Family:Unknown Yeiser and Unknown (1)

Notes

BIOGRAPHY: letter from Carol Jackson to "Mr. Yeiser"; 12/20/81; copy in possn of T.Mason (filed - Philip Yeiser); EXTRACTION: (Contains two pages of family records.) "The earliest record so far found of the Yeiser Family in the New World appears in Pennsylvania German Pioneers, published by the Pennsylvania German Society, under the heading: "A publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808."

Four brothers of this family, Germans of the Palatinate, arrived at Philadelphia, qualified, and took the Oath, crhronologically as follows:

08 JAN 1734 - Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia, in America.

1736 - Jacob Jayser, the olderst; Qualified 1 September 1736, having arrived from Rotterdam on the ship "St. Andrew" (Robert Brown, Captin)

1743 - Friederich Jayser, the youngest; Qualified 7 October 1743, having arrived from Rotterdam on the ship "St. Andrew" (Robert Brown, Captin)

1750 - Englehardt Jayser, the next to the youngest; Took Oath 30 November 1750, having arrived from Totterday on the ship "Sandwich" (Hazelwood Captin)

1752 - Wilhelm Gottlieb Jayser, the next to oldest; Took Oath 23 October 1752, haing arrived from Rotterdam on the ship "Rawley" (John Grove, Captin).

Two other members of the family, cousins of the above four brothers, also came to Philadelphia: 1752 - Johann Georg Jayser; Took Oath 20 October 1752, having arrived from Rotterdam on the ship "Duke of Wirtenburg" (Daniel Montpelier, Commander). 1753 - Johann Joachim Jayser; Took Oath 27 September 1753, having arrived from Rotterdam on the ship "Windsor" (John Goad, Captin). (Progenator of the "Lebanon County Yeisers.)

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