Michael ZIEGLER

Religion: Mennonit

9 Kinder

1710 Guy's Ship, Pfalz, Germany

Note: He immigrated to Philadelphia with fellow passengers Henry and Arnold Kolb, Marcus Oberholtzer, Michael Ziegler, Gerhardt Clemens and John Bien and Andrew Schruager 9

Residence: 17 AUG 1745 Upper Hanover Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America

Note: He conveyed to his son Christopher 280 acres. The Homestead was near Souderton south to Skippack corner. Ziegler farmed whre todays routes 113 and 73 intersect. 10

Occupation: weaver, farmer and preacher. ABT 1712 11

Event: Deed 1717 Bebbers Township, Pennsylvania, America

Note: He received a deed for 100 acres in "Bebbers" township form Matthias and Hermana Van Hermanus Kuster, trustees for a place to build a schoolhouse and meeting house and start a burial ground. Others in the deed wer Henry Sellen, Claus Jansen, Henry Kolb, Martin Kiolb, Jacob Kolb and Hermanus Kuster. 12

Event: land patnt 1734 Parkiomen adn Skippake Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America

Note: Michael Zeagler is listed as owning 100 acres of land in a list of names of Inahbitants of the County of Philadlepha, according to the uncertain returns of the constables, publishedby the genealogical society of Pennsylvania in December 1898, miscellany No 2.

Religion: He was a Mennonite 1706

Immigration: SEP 1709 Germany

Note: He arrived to the colonies in September of 1709 from Germany and travled via London. He traveled with his brother 13 14

Will: 07 FEB 1763 Skippack Perkomen Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Note: His will was filed on this date

Will: 29 OCT 1765 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Note: His will was probated on this date

Religion: He was a Trustee and then ordained as a preacher at Skippack and Germantown. Skippack was the second oldest in America and Germantown was the oldest. ABT 1720 Skippack MennoniteCongregation, Skippack, Pennsylvania, America 15

Event: Deed 1725 Skippack Congregation

Note: He had a Declaration of Trust to Successors of Skippack Congregation. This and the 1717 deed ar amoung the oldest Mennonite congregational records in existence in North America.

Angekommen in Amerika vor 1717 mit seinem Bruder Melchior, wie im Jahre 1717 er in Perkiomen Twp seitig wieder, PA.

Es wird angenommen , dass Michael im Jahre 1709 im Alter von etwa 2 5. in Amerika ankam , war er ein Prediger in Skippack Mennonite Treffen, die zweite olde st in Amerika ... Germantown, die älteste ist. Michael war auch ein Weber u nd Bauer.

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