Rev. Jacob D Meyer

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1. Jacob D. Meyer, Rev [7x Great Grandfather]
......... c: 1636, Stallikon, Switzerland
......... religion: Anabaptist Mennonites
......... m: 2 Jun 1657, Reformed Church, Pfaffilon, Zurich, Switzerland
......... d: after 1685, Gundersheim, Palantine, Germany

Llisted as age 1 in 1637, age 4 in 1640. The first mention of him is in Gundersheim in the Palatinate, Germany. It is thought he was among a group of Anabaptist Mennonites who were persecuted and finally driven out of Switzerland because they would not conform to the state church. At that particular time Germany was looking for good farmers to try and repair the damage to the country done by the Thirty Year War. So they welcomed the Anabaptists escaping from Switzerland.

In 1685 Jacob Meyer is shown as living in Gundersheim, Germany with his 4 sons.
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....….....….m: Margaretha Meyer Kundig
......................b: b: 4 Aug 1633, Pfaffilon, Zurich, Switzerland
......................d: 5 Mar 1700, Pfaffilon, Zurich, Switzerland

Children of Jacob D. Meyer and Margaretha Meyer Kundig

......... 3 Ulrich Meyer
..............b: 1668, Gundersheim, Germany
..............d: 1741

......... 3 Christian Meyer ......................................... [7x Great Grandfather]
.............. + Barbara Bergey (Burki)
..................b: abt 1679, Palatine, Germany
..................d: bef 18 Jan 1748, Lower Salford Twp, Montgomery Co.
..............b: b: 1672, Gundersheim, Germany
..............d: Jun 1751, Lower Salford Twp, Montgomery Co.
......... 3 Hans Meyer
..............b: 1680, Gundersheim, Germany
......... 3 Jacob Meyer
..............b: 1684, Gundersheim, Germany
..............d: 1747


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