my will and order that all my Estate shall be equally divided among all my Children share alike and that my son John Musser shall have no more than one other child but it should be equally divided in share and share alike. Item it is my will and I order that my land and Plantation shall be divided in two equal parts one part as much as the other at the time when my two sons John Musser and Benjamin Musser being of age and shall be given to them if they be just and obediently but if they be unobedient Riotious or one wills slanders unjust and the Church unobedient that then my appointed executors which I appointed for my Children shall have full power from me to give the same to the others of their sisters and the land shall be valued the same time from the Executors and other trusted men as reasonable but the others which have no land of me not fall too Runt(?) and they shall after the valueing be all alike heirs. Item I give to the appointed Executors Full Power to give to Children in my name Good and lawful Deeds which shall be as good and lawful as if I myself had signed and delivered the same to this and all my estate. I constitute make and appoint Executor my Brother-in-Law Jacob Hostetter and my brother Peter Musser and if one of them should die then it shall be ordered another in his place and it shall be given to them full power as above mentioned. Item it is my will that when the Land and Plantation will be given to the Children that the Mother shall have and to hold the widowhood in my house to her will and when she please in the stove room Bath(?) room Kitchen cellar and Loft and stable and garlira(?) and fruit of the orchard as much she pleases and she shall according the English Law have the third part of the rent from the Land during her life or will have the same and no child shall have Power to command her. Item I give to the poor the sum of Ten pounds and the Executor shall take care that the land and the timber not will be split. Further is my desire of the Executors that whereas my children yet young and if they should come up and would be unobedient against her that they shall help her to keep them in the Fear and Sobriety and reiusle(?) and doctrine and to keep them from such. To this my Testament I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 27th day of December Anno Do 1754. Jacob Musser.
Teste Benjamin Hershey, Christian Marte, Abraham Hostetter.
Lancaster County SS. December 13th 1756. Before me the subscriber came Benjamin Hershey Christian Marti and Abraham Hostetter witnesses to the foregoing will and on their solemn affirmation according to law did declare and say that they were present and saw and heard Jacob Musser the Testator above named sign seal publish pronounce and declare the foregoing writing as and for his last will and testament and that at the time thereof he was of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and belief. Edward Shippen, D.R. [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills 2Y-448]



Pedigree of Jacob MUSSER
                                              /-----Ulrich MOSER
                                     /-----Galante MOSER
                            /-----Peter MOSER
                           |         \-----Dori HUNDSPERGER
                   /-----Peter MOSER
                  |         \-----Elsbeth LONGENEGGER
          /-----Peter MOSER
         |        |         /-----Christian TOMI
         |         \-----Elsbeth TOMI
         |                  \-----Elsbeth HOFER
 /-----John MUSSER
Jacob MUSSER
 \-----Veronica (MUSSER)



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