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[NI11057] Of New Haven, CT.

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John Philip RANCK / Anna Barbara SCHUMACHER

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[NI3701] In the spring of 1728 in Mannheim John Michael and John Philip Ranck learned that a band of Moravians was sailing down the Rhine past Mannheim for the purpose of embarking from Rotterdam for America. The young men sent a message ahead, begging the travellers to stop and take them on as additional passengers. Soon John Michael with his young wife Anna Barbara Schwab and John Philip were journeying down the Rhine to Holland.ited in Rotterdam another year, sailing on June 20, 1729, on the very same vessel, The Mortonhouse. He arrived in Philadelphia on August 19, 1729, after a voyage of fifty-five days. No one knows for sure why both young men did not come at the same time. Romance may have been at stake, since this year later John Philip brought with him a young bride, Anna Barbara Schumacher. d forty-three acres adjacent to the east of his brother's land; titles were granted to them in 1734 and 1751. These two farms, having been divided by 1978 into about twelve smaller farms, lie just southeast of New Holland, extending eastward past Blue Ball and East Earl to a tiny community called Fetterville, between Pennsylvania State Route #23 and the Welsh Mountains.rt and support of the church or school in their immediate neighborhoods. On occasion John Michael took his young family to the Moravian congregation at Warwick (Lititz) where several of the children were baptized and received into the various choirs (classes) of the congregation. John Philip associated himself with Zeltenreich's Reformed Church five miles to the southwest. At the first Reformed Coetus held in Philadelphia in 1747 Zeltenreich's was represented by Rev. John Bartholomew and Elder Philip Ranck. The records of Trinity Lutheran Church in New Holland also contain evidence of some ministerial acts performed there for members of the family.e to Bethlehem where a larger colony of Moravians had been established. There, for instance, the church marriage records of 1758 report the wedding of Michael Rancke, "a farmer from Pennsylvania", to Elizabeth Leinbach of Oley.

[NI6325] Wagoner and Private in the Revolutionary War. "The Pennsylvania Archives, Ser. 3, Vol. 17, p264 list him as having"paid effective supply tax in 1779." The only DAR member tracing ancestry to him lists Philip as a Private 7th class in the 6th Company under Caption Watson."

[NI6328] Served in the Revolutionary War.

[NI6332] Private in the Revolutionary War. Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 7, Ser. 5, pp 496-497 and 991-992: 1. "Taken for the year 1782 Capt. Alex McIlvain, 6th class, Valentine Ranck." (DAR lists this as part of the 5th Battalion.) 2. "Muster roll of James Watson's Company of Militia of Lancaster County, commanded by Colonel David Jenkins, 1778: 6th class Valentine Ranck."

[NI3700] A pleasing story is told.... The Germans in that day had a custom which permitted the girls to "pop the question" on St. Valentine's day. They baked little biscuits cut outwith their thimbles, and on this day would go on the streets and offer this bread to any young man they wished. If he accepted these biscuits it was understood he accepted the girl also. A young girl named Eva Ronk offers hers to Durst Ammen, which was accepted and thus they were engaged and married in 1759. Many of her descendants are found in both the second and third divisions of the Harshbargers.

[NI6330] Brecknock Twp., Lancaster Co., PA in 1780. Later moved to Botetourt Co, VA, and settled near Buchanan. His first deed in the Botetourt records is in January 1795.

[NI5001] Pennsylvania Archives, Ser. 5, Vol. 7, p 497 lists him as a Private 4th class in the 1st Company, 5th Battalion, of the Lancaster County Militia under Capt. Alexander McIlvaine. Other PA Archive records, e.g.,Ser. 3, Vol. 17, p 453 and Ser. 5, Vol. 7, p 497 and ser 5, Vol. 8, p 955 document John as a soldier in the 4th class under Capts. James Watson, John Huber, and Alexander McIlvain. Moved in 1795 to White Deer Twp., Northumberland Co. (now Union Co.), PA

[NI6334] According to Ezra H. Ranck in «i»The Ranck Reporter«/i», Vol. 2, No. 2, dated May 1980, p5, he was a Revolutionary War veteran, and his grave in the Huff cemetery in White Deer Township of Union County, PA, is preserved by the veterans of the area.

[NI6336] Jacob Ranck served as a Private in the Lancaster County Militia in the 5th Battalion under Captains James Watson and Alexander McIlvain, 1778-1782, according to Pennsylvania Archives, Ser. V, Vol. 7, pp 497, 516, 520, 991.

[NI6338] PA Archives, Ser. 5, Vol. 7, pp 496, 515, 520, and 992 document him as a member of the Lancaster County Militia, 1st Company, 5th Battalion, 2nd class, under Capt. McIlvain. He is shown as "Loudwig Ranck" in the report for 1772 and successive years. The p 992 reference is a Capt. James Watson report for 1778 showing him as "Ludwick Ranck." DAR and Lancaster County Historical Library records him as a Private.

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Samuel HARSHBARGER / Nancy SHELBY

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Johannes DEKKER / Elizabeth DEWITT

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Thomas ENSIGN / Lucretia WILLIAMS

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