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Philip Beyer (Boyer) emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1731. [1] By 1739, he was living in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. [2] He also lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania. [3]
Children:
Parameter minimums 7 cM, 200-400 SNP segments. The following was the strongest match between Michael Beyer and John (Beyer) Boyer descendants (most matched at less stringent parameters). Bret Bessac GEDmatch WW7580824 and Ellen (Carmichael) Overstreet GEDmatch M696193. Their most-recent common ancestors are Johann Beyer and Maria (Beck) Beyer the parents of Michael Beyer and John (Beyer) Boyer. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 6.9 based on sharing 8.4 cM across 1 half-match segments. Largest segment = 8.4 cM
He is the most recent common ancestor for:[6]Michael Beyer descendant line matched to 2 different sibling John (Beyer) Boyer and Elizabeth (Beyer) Sausamann lines; 5 individuals, between 6-9 cM as of May 26, 2020.
Johann Philip was born in or near Eppstein, Frankenthal, probably in March, 1701. He was baptized in Frankenthal on March 29, 1701, the son of Samuel Bayer and Maria. His baptismal sponsor was probably Johann Philipps Bund, customs official from Hessheim.[7]
On November 11, 1721, he married Maria Elisabeth Beck [last named needs confirmation] in Eppstein. [8]
The evidence tying this couple to the family in Pennsylvania is:
He has been thought to have been the Philip Beyer on the ship Pennsylvania Merchant, John Stedman, Master, which sailed from Rotterdam, cleared at Dover, England, and arrived in Philadelphia on 10 Sept. 1731. The passengers on that ship included Christophel, Philip and Andreas Beyer (Andreas is listed with last name Beyer in Lists B and C, and “Meyer” in List A) among the men; Margarite & Maria Beyer among the women; and Hendrik, Jerick, and two Catrina Beyers among the children under 16. However, that is not a good match with this Philip, as presumably he would have traveled with his wife Maria Elisabeth and children Anna Maria, Maria Elisabeth, Michael, John and Benedict, all of whom were probably alive at the time and all but Anna Maria survived him (based on his will).
In light of the fact that his siblings Anna Klara Beyer (abt.1705-1751) (see also duplicate profile at Anaclore Boyer (1700-1763) – needs merging), Johan Heinrich Beyer (1708-1757) and Andreas Beyer (1711-1768) all appear to have arrived in Pennsylvania before passengers lists began to be required in 1727, he may have as well.
Philip moved his family to Oley Township and finally to Amity Township, where he was listed in 1735 on a __________[type of list needs to be added], north of the Oley to Philadelphia Road.[10]
He was a member of the Falckner Swamp Lutheran Church, which was founded in 1720 on a site now in New Hanover Township in Montgomery County, and now known as the New Hanover Lutheran Church, Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania. He and five of his children were confirmed there by Henry M. Muhlenberg on the Sunday after Easter in 1746. [11] Philip’s final illness, death and burial were described in Muhlenberg’s Hallischen Nachrichten [2:147]; Muhlenberg conducted his funeral service and wrote the following:
In the month of May the aged father [Beyer] of a large family, which lives ten miles from the New Hanover church, died. He rejoiced when I and my colleagues came to this province [in 1742], for it gave him an opportunity to hear God’s word. He attended services regularly, usually had his children instructed and confirmed, and was a diligent reader, at home, in the Bible, Arndt’s True Christianity [a standard pietist devotional written in 1605], and other edifying books. His conduct was honorable, and he was able to speak edifyingly of divine truths in social gatherings. In his last years, he was unable, on account of age and weakness, to make the difficult journey to the New Hanover church. He accordingly attended some of the meetings which were held in his immediate neighborhood.
He lived in a region inhabited by people who hold all kinds of curious opinions, despise preachers, churches, and sacraments without discrimination, and pride themselves in their own righteousness. Since evil communications corrupt good manners, and since this man probably had too much commerce in his last years with such people, he began to scruple at all sorts of indifferent trivialities in our religion and to consider the Evangelical [Lutheran] preachers, who receive charitable offerings from their parishoners for their bodily necessities, as servants of their own bellies....
