51.
Heinrich Zimmerman
59.
Dr. Heinrich "Henry Carpenter" Zimmerman
Found a paragraph from "Ship Passenger List's", Pennsylvania and Delaware 1641-1825.The following is a rough translation from the original passage written in German:
Immigrant in Pennsylvania before 1700. Almanac on behalf of Auslanddeutsche clan (1736 ),53-54 [lancour No. 116]
Zimmerman, Heinrich a doctor from Switzerland 1698, son Emanuel , leader of the group to Pennsylvania. He had seven sons whose families consisted of six people. They changed their name to Carpenter. Maria Margareta Zimmerman, a widow was with Magester Johann Jakob who was the arranger of the group of immigrants to Pennsylvania with four children,1694 immigrants.
CD#49 PIN328805. LDS FGR lists 9 children believe Gabriel listed twice different birth locations. AFN 8PS$-23. Settled in Germantown c 1698 left in 1700 back to SW married and returned in 1706 with two sons, Emanuel and Gabriel, four and two years old. Queen Anne of England Presented Henry with a set of carpenters tools when he set out for America
From" Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania"- H, Frank Eshleman, 1917
in 1698 Henry Zimmerman arrived and inspected the brethren at Germantown. He then went back to Europe for his family and brought them back over in 1706 settling first in Germantown then moving within the bounds of Lancaster County in 1717.
Simple hard-working, well-to-do burghers, their ancestors having lived in the Bernese Oberland valley for many successive generations.
Wattenwyl is a small parish in the district of Seftigen, Canton Bern, in a small plain watered by theGuerbe, and is meadow land and orchards. It is twenty-six kilometers from Bern. Children were sent tothe village school, for public instruction had been instated in Switzerland some short time before 1676. From: "The Biographical Annals of Lancaster County" has Henry born in 1675 and died between 1743 and 1748.
Harold P. Carpenter of Hanford, CA submitted this line in June 2008.
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GRAVE:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20644671
Dr Henrich "Henry Carpenter" Zimmerman
Birth: Sep. 7, 1673
Wattenwil
Bern, Switzerland
Death: Apr. 17, 1763
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Note: Here lies Dr. Henrich Zimmerman. Died April 17' 1763. Age 59 years & 7 days. **
Burial:
Carpenter Church Cemetery
West Earl Township
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania, USA
Created by: C&P * LaPlante Files
Record added: Jul 26, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 20644671
** He died 1749 - The rest appears confused with the son's record?
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BOOK: Harris, Alexander,. A biographical history of Lancaster County : being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county, as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character. Lancaster, Pa.: Elias Barr & Co., 1872. Carpenters at about pages 129-133 (OCRed text) Zimmermans at pages 630-631.
Page 630
ZIMMERMAN, Henry, (Carpenter), the progenitor of the numerous Carpenter family of Lancaster county, was a native of the canton of Berne, in Switzerland, and emigrated to this country about 1710. According to an old order of William Penn, the names of all persons to whom grants of land were made were Anglicised, and hence the name was changed to that of Carpenter. Henry Zimmerman was allowed to take possession of several hundred acres of land, provided he went sixty miles west of Philadelphia. The cause of his emigration was repugnance to persecution, and being a member of the German Reformed church his friends desired to force him to unite with those of their opinions in persecuting others. This did not seem to him as accordant with the spirit of Christianity, and to escape this he resolved upon coming to America. To detain him his friends meditated seizing his wife, and thus they thought to prevent his going. She, however, resolved to follow her husband. He accordingly, in secret, obtained a small boat and fixed it upon the shore of the lake of the four cantons. They awaited a favorable opportunity, and finally left their home to escape, by means of the boat, forever from the land of their birth. Henry armed himself, and not in vain, with a sabre, for they were attacked on the road by four hussars, who wished to prevent their departure. Tradition says, with Salome clinging to her husband for protection, he successfully combated his four assailants, and succeeded in escaping, both himself and wife, in their little boat, to a more hospitable shore.
Henry Zimmerman was a carpenter by trade, and going from Switzerland to England on his way to America, he was presented with a large auger and other tools by Queen Anne, to enable him to carry on his trade in America.
MVR: Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014
Name: Henry Carpenter
Relationship: Head
Birth Date: 1675
Death Date: 1743
Household Members: Name Relationship
Henry Carpenter
b. 1675 d. 1743 Head Henry Carpenter
b. 1714 d. 1773 Child Salome Rufener
b. 1675 d. 1743 Spouse Daniel Carpenter
b. 1716 d. 1764 Child Emanuel Carpenter
b. 1702 d. 1 Apr 1780 Child Jacob Carpenter
b. 1707 Child Gabriel Carpenter
b. 1704 d. Feb 1785 Child Mary Carpenter
b. 1722 d. 1750 Child Christian Carpenter
b. 1707 Child Salome Carpenter
b. 1709 d. 1736 Child
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Genealogical Card File. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Note: I added birth and deaths as noted on the image.
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Christian Carpenter