Melchior Breneman and Elizabeth [Unk]

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Husband Melchior Breneman ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1665 - Upper Palatinate, Germany 3
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         Father: Melchior Breneman (Abt 1631-      ) 4
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Wife Elizabeth [Unk] ¹

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Children

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1 M Melchior Breneman, Jr. ^{1 3}

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           Born: Abt 1726
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2 M Adam Breneman ¹

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3 M Christian Breneman ¹

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         Spouse: Susannah [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Melchior Breneman

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He was the first member of the family to immigrate [from Switzerland?] to America. He reached Pennsylvania sometime between 1709 and 1717, eventually settling in what is now Conestoga Township, in Lancaster County.

He was a Mennonite preacher, and with other friends of this denomination he fled from the religious persecution then prevalent in Europe, and came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with other Swiss Mennonite refugees, early in the autumn of 1717. On September 7th, in that year, he took out a warrant for five hundred acres of land, and subsequently two more tracts adjoining this on the east, one of which contained ninety acres and the other about one hundred and twenty-five acres. This land is located due south from Lancaster borough, and lies upon both sides of Mill Creek.
On the 3d day of December, 1728, Melchoir Breneman purchased seven hundred acres of land from Martha Bizaillon, which was situated on the western boundary of the Le Tort-Logan tract. On March 30, 1730, Melchoir Breneman and his wife Elizabeth conveyed to their son Adam one hundred acres of the first-mentioned tract.
In 1719 there was surveyed for John Combe, brother of Martha Bizaillon, four hundred and fifty acres, adjoining the latter's tract of seven hundred acres on the west. Both of these tracts lay along the river below Conoy Creek.
On the 5th day of April, 1738, John Combe conveyed his tract of land to his sister Martha, who, on the 14th and 15th days of March, 1739, conveyed the same to Christian Breneman, who resided upon the Bizaillon tract, purchased by his father in 1728.
On the 2d day of August, 1746, Melchoir Breneman (No. 1) conveyed to his son, the aforesaid Christian, seven hundred acres, the same which he purchased of Martha Bizaillon.
On the 7th day of May, 1751, Christian Breneman and his wife Susannah conveyed to their son Melchoir one hundred and eighty-seven acres, which was made up and taken from the Combes and Bizaillon tracts; and on the same day and year he conveyed one hundred and eighty-seven acres to his son-in-law, John Stoneman (Stehman). Prior to this time Mr. Breneman and his wife conveyed four hundred acres of the Bizaillon tract to Abram Hess.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 750.

2 Ronald A. Audet, The Camp-Breneman Families of Pennsylvania and Virginia (Williamsburg, VA: Privately published, 1996), Pg 14.

3 Ronald A. Audet, The Camp-Breneman Families of Pennsylvania and Virginia (Williamsburg, VA: Privately published, 1996), Pg 15.

4 Ronald A. Audet, The Camp-Breneman Families of Pennsylvania and Virginia (Williamsburg, VA: Privately published, 1996), Pg 11.