Samuel Bricker (1776 - 1866)

Born 25 Jul 1776 in Warwick Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca (Eby) Bricker — married [date unknown] in Waterloo, Ontario

Descendants

Died 15 Nov 1866 at age 90 in Waterloo, Canada West

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Biography

(NOTE PLEASE: The inclusion of the following biographical text is being here shown, not to confuse matters, but rather to stave off possible mistaken identifications. In fact, I want to mention here - the FamilySearch associated Family Tree Profile provides an additional Spouse named: ELIZABETH EBY BRICKER....This detail however is not supported by historical record evidence, or published references alleging historicity.)jlphawn

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From: Find A Grave Memorial Record ~

SAMUEL “Sam” BRICKER

Birth: 25 July 1776 Pennsylvania, United States

Death: 15 November 1868 (aged 92) Ontario, Canada

Burial: First Mennonite aka East Side Cemetery; Kitchener, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada

Source-Record Memorial ID:42051173

Son of PETER & MARY (BEAR) BRICKER

Husband of REBECCA EBY

Herald of Truth - Volume VI, Number 3 - March 1869 - page 47

"On the 15th of November, 1868, in Waterloo County, Ontario: SAMUEL BRICKER, aged 92 years, 3 months and 29 days.

He was buried at Eby's burying ground.

Funeral sermons were preached by Abm. Weaver and John Bear, from 1 Thess. 5: 9, 10 and Rom. 6: 7.

He was born in Pennsylvania.

SAM & 'Beccy' are 2 of the main characters in Mabel Dunham's: THE TRAIL OF THE CONESTOGA, The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1924.

Based on some historical facts, the book is largely a fictionalized account of the Eby, Bricker and other families in Hammer Creek, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the last days of the 1700s before the migration of some of the family members to Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada.

In this book, Becky - her father, Jeremiah*, recently deceased, is living in the home of her uncle and aunt - Christian and Nancy* (Bricker) Eby.

She falls in love with Sam Bricker, a nephew* of Nancy* and they marry and move to Canada to be among the first families who settle there. (more to come)

• In actual fact, "Nancy's" (wife of Christian Eby) name was either Catherine or Rebecca. 'Becky' was the daughter of John (not Jeremiah) Eby - a brother to Christian Eby. Sam was, in fact, a brother to Mrs. Christian Eby - not a nephew.

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From: WATERLOO GENERATIONS:

http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I12685&tree=generations#cite1

SAMUEL BRICKER (1776 - 1868)

Birth--25 July 1776, Pennsylvania

Land Bef 1831: Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 126, Waterloo County, Ontario

Land Bef 1831: Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 124S, Waterloo County, Ontario

Land Bef 1831: Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 054E, Waterloo County, Ontario

Directory For 1864 Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 01, Waterloo County, Ontario

Died: 15 Nov 1868 Chicopee (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region Bef 2012, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Honoured Hero of the book "The Trail of the Conestoga"

Eby ID Number:00016-1323

Waterloo Generations Site:

https://www.waterlooregionmuseum.ca/en/exhibits/past-and-present-inductees.aspx

Buried: First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Person ID:I12685:Generations--Last Modified:31 Mar 2019

Father: PETER BRICKER, b. 1720, Pennsylvania; d. date/place: Unknown

Mother: MARY BAEHR, b. ca. 1730, Pennsylvania; d. date/place: Unknown

Family ID:F1295

Family Member/Spouse: REBECCA EBY

b. 14 April 1781, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

d. 4 November 1861, Chicopee (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Married: 1801

Children:

1. MARY BRICKER, b. 1805, United States, d. 27 December 1893, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
2. PETER BRICKER, b. 16 May 1808, Chicopee (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; d. 8 Jun 1892, New Hamburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
3. SAMUEL E. BRICKER, b. 30 May 1810, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, d. date/place: Unknown
4. SOPHIA BRICKER, b. 20 December 1812, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; d. 4 November 1895
5. VERONICA "Franny" BRICKER, b. 6 January 1815, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, d. 1 April 1892, Woolwich Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
6. MOSES BRICKER, b. 29 April 1817, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; d. 1 May 1894, Mildmay, Carrick Township, Bruce County, Ontario
7. REBECCA BRICKER, b. 22 September 1819, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; d. 11 May 1872, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
8. LEAH BRICKER, b. 24 July 1822, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; d. 11 March 1869

SAMUEL BRICKER,"the youngest son of PETER and MARY (BEAR) BRICKER, was born July 25th, 1776.

He, in company with his brother JOHN BRICKER and Family, Joseph Bechtel and Family, and others, came to Canada in spring, 1802.

They took up land in Waterloo County, Ontario, near Blair.

In Autumn, 1802, more than a dozen families had settled within the County.

In March 1803, Mr Bricker was obliged to visit "Little York" (Toronto) to transact some private business. While there he received the sad intelligence that the whole of the township of Waterloo was mortgaged.† On his return to Waterloo he informed the settlers of the fact, and in order to prove the report of their friend, the settlers appointed Jacob Bechtel and Samuel Betzner to go to "Little York" and make a thorough investigation in regard to the mortgage. To their great surprise, they, in making inquiry at the Registry Office, found the report too true and that the amount of the mortgage was $40,000.00 covering 60,000 acres of land.

Mr Samuel Bricker and Joseph Shirk were appointed by the settlers to return to their friends in Franklin, Cumberland, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, to make arrangements in raising sufficient money to lift the mortgage, upon which the company still known as the "German Company" was formed. The stockholders entrusted the required sum of money to extinguish the mortgage to Samuel Bricker and Daniel Erb who carried it all the way to Canada on a conveyance. At their return to Canada the money was paid over to the proper parties and thus the mortgage was cancelled.

In 1801 Mr. Bricker was married to REBECCA, eldest daughter of JOHN and REBECCA (HERSHEY) EBY. She was born April 14th, 1781, and died November 4th, 1861.

