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Ancestors of Brenda Fae Martin

Generation No. 9

256. David Martin^406,⁴⁰⁷, born 1691 in Switzerland; died November 10, 1784 in Weaverland, Lancaster Co, Pa.. He was the son of 512. Christian Martin and 513. Elisabeth (Ells). He married 257. Barbara Herr Miller Abt. 1728.

257. Barbara Herr Miller, born Abt. 1700; died Abt. 1743. She was the daughter of 514. Abraham Herr and 515. Anna.

Notes for David Martin:
He probably fled from Switzerland to the Palatinate on account of persecution.
In 1682 William Penn inherited a large tract of land, Pennsylvania,

Names of the Palatines imported in the Molly. Jno. Hodgson, from Deal. 30th (S & H)
Sept. 1727, signed the declaration. 72 persons.
David Marten, Jacob Marten (List A)
Davidt Mardtin, Jacob Marttin (List B)

David and his brother Jacob Martin arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Molly Sept. 30, 1727. They
both settled in the Weaverland Valley, near Christian Martin's first tract. Both brothers remained
in Weaverland. Hans Hendrik Martin and his family arrived in Philadelphia on Sept. 21, 1731
aboard the ship Britannia. A probable sister Veronica, age 23 years, was also aboard this voyage.
Hans Heinrich settled east of Weaverland along the upper reaches of the Conestoga River. He
acquired the name "Creek Henry" because his homestead was located next to the creek. Hans
Heinrich also developed a mill at this site. (Martin genealogy site)

David had 370 acres of land from the Penns. George, Henry, and Jacob Weber lived on three sides of David Martin.

More About David Martin:
Ship: September 30, 1727, Molly

Notes for Barbara Herr Miller:
5 children were born to Henry Miller and wife (one was born after his death) The sex of these children is not known

Children of David Martin and Barbara Miller are:

	i.	Christian H Martin, born October 1731; died 1804; married Susanna Miller; born Abt. 1733; died Unknown.
	ii.	David H Martin, born March 23, 1732/33; died January 23, 1819; married Susanna Groff; born Abt. 1734; died Unknown.
	iii.	Elizabeth H Martin, born Abt. 1739; died Unknown; married John Bowman; born Abt. 1735; died Unknown.
	iv.	Barbara H Martin, born July 23, 1735; died Unknown; married John Baughman; born Abt. 1733; died Unknown.
	v.	Fravin Martin, born Abt. 1736; died Unknown.
128	vi.	Martin H Martin, born December 31, 1736; died January 23, 1811; married Barbara Groff.
	vii.	Veronica Martin, born Abt. 1737; died Unknown.
	viii.	John H Martin, born February 03, 1737/38; died 1813; married Barbara Ebersole; born Abt. 1740; died Unknown.
	ix.	Jacob H Martin, born November 12, 1739; died August 25, 1821; married Unknown Heatwole; born Abt. 1738 in Virginia; died Unknown.
	x.	Henry H Martin, born June 21, 1741; died August 27, 1825; married (1) Anna Burkhart; born Abt. 1742; died Unknown; married (2) Mary Frankford; born Abt. 1744; died Unknown.
	xi.	George H Martin, born August 08, 1742; died April 28, 1829; married Elizabeth Miller; born Abt. 1744; died Unknown.

      288. Samuel Oberholtzer, born Abt. 1700; died Abt. May 02, 1748 ⁴⁰⁸. He married 289. Elizabeth.

      289. Elizabeth, born Abt. 1704; died 1758.

Notes for Samuel Oberholtzer:
How do you like this? Samuell Owerhoulster(Oberholtzer) came over on the Ship Molly 9/30/1727 with David Marten (Martin) and Jacob Marten (Martin). The Martin's and the Oberholtzer's got together again in 1911 and married; they had my father in 1928.

