ELEVENTH GENERATION

1408. Jakob GREITOR ^(362)(363) was born on 5 Mar 1670/71 in Ruenenberg, Bern, Switzerland. He died in Ittlingen, Wurtenburg, Germany. He was born in the 1670's in Switzerland. His family was one of nine listed in a letter to the court of the Barons von Gemmingen at Ittlingen, Germany. The letter, dated 14 May 1715, is now preserved in the Generallandesarchiv at Karlsruhe, Germany. These Mennonites were protesting a fine of six guldens imposed in exchange for permission to follow their Anabaptist faith. They said that in other knights' lands people had to pay only three guldens, and for this reason they hoped not to have asked in vain. Many of these families appeared a few years later in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
He was married to Barbara SHENK about 1690.

1409. Barbara SHENK was born about 1670 in Switzerland. She died in Ittlingen, Wurtenburg, Germany. Children were:

704 i. Michael GREITOR.
ii. Jakob GREITOR was born in 1692/93.⁽³⁶²⁾ He died about 1758 in Lancaster Co, PA. Jakob immigrated with his brother, Michael, and Uncle John, prior to 1717 and settled on the Conestoga River in Chester County, subsequently Lancaster County, PA. Jakob's farm, consisting of 800 acres on the north side of the Conestoga, now embraces part of the city of Lancaster. Rupp's account of the arrival of Jacob is much the same, adding that the first winter he sat up his tent along with Jacob Hostetter. During the winter, Indians came to take shelter with them. Rupp does not quote his source.

Jacob is in a list of Swiss settling in Lancaster in 1712, so perhaps this is the actual year of immigration. He also appears on the Pequea Tax List for 1725.

iii. Hans Jacob GREITOR was born in 1694/95.⁽³⁶²⁾ He did not come to America.

iv. Anna GREITOR was born in 1699/1700.⁽³⁶²⁾ She did not come to America. Anna died and was buried in Germany.

v. Barbara GREITOR was born in 1701/2.⁽³⁶²⁾ She did not come to America, died and buried in Germany.

vi. Martin GREITOR was born in 1705/6.⁽³⁶²⁾ He did not come to America and died and was buried in Germany.