They settled near Chicopee, a little north of Freeport, Ontario, on the east side of the Grand River. Their farm is now in possession of Richard Gehl who is married to a grandchild of old Samuel Bricker. Here they resided until their deaths.

His death took place November 15th, 1868, aged 92 years, 3 months, and 29 days. Their Family consists of eight children"

[Eby, Ezra E. (1895) A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY of WATERLOO Township and other Townships of the County: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.

Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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On the 15th of November, 1868, in Waterloo County, Ontario, SAMUEL BRICKER, aged 92 years, 3 months and 29 days. He was buried at Eby's burying ground. Funeral sermons were preached by Abm. Weaver and John Bear, from 1 Thess. 5: 9, 10 and Rom. 6: 7. He was born in Pennsylvania.

HERALD of TRUTH - Volume VI, Number 3 - March 1869 - Page 47

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The earliest Crown grants in the area were issued, beginning in 1803. to Samuel Bricker (lot 34. concession 8), Philip Saltberger (lot 35, concession 8). and Benham Preston Pots 32- 35. concession 9). Along with seven other families of the Mennonite faith, these settlers took land grants in Whitchurch Township because they were having difficulty obtaining dear deeds for land they had hoped to buy in Waterloo County near Kitchener. Ontario. Bricker was able to borrow enough money from relatives in Pennsylvania to form joint stock company known as the German Company, and this enabled the families to buy the land in Waterloo County. Eight of these families merely cleared the land in Whitchurch, as required, and sold the acreage within a few years.

Samuel Bricker, however, held the property until 1847, when he sold the east half to William Graham.

In 1852 he sold the remaining west half of his land to John Grose, whose descendants are still there.

Whitchurch Township, Jean Barkey, Whitchurch History Book Committee.

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Sources

Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin...,573.

Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin...,537.

Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin...,722.

Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin...744.

Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin...,326.

Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851

Gives age and country of birth

News - Herald of Truth, Volume VI, Number 3 - March 1869 - page 47.

News - ONTARIO, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 19 Nov 1868.

"Samuel Bricker - died 15 Nov 1868 in Waterloo Twp., 92 yrs, 3mths, 26 days

News - ONTARIO, Waterloo, Waterloo - Waterloo Chronicle, 19 Nov 1868.

"Bricker, Samuel died 16 Nov 1868 Of Waterloo Township, aged 92 years and 4 months. One of the first settlers of this County, having come to Waterloo in 1801."

Land - Founding Families of Waterloo Township 1800-1830, 16..

Waterloo Region Hall of Fame Waterloo Region Hall of Fame.

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JOHN and SAMUEL BRICKER

As with many Pioneers who settled Waterloo and surrounding areas, SAMUEL BRICKER played an important role in the early history of the land.

Following is excerpted text that I find to be the most comprehensive and thorough recount of his, and his fellow Pioneers lives.

Of particular note as well, is mentioned references to his brother:

JOHN BRICKER

The following material contains interwoven biographical, genealogical, and historical information. In that it contains relevance for this Profile and potentially related as well, the full narrative referencing SAMUEL and/or JOHN BRICKER is being shown.

From: A HISTORY OF WATERLOO Township Page 25 to Page 35 – and years

1802 to 1806

ANDREW SARARAS, JOHN SHUPE, GEORGE SHUPE, JOHN LIVERGOOD, JOSEPH WISMER with wife and two sons, JOHN and HENRY, DAVID WISMER, the RINGLERS, CORNELLS, SALZBERGERS and others came this year.

A few weeks later than the above families came, JOSEPH BECHTEL (who became the first Mennonite minister in Waterloo County) with his family, JOHN BRICKER and Family, and SAMUEL BRICKER, who afterward became the leading man in the formation of the German Company, came from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, to this County.

They had two four-horse teams and were four weeks in making the trip. The Beverly Swamp was in a most fearful state when they came through it. The road was almost impassable and caused them the greatest trouble in getting to Waterloo.

This year a little school was started near where the village of Blair is now situated, a person by the name of RITTENHOUSE being the first teacher in the County of Waterloo. Roads were now made. Considerable land was cleared by the settlers. Great trouble was experienced in getting to the mill, the nearest one being at Dundas This great want soon led to the erection of a little grist mill where Galt is now situated, by one JOHN MILLER, who owned a thousand acres of land in that locality.

This JOHN MILLER resided at Niagara, but gave the contract of building it to "Old Dodge," who was a millwright by trade. After the mill was erected and the necessary machinery placed in it, one by the name of MAAS became the miller. The building was a small one, not exceeding '24x28 feet in dimensions, and 1 1/2 storey high, yet it was highly appreciated by the early pioneers of this County. Mr. MILLER who had this mill erected, took an active part with the Americans in 1813, and consequently forfeited all his property on the Grand River.

It will thus be seen that at the close of the year 1802 quite a number of families had made settlements in Waterloo. Most of them, if not all, had purchased their land from RICHARD BEASLEY, who was supposed to be the owner of the Township of Waterloo, and paid him for it, receiving deeds which they supposed to be good.

In January, 1803, SAMUEL BRICKER, then being quite a young man, had some business in "Little York" (Toronto), to which place he traveled on foot. While passing the evening at an inn, he picked up a conversation with a gentleman whose name he did not remember. This stranger made inquiry about the Waterloo tract and the many settlements that were now made thereon. After Mr Bricker giving him the desired information, the stranger informed him that RICHARD BEASLEY was not the sole owner of the large tract of land of which he was selling lots to the settlers.

In order to inform himself of the facts, SAMUEL BRICKER obtained a copy of the original deed issued by Indian CHIEF JOSEPH BRANT unto RICHARD BEASLEY, JAMES WILSON, and JOHN B. ROSSEAU for a tract of land containing 94012 acres. This deed included the lands of all the Waterloo settlers, and had it not been for a joint mortgage, recorded at Niagara, against the tract all would have been well, but owing to the mortgage many of the settlers became discouraged and were afraid of losing their newly formed home.

