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• Name: Samuel GROFF
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1708 ^b
• Death: Abt 1768 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Hans GROFF Birth: 1661 in Baretswil, Zurich, Switzerland Death: Before 7 May 1746 in Earltown, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Susanna KENDIG Birth: Abt 1678 Death: After 11 Aug 1746

Family:
Marriage:

• Christina HUBER on 1 .^m1
  
• Christina HUBER Birth: Abt 1711 Death: Abt 1786

Children:

1. Mary GROFF Birth: Abt 1729 Death: After 1772
2. Margaret GROFF Birth: Abt 1730
3. Barbara GROFF Birth: Abt 1735 Death: Abt 1787

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

abt 1708 [Ref: Best BEAR-Albis p23, Best GROFF p89, GroffCL GROFF p42],

parents:

[Ref: Best BEAR-Albis p23, Best GROFF p89, GroffCL GROFF p42, LancasterCoPA Deeds B-217, Landis HansGroffs 7307p29, WengerSS WENGER p1063]

Hans GROFF & Susanna ___ [Ref: Scharf WesternMaryland v2p1218],

father:

[Ref: Ellis LancasterCoPA p822, GroffCF GROFF Chart, GroffCL GROFF p408, LancasterCoPA Deeds C-322]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

date:

1718 [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p408]

Sources for death Information

date:

between 1768 and 1774 [Ref: Best BEAR-Albis p23, Best GROFF p89, GroffCL GROFF p42]

Sources with Information about marriage to Christina HUBER

date:

first marriage of Christina [Ref: Best BEAR-Albis p23, Best GROFF p89],

names:

Samuel GROFF & Christina ___ [Ref: LancasterCoPA Deeds C-322, Landis HansGroffs 7307p29, WengerSS WENGER p1063],

child:

[Ref: Best GROFF p89, GroffCL GROFF p42, GroffCL GROFF p45, GroffCL GROFF p46, Landis HansGroffs 7307p29, WengerSS WENGER p1063]

Research Notes:
Jul 26 1738: purchased from parents, for 20 pounds, 219 acres of land in Earl Twp [Ref: LancasterCoPA Deeds B-217]

Jul 26 1738: received 219 acres in Earl Twp from parents [Ref: Best GROFF p80]

Jul 30 1746: Heirs of Hans Graffe rel to one of his sons, David Graffe, of Lancaster County, 200 acres Earl Township. Part of 1419 acres patented 18 Nov 1737 to Hans Graffe decd. Heirs listed: Widow, Susanna Graffe; Peter Graffe & wife Barbara; Samuel Graffe & wife Christina; Mark Graffe & wife Anna; Daniel Graffe & wife Maria; Hans Graffe & wife Elizabeth; Peter Good who married Anna one of daughters; Henry Landus & wife Fronika, one of daughters; Mary Kry, widow, one of daughters. Hans by will dated 8 Nov 1738 proved 7 May 1746 devised all his property to his 6 sons & 3 daughters. Hans had conveyed shares to sons Peter, Samuel, Mark, and Daniel & had advanced to daughters Anna Good & Mary then wife of John Kry, since deceased, their shares. Deed recorded 5 Apr 1752, Book C p322 [Ref: LancasterCoPA DeedAbs C322]

Jul 28 1752: granted 124 acres in Earl Twp to oldest daughter, Mary, and husband Joseph Horst [Ref: Best GROFF p80]

1753: purchased 250 acres in Newberry Twp, York Co, and added 55 acres adjacent to it in 1760 [Ref: Best GROFF p80]

1757: granted land in Earl Twp to youngest daughter, Barbara and her husband Abraham Reiff [Ref: Best GROFF p80]

Jun 9 1768: sold 305 acres in Newberry Twp tp Joseph Long of Rapho Twp; deed confirmed by widow, Christina, on May 30 1774 [Ref: Best GROFF p80]

