Person:Adam Schenk (1)

Adam, born about 1737 in Conestoga migrated to migrated to Manchester Township in York County of PA. Most of his and Magdalena’s ten children were born there between 1769 and 1782. In 1784, the lure of land seems to have drawn the Shanks to Rockingham. The York county farm was sold and land was bought in Rockingham from a John Schenk in 1785, and from a Michael Schenk in 1786. Two new children were born to the Shanks in Virginia. The Shanks had ten children, and among them was a Magdalena born in 1769 in Manchester Township of York Co., PA. This daughter became the second wife of Abraham Brenneman. Magdalena Shank died in 1802, a year before her husband Adam. Both are thought to be buried besides one another in the Mennonite cemetery in Edom.