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Note N733 Index

Cashier of the Farmers Bank of Hummelstown, he is one of the leading banking executives of his section of Pennsylvania, having been associated with banks and banking for many years in Pennsylvania.

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Note N734 Index

Alternate date 16 Nov 1786 from Gail Greary.

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Note N735 Index

Occupation was farmer.

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Note N736 Index

John and his wife were natives of Lebanon county, and is established in the life of his community as a farmer.

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Note N737 Index

Jost landed in Philadelphia on 3 Sep 1739 on the ship "Robert and Alice" from Rotterdam, Holland. He settled into a colony of German Menonites at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was granted 200 acres on 23 April 1740. Jost, or Joseph, came to enjoy freedom in America. It was said that he came to escape persecution by Roman Catholics -- or to escape required military training in Germany. He was a Dunkard Baptist. per Gail Greary.

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Note N738 Index

Alternate date 20 Oct 1788.

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Note N739 Index

Egle lists burial place as Hummelstown Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, along with husband.

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Note N740 Index

Alternate birthplace is Lebanon County, Pa.

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Note N741 Index

Date from Gail Greay is abt 1792

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Note N742 Index

Date from Gail Greary is 1821.

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Note N743 Index

Peter landed at Philadelphia on September 3, 1739 on the ship "Robert and Alice". He traveled with two other Ebersohl's, Johannes (John) and Jost (Joseph) who were probably brothers. Peter was granted 300 acres of land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on May 3, 1740. He paid taxes in Lebanon Township in 1773 and in West Hannover Township, near Hummelstown in Dauphin County in 1779 and 1782.

The Ebersohls were of Swiss descent, but while living in Germany, spelled their name Ebersohl. A Swiss student taking post-graduate work in Harvard wrote recently that he was raised near a village called "Ebersol". He says our name is typically Swiss German. To quote from his letter, "Ebersol is a lovely hamlet in the Swiss State of Saint Gall. The name means a place where men are hunting for wild boars. Eber -- wild boar, and sol -- ground or place. There are many families there carrying the name 'Ebersol': He says the name "Ebersol" is pronounced in Switerzerland, thus: E as in end. The second e as in her. The o is like in odd. This is theusual way we pronounce it in America. This town "Ebersol" is four miles northeast of Butschwil in the Toggenburg District. The people are Protestants and Catholics who raise cattle and make embroideries for a living. There are two other towns called "Ebersol" in Switzerland. One is "Upper Ebersol" in the Canton of Luzern on Kiltibach brook, near Hochdorf, ten miles north of Luzern. These 300 people raise cattle, fruit and farm. They have a significant escutcheon, -- a bronze point of a lance. We could use this as our family coat of arms. You find in this place, (dating back to the second so-called "Iron Age", graves from time immemorial. Near this village,but on a level about 130 feet lower, is "Lower Ebersol" with about 150 Catholics.

Our ancestors must have been originally Catholics, some of whom left that faith to become Protestant Mennonites. They escaped death from religious persecution in Switzerland by fleeing to Wurttemberg and Baden, Germany, about 1690. Some years later, because they hated to take an oath, and from fear of being drafted to serve in war, and because they wanted to worship God in their own simple way, they made their way down the Rhine River in Germany and each one paid his own ship passage from Rotterdam, Holland, to Philadelphia. At least five of these six men settled at first in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Our six ancestors who came to America may have been brothers, as the story commonly goes, but it looks like Abraham was anuncle of the others. They all signed their names in German on the boat registers when they landed at Philadelphia. They all spelled their names "Ebersohl", except Jacob who wrote his "Ebersoll". But this means nothing, for in those early days people gave little attention to spelling of their names. Most of our present various spellings of the name seem to have come from the custom of writing names on Muster Rolls by sound during the revolutionary War. So I have dound the name spelled over thirty ways in records and directories; such as Ebersohl, Ebersol, Ebbersol, Ebersold, Ebersole, Ebersoll, Eversole, Eversull" -- Preceeding information from "The Ebersol Families in America -s 1727-1937" by Rev Charles E. Ebersol.

Another researcher has Peter's wife listed as Magdalena Schuppach. Peter is listed on the Lancaster County Tax Lists of 1750, 1755 and 1758.