I visited several times when I had opportunity to preach in his neighborhood and I admonished him to have an earnest concern for his soul, etc. The Lord finally cast him upon a sick bed and reminded him, through His Spirit, of the truths which he had often read and heard in former times. In this way he was given an opportunity to reconsider. Inasmuch as he had on various occasions said harsh and uncharitable things against me, he was reluctant to call me when he was sick.... He requested that I be told after his death that, as a poor worm, he had sought and found grace in the blood and death of Jesus.” [12]
According to American Boyers, by Rev. Charles C. Boyer, he was “influenced, though not absorbed, by the sect known as "New Borns," [13] adherents of which included his neighbors Mathias Bauman (1680-1727), Philip Kühlwein (1683-1736), Jean LeDee of Eppstein and Oley (no Wikitree profile), Isaac DeTurk (bef.1685-bef.1727), Hans Yoder (abt.1700-1779) and Martin (Shenkle) Schenkel (abt.1680-bef.1751).
Based on his will and baptism records in Eppstein, Germany and Pennsylvania, he had at least the following children:
Philip Beyer’s will, dated 21 April 1753 and proved May 28, 1753, is on file at Philadelphia Will Book K, 79. The will names his wife Elisabeth; children John [not John Henry], Michael, Benedict, Elizabeth, Catherine and Barbary; Grandchildren Magdaline, John and Valentine Smith; Son-in-Law: Manonous Sansmans [i.e. Hermanus Sassemanhausen]; Executors, his son John and John Gryner, Jr. Others mentioned (but the abstract does not include the relationship) were: Elias Dagly, John Titerryne and John Sands.[15]
Other men named Philip Beyer in Pennsylvania before 1740:
There were probably three other men named Philip Beyer or similar in Pennsylvania at the time.
One of them, Johann Philip Beyer (1717-abt.1781), wrote his will in Lebanon, Lancaster County on April 5, 1781 (proved May 1, 1781). He was probably the 20-year-old on the list of passengers of the Winter Galley, Edward Paynter, Master, which sailed from Rotterdam to Philadelphia, where the passengers qualified 5 Sept. 1738 [Strassburger and Hinke].
The second man [see profile at John Philip Beyer (1710-1768), needs updating] warranted land on July 23, 1747 and January 4, 1749 in what was then Bern, Berks County and is now Centre Township. He may have been the 29-year-old Philip Beyer on the 1738 Winter Galley, but more research is needed.
The third Philip Beyer (no profile found) arrived on the Pennyslvania Merchant in 1731 with Christophel, Andreas, Marguerite and Maria Beyer (adults), and Hendrik, Jerick and two girls named Catrina Beyer (children under 16). That man was more likely to be related to the others on the ship, the men thought to be Johann Christoph Beyer (abt.1677-aft.1751) and his son Andreas (Beyer) Bayer (1709-1778), who settled in Upper Salford, Montgomery County. But no information has been found in Pennsylvania yet that seems definitely related to him.
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Categories: Palatine Migrants
Name: Philip Byer;
Role: Decedent;
Residence Place: Amity, Bucks [!] Co.;
Will Date: 21 Apr 1753;
Will Proved Date: 28 May 1753;
Title: Yeoman;
Comments: Byer, Philip. Amity, Co. of Bucks [!]. Yeoman. April 21, 1753. May 28, 1753;
Wife: Elizabeth.
Children: John, Michael, Benedict, Elizabeth, Catherine and Barbary;
Grandchildren: Magdaline, John and Valentine Smith;
Son-in-Law: Manonous Sansmans [i.e. Hermanus Sassemanhausen];
Exec: Son John and John Gryner, Jr.;
Codicil: April 25, 1753;
Page: K:79
Household members:
Barbary Byer, Benedict Byer, Catherine Byer, Elias Dagly, Elizabeth Byer, Elizabeth Byer, John Byer, John Byer, John Gryner, John Sands, John Smith, John Titerryner, Magdaline Smith, Manonous Sansmans, Michael Byer, Philip Byer, Valentine Smith.
"My Ancestry" by Thomas L. Rhoads says this: "John Philip Beyer and his wife Maria Elizabeth came to America from Epstein, Germany in 1724 [!] and settled in Frederick Township, but soon moved to Oley Township, and then to Amity Township (Will Book K, page 79, Philadelphia Court House). Philip Byer was buried at Oley 7 May 1753 (New Hanover Lutheran Church Records).
I added the [!] for information that is surprising...
Can anyone provide a copy of this will recorded in Book K, Page 79? I don't see it in the Berks County will records.
edited by Ann Risso
War skirmishes. In 1750, British and French representatives met in Paris to try to solve these territorial disputes, but no progress was made. In 1752, the Marquis Duquesne was made governor-general of New France with specific instructions to take possession of the Ohio Valley, removing all British presence from the area.. The following year, 1753, he sent troops to western Pennsylvania where they built forts at Presque Island (Erie) and on the Rivière aux Boeufs (Waterford).