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  • Name: Hans Jacob LIEBENGUT
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 8 Jun 1721 in Langensoultzbach, Alsace, France b
  • Baptism: 8 Jun 1721 in Langensoultzbach, Alsace, France c
  • Death: 15 Jan 1784 in Douglas Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania d
  • Burial: Zion Reformed Church, Hanover St, Pottstown, Pennsylvania u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Ulrich LIEBENGUT Birth: Abt 1688 in Melchnau, Arwangen, Bern, Switzerland Death: Abt 1751
  • Mother:
  • Anna HENNI Birth: Abt Mar 1690 in Homberg, Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland Death: After 1751

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. John LIEBENGUT
  2. Jacob LIEBENGUT
  3. Peter LIEBENGUT
  4. Henry LIEBENGUT
  5. Anna Margaret LIEBENGUT Birth: 18 Feb 1750 in Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania
  6. Johan Philip LIEBENGUT Birth: 20 Nov 1751 in Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania
  7. Catharina LIEBENGUT Birth: 12 Sep 1757 in Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania
  8. Christina LIEBENGUT Birth: 28 May 1766 in Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania

Bibliography
  1. Burgert, Annette Kunselman, Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Camden, Maine: Picton press, 1992. NYPL *R APK 93-6841. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p[0-9]*].
  2. Martin, Donald J, and Hannah Benner Roach, Ulrich Liebengut, in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol 29 no 4 (1976) pp253-55, and vol 30 no 1 (1977) p54. DAR PENN Periodica Gen. M-LH GS5. Available (with membership) at https://genpa.org/publications/pennsylvania-genealogical-magazine/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Martin LIEBENGUT p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
bp 8 Jun 1721 [Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p341, Martin LIEBENGUT p253],
place:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p341, Martin LIEBENGUT p253],
parents:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p341, Martin LIEBENGUT p253]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
15 Jun 1721 according to tombstone [Ref: Martin LIEBENGUT p255]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p341, Martin LIEBENGUT p253],
place:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p341, Martin LIEBENGUT p253]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Martin LIEBENGUT p255]
between 6 Dec 1783 and 17 Feb 1784 [Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p343],
place:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p343]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Martin LIEBENGUT p255]
Sources with Information about marriage to Christina BRAND
date:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p343, Martin LIEBENGUT p255],
place:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p343, Martin LIEBENGUT p255],
child:
[Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p343]
Research Notes:
Apr 1761: naturalized [Ref: Martin LIEBENGUT p255]

1768: had 200 acres in Douglas Twp, Berks Co [Ref: Martin LIEBENGUT p255]

will dated 6 Dec 1783, pro 17 Feb 1784. Provides for wife Christina. To son Philip, my plantation where I now dwell in Douglas, con't 225 acres, paying to son John when he is 21, 330 pounds. To son Jacob my plantation in Amity and Douglass, con't 105 acres and 1/2 of meadow. To son Peter 100 acres of a plantation con't 117 acres 120 per in Douglas, he paying 250 pounds to sons Jacob and John. To son Henry 450 pounds when 21. To son John 450 pounds as mentioned above. To daughter Catherine 400 pounds in trust for her children if she should have any. Exrs to sell land in New Hanover Twp, Phila Co. Sons Philip and Jacob exrs. Wit by John Becker, John Richards and Adam Liebenguth [Ref: Burgert NorthernAlsace p343]

will dated 6 Dec 1783, proved 17 Feb 1784, mentions wife Christina, sons Philip, Jacob, and Peter, and John and Henry, last two being under 21, and daughter Catherine. Recorded in Berks Co Book B, p40 [Ref: Martin LIEBENGUT p255]



Pedigree of Hans Jacob LIEBENGUT
 /-----Ulrich LIEBENGUT
Hans Jacob LIEBENGUT
|                           /-----Hans HENNI
|                  /-----Nikli HENNI
|                 |         \-----Barbli KLAUS
|         /-----Michael HENNI
|        |        |         /-----Hans EICHELBERGER
|        |         \-----Barbel EICHELBERGER
|        |                  \-----Elsbeth RAEBER
 \-----Anna HENNI
         |                           /-----Hans SCHWYTZER
         |                  /-----Hans SCHWYTZER
         |                 |         \-----Sara PFAEFFERLI
         |         /-----Benedicht SCHWYTZER
         |        |        |                  /-----Niklaus FARNI
         |        |        |         /-----Peter FARNI
         |        |        |        |         \-----Maria WALDMANN
         |        |         \-----Verena FARNI
         |        |                  \-----Vernea PIERIS
          \-----Anna SCHWYTZER
                  |         /-----Peter GASSNER
                   \-----Anna GASSNER
                           |                  /-----Jacob KROPF
                           |         /-----Hans KROPF
                           |        |         \-----Rosina (KROPF)
                            \-----Barble KROPF
                                     \-----Barbli TSCHABOLT



Descendants of Hans Jacob LIEBENGUT
1. Hans Jacob LIEBENGUT m. Christina BRAND
m. Christina BRAND