Out of the Oberholtzer Book by Barbara Ford
SAMUEL OBERHOLTZER of Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
      Samuel Oberholtzer abt 1700 Europe, (will proved) 5/2/1748 arrived on the ship MOLLY at Philadelphia, 9/30/1727. The Foreign Needs Commission of the Mennonite Church in Holland paid passages for all 45 Mennonites (10 families) who lacked funds to pay their own way on the MOLLY which included Samuel. He went to Lancaster county and probably squatted on about 195 acres until Conestoga Manor officially opened for settlement after the Penn estate was settled and on 5/26/1746 purchased 207 acres in Manor twp from Michael Baughman. Samuel's name was on a Swisser Name list made 4/2/1728 of Mennonite property holders of the Conestoga Settlement when they solicited for naturalization, which seemed necessary for clear title to land ownership.

Oberholtzer Bulletin August 1998

Harold M Kilheffer of Lancaster county sent the Association a 102 year history of the Samuel Oberholtzer homestead in Manor township, Lancaster county. On 5/26/1746 Samuel purchased 207 acres from Michael Baughman. After Samuel's death, his heirs sold their shares to Martin Oberholtzer, son of Samuel, on 6/10/1758. In 1782 Martin's heirs sold the homestead to Jacob and Maria Kilheffer, daughter of Martin and great, great, great grandmother of Harold Kilheffer. The homestead stayed in the Kilheffer family until 1848 when David Kilheffer sold the remaining 100 acres to his father-in-law Jacob Brenner. This deed mentions a family graveyard". When David Kilheffer sold the land, it had two log cabins on it. It also had a never failing spring of water under one of the dwelling houses, which flowed from thence near the other dwellings. Jacob Brenner sold the homestead to Abraham Miller the same year and Abraham built a large brick house in 1858. Harold sent pictures of it that were taken in the 1940's. Harold believes that immigrant Samuel, his wife Elizabeth, son Martin and his wife Elizabeth, Jacob and Maria Kilheffer, their son Christian Kilheffer and his wife Catharine are buried there. Unfortunately, the graveyard was destroyed sometime in the 1800's and the inscriptions on the gravestones were not recorded. Today a housing development is on the land.

5/2/1748 Inventory of Samuel Overholser, dec'd, his goods. Lancaster co, Pa

To Horn Cattels       17 0 0
To Sheeps 3 0 0
To Shiveins 29 0 0
To horses 4 0 0
To Code rye 2 0 0
To Grains upon the land 15 0 0
To Wheat in the field 6 0 0
To a Wagon 5 10 0
To ots in the field 1 10 0
To two plows 2 0 0
To horse gears 2 5 0
To Hooxed and other casks 2 0 0
To droy meet 2 0 0
To the mans cloths betts and all other cloths 10 1 0
To chains and several sord of iron 2 0 0
To several sord of keetgen wears 2 11 0
To several sord of iron toolls 2 0 0
To books 4 0 0
________
112 7 0

More About Samuel Oberholtzer:
Lived: 1746, West of Millersville, Lancaster county, Pa (deed of 195 acres , part of the 1500 acre Andrew Hamilton tract)
Ship: September 30, 1727, Molly

Child of Samuel Oberholtzer and Elizabeth is:

144

Martin Oberholtzer, born Abt. 1720; died 1767 in Manor twp, Lancaster county; married Elizabeth.

