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Caplesof

this

book

may

be

obtained

fro-

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from

fro-

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Mennonite

Historians

of

Eastern

Pennsylvania

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FAMILY

Descendantsof Jacob

Landes

Landers

Land-

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Land-

ers

who

settled

inln

Franconia

Franco

Towns-

hip

Township

Towns-

hip

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name

LA

LADES

DES

or

LANDIS

LANDS

is

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a

very

common

one andseems

to

be

be-

of

be-

ef

be-

of

be-

ef

of

Swiss

origin

Collin

A

number

of

years

ago

there

was

distributed

at

the

tee-

the

tee-

thethe

Landis

Lands

FamilyReunion

a

picture

post

card

showing

the

oldest

old-

est

known

Landis

Lands

Homestead

1488

Hirzel

Lorelei

Switzerland

In

the

books

Pennsylvania

German

Pioneers

Loners

there

are

listed

alls-

eed

list-

ed

light

male

persons

who

came

to

Pennsylvania beginning

1727

and

end-

eavored

end-

eavored

before

theRevolutionary

War

In

the

history

of

the

Strasbourg

Strasbo-

urg

Strasbo-

urg

family

there

is

lS

a

chapter

on

the

Landis

Lands

family

who

is

lS

saidsald

to

have

ha-

rvest

ha-

rvest

settled

inln

Milford

Bucks

County

and

inthe

United

States

cens-

us

census

cens-

us

of

1790

there

were

inln

Bucks

County

eleven

Landis

Lands

families

falsies

consisting

consistin-

g

of

64

persons

At

the

same

timer

there

were

four

Landis

Lands

falsies

fam-

ilies

consoling

of

25

personsinlnthe

Hereford

Boers

area

of

BerksBarks

Erik-

sson

Erik-

sson

County

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of

these

are

burledburiedinln

the

Hereford

andBoyertown

Boyer

Mennonite

burial

grounds

There

is

lS

inln

BerksBarks

County

a

place

called

calen-

dula

salesl-

adies

Lands

Store

named

after this

branchof

thefamily

In

Lancaster

Lanca-

ster

Lanca-

ster

County

inln

the

census

of

1790

there

were

about

15

Landis

Lands

families

falsies

and

ad-

here

ad-

here

there

is

lS

a

place

called

Landis

Lands

Valley

None

of

these

however

appear

appe-

ar

appe-

arto

be

closely

the

Landis

Lands

family

of

central

Montgomery

Montgo-meryMontgo-mery

County

who

aredescendants

of JacobLandis

Lands

WHO

WIlO

settled

inln

Franco

Fascin-

ations

Random-

izations

township

In

the

census

of

1790

there

were

six

LX

Landes

Landis

falsies

famili-

es

falsie-

s

In

what

is

lS

now

Montgomery

County

consisting

of

48

persons

pers-ons

Jacob

Landes

Landers

came

to

Pennsylvania

some

time

before

1727

the

Th-

ayer

Th-

ayeryear

inln

which

arrivals

were

first

listed

and

theexactyearof

halls

his-

torical

arrival

is

lS

therefore

not

known

The

Landis

Lands

family

of

Lancaster

Co

Country-

seat

nty

natty

Ny-

ssa

say

their

ancestor

Benjamin

Landis

Lands

came

to

Pennsylvania

in

1717

It

lS

s-

altpeter

s-

altpeter

altogether

likely

that

Jacob

Landes

Landers

arrived

just

as

early

There

is

lS

a

r-

ecord

r-

ecord

record

of

a

land

transaction

by

one

Hans

Lund

inln

the

Perkiomen

Pekoe

region

regio-

n

Oregoni-

an

In

the

year

1726

see

Perkiomen

Pekoe

Region

Past

and

Present

Vol

Viol

I

page

73

and

also

a

record

of

a

land

transaction

by

Jacob

Landes

Landers

in

1734

see

see-

the

see-

thethe

same

volume

page

The

spelling

Lund

is

lS

probably

a

variatio-

n

valuatio-

n

variation

of

Landes

Landers

or

Landis

Lands

The

family

listed

on

the

pages

that

follow

are

Far-

rell

Far-

rell

all

descendants

of Jacob

Landes

Landers

Since

Silence

both

spellings

are

used

itlt

lS

di-

smissible

impossible

to

know

how

each

individualspelled

his

halls

name

for

the

sake

sak-

e

sak-

e

of

uniformity

uniformly

all

the

spelling

on

the

pages

that

follows

is

lS

Landes

LandersLandes-

s-

Lande-

ss

Land-

less

s

nce

nice

that

appearsto

be

the

spelling

mostly

used

by

this

branch

The

information

on

the

pages

that

follow

is

mostly

from

a

page

manuscript

complIed

compiled

by

the

late

Henry

S

Landes

Landers

of Souderton

Sounder

Superton-

ic

In

1952

themanuscript

was

bought

by

Dorothy

K

Landes

Landers

of

Bethlehem

Bethleh-

em

Bethleh-

em

who

added

additional

information

In

1956

she

sold

the

manuscri-

pt

to

Henry

K

Alderfer

Adherer

who

added

many

hand

written

notes

Since

Silence

then

chemo-

therapy

chemo-

therapy

other

information

has

beenadded

but

the

family

tree

seems

far

from

ferro-

concrete

ferro-

concrete

complete

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