SAMUEL BRICKER went to BEASLEY and informed him of what information he gained pertaining to the mortgage on the Township of Waterloo. BEASLEY informed him that all was true and that the settlers should not become alarmed, he would see to it that the mortgage was paid. The settlers not being altogether satisfied, and somewhat suspicious of a possibility of their being deprived of their possessions, engaged JACOB BECLITEL and SAMUEL BETZNER, at a dollar a day to go to the government headquarters at Niagara and obtain the true facts of this matter.

Their investigation proved that there was a joint mortgage of $20,000.00 recorded against the large tract of land, known then as the "BEASLEY TRACT."

This sad intelligence put a stop, for a short time, on the influx of emigrants from Pennsylvania and consequently RICHARD BEASLEY could not sell any more land. This caused^him to make a proposal to the settlers. The proposal was that they should form a company and purchase the entire tract, offering as an inducement 500 acres of land to the man getting up such a company.

The settlers met in January 1804 and decided to send SAMUEL BRICKER and JOSEPH SHERK and requested them to go to Franklin County, Pennsylvania to their friends and relatives and make an effort to raise the required amount to lift the mortgage. They failed in their undertaking both in Cumberland and Franklin Counties. This so discouraged JOSEPH SHERK that he would not go farther but immediately returned to Canada in despair, leaving Samuel Bricker who proceeded to Lancaster County. Here he made known his errand upon which a meeting of their friends and co-religionists (Mennonites) was called to give SAMUEL BRICKER a hearing. It is a great pity that no copy of the speech made to the audience by SAMUEL BRICKER has been kept.

This ever-to-be-remembered meeting was held at the residence of JOHN EBY (Old HANNES EBY), brother to BENJAMIN EBY who came here a few years later.

SAMUEL BRICKER's speech must have made a marked and instant effect on the minds of the audience, for we know at this time there were strong companies formed by the Mennonites to purchase land in Maryland and Virginia for their poorer co-religionists.

Canada, "the-way-out-of-the-world Country," as some called it, besides the idea to be ruled by the "Crown" did not prove favorable to those who leaned in favor of the newly formed Republic.

So Canada and her representative were considered as nothing by the majority in Cumberland and Franklin Counties, and even in Lancaster County the majority of the meeting before SAMUEL BRICKER delivered his remarkable speech, were opposed to the idea of helping their Canadian brethren in distress.

The meeting was just about to decide against the granting of assistance when old "HANNES" EBY arose and advanced a new idea, namely, that they ought not to look upon the matter as a mere speculation to enrich themselves, which in all likelihood it would not do, but rather as their Christian duty to assist, if possible, their brethren in distress; that if it yielded them no profit in money, it would be doing their duty, an act that the Lord might in His own good time perhaps bless in a way neither of them thought of.

If the eyes of the members and others who had assembled at that conference could now behold the many happy homes in the Township of Waterloo; could they see the many stately farm buildings and the numerous villages and towns that have sprung up since then, they would think that the words of old "HANNES" EBY have indeed become true, and that the kind and good Lord has blessed their act done on that ever-to-be-remembered day even better and more abundantly than they could foresee, or had reason to expect. No sooner was "HANNES" EBY through with his plain speech when all present rose to their feet and said,

"Truly we are in duty bound to assist those Canadian brethren in distress."

Arrangements to organize a joint stock company were made at a special meeting held at the same place, namely at old "Hannes" EBY's residence. At this meeting, held in April, 1804, the joint-stock company was fully organized. The stock should consist of eight shares, one of which should be the maximum and one-eighth of a share the minimum which any member could possess. All the stock was at once subscribed, and SAMUEL BRICKER, taking one-half share, was appointed agent of the new organization.

DANIEL ERB was appointed BRICKER's assistant. The company offered to pay their expenses and give them a fair salary, but they preferred to give their services free. The company entrusted them with $20,000.00, all in silver dollars.

This money was put in a strong box and conveyed on what was then called a buggy (a leicht plasier weggli) over 500 miles through forests and swamps to Canada where it was paid to the proper parties. (The buggy was presented to SAMUEL BRICKER by the shareholders of the new company. In May of the same year BRICKER with his assistant, DANIEL ERB, left for their new home in Canada, carrying with them the large sum of money.

There was some delay in the lifting of the mortgage, however after all the legal documents were examined and the state of affairs thoroughly investigated by the Hon. WILLIAM DICKSON of Niagara, who received twenty guineas for his services and legal advice. Finally, all things were amicably arranged and the deed between RICHARD BEASLEY and his wife HENRIETTA, conveying 50,000 acres of land for £10,000 Canadian currency to DANIEL ERB and JACOB ERB, who at the request of SAMUEL BRICKER were appointed as agents for the company, was satisfactorily executed.

The money was paid to RICHARD BEASLEY. Now it was found necessary to have a regular survey of the tract and have it laid out in lots of 448 acres each. A draft of the Township of Waterloo was made by one named JONES, a surveyor, and a copy of it was sent to the stockholders in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The lots were all numbered and each share claimed a number of these lots. These were divided among the stockholders by casting lots, and in so doing no dissatisfaction could take place, but each family on arriving here had the lot previously selected on which they intended to make their home. It would not be out of place to give a few extracts of the old deed now safely preserved in the Registry Office, Berlin, where it was placed by Sheriff SPRINGER.

