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• Name: Martin MUSSER
• Sex: M
• Birth: 11 Nov 1736 ^b
• Death: 11 Dec 1806 in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^d
• Burial: Family Cemetery ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Joseph MOSSER Birth: 1693 in Illtingen, Germany Death: 1761 in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Veronica FUNK Birth: Abt 1702 in Ittlingen, Germany Death: After 1730

Family:
Marriage:

• Maria (MUSSER) .^m1
  
• Maria (MUSSER) Birth: 5 Jun 1746 Death: 12 Oct 1828

Children:

1. Esther MUSSER
2. Barbara MUSSER
3. Peter MUSSER
4. Elizabeth MUSSER Birth: 1767 Death: 1804
5. Mary MUSSER Birth: 22 Jun 1772 Death: 20 Oct 1851

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p108, MusserEA MUSSER p117]

1736 [Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p22, WengerSS WENGER p1089],

parents:

[Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p22, MusserEA MUSSER p108, MusserEA MUSSER p117, Recker PeopleMarsh III#2p3, WengerSS WENGER p1089],

brother:

Peter MUSSER [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills J-201]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Landis EarlyMussers p22]

11 Dec 1808 [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p108, MusserEA MUSSER p117]

1808 [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#2p3]

abt 1806 [Ref: WengerSS WENGER p1089]

before 5 Dec 1807 [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p151],

place:

[Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p151, LancasterCoPA Wills J-201]

Sources for burial Information

place:

family cemetery, moved to Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery in 1922 [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p117]

Sources with Information about marriage to Maria (MUSSER)

names:

Martin MUSSER & Maria ___ [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p151, LancasterCoPA Wills J-201, Landis EarlyMussers p22, MusserEA MUSSER p108, MusserEA MUSSER p117, WengerSS WENGER p1089],

child:

[Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p151, Landis EarlyMussers p22, MusserEA MUSSER p108, MusserEA MUSSER p117, WengerSS WENGER p1089]

Research Notes:
1771: taxed on 132 acres of land in Lampeter Twp [Ref: Musser Reunion1927 p9]

1790: living in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. Two males over age 16, one female [Ref: 1790 PA Lancaster Lampeter 10]

1790: living in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, PA [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#2p3]

1800: living in Lampeter Twp, Lancaster Co, PA [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#2p3]

will dated 8 Sep 1802, pro 5 Dec 1807, mentions wife Mary, children Elizabeth wife of John Landis, Peter, Mary wife of Joseph Buckwalter, Esther wife of Joseph Yordy, and Barbara. Executors Joseph and Henry Buckwalter. Lampeter Twp [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p151, LancasterCoPA Wills J-201]

