Elizabeth BALTZLY

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• Fact: Daughter of Jacob Baltzly

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The Baltzly ancestral home is Langnau, Switzerland, just south of the German border and close to Bern, Switzerland. In Switzerland the family name was Balzil and was pronounced Baltii. The name appears in Bernese documents before 1400. Baltzly families were Protestants and the family of Jacob Baltzly was among those that emigrated north because of religious persecution following revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

Jacob Baltzly, his wife, & 2 daughters emigrated from the Alsace area of Germany, arriving in Pennsylvania in 1742. Following their arrival the family soon moved to Lancaster County where records show Jacob was granted 112 acres in Hempfield township on 15 Aug 1744. Two sons & a daughter were born after the family arrived in PA. Jacob is listed on 1751 and 1756 Hempfield township tax records but about 1770 the family moved across the Susquehanna river to Paradise Township in York County.

Elizabeth married Johann-George HERMAN on 16 Mar 1755 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Johann-George (son of Frantz-Heinrich HERMAN and Anna-Eva APNA) was born about 1735 in Alsace, Germany; died in Nov 1807 in Abbottstown, Adams Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry HARMAN was born on 5 Sep 1759 in Hempfield Township, Lancaster Co, Pennsylania; was christened on 15 Nov 1761; died on 13 Feb 1815 in Paradise Township, York Co., Pennsylvania.