Family:Jacob Shantz and Magdalena Erb (1)

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Jacob Shantz
b. Abt 1710 Switzerland
d. 5 Feb 1781 New Hanover Twp, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
Parents: Nicholas Erb and Magdalena Widmer
Magdalena Erb
b. Abt 1718 Canton Bern, Switzerland
bur. Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
m. Abt 1737
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Marriage[1][2][3][4] Abt 1737
Children
BirthDeath
1.
Abraham Shantz
Abt 1746
 
2.
Isaac Shantz
14 Jan 1748 Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
11 Oct 1802 Pottstown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
3.
Jacob Shantz
14 Jan 1748 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
11 Mar 1823 Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
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  1. ↑ Harris, Alexander. A biographical history of Lancaster County: being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county, as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character. (Lancaster, Pa.: Elias Barr & Co., 1872)
    page 195.

    'Magdalena Erb, daughter of Nicholas Erb, married to a Johns, of Leacock township.'

    NOTE: "Johns" is another form of "Shantz" (this source also identifies the wife of Magdalena's brother John as a "Johns" of Leacock township). - JB

  2. ↑ Eby, Ezra E. A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county ... (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
    2:373.

    'SHANTZ, JACOB, was born in Switzerland about the year 1710. Owing to religious persecutions, he, with others, left their native home and went to Holland where they had the promise of protection from the persecuting parties by the Prince of Orange. Here he lived some fifteen years. Seeing so many of his co-religionists emigrating to America, besides being informed of the proclamation issued by William Penn, he at last decided to emigrate to America and settle among his co-religionists. He crossed the ocean in a vessel named "Townshead" and landed safely at Philadelphia in the summer of 1737. He may have resided in Germantown for some time. In the year 1745 we find him and his family located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. What number of children he had could not be ascertained. We know that he was married twice. The children of his first wife were Isaac, Esther, and Susannah, and from his second wife we have the record of only one son named Christian. Old Jacob Shantz died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, February 5th, 1781, aged a few months less than 71 years. He was buried in the Sprogell Cemetery, beside Magdalena, his first wife.'

    Note that Richard Davis (Mennosearch.com) suggests that he immigrated on the Charming Nancy (not the Townsend) and that it was a different Jacob Schantz (step-son of Hans Georg Kraus, a passenger on the Townsend) who traveled on the Townsend. Both ships arrived in Philadelphia in Oct 1737.

  3. ↑ #14733 in Erb Family "A", in Davis, Richard W. Mennosearch.

    'Magdalena Erb [daughter of Nicholas], b. c1718. She was married to a Schantz. Perhaps she is the woman listed as a Magdalena Schantz on the "Charming Nancy" with her husband Hans Schantz.'

    NOTE: There is no reason to believe that her husband was Hans Schantz, as Jacob Schantz was also listed on the "Charming Nancy" passenger list, and his wife's name was known to be Magdalena. The absence of a Magdalena Erb on the passenger list and the presence of a Magdalena Schantz suggests that they were already married when they immigrated.

  4. ↑ Tschanz/Schantz Family "D", in Davis, Richard W. Mennosearch.

    'Jacob Schantz ... was married first to Magdalena and had three children and then he married Catherina Beery (d. Dec 1797), daughter of Christian Beery of Coventry Township, Chester County.'

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