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Personal data REV. VALENTINE (A)249 (PA 1717) (KLEMMER) CLYMER 

• He was born on January 1, 1655 in Affoltern, Canton Zurich, Switzerland.
• Emigrated in the year 1717, With grandson Valentine Hunsicker, son Henrich Clemmer, Henrich Funk, John Landis, Henrich Ruth and Dielman Kolb, and Hans Detweiler (393 Palatines on 3 ships).
• (Signed) in the year 1725 in Signed Dortrecht Confession of Faith with Christian Herr and Jacob Gottschalk.
• (Emigrated) in the year 1717 in From Europe to Pennsylvania in large community-considered migration.
• (Signed) in the year 1725 in CONFESSION OF FAITH, English version of the Mennonite teaching as written in the 1632 Dortrecht CHRISTIAN CONFESSION OF THE FAITH OF THE HARMLESS CHRISTIANS, IN THE NETHERLANDS KNOWN BY THE NAME OF ME.
• (Move) about 1679 in From Switzerland to the Pfalz, possibly around Friedlesheim.
• (Noted for) in Lived next to Brother Casper in Affoltern.
• He died about 1734 in On a visit to Conestoga Township on Church business, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (according to J.C. Wenger).
• Alternative: He died in the year 1746 in According to Leon Clemmer, he was 91 years old.
• Alternative: He died after 1757 in That is the date that Mellinger's Cemetery in Lancaster County was "established". If He is buried there as tradition says (no tombstone has been found) then it would be after 1757, I suppose.
• Alternative: He died about 1763 in According to the history of East Swamp Mennonite Meetinghouse.
• He is buried in Mellinger's Cemetery in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, or Cemetery of East Swamp Mennonite Church, Bucks County.
• A child of Heinrick Frantz 24 Bollyerin (Klymer) Clymer and Barbara (Urmi Urmy) Urmi
• This information was last updated on August 22, 2023.

Household of REV. VALENTINE (A)249 (PA 1717) (KLEMMER) CLYMER

He is married to Barbara Syedler (Bar) Beyer.

They got married on February 26, 1678 at Ottenbach, Zurich, Switzerland, he was 23 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Catherine B1 Bar (Klemmer) Clymer  1678-< 1717 
2. JOHAN JACOB BAR 2493 CLYMER  ± 1687-????
3. JACOB B2 BAR (PA 1717) (CLEMMER) CLYMER  1688-1751 
4. CHRISTIAN B3 BAR (KLEMMER) CLYMER  1697-1759 
5. HENRICH BAR (PA 1717) (KLEMMER) CLYMER  1700-1791 
6. HANS A5 BAR (PA 1717) (CLEMMER) CLYMER  ± 1702-1737 

Notes about REV. VALENTINE (A)249 (PA 1717) (KLEMMER) CLYMER

ANCESTOR OF LEON HACKMAN MOYER 1
ANCESTOR OF DONALD R. HORST CLYMER
ANCESTOR OF GARY KULP (WEIR REUNION)
ANCESTOR OF GARY KULP (WEIR REUNION)
ANCESTOR OF JANET NAOMI DUBS (WEIR) THRU MOTHER NAOMI WARNER (DUBS)

Note: N1148 ANCESTOR OF LEON MOYER
? IValentine Clemmer, b. 1 Jan 1655, Affoltern, Zurich, Switzerland. d. after 1725, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was of Affoltern when he married Barbara Bar (b. 11 Sep 1659) of Ottenbach on 26 Feb 1678 at Ottenbach, Zurich. Barbara was the daughter of Hans Jogli Bar and Anna Syedler of Ottenbach. Valentine lived at Affoltern in 1678 with his wife Barbara Bar next to his brother Casper Klemmer and Casper's wife Catherina Frey. He is not found at Affoltern or Ottenbach after 1678. He probably moved to the Pfalz about 1679, possibly around the Friedelsheim area near his brother Hans Jacob. He may have joined the Anabaptists while he lived in Germany. He was probably the Mennonite Bishop who arrived in Pennsylvania in August 1717. He supposedly brought his grandson Valentine Hunsiker to Pennsylvania with him in 1717. He probably brought over most of his children in 1717. The Mennonite men, Jacob, Christian, Johan Jacob, Heinrich and Hans Clemmer are probably all sons of Valentine and arrived in Pennsylvania in 1717. He was one of the signers of the Dortrect Confession in 1725 as a representative from Great Swamp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. See Family "A".