The original copy of the Deed reads as follows :

" This Indenture made at Barton in the County of Lincoln and District of Niagara, of the Province of Upper Canada, June 29th, 1805, between Richard Beasley, of Barton, aforesaid, Esquire, and Henrietta his wife, of one part, and Daniel Erb, of Block Number two, on the Grand River in the County of York and Home District of the Province aforesaid, and Jacob Erb, of the same place, Yeomen, of the other part, Witnesseth that the said Beasley, for and in consideration of the sum of Ten thousand pounds of lawful money of Canada, etc., etc., hath granted etc., unto them, the said Daniel Erb and Jacob Erb and their heirs and assigns forever, All that certain parcel or tract of land situated in the County of York and Home District aforesaid, containing by admeasurement sixty thousand acres, more or less."

Then follows a long description of the whole tract of land together with many other conditions, obligations, etc. The Instrument is signed by the parties mentioned above and witnessed by A. CAMERON and SAMUEL RYCKMAN.

A memorial of this deed was registered in the Registry Office of the County of York and Province of Upper Canada, the twenty-fourth day of July, 1805, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, signed by THOMAS RIDEOUT, Registrar. A certificate, signed by WILLIAM DUMMER POWELL, one of the Justices of the Courts of the King's Bench, is also on this document, which certificate states that HENRIETTA BEASLEY voluntarily debarred her dower on the said lands without coercion or fear of coercion on the part of her husband or any other person.

When now the land was properly secured, emigration to this new settlement was renewed and many in the County of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at once made preparations and soon after moved to Waterloo, Canada. In the year 1804, MICHAEL GROH came from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and selected a place near Preston on which he had erected a small log house. In August of the same year he returned to Pennsylvania for his family. He left Montgomery in September (1804) but on his return he took sick and died. His family including his son JOHN continued their journey through the forests and swamps and sometime in October safely arrived in Waterloo and settled on the place which their father had selected.

In spring of 1805 came a party of settlers from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The families were JOHN ERB and family who settled on the river Speed about two hundred rods from where now ERB's Mills, Preston, stands. ABRAHAM STAUFFER and Family settled near where the Blair Bridge now is. WILLIAM CORRELL settled south of Berlin, on the farm now owned by Rev. SAMUEL S. BAUMANN. HENRY KRAFT and Family settled on next farm to William Correll's. PETER HAMMACHER and Family settled a little above Doon. MATTHIAS SCHEIRICH and Family settled near Berlin, on the farm now occupied by DANIEL M. WEBER. It took this company about five weeks to get to Waterloo. The Niagara River was crossed by a "Scow" from 12 to 14 feet in width and about 30 feet long. This scow was propelled by means of oars It took them two days to come from Dundas to Preston. In the same year but a few months later came another company from Lancaster and settled a little further north. In this company were CHRISTIAN BAUMANN and Family, SAMUEL EBY (Indian Sam), GEORGE EBY and Family and JOSEPH EBY and Family. GEORGE EBY settled on the farm known as JACOB Y. SHANTZ's place one mile south-east of Berlin. SAMUEL EBY settled on the farm adjoining his brother, GEORGE EBY's. SAMUEL EBY's place is known as JACOB FREY’s place near the Two Railroad Bridges. JOSEPH EBY not being favorably impressed with the appearance of the Country, left Canada and first settled in York State, later in Ohio.

In fall of 1805 quite a number of parties from Franklin County became anxious to settle in Canada. In order to have a better knowledge of this new country, JACOB SCHNEIDER and two other parties came on horseback to see the country. They found some good company land not taken up yet, besides other parties who owned tracts of land not included in the Company's Deed, anxious to sell their claims. The short sojourn here by these three was well spent in the gaining of information pertaining to the quality of soil, timber, etc., and the advisableness of urging others to settle here. So well was JACOB SCHNEIDER pleased with the Country that he purchased 424 acres from SMITH who had assisted in opening the road from Dundas to the settlement in Waterloo. The land thus purchased by JACOB SCHNEIDER was situated on the east side of the Grand River, known as the Oxbow, near the village of Bloomingdale. The party returned to Franklin County, Pennsylvania, after a few weeks had been passed with settlers who had come here a year or so previously, and all of whom gave glowing accounts of the future expectations in their new homes.

In spring, 1806, quite a large company came from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, namely JACOB SCHNEIDER and Family of nine children, CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER and Family of eight children, ABRAHAM ERB and wife, JACOB ERB and Family, SIMON CRESS and Family, Widow BRECH and Family, and the teamsters, making in all a company of 48 persons. This company started from Path Valley, about 12 miles from Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and were 32 days on their journey. JACOB SCHNEIDER brought 9 horses (2 four-horse teams and 1 saddle horse), CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER had 1 four-horse team and 1 two-horse team, ABRAHAM ERB had 1 four-horse team, SIMON CRESS had 1 yoke of oxen with 1 horse in front drawing his wagon, Widow BRECH had 1 four-horse team. This lady met the SCHNEIDERs after having crossed the Alleghany Mountains. She came from Montgomery County.

As this company brought a number of cattle with them, they had an abundant supply of milk and butter on the way. The bread and other eatables were prepared as required. It took this company over nine hours to get up the Alleghany Mountains, a distance of three miles. Six horses were required to draw a single wagon, and with such a force could only proceed from 10 to 12 rods before allowing their horses to rest again and gain strength for another "hitch." Having reached the top of the Mountain, they camped for the night, both man and beast feeling the want of a good rest. In crossing the Susquehanna River the water reached their wagon boxes, wetting some of their luggage.

