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This profile is for Philip Beyer or Boyer, who lived in what was then Bern, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and today is Centre Township, Berks County. His parents and his birth place aren't yet known.
The first definite record found for him is his warrant, on July 23,1747 of 100 acres in Bern, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, adjoining land of William Ingles. On January 4, 1749 he warranted 20 more acres abutting his first parcel. [1] These parcels are shown on his survey in Book B11, Page 90. [2]
On May 14, 1749, he and his unnamed wife sponsored the son of their abutting neighbor George Arnholdt (or Arnold) at Bern Church. [3]
There is a section on him and his descendants in American Boyers, by Rev. Charles C. Boyer, where he is thought to be the son of Johann Andreas Beyer (1681-abt.1740) (it is not known if that is correct), and attended St. Michael's church in Hamburg, Berks County. According to Boyer:
The historian has not learned the name of his wife, because the old church records of St. Michael's have been lost and the inscriptions on the old gravestones of the cemetery are no longer decipherable. From tax lists at Reading, the historian learns that his children were Michael, Henry, John, and Christopher. There were no doubt others. [4]
He may be the father of Christopher Beyer (1745-1817), who was in the right place at the right time to be the Christopher referred to in American Boyers. He is presently shown with different parents, but without evidence.
As originally created, this profile conflated Johann Philip Beyer (1701-1753), the son of Samuel Beyer (1662-1732) and Maria (Kirschner) Beyer (1666-1718), who died in Amityville, Berks County in 1753, with a namesake in Tulpehocken. There was little information or sources on the profile, and the birth date (16 Feb 1710) and death date (27 May 1768) were not substantiated. No man named Philip Beyer or similar has been found in Tulpehocken, but there was a man by that name living in nearby Bern, Berks County (today Centre Township, Berks County) at the time. There is already a profile for Beyer-1 . For those reasons this profile is being updated to represent the Bern man.
Men named Philip Beyer or similar on ship lists in Pennsylvania before 1745:
There were men named Philip Beyer who arrived in the port of Philadelphia after ship lists started to be required in 1727 and before 1750. It is not known for sure which one, if any of them, was this profiled Philip.
There may have been more.
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