[Ancestor] Lesher

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Husband [Ancestor] Lesher

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• Note: This may be the same person as : [Ancestor] Lesher.

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1 M Henry Lesher ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1711 - Schauffhausen, near Zweibrucken, Switzerland 3
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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Lesher

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The Leshers of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, are descended from two distinct ancestors, both Swiss, and both disciples of Menno Simon. They came to Pennsylvania within a few years of each other, and their descendants have always lived in near contiguity, first in Lebanon and the northeastern part of Lancaster county, and later in the Cumberland Valley. The names of these progenitors of the Lesher families were Henry and Sebastian. Whether they were connected by family ties in their nativity it is now, perhaps, too late to ascertain, but many of the Leshers of the fourth and fifth generation in Pennsylvania have in their veins the actual blood of the two emigrants. Both Henry and Sebastian Lesher came with the first great influx of Mennonite settlers to the then frontier of Pennsylvania, and the surnames of the families into which the Leshers have intermarried are found on the passenger lists of the emigrant ships from Rotterdam before 1740, and in close proximity in Lancaster and Lebanon counties and in the Conococheague Valley. ³

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 949.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 504, 700.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 504.