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• Name: George MUSSER
• Sex: M
• Birth: 27 Mar 1741 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 17 Jul 1806 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John Paul MUSSER Birth: 26 Mar 1697 in Rosenthal, Alsace Death: 1780
Mother:

• Maria Barbara CASSEL Birth: 1 May 1702 in Rosenthal, Alsace

Family:
Marriage:

• Mary Christianna YOUNG on 16 Jul 1765 at Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania .^m1
  
• Mary Christianna YOUNG Death: Before 4 Apr 1828 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

Children:

1. Rebecca MUSSER Birth: 25 Aug 1766
2. John MUSSER Birth: 25 Sep 1768
3. Ann Maria MUSSER Birth: 8 Apr 1771 Death: 20 Jan 1827
4. Elizabeth MUSSER Birth: 29 Mar 1773
5. Salome MUSSER Birth: 9 Jul 1774 Death: 20 Oct 1854
6. John MUSSER Birth: 10 May 1776
7. George MUSSER Birth: 11 Jul 1777 Death: 26 May 1868
8. Jacob MUSSER Birth: 16 Oct 1779
9. Catherine MUSSER Birth: 30 Jan 1781 Death: 26 Jul 1868
10. Jacob MUSSER Birth: 30 May 1783
11. Matthias MUSSER Birth: 2 Apr 1785 Death: 22 Feb 1833
12. John Adam MUSSER Birth: 3 Apr 1787 Death: 18 Sep 1837 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
13. William MUSSER Birth: 17 Aug 1789 Death: 13 May 1881
14. Henry MUSSER Birth: 11 Mar 1791 Death: 26 Jul 1822 in Augusta, Georgia
15. Abraham MUSSER Birth: 15 May 1793 Death: 11 Nov 1828 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
16. Harriet MUSSER Birth: 26 Nov 1794 Death: 25 Dec 1886

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p54]

1741 [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#2p4],

place:

[Ref: HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p54],

parents:

[Ref: HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p54]

Paul MUSSER & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#2p4]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p54]

1806 [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#2p4]

Sources with Information about marriage to Mary Christianna YOUNG

date:

[Ref: HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p54]

Jul 1765 [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#2p4],

place:

[Ref: HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p54],

child:

[Ref: HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p55, HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p56, HaverstickH HAVERSTICK p57, Recker PeopleMarsh II#2p4]

Research Notes:
Captain in Rev War, serving under Col Ross [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#2p4]

1790: living in Lancaster Borough, Lancaster Co, PA. Seven males over age 16, five males under age 16, seven females [Ref: 1790 PA Lancaster Lancaster 14]

elder and trustee of the Lutheran Congregation at Lancaster, PA [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#2p4]

will dated 1 Jul 1806, pro 1 Sep 1806. Mentions wife Christiana, children Rebecca wife of Henry Derring, Mary wife of John Singer, Sarah, George, Catharine wife of William haberstick, Mathias, John, William, Henry, Abraham, and Harriet. Ex Mathias Young and William Webb. Lancaster Borough [Ref: LancasterCoPA WillAbs2 p150, LancasterCoPA Wills J-185]