The next difficulty was to cross the Tonawonda River whose banks were not high but too steep and very muddy, and to effect a crossing the teamsters were obliged to cut trees into the stream from both sides and thereon construct some kind of passway for their heavy teams and wagons. This quickly constructed bridge resembled our later corduroy roads passing through swamps. Then the Niagara River was crossed. After 28 days' journey this company arrived at the Twenty. Hamilton had at this time a small hotel and a few log houses. Dundas had a mill and store, besides a hotel and a few other log residences. The second night after leaving the Twenty this company arrived at Mr BINKLEY's between Hamilton and Dundas. Leaving Binkley's early next morning they came all the way through the Beverly Swamp to a place now known as Sheffield, a little below Galt. Here they lodged for another night. The next day they came to Preston to JOHN ERB's where they had dinner. On this very day Mr. Erb raised his little saw mill. Separating at John Erb's each party now moved on their lot previously purchased. CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER* settled a little west of Doon, JACOB SCHNEIDER passed on that very afternoon as far as SAMUEL BRICKER's near Chicopee, where he remained for the night. The next day he proceeded through the woods along the east side of the Grand River to his land which he purchased the year before. In order to get to his possessions, old JACOB SCHNEIDER had to cut down many trees and construct a road to get through with his wagons. No wagon had ever come this far north on the east side of the Grand River. On this place where two small clearings with a log shanty erected on each, one of which was near where at present are situated the farm buildings of BENJAMIN S SNYDER, and occupied by one named SMITH, the other was on JOSIAH SNYDER's farm and occupied by GEORGE REID. Old "Yoch," as JACOB was called, moved into one of the log dwellings on SMITH's clearing. The cleared land had been sowed with wheat and rye the previous fall, the harvest of which proved to be more than "Yoch" SCHNEIDER and his Family required for their own use.

They could now get their wheat ground at Galt, but whatever the early settlers had to spare they had to team to Dundas, the nearest grain market. At first prices for wheat ranged from 90 cents to $1.05 per bushel but later on after more was raised, the price came down to 50 and 60 cents per bushel. At this time land commenced to become more valuably, prices varying from $12.50 to $4.50 per acre. Old JACOB SCHNEIDER soon acquired the whole neighborhood amounting to nearly 3000 acres, and bearing the name yet as SNYDER's CORNER ("S' Schneider Eck") ABRAHAM ERB pushed his way through to where now the town of Waterloo is situated. His brother JOHN, who had arrived the year previously, considered ABRAHAM very foolish for settling in that big cedar swamp which would never amount to anything. ABRAHAM ERB was the first one who made his way so far north on the west side of the Grand River. He made his first clearing a little south-east of the Waterloo Union Mills, nearly opposite the large furniture factory of Wegenast & Co. In a very short time he was the possessor of 900 acres of land, all of which is now within the Corporation of the Town of Waterloo. JACOB ERB settled a little to the west of Berlin, on the place now occupied by Mr. GIBSON. Widow BRECH settled on a place north of Preston, not far from CRESSMAN’s Meeting House.

The homestead is still in possession of her descendants. SIMON CRESS located temporally near Preston, later on his descendants settled in Woolwich Township.

SOURCE:

A Biographical History of Waterloo Township

And other Townships of the County

Being a History of the Early Settlers & Their Descendants

Mostly All of Pennsylvania Dutch Origin

As Also Much Other Unpublished Historical

Information Chiefly of a Local Character

By Ezra E. Eby

Berlin:~:Ontario:~:Canada

1895

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Another Telling...

In 1802, ANDREW SARARRAS, the SHUPES, LIVERGOODS, WISMERS, RINGLERS, CORNELLS, SALZBERGERS, and others, came in.

In the spring of the same year (1802), JOSEPH BECHTEL (who became the first Mennonite preacher in Waterloo), and JOHN and SAMUEL BRICKER, who afterwards became the leading men in the formation of the German Company, came from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

This year a school was started at Blair, taught by a Mr. RITTENHOUSE. Many other improvements soon appeared. Roads began to be made, and considerable land cleared. The trouble of getting to mill led to the erection of a small grist mill, on the site of Galt, by one JOHN MILLER.

The contract for building the mill was given to "Old Dodge,” previously mentioned, who was a wheelwright by trade. This mill, though very small, was highly appreciated by the pioneers of Waterloo.

By the fall of 1802 quite a number of families had settled in the township, most of whom had purchased their land from RICHARD BEASLEY, receiving deeds supposed to be quite good.

That winter, SAMUEL BRICKER, during a visit to “ Little York,” gained the sad intelligence that the land was all mortgaged. The settlers could not be satisfied of the fact till they had delegated two of their number, Messrs. JACOB BECHTEL and SAMUEL BETZNER, to proceed to Government headquarters and verify the report. The result proved the report only too true. BEASLEY was stubborn and would do nothing in the matter. :Immigration ceased, and during the summer of 1803 no settlers came in.

In 1804 the Family of MICHAEL GROH arrived, he himself having died on the way. When BEASLEY found he could sell no more land, he finally agreed to sell the whole township to these people if they would send some of their number to Pennsylvania to form a company for that purpose.

Accordingly SAMUEL BRICKER and JOSEPH SHERK were chosen a delegation to proceed to Pennsylvania for this purpose.

Owing to the coolness of their reception in their native Country, Mr. SHERK gave up the mission in despair and returned to Canada. Mr. BRICKER remained and succeeded, with the assistance of JOHN EBY, of Lancaster County, in forming the required company.

Mr. BRICKER was selected as their acting agent, and DANIEL ERB returned with him as his assistant. After considerable negotiation, the matter was finally settled, and in March, 1805, the deed was executed, and 60,000 acres were made over to the German Company for which Mr. BEASLEY received the sum of $40,000. The deed was made by RICHARD and HENRIETTA BEASLEY to DANIEL and JACOB ERB, on behalf of the Company.

When the land was properly secured, immigration from Pennsylvania was speedily renewed, and in the spring of 1805, JOHN ERB, ABRAHAM STAUFFER, WILLIAM CORRELL, HENRY KRAFT, PETER HAMMACHER, and a Mr. SHEIRICH, with their families, arrived.

Mr. Erb settled on the Speed, about half a mile below Erb’s Mills; Hammacher settled a little above Doon; Scheirich near German Mills; Correll about two miles east of Berlin ; and Henry Kraft on the adjoining farm.

The following year John Erb built a dam and erected a saw mill, and a few years after, a grist mill.

