Hance Brubaker and Unknown

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Husband Hance Brubaker ¹

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            AKA: Hans Brubaker,1 John Brubaker 2
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       Marriage:  - Germany

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   Other Spouse: Anna [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Wife Unknown

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Children

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1 M John Brubaker ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Germany
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         Spouse: Maria Newcomer (      -      ) 1 2

         Spouse: Mary Doner (      -      ) 1

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2 M Jacob Brubaker ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Germany
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         Spouse: Susannah Stoneman (      -      ) 1

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3 F Elizabeth Brubaker ¹

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           Born:  - Germany
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         Spouse: Daniel Eshleman (      -1749) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Hance Brubaker

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He emigrated to America from Switzerland in the year 1710, and settled on the Little Conestoga, about two miles west of the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where Samuel Binkley's mill was later located; here Mr. Brubaker built the first grist mill in Lancaster County. [BHLC, 88]

He located near the west bank of Little Conestoga, and his land extended on both sides of the creek, and lay principally between the Lancaster and Harrisburg and Lancaster and Marietta turnpikes. He also owned one hundred and fifty-one acres where the Lancaster and Columbia turnpike crossed the same stream. Upon this tract he erected a grist and saw-mill, which was contemporaneous with the one erected by Dr. Neff five miles further east upon Big Conestoga.
On the 27th day of September, 1717, Hance Brubaker and Christian Hershey took out a warrant for one thousand acres, which they held as tenants in common. In the year 1718 they agreed to divide the above tract, the former to take the lower half, containing five hundred acres, and the latter the upper five hundred acres. On the 13th day of May, 1729, he sold the mill and the lower farm of one hundred and fifty acres to Christian Stoneman (at the time of his decease, however, he owned nearly eight hundred acres), Jacob, the son of Hance, having married Susannah, the sister of Stoneman. [HLC 1883, 867]

He "was a man of strong common sense. His wife, Anna ("Annally"), survived him. He must have been very much attached to her, and when he came near the end of his journey through life he gave particular directions to his children that they were not to drive his widow from her home if she chose to marry again, and she was free to do so. This was an unusual request, for it was then the custom to deprive the widow of the full enjoyment of the homestead if she married. He also directed that the oldest son should receive no more of his estate than his youngest son. It was then the custom for the oldest son to receive two shares. It did honor to the old man's head and heart, in his declining years, that he was willing to allow his widow to follow the pathway where love led him a second time, and accord her the same privilege after he had ended his pilgrimage upon earth. This plain and unostentatious old German was quick to perceive the injustice of the old law in making a discrimination in favor of the oldest son, and he was wise in following the dictates of his judgment. His children carried out his wishes faithfully." [HLC 1883, 867]

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 867.

2 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 88.