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• FSID: LBD9-T4F
• Residence: 1840, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA

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Christened:
Emmanuel Reformed Church

Magdalene married Davault, Gabriel in 1789 in Manheim, York, Pennsylvania, USA. Gabriel (son of Devault, Henrich and Greaver, Catherina Marie) was born on 2 Oct 1767 in York, Pennsylvania, USA; was christened on 27 Nov 1768 in Manheim, York, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 11 Feb 1857 in Sullivan, Tennessee, USA; was buried after 11 Feb 1857 in Giesler-DeVault-Feathers Cemetery, Piney Flats, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Davault, Catherine was born on 30 Sep 1801 in Sullivan, Tennessee, USA; died on 29 Aug 1860 in Sullivan, Tennessee, USA; was buried after 29 Aug 1860 in Latture Cemetery, Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA.

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• FSID: LKF7-6FH

John married Sell, Anna Elizabeth in 1754 in Germany, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA. Anna (daughter of Sellen, Peter Ludwick and Sellen, Anna Margaretha) was born on 1 Feb 1738 in Skippack, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 19 Jun 1811 in Union Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried after 19 Jun 1811 in Christ Church Cemetery, Union Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LHZJ-YX2

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• FSID: LBD9-1X8
• Residence: 1753, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Hans married Benckner, Julianna. Julianna (daughter of Bankert, Christophel and Schreiber, Anna Eva) was born on 19 Oct 1714 in Wachenheim an der Weinstraße, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died in 1789 in Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LBNP-KJZ

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• FSID: LK67-J2M

Peter married Sellen, Anna Margaretha in 1732 in Pennsylvania, USA. Anna was born in 1710 in Conewago, York, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1769 in Manheim, York, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L5JQ-856

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• FSID: G7FB-47M

Johannes married Dyerhin, Mrs Christina in 1690. Christina was born in 1670 in Immendorf, Aichach-Friedberg, Bayern, Germany; died in 1730 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: 94WL-434

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• Nickname: Cristofel
• FSID: LH5B-XYH

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On August 23, 1728, Captain John Coultas' ship Mortonhouse reached Philadelphia after a long voyage from the Dutch port of Rotterdam that included a stop at the port of Deal on the southeast coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel. Among the 205 men, women, and children on board was Christofel Bankert, his wife, Anna Eva (Shriver [? According to family tradition]), four of their five daughters (Maria Salome, Juliana, Anna Margaretha, and Margaretha Elenora), and one surviving son, Johann Jacob, who was born in 1717. Another daughter, Anna Maria, came to America later, in 1752.

Christofel and his family were from Wachenheim, a small town in the Rheinland- Palatinate. Born around 1680, in 1695 Christofel was considered a "servant" and "day laborer," later a "tenant" on the farm of Dr. Emrich of Spire in Wachenheim. He owned a house that was burned down in time of war. In 1718 he was a tenant on the farm of Baron von Sax, a successor of Dr. Emrich.

The Conewago Settlement was a colony, made up of mostly Germans, located in the southeastern part of York County (what is now Adams County), Pennsylvania. The long-standing border disputes between the Penn’s (Pennsylvania) and the Calvert’s (Maryland) were the cause of the first settlers coming into the region.

It is believed that the Bankert's first settled in one of the German communities just outside of Philadelphia; Germantown being the most likely settlement. Then about 1731 (according to miscellaneous documents) the Christophel Bankert family became one of the first families to settle in the Hanover-Littlestown area of Pennsylvania.

Littlestown, or Petersburg, located in the extreme southwestern portion of Digges’ tract, was part of the Conewago Settlement. It is probably the oldest town in what is now Adams County, having been laid out in 1765 by Peter Klein (or Little) from whom it received its name, fifteen years before James Gettys laid out Gettysburg and one year after Richard McAllister founded Hanover. Peter Little is buried in the Old Christ Church Cemetery to the east of Littlestown. The place was first called Petersburg; but, to avoid confusion with similar named towns, people called it Littles Town, and thus it remained. Adams County was formed from part of York County thirty-five years later in 1800.

Christophel married Schreiber, Anna Eva in 1698 in Wachenheim an der Weinstraße, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Anna (daughter of Schreiber, Johann and Rehn, Anna Margaretha Apollonia) was born before 3 Oct 1675 in Wachenheim an der Weinstraße, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; was christened on 3 Oct 1675 in Alsenborn, Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died in 1748 in Littlestown, York, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 1748 in Christ Church Cemetery, Union Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LBDS-8HB

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Christened:
Deutsch Reformierte

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• Nickname: Henry
• FSID: LBBH-KYK

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A Hendrick Zellen was baptized in the Reformed Church at Crefeld, Germany on October 17, 1666. He was the son of Jacob and Marieken Zellen. He was probably the Hendrick Sellen who lived in Crefeld and settled in the Mennonite colony of Germantown, PA in 1685, two years after the the colony was founded. In that year he purchased 100 acres of land there. He became a naturalized citizen on May 7, 1691. He was a very active in civic and Mennonite activities for 50 years. He returned once to Germany as a legal representative for several colonists. In addition to his farm(s) he operated an [flax seed] oil mill. In 1735 Henry purchased 200 acres of land [lat. 39.775966 lon. -77.043989] and improvements on the frontier of Pennsylvania from John Lemon. This land, now in Union Township, Adams County, PA, was a part of Digges Choice, disputed land claimed by Maryland. In 1736 he sold his oil mill in Germantown, PA and became part of the frontier German community. His name appears frequently on petitions concerning the Digges Choice land dispute.