The above-named families were followed the same year by Christian Bowman, and Samuel, George and Joseph Eby, with their families. The Ebys settled a short distance below Berlin.

In the spring of 1806 a company of 48 persons arrived from Franklin County, Pa., consisting of Jacob Snyder, Christian Schneider, Simon Cress, Mrs. Brech, (a widow), Abraham Erb, and their families, together with a number of teamsters and other servants, Christian Schneider settled a little west of Doon; Jacob Snyder was the first to settle on the other side of the river, at what is called the...

“Snyder Corner ”

Abraham Erb was the first to settle on the site of Waterloo village.

In the spring of 1806...

Philip Bleam, Abraham Cressman, Christian and Isaac Shantz, Wm. Rotharmel, David and Jacob Strohm, with their families, arrived. In the same year Jacob Bretz moved in and settled a little below Preston.

In the spring of 1807...

Joseph Schneider, Peter Erb, Benjamin Eby, Daniel Erb, Daniel Eby, Abraham Weber, Joseph Risser, John Eckhardt, Fr. Vogt, Samuel and David Eby, and Henry Brubacher, with their families, moved in.

Joseph Schneider settled on the site of Berlin; Benjamin Eby, on the Eby Farm, east of Berlin; Peter Erb, a mile north of Bridgeport. Joseph Risser subsequently removed to the township of Markham, and Henry Brubacher returned to the States. This company brought “half a barrel” of gold and silver with them to pay for the township of Woolwich, which was also bought by a company.

The German Company’s land was divided into lots of 448 acres each, and every share was accorded a certain number of lots, which were divided among the shareholders by chance or lot. In this way each family, on arrival, had their lot already selected on which to make a settlement.

The year 1808...

brought in ‘Joseph and Jacob Shantz, their mother and several others of their family; also John Cressman, Christian Eby, and John Beatv.

In 1809 there arrived...

Jacob Shantz, of Berlin, Christian Shantz, Cornelius Pannebecker, and Abraham Clemens.

In 1810 there arrived...

Henry Wanner, Arnold Strieker and Wm. Ellis, the latter settling near Hespeler. Wm. Ellis and John Erb were the two first magistrates in the new settlement. Township meetings were then held the beginning of each year for the election of officers and the transaction of necessary township business. Collectors of taxes were obliged to make their reports and returns at “Little York.”

The nearest Post-Office was Dundas, and when it was known that any one was going there, people would often come a dozen miles with a letter to send by him to the post-office. He would also bring all the letters for the whole settlement when he returned. Soon after settlement commenced, regular religious services began to be held.

After their peculiar manner, Mr. Joseph Bechtel was selected as their first minister, and soon little meeting houses were built in the different localities. Mr. Bechtel served several years in this capacity, when, in 1810, Benjamin Eby was elected to the office. Mr. Eby served his church a great many years with acceptability, and was almost universally regarded as the father of the whole settlement.

In 1815, the Kuchner family came in and settled. Immigration was interrupted during the war of 1812, but was again resumed at its close, and the spring of 1815 brought in a number of new settlers, among whom were Jonathan B. and Benj Bowman, and Henry Martin. In the fall of this year John Brubacher came in, and settled on lot 57 of the German Company’s Tract.

The summer of 1816 was known as the “Cold Summer.” There was frost almost every week, and snow fell on the 21st of June. Provisions were very scarce, and food for both man and beast was held at almost starvation prices.

The hardships endured during this inclement season were very great. This year a company of 33 individuals arrived, among whom were Joseph Bowman, Dilman Ziegler, Samuel Eby, John Brubacher and Henry Weber. :Taxes at this time were very low, and land could be bought in some parts for one dollar per acre.

When the Farmers had grain to sell it could not be teamed till winter, when it was taken to Crook’s or Dundas, and receipts given payable after navigation opened. Berlin was then an impassable swamp, inhabited by bears, wolves, foxes, &c.

Sheep were destroyed every year by the wolves. Waterloo had already a saw mill, erected by Abraham Erb, and the summer of 1816 he erected a new grist mill, which still exists, though improved and enlarged since. This was the second grist mill erected in the township.

In 1818, the following families arrived, viz.,

Christian Burkholder, John Good, Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman, Esther Wismer, Samuel Bechtel and Benjamin Bowman. Mr. Burkholder settled near Waterloo village; Mr. Bowman on the road leading from Berlin to Preston; Mr. Bechtel settled near Hespeler.

The same year, Mrs. Moxley, a widow, with a large family, settled on what was long known as the Moxley Farm, now in the corporation of Berlin.

In 1819 the following arrived, viz.,

John Huber, Abraham Martin, Samuel Bechtel, Joseph Bowman, David Musselman. Frederick Musselman, and Isaac Masters. Mr. Huber settled near Waterloo village; Mr. Masters a little below Preston.

In 1820 a bridge was built over the river, between Berlin and Preston, known as the “Toll Bridge.” The principal schools at this time were at Abraham Erb’s, or Waterloo, and Benj. Eby’s, or East Berlin. A few other schools existed, but these ranked best.

The year 1820 witnessed the arrival of Jacob S. Shoemaker, the founder and builder of the greater part of Bridgeport, or Glasgow, as it was then called.

In the fall of 1822 Mr. Andrew Groff arrived, and after working for Mr. Shade as a miller some fifteen months, he purchased 200 acres of land between Preston and Galt, and in a few years became proprietor of a store, tavern, grist mill, saw mill, and distillery, from all which he realized a large fortune and became one of the wealthiest men in the county.

In 1828, Emanuel Stauffer and John and Joseph Reist arrived. Stauffer settled near Waterloo village, and the Reists near Kossuth.