? The Davis Family Tree links the Mennonite Bishop Valentine Klemmer in Bucks County to the Lutheran/ Reformed family in Friedelsheim, Germany (ancestors of the Dallas, North Carolina Klemmers). A Valentine Klemmer was born in Germany to this family on May 15, 1655. This Valentine may or may not be the Valentine Klemmer who settled in Bucks County after arriving in 1717! If Bishop Valentine WAS a member of the Friedelsheim family then our ancestors were French. John Jacob Clemmer (b. 1763), a descendant of F. K. told his descendants that the Klemmers once lived in Montbeliard France (On Swiss border) but fled to Afoltern, Zurich, Switzerland in the St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre. They were French Hueguenots!
? I have merged these individuas in some of my reports in order to show many Klemmer/Clymer Lines. I have also placed all the Clemmers/Klemmers/Clymers who lived near Milford Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania before 1750 (and who used the same names for their children) in Bishop Valentine's family. I HAVE NO EVIDENCE THAT ANY OF THESE CHILDREN BELONG IN THIS FAMILY! However, a strong tradition mentioned in the Hunsicker Family book suggests that he had at least one daughter who married a Hunsicker, and a son named Henrich with whom he emigrated in 1717. Henrich was a stone mason and helped to build the Mennonite Meetinghouse at Skippack (now Montgomery County) about 1720. Valentine Hunsicker helped his uncle with the masonry on the meetinghouse. Both men were born in 1700.
? John C. Wenger states that Valentine died while visiting the Conestoga Mennonites (Lancaster Co.) concerning church affairs and was buried there, perhaps at Mellinger's cemetery. Even though there is a total lack of documentation concerning Bishop Valentine Clemmer to a family relationship both the Montgomery and Bucks County branches of the family claim him as a relative ************************************ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY Davis 1878
? Swamp Mennonite Church 2125 Rosdale Road Quakertown PA 18951 (215) 536-7928
? north-west corner of the county, including Richland and Milford, with Quakertown for the centre, was known as the Great Swamp. The origin of the name is not known, but probably because the surface is flat, and before it was cleared and cultivated water stood upon it at certain seasons of the year.
? A feature of interest in the settlement of Richland, is that is was first peopled by English Friends, who located far away from their kindred in the lower section of the county, and who reached their new homes over the route afterward traversed by the Germans who settled Milford. The English preceded the Germans into Richland several years, and while the descendants of the former are quite numerous, those of the latter predominate, and Richland is a German township.
? ********************************** The History of Lancaster county written by Ellis and Evans, says: "The German Settlers followed the streams large and small. One of the first things which they did was to erect a grist and saw mill."
? Accounts of the life of these people of more than two hundred years ago give that the houses of the settlers were built of logs, the chinks daubed with clay, and the roof thatched with long grass. In the better class of dwellings the logs were hewn square so as to need no chinking; or a frame was made of heavy oak timber, some of them eighteen inches in diameter, and all mortised and braced together in a manner that would be bewildering to a carpenter of today. The sides were then covered with split oak clap boards, and the roof with split cedar shingles, fastened with large wrought iron nails. The windows consisted of two small lead frames, set with a
? few tiny diamond shaped panes of glass and hinged so as to open outward against the house.
? The house was built so as to exactly face the south and the sun "shone square in" at noon.
? The doors were of oak plank doubled and nailed together with spikes arranged in the form of diamonds. They were often hung on wooden hinges and were securely fastened at night with heavy wooden cross bars.
? At one end was the huge fire place. We can picture our German grand-mothers in one of these homes; the lovely home made comforts, hand woven rugs, lovely quilts, the bare floor sanded and scoured to extreme whiteness as was the custom among the thrifty in those days, and the well prepared, though possibly for a number of years, common food. ***********************************************************************************************
? "The above ships (with the exception of the last one) were English. They embarked from the port of Rotterdam in Holland and landed at Philadelphia harbor. Almost all of the passengers on board these ships were from the Palatinate section of Germany. Since generally only the names of the adult male passengers were listed, it is possible that some of the above single men actually accompanied their families.
