Melchior Beyer

Melchior Beyer

Born before 1665

Died

Married

Eva

Born

Died

"the only immigrant Schwenkfelder known to have gone back to Europe after the migration to Pennsylvania, for he again returned to America in 1749 from Holland and brought with him Hans Ulrich Seiler, a Swiss Redemptioner, who murdered Abraham Beyer's daughter, Anna Rosina, wife of David Schultz (see The SCHOLTZE Family.)"

1736 Immigration
Name: Hans Melchior Beyer
Arrival Year: 1736
Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 1804
Primary Immigrant: Beyer, Hans Melchior
Annotation: Taken from original manuscripts in the state archives. Names given throughout pages 1-677. Foreigners arriving in Pennsylvania named on pages 521-667. No. 3776, Kelker, supplements this.
Source Bibliography: EGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, editor Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2, vol. 17.) Harrisburg [PA]: E.K. Meyers, 1890. 787p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967.
Page: 121

Name: Hans Melchior Beyer
State: PA
County: Philadelphia County
Township: Philadelphia
Year: 1736
Database: PA Early Census Index

Name: Hans Melchior Beyer
Arrival Year: 1736
Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 1804
Primary Immigrant: Beyer, Hans Melchior
Annotation: Taken from original manuscripts in the state archives. Names given throughout pages 1-677. Foreigners arriving in Pennsylvania named on pages 521-667. No. 3776, Kelker, supplements this.
Source Bibliography: EGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, editor Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. (Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 2, vol. 17.) Harrisburg [PA]: E.K. Meyers, 1890. 787p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967.
Page: 121

1742
Name: Eva Margaret Beyer
Description: Born
Event: Birth
Date of Event: 20 Nov 1742
Church: Records of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, City of York, York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800

Name: Melchior Beyer
Description: Father
Event: Baptism
Church: Records of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, City of York, York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800


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Deutschland, Heiraten 1558-1929 Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929 about Melchior Beyer
Name: Melchior Beyer
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 18 Dez 1693 (18 Dec 1693)
Marriage Place: Wiesenbach, Württemberg, Germany
Spouse: Eva Barbara Naser
FHL Film Number: 1528624

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A Schwenkfelder Immigrant

Melchior Beyer -  "the only immigrant Schwenkfelder known to have gone back to Europe after the migration to Pennsylvania, for he again returned to America in 1749 from Holland and brought with him Hans Ulrich Seiler, a Swiss Redemptioner, who murdered Abraham Beyer's daughter, Anna Rosina, wife of David Schultz (see The SCHOLTZE Family.)"  I've included the story of her murder in the comments below this post.

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Melchoir Beyer

 married 

 Eva Unknown

Abraham BEER (BEYER) 1690 - 1754

 married

Rosina JAECKEL (YEAKEL) 1699-1770

Anna Maria Beyer 1720-1802

married

Abraham Jackel Yeakel 1720-1768 

  David Yeakel 1762-1820 

married  

Anna Kreibel 1766-1841

Maria Yeakel 1791-1854 

married 

Daniel Hein

David Hein

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Sarah Mauser

Minnie Hein

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Havey J. Brown

Thelma Brown

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Charles "Fred" Truckenmiller

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 The following is from "Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families: Seekers of Religious Liberty who Fled from Silesia to Saxony and Thence to Pennsylvania in the Years 1731 to 1737". Edited by Samuel Kriebel Brecht, A.M. Printed for The Board of Publication of the Schwenkfelder Church, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Rand McNally & Company. 1923. [NOTE: The Silesia referenced below was an area of Europe which is now in southwestern Poland. Germany ceded this province to Poland after WW II. The area borders present day Germany and the Czech Republic. The founder of the Schwenkfelder Church, Caspar Schwenckfeld, was born in Ossing, Silesia, which was changed to Ossig (Osiek in Polish), and is still a small town outside of Lubin, Poland, which is outside of Legnica (Liegnitz in German), Poland. For more information, see the website of the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center at: http://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/rpc/sfld/s_guide.htm The SLHC is located in Pennsburg, PA.]