      320. Jacob Sensenig⁴⁰⁹, born Abt. 1690 in Switzerland; died Unknown in Pa. He married 321. Maria Krey 1722.

      321. Maria Krey, born 1704 in Germantown area; died Unknown. She was the daughter of 642. John Krey and 643. Helena.

Notes for Jacob Sensenig:
The Sensineys of America, compiled by Barton Sensenig
Tradition says that three brothers came here from Switzerland, lived a while in the Germantown vicinity, and the moved to Lancaster County, before it was a separate county, and took land in what was later Earl Township. It is further asserted that Jacob and Christian married and their brother John remained a bachelor.
      In the Land Warrant book, in charge of the Secretary of Interanl Affairs at Harrisburg, we find that warrant No 76 is to Jacob Sensiney and warrant No 77 is to Christian Sensiney, and that both warrants are dated 1/27/1734, showing that these two men worked together with the same purpose in view. John later took land contiguous to Jacob's tract, but relinquished it to Michael Witwer (Witware), either because he made a profit by the transaction or because he couldn't fulfil the stipulations of the agreement into which he had entered. A third reason may have been that he was moving to another part of the country. From this point forward we know nothing more of John.
      Foust and Brumbaugh in their two volumes on Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century to the American Colonies, speak of a property settlement in Switzerland in which it is revealed that Margaret Muller came here with her brothers in 1714 and married Christian Sinsenig. This is our Christian, as later facts prove. It is also well proved that Jacob Sensiney married Maria Krey while living in the Germantown area. The Kreys had come here quite early, in the 17th century.
      Though land was not surveyed for Jacob and Christian before 1734, it must not be assumed that they had not already lived on the tracts they had later surveyed for themselves. Johnny B Sensenig, 46 years age, told me that Jacob and his bride came to their future farm in 1722. Johnny was then about 80 years of age and of clear mind, and he said he had often heard his parents speak about the matter and he showed me the place where they alighted and where they built a shelter. All this twelve years before the Penns surveyed the land for them.
      When a boy in my teens, I was told by John S Weaver, who was then well on to eighty years of age, that people would come into Lancaster County from the Germantown area to prospect for land, and when they had found a tract that pleased them, with a good spring of water on it, they would break the tops of the shrubbery and small trees about the spring and bend them down, to show other prospectors that the land was being applied for. That would prevent duplicate claims for the same tract. Then to assure the tract to themselves, they would move on it, and have it surveyed later, and enter into a gradual payment plan, and the farm would be patented to them when the final payment was made. Thus we find that Jacob's tract was surveyed in 1734, but the 155 3/4 acres were not patented to him till 1747, Christian's tract was also patented to him in 1747, and it had been stipulated that on the 1st of March, each year, he was to pay the Penn Heirs one half penny sterling per acre; or for his farm of 216.95 acres. he would pay about $2.17 in our money. That seems very little, but we must remember that dollars bought more in those days that now. After 1747, these brothers paid no money to the Penns.

Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834

May 6, 1756 July 30, 1756
LANDIS, JOHN
Wife. Margaret Landis. Children: John (there were others, names
not stated).
Ex. Bartholomew Sigrist and Jacob Sensenig. Cocalico Twp.

Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834

March 17, 1778 February 16, 1785
WITWER, MICHAEL
Wife. Mary Witwer. Children: John, Joseph, Elizabeth, Jonas,
Barbara, David, Daniel and Mary.
Ex. John Witwer and Jacob Sensenig. Earl Twp.


Children of Jacob Sensenig and Maria Krey are:

	160	i.		Michael Sensenig, born 1723; died 1801; married Magdalena Wenger.
		ii.		Mary Sensenig⁴⁰⁹, born Abt. 1725; died Unknown; married Michael Witwer 1762 ⁴¹⁰; born Abt. 1695; died Bef. 1785.

Notes for Mary Sensenig:
Deed P 3 530, May 21, 1785
Jacob Sensenig and his wife Barbara to Mary Witwer, widow, part of larger tract which David Martin and Gertraut, John and Mary Witwer and Peter released to Jacob Sentzenig (Sensenig) and Barbara, May 21, 1785 (Sensineys in America)

Notes for Michael Witwer:
Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834

March 17, 1778 February 16, 1785
WITWER, MICHAEL
Wife. Mary Witwer. Children: John, Joseph, Elizabeth, Jonas,
Barbara, David, Daniel and Mary.
Ex. John Witwer and Jacob Sensenig. Earl Twp.

iii.

