Person:Jacob Mast (8)

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Jacob Mast
b.10 May 1705 Guggisberg, Switzerland
d.6 Jan 1772 Berks County, Pennsylvania
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m. Abt 1668
  1. Jacob Mast1705 - 1772
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  • H.  Jacob Mast1705 - 1772
  • W.  Barbara Berkey (add)
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  1. Joseph Maust1763 - 1846
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Name Jacob Mast
Gender Male
Birth? 10 May 1705 Guggisberg, Switzerland
Marriage Y
to Barbara Berkey (add)
Death? 6 Jan 1772 Berks County, Pennsylvania

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2172478&id=I112047533

BIOGRAPHY: The Mast/Maust Family went from Switzerland to Alsace, France to Germany. Mennonties and Amish people were being persecuted by the Catholics. They fled to America from Rotterdam, Holland on the ship "Charming Nancy" 10-8-1731 to Philadelphia, Pa.

"Amish immigration began in earnest on October 8, 1737, with the arrival of the Charming Nancy, a ship that had at least nineteen Amish families on board. The Charming Nancy was evidently an unhealthful ship, for during the voyage Hans Jacob Kauffm an, keeping a diary in the margins of an almanac, recorded the deaths of twenty-two children and two adults among the Amish passengers alone. Jacob Beiler, Jacob Mast, Christian Miller, Christian Hershberger, Christian Berkey, Hans Zimmerman, Henry Stehly, and Ulrich Spicher with their families were among the Charming Nancy passengers who survived, found new homes, and became neighbors along Irish Creek."

References
  1.   Land, Piety, Peoplehood: The Establishment of Mennonite Communities in America (1683-1790)
    P.71.
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