Henry married (1) Mary and had children: Peter, Jacob, Maria Indehoven, John, Adam, Barbara Tyson and Elizabeth Van Fossen. He married (2) Margaret and had children: Anthony, Abraham, Esther Bankert, Henry, Jr. and Catherine Ulrich. He may have had a third wife. Letters of Administration were issued to his wife Margaret and two other men on October 13, 1749 and an inventory of his estate was made on November 1, 1749. Henry was probably buried on his farm as there were no cemeteries in the area at this early date.
[Source: The Sell Families of Adams and York Counties, PA by Kenneth Sell, Chapter 1, pp 1-28, by Richard

The first Naturalization (Citizenship) was held in Germantown, Pennsylvania 7 March 1691. All foreigners, those immigrants who were not from the British Commonwealth, had to go through this process before they could own land. The document below is a copy of the only known original parchment held by the William Emmert Swigard Treasure Room in Beechly Library at Juanita College, Huntingdon, Pa. Copies of this rare document were kindly distributed by Mr. Paul Rittenhouse Sr. at the Rittenhouse Reunion in October 2003 at Lancaster, Pa. You will find the names of WILHELM RETTINGHAUSEN and his son CLAES (Nicholas) and many other names connected to the Rittenhouse family.

COPIA NATURALISATIONIS.

Francis Daniel Pastorius and of sixty-one persons more.

German Town.

WILLIAM PENN, ESQ.

Dated 7th May, A. D., 1691.

" William Penn, Proprietary of the Province of Pensilvania, &c. By the King and Queen's authority. To all to whom these Presents shall come. Sends greeting, &c. Whereas, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Jacob Telner, Dirick Isaacs Op de Graef, Herman Isaacs Op de Graef, Tennis Conderts, Abraham Isaacs Op de Graef, Jacob Isaacs, Johannes Cassels, Hewart Papen, Herman Bon, Albertus Brandt, Jacob Schumacher, Wolter Simens, Dirick Keyser, Arnold Cassel, Dirick Keyser, Jr., Jan Lensen, Jan Duplouvys, Peter Schumacher, Peter Schumacher, Jr., Isaac Dilbceck, Jan Doeden, Abraham Tennis, Willm Rittenghuysen, Claes Rittinghuysen, Johannes Custers, Henrich Buchholts, Isaac Jacobs, Matthis Jacobs, Wiggerd Levering, Isaac Schoffer, Clas Tamsen, Hans Milan, Dirick Sellen, Hendrick Sellen, Paul Wolff, Lenart Arens, Arent Klincken, Paul Kastner, Willem Streipers,.Koendradt Backer, Viet Scherkes, Hans Peter Umstad, Anthony Duplouvys, Heinrich Kesselberg, Reinert Tissen, Jan Lucken. Peter Klever, Heinrich Frey, Hans Andrees Kramer,'Jurgen Schumacher, Isack Schumacher, Peter Kurlis, Gerhard Levering, Johannes Bleikers, Herman Op de Trap, Dirick 'op de Kolck, Cornelis Siverts, Reinier Hermans, Anthony Loof.. Andrees Souplis, Jan Williams, High and Low Germans, Inhabitants and owners of land in German Town and in the County of Philadelphia, being foreigners, and so not freemen. according to the acceptation of the law of England, have requested to be made freemen of the said Province, pursuant to the Powers granted by the King's Letters patent and Act of Union and Naturalization, &s, made in this government. Now, Know Ye. that for the further Incouragement of the Industry and Sobriety of the.said Inhabitants and for the better and further Security of their Estates real and personal, to them and their heirs,.They, the said Inhabitants. having Solemnly promised upon Record in the County Court of Philadelphia, aforesaid, faith and Allegiance to William and Mary, King, and Queen of England, &c., and fidelity and lawful Obedience to me,according to the King's Letters patent, aforesaid, I do declare, and by these presents Confirm them the said Inhabitants before named, to be Freemen of this government, and that they shall be accordingly held and reputed in as full and ample manner as any person or persons residing therein. And that they, the said Freemen, have liberty and freedom hereby to trade and traffick in this Colony or in any of the King's Dominions and Plantations, as other good subjects may lawfully do without any manner of Lett,.Hinderance or Molestation Whatsoever. Witness: Thomas LLoyd, Deputy Govern'r of the Province of Pensilvania, &c., given at Philadelphia, aforesaid, with the assent of the Provincial Council, the Seventh day of the third-month, Anno Domi, 1691, and in the third year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary over England, &c."

Written on the outside of the parchment. EX LIBRIS. Christian Lehman To he laid by for my Children.

Dat'd Philadelphia., August 23d, 1771.

Recorded in the Rolls' Office, at Philadelphia, the thirtieth Day of the third-month, 1691. Patent Book A, folio, 275, 1

Exq Da. Lloyd Deputy.


Christened:
Evangelical Church

Hendrick married Meritis, Mary Maria Meriken in 1689 in Pennsylvania, USA. Mary (daughter of Marieken, Selwyn and Stingen, Mary) was born in 1668 in Krefeld, Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died in 1715 in Germany, Adams, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L182-XK1