Isaac Kauffman (1693 - 1738)

Born 1693 in Oberdiessbach, Bern, Switzerland

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Died 1738 at about age 45 in Manor Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Biography

The Kauffman Genealogy suggests that Isaac was "probably the son of Tauferlehrer Isaac Kauffman, who lived at Homber, Parish of Steffisburg near Thun, Switzerland" and refers the reader to the opening chapter of the genealogy.^[1] However, the opening chapter [at pp.xvii-xviii] records that Isaac b.c.1685 (son of Isaac "Tauferlehrer" b.1653) was the father of a child baptised in Switzerland in 1718. Unless Isaac and his family travelled separately to Pennsylvania, this could not have been the same Isaac who warranted land in Pennsylvania in 1717.

Isaac Kauffman arrived in Pennsylvania and was granted a warrant for survey in 1717. He was naturalised along with Andrew and Jacob Kauffman in 1727. ^[1]

He married Elizabeth [LNU] (d.1751). ^[1] They are believed to be the parents of :

1. Jacob m. Eve Snevely ^[1]
2. Christian (1728-1799) m. Barbara Baer^[1]
3. Audey (d.1772) m. Philip Kuntz ^[1]
4. Elizabeth, wife of John Neff ^[1]
5. Anna m. Jacob Neff ^[1]
6. Isaac (d.1777) m. (1) [UNK] (2) Christina SITLER ^[1]
7. Andrew (d.1758) m. Fraena Baer ^[1]

Isaac Kauffman of Hempfield Twp died c.1738. Letters of administration were granted to his widow, Elizabeth Kauffman, and to Andrew Kauffman and Melchior Erisman (assumed to be his neighbours). ^[1]

Research Notes

• No evidence is presented to confirm identification (at Nov 2022) of Isaac as the son of (unsourced) Jacob Kauffman and Anna Kropff
• A transcript of Isaac's Warrant for Land, surveyed in 1719, and the inventory of his estate in Hempfield Township in 1738 are included in the book by Charles Fahs Kauffman.
• In Rupp's "Thirty Thousand Immigrants," Isaac Kauffman is named as head of one of the thirty-five families that settled in what is now Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, but then, in the year 1717, was part of Chester County. Isaac Kauffman's children were Jacob; Christian; Audey, wife of Philip Kuntz; Elizabeth, wife of John Neff; Anna, wife of Jacob Neff; Isaac; and Andrew. ^[1]
• Isaac apparently emigrated at the same time as Andreas Kauffman, and the two men settled near each other in Lancaster, PA. Both named sons Jacob, Isaac, Andrew and Christian. When Isaac died, Andreas was given administration of Isaac's estate. It's highly likely that the two men were brothers (or possibly cousins), but further research is needed to confirm.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} Kauffman, Charles Fahs (1940). A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America, 1584 to 1937; including brief outlines of allied Swiss and Palatine families who were among the pioneer settlers in Lancaster and York counties of Pennsylvania from 1717 on; viz., Becker, Baer, Correll, Erisman, Fahs, Kuntz, Kneisley, Hershey, Hiestand, Meyers, Musselman, Neff, Martin, Ruby, Snavely, Shenk, Shirk, Sprenkle, Witmer, and others pp.330-332. York, PA : Author. Viewed at https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory00kauf/page/330/mode/1up?

See also :

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyhart&id=I25485