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Johannes Jost Schwob BIRTH 26 May 1704 Leimen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany DEATH 18 Dec 1780 (aged 76) Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA BURIAL Salem Evangelical Reformed Church Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA MEMORIAL ID Find A Grave: Memorial #24440404 Has a photo of his gravestone.
John Swope 2 (Yost 1 ) was born May 26, 1704, in Leimen, a town of about 2,700 inhabitants, of which his grandfather was burgomaster, in the Duchy of Baden, Germany. He was baptized on the 28th day of the same month, as is here shown by a translation of his baptismal certificate from the German: "John Swope, son of Mr. Yost Swope, a citizen of the parish of Leimen, was baptized the 28th day of May, 1704. The sponsors were John Kitznüller and Dornlicker Müller of the Dornmüller (district) near the town of Wisloch. This is a correct copy from the church records of Leimen, near Heidelberg. J. G. Kirckmayer, Paster of Leimen. May 5, 1720."
In 1720 he emigrated with his father to America and settled in Upper Leacock township, Lancaster Co., Pa., on land purchased from the Provincial Government. This land was cleared, made tillable and divided into farms, which he bequeathed to his sons at his death. In addition to farming he was also engaged in the pottery business. He married first in 1725, Anna Dorothea Line, daughter of John Line, who died in 1740.
John Swope, in 1742, married, secondly, Elizabeth Grove (Groff or Greve).
This contract was signed by nineteen witnesses, many of them the ancestors of old Lancaster county families. The second wife of John Swope died Aug. 14, 1776. He survived her until Dec. 18, 1780, when he died. He was buried in the graveyard of the Old Hellers (Salem) Church, about a mile from his home, where repose five generations of the family.
From the provisions of his will he must have accumulated a considerable estate for those early days. The home plantation he bequeathed to his son, John Daniel, and it is still owned by his descendants. To his sons Jacob, Adam and Henry he gave each a farm. To his other children and grand-children he left various sums ranging from fifty to one hundred and twenty-five pounds each.
(listings appear for 10 children from his first wife and 9 more from his second).
Johannes was born in 1704. He passed away in 1780.
John was born in 1704. He passed away in 1780.
Johannes Schwab Christening 28 May 1704 Leimen, Heidelberg, Baden, Deutschland; Parent: Yost and Anna Catharina.[1]
Marriage 'Johannes Schwab and Catharine Elisa Graeff 25 May 1742 Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.[2]
Find A Grave Johannes Jost Schwob; BIRTH 26 May 1704 Leimen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; DEATH 18 Dec 1780 (aged 76) Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; Parents: Yost Conrad Swope 1656–1735 and Anna Katherina Wolfhardt Schwab 1663–1720; Spouse: Catharina Elisabeth Grove Swope 1715–1776 (m. 1742).[2]
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BIRTH 26 May 1704 Leimen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany DEATH 18 Dec 1780 (aged 76) Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA BURIAL Salem Evangelical Reformed Church Cemetery Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA MEMORIAL ID 24440404 · View Source