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Name: John MUSSER
Sex: M
Birth: 15 Nov 1753 in Lancaster Twp, Lancater Co, Pennsylvania ^b
Death: 30 Jun 1828 in Somerset Co, Pennsylvania ^d

Parents:

Father:
Peter MUSSER Birth: Abt 1730 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: Dec 1759 in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

Mother:

Anna (MUSSER)

Family:
Marriage:

Barbara KREIDER .^m1
Barbara KREIDER Birth: 18 Dec 1751 Death: 15 Jan 1833

Children:

Anne MUSSER Birth: 1774 in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 30 Sep 1858 in Coitsville, Ohio
Tobias MUSSER Birth: 22 Dec 1776 in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 14 May 1859
Elizabeth MUSSER Birth: 25 Aug 1778 in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 16 Apr 1817 in Stoneycreek Twp, Somerset Co, Pennsylvania
Peter MUSSER Birth: 17 Apr 1780 in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 3 Oct 1865
Henry MUSSER Birth: 30 Sep 1783 in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 9 Sep 1874
Susanna MUSSER Birth: 8 Jul 1785 in Somerset Co, Pennsylvania Death: 18 Apr 1818
Mary MUSSER Birth: 19 Jul 1787 in Somerset Co, Pennsylvania Death: 2 Jan 1868
Abraham MUSSER Birth: 1 Jan 1790 in Stoney Creek Twp, Somerset Co, Pennsylvania Death: 21 Mar 1874

Bibliography

Davis, Richard Warren, Emigrants Refugees and Prisoners, Vol I. Provo, UT: author, 1995. LMHS Ref E184.M45.D3 1995 v1. LDS Film#1573238#15. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007956425 images 739-959. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis Emigrants v1p[0-9]*].
Lancaster County Pennsylvania Register of Wills, Wills, 1730-1908, SLC: GeneSocUT, 1947. Will Book 1B 1730-1773, LDS Film#0021354#3. Lancaster County Court House, Office of Records and Archives, 50 N Duke St, Lancaster, PA. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/005534200 image 351. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills B-270].
Landis, Ira D, Early Lancaster County Mennonite Mussers, in Mennonite Research Journal vol 17 No 2, Apr 1976. LMHS. Available (for purchase) at https://www.lmhs.org/research/lmhs-publications/research-journal/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p[0-9]*].
Musser, Edgar A, John Musser's Plantation in Southeast Lancaster, in Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol 83, no 3, Trinity 1979. LMHS. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p[0-9]*].
Musser, Edgar A, Musser Genealogy. Lancaster, PA: author, 1980. LMHS CS71.M9892 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p.*].
Recker, Charles, People of the Marsh, Newsletter of the Musser Family 1972-75. Grenada Hills, CA: author, 1972-5. NYPL APV (Moser) 87-2041. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh [IVX]*#[0-9]p[0-9]].
Weber, Richard R, Jacob Stoner and the Seven Siblings, in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Jan 1998. LMHS. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weber STONER p[0-9]*].
Wenger, Samuel S, The Wenger Book, Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania German Heritage, 1978. NYPL APV (Wenger) 86-601. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14, MusserEA MUSSER p20]; 1753 [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p183, Recker PeopleMarsh II#4p1, Recker PeopleMarsh III#4p3, WengerSS WENGER p1087]; minor in 1759 [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills B-270],
place:: [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p20],
parents:: Peter MUSSER & Anna HOSTETTER? [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14]; Peter MUSSER & Anna ___ [Ref: Davis Emigrants v1p261, LancasterCoPA Wills B-270, Musser MusserPlantation p183, MusserEA MUSSER p20, Recker PeopleMarsh I#9p1, Recker PeopleMarsh III#4p3, WengerSS WENGER p1087],
father:: [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#4p1]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14, MusserEA MUSSER p23]; 1828 [Ref: Musser MusserPlantation p183, Recker PeopleMarsh II#4p1, Recker PeopleMarsh III#4p3, WengerSS WENGER p1087],
place:: [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#4p3]

Sources with Information about marriage to Barbara KREIDER

names:: [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p14, MusserEA MUSSER p20, Recker PeopleMarsh I#9p1, WengerSS WENGER p1087],
child:: [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p23, Recker PeopleMarsh III#4p3, Weber STONER p29]

Research Notes:
1784: moved to the "Round Meadow" farm in Somerset [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#4p3]

moved to Somerset County, PA [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh I#9p1]

served in Revolutionary War [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#4p1]

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

Descendants of John MUSSER

1. John MUSSER m. Barbara KREIDER

m. Barbara KREIDER father: Tobias KREIDER mother: Anlea BUCKWALTER

2+ Anne MUSSER m. Isaac KIMMEL

3+ Tobias MUSSER m. Susanna CRONER

4+ Elizabeth MUSSER m. Jacob STONER

5 Peter MUSSER

6+ Henry MUSSER m. Suanna FAUST

7+ Susanna MUSSER m. Christian MILLER

8+ Mary MUSSER m. Jacob GOOD

9+ Abraham MUSSER m. Veronica CABLE

2nd generation

2. Anne MUSSER m. Isaac KIMMEL