Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Hans Graafe and Susanna [Unk]




Husband Hans Graafe 1 2

            AKA: Earl  Graeffe 3
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           Died: May 1746 - Earl Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 3
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Wife Susanna [Unk] 1

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Children
1 F Veronica Graafe 1 4

            AKA: Veronica Graeffe 3
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         Spouse: Henry Landis (      -1760) 1 4



General Notes: Husband - Hans Graafe


He came from Switzerland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1696, later settling in Lancaster County. The "Colonial Record," Vol. III, states that this ancestor was one of the commissioners to lay out the road from Lancaster to Philadelphia. He and his wife had nine children.

He came from Switzerland about 1696 and purchased land near Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1704. In 1718 he removed to what is now Earl township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and took up 1500 acres of land. As indicated by the name, he was an earl and Earl township was named for him. He died there leaving six sons and three daughters. [BACC, 586]

He came from Switzerland to Philadelphia in 1696 and settled in the Paguea valley. In 1718 he removed to "Graaf's Hal," afterward Earl township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he purchased fourteen hundred and six acres of land and built a mill on the Conestoga creek. He is said to have been a very prominent man in his day and was one of the commissioners to lay out a road from Lancaster to Philadelphia in 1733 (see Colonial Records, Volume III, page 521). The township of Earl was named for him and in the foreign tongue was "Graaf." In ex-Governor Pennypacker's book, "Settlement of Germantown" (1899), on page 63, he is named as one of those who sent children to the famous school kept by Francis Daniel Pastorious at Germantown. [PAHP iii, 73]

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 73.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 188.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 586.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 489.


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