Husband John Von Heister 1
AKA: John Hiester 2
Born: Abt 1707
Christened:
Died: 1757 2
Buried:
Father: [Father] Von Heister ( - )
Mother:
Marriage: - Bern Twp, Berks Co, PA
Wife Mary Barbara Epler 2
Born: 1732 2
Christened:
Died: 1809 2
Buried:
Children
1 M Gov. Joseph Hiester 1 2 3
AKA: Joseph Von Heister 1
Born: 18 Nov 1752 - Bern Twp, Berks Co, PA 2 3
Christened:
Died: 10 Jun 1832 4
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Witman (cal 1750-1825) 2
Marr: 1771 2
General Notes: Husband - John Von Heister
Three brothers, John, Daniel and Joseph Von Heister, students at Halle, Germany, were obliged to leave the country on account of their political convictions about the middle of the eighteenth century. They escaped to England. There they were furnished with funds from Germany to go on to America where John, the oldest brother, purchased a large tract of land near Reading, Pennsylvania, naming it Bern. Land was also purchased at Tulpehocken, near Philadelphia, in that city, and near Harrisburg.
He emigrated to America in 1732 in the twenty-fifth year of his age, from the village of Elsoff, in the province of Westphalia, Germany. Some years afterward, he settled in Bern township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, where he was then married. He and his two brothers, Joseph and Daniel (who emigrated in 1738), took up large tracts of land comprising several thousand acres and extending from the Bern church to the Tulpehocken Creek, and there they carried on farming. [HBC 1886, 522]