? In the eighteenth century conditions were poor in the Palatinate. In the year 1709 a large colony of Palatines emigrated from Germany to the New World. They landed at New York and settled there in the Mohawk Valley. They discovered conditions there to be as bad, if not worse, than those they had left behind. By 1711 many had returned to Germany bringing with them tales of the privations they had encountered. This brought the exodus to a halt. In 1717 a group of mainly Mennonites immigrated to PA mostly settling in the area of Skippack and in Lancaster County. By 1727 Palatines began arriving in large numbers and continued to do so until about the time of the Revolution. Almost all of them settled first in PA and in the late 1700's many migrated down into the Shenandoah Valley area of Maryland and Virginia and into certain counties of North Carolina, Migration into Ohio and the midwest did not generally begin until 1800.
? Although Swiss in origin, the family in this country has come to be identified with that group of early Americans knows as the "Pennsylvania Dutch"...The early English settlers coined that term and they really meant to say "DEUTSCH", meaning German, but the word soon became corrupted into "Dutch". They applied that name to those Germans and Swiss and even French Huguenots who arrived here in the 1700's and settled in a certain small area roughly defined as: south-central and eastern Pennsylvania."
? From "The History of the PA German Pioneers"
? http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/8679/immigrat.htm
? Dear Ms. Basinger: > >According to "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" the Mellinger >Mennonie Cemetery was started in 1757, I don't know if this information >comes from the tombstones or from some other type of record. > >M. Bardeen >Assistant Librarian > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Jim Basinger >To: >Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:03 PM >Subject: Cemetery >Mellinger's Mennonite Church Excerpt from "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County". A. Hunter Rineer, Jr., 1993, Lancaster County Historical Society "(Also called Lampeter Mennonite Meetinghouse) Founded 1767 (Lancaster Mennonite Conference) South side of Pa. Rte. 462(Old Lincoln Highway East) at Greenfield Road. HISTORY 1757-Land for cemetery across the road given by Martin Bare. 1767-First meetinghouse built in cemetery. 1855-Stone meetinghouse built at present location. 1884-Third meetinghouse built. Enlarged in 1894. 1914-Present church built on same site.
? Ellis and Evans, pp.338,898 Weaver, Lancaster Conference, p.86 RECORD LOCATIONS: Church records begin in the 20th century.
? Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery Across the highway from the church. RECORD LOCATIONS: Started 1757. Gravestone Inscriptions:Gerberich 2:1:273, Worner 9(1941):269 (no burials after 1899; no children under 18); Lanc. Mennonite Historical Society (all burials to 1977)"
? Mellinger's Meeting House And Cemetery Gockley Road Stevens 17578 Mellinger's Mennonite Cemetery 1918 Lincoln Highway East Lancaster 17602
? (1876 Edition HISTORY OF BUCKS COOUNTY by Davis http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bucks/history/local/davis/davis27.txt) The Mennonites, the most numerous religious denomination in Milford, have three churches. The "war of the schools" has divided then, and two of the churches are known as the New School and one as the Old. The earliest church was built in 1735, but some years afterward the congregation divided by mutual consent, and a new church was erected. There have been four buildings on the site of the first church, the last erected in 1873, 60x45 feet, at a cost of $7,000, and will seat 450 persons, and three on the site of the second church, one having been destroyed by fire. The present building was erected in 1850. In 1847 there was another division in the society, the Old schoolites in the two congregations withdrawing and building a new church. Two of the churches are brick and one of stone. The first Mennonite minister in the township was Valentine Clemmer, and after him we find the names of Nold, Blien, three Musselmans, father, son, and grandson - the latter dying in 1847 at the age of 90 - Zetty, and father H. Oberholtzer, a bishop, still living in Philadelphia. The Rev. A. B. Shelly has been pastor of churches known as numbers one and two, or New School, for several years. He organized the first Mennonite Sunday school, in 1857, which now numbers 150 scholars. Two of these churches have large pipe organs, and the congregations are noted for the general prevalence of music, both vocal and instrumental, among the members. They have a denominational newspaper, the "Mennonitische Friedensbote," published semi-monthly at Milford Square, and edited by Mr. Shelly, who has lately published a new Mennonite hymn book. [1905 Edition. The Mennonites, so named from Menno Simons, a prominent reformer of Friesland, Germany, born, 1492, (11A) and died in Holland, 1559, were among the first settlers in Upper Bucks. They were mostly from the Palatinate, whither religious persecution had driven then from Switzerland and Alsace. They were poor but industrious and frugal, and soon provided homes for themselves and families. There are few indigent among then, and no one in food standing will accept public alms. They settled in the north-eastern corner of Milford about 1715. The first minister in the county of this denomination was Valentine Clemmer, as early as 1717, and attended the first Mennonite conference in America, held at Skippack or Franconia, 1724. He represented the church at the "Great Swamp."*
? (11A) Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania [MHEP] Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2000, page 8, "Menno Simons was born in the Netherlands in 1496 and joined the Anabaptist movement in 1536." DB.
