Jacob Haldeman and Maria Miller

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Husband Jacob Haldeman ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 7 Oct 1722 - Canton of Neufchatel, Switzerland 2
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           Died: 31 Dec 1784 - Rapho Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 2
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Wife Maria Miller ⁴

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Children

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1 M John Haldeman ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1753 1 2
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           Died: 1832 - Columbia, Lancaster Co, PA 1 2
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         Spouse: Maria Breneman (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Haldeman

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His grandfather Honeste Gaspard Haldimand (Caspar Haldeman), of Thun, Switzerland, became a citizen of Yverdun, Canton de Vaud, in 1671.

On first coming to to America, he settled in Rapho township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and purchased a considerable tract of land. He was a member of the Committee of Safety for his adopted shire on the breaking out of the war of the Revolution.

Jacob Haldeman's near relative (elder brother?) was the noted British general, Sir Frederick Haldimand, K.B., who served with distinction in the armies of Sardinia and Prussia, entered the military service of King George II. in 1754, was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Sixtieth Regiment Royal Americans, 1756. In 1776 he was commissioned a general in America, and subsequently commander-in-chief of His Majesty's forces as Governor of the Province of Quebec, where he received the honor of knighthood, May 19, 1778. A tablet has been erected to the memory of Gen. Haldimand in Westminster Abbey, in the chapel of Henry VII. A niece of Sir Frederick was Jane Haldimand, Mrs. Dr. Alexander Marcet, a distinguished woman, and the first writer to attempt to popularize science by the publication of her "Conversations on Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Mineralogy, Language, and Political Economy." Of this last work Macaulay said, "Every girl who has read Mrs. Marcet's little dialogues on political economy could teach Montague or Walpole many lessons in finance," and Faraday gleaned his first knowledge of science from the book which heads the list.

1 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 257.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 498.

3 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 332.

4 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 99.