Samuel Hess (1657 - 1744)

Born 25 Dec 1657 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland

Ancestors

Husband of Barbel (Reimann) Hess — married 25 Feb 1683 in Wald, Schweiz

Descendants

Died 9 Apr 1744 at age 86 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

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Samuel Hess is of Swiss descent

Samuel Hess, son of Hans Hess and Barbel Honegger, was born Bef. 25 Dec 1657 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland. He married Barbel Reimann on 25 Feb 1683. He died 09 Apr 1744 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Hess Family. Samuel Hess emigrated from Zurich, Switzerland, to Pequea Twp. in Lancaster Co., PA, in 1712. He was a descendant of Hans Jakob Hess, an *anabaptist minister, who, according to the *Martyrs Mirror, suffered death from persecution in 1639. Samuels grandson John married Esther Hershey. Four generations later, descendants of this couple became Brethren at various points in E. Pennsylvania. Abram Hess married Caroline Myer from the Conestoga congregation, and descendants of their thirteen children are Brethren, with several ordained ministers. There are other Brethren who trace their lineage to the martyr through different lines. Other Brethren families are descendants of George Balser Hess who immigrated with his parents to N. America in 1751. He moved to Franklin Co., OH, in 1798; some of his children moved on to northern Indiana in 1829. Five of his grandchildren married into Brethren families in the mid-19th century: Daniel Hess (m. Esther Miller), Moses (m. Mary Beckner), Mary (m. Jacob Weybright), Martha (m. Samuel Rensberger), and Israel (m. Rosa Cripe). The Hess family name is numerically strong among the Old German Baptist Brethren. AHHe/CTD (Condensed from first 7 Sources, see below).

Birth

Date: 25 Dec 1657

Place: Wald, Zurich, Switzerland

Immigration

Name: Samuel Hess

Arrival year: 1719

Arrival Place: Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Primary Immigrant: Hess, Samuel

Source Publication Code: 7820

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Death

Date: 9 Apr 1744

Place: Wald, Zurich, Switzerland^[2]

Alt Place: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Christening

Date: 25 Dec 1657

Place: Wald, Zurich, Switzerland

Family

Spouse: Barbel REIMANN

Married: 25 Feb 1683

Children:

1. Hans (John) HESS b: 1 Jul 1683 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
2. Bethli (Elizabeth) HESS b: 31 Mar 1685 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
3. Regula HESS b: 26 Dec 1686 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
4. Barbara HESS b: 8 Sep 1688 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
5. Johannes HESS b: 19 Apr 1691 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
6. Jakob HESS b: 10 Jul 1692 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
7. Anna HESS b: 4 Mar 1694 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
8. Susanna HESS b: 23 Feb 1696 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland
9. Lisenbeth HESS b: 30 Nov 1697 in Wald, Zurich, Switzerland, d. 15 Jan 1774.

Sources

1. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Annotation: An index by Marvin V. Koger, Index to the Names of 30,000 Immigrants ... Supplementing the Rupp, Ship Load Volume, 1935, 232p. is inferior to Wecken's index in the third edition (above). Page 449 contains "Names of the First Palatines in North Carolina, as Source Bibliography: RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia, Chronologically Arranged, Together with the Necessary Historical and Other Notes, also, an Appendix Containing Lists of More Than One Thousand German and French Names in New York prior to 1712. Leipzig [Germany]: Household Members: Samuel Hess. Source Citation: Place: Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Year: 1719; Page Number: 437. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.
2. ↑ Switzerland Genealogist's Records of Julius Billeter, P.14, # 144-

• The Brethren Encyclopedia, The Brethren Press, Elgin, IL (1983) p. 601
• J. H. Hess, Genealogy of the Hess Family (1896, 1963); ME (1956) 2:718-19;
• F. F. Hess, History of Balser Hess (1950);
• J. E. Fetzer, Men from Wengen (1971);
• C. M. B. Frantz, Hess Family History (1966);
• J. R. Hess, Sr., Hans Hess Who Died 1733 (1957?);
• [P. Landis], Hess(e) Ancestors (n.d.); H. H. H. Simmons, Brief History of the Andrew Hess Family (1963); M. Pennsylvania (1925) 234-40; S. Pennsylvania (1941) 102, 228, 230, 253, 256, 268, 270, 272, 276, 278, 281, 282, 284, 285, 395-96, 418-19, 424, 436; Kansas (1922) 92, 146-47, 152-54.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16231533/hans-hess Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 December 2017), memorial page for Hans “John” Hess (1680–May 1733), Find A Grave Memorial no. 16231533, citing Hans Hess Family Cemetery, Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Lynn Erb (contributor 46522255) .

Acknowledgements

• Entered by Marilyne Ayers, Oct 24, 2011
• WikiTree profile Hess-593 created through the import of JOSEPH~1.GED on Jul 14, 2012 by Joseph Stalnaker. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Joseph and others.