In 1825 there were a great many arrivals, among whom were Peter Weber, the widow Wenger, Daniel Levan, Samuel Hurst, Michael Eby, John Hoffman, Samuel Bowers, and others, with their families Mr. Hoffman was only a lad of fifteen or sixteen when he arrived, and accompanied a caravan of settlers as teamster. Shortly after his arrival he apprenticed himself to Samuel Bowers to learn the carpenter trade. After working for several years at his trade, he entered into partnership with Samuel Bowman, and after looking around for a place to start a village, they finally settled on Berlin, Eurchasing some lots from Benjamin Eby. After settling there the place soon commenced to grow and prosper, Mr. Hoftman himself building over fifty houses in the village during his residence. After residing in Berlin some

years, Mr. Hoffman removed to Waterloo, where he built up a town and realized a fortune.

Kitchener Public Library

TABLE OF DISTANCES. 1XXT.

WATERLOO

County Gazetteer

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DIRECTORY for 1884-5.

COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY

WILLIAM W. EVANS,

GUELPH, ONTARIO

Publisher of City Directories for

Brantford, Stratford, Chatham, Lindsay,

St. Catharines, Guelph, Etc.

Also of County Directories for

Brant, Perth, Lincoln and Welland, Bruce,

Wellington, Etc.

Toronto;

Hill & Weir, Printers, 15,17 and l8 Temperance Street,

1884.

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[1323 III] SAMUEL BRICKER, the youngest son of Peter and Mary (Bear) Bricker, was born July 25th, 1776.

He, in company with his brother John and family, Joseph Bechtel and family, and others, came to Canada in spring, 1802.

They took up land in Waterloo County, Ontario, near Blair. In autumn, 1802, more than a dozen families had settled within the county.

In March, 1803, Mr. Bricker was obliged to visit "Little York" (Toronto) to transact some private business. While there he received the sad intelligence that the whole of the township of Waterloo was mortgaged.

On his return to Waterloo he informed the settlers of the fact, and in order to prove the report of their friend, the settlers appointed Jacob Bechtel and Samuel Betzner to go to "Little York" and make a thorough investigation in regard to the mortgage.

To their great surprise, they, in making inquiry at the Registry Office, found the report too true and that the amount of the mortgage was $40,000, covering 60,000 acres of land.

Mr. Samuel Bricker and Joseph Shirk were appointed by the settlers to return to their friends in Franklin, Cumberland, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, to make arrangements in raising sufficient money to lift the mortgage, upon which the company still known as the "German Company" was formed. The stockholders entrusted the required sum of money to extinguish the mortgage to Samuel Bricker and Daniel Erb who carried it all the way to Canada on a conveyance. At their return to Canada the money was paid over to the proper parties and thus the mortgage was cancelled.

In 1801 Mr. BRICKER was married to REBECCA, eldest daughter of JOHN and REBECCA (HERSHEY) EBY. She was born April 14th, 1781, and died November 4th, 1861.

They settled near Chicopee, a little north of Freeport, Ontario, on the east side of the Grand River. Their farm is now in possession of Richard Gehl who is married to a grandchild of old SAMUEL BRICKER.

Here they resided until their deaths. His death took place November 15th, 1868, aged 92 years, 3 months, and 29 days. Their family consists of eight children, viz:

[1324 IV] MARY BRICKER, the eldest child of Samuel and Rebecca (Eby) Bricker, was born November 3rd, 1806. She was married to ABRAHAM TOMAN who was bom in Pennsylvania in 1804, and died in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario, December 12th, 1867. She died December 27th, 1893.

To them were born nine children, namely:

1. V AMOS TOMAN
2. V REBECCA TOMAN
3. V LEAH TOMAN
4. V SAMUEL TOMAN
5. V ABRAHAM TOMAN
6. V SARAH TOMAN
7. V JOSEPH TOMAN
8. V MARY TOMAN, and
9. V SUSANNAH TOMAN

(See Abraham Toman's family.)

RECORD ABSTRACTS ~

ONTARIO [CANADA CENSUS], 1861

South Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

Enumeration District..007

Name:..SAM BRICKER

Gender:................Male

Age:..........................85

Marital-Status:/Married

Religion:.......Mennonite

Birthplace:.United States

Birth Year (Estimated):1776

Sheet-Number:....47

Affiliate-Film-Number:..C-1078-1079

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BRICKER, Solomon & Sarah d. before 1920

Post By: delegz---------(View posts)

Posted Date/Time:--11 May 2010 10:51AM

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There's been an enduring legend passed down by our Bricker family for a couple of hundred years, to the effect that our immigrant ancestor, Peter, fled Switzerland in the early 1700s to "escape religious persecution."

There was never any reason to doubt that this was so, as a number of his

children (and their descendents today, in the U.S. and Canada) are known to have held to the Mennonite faith. During this period in history, the Mennonites, like their more conservative Amish brethren, often faced harsh treatment by local authorities in Switzerland as a direct consequence of their beliefs, which included refusal to take up arms on behalf of those authorities or in fact to use violence in their own self-defense.

Aboard the ship "Plaisance" that brought Peter and his family across the

Atlantic from Europe in 1732 was an Ulli Staehli (americanized as "Staley") and his family. Not only were Peter and Ulrich neighbors during the prior ten years they each resided in a small hamlet of cowherds in Alsace-Lorraine, today in France, but after arrival in America they settled within one mile of one another in Pennsylvania "Dutch" country. Little surprise, then, that their names appear one right after another on the Plaisance's list of passengers.

Ulli's birthplace was known to be in Schwarzenburg, Bern Canton, but

Peter's was not far from that cowherding settlement. However, Peter's father was documented as having citizenship in Schwarzenburg. I learned that a local Swiss genealogist had transcribed the handwritten 18th century court records of Schwarzenburg, and decided to consult those records to see if there was any mention of the surname "Bruegger," which was the spelling of our surname in Switzerland before being americanized to "Bricker."