? [The earliest services were held in private houses, the first church building not being erected until 1735, built on the land of William Allen. In 1771 a second building was erected for the Swamp church, a mile east of the original one, on a piece of land conveyed by Ulrich Drissell, Abraham Taylor and John Lederach, to Valentine Clemmer, Peter Sager, Christian Beidler and Jacob Clemmer, "Trustees of the Religious Society or Congregation of Mennonites in the Great Swamp." In 1790 the original building was removed to a lot Michael Musselman and wife conveyed to Peter Zetty, Christian Hunsberger and Michael Shelly, "Trustees for a meeting house and burial place." This is half a mile west of the site of the first meeting house and the site of the present West Swamp church. Both the present churches are the third buildings on their respective sites, the one at East Swamp, a brick. Until 1850, that at the West Swamp a two story stone with basement and a seating capacity of 450, 60x40 and cost $7,000. In all there are eight Mennonite church in Bucks county, three of them in Milford township.* [In 1847 the Mennonites became divided, causing a rupture in a number of churches, the organization of new congregations and erection of church buildings. The two section were known as the Old and New schools. While the Mennonites are conservative they have held pace with the times in the various branches of church work, the New school Mennonite being the most progressive. The Mennonites of Bucks took the lead in the introduction of Sunday schools into the denomination, the first one organized being at the West Swamp church the spring of 1858, the Rev. A. B. Shelly, superintendent. He was subsequently called to the Swamp parish, composed of West Swamp, East Swamp and Falkland churches, which he had been serving nearly 35 years. Other Sunday schools followed and at this time nearly every Mennonite church in the county has Sunday schools, both the old school and the new. The majority are kept open the whole year, annual Sunday school conventions are held, and the Sunday schools of the Swamp church hold periodical Sunday school Institutes. In some churches church music receives due attention and all connected with the Eastern Mennonite Conference are supplied with reed or pipe organs. Some of the churches are not behind other denominations in young people's organizations. The Eastern Mennonite conference to which a number of the churches of this county belong has established a "Home for the Aged" at Frederick, Montgomery county. This conference being connected with the General Conference of North America, the churches belonging to it assist actively in its work. This includes missionary work among the Indians, local and general mission work, publication work, etc.*]
? [Editorial note: The Old Mennonite churches of eastern Pennsylvania, belonging to Franconia Conference, did not use instruments till the latter part of the twentieth century and some churches still prefer to sing a capella. The New Mennonite churches of eastern Pennsylvania belong to the Eastern District Conference and their governing body worldwide is called the General Conference. DB.]
? http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Valentine_Hunsicker_(1700-1771) From A Genealogical History of the Hunsicker Family: Our Ancestor Valentine Hunsicker was born in the Canton Zurich, Switzerland, ----, 1700. He was an orphan, and came with his maternal grandfather, Valentine Klemmer, to America in 1717. Died 30 March, 1771. After a short stay at Germantown, Pa., among the Palatinate settlers, the family in company with some others pushed into the interior of the dense forests of Eastern Pennsylvania, going as far north as northern Bucks County, into a district known as "der gross Schwamm" (big swamp), later called Lower Milford, which name it still retains. In common with other primitive settlers, their house was built of roughly hewn logs, plastered with clay, and their living depended on what they could extract from hasty clearings and from the game then abounding in these wilds. It is needless to add that they were poor, compelled to depend mainly on axe and spade for a living. Young Valentine was at once thrown upon his own resources as a laborer, and was hired out to chop wood, and at intervals assist his grandfather at weaving, to help pay the cost of his passage across the ocean. About 1720 or 1721 he went, with his uncle Henry Klemmer, who was a stone-mason, to Van Bebber (now called Skippack) and assisted him as a laborer. He helped his uncle to build the first Mennonite meeting-house there in 1724 (the second in America; that at Germantown was built first, in 1708). He remained in