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Persoonlijke gegevens JOHANN JACOB SCHERER (PA 1717) BOEHM SR. 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1693 in Zweibrucken, Palatinate, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
• Geëmigreerd, Emigrated with OUR ancestor john Kagy in second Mennonite Migration.
• Beroep: in Blacksmith.
• Hij is overleden voor 12 juli 1781 in Conestoga, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1780 in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, PA, hij was toen 87 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1787, hij was toen 94 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Hans Hess Family Cemetery.
• Een kind van Jacob Boehm en Anna Maria Scherer
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 1 februari 2022.

Gezin van JOHANN JACOB SCHERER (PA 1717) BOEHM SR.

Hij is getrouwd met BARBARA (KENDIG) KINDIG.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1714 te Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

Kind(eren):

1. Veronica (Fronica) Kendig Boehm  1720-1778
2. Jacob Kendig Boehm  ± 1720-1788 
3. Jacob Kendig Boehm  1722-1788 
4. John Kendig Boehm  ± 1722-± 1800 
5. Abraham Kendig (CANADA) Boehm  ± 1723-1799 
6. Martin Kendig Boehm  1725-1812 
7. Mary Kendig Boehm  1727-1781
8. Susannah Kendig Boehm  1735-1806 
9. Magdelena Kendig Boehm  1739-1804 
10. Elizabeth Kendig Boehm  ????-± 1787
11. Barbara Kendig Boehm  ????-1783

Notities over JOHANN JACOB SCHERER (PA 1717) BOEHM SR.

Johann Jacob Boehm
Birth: 1693 Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death: 12 Jul 1781 (aged 87œ88) Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial: Hans Hess Family Cemetery, Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Many of the stones there in 1918 have been removed.
Memorial #: 127056866
Family Members
Parents
Jacob Boehm 1668-1759
Spouse
Barbara Kendig Boehm 1695-1780
Siblings
BARBARA KARRER BOEHM 1668-1783
RUDOLPH BEAM BOEHM 1691-1781
JOHANN JACOB BOEHM 1693-1781
ANNA MARGETHA BEAM-BOEHM 1696-1732
Children
Jacob Beam 1723-1812
Hans Martin Boehm 1725-1812
Susanna Boehm Resch 1735-1806
Magdalena Boehm Shoff 1737-1804
Abraham Beam 1748-1814
Created by: Eric Bruno Borgman (46808488)
Added: 28 Mar 2014
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127056866/johann-jacob-boehm
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 April 2021), memorial page for Johann Jacob Boehm (1693œ12 Jul 1781), Find a Grave Memorial no. 127056866, citing Hans Hess Family Cemetery, Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Eric Bruno Borgman (contributor 46808488) .

Böhm Family of Lancaster Co., PA

Introduction
Jacob Boehm, born circa 1693 in Zweibrücken, Palatinate, was an early Mennonite immigrant to Pennsylvania. He is traditionally stated to have arrived in Conestoga Township (present-day Pequea Twp., Lancaster Co., PA) in 1712 or 1715. It is more likely that he arrived with the second group of Mennonites in 1717. Jacob and his wife, Barbara Kendig, had twelve known children. The descendants of this immigrant family number in the tens of thousands today and are located throughout North America.
Very little is known about Jacob's personal life, except for the following glimpse, written by his grandson, Henry Boehm:
"Reminiscences, Historical and Biographical, of Rev. Henry Boehm", Rev. J. B. Wakeley, D.D., 1875, pp. 10-11.
He had several children, of whom Jacob, the third, was my grandfather. He was born in 1693, and emigrated to this country in 1715. Many of the Mennonites emigrated from Switzerland and Germany.
My grandfather was induced to come to America from the glowing description given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, PA. He landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township. Soon after he married a Miss Kendig. My grandfather was a lay elder in the Mennonite Society.
Soon after his arrival he bought a farm and built him a house. He was also a blacksmith, the first in all that region.
During the twentieth century, a number of family historians began the arduous task of tracing the numerous descendants of Jacob Boehm. Among these researchers were Morris Stanley Boehm and Don Beam of Canada, Shirley Deane Briggs (wife of Lewis William Beam), and James Galloway and his wife Dorothy Jean Wolfley.
For those family members interested in their heritage, we owe a debt of gratitude to Jim and Dorothy Galloway. They spent more than twenty years traveling across North America, visiting courthouses, libraries, and cemeteries, conducting family interviews, organizing family reunions, etc. Their research established the connections between the various branches of the family, which had migrated south to Virginia, north to Canada, and west to Ohio during the eighteenth century.

