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Descendants of Jacob Hostetter

Generation No. 1

1. Jacob¹ Hostetter was born 1690 in Germany, and died 1761 in Lancaster County, Pa. He married Anna.

Notes
Jacob probably arrived in Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania in August of 1717. Among this group would be the Herr's, Kreider's and Funk's. (Emigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners, Richard Warren Davis,pages 35-43,) He settled in Lancaster County, PA at Engleside which is a little south of the present day Lancaster City. He eventually had a patent for 350 Acres of land.(Patent A-6-339, Division of land Records, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA.) He would also acquire land in Manor Township, Lancaster County for 475 acres(Patent A-9-338, Harrisburg.)

Reference: Will Y-2-283 Lancaster County Courthouse, Lancaster ,PA

Descendents of Immigrant Jacob Hostetter , Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage--April 1983, Pages 15-23
Richard L Hostetter

A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, Frenchand Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776(Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart Co. 1927) Page 437

Children of Jacob Hostetter and Anna are:

	2	i.	Anna² Hostetter, died 1787 in Lancaster County, Pa. She married John Brubaker.
+	3	ii.	Barbara Hostetter, died 1760 in Lancaster County, Pa.
+	4	iii.	Margaret Hostetter, died 1808 in Lititz, Lancaster County, PA.
+	5	iv.	John Hostetter, died 1765 in Lancaster County, Pa.
	6	v.	Catherine Hostetter.
+	7	vi.	Jacob Hostetter, born 1719 in Lancaster County, Pa; died 1796 in Lancaster County, Pa.
+	8	vii.	Elisabeth Hostetter, born 1722; died 1798 in Warwick Twp, Lancaster Cty, PA.
+	9	viii.	Abraham Hostetter, born 1723 in Lancaster County, Pa; died 1796 in Lancaster County, Pa.

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