The oldest son, Christian Frantz II, who was age 32 or 33 when his father died, and about age 35 when he took out his own warrant for land on the Little Swatara, may have kept the family together. The five youngest children, including sons John and Michael, were minors when their father died. Later on, at about the age of majority, John and Michael also bought land on the Little Swatara. In 1741, Christian Frantz II followed in his father’s footsteps, seeking land near Swatara Creek in northern Lancaster County. Family lore has it that Christian II intended to warrant the same land as that described in his father’s 1738 warrant. The land that he actually warranted, on 14 November 1741, was tract No. 10, containing 235 acres. It was part of a larger tract of 5,000 acres, called Andulhea Manor, warranted by Richard Penn in 1732.[11] The 235 acres warranted by Christian Frantz II in 1741 was clearly not the same land that Christian Frantz I had warranted in 1738. The 1738 warrant was for 200 acres on a mountain two miles from Swatara Creek. The 235 acres of the 1741 warrant was in a valley “situate on a branch of Swatara Creek.”[12] Today this land, known historically as the Frantz farm, is located in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, immediately west of the Little Swatara Church of the Brethren, on the south side of the Rehrersburg-Frystown Road. The exact year that Christian Frantz II entered his Little Swatara Creek land is unknown, but it was probably close to 1741, the year that he took out his warrant. He was certainly living and farming on the land long before he received his patent, which was dated 20 August 1760.[13] He was also paying land taxes in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, at the outset of that county’s formation in 1751-2.[14] One question about the life of Christian Frantz II is whether he was married to Barbara Frantzin who immigrated with the family in 1732. She was old enough to be either the wife of Christian II or the daughter of Christian I. This writer has assumed that she was the daughter of Christian I because of how the family was described—Christian Frantz with his wife and eleven children—in the Amsterdam Committee document of 1732. A second question is whether Christian Frantz II was the Christian Frantz who was listed in 1770 as a member of the Little Swatara Brethren. This writer posits that it might have been his son Christian Frantz III who was listed. Morgan Edwards did not name Christian Frantz II as one of the church-founders, while his two younger brothers, Michael Frantz and John Frantz, were named. Christian Frantz II may have remained in the Mennonite faith. Not one of his seven married daughters in 1775 is known to have married a Brethren. Also, on the 1770 list of members, Christian Frantz was listed last among the Frantz membership, suggesting that this Christian might have been the young Christian Frantz III, who was a known Brethren and whose children married into Brethren families. On 27 January 1775, Christian Frantz II, at about age 69, wrote his last will and testament [15] In it he named his wife, Magdalena, his son Christian, and his eight daughters:
Barbara
Margaretha
Magdalena
Anna
Maria
Fronica
Susannah
Elizabeth
It is unknown which, if any, of his children were born to Magdalena [maiden name unknown]. The names of any prior wives are also unknown.
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