Descendants of:
JACOB SHANTZ

Updated: October 30, 2011


Jacob Shantz, "was born in Switzerland about the year 1710. Owing to religious persecutions, he, with others, left their native home and went to Holland where they had the promise of protection from the persecuting parties by the Prince of Orange. Here he lived some fifteen years. Seeing so many of his co-religionists emigrating to America, besides being informed of the proclamation issued by William Penn, he at last decided to emigrate to America and settle among his co-religionists. He crossed the ocean in a vessel named "Townshead" and landed safely at Philadelphia in the summer of 1737. He may have resided in Germantown for some time. In the year 1745 we find him and his family located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. What number of children he had could not be ascertained. We know that he was married twice. The children of his first wife were II Isaac, II Esther, and II Susannah, and from his second wife we have the record of only one son named II Christian. Old Jacob Shantz died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, February 5th, 1781, aged a few months less than 71 years. He was buried in the Sprogell Cemetery, beside Magdalena, his first wife."


1 Jacob Shantz b. abt 1710 d. 05 Feb 1781
m. abt 1740 Magdalena Erb b. abt. 1718
m. Catherine Beary

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References:
"The Genealogy of the Bergey Family" -- David H. Bergey, 1925
"Genealogy of the Bingaman Family" -- Landreth K. Bingaman, 1957
"A Biographical History of Waterloo Township" -- Ezra E. Eby 1895/1896
The Family History of Jonas Good & Elizabeth Snyder Good -- Cranson Good 1976
A Detailed Record of the Descendants of Menno Good -- M. R. Good 1979
1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 Census of Canada
1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 Census of the United States
United States Social Security Death Index
Vital Statistics -- Archives of Ontario