Jost Ebersohl

• 2: Johannes, 'Jost', and Peter E. -- arrived on the "Robert & Alice", oaths of allegiance 3 Sep 1739. [source: Werner Hacker, "Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im 18. Jahrhundert" Stuttgart. Konrad Theiss, 1987, p. 301, no. 3067, indicates that Peter was a Mennonite [Wiedertäufer], and that he came from D-67161 Gönnheim, 4 kilometers east of Washenheim an der Weinstrasse, in the Palatinate."
• Ebersole, C. E., 1937, The Ebersol Families in America 1727-1937:
• "Our ancestors came to America from Germany, but they were of Swiss Descent. While living in Germany they spelled the name in German 'Ebersohl." A Swiss student taking post-graduate work in Harvard wrote recently that he was raised near a village called "Ebersol." He says our name is typically Swiss-German. To quote from his letter, "Ebersol is a lovely hamlet in the Swiss state of Saint Gall. The name means a place where men are hunting for wild boar. Eber- Wild Boar, and Sol- ground or place. There are many families there carrying the name "Ebersol." The town "ebersol" is four mils northeast of Butschwil in the Toggenbur District. The people are Protestants and Catholics who raise cattle and make embroideries in Switzerland. One is "Upper Ebersol" in the Canton of Luzern. These 300 people raise cattle, fruit and farm. Near this village, but on a leave 130 feet lower, is "Lower Ebersol" with about 150 Catholics. There are also families of Ebersolds living at Zaziwil, Burgdorf, Stalden, and farmers along the Emmanthal River in the Canton of Bern.
• "Our ancestors must have been originally Catholics, some of whom left that faith to become Protestant Mennonites. They escaped death from religious persecution in Switzerland by fleeing to Wurttemberg and Baden, Germany, about 1690. Some years later because they hated to take an oath, and from fear of being drafted to serve in war, and because they wante to worship God in their own simple way, they made their way down the Rhine river in Germany and each one paid his own ship passage from Rotterdam, Holland, to Philadelphia. At least five of these six men settled at first in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania."
• "Our six ancestors who came to America may have been brothers. As the story commonly goes, but it looks like Abraham was an uncle of the others. They all signed their names in German on the boat registers when they landed in Philadelphia. They all spelled their names "Ebersohl;" except Jacob who wrote his "Ebersoll." But this means nothing, for in those days people gave little attention to spelling of their names. Most of our present various spellings of the name seem to have come from the custom of writing names on Master Rolls by sound during the Revolutionary War. So I have found the name spelled over thirty ways in records and directories; such as Ebersohl, Ebersol, Ebbersol, Ebersold, Ebersole, Ebersoll, Eversole, and Eversull." .....
• "Johannes (John) Ebersohl was born about 1705, landed at Philadelphia, September 3, 1739, on the ship "Robert and Alice" from Rotterdam, Holland. He also came from Southern Germany. His name on the register is not with those of Peter and Jost. Johannes is not mentioned among the land grants of the U.S. Reports. If he paid taxes he went under the name John.
• "Peter Ebersohl also landed on the same boat with Johannes, Sept. 3, 1739. His name is given above that of Jost, probably a brother. He was granted 300 acres of land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1740. He paid taxes in Lebanon Township in 1773, and in West Hanover Township, near Hummelstown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in 1779 and 1782.
• ' "Jost (Joseph) Ebersohl also landed at Philadelphia on the ship, "Robert and Alice" on September 3, 1739, from Rotterdam, Holland. He was granted 200 acres of land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1740. He also paid taxes on land, horses, and cattle in Rapho Township, where his farm was located, in 1772. His name comes next below Peter on the register."
• ' Jost EBERSOHL (b. ca. 1710)
• ' Landed in Philadelphia Sep. 3, 1739, embarked on the "Robert and Alice" from Rotterdam, Holland; settled into a colony of German Mennonites at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was granted 200 acres on April 23, 1740 (Eversole and Eversole). "Joseph came from Holland or Germany to America in 1739. Settled in Pennsylvanian. He came to enjoy freedom in America. It was said that he came to escape persecution of [by] Roman Catholics-- or to escape required military training in Germany. He was a Dunkard Baptist" (Biggerstaff notes).
• http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/eversinf.htm
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• Mennonite Culture and History
• 2083. Friedelsheim Mennonite Congregation Church Book by Ellen Risser Farrell
• Mennonite families are known to have lived at Friedelsheim, Germany, since 1682 when the following held hereditary leases: Christian Herschi, Ulrich Wiedemann, Jost Ebersol, and Hans Borkholder. In 1715, we know that the following families lived here: 'Ebersohl', Ellenberger, Herschi, Rüsser, Schneider, and Schanz. This book contains a history of the congregation; a register of births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths from 1814-1997, and a well-researched section listing names, birthplaces, birthdates, baptism dates, marriage dates, and death dates of the following families: Becker, Berg, Bergtholdt, Beutler, Blickensdörfer, Blum, Ellenberger, Finger, Göbel, Hege, Latscha, Leisi, Lichti, Neff, Pletscher, Risser, Schnebel, Schowalter, and Staufer.
• (158pp. illus. Masthof Press, 1998. $12.50)
• http://www.masthof.com/pages/mcah.html
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Landed at Philadelphia on 9-3-1739 - was on the ship "Robert and Alice" from Rotterdam, Holland. Had 3 sons (Jacob, Christian, and Peter) He was granted 200 acres of land in Lancaster County, PA on 4-23-1740. He also paid taxes on land, horses, and cattle in Rapho Township where his farm was located in 1772.