Hiestand, Abraham 1

Birth Name Hiestand, Abraham
Gender male
Age at Death 81 years, 6 months, 26 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1748-06-09    
 
Death 1830-01-05    
 
Burial   Upper Milford Mennonite Church Cemetery, Zionsville, Pennsylvania  
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Parents

Relation to main person Name Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Hiestand, Hans
         Hiestand, Abraham

Families

    Family of Hiestand, Abraham and Allebach, Anna L
Married Wife Allebach, Anna L
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage      
 
  Children
  1. Heistand, Elizabeth

Narrative

Revolutionary war as "2nd class, Abraham Hiestand" in Capt Peter Kooken's First Battalion, 5th company, Northampton County Militia
Have not been able to trace back. Undoubtedly the son or grandson of the immigrant Hiestand who came from Switzerland (Swiss Anabaptists) throught the "Palatinate" on the Rhine, part of Germany -- many in excile years of 1671 and 1711. It seems there may have been 4 immigrant brothers, but this is not really clear. These Swiss descendants make up the majority of SE PA Mennonite familes.
An Abraham Hiestand immigrated 1726.

Pedigree

  1. Hiestand, Hans
    1. Hiestand, Abraham
      1. Allebach, Anna L
        1. Heistand, Elizabeth

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume VIII, Associators and Militia of Northampton county, Pa, page 55, edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery, 1906. Maintaining the Right Fellowship: A narrative account of life in the oldest ...By John L. Ruth.
  2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81912917