----- Lancaster County PA Wills J-201, dated 8 Sep 1802, pro 5 Dec 1807:
In the name of God Amen. I Martin Musser of the township of Lampiter in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, yeoman, being of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner following, to wit, I Recommend my soul to God and my body to the earth to be decently interred as my executors shall direct, in humble hope of a glorious resurrection and an happy admission into the regions of immortal bliss and glory, in and through the merits of my mediator and redeemer Jesus Christ. And as to such worldly estate wheretowith God hath blessed me, I do give devise and dispose of the same in manner following, to wit, Imprimis It is my will and I do order and direct that my just debts and funeral expenses be paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently may be done after my decease. Item I do give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary the sum of three hundred pounds, in specie, of gold or silver coin, to be paid her out of my personal estate in one month after my decease and also one horse or mare, and one milk cow, allowing her the choice among those which I shall die possessed of. And I do further give and bequeath unto my said wife Mary all my household stuff and kitchen furniture. And it is my will and I do hereby order and direct that my said wife Mary shall and may have the use of and liberty and privilege to live and reside in possess and enjoy this my dwelling house, wherein we now reside, with the kitchen and cellar belonging to and under the same dwelling house (which shall be kept up under good and sufficient roof by the possessor or the plantation whereon I now reside) together with the use and benefit of the one fourth part of the garden near the said dwelling house, for an during the term of her natural life. And further It is my will and I do hereby order and direct that my son in law John Landis who was the husband of my daughter Elizabeth deceased do and shall find and provide for my said wife Mary and deliver to her yearly and every year during the term of her natural life twelve bushels of good clean wheat, five bushels of good clean rye, ten bushels of good clean Indian corn, eighty pounds of good beef, one good fat hog, weighing no less than one hundred and fifty pounds, one half bushel of fine salt, one bushel of coarse salt, ten gallons of good rye whiskey, two barrels of good cider, and as many apples and as much fruit (if the orchard and trees on this my plantation product any) as she may want for her own use, twenty pounds of good heckled hemp, and fifteen pounds of good heckled flax, with the tow thereof, six pounds of good clean wool, and as many fowls and eggs as she may want for her own use. And likewise that the said John Landis shall find, provide and deliver to my said wife at her door good and sufficient firewood, ready cut and fit for her use during the term aforesaid, and shall also during the said term keep in good and sufficient fodder hay pasture and stable one horse or mare and one cow for the benefit of my said wife, and shall likewise from time to time when and as often as occasion shall require during the term aforesaid take or carry the grain for my said wife to such of the neighboring mills as she shall direct to be ground or made into meal, and bring the meal and offal home to her again without delay. Which said legacies bequests allowances and privileges to my said wife are and are hereby declared to be and shall be deemed and taken for and in lieu and in full satisfaction of and for her dower or thirds at common law, and all claims and demands whatsoever of in to and out of my estate. Item I do give devise and bequeath unto my said son in law John Landis and to his heirs and assigns all this my plantation and tract of land whereon I now reside, situate and being in the township of Lampiter in the County of Lancaster aforesaid, adjoining Conestogoe creek and bounded by the several lands of Andrew Groff, Christian Hartman and my brother Peter Musser, containing one hundred and forty acres, be the same more or less, Together with the buildings improvements and appurtenances thereon and thereunto belonging or appertaining, To hold to him the said John Landis, his heirs and assigns, under and subject to the privileges and liberties herein before given to my said wife Mary, and to the provision of the sundry necessaries for my said wife, during the term of her natural life, to be found provided and delivered by him or them to her in quantity and quality as herein before mentioned and directed. And I do value and charge the same premises to the said John Landis at and for the sum of two thousand and one hundred pounds in specie of gold or silver coin. And as the said John Landis hath heretofore paid unto me the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds on account and in part of the said valuation or sum of two thousand one hundred pounds (the receipt and payment of which said sum of three hundred and fifty pounds I do hereby acknowledge) I do therefore direct and appoint the residue or remainder of the said valuation money to wit, the sum one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds in specie of gold or silver coin to be paid by the said John Landis his heirs executors administrators or assigns by installments in yearly payments of one hundred pounds each, yearly and every year hereafter until the same be fully paid and discharged. Item As to all the rest residue and remainder of my estate real and personal not herein before particularly given or bequeathed (including the said sum of one thousand and seven hundred and fifty pounds residue of the valuation of my plantation and tract of land herein before given and devised unto the said John Landis or so much or such part of the said sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds as shall be or remain behind and unpaid to me in my lifetime and at the time of my decease) I do give devise and bequeath the same unto my three daughters, to wit, Mary the wife of Joseph Buckwalter, Esther the wife of Joseph Yordy, and Barbara Musser, share and share alike, that is to say, one equal third part thereof I do give devise and bequeath unto my said daughter Mary, her heirs executors administrators and assigns forever, One other equal third part thereof I do give devise and bequeath unto my said daughter Esther, her heirs executors administrators and assigns forever, and the other equal third part thereof I do give devise and bequeath unto my said daughter Barbara, her heirs executors administrators and assigns forever. Respect being had to the sums and articles which my said daughters or some of them have severally had and received from me in my lifetime and to the charges which I have entered or made against them respectively for the same. And lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my son in law Joseph Buchwalter and my trusty friend Henry Buchwalter, both of the said township of Lampiter, and the survivor of them executors and executor of this my last will and testament. Herby revoking all former and other will or wills testament or testaments by me made and declaring this and none other to be and contain my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the eighth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two. Martin Moser.
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the testator Martin Musser as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us, who in his presence and at his request have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto. It being wrote in five pages or sides of paper. John Messenkoh, William Buasman, Philip Gloninger.
Lancaster County SS. On the fifth day of December anno domini 1807 Before me the Subscribe personally appeared John Messencope, William Bausman and Philip Gloninger, the three subscribing witnesses to the within will, the said John Messencope upon his corporal oath and the said William Bausman and Philip Gloninger upon their solemn affirmations according to law did depose declare and say that they were present and saw and heard Martin Musser the testator therein named sign seal publish pronounce and declare the within instrument in writing as and for his last will and testament and that at the doing thereof he was of sound and well disposing mind, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and belief. G Ross, Regr.
Be it Remembered that on the fifth day of December anno domini 1807 The last will and testament of Martin Musser, late of Lampiter township in the County of Lancaster deceased was proved in due form of law, and letters testamentary thereon were granted to Joseph Buchwalter one of the executors therein named (Henry Buchwalter, the other executor therein also named being dead), he having first been duly qualified well and truly to administer the estate of the said deceased especially to exhibit a true and perfect inventory thereof into the Registers Office at Lancaster within one month from this date, and to render a true and just account of his executorship on said estate in one year or when thereto lawfully required. Given under the Seal of said Office, G Ross, Regr. [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills J-201]



Pedigree of Martin MUSSER
                                              /-----Ulrich MOSER
                                     /-----Galante MOSER
                            /-----Peter MOSER
                           |         \-----Dori HUNDSPERGER
                   /-----Peter MOSER
                  |         \-----Elsbeth LONGENEGGER
          /-----Peter MOSER
         |        |         /-----Christian TOMI
         |         \-----Elsbeth TOMI
         |                  \-----Elsbeth HOFER
 /-----Joseph MOSSER
Martin MUSSER
|                           /-----Jacob FUNK
|                  /-----Heini FUNK
|                 |         \-----Anna NAF
|         /-----Heinrich FUNK
|        |        |                  /-----Jacob MEILI
|        |        |         /-----Hans MEILI
|        |         \-----Katherine MEILI
|        |                  \-----Elsbeth HOCHSTRASSER
 \-----Veronica FUNK
          \-----Veronica (FUNK)



Descendants of Martin MUSSER