   THE BEYER (BEER) FAMILY

   MELCHIOR BEYER was married to Eva, nee unknown.

   Their known children were:

1. Ursula BEYER (BEIER), b. about 1686, d. May 15, 1767,, m. Rev. Balzer (Balthasar) HOFFMAN, b. 1687 in Harpersdorf, Liegnitz, Silesia, d. July 11, 1775, son of Christopher Hoffman and Ursula Anders. Ursula and Balthasar came to Pa. in 1734 with their children and settled in Lower Salford Twp.

 Their children were: i. Anna, b. 1712, d. Jan 16, 1796, m. George Schultz.

                             ii. Rosina, b. Dec. 21, 1718, in O. Hdrf., d. June 14, 1788, m. 1) Christopher Seipt, 2) Christopher Yeakel

                            iii. Christopher, b. Dec. 3, 1727, at Berthelsdorf, Saxony, d. Jan. 29, 1804, m. Rosina Dresher.

2. Abraham BEER (BEYER), b. Aug. 16, 1690 in Nieder Harpersdorf, Silesia, d. Oct. 30, 1754, m. Nov. 1717, Rosina JAECKEL (YEAKEL), b. June 16, 1699, d. July 30, 1770, dau. of Hans and Maria Jaeckel (Yeakel).

Abraham Beer fled with his wife, two sons, three daughters, one foster son, and one foster daughter. When they came to Pa. in 1736, there were three sons and three daughters.

They settled in Worcester Twp., Pa. He was naturalized June 21, 1743, and is the only immigrant Schwenkfelder known to have gone back to Europe after the migration to Pennsylvania, for he again returned to America in 1749 from Holland and brought with him Hans Ulrich Seiler, a Swiss Redemptioner, who murdered Abraham Beyer's daughter, Anna Rosina, wife of David Schultz (see The SCHOLTZE Family.) Abraham and Rosina are both buried in the Methacton Cemetery.

Although Abraham Beyer signed his name as "Beer" to the Oath of Allegiance, he soon changed it to "Beyer." There are more variations in the spelling of this name than that of any other Schwenkfelder immigrant. We find the following variations in spelling: "Beer, Baer, Bar (umlaut over 'a'), Bayer, Bear, Beyer, Boyer, Byer, and Buyer." As a matter of fact in one legal paper the same name was written four different ways, and we find the same man signing one form of spelling at one time and another form at other times.

Children of Abraham BEER (BEYER) and Rosina JAECKEL (YEAKEL) were:

     i. George, b. Dec. 21, 1718 in Nieder Harpersdorf, d. 1736-1739.

    ii. Anna Rosina, b. Aug. 13, 1720 in Nieder Harpersdorf, d. June 14, 1750, m. David Schultz (Scholtze.)

   iii. Abraham, b. Feb. 1722, d. Mar. 6, 1796, m. Barbara Hiestand.

   iv. Anna Maria, b. about Mar. 1, 1725, d. Apr. 10, 1802, m. 1) Abraham Jaeckel (Yeakel), 2) Peter Gerhard, who m. 2nd time, Elizabeth Krauss.

   v. Andrew, b. about 1733, d. Apr. 19, 1773, m. Philipina Weyand.

  vi. Susanna, m. Dirk (Derrick) Casselberry.

 vii. George, b. July 13, 1739, d. Sept. 19, 1744. Buried in Methacton Cem.

3.  Maria BEYER, b. about 1694, d. Mar. 12, 1768, m. Melchior KRAUSS of Neu Armenruhe, b. ?, d. before 1737. Maria Beyer Krauss arrived in Pa. in 1737 with her children. She is buried in the Washington Schwenkfelder Cemetery.

Children of Maria BEYER and Melchior KRAUSS were:

   i. Melchior, b. ?, d. Sept. 16, 1779, unmarried.
  ii. Christoph, b. May 19, 1720, in Neu Armenruhe, d. Oct. 23, 1795, m. Susanna Schultz.