Jacob Boehm (ca. 1693-1781) History of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Phares Brubaker Gibble, 1951, pp. 11-12.
Jacob Boehm, father of Martin, was of Swiss Mennonite extraction. He landed at Philadelphia in the year 1715, tarried some time in Germantown, then settled in Conestoga (now Pequea) Township, on a three hundred and eighteen-acre tract located approximately six miles south of Lancaster City, (about one and one-half miles south of the present village of Willow Street). Later he purchased an additional tract of one hundred and two acres and one hundred and forty-four perches adjoining his original purchase on the southwest. These plantations were removed by but one from the earliest of the more remote inland settlements that commonly known as the Pequea Settlement of the year 1710. The influence upon American history by the coming of the good ship, "Mayflower," to the shores of New England on December 21, 1620, is equalled in significance by the coming of the ship, "Maria Hope," to Philadelphia on September 23, 1710. The combined passenger and crew list on the Maria Hope numbered ninety-four persons. Among them was a small group in which our interest centers. Soon after arrival, their representative appeared before the Penn's property commissioners and obtained warrants for the survey of 10,500 acres of land, to be divided among, "Swissers lately arrived in this Province." By July 1711, patents for 5,500 acres plus six per cent additional for roads, etc., had been issued. This formed the Pequea Settlement. This historic event was commemorated in the year 1910 by the Lancaster County Historical Society placing a marker at the entrance to the grounds of the "Brick," or Willow Street Mennonite Church. The tablet shows the land to be located on the Pequea Creek and crossed easterly and westerly by the old Philadelphia and Conestoga Road.
Religious Background of the Boehm Family of Lancaster Co., PA Jacob Böhm (ca. 1693-1781), the Mennonite emigrant to Lancaster Co., PA, lived in a time of religious upheaval. Although the extant records indicate that Jacob was a devoutly religious man, within a few generations, this Boehm family changed religious affiliation several times. The family tradition, preserved by Rev. Henry Beam/Boehm in the book, Reminiscences, Historical and Biographical, of Rev. Henry Boehm, Rev. J. B. Wakeley, D.D., provides some of the following background information:
1. The grandfather of the immigrant, Jacob Böhm (ca. 1693-1781), also named Jacob Böhm, was a —Presbyterian“ who lived in Switzerland.
During the 17th century, this church was actually called the Reformed church (or Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche). The Reformed church in Switzerland developed through the efforts of Ulrich/Huldreich Zwingli during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The Reformed church in Switzerland adhered to the religious doctrine developed by John Calvin.
2. The father of the immigrant, Jacob Böhm (ca. 1693-1781), also named Jacob Böhm, converted to the Pietist faith during the three years when he was working as a journeyman craftsman. When he returned home, his religious zeal got him into trouble with the religious authorities and he was tried and convicted of heresy. He managed to escape with the help of one of his brothers and flee to the Palatinate, where there was greater religious tolerance at that time.
The Pietist religious movement began during the 17th century through the work of Philipp Jakob Spener. The Pietist doctrine combined elements of both the Lutheran and Reformed churches, with an emphasis on individual piety and a vigorous Christian life.
3. The immigrant, Jacob Böhm (ca. 1693-1781), arrived in Pennsylvania with a group of Mennonite settlers ca. 1717.
The extant data indicates that Jacob Böhm (ca. 1693-1781) was a Mennonite for his entire adult life. He was listed as an elder/deacon in the Mennonite church as early as 1755. The migration of Mennonites from Europe to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s occurred for several reasons, including: increasing religious persecution in Europe, destruction of property and starvation due to the continual warfare among the dominant European powers of that day, the availability of land in Pennsylvania, the sympathy of the English Quaker, William Penn, etc.