Gertraut Sensenig ⁴¹¹, born Abt. 1727; died Unknown; married David Martin; born Abt. 1720; died Unknown.

More About David Martin:
Occupation: farmer, Manor twp

iv.

Jacob Sensenig⁴¹¹, born 1730; died 1814 in 84 years old; married Barbara Abt. 1760; born Abt. 1745; died Unknown.

Notes for Jacob Sensenig:
The farm was deeded to this Jacob from the first Jacob.

From the Sensenig Book:
He was public spirited as appears for the following:
The first public school In Pa was founded in New Holland, Pa, in 1786, and Frank R Diffenderfer, in writing the history of the school gives a list of the subscribers to the school fund in terms of money and services. Among the subscribers we find Jacob Sensenig who contributed a log and hauled it free of charge to the schoolhouse which was building, though he lived several miles away. Dr Diffenderfer, as a boy went to this school and dedicated this little stanza in Pa dutch in appreciation:
"Do bin ich ganga in die Schul;
Wo ich nicht war gans kle;
Dort war dar Meschter in seim Stuhl;
Dort war sei Wip, und dort sei Ruhl;
Ich kan's noch alles seh."

When Jacob was 82 years old, he willed the plantation on which he was living to Daniel, his son. This will is K 1 593, Earl Twp, June 15, 1812; and this will was signed by these children (we have included Daniel)

See note on son Jacob's page

Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834

June 15, 1812 March 12, 1814
SENSENIG, JACOB
Wife. Barbara Sensenig. Children: Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, Esther, Sarah,
Feronica, Daniel and John.
Ex. Daniel and John Sensenig. Earl Twp.

More About Jacob Sensenig:
Will: March 26, 1814, Daniel Witwer, a cousin, was the executor.

Notes for Barbara:
There is reason to believe that Barbara was considerably younger and the second wife. If she had been as old as he was she would have been 59 years old when Fronica was born in 1789. There is a record that states that Jacob, a bachelor, who died in 1841 at the age of 63 years was the son of Jacob and Elizabeth. If there has been no mistake made in copying this record, we are let to infer that all the children born before Jacob, the bachelor, were also children of Jacob and Elizabeth.

John Sensenig⁴¹¹, born Abt. 1731; died Unknown; married Anna; born Abt. 1735; died Unknown.

Notes for John Sensenig:
From the Sensenig Book
John Sensenig, who wrote his name John Sinsingh in signing a release, was a Practitioner of Physic, who held forth at Middletown, now in Daphin County, where he paid taxes in Paxtang township in 1780. His wife's name was Anna. There is nothing to Dauphin county records to give us information. John and Anna may have had children. Mtgy.
Mrs Coldren has sent us this note:
When Charles Christopher died in 1767, he had no direct heirs. But in a release dated 11/4/1772, we find the release signed by John and Anna Sensenig. Anna was probably a niece of Charles Christopher.

Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1834

December 3, 1787 March 5, 1798
MUSSELMAN, CHRISTIAN
Wife. Mary Musselman. Children: John, Christian, Joseph, Barbara,
Mary and Christina.
Ex. John Sensenig and Michael Bear. Earl Twp.

More About John Sensenig:
Occupation: Practioner of Physic, located at Middletown, Pa

vi.

Peter Sensenig⁴¹¹, born 1738; died September 07, 1804; married (1) Maria Holl; born Abt. 1742; died Unknown; married (2) Ursula Shoneur Abt. 1765; born Abt. 1740; died Unknown.

Notes for Peter Sensenig:
From the Sensenig book
Peter Sensenig, born in 1738, was the youngest member of the original Jacob Sensenig family, who married first Ursula Shoneur, the widow of his first cousin Christian. His 2nd wife was Maria Holl. Peter was born in Earl twp, Lancaster co, Pa and moved to York county, and from there he went to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, where he became a very prominent man. He stands at the head of the Virginia Branch and we shall speak of him at greater length under that heading.

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