Samuel Gander

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Said to have fought in the Revolution; according to certain descendants quoted by Charles Gander (citation details below), the records proving this were destroyed in the Muskingum River flood of 1913.

He and his wife moved to Muskingum County in about 1825.

Samuel married Elizabeth Barbara Zull about 1786. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Zull and Catharine) was born between 1761 and 1770 in Virginia; died between 1830 and 1840 in Muskingum County, Ohio; was buried in Norwich Presbyterian Cemetery, Norwich, Muskingum, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Gander was born on 10 Oct 1800 in Frederick County, Virginia; died on 18 Jun 1871 in Spencer Township, Guernsey County, Ohio; was buried in Bethel Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Bluebell, Guernsey, Ohio.

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• Alternate death: 1807, Shenandoah County, Virginia
• Alternate death: Jan 1808, Shenandoah County, Virginia

Peter married Barbara Weaver before 1760. Barbara (daughter of Jakob Weber and Anna Bauman) was born about 1740; died after 4 Sep 1792. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1688, Schaffhausen, Zurich, Switzerland
• Alternate birth: 1688, Germany

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Also called Jacob Weaver. He was a Swiss Mennonite, one of those who settled in Weber-Thal (literally Weaver's Dale; now known as Weaverland) south of Conestoga Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1723. He had previously lived "some twelve or fifteen years in Lancaster" (Israel Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster County, 1844).

Jane Evans Best (citation details below) calls him a "Mennonite preacher".

Jane Evans Best (citation details below) does not list Barbara Weaver among the children of Jakob Weber and Anna Bowman. Sources that do include the genealogical records of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society and the Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Jakob married Anna Bauman about 1723 in Weaverland, Earl Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Anna (daughter of Wendel Bauman and Anna) was born in 1703 in Netherlands; died on 11 Feb 1771 in Weaverland, Earl Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; was buried in Martin/Weaver Cemetery, Weaverland, Earl Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1699
• Alternate birth: Abt 1705
• Alternate death: 1777

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Also called Anna Bowman.

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The Weaver/Weber memorial stone at Weaverland cemetery calls him "Johann Anton Weber" and gives him a birth year of 1640. Jane Evans Best (citation details below) says "The name Anton has been associated by family tradition with Hans Weber, but does not appear in any of his European records."

West Lampeter Township was in Chester County at the time of Hans Weber's death in 1724; that portion of Chester County became part of the new county of Lancaster in 1729.

Hans married Mary Margarethe in 1680 in Bäretswil, Switzerland. Mary died after Nov 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said by some, without proof, to have been a daughter of the Rev. Hans Herr, a leader of the first Mennonites in Lancaster County. Her surname is given as "Herr" on a modern memorial stone in the Martin/Weaver (Weaverland, also Weberthal) Cemetery in Earl Township, Lancaster County. Others have said that she may have been a member of the Guth family, other daughters of which are known to have married relatives of Hans Weber.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1680
• Alternate birth: Abt 1681, Switzerland

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Also called Wynant Bauman, Bowman. Some accounts treat Wendel and Wynant as separate individuals, but there is evidence to suggest that they were the same person. If they were not, they were probably brothers, and the Anna who married Jacob Weber/Weaver was likely a daughter of one or the other of them.

A thorough overview of what is known about Wendel/Wynant/Wynand Bauman, with extensive references, can be found here at Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy.

"Wendel Baumann, the original settler of this family, came to Pennsylvania at a very early date. He was born in Switzerland about the year 1681. When about seventeen years of age, he in company with his parents, moved to Holland where they had the promise of protection from the persecuting parties of southern and central Europe, by William, Prince of Orange, afterwards William III of England. Here the old progenitor lived until the beginning of the seventeenth [sic] century, when he set his face for America. He landed safely at Philadelphia, but date of landing is not known. We find that in 1709 a number of families moved westward from Philadelphia, seeking a tract of land where they might settle in one vicinity. The choice of their location was on a tract situated north of Pequea Creek, extending to the Conestogo (Their settlement was Strasburg Tp., Chester Co., now West Lampeter Tp., Lancaster Co.), containing ten thousand acres of land. The warrant for this was recorded and the land surveyed to them on October 23rd, 1710. Among these settlers we find the name of Wendel Baumann." [Ezra E. Eby, citation details below]

Said to have come to America under the leadership of Rev. Hans Herr, a Swiss Mennonite minister.

Wendel married Anna. Anna died before 1735; was buried in Bishop Tschatz's Cemetery, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 16 Oct 1696, Bäretswil, Switzerland

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In 1640 he lived in Hinterburg while his father was in prison in Zurich. In 1641 he lived at Mühlekram.

Heinrich married Elsbeth Rüggin on 26 Jan 1641 in Bäretswil, Switzerland. Elsbeth (daughter of Uli Rüggin and Anna Ruegg) was born before 22 Oct 1622; was christened on 22 Oct 1622; died before 1670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Possibly/probably the father of the immigrant Wendel Bauman. Emigrated to Alsace by 1657. In 1660 he signed the Dortrecht Confession as a deacon from Jebsheim.

Hans married Anna Funck. Anna (daughter of Heinrich Funck and Cathrina Meili) was born before 25 Oct 1635; was christened on 25 Oct 1635 in Mettmenstetten, Zürich, Switzerland; died in 1709 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; was buried in Lampeter, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emigrated to Alsace between 1649 and 1661.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1576

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Also called Klei Jörg (Kleinjorg, "little George") Weber, Waber. Anabaptist. Lived in Hirzel, 1621; about 1630, moved from Albis to Bäretswil; in 1633, aged 55, owned a farm at Mühlekram; in 1639 imprisoned at Oethenback in Zurich for 70 weeks; in 1649 lived at Mühlekram.

He may have been a son of Heinrich Waber who was born about 1520 in Canton Zurich and died after 1582 in the mountain parish of Hausen.

George married Elsbeth Schnebli before 1621. Elsbeth (daughter of Jacob Schnebli and (Unknown first wife of Jacob Schnebli)) was born before 1 May 1593; was christened on 1 May 1593 in Affoltern, Zürich, Switzerland; died between 1621 and 1633. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Uli married Anna Ruegg. Anna was born in of Hinterburg, Zürich, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rudolph married Margreth Landis. Margreth (daughter of Hans Landis and Margreth Hochstrasser) was born before 1 Dec 1594; was christened on 1 Dec 1594 in Hirzel, Zürich, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heinrich married Cathrina Meili on 20 Aug 1634 in Mettmenstetten, Zürich, Switzerland. Cathrina (daughter of Hans Meili and Elsbeth Hochstrasser) was born in 1612; died on 9 Apr 1681 in Ober Mettmensetten, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]