The Mennonite denomination developed through the efforts of Menno Simons in the 16th century. The doctrine of the Mennonite religion is similar to the Anabaptist religion and in addition, Mennonites have historically been committed to pacifism.
4. Martin Beam/Boehm (1725-1812), the youngest surviving son of the immigrant Jacob Böhm (ca. 1693-1781), was chosen by lot to be a Mennonite minister in 1756. However, in 1761, he had a conversion experience and because of his evangelical zeal, he was ex-communicated from the Mennonite church. He was then active first in the United Brethren in Christ church and then toward the end of his life he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Other sources state that the conversion experience of Martin Beam/Boehm may have occurred as early as 1758. Rev. Martin Beam/Boehm was evidently influenced by the preaching of George Whitefield. In 1767, he became associated with the Dutch Reformed minister, Philip William Otterbein, with whom he co-founded the United Brethren in Christ church. Rev. Martin Beam/Boehm's formal break with the Mennonite faith occurred ca.1777. Rev. Philip William Otterbein and Rev. Martin Beam/Boehm served as bishops in the United Brethren in Christ church until their deaths, although, they did not exercise anything more than ceremonial responsibilities after about 1805.
The English speaking Methodist and the German speaking United Brethren in Christ churches were closely aligned and often shared in one another's services. In 1802, Rev. Martin Beam/Boehm became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Boehm's Chapel, which was built in 1791 on land that his father had obtained by patent.
The religious tradition of the Boehm family of Lancaster Co., PA has been carried on by the many descendants of Jacob Böhm (ca. 1693-1781) who went into the ministry, including:
•Martin Beam/Boehm (1725-1812)
•Henry Beam/Boehm (1775-1875)
•Henry Beam (1806-1874)
•Abraham Hershey Keagy Beam (1817-1915)
•Samuel S. Sherfy (1817-1896)
•Henry Abraham Beahm (1822-1899)
•Joseph Wine (1823-1903)
•Michael Beahm E. Kline (1826-1902)
•Joseph B. Bowman (1832-1910)
•Joel Sherfy (1841-1930)
•John Sherfy (1846-1925)
•Noah Beahm Sherfy (1848-1918)
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Jacob Boehm (ca. 1693-1781)
History of the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Phares Brubaker Gibble, 1951, pp. 11-12.
Jacob Boehm, father of Martin, was of Swiss Mennonite extraction. He landed at Philadelphia in the year 1715, tarried some time in Germantown, then settled in Conestoga (now Pequea) Township, on a three hundred and eighteen-acre tract located approximately six miles south of Lancaster City, (about one and one-half miles south of the present village of Willow Street). Later he purchased an additional tract of one hundred and two acres and one hundred and forty-four perches adjoining his original purchase on the southwest. These plantations were removed by but one from the earliest of the more remote inland settlements that commonly known as the Pequea Settlement of the year 1710. The influence upon American history by the coming of the good ship, "Mayflower," to the shores of New England on December 21, 1620, is equalled in significance by the coming of the ship, "Maria Hope," to Philadelphia on September 23, 1710. The combined passenger and crew list on the Maria Hope numbered ninety-four persons. Among them was a small group in which our interest centers. Soon after arrival, their representative appeared before the Penn's property commissioners and obtained warrants for the survey of 10,500 acres of land, to be divided among, "Swissers lately arrived in this Province." By July 1711, patents for 5,500 acres plus six per cent additional for roads, etc., had been issued. This formed the Pequea Settlement. This historic event was commemorated in the year 1910 by the Lancaster County Historical Society placing a marker at the entrance to the grounds of the "Brick," or Willow Street Mennonite Church. The tablet shows the land to be located on the Pequea Creek and crossed easterly and westerly by the old Philadelphia and Conestoga Road.