---------- Lancaster Co PA Deeds B-217, dated 26 Jul 1738:
This Indenture made the Twenty Sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and thirty eight Between Hans Groff of Ear Town in the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsylvania yeoman and Susannah his Wife of the one part and Samuel Groff Son of the said Hans Groff and Susanna of the other part, Whereas John Penn Thomas Penn and Richard Penn true and Absolute Proprietaries and Governor in Chief of the said Province by their Letter Patent had executed under the hand of the said Thomas Penn and great Seal of the said Province bearing date the Eighteenth day of November Anno Domini 1737 Reciting as therein recited and for the Consideration therein Did Grant and Convey unto the above named Hans Groff and to his Heirs and Assigns forever Fourteen hundred and nineteen Acres of Land with Allowance of Six Per Cent for Roads and Highways under the yearly Rent of one English Shilling Sterling for every hundred Acres thereof and so proportionally for the nineteen Acres to be paid to the said Proprietaries their Heirs and Successors on the first day of March Every Year in the town of Lancaster or Value thereof in Coin Current according to the Exchange as shall then be between the said Province and the City of London to such Person or Persons as shall be from time to time Appointed as by the said Patent Recorded in the Office for Recording of Deeds in the City and County of Philadelphia in patent Book A Vol 8 Page 292 etc as may at large appear, Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Hans Groff and Susanna his Wife as well for and in the Consideration of the Love and affection which they have and bear to their well beloved Son and of the Sum of twenty Pounds Good Lawful Money of the said Province to them in hand Paid by the said Samuel Groff before the Sealing and Delivery of these Presents the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge and thereof doth acquit and forever discharge the said Samuel Groff his heirs and Assigns by these Presents, Have Granted bargained sold aliened Enfeoffed Confirmed and by these Presents Do Grant bargain sell alien Enfeoff and Confirm unto the said Samuel Groff his heirs and Assigns by these Presents all that Piece or Parcel of Land (part of the above described Piece) situated in Earl town aforesaid Beginning at a white oak a Corner of Christopher Winger's Land thence Easy by North one hundred and nine Perches to a stone a corner of Mark Groffs Land, thence by said Same Land South by East three hundred and thirty nine Perches to a White Oak another Corner of Mark Graf's Land, thence by the land of Hand Rudolph Negley West by South one hundred and nine Perches to a post, thence by Land of the said Winger North by West three hundred and thirty nine Perches to the Place of Beginning, Containing two hundred and nineteen acres with allowance of Six Percent be the Same more or Less, Together with all and Singular the houses outhouses Barns Stables Orchards Gardens Ways Waters Water courses Rights liberties Privileges hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and also the reversions and remainders Rents Issues Profits thereof and all the Estate right title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever of them the said Hans Groff and Susanna his Wife of in and to the Premises hereby granted and bargained and every part thereof, To Have and to hold the said two hundred and nineteen acres of Land and Premises hereby granted with their and every of their Appurtenances unto the said Samuel Groff his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said Samuel Groff his heirs and assigns forever, Under the yearly quit rent hereafter accruing for the same land to the Chief Lord or Lords of the fee thereof of Right Accustomed, And the said Hand Groff and his heirs the said two hundred and nineteen acres of Land hereditaments and Premises hereby Granted or mentioned so to be and Every Part thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said Samuel Groff his Heirs and Assigns against the said Hans Groff and Susanna his Wife and their heirs and against all and Every other Person and Persons whatsoever claiming or to claim by from or under him them or any of them shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents, And the said Hans Groff for himself the said Susanna his Wife and for his heirs Executors and Administrators doth Covenant Promise and Grant to and with the said Samuel Groff his heirs and Assigns by these Presents that they the said Hans Groff and Susanna his Wife and their heirs and all and Every other Person and Persons whomsoever claiming or that shall or may at any time or times hereafter to have or claim any Estate Right title or Interest of in or to the said two hundred and Nineteen Acres of Land and Premises hereby Granted or any Part thereof by from or under him them or any of them shall and will from time to time and at all times hereafter at the reasonable request and Charges in the Law of the said Samuel Graff his heirs and Assigns make Execute and Acknowledge or Cause to be all and Every such further and other reasonable Act and Acts Deed and Deeds Devisee and Devises in the law whatsoever for the further and better assurance and Confirmation of the said two hundred and nineteen acres of land and Premises hereby Granted and Every part thereof with the Appurtenances unto the said Samuel Groff his heirs and Assigns as by him or them or by his or their Counsel learnt in the law shall be reasonably Devised Advised or Request. In Witness whereof the parties to these Presents have interchangeably set to their Hands and Seals Dated the day and year first above written. Hans Groff, Susanna (X) Groff.
Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us, Andrew Moseman, Zach Buleher.
The 14th day of November 1740 Came before me Emanuel Carpenter one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of lancaster the within named Hans Groff and Susannah and brought with them this Indenture and acknowledged this as their deed and desired that the same might be recorded being separately examined. Witness my hand and seal the day and year first above written. Emanuel Carpenter.
Recorded the 22 day of May 1745, Thomas Cookson, Recorder. [Ref: LancasterCoPA Deeds B-217]



Pedigree of Samuel GROFF
                            /-----Hans GRAF
                   /-----Jakob GRAF
                  |         \-----Elsbeth PETER
          /-----Marx GRAF
         |        |         /-----Jacob SPORRI
         |         \-----Anna SPORRI
 /-----Hans GROFF
Samuel GROFF
|                           /-----Peter KUNDIG
|                  /-----Jorg KUNDIG
|         /-----Hans Jagli KUNDIG
|        |         \-----Barbel HUFFELBERG
 \-----Susanna KENDIG
         |         /-----Martin MEILI
          \-----Elsbeth MEILI
                   \-----Barbara BAR



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