HERSPERGER, Elizabeth

Notes:

Herschberger is spelled in a variety of ways - Hershberger, Hersperger, Hershperger, Hersberger. The last is reportedly the most common spelling in Indiana although this was not the spelling given to David Spang by Carl and Audrey Hinshaw.
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Bernard Hershberger and George Scott served on the Observation Committee of Frederick County, Maryland for the colonies in the Revolutionary War. (Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. II, pp 168-173)
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Bernard laid out New Town, later called Jefferson, on one corner of his farm.
Bernard and his wife were buried on the farm but Bernard's body was later moved to the cemetery in Jefferson, Maryland. His wife's body could not be found.
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Swiss Records of Bernhard Hersperger’s Immigration to the Colonies in 1772

“1772, I. Emigrants recorded in MP.

MP records the names of the heads of the emigrating parties followed by the number of the members of which each party consists in figures, the first denoting men, the second women and the third children. A few times also the father’s name is added and usually ‘unmarried’ in case of the single persons. Besides, the tax and manumission dues paid, or the release from their payment, are recorded as in 1771. The amount of the property on which the tax was levied and all other items have been taken from other sources.” p. 185

In the section on Basel records, 1772, Amt [district] Farnsburg, from Sissach, p. 187, is listed:
“Bernhard Hersperger, 1.1.6
Pays:Manumission......................................................20.---
Ten percent tax (on lb 2024.-).........................202.- 222.---

Elisabeth Nebiger, his wife
Their children:
1. Heinrich, bapt........................................................... ?
2. Barbara, bapt..............................................…............Apr. 8, 1762
3. Dorothea, bapt..............................................…..........July 3, 1763
4. Elisabeth, bapt............................................................June 23, 1766
5. Maria, bapt......................................................…........Dec. 6, 1767
6. Eva, bapt.....................................................................Jan. 22, 1771"

“...II. Emigrants not recorded in MP, Sissach (Amt Farnsburg):

Anna Wurtz from Rumlingen, stepdaughter of Bernhard Hersperger above. Had permission and paid for the letter through her stepfather (AA, ‘Ausfertigung der Frenlassungen’), but was not recorded in MP. In 1784 (GAV 19, 452) Martin Riggenbacher collected lb 646.10 for her.” p. 197.

“After 1736, or possibly 1738, roughly speaking the emigration from Basel was directed mainly to Pennsylvania, whence some proceded to the colonies further South, very few to those further North.” p. 83.

“The spelling of names varies greatly, not only between different sources, but also in the same source, sometimes even in KB [Parish Registers]. In the first place variations arise from...then the interchanges between b and p, especially sb and sp. ... We give therefore the names simply in the spellings and forms of the leading source and add variants only where the former are faulty or unusual. ...” p. 84-85.

“...all financial statements of this treatise are made in Basel pounds. ... corresponded in 1737 to 2/15 Pennsylvania pounds. It may however be assumed that some of the emmigrants had at least a little more money at their disposal than they admitted.” p. 85

“Amt Farnsburg was one of the largest districts in the Canton of Basel. The Canton of Basel of the eighteenth century comprised both the present Canton of Basel-Stadt and the Canton of Basel-Land. ... Even today one-third of Basel -Land is covered with forests. ... The city had control of the whole Canton and kept its subjects until 1790 in the state of serfdom in which it had acquired them from the bishop of Basel and other rulers.... The Church was the Reformed Church. ... Church discipline was very strict. Wilful and continuous absence from public worship...could be punished by banishment.” pp. 86-87.

“1771-1772-The immigration of these two years suddenly equals that of the year 1749 and was undoubtedly caused by hard times. ... most of the emigrants of the preceding years [1771-72] were poor and had sought other countries and better sustenance on account of the high prices and unemployment....” p. 173.

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Faust, Albert Bernhardt and Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, editors. Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, Volume II. From the State Archives of Bern and Basel Switzerland. Washington, DC: The National Genealogical Society, 1925. Republished with Volume I, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1976.

Bernhard married NEBIKER, Elisabeth 11 Dec 1759, Neuburger, Sissach, Switzerland. Elisabeth (daughter of NEBIKER, Heinrich and BUSER, Barbara) was born 22 May 1732, Haefelfingen, Basell, Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

Heinrich married MOHLER, Dorothea 18 Jul 1719, Wintersingen, Switzerland. [Group Sheet]

Heinrich — BUSER, Barbara. [Group Sheet]

Heinrich married BUSER, Anna 15 Oct 1690. [Group Sheet]