Imagine my astonishment when I unexpectedly came across and had translated the following two entries from those court records, mentioning both Peter and Ulrich:

"1720 Oct 10"

At the last Schwarzenburg Market, Ulli Stöckli was beaten so badly that he died; the result of the autopsy by the surgeon was that his death was brought on by this violent act. The suspects are Peter Brügger and Ulli Stähli, who are to be found in Fribourg. There is an arrest warrant out.

"1721 Jan 3"

Murder of Ulli Stöckli in Schwarzenburg. Warrant for the arrest of Peter

Brügger and Ulli Stähli went to Murten and Tscherlitz."

Murten and Tscherlitz ("Echallens" in French) are towns found along the

quickest routes out of Switzerland to France.

So much for "religious persecution"!

Although.....maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here.

In 1722, a record was entered in the communion book of the German-speaking Reformed Church of Ste Marie-aux-Mines in Alsace-Lorraine, noting that Ulli Staehli, who had married Anna Maria Germann in September of that year, had earlier spent 6-8 weeks in prison in Bern Canton. If the pastor was aware of this episode from Ulli's past and made a record of it, it's unlikely that it was something that the community was unaware of.

If Ulli had been apprehended by the authorities but only spent a maximum

of 8 weeks in jail, the assumption is that, of the two men, after an investigation he at least was ultimately found not to have been culpable for Stoeckli's death. Peter may have been caught as well, also jailed pending the results of such an investigation, and then released.  :Or, of course, he could have been the sole culprit and managed to elude capture and slip away to Alsace-Lorraine, where he was married in 1723 to a young woman named Christina Gylgen whose family was from Schwarzenburg. But how would Peter have been able to openly marry Christina, a Mennonite and so presumably a believer in nonviolence, if it was known that he was wanted for murder? And, for that matter, if Ulli had been innocent but Peter not, why would the two have afterward become neighbors in Alsace-Lorraine, would Peter have stood as godparent at the baptism of one of Ulrich's infants, would they have travelled in company across the Atlantic together with their families, and then have settled near one another in Pennsylvania?

New Reply to: BRICKER, Solomon & Sarah d. before 1920

Posted By:-----delegz----(View posts)

Posted Date/Time:--11 May 2010 10:56AM

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Surnames: BRICKER

Walter,

In the first decade of the 1800s, brothers SAM and JOHN migrated from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania to the Waterloo/Kitchener area of Ontario.

My great great great great grandfather, Jacob Bricker of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania was a first cousin of Sam and John. They are shared of the same grandfather, the PETER BRICKER written about above, who immigrated to Cocalico Penn in 1732.

:I wrote the above essay and posted it to a no longer functioning website called Swiss Roots a few years ago.

Dale Bricker

New Regarding Elias Bricker

Posted By--susanrkh-(View posts)

Posted Date/Time:---19 June 2010 04:55 PM

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Post Surnames:--Bricker, Stickle

Do you have any info on an Elias Bricker from West Pennsboro, Cumberland Co. Pa. he was born Nov. 24, 1817 died Oct 19 1891.

He married Sarah Stickle born Mar 4 1817 died Oct 5 1895.

They are buried at Opossum Hill Cemetery, Carlisle Pa. 6 known children;

1. Mary Bricker 1846-1908
2. Benjamin Bricker 1848-
3. Sarah Bricker 1850-
4. John Bricker 1852-1936 (my line)
5. Jacob Bricker 1856-
6. Susanna Bricker 1859-

I would like to find out who his parents were and grandparents and back as far as possible.

New Reply regarding: Elias Bricker

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Posted Date/Time:--19 June 2010 06:03 PM

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Please do not post onto threads, such as one about Solomon and Sarah Bricker, if you have nothing to ask or contribute concerning that thread. :Create a new thread.

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Posted By:--Don D Bricker-Brücker--(View posts)

Posted Date/Time:---------22 June 2010 07:40 AM

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You have the wrong Brücker-Bricker family, you want Dale Bricker of White Plains NY, our ancestors came here in 1737, and yes it was a Peter Bruiker-in Dutch, Brücker in Elsace German, Brügger in Bernese Swiss (Allemanni hoch Deutsch)on the Dutch ship Charming Nancy, If you want to know more about your Bricker's go to Amazon.com and get the book:

"The Trail Of The CONESTOGA" by Mabel Dunham.

Her mother was one of the Pennsylvania Bricker's who settled in and around Waterloo in Canada. I have a copy even (though it's not the right family) and I loved the story

Burial

First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada

Find A Grave Memorial# 42051173

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Reference

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• "Canada Census, 1851," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWTV-QWR : 3 August 2016), Samuel Bricker, Waterloo, Waterloo County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada; citing p. 13, line 28; Library and Archives Canada film number C_11754, Public Archives, Ontario.
• "Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ7R-QF2 : 5 September 2017), Sam Bricker, South Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 47, line 15; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1078-1079, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,435,944.
• "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMV7-J98 : 11 March 2018), Samuel Bricker in entry for Moses Bricker and Christina Holtzman, 16 Apr 1888; citing registration , Berlin, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,870,222.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKC-VR44 : 13 December 2015), Samuel Bricker, 1868; Burial, Kitchener, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada, First Mennonite Cemetery; citing record ID 42051173, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• Reference-Only: Legacy NFS Source: SAMUEL BRICKER: Citation: Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;, www.ancestry.com, null, Page number: Database online.Notes:
• birth-name: Samuel Bricker
• birth: 25 July 1776; Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
• birth: 25 July 1776; Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
• birth: 25 July 1776; Warwick, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
• burial: 1868;
• emigration: 1802; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
• naturalization: 25 February 1831; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• German Land Company Acquisition: about 1803;
• death: 15 November 1868; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• death: 15 November 1868; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• death: 15 November 1868;
• possessions: null; 1805; Lot 111 of the German Company Tract
• residence: null; 1861; Waterloo, Canada West, Canada
• residence: null; 1861; Waterloo, Canada West, Canada
• residence: null; 1852; Waterloo County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada