Landes, John 1

Birth Name Landes, John
Gender male
Age at Death about 56 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth about 1692 Switzerland  
 
Immigration about 1717    
 
Death 1748 Lower Milford Twp., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania  
 
Burial   East Swamp Mennonite Chruch, Quakertown, Richland Twp., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Landis, Hans Rudolph
         Landes, John

Families

    Family of Landes, John and Musselman, Ann
Married Wife Musselman, Ann
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage      
 
  Children
  1. Landes, Elizabeth

Media

Narrative

Possible. (Johannes Hans). Link to Elizabeth appears weak, without reviewing the evidence carefully. On the other hand, there are very few Landes candidates in this region. While brothers Benjamin, Feliz, and John are discussed here, there was also a Jacob in the same time and area, possibly another brother (see Hans Rudolph, the father).
"John Landis, with his brothers, Benjamin and Felix, came to America from the vicinity of Mannheim, Germany, about th e year 1717. They were descendants of a family from the district about Z�rich, Switzerland, prominent in the Mennonit e faith, which had suffered cruel persecution during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, and were forced to seek r efuge in the German Palatinate of which Mannheim was the capital. In Hirzel, Switzerland, stands an ancient Landis hom estead built in 1488. . . . .It was from the vicinity of Mannheim that the three brothers Benjamin, Felix, and John LAN DIS, in 1717, emigrated to Pennsylvania. . . . John Landis . . . settled in Bucks County, near what is now Shelly, wher e he died 1749-50. . . . [P]roperty owned by John Landis came into the possession of the heirs of his daughter, Veronic a Landis BAUER. . . . [P]rior to 1738 he entered into an agreement with the Proprietaries by which one hundred acres o f land lying within the Proprietaries' Manor of Richland in Bucks County, would be granted to him. . . . [M]ade a wil l dated Sep. 26, 1747, which was probated May 1, 1750."
Jacob Landes, d. 1749 is an alternate guess, based on time and place Franconia Twp. is 4 mi from Salford where Peter Allebach was born. Based on the little that is known about dates this could have been either Jacob Sr. or Jacob Jr. m. Mary Cassel, but much more likely Elizabeth is unnamed daughter of Sr.. Also, the second ref. (Stanford Landis on Rootsweb) gives Elizabeth daughter of Jr. Jacob to be b. 1748, too late for us (and to marry Isaac Moyer b.1758)
"JACOB LANDES, the ancestor of the family, came to Pennsylvania some time before 1727. In 1734 he acquired a tract of land in what is now Franconia Township, Montgomery County, then Philadelphia County. He was naturalized before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania which met April 11 to 13, 1743 (see Volume 2, Series 2, Pennsylvania Archives, pages 360 and 361). Very little is known about his family and we have the names of only one son, Jacob and two daughters, Margaret who married ( ) Smith and Anna who married (Jacob?) Reiff. Jacob Landes died in 1749.
(2) JACOB LANDES, the only son of Jacob Landes, the immigrant ancestor, was naturalized at the same time as his father. He married Mary Cassel, a daughter of Rev. Yellis Cassel. She died in 1787 and he in 1793. Both are buried at Delp's burial ground. (In the census of 1790 there is listed a "widow Landes" who lived with one other female person - it is difficult to say who this person was.) Jacob Landes is said to have had nine children, as follows: (includes "11. Elisabeth Landes, m. ( ) Rosenberger"]"

Narrative

Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID I72180800:

ADDR element ignored 'Quakertown' Line 1853: 2 ADDR Quakertown
Richland Twp.
Bucks Co.
Pennsylvania
ADDR element ignored 'Richland Twp.' Line 1853: 2 ADDR Quakertown
Richland Twp.
Bucks Co.
Pennsylvania

 

Pedigree

  1. Landis, Hans Rudolph
    1. Landes, John
      1. Musselman, Ann
        1. Landes, Elizabeth

Ancestors

Source References

  1. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ljirwin42&id=I543 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LANDIS/2000-01/0946949959 http://landis-landes.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/JacobLandesBook2.248121521.pdf