Skippack, and by industry and economy saved enough to purchase 125 acres of wild land, for which he paid five shillings per acre, to which he subsequently added 100 acres more. The same or part of the same was lately occupied by Henry B. Hunsicker of the sixth generation. Philadelphia County Records show, by census taken in 1756 by Walter Johnson by order of the Provincial Government, that Valentine Hunsicker had five children, and was assessed for 225 acres of land, 100 acres being clear. He married in 1728; the name of his first wife is unknown. By his first marriage he had two children, the eldest, a daughter, Elizabeth; she married a man named Ruth, of which family we have lost trace; and a son named Samuel, who never married. In 1732 Valentine's wife died. He afterward, in 1735, married Elizabeth Kolb, daughter of Jacob Kolb. I have her ancestry traced back six generations to Holland, through the Van Sintern, Vander Mers, and the De Vossens, very distinguished families of Amsterdam. Two members, at different times, were Burgomeisters of their native cities. Valentine Hunsicker became a deacon in the Mennonite Church and was active in building up the congregation in Skippack, though his ancestors in Switzerland were Reformed. By persevering toil and industry, he had cleared fully one-half of his land in his lifetime. Had a family of seven children: five sons, Jacob, Isaac, and Henry (our grandfather), and two daughters, Sara and Catherine (two children, Valentine and Abraham, died in infancy). He died 3 March 1771, and lies interred in the old Mennonite burying-ground in Skippack, but no stone marks his resting place. He directed, by will, that his son Henry, though still a minor at his father's death, should come in possession of the farm, which he did. He in turn left it to his son (our uncle Garret). Garret left it to his son Christian, Christian to his son Garret. Garret's son Henry lately occupied the same. It belonged to the family almost 170 years. Henry A. Hunsicker, 1911
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? Valentin (Rev) (Imm) CLEMMER, b. ca. 1655, Also called Velte, and Felty, Resided bef. 1717 in VanBebber's Township, Philadelphia Co, PA, Emigrated to Pennsylvania with grandson, Valentine HUNSICKER 1717, Was a minister in Switzerland; Was a Mennonite bishop; Signed the Dortrecht Confession 1725 in Great Swamp, Milford, Bucks Co, PA
? This Clymer family first settled in Bucks County about 1720. Bishop Valentine Klemmer sailed with about 360 other Palatine Mennonites on 3 ships to Pennsylvania in 1717. Dielman Kolb, Henry Funk, Benjamin Landis, John Landis, Hans Detweiler, and Henrich Ruth were part of this community-wide migration. At least one of Valentine Klemmer's children, Henrich Clemmer of Franconia, and one grandson, Valentine Hunsicker, accompanied the Bishop. Both were 17 years old when they landed in Philadelphia. Bishop Klemmer was a weaver and lived in Germantown a short time befores settling "Grooten Schwamb" or the Great Swamp not far from Quakertown in Milford Township, Bucks County. Grooten Schwamb meant Great Meadow in German. But the German word for meadow sounded like the English word for Swamp. In 1724 he attended the first Mennonite Conference in America at Skippack, Philadelphia (now Montgomery )County. Bishop Valentine Klemmer's son and grandson helped build the Skippack Meetinghouse about 1720 . At "Grooten Schwamb" services were held in private homes until a meetinghouse was built in 1735. Tradition says that Valentine Klemmer died on a visit to Conestoga Township, Lancaster County and is buried at Mellinger's Cemetery in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. Historians in Lancaster give the date of the first burial recorded at Mellengers Cemetery as about 1757. Many of his friends and fellow Mennonite ministers from the Palatinate settled in Lancaster after arriving in Philadelphia in 1717.
? ?In 1708 the five ordained Mennonites of Germantown wrote a letter to the Mennonites of Holland in which they asked for literature, ". . . The congregation here is still rather weak to have an thing printed“.
. . .Willern Rittinghuysen wrote to New York to have the articles of faith printed in English because there are people here who call themselves Mennists who would like to have our articles translated into English. But they asked so much that our congregation could not raise it.
The appeal met with success. In 1712 a forty-page booklet appeared in Amsterdam, The Christian Confession Of the Faith of the harmless" Christians, in the Netherlands, known, by the name of Mennonists. The edition was probably small and in 1727 Andrew Bradford of Ph] ladelphia reprinted the Confession.