----- Lancaster County PA Wills J-185, dated 1 Jul 1806, pro 1 Sep 1806:
In the name of God, Amen. I George Musser of the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, tanner, being sick and weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding, and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life, and that it is ordered for all men once to die, I therefore make my last will and testament in manner following, to wit, First, I order and it is my will that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid and discharged by my executors out of my estate as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Christina the sum of eight hundred pounds money in gold or silver coin, to be paid to her as soon as can be after my decease, and I also give unto my said wife, such and so much of my household and kitchen furniture as she may think suitable and necessary for her use and desire, that she may make her choice of what she shall think needful before an inventory is taken of my household and kitchen furniture; this trust I place in her, being sensible of her love for our children and assured that she will not injure them, to hold the said sum of money and other articles above mentioned unto my said wife Christina her heirs and assigns forever. Item I order and it is my will that my executors and the survivor of them shall as soon as can be after my decease purchase a comfortable dwelling house for my said wife out of my estate to hold the said house and ground thereto belonging unto my said wife for and during the term of her natural life if she remains my widow, but nevertheless my said wife must allow my daughter Sarah to live with her in the same house as long as she remains a single woman, and if my wife should die or marry, then my said daughter Sarah shall possess the said house and premises for and during the time she remains a single woman, and after the death of marriage of my said wife and daughter Sarah then my executors and the survivor of them shall sell the said house and ground thereto belonging either by private or public sale as to them or him may seem most beneficial for my children. Item it is my will and I order that all my real estate (consisting of my two story dwelling house, tan yard and lot or lots of ground thereto belonging, two lots opposite my said dwelling house, one lot in Water Street, my plantation and out lots in Manheim township, and some back lands) shall be sold by my executors and the survivor of them as soon as conveniently may be after my decease, wither by private or public sale, but nevertheless that my said wife shall live in my dwelling house until a house is purchased for her as aforesaid, and in case my executors should find that my said house with the tan yard and premises thereto belonging could not be sold to advantage then they may lease the same for some time to my sons, and upon their refusal to any other person, until they can sell it to advantage, and the residue of my personal estate shall also be sold as soon as can be. And it is my will and I do hereby declare that the bequests, legacies, and things by me herein given to my said wife are and are to be deemed and taken in full satisfaction for her dower or thirds, and right and title to dower or thirds, and all claims and demand whatsoever of in to and out of my estate real and personal. Item The rest residue and remainder of my estate including therein all the monies raised by the sale of my said real and personal estate and also the monies which shall arise form the sale of the house and ground herein ordered to be purchased for my said wife and daughter Sarah after the death or marriage of my said wife and daughter; and also the produce and amount of all other my estate real and personal, not herein before particularly given and bequeathed, and also including all such monies and effects which I have heretofore given to my children or to some of them, and by me entered in a book kept for that purpose, I order to be equally divided amongst my eleven children, to wit, Rebecca the wife of Henry Dering, Mary the wife of John Singer, Sarah Musser, George Musser, Catharine the wife of William Haberstick, Mathias Musser, John Adam Musser, William Musser, Henry Musser, Abraham Musser, and Harriet Musser; that is to say, I give and bequeath to each of my said children and to each of their heirs and assigns forever, one equal eleventh part thereof. And lastly I do hereby nominate make and appoint my friends Matthias Young and William Webb executors of this my last will and testament, with full power and authority to make execute and deliver the proper deeds of conveyance for granting and assuring the real estate by me ordered to be sold, unto the purchaser or purchasers therein in fee simple. Hereby making void all former and other wills by me made declaring this and no other to be my last will and testament. Witness my hand and seal this first day of July A Dom one thousand eight hundred and six. George (X) Musser.
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of use witnesses thereto called. The words "the same" in the second page were first interlined; and the words "eight hundred" in the first page being first wrote. Jacob Flubacher, Cas Shaffner.
Lancaster County SS On the first day of September anno domini 1806 Before me the Subscriber personally appeared Jacob Flubacher and Caster Shaffner, the two subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will, who upon their corporal oaths according to aw did depose and say that they were present and saw and heard George Musser the testator therein 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 well disposing mind memory and understanding, to the best of their knowledge observation and belief. G Ross, Regr.
Be it Remembered That on the first day of September anno domini 1806 the last will and testament of George Musser deceased was proved in due form of law, and letters of administration with the will annexed were granted to George Musser and William Haverstick Junr (the executors in said will named having renounced) they having first given security 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 their administration on said estate in one year. Given under the seal of said office, G Ross, Regr. [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills J-185]



Pedigree of George MUSSER
          /-----Nicholas MUSSER
 /-----John Paul MUSSER
|         \-----Maria Elizabeth (MUSSER)
George MUSSER
|         /-----William CASSEL
 \-----Maria Barbara CASSEL



Descendants of George MUSSER

2nd generation