Johan Peter Graeff ⁹¹⁰

  Research Notes:

JOHN PETER GROFF PIONEER SETTLER SOMERSET CO PA By Eber Cockley 1961
"There has been a great deal of research on JOST and GRAF surnames. These names are primarily from Switzerland … the German section of Switzerland." Report of Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 23 Jun, 1958.

ZIVILSTANDAMT WYNIGEN, Canton Berne, 16 May, 1961, report states: It is correct that the families of Graf and Jost in Wynigen were early settlers. These two families appeared with the old inhabitants already here in the first church records in the year 1553. We have looked up the record of the church in Wynigen from 1714 to 1799. We could not locate the marriage of Anna Maria Graf nee Jost and Johann Peter Graeff. It is a pity that the bible record does not give the name and the place of the marriage." ----Der Zivikstandsbeamte: W. Ablinden.

STAATARCHIV DES KANTONS BERN, 21 April 1960, report states: "The Basell and State Archives write us that a Hans Graf was indeed baptized at Maisprach on July 15, 1731, but that a marriage Graf-Jost is not recorded there…"---Der Adjunken des Staatsarchivars: Chr. Lerch

German Reformed church, Maisprach Dist., Canton, Baselland, baptism record lists the family of HANS JACOB GRAFF, a linen weaver, born 1704, the son of Isaac; married URSULA VOLMIN; their children HANS JACOB JR bpt 12 June 1729; JOHANNES bpt 15 July 1731; URSULA bpt 30 June 1737; BARBARA bpt 2 Oct 1740. It is not definitely known whether this JOHANNES GRAFF came to Somerset but this is as near as we could get.

Hans Jacob Graff 45, & family immigrated to Carolina to Pa. 1749 1960 P. 140. JOHANN Peter 1768.

Some authorities assign PETER GRAF to the family of HANS GRAFF for whom Earl Township, Lancaster Co., Pa. was named. This family group came to Penna. in 1696. The father HANS was born 1661 in Switzerland and later held the title of Baron von Waldon in Alsace. The old German Bible purchased in 1585 containing records of this family, now in the possession of Levi W. Grodd, Lancaster, Pa. ¹¹⁹⁵

  Life Events:

1. Occupation: Linen Weaver. ^1098,1196

Johan married Elisabeth Gibeler in 1720.⁹¹⁰ (Elisabeth Gibeler was born on 14 Jan 1697,⁹¹⁰ died on 11 Jun 1768 in Niederschelden, , Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany ⁹¹⁰ and was buried about 11 Jun 1768 in Niederschelden, , Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.)

Johan next married Ursula Volmin. (Ursula Volmin was born in Switzerland.)