Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Zell, Esq.




Husband John Zell, Esq. 1 2

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1 M Jacob Zell 1 2

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         Spouse: Margaret Evans (1797-      ) 1 2 3 4



General Notes: Husband - John Zell, Esq.

Churchtown, Lancaster Co, PA

He was a descendant of Johannes Heinrick Zell, who came from Holland to America in 1684, and whose father Johannes Heinrich Zell, founded the city of Zell, in Baden on the river Wiese, and in 1690 organized out of the veterans of the 30 years war the Zell Guards, later the 4th Infantry which was always commanded by a Zell.

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Sources


1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 765.

2 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 101.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 19.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 38.


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