The History of The
Danner Family by Jefferson D. Danner
and Rose Carver, written in the 1930's provided invaluable
information into the Danner family from western North Carolina.This
book has been up-dated and reprinted by Walter J. Burnham, grandson
of J.D. Danner. Anyone researching Danners in America should consult
this book for excellent leads and some colorful history.
As the above mentioned book traces the Danner
family, it begins with Jacob Danner, my 5th great grandfather, who
was probably born in Switzerland in the early 1700's and immigrated
to Pennsylvania before 1750. The History
of The Danner Family says Jacob came to
Philadelphia on the ship Patience and
Margaret arriving in Philadelphia
September 25, 1748. Unable to find the same reference, I submit the
following list of all of the Danner (and variants) I could find
listed in Rupp's Thirty Thousand Names
of Immigrants and the
Pennsylvania German
Pioneers by Strassburger and Hinke.
Here is a list of Danner Ship
Arrivals.
I believe that my Jacob Danner arrived on the ship
Lydia,
October 9, 1749.
The "Sower's
Newspaper" for German colonists, as
abstracted by Edward W. Hocke, has the following: On 16 December
1750, Johann Georg Danner, a wheelwright's son from Schaffhausen,
Switzerland, who had arrived in Pennsylvania that year and was the
living with Christian Benner, in Fanconia Township, placed an
advertisement seeking his brother, Jacob Danner, who had arrived the
previous year. Schaffhausen is a northernmost canton of Switzerland.
This Johann Georg may be Hans Jerg Banner arriving on the ship
Nancy on
August 31, 1750.
Other possibilities may be found in the writings of Yoder in his
List of
Eighteenth Century Emigants .
We can believe that a Jacob Danner had four sons, as they were all baptized in Pennsylvania before 1758 by the Rev. George Michael Weiss, according to the Church Records of Goshenhoppen (Pennsylvania). Interestingly enough, just after the listing for "Jacob Danner's four sons" is a listing for "J. Danner's daughter". So far this daughter has not been identified. Here we have some documentation that a Jacob Danner had four sons (and a daughter?) living in Pennsylvania in the 1750's.
After spending a few years in Pennsylvania, the elder Jacob, or his sons, probably took the Great Wagon Road south , as did thousands of other German and Swiss emigrants, settling near the Moravian settlement of Wachovia by 1774.. The well documented Dieter Danner is mentioned in the Records of the Moravians in North Carolina as the "... son in law of old Mother Houser arrived from Monacasy, MD to visit...and look for land. Next day he bought the 400 a. of his brother in law Michael Hauser." We may assume Dieter was also related to the Danners who settle in North Carolina and may be the father of Frederick.
The documented identity of the elder
Jacob is still elusive and, in fact, no conclusive evidence exists
that Jacob is the father of George, Jacob, Samuel and Frederick
Danner!
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