BOOK IV

BOOK IV. 340

III. HANNAS ROYER, SON OF II. EMIG

III. HANNAS (JOHN) ROYER, p. 8, was born May 20, 1740; and

was married to II. Barbara Kroetzer,(*) who was born in Heidelberg

Twp., then Lancaster Co., but now Lebanon Co, Pa. He resided on

the old homestead of his father, at the Middle Creek, Lancaster Co.,

of which reference is made on p. 18.(+) He built a new and substan-

tial limestone house on the old homestead, in 1790. The walls of

the said house are almost, if not quite, as good as new. I copied

the date on the house, Mar. 27, 1897. He died in the year 1816,

and his wife died about 1823 or 1824. Their remains rest in the

large cemetery at the Middle Creek Meetinghouse. He seems to

have furnished a home for the consecrated Eld. Jacob Stoll, of the

Brethren Church. See History of the Brethren of E. Pa., pp. 362-

364; also this book p. 16, foot note. He had a family of seven

children, born as follows:(++)

Page Name Birth Death

IV. John Royer July 20, 1766 Single

341 IV. Elizabeth " Feb. 18, 1768 __ __

IV. Maria " Sept. 28, 1772 Single

343 IV. Magdalena " Sept. 28, 1772 Apr. 18, 1832

345 IV. Barbara " July 11, 1774 Dec. 4, 1843

345 IV. Joseph " Dec. 13, 1779 Aug. 7, 1847

351 IV. Anna " Jan. 28, 1786 Nov. 26, 1850

* Barbara Kroetzer was the daughter of Joseph Kroetzer, who emigrated to

America, in the ship Princess Augustus, arriving at Philadelphia, Pa., on the

16th day of September, 1736; and settled three miles southwest of Shaefferstown,

Leb. Co., Pa. He was the grandfather of my maternal grandmother, Mariah

Moyer, nee Kratzer.

+ The birth record of old Hannas Royer's children, including the date of his

father Emig Royer's death, were accidentally and unexpectedly found and copied

by the writer in German on the inside lid of his old German Bible, printed by

Christopher Saur, of or in Germantown, Pa., in the year 1763. Said Bible is in

possession of his greatgrandson, VI. Joseph Doster, p. 346, at the Middle Creek,

who had no knowledge as to whose family record this was. Many leaves in front

and at the end were torn out.

++ According to the assessments of Cocalico Twp., in 1780, "John Reiher"

owned 100 acres of land, 2 horses, 3 cows, and had a valuation of (pounds)329.

-Hist. of Lanc. Co., p. 711.