When Darvin L. Martin hears about refugees today, he thinks about his Swiss-German ancestors who were refugees here 10 generations ago, because back then if you weren‘t a British citizen, you were an alien.
Martin, a chemist who correlates DNA to family history, co-chairs the annual Lancaster Family History Conference at the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society. He will speak at an event marking the 1717 migration of the Lancaster County Swiss-German Mennonites at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, at Boehm's Chapel, behind Boehm's United Methodist Church, 13 W. Boehm's Road, Willow Street. A freewill offering will be received. For additional information, please contact (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX) or phone 717-872-4133.
Martin explains that Swiss-German Mennonites were driven out of Switzerland in 1671 and lived in Germany as refugees before coming here. The second group of about 80 refugees arrived in August 1717. But because they weren't British citizens, they couldn't sell land or pass it on to their children. So in 1729, about 200 Swiss-German landowners signed an oath of allegiance to the British crown.

One of the signers was Jacob Boehm (pronounced beam), father of Martin Boehm, who built the chapel in 1791.
—He shed tears sometimes when preaching,“ Martin says. —He would even sing, which was not untypical.“
Martin Boehm was born here in 1725. He was chosen by lot and called as a minister among the Society of Mennonites in 1756.
The chapel was built on the Boehms' 381-acre farm. Before that, the family's house and barn served as places of worship.
One of the interesting things Martin says he learned through DNA analysis of living Boehm descendants was that they had Celtic ancestry from Alpine Europe.
—It's not so surprising,“ Martin says, —because half of the Swiss families have a Celtic DNA signature.“
He surmises that the name Boehm is probably taken from Bohemia, because some surnames indicated geography and people didn't have surnames until they moved.
—I'm not sure, but it makes sense,“ Martin says. —Surnames began before there were records. They just show up.“
A land agent
Martin Kendig was among one of the first groups of Swiss-German refugees to come here in 1710 – along with Herrs, Mylins, Funks and Millers.

A land agent, Kendig was the liaison between the Philadelphia Quakers and the Mennonites, whom William Penn invited to settle in Pennsylvania.
Kendig secured 5,000 acres between Strasburg and Willow Street, Martin says. After they were established, he went back to Germany to invite more Mennonites. They included Hersheys, Leamans, Webers, Brennemans, Steiners, Stoners and Hubers.
Martin's presentation will include maps, land grants and documents from provincial minutes. He says records show that 100 acres cost about $14.
Politics came into play with the Mennonites during the American Revolution. Some felt because their parents and grandparents had signed an oath of allegiance to the British that they had to be loyal to them.
—Others felt the fervor of the Revolution,“ Martin says. —That's when the United Brethren Church, the oldest denomination that began on this soil, began.“
In 1946, the United Brethren Church and the Evangelical Church merged to become the Evangelical United Brethren Church. In 1968, the Methodist Church merged with the EUB to become the United Methodist Church.
—This is the EU side of the Methodist history,“ Martin says.
Book about Boehm

Dolores Myers, executive director of the Boehm's Chapel Society, has written an anniversary book, —Sowing Seeds of Faith, A Boehm History, The First 300 Years, 1717-2017,“ that may be ordered at the presentation.
The approximately 200-page book presents an insight into the Pequea Township Boehm family and a history of the beginnings of Boehm's Chapel and the United Methodist Church, including brief notations for more than 200 early circuit riders and Methodist pastors who served the congregation.
In December, the society dedicated its new tying shed at Boehm's Chapel, which cost about $200,000. Modeled on a tying shed for horses and carriages that once stood behind the chapel – —The inside is made to look like a 1700s room,“ Myers says – it features a meeting room and library.

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