An appendix was added to the 1727 edition and a comparison of the title page of Part II with page 44 (of Part 11) seems to indicate that the Pennsylvania Mennonite ministers had held a conference in 1725 at which time they subscribed to the Dortrecht Confession of Faith.
The second title page reads, "An Appendix To the Confession of Faith of the Christians, called -Mennonists, Giving a short & full Account because of the Immagination of the newness of our Religion, the Weapon & Revengeless Christendom, and its being. Published Formerly in the Low-Dutch, & translated out of the same into High-Dutch, & out of that into the English Language, 1725."
Page 44 states, "We the hereunder written Servants of the Word of God, and Elders in the Congregation of the People called, MENNONISTS, in the Province of PENNSILVANIA, do acknowledge, and herewith make known, That we do own the afore-going CONFESSION, APPENDIX, and MENNO'S Excusation, by wholly ours.
In Testimony whereof, and that we believe the same to be good, we have here unto Subscribed our Names." Shipack
Christian Heer,
Benedict Hirchi,
Martin Bear,
Johannes Bowman, Great-Swamp
Velte Clemer Manatant
Daniel Langenecker,
Jacob Beghtly, Canastoge
? When the Mennonites came to Friedelsheim cannot be definitely ascertained. The first certain information concerning their presence is found in a rental contract of 1682, in which Elector Charles Louis leased his Friedelsheim estate, about 1,000 acres, together with the dwelling houses and farm buildings of the Mönchhof, now called the "Mennonitenhof," to Christian Herschi, Ulrich Weydmann, Jose Erbsal, and Hans Burgholder. But it is probably safe to assume that Mennonites had been living here before 1682 and that they had likewise been renters of the electoral estate; for the contract states: "As the same has been held by the renters before them." Very likely soon after the Thirty Years' War some of the refugee emigrants fromSwitzerlandwho came to the Palatinate settled in Friedelsheim. Religiously they were tolerated. "They shall have no public or secret meetings or conventicles attended by others than those living on the estate, . . . much less draw or mislead our other subjects and people to them." According to this it may be assumed that a congregation had already been formed, especially since in addition to these four families, the Mennonites Ulrich Wilemi and Christian Hummel are named around 1685.

Valentine —Velte“ Clemmer
Birth: 1 Jan 1655
Death: 1740 (aged 84œ85)
Burial: Unknown

Memorial #: 77122742
Bio: Valentin (Rev) (Imm) CLEMMER, b. ca. 1655, Also called Velte, and Felty, Resided bef. 1717 in VanBebber's Township, Philadelphia Co, PA, Emigrated to Pennsylvania with grandson, Valentine HUNSICKER 1717, Was a minister in Switzerland; Was a Mennonite bishop; Signed the Dortrecht Confession 1725 in Great Swamp, Milford, Bucks Co, PA

This Clymer family first settled in Bucks County about 1720. Bishop Valentine Klemmer sailed with about 360 other Palatine Mennonites on 3 ships to Pennsylvania in 1717. Dielman Kolb, Henry Funk, Benjamin Landis, John Landis, Hans Detweiler, and Henrich Ruth were part of this community-wide migration. At least one of Valentine Klemmer's children, Henrich Clemmer of Franconia, and one grandson, Valentine Hunsicker, accompanied the Bishop. Both were 17 years old when they landed in Philadelphia. Bishop Klemmer was a weaver and lived in Germantown a short time befores settling "Grooten Schwamb" or the Great Swamp not far from Quakertown in Milford Township, Bucks County. Grooten Schwamb meant Great Meadow in German. But the German word for meadow sounded like the English word for Swamp. In 1724 he attended the first Mennonite Conference in America at Skippack, Philadelphia (now Montgomery )County. Bishop Valentine Klemmer's son and grandson helped build the Skippack Meetinghouse about 1720 .
At "Grooten Schwamb" services were held in private homes until a meetinghouse was built in 1735. Tradition says that Valentine Klemmer died on a visit to Conestoga Township, Lancaster County and is buried at Mellinger's Cemetery in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. Historians in Lancaster give the date of the first burial recorded at Mellengers Cemetery as about 1757. Many of his friends and fellow Mennonite ministers from the Palatinate settled in Lancaster after arriving in Philadelphia in 1717.
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Jacob Clymer 1688-1751
Christian Clymer 1697-1759
Henrich Bar Clemmer 1700-1791
Johannes Clemmer 1702-1737
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